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It doesn't look like you've got the 'Don't Use Immediate I/O' option enabled in that burn. If you did, I wouldn't expect you to be able to cancel out of the program at all until it has finished the 'sync cache' part. For the sake of testing things quickly, just burn a 100MB or so of data to the BD-RE, you don't need to burn the entire thing.

Post the log of you burning such a disc please.

That 'The Parameter is incorrect' FAQ entry is nothing to do with your problem. Put it back on the auto setting, it's better that way. Switch back to SPTI and then post the Family Tree info please. The program can only gather it when using SPTI and the 'Device Interface' enumeration method.

OpenCandy is just an advertising platform/plugin for setup programs. It offers you 3rd party programs as part of the normal installation process and you may not want them. Programs that detect it usually just flag is as a 'PUP' (potentially unwanted program). OpenCandy is not an 'infection'. You're free to opt out of anything it offers that you aren't interested in or run the setup via any of the methods mentioned on their FAQ page so as to avoid the offers completely.

Ok, so the problem is that your drive / machine is forever returning that the sync cache operation is still being processed. That's usually a driver thing. There's an option in the setting to not use 'immediate I/O'. Enabling that might work around the issue.

Ok, you aren't using the 'device interface' SPTI enumeration method. If that isn't already selected in the settings, can you try changing it to it manually please? It's on the I/O tab somewhere.

Post the log of the burn / verify please.

Why do you think there is a problem at all? Unless that log was incomplete, no errors have been logged. Show me a complete log with you burning and verifying the disc. Don't waste time doing a quick erase on it... that's completely pointless.

There's nothing wrong with that log.

Can you try on a write once disc (i.e. not a rewritable one) ? Some Taiyo Yuden / Verbatim DVD-R would be ideal. Oh and copy ImgBurn.exe from your ImgBurn installation folder (program files\ImgBurn) into wherever you installed DVDFlick and overwrite the ImgBurn.exe that lives there. It's a really old one.

ok, please load the program (don't click any buttons after that), press the F6 key and then the F8 key. Now click 'Tools' -> 'Search for SCSI / ATAPI devices'. In the log window, click 'file' -> 'save as' and save the log file. Upload that file here on the forum for me to take a look at please.

They might have joined forces on certain things (optical related) but they aren't the same company. I'd personally choose between LG and Pioneer.

No family tree info....? Hmmm... go into the settings, click the 'Restore Defaults' button and click 'Yes'. Then try again.

Can you post the log from that burn please?

If your discs don't have the MKM-003-00 MID, you aren't using the right discs. Your drive (and its firmware) is doing a bad job of burning those 'MBIPG101-R10-65' ones, hence why the end of the disc is unreadable. Don't mess with the hardware retry settings either, put it back on the default value (of not setting the hardware retry count). Enabling OPC before write might be making things worse. Turn that back off again too.

Nothing you get offered during the install will install if you opt out of installing it. It only take a mouse click or two. Load ImgBurn, switch to 'Read' mode and copy + paste all of the disc info from the box on the right. You can't just close a disc you've left open on purpose by creating a 2nd session... You'd need to actually write something to that session and close / finalise the disc as part of that process.

Install the current release of ImgBurn. Once you've done that, load it up and go into 'write' mode. Right click the destination drive drop down box and click 'family tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the log window please.

Unless you have a player that supports playing raw VOB files, you shouldn't expect that disc to be playable. Turn it into a real DVD video disc and you might just stand a chance - even without the booktype stuff. You can use something like DVDFlick or convertxtodvd for that.

Post the log please.

I'm not seeing a 'write error' in that newer log. The buffer issue is probably due to you using your machine for other things. It's only burning at just over 8mb/s so it shouldn't really be asking too much of your machine / hdd. Do you ever defrag your drive?

Normally I'd recommend using better media, but in your case, I'm recommending that you to buy a new drive. Yours is so old that it doesn't even support the DVD+ (plus) format discs. If you really can't part with it, use different / better rewritables... or better still, some decent DVD-R discs. Rewritables are never as good as 'write once' media.

The problems probably stem from the 'write error' your drive reported during the burn. Turn off bd-re fastwrite in the settings. Why have you dropped back into safe mode?

Yup, they do

Which version of the program are you running?

Not when they're brand new though. You can write straight to a brand new DVD-RW. You only need to erase them if you want to write to them again once you've put something on them.