CDI2Nero 0.9.9 - (C) 2002 by DeXT http://cdirip.cjb.net *** WARNING! This is beta software. It has not been fully tested and may *** contain bugs. Use it at you own risk. *** This tool must not be used to duplicate copyright-protected content. *** The author will not be responsible for its improper usage. Purpose ------- This little tool will convert a CDI (DiscJuggler) image to NRG (Nero) format. Both CDI 2.0 and 3.0 image versions are supported. It currently has support for: - CD-ROM/XA type CDs - Mode 2 and Audio tracks - Single session and Multisession images It lacks support for: - Audio-only CDs (TAO only) - Mode 1 data tracks These will be added soon. Usage ----- Usage is very simple, just double-clic the executable file and an Open File dialog will appear, select your source CDI image to convert and press OK. A Save File dialog will then appear on the same path as source image. Write the desired name for the destination NRG image (you don't need to write any extension) and press OK. Default name is "image.nrg". You can also use it from command-line. Syntax is: cdi2nero image.cdi [image.nrg] For command-line usage, if you don't specify a destination filename, the source image filename will be used but with NRG extension. Burning ------- Once converted you can burn the newly created image. If a DAO warning message appears, you should select Yes (although this depends on burner, I think). This will only appear on Multisession images. Notes ----- This is a unified DAO/TAO version, unlike previous ones, where you can select NRG image type when saving. DAO images are most standard ones, and is the only format that Nero itself is able to generate. TAO images are special ones, which lacks a cuesheet, and track positions are managed by the burner itself. Nero is not capable of generating these. On most burners, these images will be burned in "Track at Once" mode (hence the name) instead of default DAO. A general note is to burn in DAO (default) mode and if something fails, try TAO instead. But note that if your burner doesn't support "short" tracks (i.e. those below 302 sectors) you still will get errors when trying to burn such images. These errors are usually "cannot write track at correct position", or seeing CD-Extra discs as Audio-only (i.e. no data track). Below is a list of tested burners, reported by users, which get successful or failed in burning process: Success: Acer CRW 6206A BTC BCE-432IE Gateway 8x4x32 HP CD-Writer 7100i HP CD-Writer 7200e HP CD-Writer 8100i HP CD-Writer 9100i HP CD-Writer 9310i Iomega Zip CD 650 Iomega Zip CD USB (DAO only) Memorex CRW-1622 (DAO only) Mitsumi 4801TE OTI-975 Socrates Philips CDD3610 Philips CDD3801 Philips CDD4201 Philips PCRW404K RICOH MP9060A Sony CRX-140E Teac CD-R56S Yamaha 16x Failure: HP CD-Writer 7200i (*) HP CD-Writer 8210e HP CD-Writer 8250i (*) Memorex tri-max 200 Mitsumi 4802TE Mitsumi 4804TE Sony CRX-100E Sony CRX-120 Sony CRX-145E TDK VeloCD 12x (*) works with non-short tracks, patched or fixed images (tested) Please note that these "problematic" burners mostly have "short" track problems, and they should still work fine with non "short" track images. This has not been tested, unless specified with (*). You can identify "short" track type images with following CDIrip command-line: cdirip image.cdi /info >info.txt Open info.txt and search for tracks below 302 sectors in size, if any. You can try to fix them with CDIfix before converting to NRG (only in case of multiple audio track images). That's all. Hope you like it! Many thanks to xeal and myn, who have been excellent beta-testers! History ------- 0.9.9 - Support for DiscJuggler 4.0 CDI images - cdi2nero now opens CDR-WIN 5.x (*.cdr) images, too - Unified code with CDIrip 0.9b8 - Added support for CDI 3.5.826+ images 0.9b7 - Fixed bug in 0.9b6 with some old (3.0, 2.0) images (were not recognized) 0.9b6 - Fixed bug with some DJ 3.5 images (only 1st session was converted) 0.9b5 - Added new DiscJuggler 3.0.780 CDI image support 0.9b4 (unified) - Unified TAO/DAO version in a single executable - Support for raw data tracks - New buffering system (great speedup!) - Major internal cleanup - New compiler (Bloodshed Dev-C++ v4.0) - tiny executable size! 0.9b3 (DAO) - Fixed multiple audio track bug - New progress counter (faster, bigger and better :) 0.9b2 (TAO) - New TAO-type NRG image - Fixed multiple audio track bug - Audio-only CD support (well, not really - this derives from TAO images) 0.9b - First release - Buggy :( (C) 2000 DeXT