Many thanks to Luigi Auriemma who personally replied to my emails all night
on Christmas eve to enable me to write this simple tutorial up. If someone
can fix Wikipedia to let others know of his wonderful solution, we'd be
grateful.
Thanks to all (I'll sign off now),
Suzanne DeAngelillis
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QUESTION (previously not answered on the Internet as far as we can tell):
How do we convert large DAA files to DVD on Windows using freeware?
ANSWER (thanks mostly to Bjorn S., Jim S., & especially to Luigi Auriemma):
0. Download Luigi Auriemma's Windows freeware daa-conversion utility:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm
This contains a zip file with source code & a Windows binary:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz/daa2iso.zip
1. Point Luigi's dvd2iso to the *first* file in your DAA archive:
c:\> daa2iso filename.part01.daa output.iso
This will convert single or multi-part DAA files to a single ISO.
A single output.iso file image will be the result.
2. You can burn that ISO image to DVD using Windows ImgBurn freeware:
http://www.imgburn.com
This will get you a playable DVD.
3. Or you can unpack that ISO image using Windows IZArc freeware:
http://www.izarc.org
This will result in the original files that were in the DAA archive.
ALTERNATE SOFTWARE (not necessarily freeware nor Windows):
PowerISO (not freeware, especially for large DAA files):
http://www.poweriso.com/poweriso-1.1.tar.gz
AcetoneISO (this is freeware, just not windows, works only on Linux):
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/AcetoneISO-16724.shtml
REFERENCES (none of which currently outline the simple solution above):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Access_Archive
http://filext.com/file-extension/DAA
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/09/07/the-daa-file-everything-you-need-to-know
http://www.articlealley.com/article_170967_11.html
http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm
Any other references we should add, specifically for Mac users?
Yes, why go to the trouble of stealing DVDs, if you can't
find a freeware method, to do it?
Ken
Ken, believe me....it's NO TROUBLE! It's FUN!! :-)
Merry Christmas from Scotland, Ken. :-)
Hi Suzanne,
How does one usually create DAA archives? Just curious.
Regards,
Richard
On Dec 24, 8:56 pm, Suzanne DeAngelillis <royalgl...@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
-thefish