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The installer uses the opencandy platform to make program offers as part of the installation wizard. You're able to opt out of whatever it offers (there are loads it can pick from) if you aren't interested.

No.

Either that disc is copy protected or it's just unreadable.

No, it doesn't rely on Explorer. It polls the drive itself and when it says it's ready, it reads it. By design, Passkey (and AnyDVD) will make a drive look empty when they're busy doing stuff with it. When they've finished, they present the modified version of the disc to the system.

That option stops the drive from doing an automatic verify process during the burn. As in it writes some sectors and then verifies them. Simply turning that option off May not be enough to enable that drive feature though, you may also need to format the disc first so spare areas are created and the drive then enables its own hardware defect management feature (also displayed in the log). It's normal if the average/max speeds mentioned in the log at the end of the burn tie in with the speed you'd selected.

It's hard to explain something when you already think it's a black and white situation.. It isn't. Obviously there's something going on, but real bugs affect everyone and that isn't the case here. For whatever reason, your system/drive isn't returning real data (from the disc) in response to the "read" command at that moment in time - it seems to be returning blank/empty/zeroed out sectors. I have no idea why that is and I have no way to look into it as it's only happening on your machine.

You set it once and it stays on it until you change it again. Setting it to 100 copies will make the program burn 100 copies of the disc.

DVD Audio isn't handled the same way as DVD Video, you won't get the layer break box.

Nope, that isn't possible via CLI. You'd need to use the GUI. Go into Build mode, switch to Advanced input mode, build your disc layout and then save it as a project file. Load the project file via CLI.

Then follow the advice in my previous post.

Use a program that allows you to clone a hdd.

This is your system / drive playing up, not the program.

I didn't say anything about 'Settings' When you're in 'Build' mode, the 'Device' tab is the 2nd one in the bunch on the right ('Information' being the 1st).

That depends on what you're burning! If your player only supports playing DVD Video discs, you'll need to convert your AVI, MP4, MKV etc type files into the DVD Video format.

If you're using 'Build' mode (which you are), you need to switch to the 'Device' tab and then adjust the 'Write Speed' drop down box. Try 4x, 6x and 8x over your next few burns You should be doing what I said in your previous thread though if it's still freezing on your PC. Make an ISO, mount it in a virtual drive program and play from the virtual drive. It could be the source files at fault and no amount of burning and reburning is going to fix that!

You don't 'convert' to ISO format, you just put the files in an ISO. Think of an ISO as a box... you put things in it but that doesn't change them. If your player can't play the things you're putting in the ISO, it won't play them once they're in the ISO or on the disc either. ImgBurn doesn't convert anything, it burns 'as-is'. If you want a playable DVD Video discs, use something like DVDFlick or ConvertXtoDVD to convert your files and then burn the output.

You didn't need a new thread to ask this, your previous one was fine. The disc burnt and verified ok so it should at least be readable in the PC. That said, I doubt burning at max speed (i.e. 12x) will be getting you the best quality burns.

Does it burn other discs ok? i.e. DVDs Some drivers can cause this problem. Right click the drive selection drop down box and select 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window please.

Those logs only show you burning 2 BD-R discs ('PHILIP-R04-000') and they were both written at 'MAX' (i.e. 8x) speed. If the other supported speed don't work either, consider buying different discs. If your drive fails with those too (or just too many others in general), think about investing in a different drive.

No, it doesn't copy anything anywhere.

Only if the freeze is caused by a disc that's so unreadable it causes the drive to error out whilst trying to read (verify) every sector on it.

Rather than burning to disc, make an ISO of the same source files and then mount it in a virtual drive program. Have your playback software play from the virtual drive. If it still freezes, you'll know the source files are to blame.

Try going over the steps in the guide again, I'm sure that 'Split Cell' button will enable itself when you've done what you need to do. Post a screenshot when you think you have done everything and if it still isn't enabled. Only having one cell listed is probably why you're getting the warning, it's certainly not something that would help the situation.

Yes, it would fail for most drives. The only ones I can think of that verify cd-da discs without a problem are LiteOn ones. Their read/write offsets must cancel each other out. I'm not the person to talk to about offsets, search Google if you want to know more.

If your drive can't read the disc properly, there's nothing much you can do about it. Just ensure the disc is clean and free from scratches. You may have more luck reading the disc in another drive - if you have access to one?