The Image Mastering Application Programming Interface, or IMAPI, is a component of Microsoft Windows operating system used for CD and DVD authoring and recording.
It also adds support for the Universal Disk Format (UDF) 2.5 file system.
IMAPI supports every major writable CD and DVD format including:[6] IMAPI supports writing disks in ISO 9660 (including CDDA Audio) and Joliet.
IMAPI v2.0 also supports writing discs with Universal Disk Format file system.
[9] IMAPI 2.0 suffers from some limitations, notably that will not allow a filesystem to be imported from a raw image (.iso file), only from an optical drive.