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Old November 17th 03, 11:27 PM
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"Coolasblu" noway wrote in message
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I would like to burn 5 cd bin images to 1 dvd instead of 5 separate cds.

Is this possible ? If so, how ?


Coolasblu


Interesting how the conversation slipped away, but anyways.

If you know that what is in these BIN files is NOT protected, such as video,
then you can use pretty much any imaging tool to extract information from
them. If they are VCDs or SVCDs, you will need to do some editing to
convert them to DVD Video. Firstly, you need to transform the DAT file into
a real MPG (VCDGearGUI or VCDEasy), then you need to author from that. If
you software supports the lower resolutions and MPEG-1 (VCD only), then the
video is fine. You will need to resample your audio from 44.1khz to 48khz,
though. If your software allows that, then you're in luck. Otherwise,
you'll need to demultiplex the audio from the MPG using TMPGEnc (File MPEG
Tools), then use BeSweet and SSRC (a seperate download, but not really a
seperate application), to resample to 48khz and convert to AC3. If the
source MP2 was any good, then 192kbps is okay, otherwise you'll need to use
somethign more. 224kbps is probably going to be enough. Then you need to
create some menus and stuff so that these 5 parts go together. If its
something split in twos, then you should first try to join them using
TMPGEnc's MPEG Tools, Merge & Cut, joining the two, then demuxing the audio
from that output.

Now, if your BINs are protected things, such as PC Games, then its no luck.
Just use 5 CDs, its simple.

How can you tell? Well, if you have some software which can mount BIN & CUE
files to a virtual CD-ROM drive (Alcohol 120% can do this, as well as many
others), mount it, then use ClonyXXL and have it test that virtual CD-ROM.
If there is any protection, such as Safedisc or Securom, then you're out of
luck. If it is just data, then you're in luck, and they can be combined by
extracting whatever is in those BINs and then burning it with Nero or any
other burning program you use.

Hope that helps out...