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I never waited that long, but it may have helped me in the past to do that. Getting stuck at Track 2 seems to be a common place for ImgBurn to appear getting stuck Analyzing.

I was having the same issue with some of my data+audio CDs using various CD Drives. Waiting patiently seems to help - in my last case it was hanging for about 1 hour on analysing track 2 and then everything dumped normally. Thank you!

I suppose this belonged in Chat rather than ImgBurn Support as it has nothing to do with ImgBurn. I've never used this program before but I am guessing what it was saying with that notice to the user is you had some files added to be turned into DVD's that weren't converted. So, when you closed/opened the application again, it detected "uncompleted" work and asked if you wanted to clear out the cache of files. Basically, to start all over again with nothing on the slate to be done.

I'm doing it again, sorry. I asking a quest about DVD Styler in the ImgBurn Support forum. I'm having difficulty logging into the SourceForge forum so I'm turning to you. I'm sure it is nothing. When I finished making my menu and saved it and exited DVD StylerI was presented with a warning message. It stated, "There are two files (3349.7 MB) in the transcoding cache. Do you want to clear the cache?" Given the fact I have no idea what a "transcoding cache" is, I didn't know how to answer this. I think I chose "Yes". It must not of mattered, the DVD seems to have burned successfully. I'll know tonight when watch it. But is this anything important; somethign I should know? I attached a screen grab of the message. And I promise, last non-ImgBurn question here.

Please put a new blank disc in the drive, go into Write mode and then copy + paste everything from the box on the right of the main window.

ImgBurn can burn any kind of optical disc image you throw at it. As long as the Blu-Ray is not encrypted, ImgBurn can even copy it, although the legality of copying BD Video is up in the air depending on where you live in the world. As for BD authoring software, open source or not, I've never used any. Although for about 20 years now, I've used ConvertXToDVD to make DVD's and I think the same company makes ConvertXToHD, which would make BD Video. However, it's not open source.

My title explains my entire question. Can it? And while I'm at it, what is a good, preferably open source program like DVD Styler, to author blu Ray?

I remember saving BASIC programs on audio cassettes. In fact, in the BIOS of even modern computers, there is still the I/O interface for data transfer between audio cassettes for backwards compatibility. I think it was initially supported all those decades ago and just forgotten about. Where I last worked, for the first 3 years I was there, we saved things on reel to reel tape! We had a 1970's mainframe that was nearly as tall as I am and I'm 6' 6.5"!

On January 27th my wife and I will celebrate more years of marriage than you have been alive😉 I never had the Commodore but used to lug an Apple II into my hotel room long before most travelling business types thought of computers. Used casette tapes for storage! And to answer the question I am 1 1/2 x your age.

What age are we talking? I turn 51 on January 25th. I've been working with some sort of computer since I was 10 in 1984. TI's, Commodore 64, TRS-80, 286, 386, 486, Pentium, and onward.

dbminter, you could be approaching my age!!!!!😲 I am running DVD Styler to make the menus, etc. I use it to make an image file (ISO). Then using IMGBurn to burn it to DVD. This is the plan anyway. I did it once and the dvd player with my tv just sat there and hummed. It never did work. I did it again and success!!!! I have not used dvd's out of this spindle for months. Maybe the top DVD was dusty or who knows. As an aside, I am, unfortunately, using the very DVD's you are recommending I not use (Verbatim Life Series). I also have some "Amazon Basics". That, of course, may be part of the problem. For today, these are what I am stuck with. I will order some higher quality ones a few milliseconds after finishing this post. But I now have a couple movies burned to a DVD and I'm going to settle in this evening and watch.

ImgBurn.log heres my recent imgburn log as well

image size: 4,432 MiB disc size: 31 MiB if i continue anyway, this is the error.

hey, im new to all of this. trying to burn onto a dvd-r we've had for several years, maybe a decade. its never been used, should be available to burn. should have enough space too, the default 4.7gb. except it clearly doesnt, or wont read as having space. windows is reading it as 0 bytes used, 0 bytes free in properties. its empty in windows explorer. i even got nero infotool to double check, it reads the disk as 0 gb capacity, with blank capacity as "n/a". something i noticed is windows reads it as dvd-rw in properties, but its a dvd-r. trying to burn the video i want, of course, gives me an error as theres no free space at all & its going 14071% over the available capacity. whats going on here? i tried uninstalling and reinstalling my laptop's dvd drive (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUD0N) & i reset my bios settings to default, in case there was a bios setting getting in the way/blocking my OS from reading the disc properly. heres my imgburn log after calculating my file/image size. I 14:45:32 Operation Started! I 14:45:32 Building Image Tree... I 14:45:32 Checking Directory Depth... I 14:45:32 Calculating Totals... I 14:45:32 Preparing Image... I 14:45:32 Checking Path Length... I 14:45:32 Contents: 11 Files, 2 Folders I 14:45:32 Content Type: DVD Video I 14:45:32 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 14:45:32 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 14:45:32 Volume Label: [Not Configured] I 14:45:32 IFO/BUP 32K Padding: Enabled I 14:45:32 Region Code: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 I 14:45:32 TV System: NTSC I 14:45:32 Size: 4,646,955,008 bytes I 14:45:32 Sectors: 2,269,021 I 14:45:32 Image Size: 4,647,550,976 bytes I 14:45:33 Image Sectors: 2,269,312 I 14:45:33 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 btw, ive tried 2 separate discs, both have the same issue & wont read/burn properly. not sure if im doing something wrong, not sure if my laptop just wont read dvd-r's that are almost a decade old, or if the discs are just bad. ive ordered more online, so in a few days ill try again & see if i run into the same issues.

You're making a double layer disc / image. Pick a layer break position and click OK.

Hi, I'm trying to burn some dvds made with DVDFlick. The problem is, each time it gets stuck on 66% generating image etc. Not sure if it's relevant or if I got lucky, somehow, but it did work when I used a much smaller file.

We all gotta start somewhere. I burned my first CD 25 years ago, so I've got a wealth of experience.

@dbminter, that you for the very informative answer to my question. I have lots of studying to do and you got me started. I do appreciate it.

I use ConvertXToDVD to make DVD's that ImgBurn can burn, but CXD is not a free program. It depends on what authoring program you use does as to how to burn a disc. If it creates an ISO, use this guide: If it creates a VIDEO_TS folder, use any of the following guides, depending on whether the size means you need to a double layer recordable DVD or not: Now, there are other things to take into consideration for creating a DVD that just "plays." The disc quality matters, so don't use Verbatim Life Series. Use Verbatim DataLife Plus series or Taiyo Yuden/CMC Pro. But ONLY Pro CMC! NO other CMC discs like the Life Series! Plus, the DVD player hardware matters. You can have the best discs in the world and do everything right, but if you have a lousy player with a crap laser in it, it may not play it.

Exposing my ignorance here. So one use's the "DVD authoring program" to make a "project"? What DVD authoring program do you recommend? That puts the menu's etc somewhere, correct? And then you use ImgBurn to take that project and put it on the DVD? Are there recommended tutorials some where that can an old, retired, chubby geezer how to do all of this?

Oh, wait... you're the one who keeps getting Topics closed by LUK. I think I'm being trolled here.

I feel like at one point in time, (the very early 2000s), CMC wasn't that bad. I still have my dad's Imation CD-Rs that are recovery discs for an old state of Windows XP and hold a lot of different software from then. I believe there are 10 of them and all of them are readable. Well over 20 years old and are very discolored. Turned from pale white to a dark/rich gold. They were burned with a standard laptop CD-RW/DVD-ROM slim drive too, QSI if anybody knows that company drive. Additionally, they have only been stored in those paper sleeve covers and they're still fine. Just in case though, I made backups of them onto Verbatim Data Life Plus CDs. CMC now sucks for real though, the verbatim Life Series now has trouble burning in many drives and I feel their longevity isn't it. Though they are good for overburning like ThaCrip said in his other posts.

I've burned maybe 5 M Disc and probably less. So, I don't know if they do have a good archival length. I can tell you back when Verbatim made a quality BD-R with the branded blue and white discs line, which they don't anymore, they lasted at least 8 years. That's how long it was between burning some and my reading the data off of them at one point. I don't know about the last question, but SSD's and flash drives are prone to electron bleed, so they're not recommended for archival storage. Don't know how SD cards store data, so I can't say.

for MDisc DVD 2x is good for quality burn? MDisc is real or marketing for archiving media? for archiving longevity media data is best HDD 2.5" laptop or SSD or Pendrive or MicroSD card?

It will be exposed to heat for a longer time but burning at 4x would increase the heat but burn it quicker. So, who knows which is the better? There's no specific functions you need to configure. The only user selectable option that would increase a burn quality is lowering the write speed.