11 Responses

1. bilm

   11|Sep|2009 1

   Benjamin,

   I wrestled with IMAPI several years ago so I appreciate your efforts.
   Good show! And Delphi needs an API for this. No one has done it
   that I know of.

   That being said, you are working on IMAPI v1 which for the most part
   is obsolete and very different from the new IMAPI v2
   (available to all XP users not just Vista and above).

   Download IMAPI v2 for XP SP2 or SP3 at
   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932716

   V1 could only burn CDs.
   V2 can burn CDs & DVDs (including Blu-Ray) and supports UDF as well as ISO 9660 with the Joliet extension for both single-session and multi-session.
   V1 was a “service” with all the difficulties that come with it.
   V2 is not a service. It is straight-forward DLL based.

   I hope you consider changing your API translation efforts over to IMAPI2. It would be a great contribution.

   Cheers,

   bilm

2. Benjamin

   11|Sep|2009 2

   Hi bilm!

   Thanks for your comment and for the hints about version 2. Maybe some spare time will come and give me the chance to work on it. Hopefully.

   Benjamin

3. bilm

   11|Sep|2009 3

   Yeah spare time … hard to find these days.

   Here’s some stuff from my notes on V2.

   IMAPI v2 documentation is at
   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366450.aspx
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366450(VS.85).aspx

   C/C++, VB & VB Script examples
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366454(VS.85).aspx

   full project examples – C/C++ of course
   http://www.codeproject.com/KB/winsdk/IMAPI2.aspx
   http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/ISOImage.aspx
   you have to be a member (easy & it’s free) to DL sources & bins

   So far I have found no pascal examples for V2.

   IMAPI v2 headers are in the Vista SDK
   i.e. MS SDK v6.0 “Update for Windows Vista”
   imapi.h
   imapi2.h
   imapi2error.h
   imapi2fs.h
   imapi2fserror.h
   imapierror.h

   hope this saves you some googling,

   bilm

4. Chaosben

   13|Sep|2009 4

   Thats the kind of support i really love. Thank you very much!

5. Yuvaraj

   21|Oct|2010 5

   Hi,
   I’m trying to write a file to CD from my Delphi Application. i think the above solution is good. but i cant find the TDiskMaster component. so please help me to get it.

   Thanls in Advance

   Yuvaraj

6. Chaosben

   21|Oct|2010 6

   You may check it out via svn from here

7. nuclearping

   04|Apr|2011 7

   I know this article is quite old. But is there any support / solution / example for creating Audio CDs with IMAPI 1 or 2 available?

   IRedbookDiscMaster is declared and utilized in the uDiscBurner.pas but calls like CreateAudioTrack, AddAudioTrack and others are missing.

   I’m searching since days and all I find are outdated solutions which do not work / compile with Delphi 2009.

8. Chaosben

   05|Apr|2011 8

   Hi!

   I’m sorry, but we havent worked on this unit since i wrote this article.

   One solution can be the use of the original imapi-unit of the JWAPI. The advantage is that you are independent from TUO and it will compile with D2009.

9. bilm

   05|May|2011 9

   Hello Benjamin and any others who might be interested in IMAPI Version 2.

   Since my last post back in Sept 2009 I have revised my opinion
   of IMAPI ver. 2 … upwardly.

   I’ve waited this past year 1/2 for someone else to show us how to implement IMAPI2 into a Delphi app but have waited in vain.

   So I took the bull-by-the-horns a month ago and have been playing with it. I had no prior COM programming experience but I picked up enough to work with it.

   I really think any Delphi programmer who wants to add CD/DVD support to their app for backing up a database or whatever should strongly consider IMAPI2.

   I’m not ordinarily a proponent of MS stuff. But the good, reliable packages for adding this kind of support to your app start at $400 USD. I’ve come to believe after working with it this past month that you can do just as well using IMAPI2.

   IMAPI2 supports all DVD types including Blu-Ray (BD). It offers Burn Verification and some other nice features. It’s native to Win7 & Vista and works on XP by installing some updates.

   I’ve made a demo that shows how to implement IMAPI2.

   Benjamin, if you and theunknownones would like to test out the demo and, if there is enough interest, possibly host it as a project, let me know. I’m willing to contribute it along with my expertise in the SCSI Multi-Media Command Set.

   cheers,
   bilm

10. Chaosben

    06|May|2011 10

    Dear bilm,

    thank you for telling us this good news. And i’m interested in your demo.
    Please send it to chaosben (a) theunknownones (d) net.
    I’ll take a look at it and try to guess, how much work has to be done, to implement the headers into JWAPI.

    Thank you for your work and patience.

    Benjamin

11. oldbitman

    09|Sep|2011 11

    blim,
    I would be very interested in your code.

    gary at linear-systems.com

    Thanks