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Please just confirm that BOTH of the buffers are full? As in the program buffer *and* the device buffer. Seeing the IBG (see below) would really help. 2x is ok isn't it? You're just trying to get it to burn faster than 1x (which shouldn't even be possible with the drive/firmware/media combo).

You're burning an image file so you need to use the 'Write image file to disc' option. Then just change the Write Speed to 8x in the drop down box (where it currently says 'AWS').

How are the buffer levels during the 1x burn? Post the IBG file if possible please. If they're full, this must be something your drive is doing internally. You can't make that drive burn at 1x (only 2x and 4x) so it's not a problem with setting the speed. Do you have any single layer discs you can test with? Perhaps see if the problem is limited to the double layer ones?

No, you burn at whatever speed your drive does the best job at on whatever media (MID code) it is that you're using. Personally, I'd just go with 8x. For AWS, read here... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=4249

Install the current version of ImgBurn. Use Verbatim discs - the 8x MKM-003-00 ones. Enable 'Force HyperTuning' in the drive/advanced settings (or eeprom tool). Perform a 'Clear OPC History' operation too. Try again.

Give AC3Filter a try then... it's supposed to be able to down-mix to 2 channel.

You add the BDMV folder as a whole. If there's stuff in the stream folder that you don't want, those bits must be authored out of the structure / collection (and a new one created) using other tools. You can't just remove/rename files, it'll mess things up. The file/folder structure has to conform to the BD Video specs or nothing will play it properly. The certificate folder may or may not be required by your playback device/software (please use proper BD playback software/hardware, not VLC). You'd have to burn to a rewritable disc and test it. If you just want to test with PowerDVD/WinDVD/TMT, create an ISO, mount it in a virtual drive (Virtual CloneDrive) and test it that way.

Going by the path name of the files, can I assume they're in 5.1 format? What if you add a standard 2 channel one? If they work ok and the 'Display DirectShow Filter List...' option (right click the file once you've added it to the 'Create CUE' window and you'll see it in the menu) correctly lists madFlac as a filter that's being used, I guess it just can't handle converting 5.1 to 2 channel. Perhaps AC3Filter will help with that problem?

They're supported by your drive, don't worry. BD-R DL / BD-RE DL aren't listed in the device capabilities because there's no way (AFAIK) to query the drive and see if they're supported. It can only tell you if BD-R / BD-RE are (with no specific mention of SL or DL). Chances are, there's probably a spec somewhere saying that if a drive supports writing BD-R, it must support SL *and* DL discs.

Well, all the other times I've seen this problem occur, totally cycling power to the drive (so not just resetting the PC) has always fixed it.

Turn your PC *off* and on again.

3320903680 / 2048 = 1,621,535 sectors 1,621,535 is not a multiple of 16 (the ECC block size) and some drives will only burn in multiples of the ECC block size - therefore you get a few padding sectors on the end (in your case, just 1 was required). This is a drive thing and nothing to do with the program. Just use ImgBurn to verify the disc as part of the burn. You don't need to manually hash check anything because it will have already compared the disc to the image at sector/byte level.

ImgBurn burns optical media, it doesn't write to USB flash drives. Installing from a USB stick should be quicker than using a DVD, yes. I've used them for Windows 7 installs (Microsoft released a tool for making a bootable USB stick from an ISO - but it could be Windows 7 only?), but never for Vista. As for the 20 laptops... you'd probably use some software that can clone the hdd. But of course then they'd all have the same serial number installed etc. That could be changed to the proper serial taken from the COA sticker on the PC later on though. There might be an even better way of doing it, you'd have to Google it.

That's not 'working as intended', it just means the OS isn't seeing the new content on the burnt disc - which is obviously a bad thing.

1. Install the current version of ImgBurn 2. Burn+verify an Audio CD BIN/CUE image. 3. Post the log.

Your drive is reporting the format is 99% complete, that's all ImgBurn is showing. Regardless of the % complete reported by the drive, a full format at 4x isn't going to finish in 4 minutes, it's going to take 15-20 minutes. If the drive still doesn't finish doing it after that time, either it just has a problem with that disc (scratched / dirty?) or it has a problem with the 'INFODISC-A10-01' MID/dye in general - buy some different ones.

We need to see the whole log please. But it won't be either of those, it'll be your drive or your discs.

Yes. Which driver have you installed for the Intel one? I can't remember if the Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers work on ICH8/9/10... if they do, try putting v10.8 on.

Get the drive off the Marvell controller and onto the proper onboard chipset one.

Please post a log - as per the pink box up the top

If it just seems to stop doing anything (with no errors in the log window), it's because it's waiting for an I/O command to finish processing. If that's happening, it'll be due to the drivers installed for the chipset/controller. Right click the drive selection box and hit 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt and then copy+paste everything from the Log window.

I think you misunderstood what I was getting at. Go into Control Panel (within the OS) and find the 'AutoPlay' option. That's where you configure what the OS does when you insert a new disc. If you don't want it to automatically play newly inserted DVD Video discs or whatever, configure it to ask you what you want to do. The drive is locked and dismounted at the start of the burn. It's then unlocked and remounted (by the OS) at the end of it. To the OS, it looks like the media has changed (which is has... the disc now has data on it) and hence AutoPlay kicks in. That's how it's supposed to work and is 'by design' as they say. p.s. I hope you haven't disable the 'cycle tray before verify' option. It's an important part of the verification process and has nothing to do with this autoplay stuff. I'd almost forgive you if you're using a laptop drive though, putting the drive back in before verify starts could get annoying.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=12200

AVI is just a container, the content could have been compressed with various codecs and maybe it doesn't support what's being used in that one - that's the point I was making. What name do you see for the files (that *are* visible) when you look at them on your player? How do they correspond to the original names you see on your computer? Are they the same length? Same case (upper/lower etc) ? What if you rename the video file to something else? Perhaps keep it to the old ISO9660 8.3 character format (XXXXXXXX.YYY) just for testing. What if you don't burn the other 2 files and just add the video file? Assuming your player supports them, burn to CD-RW / DVD-RW / DVD+RW so as to not waste discs during testing. Basically, you've got a ton of testing to do. It's not something I can help you with. Just try loads of different things until you figure out what stops it from being visible on the player.

What happens if you look at the disc on your computer? Is the file there? Perhaps your DVD player doesn't support something about the file and that's why it's not showing up?