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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.

It's not 100% guaranteed to fix the problem, but it generally does.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Just got the official word from LG. They have discontinued WH16NS60 production. They informed me that this current replacement they are making for my NS60 will be the last. The NS60 has been discontinued and after they go through the current refurbished stock they have, there will be no more. The NS40 is still available. Amazon.com has 5 left in stock with more on the way, so the NS40 is still in production, it seems. Which is a bit of a shame as the reason I stuck with the NS60 was because it properly wrote to BD DL media, unlike the NS40. However, maybe after all these years, firmware updates have fixed this in the NS40.

First, make sure the device is recognized by Windows. Open File/Windows Explorer and make sure the drive is listed. Second, just to cover all the bases, you are trying to create an image file of an optical disc and not a USB thumb flash drive or HDD/SSD, right? Lastly, try changing the I/O Interface in ImgBurn and see if any of the alternates find your device. To change the I/O Interface, under Tools --> Settings --> I/O --> Page 1 --> Interface, there's a series of check boxes you can use to change the I/O Interface. Try changing to each one until you find one that works. Though it's not listed as recommended, I do recommend closing and restarting ImgBurn each time you change the I/O setting, just to be sure.

I bought the inkjet printable ones. I've used discs similar to these on the NS40 in the past. MKM 003's. They worked fine back then, but it's been years since I used the NS40.

I had a chance to burn one of those "cheaper" Verbatim DVD+R DL's I got last week. I burned about 5.9 GB to one and it passed both Write and Verify. Right now, I'm performing a Read test and then processing the ISO to "verify" its contents. And the ISO read completed and processed fine. So, these "cheaper" Verbatim DVD+R DL discs do appear to be the good stuff, just cheaper.

At what point does ImgBurn say you need to reinstall Madflac? I am on Windows 11 23H2 and just loaded a .FLAC without incident. However, I did not attempt to burn the CUE file. If you're getting an error attempting to do the actual conversion, as I said, I didn't encounter that because I didn't attempt to write the CUE file.

The problem with the NS40 was, for a long time, and it may have finally been fixed with a firmware update since I last checked, it did not write properly to DL BD discs. It wasn't just my findings, either. Others on this board and I discovered 9 times out 10, DL BD media would fail Verify. There's never any rhyme or reason why an LG optical drive, and it's more than just NS40's and 60's, will fail to read a particular disc. And it's not just DVD-R but pressed Blu-Ray and DVD Video discs as well.

Last I checked, .img was a file type for images of floppy disks made by WinImage. Are you talking floppy disks or install discs like CD's for this software? If it's floppy disks, ImgBurn won't image those. You'd need something like the aforementioned WinImage.

My order arrived and near as I can tell, even though they're like 4 times less in price, the MID does say they're MKM-003's. So, they appear to be the good stuff. Although I don't have anything in need of burning right now to a DVD+R DL, so I can't test to make sure they work okay. If I can remember, I'll be sure to use one of these new ones first on my next need to burn DVD Video to a DVD+R DL.

The NS60 has had a few read hiccups over the years. Maybe 5% of what I've fed it won't fully read, but another drive, like my Verbatim Pioneer USB drive, will read. It's a shame you can't find NS60's anymore. Just the NS40.

The CMC Pro discs are TY discs. At least, the MID's say they are. You can always fake an MID, though. I tried out some of them and they all burned and played back on a PS3 without issues. Sony used to make a quality DVD-R when they made it themselves. Now, they farm out to Ritek, which is okay 2nd tier media in North America; in Europe, Ritek appears to be junk. There's a section of the Forums dedicated to media reviews: https://forum.imgburn.com/forum/15-media/ The most recent posts, in fact, appear to be from me. I underwent a task to check all of my recorded discs since some were burned before I knew what CMC was. So, I took the opportunity to replace any MCC DVD-R I had recorded with MCC Verbatim DataLife Plus inkjet printable DVD-R. While I was at it, I decided to post a list of discs that were still readable 15-20 years after they were burned.

Yeah, I came across both Amazon entries, as well. I can't explain it, either; it's really weird. If you do a general search for those terms, the first hit is for the $67, but if you scroll down through the list of hits, you find the $25 one. My order is supposed to arrive today.

The order I just placed a few hours ago has already shipped. Amazon appears to be going on a selling spree. I already got something else I was monitoring because it dropped half in price and something else I also ordered went from $42 to $24, with the Prime shipping.

It's weird. My first search for the inkjet discs turned up only an entry with 3rd party sellers. However, scrolling down through the list of hits, I did find another entry that was Amazon shipped. I have ordered those branded AZO discs before. They are Mitsubishi MKM.

Amazon.com still offers them for shipping themselves: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005F2YPH2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 If you're looking for inkjet printable labeled ones: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-98319-Datalifeplus/dp/B07GPTV77F/ref=sr_1_14?crid=3US12YPGDHO5O&keywords=verbatim+dvd%2Br+dl+inkjet&qid=1700321675&s=electronics&sprefix=verbatim+dvd%2Br+dl+inkjet%2Celectronics%2C242&sr=1-14 Although, I can't explain the super low price of the inkjet ones. They're nearly half off the Deal price of the branded ones. At that price, I'm tempted to get some for myself, even though I currently don't need any, and keep them in storage. IF they're the MKM ones. I have a feeling Verbatim might discontinue them or Amazon is trying to get rid of unsold stock. The good news is if they're NOT the MKM ones, Amazon.com has a very good return policy.

Yes, convert the MP4 to DVD Video disc. There are some freeware tools, but I've never used them, so I can't recommend any. From what I've seen of them, they're not really very good. I use ConvertXToDVD, but that's a paid license piece of software.