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ImgBurn is a versatile and lightweight CD, DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray burning software. It serves as a go-to tool for media creation, supporting an extensive range of image file formats, including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG, and PDI.
ImgBurn is a highly flexible application, featuring advanced capabilities often unavailable in other tools, especially when burning DVD video discs. The software also ensures a seamless experience for international users by fully supporting Unicode folder and file names.
ImgBurn is designed to support all the latest drives, eliminating the need for constant updates. It also provides advanced features such as booktype and bitsetting on many major brands, including BenQ, LiteOn, LG, NEC, Plextor, Samsung, and Sony.
For power users, ImgBurn offers an advanced image queue system that automatically handles multiple burning jobs, even across several drives. The application also provides an intuitive layer break selection screen to simplify double-layer DVD Video jobs.
ImgBurn removes guesswork with Automatic Write Speed, storing favorite burn speed settings for each media type and drive. For advanced analysis, data captured during the burn — such as write speed and buffer levels — can be easily displayed and analyzed using DVDInfoPro.
ImgBurn works in several Modes, each one for performing a different task:
- Read: Read a disc to an image file.
- Build: Create an image file from files on your computer or network, or write the files directly to a disc.
- Write: Write an image file to a disc.
- Verify: Check if a disc is 100% readable. You can optionally use ImgBurn to compare it with a specified image file to validate the data integrity.
- Discovery: Put your drive and media to the test! When paired with DVDInfoPro, you can evaluate the quality of the burns your drive produces.
ImgBurn – Pros & Cons
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| ✓ Supports creating, burning, reading, verifying, and building disc images with dedicated modes for different optical media tasks. | ✗ The interface and advanced settings can be intimidating for beginners who only need basic disc burning features. |
| ✓ Compatible with numerous image formats, including ISO, BIN, CUE, IMG, NRG, MDS, GI, and PDI, providing broad disc image support. | ✗ Primarily designed for optical media, making it less relevant for users who rely on USB storage or cloud-based file sharing. |
| ✓ Includes advanced features such as automatic write-speed management, layer-break selection, image queues, and booktype/bitsetting support for compatible drives. | ✗ Some advanced features require compatible hardware or third-party utilities to provide full functionality. |
| ✓ Fully supports Unicode file and folder names, improving compatibility with multilingual projects and file systems. | ✗ Windows is the only officially supported platform, although the software may run on other operating systems through compatibility layers such as Wine. |
| ✓ Offers extensive drive compatibility and advanced diagnostic tools, including burn verification and performance analysis with supported utilities. | ✗ Requires an optical drive to use its core features, which may be a limitation on many modern computers without built-in disc drives. |
Frequently Asked Questions
Can ImgBurn create bootable USB drives?
No. ImgBurn is designed to create and burn optical disc images for CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. It does not support creating bootable USB drives, so you'll need a dedicated USB imaging tool instead.
What is the difference between ImgBurn and CDBurnerXP?
Both applications support burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs as well as creating ISO images. ImgBurn focuses on advanced disc imaging, verification, and detailed drive controls, while CDBurnerXP offers a simpler interface for everyday disc burning tasks.
Can ImgBurn verify burned discs after writing?
Yes. Verify mode checks whether the burned disc is fully readable and can compare it against the original image file to verify that the data was written correctly. This helps ensure the integrity of backups and installation media.
Can ImgBurn burn ISO files to a DVD or Blu-ray disc?
Yes. It can write ISO and many other supported image formats directly to CDs, DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. Use the Write mode, select the image file, and start the burning process.
What's New in ImgBurn 2.5.8.0:
- Added: Holding the ALT key when clicking on the DLE window’s Disc pane column header will now remove the sort order (so they’re then essentially sorted by addition order).
- Added: Ability to incrementally search the Explorer pane in the ‘Disc Layout Editor’ window.
- Added: The effective USB connection speed (1.1, 2.0, 3.0) for USB devices to the initial device scan log entries.
- Added: Log entry when burning to show the effective layer break position.
- A new log entry now appears during burning, indicating the total discs a Lite-On drive reports as burned.
- Added: Pioneer drives now display their ‘Kernel Version' alongside the firmware version.
- Added: The Windows 7+ taskbar button and progress display now turn red if an I/O error message appears during a read/write operation.
- Added the ability to set the Platform ID when creating a bootable disc, allowing you to build UEFI-compatible bootable discs.
- Added: An internal part of the ‘BurnerMax Payload' code (based on my findings) enables overburning of DVD+R DL discs on many MediaTek chipset-based drives. In practice, this only seems to work on Lite-On (and clone) drives that have ‘Force HyperTuning’ enabled.
- Added: MSF info to the ‘Sector Viewer’ tool.
- Added: Allow for a larger I/O buffer (1GB).
- Added an option to select the transfer size (32 KB to 512 KB) used for reading and writing files.
- Added: Option to enable/disable the OS’s buffering when writing image files.
- Added: Ability to make the Explorer pane in the DLE window ‘Read Only’.
- Added: It supports the Opus audio compression format.
- Added: It supports the TAK lossless audio compression format (including embedded CUE sheets).
- Added: Ability to use a ‘*’ wildcard for ‘backup list’ directory entries in an IBB project file (applies to Advanced input mode).
- Added: A few keyboard shortcuts to the DLE window. (Ctrl+Shift+C = New Disc (Clear), Ctrl+Shift+D = Add Folder (Directory), Ctrl+Shift+F = Add Files, Ctrl+Shift+N = New Folder)
- Changed: No longer bundling/offering the Ask.com toolbar in the setup program; OpenCandy now handles product offerings during installation.
- Changed: Buffered I/O is now enabled by default for reading/writing files.
- Changed: Updated the splashscreen logo.
- Changed: The ‘Delete’ option/button in the Disc Layout Editor has been renamed to ‘Remove’ so it matches the one in Standard input mode (and so people aren’t put off by the term ‘Delete’ – thinking it’ll delete the file on their hard drive).
- Changed/Fixed: Detect oversized UDF File Entry descriptors and don’t attempt to parse them.
- Changed/Fixed: Restore the ‘Disc Layout Editor’ window’s focus when the application becomes active.
- Fixed a compatibility issue with new 16x LG Blu-ray writers that incorrectly reported a truncated write speed in the “GET PERFORMANCE” response during 16x burning.
- Changed/Fixed: Workaround for newer LG drives with the ‘Silent Play’ feature that seems to ignore attempts to set the read speed via the ‘SET STREAMING’ command. They get fixed on 1x and won’t read any faster!
- Changed/Fixed: Attempt to block users from trying to write discs their ‘combo’ drive doesn’t support (i.e., a DVD+RW/BD-ROM combo drive trying to burn BD-R).
- Changed/Fixed: Potential errors were ignored or lost when setting a ‘changeable' layer break position to its current or maximum value. The program now reports them.
- Changed/Fixed: Tweaked the ‘browse for folder/file' dialog code to prevent the OS from displaying the error ‘There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive X: when the MRU location is a drive that no longer contains a disc.
- Changed/Fixed: Reworked some commands that could optionally not use ‘Immediate I/O’. The old code could revert to ‘Non-Immediate I/O,' causing it to lose the initial error message from the ‘Immediate I/O' related to the command.
- Changed/Fixed: Adjusted (potential bug fix) to my drag+drop component’s code. It may reduce crashes and unexpected issues resulting from the user performing a drag-and-drop operation.
- Changed/Fixed: ‘Shutdown Computer’ checkboxes should have read ‘Shut Down Computer’.
- Changed/Fixed: Recently added ‘MID’ info was missing from the disc info text in Read / Verify modes.
- Fixed: Cosmetic issue displaying numbers when the user’s ‘thousands separator’ is set to nothing.
- Fixed an issue where newer LG Blu-ray drives (BH14+) displayed an incorrect firmware subversion.
- Fixed: Memory leak when burning Audio CDs that use DirectShow for decoding.
- Fixed: Memory leak when burning Audio CDs where the files are already in the correct format for burning (no decode required).
- Fixed: A potential access violation occurs when reading a field in a UDF's File Set Descriptor.
- Fixed: Old (orphaned) AWS-related registry/ini file entries were being left behind – this was perfectly fine; it’s just nice to keep the place tidy!
- Fixed an issue where the DLE Window's Disc Toolbar did not resize correctly on high-DPI systems, causing some buttons to be partially hidden.
- Fixed an issue where Build mode did not apply the required data type conversions for the drive when outputting Mode 2/Form 1/2352, which could result in a corrupted disc.
Official Homepage – http://www.imgburn.com
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008,
- Windows 7, 8, and 10 (including all the 64-bit versions).
- If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.
Size: 2.95 MB
