How to combine PDI FIles to burn????

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johnnywalker

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Thanks for the help!!!

But here is the problem??? Hope someone can help me out, or can point me in the right direction.

After I transcode with Instant Copy, I have 5 PDI Files?? Now, I know that I have read that you can burn these with either IC or burn with DVD Decrypter. Now, I'm not that big of a fool, but when I try to burn the files, I can only burn one at a time?? How can I combine the files to then burn all at once??

I've also tried the PDI Extract tool, and PDI2ISO, but I have the same problem!!

If I only burn one file at a time, the DVD will close??

Thanks for your help...
 
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AZImmortal

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what do u mean by "I can only burn one at a time??" u use instant copy in "hard disk to dvd writer" mode to burn the pdi files.
 
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johnnywalker

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Yeah, I tried that but it looks like it wants to only burn "one at a time??"

For example, when I select the file, the first one is "movie.pdi", (which is not very long.

The secong one is about 1GB and it "movie.pdi01"

My question is...how do I burn the entire PDI file with all the pdi's combined into 1 to make the full movie??

Thanks so much for your help.
 
Laz

Laz

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johnnywalker said:
Yeah, I tried that but it looks like it wants to only burn "one at a time??"

For example, when I select the file, the first one is "movie.pdi", (which is not very long.

The secong one is about 1GB and it "movie.pdi01"

My question is...how do I burn the entire PDI file with all the pdi's combined into 1 to make the full movie??

Thanks so much for your help.
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All you do is load the first file you listed m8 as that will load everything up, I tend to use DVD Decrypter to burn it as this now handles .pdi image files and never a problem. :)
 
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ingrid

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Take a look into the mirror and say "D'OH" to yourself... ;-))

If you'd like to burn the image with IC, you choose the one with the suffix ".pdi", all other parts are processed automatically. Pinnacle is splitting their images to 1GB-bits to avoid incompatibilities with old filesystems and/or network-protocols. That's a bit ancient, but who cares.

If you absolutely don't like to burn with IC, just use the Tool "PDIControl" in ICHSE or press CTRL+P. There you can convert your PDI to ISO. Here you also choose the first, the ".PDI".file. BTW, there are other tools available who do the same.
 
TheMadGuy

TheMadGuy

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Hi All!

just for the record: IsoBuster works aswell.
But like laz i tend to burn using DVDDecrypter, it has a good burning engine and at least provides some infos while recording. Something that pinnacled missed completly.

But any attempt on converting / extracting and then burning with your tool of choice will also serve you well!

As ingrid already perfectly explained a pdi set is only split for compatibility reasons.
you open only the .pdi file, the other files from the set are then automaticly accessed by the applications

Greetnx
 
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