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When it's doing the Sync Cache thing, press F8 when you've decided it's stuck and see if commands are still being sent to the drive. This is a sure fire way of knowing if the drive just cant finish burning on that media (doesn't fully support it) or if your drivers crashed and the drive has stopped responding to commands. If the commands keep being added to the log, it's a drive/firmware/media issue. If they're not, your machine/drivers/drive died.

Great, thanks for that. If you can, please keep that image on your machine until I've had a chance to add some debug code to my routines that'll enable me to extract (and show in the log) some info about what ImgBurn is doing. I'll then send you a special version. I can't see anything that would cause an issue... but clearly something is!

Oooh rerun pgcedit.... If it's not too much trouble that would be excellent! Thanks!

I'd be interested to see where exactly PgcEdit put the layerbreak. Any chance of a screenshot from the window where you selected it? I can't really give you an answer until I know some additional info - not only that, I'd like to know why I couldn't get the LB from the IFO data!!!

Ahh the blue avatar is back! lol I'm pretty sure volvofl10's initial comment was very tongue in cheek... but of course that's hard to get across in plain text. The smilie at the end does go some way towards helping though. oh and I've (we've) no issues here about external links. Unless of course, they're blatently advertising a crummy program somewhere! Anyway, no harm done I hope. We're a nice bunch really... honest!

I know quite a few people with that white Sony one. I guess that's the 800i....but I only know the black k750i by number! Anyway, the phone itself is excellent. Nice menus, excellent camera and more features than you could ever hope to learn! We've had many side splitting times out in town of an evening getting pissed and mucking around with bluetooth to random peoples phones! (but you're probably a little more grown up than we are ) You can listen to those little mp3 players that run off a single AAA battery for hours on end so I don't see why it would die quickly on a phone. I'm sure the life of the battery in the phone would exceed that of a AAA.

hmmm I'd have expected pinnacle to allow you to output to and ISO file / or burn to disc / or output to video_ts files. If you files will fit on a DVD5 (single layer) disc, you can use 'ImgTool Classic' from www.coujo.de If they're bigger than that (i.e. DVD9 double layer), you have to use PgcEdit from http://www.videohelp.com/~r0lZ/pgcedit/index.html PgcEdit can cope with single layer and double layer so you could really just use that one all the time. Its the only one that will make a proper double layer image with a nice layer break though. btw, they're both FREE tools.

You can burn with any options selected and at any speed. The Write Speed Graph is totally separate from all that stuff. It's just from ImgBurn taking 'samples' of the current speed at regular intervals (defaults to ever 100 milliseconds). WOPC is just a drive thing so I don't think it's possible to have incompatibilities with it.

The original question wasn't exactly aiming towards 'how do i get imgburn to work with dvdshrink', or I'm sure Rotary would have seen the 'sticky' post at the top. Rotary, seems weird seeing you here without - what I remember as - a blue strange avatar?!

You should leave WOPC enabled. It basically checks the quality of the burn DURING the burn. If it notices the quality is sub-par, it'll slow it down until error rates are within acceptable limits. It really decent media, you can safely disable WOPC and then the drive will reach max speed (i.e. 16x). Sometimes it always falls short of that - even with proper 16x speed rated media. cdfreaks forum might be of use to you here. They talk about this sort of thing in the BenQ subforum quite a lot. If you're bored, perform another burn with WOPC enabled and then (within ImgBurn), click 'Display Graph Data Using DvdInfoPro' from within the File menu. You'll need DVDInfoPro installed of course - free version is fine. You can then see exactly how the drive is changing the write speed at the burn progresses.

Yeah but 2.4x isn't a real/valid speed for DVD-R. It's like the drive doesn't really support those discs. Mind you, my Pioneer 110 lists 3.4x, 6x, 8x as supported speeds for the new 8x Ricoh DVD+RW media! 3.4x ????!! WTF! lol

DVDShrink isn't capable (AFAIK) of building proper DL images. So basically, you need to output to a VIDEO_TS folder and then use PgcEdit to create the ISO file. You can have PgcEdit feed that ISO to ImgBurn, or just manually load ImgBurn and the file yourself.

hmmm well spotted corn! Seems that firmware doesn't like them 100% I've got a bunch on order from svp so I'll be able to test for myself soon enough.

Making an ISO from scratch is actually quite hard DVD Decrypter didn't build one from files, it read the sectors into one. The two are VERY different! This will happen one day, I'm just not sure when. I may even do a temp version using mkisofs or something.

Damn it! I've been through all my spindles and didn't find any TYG02's I've got some old TYG01's and some Yunden000-T03-00... they're about the closest.

Maybe they're fake TY discs?! I can't imagine the real thing bombing out on you all the time like that. I'll raid my cupboard and see if I've got any with that media id, and then try burning a few of them myself.

No, they're two separate programs and will continue to function as such.

Look at the 'Supported Write Speeds' bit in the information panel on the right. Your drive/firmware/media combination is the limiting factor. The program will always try to set the drives speed to the one you tell it to. It's up to the drive to use that speed or one that it DOES actually support.

Cheers, yeah I'd noticed myself that the logic was VVVVERRRY wrong for this! I don't think I'd actually changed it / updated it for ImgBurn supporting queues. It has been fixed for some time now in beta versions. I hope to have 1.2.0.0 out soonish.

I'd be amazed if you could burn 5 with ImgBurn, have them all fail, burn 1 with nero, have it work and then burn 5 more with ImgBurn and have them all fail. The odd one here and there is just drive / firmware / media issues. The burn has started - which means its not a program issue. After that point, there is only one way to get the drive to write stuff - by sending lots of write commands. In that sense, which program you use makes no difference. Manufacturers tend to do more work (firmware wise) with current media - i.e. stuff that burns at 16x. So take spinningwheels advice and try out some newer media. The cdfreaks forums will give you a good idea of what works and what doesn't on Liteon drives.

http://www.benq.co.uk/serviceandsupport/do...duct=750&type=B Down the bottom of the page... BSOB firmware. That other firwmare site might not have it listed yet.

You can have the program autosave the log (to a unique file) when it closes. Just look in the settings. That's the best I can offer right now.

The content of the file is irrelevant. The drive just sees it as data, it doesn't know/care what it is. The program itself works fine with the drive, I have a 1640 myself that I perform testing with - that said, I'm running BSOB firmware. So... update your firmware and try again.

Show us a log of you actually burning something. It's handy if we can see the error. btw, your drive is probably a 1640 - as 1240 doesn't exist!

My previous post still stands. For you, it could be as simple as ejecting and reinserting the disc.