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ImgBurn already pops up a box when you do that. The OpenCandy switches have always been documented and I've mentioned them myself several times. The switch is handled by their plugin, it's not something authors have to deal with.

That doesn't mean they're right, I'm just more thorough.

Are you sure you made it scan the drive for bad sectors? Simply checking the file system for corruption isn't going to find this problem.

The problem is with your source drive. Have windows check it for errors and do a full surface scan to look for bad sectors.

Cycling the tray forces the drive to have to reinitialise the disc - it's not an 'unnecessary ejection', it's a key part of the verification process. If you really can't stand it happening, turn off the 'cycle tray before verify' option in the settings.

You're making a standard CD-DA disc there. 44khz, 16 bit, stereo. A DVD Audio disc is something very different and ImgBurn won't help you burn one of those. That aside, you may find there aren't any DirectShow filters available to enable conversion of your source files to that format (on the fly).

It hasn't filled it, you just can't write anything else to the disc because it's been 'closed' / 'finalised'. Don't rely on Explorer for info about a disc. It deals with file systems, not raw capacity.

I've no idea then db, sorry.

Forget ISO files then, they aren't going to help you. ImgBurn won't help you at all actually. Maybe makemkv or mkvmerge will do it?

ImgBurn doesn't convert anything, it burns as-is. You'll need another program that can output a DVD video folder structure for you.

I've only ever used madFlac as it's the only one that did what it was meant to when I tested a few. I've burnt lots of files from a drive that's different to the one where I put madFlac.

I guess they must be DVD+R DL rather than DVD-R DL if the booktype is showing up as DVD-ROM.... after all, it isn't supported with DVD-R (minus) format discs. It's odd that the drive doesn't list the current profile correctly though. Are you sure it's a recorded disc? Is there anything stamped around the middle of the discs? Maybe you could match a code up to a manufacturer.

I don't understand... can you not make a madFlac folder in your 'Program Files(x86) folder, put madFlac in it, register it and just leave it there? It shouldn't matter where the files you're decoding through it are located. As per my previous response, have you installed any codec packs?

Because the installer uses the OpenCandy plugin and I guess Norton have decided to quarantine anything that uses it. You can read about OpenCandy on their website. http://www.opencandy.com/

Noting in read or write modes when that blank is in the drive? Can you post the disc info from both modes from any and all drives you have in your PC at the moment please?

I see no log? That's a new error on me and certainly isn't hardcoded. I can only assume you've got a bad filter installed that directshow is trying to pull into the graph. Have you installed any codec packs?

Test mode doesn't attempt to write to the media, so obviously any issue related to actually doing that wouldn't occur. It's a 'theory' test rather than a 'practical' one.

Give the drive clean and try burning at 8x. You shouldn't need to go to 4x or 2x. A new spindle of similarly decent quality discs wouldn't go a miss either.

I've never heard of WMP playing images of any sort. I know VLC can 'play' images containing a DVD Video structure, but as audio discs have no file system, I don't know how / if they'd work. Disc images aren't meant for anything other than burning back to another disc, mounting in a virtual drive or as a means of backing up a disc for safe keeping on a hdd somewhere. Install DAEMON Tools, mount the CUE and then try playing from the virtual drive. I very much doubt there's anything wrong with your image.

If they're audio tracks, I don't even think it's possible for it to be 'unreadable'. As media player can't play images, how exactly are you attempting to play it? You'd need to mount the CUE file in a virtual drive program and then play the virtual disc in the virtual drive.

Fragmentation on the source drive maybe? They're quicker reading at the start of the drive, so things slow down as the drive fills up. It's the random access that kills the transfer rate. Have you tried the buffered I/O options to see if they make any difference?

More versions will come out, it definitely hasn't been abandoned.

That drive must be about 10 years old now... have you tried cleaning it with a cleaning disc? Have you also tried using the other drive?

This makes no sense. What 'support' would you have me add? It's a standalone program in its own right, just run it.

Use different (better) discs and / or slow the write speed down.