How can you tell the format of your download?

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ShaeDee

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As more and more downloads are at least 4.5 GB, my media player plays ISO but not IMG files

how does one tell which type it'll be, before downloading starts?
(NFO doesn't seem to say)
 
I run everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, through DVDRemake and burn the video files rather than mess with iso's (or img's) anyway. Tends to 'clean out' mistakes made by the rippers, and remove a lot of the 'slime' they tend to leave in.

I think the Daemon tools was the first little utility I put on my first 'DVD machine' some 6+ years ago, still going just fine on machine #3, use it even though I have several commercial knock-oRAB in burning pgms and such.
 
backlash said:
I always just change the extension to ISO when I dl img files and burn them with nero. I haven't had a problem yet.
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do you change the extension by using 'rename' - didn't realise it would be that simple - doh!

previously was burning them, but wanted to save time by just dragging and dropping to my media player and watch directly from there

thanks :)
 
BigH said:
do you change the extension by using 'rename' - didn't realise it would be that simple - doh!

previously was burning them, but wanted to save time by just dragging and dropping to my media player and watch directly from there

thanks :)
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I would avoid just renaming them as it can cause corruption. Instead use MagicISO. It can convert almost any image format to any other image format in no time (few seconds to few minutes).
 
in order to change the extension you have to have the extension visible. Open my computer > Tools > folder options > view tab > untick "hide extensions for known file types"

Like I said, I've never had a problem and it takes 2 seconds to change it. Just change the part after the .

example.img > remove the "mg" and type "so" so it's example.iso

whallah!
 
I second Daemon Tools. It's free! Download here!
It's easy; just right click the systray icon, set the number of virtual drives, and mount your image to one of those virtual drives. Now any dvd application will play your file. No need to burn. :)
 
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