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Your drive has done a bad job of burning the disc and some bits of it are unreadable.

The first error is the important one, you can ignore/forget about the 'invalid write for address' one. So ok, it seems your drive is having trouble getting itself into a position whereby it can burn the disc and I guess it's something to do with focusing the laser. Have you tried burning at 2.4x instead of 4x? You could try enabling the 'Perform OPC Before Write' option on the Write tab in the Settings to see if that makes a difference. If it's still not working after you've done those, try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc. If it still fails after that, try with the 8x Verbatim discs instead (MKM-003-00 MID). If it still fails after that, it would appear your drive has had it.

There are just some things we can't / shouldn't help with... this is one of them. Sorry but that's just the way it is.

With your drive, you can't. Your issue is actually beyond the scope of this forum - as it's nothing to do with ImgBurn. Go and read some xbox related forums. btw, your version of ImgBurn is out of date.

Software just configures a few basic settings (most of which probably mean nothing as you're burning to DVD+R) and then sends data to the drive. It can't damage your drive. It's the drive itself (chipset and firmware) that do the burning. Both of your drives are having big problems with the 'RITEK-F16-01' discs. It's shame you can't still buy the Taiyo Yuden ones easily. Are there any others you *can* still buy? For testing purposes, you'd only need a spindle of 10 or whatever. Even if you had to buy 100 and then just binned the 70 RITEK ones you've got left, you'd probably still be better off as you wouldn't be wasting hours and hours messing around with discs that keep failing to burn. I guess it all comes down to how much your time is worth to you?!

You need a the proper BD video folder structure if you want it to be playable - so that's basically a BDMV folder with all the right subfolders and files with the correct names etc. If you don't have that folder structure, you're pretty much stuck. Go back to the original disc and start again. Once you've done it correctly, the 'Content Type' you see listed there in the Log will say 'BD Video' and not 'Data'. There's a 1.30 firmware update available for your drive btw.

All I can suggest for that one is that you try burning at 8x instead of 16x. Make sure you try on a new disc though, don't attempt to reuse one that's failed - it's not a fair test. If it still fails on that, try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc. You could also try enabling the 'Perform OPC Before Write' option (on the 'Write' tab in the 'Settings') to see if that makes a difference.

I don't see why a player would see 87 tracks and ImgBurn would only see 9.... the table of contents (TOC) is what determines how many tracks are on a disc and ImgBurn can read that just as well as anything else. As I mentioned in my previous reply, you can add whatever gaps you want between tracks... 0 seconds, 2 seconds, 1 second 17 frames... the choice is yours. Tons of CDs are burnt with no gaps between tracks so this is nothing new to me or ImgBurn. Put one of these (working) discs in the drive, go into Read mode and copy + paste all of the disc info text from the box on the right please.

You'd have been told it wouldn't fit on the disc the second you hit the 'Write' button. Other than that, it's not overly clear what you were doing. Were you burning an audio cd via the 'create cue file' feature and Write mode, or were you burning a data disc with mp3 files on it in Build mode?

Burnproof makes no difference to anything. It's not even relevant on DVD+ (plus) format discs. If your buffers aren't all over the place, giving ImgBurn even more memory won't help either - it'll just be taking memory away from other tasks. Drives are self contained, it's the chipset in the drive and the firmware that do the burning (and therefore have control of burn quality etc). Nothing you do this side of the SATA/power ports on the back of it should make any difference. As you've tried a couple of different spindles of discs and got what I assume are basically the same results with both, it can really only be the drive that's letting things down. You can buy a new drive for the price of a spindle (or 2) of discs, so it's not worth wasting loads more on the one you've got... just try and get another one.

I'm sorry but I have no idea what you mean when you say 'linked tracks'. It's not a term I'm familiar with in terms of burning CD-DA discs so it probably unique to Feurio. The 'Create CUE File' editor in ImgBurn lets you add the tracks (files) in whatever order you want and you can add gaps (periods of digital silence) between them if you so wish. Surely it's just a case of ordering them so you start with the complete song and then the next few tracks are the little sections of that songs. Once they're finished you have the next full song, followed by its little sections.

I wouldn't bother clearing the OPC history before each burn, it shouldn't be needed with the settings you're using (*). (*) I'd actually turn 'Perform OPC Before Write' off. It made no difference when I was testing this stuff out. If that's a typical burn from your drive, it might be worth you trying another one to see if it behaves the same way with that same system/configuration/discs.

It could just do it automatically, but I won't make it do so. ImgBurn is all about being able to control stuff yourself. Picking your own layer break position is just one of the things you have control over. No program can pick a LB position like a real human can (whereby the 'preview' feature can be used).

It's always a combination of the two so I'm not surprised changing the drive appears to have done the trick for you. Drives that fail on some of the cheaper discs will usually burn Verbatim ones without a problem. Other drives will burn everything just fine. Happy burning

Whilst I can't find a dump of the exact firmware version your drive is running, here's a 'supported' media list from a similar one... Media Code Speed Edit V 1.2.0.10 ------------------------------------------ Firmware: Bootcode: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L532LTSL104/07/01 ------------------------------------------ Overall supported media types: 151 ------------------------------------------ DVD+R9 supported media types: 5 DVD+R supported media types: 47 DVD+RW supported media types: 21 DVD-R supported media types: 44 DVD-RW supported media types: 34 ------------------------------------------ DVD+R9 supported media types: 5 ------------------------------------------ MKM 001-000 2.4x PHILIPS CD2-000 2.4x PRODISC D01-000 2.4x RICOHJPN D00-001 2.4x RITEK D01-001 2.4x DVD+R supported media types: 47 ------------------------------------------ BeAll000 P40-000 4x,2.4x CMC MAG E01-000 8x,4x,2.4x CMC MAG F01-000 4x,2.4x CMC MAG M01-000 8x,4x,2.4x CMC MAG R01-000 2.4x DAXON AZ1-001 4x,2.4x DAXON AZ2-000 4x,2.4x DAXON AZ3-000 8x,4x,2.4x IMC JPN R01-000 8x,4x,2.4x INFOME R20-000 8x,4x,2.4x INFOME R30-000 8x,4x,2.4x LD M04-000 8x,4x,2.4x MAXELL 001-000 4x,2.4x MAXELL 002-000 8x,4x,2.4x MAXELL 003-000 8x,4x,2.4x MBIPG101 R03-000 4x,2.4x MBIPG101 R04-001 8x,4x,2.4x MBIPG101 R05-001 8x,4x,2.4x MCC 002-000 4x,2.4x MCC 003-000 8x,4x,2.4x MCC 004-000 8x,4x,2.4x OPTODISC OR4-000 4x,2.4x OPTODISC OR8-000 8x,4x,2.4x OPTODISC R16-000 8x,4x,2.4x PHILIPS C16-001 8x,4x,2.4x PRODISC R01-001 2.4x PRODISC R02-000 4x,2.4x PRODISC R03-003 8x,4x,2.4x PRODISC R04-004 8x,4x,2.4x RICOHJPN R00-001 2.4x RICOHJPN R01-002 4x,2.4x RICOHJPN R02-003 8x,4x,2.4x RICOHJPN R03-004 8x,4x,2.4x RITEK M02-001 4x,2.4x RITEK R01-001 2.4x RITEK R02-001 4x,2.4x RITEK R03-002 8x,4x,2.4x RITEK R04-001 8x,4x,2.4x SONY D11-000 8x,4x,2.4x SONY D21-000 8x,4x,2.4x TDK 001-000 4x,2.4x TDK 002-000 8x,4x,2.4x TDK 003-000 8x,4x,2.4x YUDEN000 T01-000 4x,2.4x YUDEN000 T01-001 4x,2.4x YUDEN000 T02-000 8x,4x,2.4x YUDEN000 T03-000 8x,4x,2.4x DVD+RW supported media types: 21 ------------------------------------------ CMC MAG W01-000 6x,1x CMC MAG W02-000 6x,4x,2.4x,1x DAXON D42-000 6x,4x,2.4x,1x INFODISC A01-002 6x,1x INFODISC A10-001 6x,4x,2.4x,1x MBIPG101 W03-000 6x,1x MBIPG101 W04-000 6x,4x,2.4x,1x MCC A01-000 6x,1x MKM A02-000 6x,4x,2.4x,1x NANYA DRW-000 6x,4x,2.4x,1x OPTODISC OP1-001 6x,1x OPTODISC OP4-001 6x,4x,2.4x,1x PHILIPS 041-000 6x,4x,2.4x,1x PRODISC W01-000 6x,1x PRODISC W01-002 6x,1x RICOHJPN W01-001 6x,1x RICOHJPN W11-001 6x,4x,2.4x,1x RITEK 001-001 6x,1x RITEK 004-000 6x,4x,2.4x,1x RITEK 004-048 6x,4x,2.4x,1x SENTINEL W02-000 6x,4x,2.4x,1x DVD-R supported media types: 44 ------------------------------------------ BeAll G40001 4x,2x CMC MAG. AE1 8x,4x,2x CMC MAG. AF1 4x,2x CMC MAG. AM3 8x,4x,2x DAXON004 4x,2x FUJIFILM02 4x,2x FUJIFILM03 8x,4x,2x FUJIFILM04 8x,4x,2x GSC001 4x,2x GSC003 8x,4x,2x LGE04 4x,2x LGE08 8x,4x,2x MBI 01RG20 4x,2x MBI 01RG40 8x,4x,2x MBI 03RG30 8x,4x,2x MBI 03RG40 8x,4x,2x MCC 01RG20 4x,2x MCC 02RG20 8x,4x,2x MCC 03RG20 8x,4x,2x MCC 03RG20 8x,4x,2x MXL RG02 4x,2x MXL RG03 8x,4x,2x MXL RG04 8x,4x,2x OPTODISCR004 4x,2x OPTODISCR008 8x,4x,2x OPTODISCR016 8x,4x,2x PRINCO 4x,2x PVCR001002 4x,2x ProdiscF01 8x,4x,2x ProdiscF02 8x,4x,2x ProdiscS03 4x,2x ProdiscS04 8x,4x,2x RITEKG04 4x,2x RITEKG05 8x,4x,2x RITEKG06 8x,4x,2x RITEKM02 4x,2x SONY04D1 4x,2x SONY08D1 8x,4x,2x SONY16D1 8x,4x,2x TTG01 4x,2x TTH01 8x,4x,2x TTH02 8x,4x,2x TYG01 4x,2x TYG03 8x,4x,2x DVD-RW supported media types: 34 ------------------------------------------ CMCW02 2x CMCW03 CMCW04 4x,2x DAXON_RW2X01 2x GE04  16x,12x,8x,4x,2x GE08 Ÿ 16x,12x,8x,4x,2x JVC/VictorT7 JVC0VictorD7 JVC1Victord7 4x,2x JVC_VictorW7 2x MCC 00RW11N9 MCC 01RW11n9 2x MCC 01RW4X MKM 01RW6X01 4x,2x OPTODISCK001 OPTODISCW002 2x OPTODISCW004 PRINCO PRINCO 2x PVCW000002A9 PVCW00D002K9 2x Prodisc DW04 2x RINCO  16x,12x,8x,4x,2x RITEK004V11 RITEKW01 2x RITEKW04 RITEKW06 4x,2x SC001  12x,8x,4x,2x SC003 Ÿ SONY000000U9 TDK501saku]3 TDK502sakuM3 2x TDK601saku TDK701saku 4x,2x * notice there's no 'RITEK F16' listed - hence why you've got problems burning those discs. So you need to find some discs use that have a MID on that list. Personally I'd just go for the Verbatim / Taiyo Yuden ones (MKM/MCC/TYG/YUDEN).

Your problem looks identical to this one posted a few days ago. Same drive, same media. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=20783

I guess the best thing to do now would simply be to try another drive.... but of course that isn't simple at all because they've stopped making the 'B' chipset drives. You could try flashing back to the standard firmware and then back again to the modified one. It might also be worth a shot at burning a full disc in discovery mode whilst on the standard firmware with eeprom settings at defaults values and see how that disc scans. If you get a bad scan from that when there's no overburning involved, you don't really stand a chance of getting a decent overburnt one!

That's not quite what I meant.... Your drive is capable of burning DVD+R and DVD-R discs at up to 8x. The 'RITEK-F16-01' MID is that of a 16x DVD+R. Your drive claims it can only write to 'RITEK-F16-01' at 2.4x and 4x.... so something doesn't seem right. It should be offering 8x too if the firmware actually supports 'RITEK-F16-01' properly - which makes me think it doesn't. It doesn't matter what you attempt to set the write speed to, the drive will only ever burn them at 2.4x or 4x. Any request for a different speed will simply be ignored by the drive and the next nearest supported speed will be used instead. So 1x, 2x and 2.4x will burn at 2.4x. 4x+ will burn at 4x.

I'm afraid you can't fix this by clicking, your drive simply can't burn to DVDs. You'll have to buy a new drive if that's what you want/need to do - otherwise just stick to burning CDs with it.

The ECC block padding issue has always been there if you write to DVD+ (plus) format discs. It was never an issue on DVD- (minus) discs though.... except some newer drives have even started doing it on those now too! Maybe if you've got some DVD-R or DVD-RW discs you could try it and see what happens?

It would have to be the exact same drive... as in YOUR drive! There are tolerance levels with these things and calibration data is stored within the eeprom I believe - that's why you should only ever restore your own copy. It's like how you get CPUs and graphics cards that can be overclocked more than others. Different (but same model) drives can and will behave differently. They shouldn't be that different, but they can be. Same goes for the discs (even within a spindle). The only common thing here really is the firmware itself!

The reason it doesn't say 'Data' and 'Audio' is simply because there isn't enough room for it to! Don't forget to take into account the varying lenghts of translations when thinking about it Sectors on a disc are 2352 bytes in size, plus 96 for subchannel. Audio uses all 2352 bytes, data typically uses 2048. So whilst there's room in the 2352 for data to have extra error correction, there isn't any room for CDDA to have it. Lke you said though, there's some sort of error correction on all discs, even CDDA. You get C1 and C2 error correction and some drives can report back the number of C2 errors to an application - but ImgBurn doesn't enquire about that info. You'd want to use something like EAC for stuff like that.

The buffer makes no difference.... like most of the settings people go on about changing in order to improve burn quality. By giving the app more for a write buffer (which it probably won't make use of) you're simply taking it away from the rest of the machine/software. They don't seem to realise that the drive handles all this stuff internally. It doesn't matter what OS/software you're running, how much buffer you give the program, or even which computer the drive is attached to... the burn quality will always be the same (assuming it has enough of everything to reach its full potential that is). Burn quality comes from your drive/firmware/media combo.

Have you done what I said about flashing back to the official LiteOn firmware and then putting the modified one back on again? After that I'd just try buying another spindle of 10 discs from elsewhere.

ok, that'll be why then... you don't have a drive that can burn DVDs. It'll read them, but it won't write them - it's a 'combo' drive.