dvdisaster Version 0.72.6 / 0.79 (devel-3) | To the Internet version |
Image file selectionThe image file contains the data from all medium sectors, including the information whether a sector was readable. dvdisaster works on image files because they are stored on hard disk which makes certain random access patterns much faster. Applying this kind of random access to CD/DVD/BD drives would slow them down significantly and eventually wear them out (the image files are created using sequential access which unlike random access is handled efficiently by the drives). The default file suffix for images is ".iso".
Notes for using the file chooser under Windows and Mac OS X dvdisaster uses the GTK+ user interface toolkit which makes sure that it runs on many different operating systems. Since the GTK+ file chooser behaves differently from its Windows and Mac OS X counterparts (which we can't use), a small introduction is included further down this page. Please note that creating the Windows or Mac OS X version would have required a huge effort without GTK+ - we would probably just have concentrated on doing the GNU/Linux version instead ;-)
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