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Oh and another thing... What happens if you put 2 or more AVI's on a DVD? Does the player only see 1 in the file browser type screen?

The Sync Cache command is what finishes off the writing process! That same sequence also seems to work just fine for 99% of the other drives the program has been tested on. Any 'fix' for it would simply be a workaround for this specific drive. I'm curious as to what other programs do when the command errors out like that (do they not care, or do the just keep waiting and retrying automatically?) but you'd need to do some I/O snooping for that as only your drive seems to have this issue.

There's nothing obviously wrong with the image - as you say, it works fine on the pc. Maybe the philips has a picky implementation of Joliet filesystem parsing? Will it play discs (divx ones) just using ISO9660 as the filesystem? Does that work? What exactly are you seeing on your screen when you insert the ImgBurn disc? If it's reading the file names, does it display them in full how you'd expect them to look? Any chance of a camera pic of the tv screen?

No, I'm still doing bits and bobs to it I'm afraid.

I could recreate this if you can tell me EXACTLY which profile / settings are selected in Nero. If you could get me say the first 5mb of each image I'd be able to examine the file systems and see what's different.

Incremental is a different write mode. Most people have heard of SAO / DAO....well incremental is just another one of those. It's nothing to do with being able to add more data to a disc. Now that Pioneer has fixed the issue with their drive (It couldn't burn dvd-r or something properly using DAO), Incremental is pretty pointless really. To read up on the differences between SAO/DAO/Incremental etc you're probably best to search Google or read the MMC specs available at www.t10.org

It says 'Include Archive Files Only', not 'Include Archive Files'. So if you enable it and they're not marked with the 'Archive' attribute, they won't get added. Before you start messing with settings it might help if you actually understand what each one does and how it can mess things up if you enable/disable it.

Certainly not soon, if ever.

Like I said, it's not simultaneous, no. If Nero already does what you want, why don't you stick with it? Just search google to find any big burning program. Some that spring to mind are: DiscJuggler RecordNow Max ONES Alcohol 120% I've no idea if they all support burning to multiple drives at the same time but I'm sure you can find that out for yourself.

The program doesn't even NEEEEED the MDS for DL burning now. ImgBurn can read info from the IFO files and take a good guess that way.

It makes the program send the 'Reserve Track' command all the time when burning DVD+R. Normally it's only needed for DVD-R burning.

But basically the answer is no. The program would be reading the image file 4 times - hence your hdd would be going mental. The closest you can get to Nero's way of working is to queue the image 4 times and have each one burn to a different drive. If you fill the drives with discs you won't have to do anything between burns, it'll just automatically move onto the next one. That of course will still take 4 times as long as they're not done simultaneously.

Hmm that's not so easy as the text in that box is what I used to then know what's being added to the image - so I need full pathnames etc. If you click the little green arrow you should be able to see a lot more on the screen and you can of course just scroll to the right (so you can see the last folder/file name) to see if you added files or folders.

Just think of it as if the little white box is the root folder. If you drag a file into it, the file will be visible in the root. If you drag a folder into it, the folder will be visible in the root. The only time this changes is if you only drag 1 folder and opt for it NOT to be visible in the root, but instead it represents the root. I honestly can't see myself adding a standalone preview for the directory structure. Following the above info it's pretty simple to work it out.

lol yes, the drive (and it's firmware) controls the speed. 'MAX' is simply the max the drive supports on that media, be that 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x etc. The program can't magically make the drive burn faster than it actually thinks is possible. Next time you put a disc in, look at the 'Supported Write Speeds' info in the box on the right. Those speeds are what the drive claims it supports on that media.

Being a removable drive, windows will probably disable some, if not all the write caching. If you don't plan on just pulling the plug on the device, go into device manager, find the drive listed in the disk drives branch and edit its properties to enable write cache. That should speed things up.

That was the very first thing I asked/checked with you and you've repeatedly called it 'CDRW' ! It does help if you provide us with correct info otherwise we'll just bark up the wrong tree for hours on end and waste time. This DVD+RW formatting thing has been covered many many times. It will only do a full format if the disc hasn't been properly formatted. You 'should' be able to do it once and then not worry about it again. If that's not happening, either your drive just plain can't format properly or some other program is then mucking up the format later on - that's it's problem, not ImgBurn's.

Are there any in particular that you feel you 'need' ?

It can mess up the verify, yes. You'll know if it does because it'll fail with miscompare errors. Normally if you have a bad burn you're more likely to get a read error durning the verify stage than you are a miscompare error.

Already done it ready for v2.1

I think you've hit the glitch in v2 with 32k ifo/bup padding. This has been fixed and will be available when I finish v2.1

Mount the ISO in DAEMON Tools and then either copy the contents of the virtual drive to a folder on your hdd, or just use the virtual drive directly. Point ImgBurn's 'Build' mode at those files and have it create a new image. You then burn that to a double layer disc (or just burn on-the-fly as it builds) If that's no good for you (i.e. you want it on a single layer disc), you should go back to your AVI -> DVD program and tell it to make it a little smaller! That or run the DVD through any one of the million DVD compression programs available on the web. Get it to the right size and then burn it.

If seamless is ticked, it'll change the cell flag to 'yes' if it needs to. If seamless is not ticked, it'll change the cell flag to 'no' if it needs to.

Ok, to sum up this thread.... Cal wants options to check for updates less frequently. I implemented this feature. Everyone and their dog think Cal is a total arsehole. Now you get the idea, thread closed

There's a very fine line between something working and not working. If the media is borderline, you could try a disc 10 times and 5 it might fail, the other 5 it might not. Just because your drive managed to burn it before (or those 5 our of 10 times) doesn't mean it was actually a decent quality burn. With good discs you'll get 10 out of 10 burns being successful and they'll all be decent quality burns. The 'Drives and Media' forum is there to help people decide on what media to get - trouble is, there have been no tests with your exact drive. Still, you can get a rough idea by taking an average of all the other drives. Decent discs tend to produce excellent results on all drives, not just 1 or 2. Anyway, glad it's sorted.