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It's probably your NVidia controller and its drivers. Red stuff in the log isn't always a bad thing. The drive is meant to error out in response to some commands, they're what tells the program the drive is still busy doing something.

The drive is in complete control when doing that stage of the erase and it returns the % complete values. If it's getting stuck, it must be having an issue with the disc you're using. The firmware update may help... or it may not.

UME discs are rubbish, buy proper Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL ones with the 'MKM-003-00' MID.

CDs only as CD-R and CD-RW. If you need rewritables, buy CD-R. If not, buy CD-R. I recommend Taiyo Yuden CDs, they're all I ever use. For single layer DVDs, buy whatever you like. I tend to go for Taiyo Yuden DVD-R discs and Verbatim DVD+R disc. It doesn't really matter which format (+ or -) you get. For double layer DVDs, buy Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL discs.

ImgBurn doesn't change what you burn, so either buy double layer discs or use another program (DVD Shrink perhaps) for the compression part.

If your drive can't initialise those discs, try some other ones.

Glad you got it sorted.

The OS is disconnecting your drive for some reason. I'm afraid I can't really speculate as to why that might be happening.

Ok so you need a driver that allows dosbox to read the Joliet filesystem on the disc and not the iso9660 one. Try their support forum and find out why it's behaving like that. I'm sure support for Joliet should be standard these days.

They'll be copy protected and we can't help you with that. To make copies of unprotected discs, use read mode and then write mode. There's a guide for that in the guides forum.

No it isn't and all the mirrors should be hosting the same file. Just check the md5 against what's listed on the downloads page.

Try opening the problem image in IsoBuster and see which file systems are listed.

If the SAO option has stopped working, your drive / media are probably to blame. Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc and make sure you're using good quality media (verbatim / Taiyo Yuden).

What does the readme actually say? Sometimes if all you see on a disc is a readme file, it's a file telling you that your OS is reading the wrong (more basic) file system. The windows vista+ discs have such a file in the iso9660 file system. You have to read the Udf one to access the files properly. As mentioned in my previous reply, the errors reported in your log are all DMA related. That's related to the physical connection to your PC and not an issue with the drive or disc.

Your USB adapter has some sort of issue and isn't working properly. You shouldn't be getting DMA issues like that.

If you opted out of everything you were offered by opencandy, you shouldn't have had anything except ImgBurn installed on your PC. There's no trickery on my part there, the script for the installer is pretty basic and all of the advert stuff is offloaded to the opencandy plugin. If you really opted out of everything, maybe opencandy can take a look at a log file (if such a thing exists) and tell you why it happened.

Are they not visible in any of the explorer style components in the DLE window? (Combobox, treeview and list view) They aren't mine, so I can't really tell you why they aren't working properly. I'm not in a position to be able to look into it for at least another week either, sorry.

If it doesn't do it automatically, you can't. I've never come across (and therefore they probably don't support) any command that let's you manipulate the book type on matshita drives.

Your drive is probably too old to support the discs you're trying to burn. Invest in a newer one.

Try it in another drive. Some can return weird info (or no info at all) and the program keeps retrying to get the right stuff.

No, they're completely different things.

No, you'd nee to use another tool for that. Maybe BD Rebuilder, ClownBD or DVDFab.

Yes, 4x DVD speed is the same for both formats.

Perhaps I'm missing something here but that's exactly what 'Read' mode is for?

Read the OpenCandy FAQ on their website. It details how to install apps powered by their product without being offered anything.