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This sounds like a problem between your drive and the discs you're using - it's making a bad burn on them and they're unreable. Post the log please so we can see what's what.

Just make your own, it takes all of 2 minutes. Read the firmware currently on the drive to a file somewhere using the flashing tool. Open said firmware file in MCSE, edit the write strategy of RICOHJPN-D01-67 and replace it with the 2.4x speed RICOHJPN one. Save the new firmware file and flash it to your drive using the flashing tool.

If you're getting 2 at the same spot (same LBA address yeah?), that probably means you've got 2 PGC's that are using the same data. Make sure both are marked as seamless (SPLIP = Yes) before you then try to pick one of them and make your seamless layer break. Make sure you use the preview feature to examine exactly what's going on in the video at that point - more on that can be found in the DVD Video guide. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=4643

Your drive is ancient and doesn't actually support the 'MCC 03RG20' discs you're trying to use. That's why it's doing a bad job of burning them and they're unreadable - hence the failed Verify operation.

What sort of image was it? What drive do you have? Post the log (copy + paste from the Log window) of either the successful or unsuccessful attempt please. The problem would come from the program expecting more data than it's actually getting. Changing the buffer size would get around the issue at the start of the burn but it may then just wait at the other end of it. As you can see, there's no problem with it on a standard ISO so your problem is all in the details of exactly what you were doing and what you're working with. That's a 19MB image and a 80MB buffer.

The layer break is a physical thing, so unless your player actually reads ahead and buffers enough data such that the loss of streaming as the laser refocuses on the 2nd layer isn't a problem, you'll always notice a short pause. Try seamless with a few different dvds just to make sure it's not a localised problem on that specific one. Your version of ImgBurn is out of date btw.

Like I said, it is (they are) lossless, so you don't need to decode/convert anything. They'll all sound the same because they'll all produce identical data (hence 'lossless').

You can access old logs via the 'Help' menu. There may or may not be a 1.06 firmware update available for your drive. It may improve your drive's support for that MID. I guess what you'd actually have to do is work out if the drive is at fault here or if the discs are - and you'd do that by trying them in another drive.

Post the log please.

Your drive is complaining about your choice of media. If it isn't happy burning 'CMC MAG. AM3' MID discs at any of the speeds it claims to support writing them at, you'll have to buy some different ones. Cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc may also help.

Well if it failed to verify, there was probably a reason for it... like the drive did a bad job of burning the disc. Post the log so we can see what happened.

Correct, nobody knows. You're going to have to just try it and see.

They verify operation doesn't do anything to the disc except check it. Running or not running Verify doesn't make the disc any more/less playable.

Flac is lossless so it shouldn't make any difference.

It always made an ISO file. Turn on file extensions within Explorer so you can actually see what you're doing / working with.

ImgBurn only burns what you give it. If things don't work correctly on your playback device, there's probably an issue with the source files or the disc just isn't very easy to read - that's down to your drive and the media you're using. If the disc burnt and verifed ok, there's little more we can do for you. Please post a log so we can see that happening (or not, as the case may be) - see the pink box up the top

You need to download it. It's the one linked in the Audio CD guide here on the forum. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=5555entry91374

Search Google, maybe you'll find one. No, that doesn't change anything. The firmware update would be the first thing I'd try, followed by cleaning the drive, followed by trying another spindle of the same MID discs.

It doesn't look like your system is using madFlac for decoding. When you do, that 'Source' becomes 'madFlac ([name of file])'.

Yes, don't worry, I'll get a build over to you so you can test it and see if anything makes a difference.

You must have enabled the 'Preserve Full Pathnames' option. Turn it off again.

The layer break is the outer edge of the disc and that's always the worst part to burn to. There are several firmware updates available for you drive - http://www.firmwarehq.com/Lite-On/iHBS112%2B2/files.html If you've been getting the error more and more frequently, it certainly sounds like a drive issue. It's the only thing that is going to get worse with time - assuming your discs aren't placed somewhere they'll degrade quickly?! Yes, you can clean drives. You can buy cleaning discs for exactly that purpose. If you're getting the error more on the latest spindle of discs you're using, they too could be to blame. Without using discs from a known decent spindle, there's no way to rule those out either. You're going to have to do some troubleshooting I'm afraid

Sorry but I really have no idea how to do things any differently and I have no way of testing anything anyway. I wouldn't hold your breath for any improvement - but I am adding a few options that may or may not help

What decoder is your system actually using? Once you've added a flac to the Create CUE window, right click it and have it show the directshow filter list. From my own testing (ages ago), madFlac decodes back to the original format perfectly - which of course is what it should do when it's lossless!

I wouldn't bother breaking the original ISO9660 spec (using level 2 or whatever) when you've got 2 other operating systems on the disc too. Joliet is so close to ISO9660 (in design/structure), no device should have a problem supporting it and using it in preference to ISO9660. Off the top of my head, I'm afraid I don't recall what Windows 7 uses. You could switch to Read mode in ImgBurn and it'll tell you the file systems present on the disc. Yes, it sounds like Windows 7 has closed the session and opened another one ready for more data to be added. The disc is not finalised.