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One of the screenshots is of ImgBurn, yes. All of the companies selling software like that are scammers that like to rip people off by selling them free software.

Go into Read mode with that disc in the drive and copy + paste all of the disc info from the box on the right please. Do you have any BD-RE discs? If so, do you have the same problem with those? If you get a chance, do try booting Windows into Safe Mode and burning from within that please. Oh and if you could ignore a few of the verify errors before aborting, it might help to get more of an idea on the frequency and sheer number of miscompares.

Are you running any programs that could interfere? Post the actual log please, not a picture. Try burning in safe mode and see if the problem persists.

So you've got some sort of amd / ati board there. I personally don't buy anything other than Intel. They seem to have less problems and better drivers. Try booting into safe mode and see if it's the same. Also check the ati website and ensure you're running the latest drivers for the chipset your motherboard uses.

There was a bug with USB drives but they fixed it.

Yes, it works fine. What controller is it attached to? If you can get into write mode, right click the drive selection box and select 'family tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and try to copy + paste everything from the log window. You might like to boot into safe mode and see if it works that way.

TrueImage works fine I have an SAS raid card and the boot image even works fine with that for backing up and restoring. The newer ones (2012 onwards maybe?) support USB 3.0 controllers too.

There are still file name length limitations, illegal chars and Unicode support that ImgBurn has to take care of - along with ensuring unique file names within a folder. The 'generating udf compliant names' bit just covers anything the program has to do for that file system. 2.50 and 2.60 have 'mirrors' of certain file system descriptors - this is already supported (and always used) by ImgBurn. The only benefit of those is the duplicate file system descriptors.

Playback of MKV would depend on your playback device. ImgBurn is just burning the file(s) as-is.

Use a proper hdd backup tool like Acronis TrueImage.

Try with some proper Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL discs (MKM-003-00 MID). If they also fail, get a new drive, yours must be faulty or something. You could try clearing the drive's opc history.

Try some other discs - your drive doesn't appear to like those.

It looks like controller / driver issue to me.

Verifying doesn't change the outcome (make a burn more / less successful), it just tells you if the disc is readable in that drive and that what's read from the disc matches what should be on the disc (comparing it to the source image/data). It's enabled by default because I believe it's always worth checking the discs. I'd never just rely on the drive not erroring out during the write phase to mean the burn was ok.

I'm sure if you search the internet, you'll find something telling you exactly what to do.

Ok so it burnt and verified ok. Now you'd check the burn quality using something like kprobe. If it's a decent burn, the issue must be with the source image or the playback device.

You didn't verify the burn so I can't see any error.

If you're formatting with spare areas enabled, the drive will be verifying as it burns... Or in this case, as the programs writes zeros to each sector. That'll be slowing it down a lot. For a really fast format, you also need to disable the 'prefer properly formatted discs' (or whatever it's called) too.

There wouldn't be much in it but I think the DVD+RW would win.

Assuming you aren't previewing a single cell, it's where the cell number changes in the box at the top.

So it plays ok in the drive that burnt it? Try and verify it again as a standalone operation.

Right click the drive drop down selection box and click 'Family Tree'. Close the message box that pops up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window please. It could be a controller / driver issue.

I believe the way that dialog box works (it's a Windows one and nothing to do with ImgBurn), you can either select the folder (so it's highlighted) or go into it and then click the 'Select Folder' button (assuming you don't select anything else from within the window). If you want more control, use the 'Advanced' input method - select it in the 'Input' menu at the top.

CD+G requires subchannel info and ImgBurn doesn't read or write that.

What message is written in the status bar of the main window when this happens? Don't try and close the program, just see what your system is having trouble processing and causing ImgBurn to hang.