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The updates option is on the Events tab in the settings. Are you sure you've configured AWS correctly? All you do is add the MID code to the list and pick the speed for it. Then on the main screen you make sure AWS is selected.

This doesn't sound like anything to do with ImgBurn. Are you sure it's ImgBurn that's bringing up that error? It doesn't do any conversion stuff with video files.

The BenQ will be able to burn Verbatim MKM-001-00 (2.4x) discs, I can't remember if it'll also handle the MKM-003-00 (8x) ones.

Either let it through your firewall or tell it not to check for updates. At the moment, it looks like it's being blocked and the program is waiting for a command to finish processing - it's at the mercy of the OS.

That BenQ drive is ancient, it won't have firmware support for the UME discs you're trying to use. Don't buy more of those discs either, you should be buying the Verbatim MKM ones.

This is not related to the actual burning phase. ImgBurn burns exactly what you give it. Sorry but you'll have to figure out the issue with the other bits of software you're using.

Yes, the total time would be 1.5 hours for a single layer BD-RE disc. That's 45 minutes of the drive formatting the disc properly with full certification and 45 minutes of ImgBurn zeroing the sectors.

That's probably due to the zeroing part (as also shown in the log above) done by the program and not due to the formatting part done by the drive.

Your question actually contradicts what you've said in the rest of your post. (burn a DVD+R if source was DVD-R... and yet you're saying you want to buy DVD-R) You'd always be able to take an image of a DVD+R disc and burn it to a DVD-R disc, you just might not be able to do it round the other way due to DVD-R being able to hold a bit more data than DVD+R (so it might not fit if the DVD-R was 100% full). Going between media types isn't a problem so long as it fits on the disc.

You have some sort of issue between your drive and your usb controller. It shouldn't be timing out that quickly. Try another cable, port etc.

They don't support the full format with certification. That's why it only takes 22 seconds and not an hour or more.

Reading a disc to an image doesn't change those fields. The file system of that disc was created by version 2.4.4.0.

Nothing wrong with that. The ISO you're burning was made by that version, that's all.

If your drive doesn't like them, there probably isn't much you can do. You've already got OPC enabled and that's the only option I'd have said to try toggling.

It's all in the hands of the drive at that point. ImgBurn is waiting for it to finish too.

You can probably use cdspeed, opti drive control or dvdinfopro to test the quality of the burns your drive is making on those discs. Do so, scanning at 4x, and then paste a picture of the result. Ritekf1 aren't good discs. Ignore that they've got sony stamped on them, that doesn't mean anything and sony could choose any mid/dye they want - probably the one that makes them the most profit at the time.

Overburning was something done on CDs, it's never really worked for DVDs. The drives know the size of the disc and reject commands that go outside of what's 'normal'.

Yes, they're the same too. It's just about how fast the disc spins, not the amount of work going on behind the scenes.

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You're burning to DVDs but the ps1 only reads CDs doesn't it? Other than that, if it burns and verifies ok, that's all ImgBurn can do.

Hmm weird, it's missing a line I'd expected to see. Oh well, never mind.

Post the log of you burning and verifying a disc. What files are on the disc once you've burnt it? If it's not a correctly authored Blu-ray Disc and is just an mkv or MP4 file, does your player support playing such files from a disc?

Post the log and graph data files please. Don't forget drives only reach max speed at the very end of the disc. Only burning 18GiB, you'd probably max out somewhere around 9x.

ImgBurn didn't change the speed, your drive did. It only supports burning those discs at 2x. Did you cut the log entry telling you exactly that?!

At this stage, all I can tell you is what I said above. Solve that problem first and then we'll see if your drive has any problems burning to those discs.