Comments on: The DAA File – Everything You Need To Know

By: Simon88

Simon88 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:31:16 +0000

another shout for http://dotwhat.net/ – great discussion there

By: Beer

Beer — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:36:25 +0000

Wow, nice read man. Thanks for sharing! However I’m having trouble with ur rss feed. Does anyone else have problems with the rss?

By: Me2

Me2 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:15:35 +0000

Thanks – great info.
Downloaded my first daa file tonight (85MB) and didn’t have a clue what to do.
So followed White Shadow (Comment 67) and downloaded Luigi Auriemma’s utility and IZArc and within 5 minutes of downloading the two softwares have an unpacked file folder!

Thanks chaps!

By: Ronnie Needs Help with DAA Files

Ronnie Needs Help with DAA Files — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:00:10 +0000

Apparently PowerISO's unregistered version will open small .daa files (source: Opening .DAA Files) So, if you have a small one, I would try the free version of PowerISO. Unfortunately, my DAA file is too big and I have to convert it somehow. Grrr. Why is everything so hard?

By: e_klectik

e_klectik — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:28:06 +0000

daemon tools works fine and the lite version is free

By: Вени Г.

Вени Г. — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:40:50 +0000

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By: Download Torrents

Download Torrents — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:55:43 +0000

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By: Sonny Red

Sonny Red — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:06:41 +0000

I have downloaded nero to make dvds. Now I have found dvds (torrents) which are in iso format. So I downloaded poweriso but I am unsure how to turn the iso files into dvds which i can play on my dvd player. any suggestions, (question mark)

By: Colin B

Colin B — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:28:19 +0000

Thank you so much for the patient explanation and the software. Hand’t seen the daa. file format before and dreaded looking for something to open the file. I’m glad I opened your site first after googling ‘daa’. Managed to open my file….hooray!!

Thanks again,
Colin

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:16:18 +0000

Due to how the comment paging system works, it appears impossible to correct the link. I’ll repost the tutorial here instead :

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I had posted the tutorial last night but for some reason it didn’t take so I repost now (I also sent this by email to Nandu who requested it above).

Suzanne DeAngelillis

As far as I know, below is the only freeware tutorial on the Internet which shows how to convert DAA archives to DVD when the original DAA files are larger than 300 kb.

QUESTION (previously not answered on the Internet as far as we can tell):

How do I convert large DAA files to DVD on Windows using freeware?

ANSWER (thanks mostly to Bjorn S., Jim S., & 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