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Try a decent 'write once' (not rewritable) disc... I recommend Taiyo Yuden CDs.

walking opc Basically, calibrating/adjusting the laser power as it goes in an effort to get the best quality burn possible.

Click 'write image file to disc' and then point the 'source' at the mds file your friend sent you. That's all there is to it.

Not what I'd call estimates, no. They're all based on the amount of data being read/written over a period of time. They're averaged sometimes though (over a period of a few seconds etc) and there's code in place to try and reduce/ignore massive spikes where the cache/buffering is doing all of the hard work and it isn't a true read/write rate.

Try using one of the DVD shrinking / reauthoring type tools to just pull off what you can get at before the disc is unreadable. I'd consider giving something like IsoPuzzle a go or see about getting a replacement disc.

That time is nothing to do with playing time. It's in minutes, seconds and frames (1 frame = 1 sector on the disc) and goes back to the old days of CDs where a 650MB disc was 74 minutes (of audio), 700 MB was 80 minutes etc. It just so happens that the size of a DL disc works out to 900 minutes or whatever. Of course it's worth trying another drive... unless it's going to take your hours to do so? Failing that, maybe the disc is faulty?

That's probably the drive performing WOPC. Speed wise, lots of drives read different discs at different speeds. I.e. DVD-R at 16x and DVD+R at 12x. Blu-ray drives are typically more conservative than straight up DVD drives.

If your drive can't read the disc, all you can do is try cleaning it and try again. If you have access to another drive, try reading it in that too as some are better than others with reading problem discs.

ImgBurn will always build ISO's that are multiple of 16k... and therefore always a multiple of 4k, which is what Apple's Bootcamp 'HFS under windows' driver seems to round files up to. So you wouldn't run into the problem of it trying to read beyond the end of the file. It might be worth asking Apple why Windows (via their HFS driver) is reporting your 1080 byte file as 4k in size, both actual size and 'on disk' size.

Which version of Bootcamp are you running? I'm afraid this problem won't go away until the OS shows the size as 1080 bytes in the file properties. The 'size on disk' doesn't matter.

You're wasting your time by quick erasing a DVD+RW disc before then burning straight onto it. ImgBurn defaults to formatting discs properly. Nero doesn't and that's why the disc still aren't reported as having been formatted properly in the disc info text on the right. As to why your drive is unable to complete a format on them properly, that's probably some sort of drive/firmware/media combo issue. Post the log please.

That log looks fine to me. With that disc in the drive, copy + paste the disc information text from the box on the right when you're in Read mode please.

Yeah, that disc isn't well. Lay it to rest... in the bin. Try burning on your Pioneer if the Samsung isn't behaving itself.

If you add the mp3 to the CUE window and right click it, see if anything useful comes up when you get the program to show the directshow filter list. It may tell you which filters are being pulled into the conversion 'graph' by the OS.

A mouse click or two is all it takes to opt out of anything OpenCandy happens to offer you within ImgBurn's installation wizard.

Post the log of you burning and verifying the disc please.

Your drive doesn't support the discs ('UMEDISC-DL1-64') you've purchased. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

I expect so, yes. But ACM would work if the other filters installed on the OP's machine weren't claiming they could decode it ok.

Which 'properties' are you referring to? Within the program? That value you see in the 'Size' column there should match what's shown in the file properties box if you right click the file within the DLE window and select properties. That's not the size of the object on the disc, it should be the actual size of the file... and it saying 4KB is where your problem is coming from.

Can I ask, did it actually give you a value in the 'Time' column for those problem files? My Windows 7 machine can't decode those MP3 files via DirectShow, so you must have additional filters installed that think they can but then fail. Mine then falls back to ACM decoding and that works fine.

I don't know what MultiAVCHD accepts. You might be able to get help with that application at the doom9 forums... we just deal with ImgBurn here really.

That stuff is in my generic signature, it wasn't aimed at you.

Select 'build' in the mode menu at the top, then select 'advanced' in the input menu at the top. You have to use the proper reply method (not the quick box) in order to upload stuff to the forum.

Yes, SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0.exe is the one you want.

Yes, after that the drives just don't get a letter.