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If you only have 1 drive in your PC, everything is working fine - but your drive isn't a burner and can't burn CDs or DVDs.

Have you just made up the names of those files? The DVD Video format specs are fixed, you can't rename files. The mpeg ones should be *.VOB, not *.mpeg and I can only guess the VIDEO_TS.html should actually be VIDEO_TS.IFO.

Put the disc in the drive and look at it in Explorer / My Computer / whatever you know it by. Explorer is just the file manager built into Windows. You can switch the 'View' to 'Details' and then check the sizes of each file on the disc.

It looks like your drive is unable to read the disc... probably because of the media you're using and the low quality burn. Try again with some decent discs - Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden (Victor JVC). You may have better results on your current media (RITEKF1) with a more recent drive. Yours must be 6 - 8 years old now? Cleaning it with a cleaning disc may also help.

Examine the disc in Explorer, it (the OS in general) must think one (or more) of the files are massive - as that's where the information ImgBurn uses in Build mode comes from. Oh and this is a support issue and therefore belongs in the 'ImgBurn Support' forum and not in 'Chat' - consider it moved.

That's the point I made earlier... you can't tell the drive to burn at 1x on those discs, it simply doesn't support it. Sure, you can *ask* it to, but it'll just ignore you and go with the slowest speed it does actually support. The supported write speeds for the drive/firmware/media combo are listed in the disc info text on the right when you're in Write mode. So not physically being able to tell the drive to burn at 1x makes the issue you're having (where it's burning at 1x) seem like an internal drive problem.

There isn't, no.

You can't bypass it. Either the disc is empty or it isn't.... yours isn't.

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.