Create CD iso's from a DVD

Is it possible to take a DVD disc and create CD iso's to use in a laptop that doesn't have a DVD drive?

I guess you could transfer the DVD.iso to the laptop using cd's (tar the dvd contents to several chunks not exceeding 700MB) or other types of storage and then mount the DVD.iso without burning it to a DVD (directly from your hard drive)
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Creating an ISO file from a bunch of BUP, IFO, VOB files

Hi
First, i want to apologize to all of you if my question is already answered somewhere, i did a search before.
I have a bunch of BUP, IFO, VOB files (from an entire DVD) that i would like to burn into a single .ISO file.
I am looking for the best software to do this. I would have used ImgBurn on my PC i guess... But with my iMac?
Thanks a lot for your much appreciated help!
Mopito

Mopito wrote:
if my question is already answered somewhere, i did a search before.
Yes, the question has been answered before, several times.
The only difference is that you want to create an ISO image, which usually means a raw disk image from another OS (eg, Win or Linux), although Mac OS X can attach or burn such an image.
If you want to create a DVD-Video disc image, then you must use a tool specifically designed for it, if you want to use the image to create DVDs which will play in stand-alone DVD players. That's because such DVDs require a rigid disc layout.
If you want to go commercial, you can use Toast or NTI DragonBurn. Otherwise, Burn, suggested by Alberto Ravasiomay also be a good solution (I'm not sure if it can save disc images, rather than burn them). Other solutions are
DVD Image Utility
<http://geek.thinkunique.org/2007/07/17/dvd-image-utility/>
or, if you can handle the command line,
mkisofs
<http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html>
(part of the cdrtools kit)
You can also have a look at
Disco
<http://discoapp.com/>
LiquidCD
<http://www.maconnect.ch/>
Both can burn DVD-Video; I'm not sure if they can save as a disc image.
J D McIninch wrote:
Start Disk Utility
DU (or hdiutil) can create an ISO image, and, if it's used to burn to DVD, the disc can be played on computer DVD drives. But it will not play on most stand-alone DVD players, because of the layout issue I mentioned above. Hence, it's not a good idea to use it to create a DVD-Video disc image.

Creating a new library from a DVD Burn library

I have my entire library of photos on my iMac in iPhoto 6.0.6. I recently spent quite a bit of time cleaning up what had been a rather messy, unorganized, photo library. My organizational method consisted of consolidating old film rolls which were inherited from original imports that were in different folders by moving groups of photos into single "film rolls" for older years and making fewer rolls for the last few years. I then went back through and corrected photo dates for a bunch of images that were scanned in, etc. I downloaded Keyword Manager, which I like a lot, and applied keywords to every photo in my collection. I also deleted a bunch of old photos which were too similar to better shots or simply not worth keeping. Once I finished all of this I had my new library consisting of 1892 pictures, which I hoped to backup and allow to serve as a "gold master copy" of all of my photos to date. In browsing the database in Finder, I noted that there were a lot of images in the "Original" folders that were not in the library. Some of these were images I had deleted in the library. (I know better than to do anything through the finder other than browse. I know that to maintain integrity of the library it is necessary to only perform actions through iPhoto.) I did a database rebuild and asked iPhoto to recover orphaned files which did nothing. I really wanted this database to be in pristine condition since I was using it as my master copy, but could not figure out how to do away with old unwanted images in the "originals" folders. I went ahead and created a DVD library with "Share -> Burn", and voila, the new iPhoto Library that was created on the DVD appeared to be "clean" with only the 1892 pictures in my viewable library existing in the Originals folder. OK, so far so good. I then took the DVD I had burned and attempted to replicate my library on my iBook which had a clean install of iLife '06 on it. When I launched iPhoto with the DVD in place it showed me an empty hard drive library and the burned library from the DVD. At first I attempted to just copy individual Film Rolls from the DVD to the local library. While this worked in bring the images over, the keywords became all jumbled. The resulting photos would have keywords attached which did not belong to them and were different from what was on the DVD. I then deleted the iBook library and tried copying the entire iPhoto Library folder from the DVD to the iBook via the Finder. When I relaunched iPhoto, presto all the photos were in my local library with keywords, film rolls and other metadata intact. However in browsing the library I came across a few photos which would cause iPhoto to crash when I tried to edit them. This was a consistent behavior on specific images. Reading through the forums I came across the color profile bug and through testing verified that this was not the problem. Meanwhile back on the iMac I could edit the photos in question with no problem. I verified that the image had not been corrupted during the DVD burn as well. The files are identical between the iMac and the iBook. I know this is a long drawn out post, but if anybody has read this far, here are my questions ...
1) What is the best way to go about creating a "clean" database with internal integrity after a doing a lot of edits and metadata changes? Shouldn't the burn to DVD do what I want?
2) How come when I copied subsets of my library over to a new machine from the DVD, the keywords seemed to get all jumbled? Is it a matter of indexing them? If I added all the keywords to an empty library before copying the images over, would it work? Is there not a way to just copy portions of a DVD library into another library?
3) Any ideas on the crash while attempting to edit problem? The image will load as a thumbnail, and then briefly flas the full size image, before iPhoto crashes and pops up a dialog asking if I want to restart it.
Thanks for staying with me!
Mark

Problems solved with iPhoto Manager's rebuild function! Thanks to Brian Webster of Fat Cat Software. Great program!
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Creating an ISO file from FCP

I have been asked something for the first time ever...to provide a TOS format DVD. I have received this befire..but never created. What export steps do I take to make the DVD?
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You make an regular dvd using dvdstudiopro. Once you do the build you need to create an iso image.
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-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
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Scanning dependencies of target translations
[ 1%] [ 2%] [ 1%] [ 2%] Generating smplayer2_uk_UA.qm
Generating smplayer2_zh_CN.qm
Generating smplayer2_zh_TW.qm
Generating smplayer2_vi_VN.qm
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make[2]: *** [src/smplayer2_zh_CN.qm] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
src/CMakeFiles/translations.dir/build.make:97: recipe for target 'src/smplayer2_vi_VN.qm' failed
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Burn .iso image from CD or DVD

Hi,
How do I create an .iso file from a CD or DVD in Mac OS X?
Thanks for your help.

http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2006/08/14/create-iso-cd-dvd-image-with-mac -os-x-tiger-10-4
Or use Toast from Roxio.

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Bootcamp rejects the ISO file made from a windows 8.1 disc with the error message "Boot Camp only supports Windows 7 or later installation on this platform. Please use an ISO file for Windows 7 or later installation."
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Hi Loner T
No the ISO is just 64bit. I bought a shrink wrapped copy of 8.1 full version. It has two discs, one for 32bit and one for 64bit. I used the 64bit disc.
I inserted it in an older iMac that has a dvd drive, and shared that across to my new iMac. I used disc utility to create a disc image following instructions I found here...
Boot Camp: Creating an ISO image from a Windows installation DVD - Apple Support
This created an ISO file. I then went into bootcamp but when I tried to use the ISO file to create a boot USB it failed with the error above.
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Creating an image file from cd

Good day,
I was wondering how if anyone knows a way to create an ISO image from a cd to run on virtual box. I tried creating one using disk utility, but it did not work. Can this be done through Snow Leopard default programs, or would I need to purchase a new prog?
Tried searching google, but the article I followed was the failed attempt. Did this fail due to copy protection? Before I got rid of my windows pc, I was able to make a copy of the cd, but that would not work either.
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I want to create an ISO from the 8.1 DVD on my old iMac

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http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060619181010389
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Generation 2 VM boot from Media/DVD (not .iso)

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Creating DVD Chapters from within DVD studio Pro

Hey,
Is this possible? Can we create DVD chapters from within DVD Studio Pro?
Chris

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