Kenadjian

And don't forget to set the "book type" to DVD ROM on the +DL media.

What did you end up with? A Pioneer?

I would be more inclined to go with the external burner, this will give you much more flexibility than the stand alone player. Just my opinion.

What buttons?

It just doesn't get any better than that, but give it time, I'm sure it will.

Oh, ok, but CMC's are not the media to test with.

Here is a major part of your problems, you are using media that's not fit to be used as target practice. Speeds of 2.4x in -R media is unheard of. please get some decent media, verbs or yudens, only then you can be sure of drive problems.

I dare say the movie starts playing after a minute? This is quite good quality media, the problem you're having is "protection" related. I'm afraid we realy can't help you with that, sorry.

Pain_Man, Simplest way to prove they are full of shit is to turn off your HT for a couple of burns and see what happens. I personaly think it's a load of bullshit.

See if this helps to start with. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/18/wh...hyperthreading/ Don't feel too bad, I had over 6000 posts, does it realy matter?

Correct.

Can you post the whole log please?

Happy birthday boss.

You're welcome. The only other thing that I can think of, other than the fact that the drive is just not capable of burning DL media, is to check your DMA settings, please read the link I've posted, go to post #2. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=59 Let us know how it goes.

Oh, almost forgot, please read the following. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=1028

I dare say this is part of your problem, for testing purposes install an earlier version of ImgBurn, and see how that goes, keep your burn speed at 2.4X tho.

Can you throw some machine specks at us please?

Actually the Device buffer is all over the place. Ok, check this out to start of with.

Yes, I could see that in the log, and that's what worries me, this media is only rated at 2.4X yet your drive is reporting 4X and 8X, do you know what your media is rated at? Sometimes the drive will return higher speeds than the media rating, however this is most unusual for DL media.

@phatboy, Are the buffers nice and steady while burning the DL media?

@phatboy, Here are the specks for the same media that you're using from a supported drive. Note the speeds supported. HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B A117 (ATA) Current Profile: DVD+R DL Disc Information: Status: Empty Erasable: No Free Sectors: 4,173,824 Free Space: 8,547,991,552 bytes Free Time: 927:32:74 (MM:SS:FF) Supported Write Speeds: 2.4x DVD+R DL Boundary Information: L0 Data Zone Capacity: 2,086,912 Changeable: Yes Physical Format Information (Last Recorded): Disc ID: MKM-001-00 Book Type: DVD+R DL Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,580,607 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,283,519

@flawless115, That's ok mate, I was just trying to point out that it was a 1:1 copy, there was no disrespect meant to you.

I would say you have drive/media compatability issues. Does it write DVD5's ok?

@flawless115, This is as good as it gets.

I would be very tempted to slow your burn speed to 4X max, 8X on DL is very "heavy duty". Is the media you're using actualy rated at 8X?