Ashampoo Burning Studio ASHDISC image files

roytom2

Many moons ago I converted some DVDs using Ashampoo Burning Studio (ABS) creating their own image files in ASHDISC format.
I no longer use ABS and wanted to read/use the disc images which it turns out are not recognised by media software etc - therefore I wanted to convert these files to the industry standard ISO format.
The free ImgBurn software seems to do the conversion (there’s plenty of file format questions I don’t understand, I’m not sure if these matter if you’re not burning a DVD?) but strangely it does it very fast.
So I wondered what would happen if I just renamed the ASHDISC files to ISO and it seems to work - the resultant ISO files can be played using VLC player.

Therefore, are these ASHDISC files just ISO files with no actual difference ?
Thanks for reading 

Neil_Jones

PowerISO and MagicISO can apparently open these so that suggests they're just standard ISO files with a new extension.

You can rename the file extension to ISO and then see if Windows or ImgBurn will mount them and/or burn them back to disk (and see if they play).  If it works it works, if it doesn't just change the extension back.

[Deleted User]

If these are video DVD's, can I suggest using MakeMKV which will extract the DVD as an .MKV container with MP4 video which will make it more portable and compatible with more video players?