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Hi guys,
I would like to ask if there is a better example of buildimage.c using StarBurn_ISO9660JolietFileTree_Add available? I've looked through the current one and it's not really helping solve my little problems

Firstly, when I use the sample provided with the SDK, I run it to create an image of a folder called TestFolder. For some reason, it adds a file called SIGN.BIN, makes a folder called THIS IS NEW SHORT NAME and proceeds to build the image with all my files in that folder, here's an example of the new built image:



Another thing I'd like to ask is how to add files individually?
If, for example, I have a file on my hard drive: C:\Test\TestImage\Folder2\Info.txt How could I add this file so it would be located at: %ROOT%\Folder2\Info.txt on the disk image?
Thanks

See, SDK samples are here to show as much of the SDK as they can. That's why BuildImage has some of the REDUNDANT calls most people don't need. In your particular case you:

1) don't need to rename the upper directory by calling SetNames (it's the code to rename the directory into the "new short name").

2) don't need to call AddMemory to add the file with memory content and sign.bin

and the last thing - just use Add(...) to add individual files and not whole directories. We'll automatically parse the dirs however adding single files one-by-one would work just great.

As usual, thanks for a quick reply Anton

One thing I'm still unsure of though is how to add a file into a specific folder in the image... example, if I want to pass a file called test1.hex so it's path in the image is \TEST3\test1.hex, how would I do this?
Would I need to create a folder in the image first? and how do I tell starburn the location I want to place the file?
Using StarBurn_ISO9660JolietFileTree_Add to pass the single file, how do I tell it what path to use?

Basically, this is what I'm trying to do:
I've written some code so the user can drag and drop files/folders into a list. Once the user hits the make image button I have a list containing the FullPath to files and the VirtualPath for files on the disk.
Can I pass this information to starburn as it is to create the iso?
Example:
FullPath = Y:\Test\TestFolder\File2.hex
VirtPath = \TestFolder\File2.hex

Unlike the BuildImage example, I cannot assume that all the dropped files are in one folder on the users hard drive, they could be scattered.

If you need to add files or directories to some specific location you need to parse file tree with GetFirst/GetNextKid API calls. And then pass pointer to pointer to "parent" directory node as pre-last parameter.

Thanks Anton, I've finally got my drag and drop function coded and working correctly
But.... (:roll: here we go again )
Now I'm attempting to do the same kind of thing but with UDF image. I took a look at your UDFBuildImage.c code and compiled it. When I tested it I found it had created an invalid image
I'm not sure why, but when I ran the example it didn't create a Table Of Contents for the image file. It added all the files from the folder, but there is no TOC at 0x8000 in the image.
Have I missed something? Surely the image needs a TOC for any hardware/software to read it's contents.

UDF images are created with a different API and have different FS structures. If you create ISO image can you mount it with DVD emulation (like StarPort)? Can you parse the image with verification tool (say IsoBuster)?

Sorry, it was a late night and didn't realise that it only holds UDF info
Is there any option to include ISO TOC along with UDF TOC though? it seems most DVD image making software includes both ISO and UDF format TOC in their headers.

Yes of course! Please see DVDVideoBuildImage sample to find out how to create so-called "bridge" file system consisting from both ISO9660 and UDF file system structures.

Can this bridge only be used for UDF DVD Movie image?
My test folder doesn't contain VIDEO_TS/AUDIO_TS folders as I'm trying to build a data UDF image.

Yes, StarBurn support DVD-Video file system for DVD-Video discs only. For random content you need to stick with either UDF or ISO9660 (Joliet).