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- - DiskSpan GUI (https://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=104507)

That's how it works.

You can even use Diskspan_GUI.exe to extract the files if you don't want an installer.

Updated compatible installers Black Box Script (BBS) and CODEX Installer Script (CIS) on post #3

Small update for DSG 2.0.2.4
Just replace files when prompted.

What's new

Code:

Updated Database

Updated 7-zip

Updated packjpg

Updated libs and ue4keys

*Updated XTool to v0.9.7 HF

Added wem-(un)packer

*Why not include 0.9.8?
Because there are many bugs right now in DSG. If you update to 0.9.8 you will often not be able to use final compressors like LZMA-MT, zstd, etc. Progress is just stuck. I am not sure what cause this but it's there. This problem is DSG exclusive but I cannot fix it.

Edit: Forgot to add RZ SYMM stdio patched.

Consider this as BETA version please.

Code:

- Changed methods names:

  >> from "rz_stdio" and "razor_stdio" to "rz_stdio_razor" and "razor_stdio_razor".

  >> from "razor_stdio_pmt to "razor_pmt"

- Added new "ADDeX" deduplication engine (similar to SREP) by panker1992.

  >> Uses cls-addex for decoding files.

- Added new razor stdio methods: "rz_stdio_symm" and "razor_stdio_symm".

- Added "wem(un)pak" tools to pack/unpack WEM files. 

- Added more oodle libraries to oodle libraries collection (Thanks to KaktoR).

- Added new "Kaktor's" plugins for XTool.

  * LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga 

  * WWE 2K19

- Updated BZip3 compressor from v1.5.2 to v1.5.3

  >> Uses now cls-bzip3 for decoding files.

- Updated 7-Zip compressor from v26.00 to v26.02 (2026-06-25).

- Updated LZMA SDK compressor from v26.00 to v26.02 (2026-06-25).

- Updated XTool precompressor from v0.9.2 to v0.9.8 (only x64 version).

  >> fast-lzma2 is now working again.

- Updated "WAVExtractor" tool to version 1.3

- Updated DiskSpan GUI database to version 1.1.0.6 (Thanks to KaktoR) (Don't wait for other database updates).

  >> Now with 636 game presets and 36 games collection presets.

- Removed DiskSpan GUI compatibility with 32-bit systems is completely gone.

- Fixed some minor bugs.

hello
I changed these lines in DSG_Methods.ini for addex :

Quote:

[OrderRules.CATEGORY]
...
IndexOf=ADDEX; RuleTo: Level=1;

this makes addex run before final compressor

Added hotfix to previous post.

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to create a hands-off, batch-mode workflow for a significant collection of PS3 ISOs. While I discovered the CHD format years ago, I've only recently fallen down the rabbit hole of modern advanced compression methods. Over the last week, I’ve been developing a PowerShell v7 script designed to scan a directory, intelligently group/move similar multi-region ISOs into their own folders (e.g., Bejeweled 3 [BLES01601] [BLUS30865]), and process them. I quickly found that tools like SREP are remarkably effective here due to the highly repeated assets found in multi-language regional releases.

However, despite my script coming along nicely, I hit a massive wall. No matter what profile or options I tried in Mini Compressor, I could never get a clean, error-free extraction of the PS3 ISO Afrika (BLUS30399). After testing almost every profile (including mxx) on a clean installation, the extraction failures were always predictable rather than random—breaking at specific offsets depending on the settings. It became clear that Mini Compressor just doesn't agree with that specific image format.

Fortunately, after searching the forum, I discovered DiskSpan 2, and every profile I've tested on it works completely out of the box with zero extraction errors.

The New Dilemma: Batch Processing & Cryptic CLI Commands
Now I’m facing a structural hurdle. As great as DiskSpan 2's GUI is, it is built around a single-task-at-a-time workflow, and I can't find a native batch-processing mode.

Because my end goal is to automate this entirely through my PowerShell script, I've been trying to inspect the underlying commands. However, snippets like these are proving quite cryptic to decipher:

commands that i have found from my investigation for example "

Quote:

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" /C ""C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\Arc.exe" create -ep1 -r -s; -w"C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\TEMP" -m"3" -dp"C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\TEMP\is-H93M2" "E:\Diskpan2\Setup.dll""

and

Quote:

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" /C "(@echo off)&((if exist "C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\OTHERS\SREP\srep. exe" del /F /S /Q "C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\OTHERS\SREP\srep. exe" >nul))"

Could anyone kindly give me some insights or point me in the right direction on how best to approach automating DiskSpan 2's underlying engine (or FreeArc/external toolchains) to achieve a seamless, automated batch loop for subfolders? Any advice on mapping these command structures or utilizing headless execution would be hugely appreciated!

If you only want to use srep without anything else, I suggest to use ADDeX instead.
Batch cmd could be as follow

To encode the file you can use this (check out other options aswell)

Code:

ADDeX.exe -m1 "input.iso" "input.output"

To decode the file to it's original state you can use this

Code:

ADDeX.exe -d "input.output" "input.original"

This way you only need the tool itself without any other files, installers and such.

Edit:
Example Windows 11 ISO

Code:

ADDeX.exe -m1 "Win.11.AiO.28000.1719.iso" "Win.11.AiO.28000.1719.output"



ADDeX -m1 done: 100%  matches=28518

Compressed -m1 7737972736 -> 6191517568 (80%) in 80,99 s

Estimated peak decompression RAM: 852 MB

Code:

ADDeX.exe -d "Win.11.AiO.28000.1719.output" "Win.11.AiO.28000.1719.original"

https://i.imgur.com/C3rYVwi.png