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I really can't do anything with this. I'd go to the trouble of locating and buying that specific model drive but I know it would end up working just fine for me and be a waste of time and money. Searching the forum, I found 2 other threads (from 2010) where people were using GH22NS50 drives (very similar to yours internally I expect) and both had miscompare errors pop up (starting) at sector 7168. You can see from my own tests with the GH22NS50 drive (in the 'Drives' forum) that I didn't have that problem with it. If you want to spend some time looking into the issue you're having, I'd start by trying the drive with other discs... CDs, DVD-RW / DVD+RW etc. and see if the problem persists. Then try it in another PC and try another drive in your PC - see if the problem follows it or goes away. I don't know which SATA controller you've got the drive attached to at the moment, but if you have more than one on your motherboard, try it on the other one.

Am I to assume the burnt discs don't actually work? Your drive appears to be producing discs that aren't quite right. Without trying them in other drives etc, it's impossible to say if the discs are 100% useless or it's just your burner that's having trouble reading them back. I'd probably start by buying some decent Taiyo Yuden CDs and giving those a shot. If you're still getting the same problem, try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc. If it still doesn't work, you can probably just write your drive off as being faulty.

I'm not 'shipping' it with anything. The installer just uses OpenCandy to provide program offers, I don't have the ability, time or desire to go through everything in their library. If you have a problem with something OpenCandy is offering, you need to talk to them about it - or better still, go direct to whoever made what you've installed. I'm too far removed from the equation to have anything to do with any of it.

It would be quicker to just google it. I'm sure something will come up or another program will support removing it.

Is there nothing in the normal 'programs and features' section within control panel? Beyond that, I have no idea, sorry. The opencandy team are supposed to vet the programs for that kind of thing.

You appear to have also enabled OPC... you shouldn't need it. Try and get some MKM-003-00 discs. If you can't burn those either (with the same settings - apart from turning off 'Overspeed'), buy a new drive.

That log shows it's detecting miscompares in 32 sectors... which just happens to be the number the program reads in one go (2 ECC blocks). Obviously there's nothing wrong with the ones before or after and when you run the standalone verify function straight after (which you're saying is fine), it's running the exact same code again. There is no 'bug' here, it's just that the sequence of commands is showing an anomaly with your system/drive. So I can't explain it, but your system/drive is messing up and returning invalid data to the program. It can only work with what it's given. Try going into the Settings, I/O tab, Page 2 and change the I/O Transfer Length to 'Manual' and make sure it's set on 32 KiB. I wonder if you'll then just have 16 sectors that miscompare, it'll remain being the same 32 sectors or if it'll be totally fine.

Clear the drive's OPC history and burn them at 4x.

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.