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When the drive can't read back what it just wrote like that, it's due to a bad drive/firmware/media combo. Your firmware could be updated to the newer 1.65 but even that is still over 5 years old now. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Sony/DRU-190A/files.html After that you can take your pick of trying a new drive or trying different media. As you've already used different discs and they're unplayable in your standalone, maybe your drive has just had it? There's a lot to be said for using decent discs though and 'CMC' discs aren't usually any good. Which 'write once' discs do you have? What's the 'MID' of them?

Hmm weird, it clearly thinks it's burning at 16x (the 'effective' line in the log) and yet sits quite happily at 6x for the entire burn. I was half expecting to see the speed ramp up and then drop down or something. Maybe try burning at 8x or 12x and see if it actually does what it's told.

Post the log please.

There's a big difference between an original and a burnt disc. If it's not that it has trouble reading burnt discs in general, maybe it's just the ones your burner is producing. What drive do you have? I assume you verify your burns? If not, start doing so. If you have a log of such a burn/verify process, please post it so I can just see what you're working with.

Assuming it's not an issue with the files you've burnt, I guess your player is having trouble reading the disc.

Can you post a log please and also a graph data file from such a burn.

I wouldn't recommend leaving it on that though.

Well there's nothing odd about that disc so I can only assume your Panasonic just doesn't like discs burnt how your drives are burning them when ImgBurn is being used. I'm sure that if you read your poweriso burnt disc to an image and compared it to the ImgBurn image that they'd be identical. There's very little scope for changing the way discs are burnt (you follow a fixed command set) but you could just try changing the write type to 'incremental' in the settings on the 'write' tab. Set the write speed to 8x and perhaps try a disc with 'perform opc before write' enabled/disabled. If possible, try your ImgBurn burnt discs in other players. Even a games console will do. Your Panasonic should not be having the problems it's having.

Go back into Read mode with that source disc in the drive and copy + paste the disc info from the box on the right please. Do the ImgBurn burnt discs at least play on the PC ok?

You got the cheapo Verbatim discs ('UMEDISC-DL1-64' MID), you need the proper MKM-003-00 ones.

Put the disc in the drive and switch to Read mode. It'll list all of that info in the 'Source' box. Correct, file system support is a software thing and nothing to do with the hardware. 2.50 and 2.60 take mirror copies of certain file system descriptors. They don't take up much space, but if you're a couple of sectors over the disc capacity, switching to 2.01 or below might allow it to fit. 2.50 and 2.60 also can't be read by XP or earlier OS's without the aid of a 3rd party driver.

When I tested them all (many moons ago), madFlac did the best job - hence why that's the one I've recommended to everyone ever since and why that's the one mentioned in the guide. All the filters needed to do was allow me to take a flac file (I'd created from a wav) and decode it back to a wav file with bit perfect accuracy... i.e. so it matched the original wav file. Very few filters would do that, but madFlac did it just fine.

Having looked at your logs, I couldn't actually see one where you'd burn anything to a disc. All it shows you doing is making a disc image file. The program does show that you were creating a DVD video disc image of sorts, that it was region free and encoded for the 'PAL' tv system. Is that right for where you live? Assuming you did actually burn a disc (and it verified ok), try playing it with a software player on your PC.

Ooooh you're in Build mode now, doing an mp3 (data) disc! Sorry, I'd assumed you were doing a proper audio cd still with the cue file. Files are always burnt alphabetically in build mode. Keep the tracks in separate folders with the artist + album name. I.e. How they are on your PC. You don't even need to drag the tracks over to the source box, just the folders would do. Use advanced input mode if you want more control over the folder structure on the disc.

Yes, that's the standard one. The decoding of the tracks is an external thing and it's all down to the DirectShow filters I'm afraid. ImgBurn burns exactly what they provide it with. It's hard for me to visualise exactly what you're doing and what you're seeing regarding the track ordering. When you add a bunch of files in one go, they'll be added in alphabetical order. Normally that wouldn't cause a problem... and it doesn't sound like it should be for you either if you're adding them a CD at a time. It should just be listing them as track 1-x of CD 1, then track 1-x of the 2nd CD you add. There is a button you can click to order the tracks by track number (as specified in their metadata), but it's certainly not done automatically.

Tools -> Settings -> Device -> Eject Tray After... -> Write

It's still not working?

Yup, they're the ones. I just saved a project, changed those 3 options (data type/file system/udf revision), loaded it again and it set them back just fine.

I'm not sure what to say... it works fine here. Open the ImgBurn.ibb with notepad and just double check there's something in it that looks as if it'll change the option you're talking about.

It could be the 'lav' filter as that isn't a standard one.

There's no reset, no. It loads the settings when the program starts and never looks at them again. New disc simply clears the disc layout. Loading a project file should change the settings to whatever was saved in the project file. If it isn't doing that, it's broken lol

Leave it alone (on calculate optimal), that info is read from the .DVD file.

You'd have to check which filters are being used for decoding the mp3s. When making the cue, right click one of the mp3s you've added and click the menu option to show the directshow filter list. Let us know what it says.

Specify that correct file system option via the command line, or just change what's configured in the GUI before you start your batch file.

I'm sure the extended directors cut will have the scene you're looking for. Play.com only have 2 listed.. the normal version and the extended directors cut version. It's on ebay for £10 too.