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Feature Request: Backup directly to ISO
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 12:29 am
by VA1DER
It would be a handy feature if MakeMKV could, when it creates a backup, create it right to an ISO.
Re: Feature Request: Backup directly to ISO
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 3:45 am
by MartyMcNuts
VA1DER wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 12:29 am
It would be a handy feature if MakeMKV could, when it creates a backup, create it right to an ISO.
You can for DVD. For BD you can output to a decrypted folder then use ImgBurn to make an ISO from the derypted folder.
Re: Feature Request: Backup directly to ISO
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 2:23 pm
by VA1DER
I'm very aware of how to burn this. Just in likely 99.9% of cases, the backup feature will be used to go to an ISO. Either for someone wanting BDISO or to burn to physical disc. It would be nice if it happened in one step in MakeMKV. Or at least have the option.
Re: Feature Request: Backup directly to ISO
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 5:47 pm
by dcoke22
Personally I don't want an .iso and I'm annoyed that DVD backups automatically create them.
I don't want the disc structure… I want the content in .mkv files.
I think it is unlikely that 99.9% of people making backups want an .iso, although I'm not opposed to it as an option.
Why do you want an .iso?
Re: Feature Request: Backup directly to ISO
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 5:46 am
by flojo
dcoke22 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 5:47 pm
Personally I don't want an .iso and I'm annoyed that DVD backups automatically create them.
I'm hesitant to rip DVDs because of this :-/. I have a little 3 or 4 line script that can rip and extract them, but I still don't like it because you still need that intermediate .iso file :-/.
FYI, 7z can extract them (UDF 1.5), plain old '7z x dvd.iso' works fine.
I have a convoluted script on my NAS that mounts 'movie.zip' files and shares them via NFS but I stopped using it about a year ago and simply use the file tree.
FWIW, if you're desperate to have a *.iso at some future point you can create a .iso, create a 2% par2 archive, then later on use that .par2 archive to reconstruct the .iso from the tree structure. I've tried it with Blu-Ray and it works expectedly, but I've only seriously used it with backup up CDs (to return to single.wav/cue from mka/flac). Using par2 seems kind of pointless but on Linux you can't simply create a UDF 2.5 .iso so if you do load up Windows to repeatedly create the same .iso, using par2 lets you load the VM only once. Although you'd still have to do it once :-/, but maybe the approach might be worth remembering.