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It could be bad media, it could also be that laptop drives are normally pretty shitty - and it's easy to stick your fingers all over the lens. Try running a cleaning disc through it.

As far as I can remember, all dates pass through the same function - and that's the one that uses different dates depending on what you've selected in the options. Maybe I missed one - it could be a 'text' date or something, which would be different to the others, so that could explain it. I'll check the specs and see what it says regarding what's supposed to be there (once I find it of course!)

Hmm maybe I messed up when I looked at images made by other programs... I could have sworn it (Nero) didn't copy the date over for directories last time I tried it! I've added the code now (well, removed some) so that 'modified' dates are preserved for directories too.

Folder dates are not preserved, this was on purpose as I believe it's also how Nero works.

I've implemented support for adding ';1' to joliet filenames within the code now. It was easier to do that than it would be to hexedit the image file!

Your error was totally different Savage03. You were getting a 'Write Error'.

Talking about the ;1 thing, the Nero image actually has ';1' appended to ISO9660 AND Joliet filenames. God knows why they've added them to the Joliet ones, even Microsofts tool doesn't do that - and as it's their spec, I'd hope they know what they're doing with it! So maybe that's the problem, maybe your player needs the ';1' bit on Joliet filenames to or it can't find the extension? But then why would it recognise the avi ok and not the srt one? While you're testing things, try not adding an avi at all and see if it sees the srt file properly. Again, for some weird reason nero puts the srt file data before the avi file data.

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' ?