ImgBurn is a lightweight CD, DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit. It supports various image file formats, including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG, and PDI.
ImgBurn is a highly flexible tool with advanced features typically missing in other programs, especially for burning DVD video discs. It supports Unicode folder and file names, ensuring compatibility with international character sets.
The application supports all the latest drives without requiring updates, including booktype / bitsetting / and advanced settings on many major brands such as BenQ, LiteOn, LG, NEC, Plextor, Samsung, and Sony.
ImgBurn includes an image queue system for burning several images, which can be automatically shared across different drives if available, and an easy-to-use layer break selection screen for double-layer DVD video jobs.
The Automatic Write Speed feature allows you to store your favorite burn speed settings for each ‘Media ID,’ down to a drive-by-drive level. Data captured during the burn, such as write speed and buffer levels, can be displayed and analyzed using DVDInfoPro.
ImgBurn works in several Modes, each one for performing a different task:
- Read: Read a disc to an image file.
- Build: Create an image file from files on your computer or network, or write the files directly to a disc.
- Write: Write an image file to a disc.
- Verify: Check if a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can have ImgBurn compare it against a specified image file to ensure the data is correct.
- Discovery: Put your drive and media to the test! When paired with DVDInfoPro, you can evaluate the quality of the burns your drive produces.
Changes in ImgBurn 2.5.8.0
- Added: Holding the ALT key when clicking on the DLE window’s Disc pane column header will now remove the sort order (so they’re then essentially sorted by addition order).
- Added: Ability to incrementally search the Explorer pane in the ‘Disc Layout Editor’ window.
- Added: The effective USB connection speed (1.1, 2.0, 3.0) for USB devices to the initial device scan log entries.
- Added: Log entry when burning to show the effective layer break position.
- Added: Log entry when burning that shows the number of discs a Lite-On drive thinks it has burnt.
- Added: Pioneer drives now display their ‘Kernel Version’ alongside the firmware version.
- Added: The Windows 7+ taskbar button and progress display now turn red if an I/O error message appears during a read/write operation.
- Added: The ability to set the ‘Platform ID’ when building a bootable disc – thus enabling the creation of UEFI bootable discs.
- Added: An internal version of the ‘BurnerMax Payload’ code (based on what I could determine) allows for overburning DVD+R DL discs on many MediaTek chipset-based drives. In practice, this only seems to work on Lite-On (and clone) drives that have ‘Force HyperTuning’ enabled.
- Added: MSF info to the ‘Sector Viewer’ tool.
- Added: Allow for a larger I/O buffer (1GB).
- Added: Option to pick the transfer size (32KB -> 512 KB) used when reading/writing files.
- Added: Option to enable/disable the OS’s buffering when writing image files.
- Added: Ability to make the Explorer pane in the DLE window ‘Read Only’.
- Added: It supports Opus audio compression format.
- Added: It supports TAK lossless audio compression format (including embedded CUE sheets).
- Added: Ability to use a ‘*’ wildcard for ‘backup list’ directory entries in an IBB project file (applies to Advanced input mode).
- Added: A few keyboard shortcuts to the DLE window. (Ctrl+Shift+C = New Disc (Clear), Ctrl+Shift+D = Add Folder (Directory), Ctrl+Shift+F = Add Files, Ctrl+Shift+N = New Folder)
- Changed: No longer bundling/offering the Ask.com toolbar in the setup program, OpenCandy now handles product offerings during installation.
- Changed: Buffered I/O is now enabled by default for reading/writing files.
- Changed: Update the splashscreen logo.
- Changed: The ‘Delete’ option/button in the Disc Layout Editor has been renamed to ‘Remove’ so it matches the one in Standard input mode (and so people aren’t put off by the term ‘Delete’ – thinking it’ll delete the file on their hard drive).
- Changed/Fixed: Detect oversized UDF File Entry descriptors and don’t attempt to parse them.
- Changed/Fixed: Restore the ‘Disc Layout Editor’ window’s focus when the application becomes active.
- Changed/Fixed: Workaround for the new 16x LG Blu-ray writers that report the wrong (truncated) current write speed value in the ‘GET PERFORMANCE’ response when burning at 16x.
- Changed/Fixed: Workaround for newer LG drives with the ‘Silent Play’ feature that seems to ignore attempts to set the read speed via the ‘SET STREAMING’ command. They get fixed on 1x and won’t read any faster!
- Changed/Fixed: Attempt to block users from trying to write discs their ‘combo’ drive doesn’t support (i.e. a DVD+RW/BD-ROM combo drive trying to burn BD-R).
- Changed/Fixed: Potential errors were ignored or lost when setting a ‘changeable’ layer break position to its current or maximum value. The program now reports them.
- Changed/Fixed: Tweaked the ‘browse for folder/file’ dialog code to prevent the OS from displaying the error ‘There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive X:’ when the MRU location is a drive that no longer contains a disc.
- Changed/Fixed: Reworked some commands that could optionally not use ‘Immediate I/O’. The old code could revert to ‘Non-Immediate I/O,’ causing it to lose the initial error message from the ‘Immediate I/O’ version related to the command.
- Changed/Fixed: Adjusted (potential bug fix) to my drag+drop component’s code. It may reduce crashes and unexpected issues resulting from the user performing a drag-and-drop operation.
- Changed/Fixed: ‘Shutdown Computer’ checkboxes should have read ‘Shut Down Computer’.
- Changed/Fixed: Recently added ‘MID’ info was missing from the disc info text in Read / Verify modes.
- Fixed: Cosmetic issue displaying numbers when the user’s ‘thousands separator’ is set to nothing.
- Fixed: There is an issue with newer LG Blu-ray drives (BH14+) displaying the incorrect firmware subversion.
- Fixed: Memory leak when burning Audio CDs that use DirectShow for decoding.
- Fixed: Memory leak when burning Audio CDs where the files are already in the correct format for burning (no decode required).
- Fixed: A potential access violation occurs when reading a field in a UDF ‘File Set Descriptor.
- Fixed: Old (orphaned) AWS-related registry/ini file entries were being left behind – this was perfectly fine, it’s just nice to keep the place tidy!
- Fixed: The DLE Window’s Disc Toolbar wasn’t resizing properly for higher DPI systems, which meant the buttons were not fully visible.
- Fixed: When outputting Mode 2/Form 1/2352 from Build mode, the program failed to account for any necessary data type conversions for the drive, which could result in a corrupt disc.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008,
- Windows 7, 8, and 10 (including all the 64-bit versions).
- If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.
Size: 2.95 MB
