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  1. Those cheaper priced DVD-R are still the high quality MCC Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation discs. Just got them today and checked them out.
  2. If ImgBurn supports those disc image formats, it would be as read only. I've never heard of those extensions before so I couldn't say what program would create those.
  3. The Device Buffer is self explanatory to me, but I am curious as to what the Image Buffer precisely is. Thanks!
  4. Interestingly enough, I just noticed. It's cheaper to buy 2 of the 50 disc spindles than the 100 tape wrapped stack! Not only do you save a few dimes, you get 2 50 disc cake stack holders which aren't included in the tape wrapped offering.
  5. On a side note, if you're after quality Verbatim MCC inkjet DVD-R, Amazon has them for nearly 50% off. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A0CV9S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 I was thinking of getting some to have on hand in February as I have a few left right now, but at that price I may go ahead and get them. 1.) they're nearly half off 2.) if I use my Discover credit card before December 31st, I get 5% Cash Back Bonus on Amazon.com purchases.
  6. A bit late with my annual bit of holiday cynicism. However, I've been sick since Monday and may still be so over Christmas. This year, I reached into a classic I've quoted a few times here: Merry Christmas you suckers, you miserable men That old festive season is with you again You'll be spending your money on cartloads of junk and from here to New Year, you'll be drunk as a skunk Merry Christmas you suckers, it's perfectly clear that you fall for it all a bit sooner each year If it goes on like this, you will find pretty soon you're singing "White Christmas" as early as June This Christmas card racket will cost you a packet Each season it seems to expand The cards are so clever, though nothing whatever to do with the subject in hand You'll be taking the kids 'round to multiple stores to be frightened to death by some old Santa Claus Then it's parties with spirits and vino and beer Merry Christmas you suckers, and a happy New Year Merry Christmas you suckers, you bleary eyed lot You'll never get rid of that headache you've got but I hope you feel splendid, you certainly should with your stomachs distended with turkey and pudd Merry Christmas you suckers, jump into your cars Roar off to your neighbors to sink a few jars Though your vision is double, just keep smiling through There are others in trouble a lot worse than you Beyond any question, acute indigestion will plague you and make you unwell You won't take the warning, you'll wake up each morning undoubtedly feeling like hell But stick to it suckers, go swallow a pill for this is the season of peace and good will While we patiently wait for that nuclear blast Merry Christmas you suckers, it may be your last
  7. That's what I've been doing whenever I encounter a file, like a FLAC, that won't load as input into a CUE file: convert it to temporary WAV lossless output and import that WAV. Then, delete the temporary WAV files when done.
  8. I wish my alma mater had offered German courses as I took it all the way to German III in high school and I'm fairly comfortable in that language. But, my college only offered French and Spanish. So, I took French as the "closest" to German.
  9. 10th grade Christmas for me was 1989. The big Christmas gift I was waiting for was Robocop for the NES. Well, what I majored in is a long story. I can tell you what my degree is in, but it's not what I majored in. I wanted a degree in computer science with a mathematics minor, but ended up with a mathematics degree and no minor.
  10. 30 years ago, I was having my 2nd Christmas season in college.
  11. Yes, CMC Pro discs should be Taiyo Yuden. I don't remember if I used their CD-R or DVD-R, though. I know what I did try a few years ago were quality Taiyo Yuden MID's and they burned and played fine. Which leads me to believe the MID's weren't faked. And one other user on these forums has had the same experience as they pointed out the CMC Pro discs for me to try.
  12. LG is sort of 50/50. They sometimes listen to me. For instance, the running change on MCC DVD-R I mentioned. They fixed that in a firmware update. However, I've told them for years their firmware for Verbatim BD-R only writes at 12x to 16x rated media. Yeah, I think Amazon just had some really good Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals. I intended on getting a Samsung T7 2 TB USB SSD this month. It was listed at $129 but dropped to $99 around Black Friday/Cyber Monday. So, I went ahead and ordered one early. Now, they're back up to $129. So, it looked like this year the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals were better than their Christmas deals.
  13. I would say it's not a case of fake MID's. It's easy to fake an MID, but not so much to fake the branding labels on top of the discs. If you're going to fake an MID, you're trying to pass off cheap as quality in order to make money. Faking the branding would dip into those profits. It's most likely just a change in manufacturing process. The firmware update reflected that change. And it might have been possible had I had any of the inkjet discs that were manufactured at the same time as the branded, they would have failed, too. Running changes during production are not uncommon. Quality Verbatim MCC DVD-R were rendered useless on the NS60 at one point because of a running change in manufacturing that a firmware update fixed.
  14. LG's are the best of what is available. Everyone else has a fatal flaw. The NS40 used to have that one fatal flaw of not writing to DL BD media. Don't know if it's still present or not. The NS60, while it had faults like only writing at 12x to 16x Verbatim BD-R, had no fatal flaws, just faults. Well, Pioneer's BDR-213 doesn't have any fatal flaws on its current firmware. Just a lot of faults that add up: writing 8x DVD+RW at only 6x, writing 8x DVD+R DL at only 2.4x, etc. And, the 213 DID REINTRODUCE the 8x DVD+RW writing fatal flaw AFTER having removed it and THEN removed it again with the last firmware. Sometimes you get things you can't explain. I had a Pioneer that would write to 8x DVD+R DL that were inkjet printable but NOT to the branded discs. BOTH were Verbatim DataLife Plus and BOTH had the SAME MID of MKM-003. A firmware update eventually fixed it, but I can't explain HOW such a problem existed before or HOW it could have been cured.
  15. I was referring to the cheaper, low priced inkjet DVD+R DL from Verbatim DataLife Plus I recently got off of Amazon.com.
  16. Pioneer would do a better job if they'd just LISTENED to me for the past 10 years and fixed the borked 8x DVD+RW write strategies! I provided them ImgBurn logs, ImgBurn error codes, MID's, where I bought the discs, etc. Pioneer just didn't give a damn. Yeah, I've seen a few maximum DVD write rates listed as 24x, but I've yet to get such a drive and see any results like that. I've also seen some so called CD-R get write rates in the 50x's, but I've never actually seen that before in the wild.
  17. It's not 100% guaranteed to fix the problem, but it generally does.
  18. I've never had those in the first link before. They say AZO so they should be the good stuff. I have had those in the 2nd link before, those DataLife Plus ones. They are the good ones. Or, well, rather, they were the last time I ordered them, which was some years ago.
  19. It's as I suspected. This is most likely your culprit: I 23:47:45 Destination Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m26s66f, CMC Magnetics Corp.) CMC Magnetics makes the worst optical discs out there. More than half the problems we see on this board are caused by CMC media and usually go away when you switch to quality media. You probably got the Verbatim Life Series CD-R in a brick and mortar store? Those are CMC's. You'll want the DataLife Plus Series, also labeled as AZO, which you generally mostly only find in online store like Amazon.com. The ironic thing is Verbatim sells both the high quality Mitsubishi media and the low quality CMC media. Even more ironic? CMC OWNS Verbatim!
  20. I burned a 2nd DVD Video disc to one of these "cheaper" MKM 003's. The VIDEO_TS itself spanned across both layers, but, how much data was used, I don't remember. The disc was burnt nearly full, but there was data in addition to VIDEO_TS burned to it. I had a chance to watch this DVD Video from beginning to end and it played fine without problems on my Blu-Ray player.
  21. No. LG is the best of the worst. LG has the fewest issues. The NS60 had its faults, but no fatal flaws, unlike everyone else. Even LG's NS40 had that one fatal flaw. Pioneer could POSSIBLY make the BDR-213 usable if they stop dicking around. The 213 initially fixed the 8x DVD+RW issue after a decade... before they put it BACK in! They took it out with the most recent firmware update, but it's still borked. 8x DVD+R DL that only writes at 2.4x. 8x DVD+RW that write at 8x but each subsequent rewrite on them is only 6x. However, I will preface my initial statement with the caveat that it's about BD drives. I've not used a non-BD drive for a long time. The one BD I had from Lite-On was total trash. Lite-On stopped making them shortly afterwards. Never had a Plextor. Lite-On used to make good DVD drives with one issue: they would randomly introduce skips in playback on DVD+R DL Video discs. The Lite-On BD did it ALL the time; the DVD drives would only occasionally do it.
  22. You can't do that with ImgBurn. With burning in ImgBurn, it's one and done affair. Even if you use rewritable media, the current contents must be erased first before anything new can be written to it with ImgBurn. To accomplish what you hope to, you need to format the disc with UDF packet writing. You format it as a giant floppy in Windows/File Explorer. If you use write once media, while you can delete files from the disc, you won't recover the space. So, though the file is no longer shown as there, the space it used is still there, just not accessible, and you can't reuse it. Rewritable media does let you recover the space. Be aware if you want backwards compatibility with older versions of Windows, you need to make sure that version of Windows supports UDF packet writing.
  23. It sounds like you're trying to put an MP4 on a recordable DVD, pop that DVD into a DVD/Blu-Ray player, and expect it to play. That won't work. Most DVD players don't support native playback of MP4 and even if they did, you must manually load the file from disc through a menu interface. It sounds like you want what is called a DVD Video disc, a DVD you put in a DVD/Blu-Ray player and it plays. With MP4, you must first convert the MP4 video container file to VIDEO_TS DVD Video compliant folder contents. ImgBurn can't do this. You need other software to do that, but ImgBurn can burn the VIDEO_TS folder they create and create a DVD Video disc for you from that. There are free options out there, but from what I've heard they're pretty lousy or take a long time to complete. I've been using a paid software for years called ConvertXToDVD to convert MP4 to DVD Video.
  24. Near as I remember, the only other issue with the NS40 was though it claimed its firmware supported writing Verbatim BD-R 16x at 16x, it actually only writes at 12x. The NS60 did the same thing. Unfortunately, I don't think LG publishes a list of firmware changes like Pioneer does. So, there wouldn't be a way to tell if the BD DL issues were addressed without trying it out. Even though Pioneer publishes lists of changes, they are often times vague and incomplete. For instance, they will not say anything about DVD+RW changes, but a firmware update will bork writing to 8x DVD+RW.
  25. Well, I should preface that with they USED to work. Firmware updates can bork disc compatibility all the time. Just look at Pioneer. They're constantly introducing borks into firmware updates that kill off support for discs. So, last time I used the NS40, the MKM 003's DID work. Can't say for certain now. And, the NS40 is the only option now. I've gotten official confirmation from LG for what I already suspected: the NS60 has been discontinued. No more parts or refurbished models are available, they say... yet, they're somehow doing one final replacement for the one I just sent off Thursday. I had suspected as much when you couldn't find the NS60 for purchase anywhere anymore, not even from LG's own web store.
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