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Go with the IFO one.

That sort of info is usually on the packaging. I don't recall ever having seen a way to get that directly from the disc itself - or it would probably already be displayed.

You can / could get proper disc cleaning / polishing / resurfacing devices. Not sure if such things are still made. Perhaps Google for a video on how to clean a disc with something like toothpaste or similar?

Looks like the drive in your pc has the same problem with the disc that your PlayStation does. You could try getting the disc cleaned / polished or you’ll have to get another copy.

Nobody is going down that rabbit hole.

Read their website. The whole idea behind M-Disc is for long term storage.

Your drive can only burn CDs, not DVDs. So if you're trying to burn a DVD, that'll be why it isn't working.

Maybe it's running USB 1? If you just leave it to complete, the log will show the average speed and that'll help. You can access the log window via the View menu. The program automatically saves the log when you close it. You can access the log file itself via the Help menu.

If ImgBurn doesn't tell you that it won't fit, it'll fit. There's just more chance of the drive failing to burn / close the disc on the outer edge. It still shouldn't get stuck forever though. Can you hear the drive doing anything? Does it keep spinning forever? When you eventually force it to end (by powering off the machine or whatever), can you then restart the machine and is the drive able to initialise the disc ok? What comes up in the disc info box on the right when you fire up ImgBurn and go into Write mode?

Please post the log of the entire burn session. Sync cache is a command send to the drive once all the data has been transferred to it. The drive then goes off and completes the burn. For whatever reason, your drive appears to be having a problem doing that - maybe because it's right at the edge of the disc?

Yes, I wrote ImgBurn. Sorry, I think it's an MP3 type disc or nothing if you want album art. CD Players didn't have screens capable of displaying images, so it wasn't something they'd have considered. Even CD-TEXT was rare.

Please provide links to such guides and I’ll take a look.

On a proper audio CD, no, I’m afraid not. All you can add are the album / song names in CD-Text etc. As you say though, that sort of thing works if you’re burning an mp3 disc.

Get a new drive.

I'd say so, yes.

You aren't really meant to think about the layers when dealing with BD discs. It's always just one big disc. That said, if you don't want to burn on the 3rd, don't add more data than can fit on the first 2. AFAIK, the drive will only move onto the 3rd once they're full.

Eject the disc and reinsert. Keep an eye on that status bar message as you do so. Does it take quite a while before it finally settles on 'medium not present' ? Do you hear the drive trying to initialise the disc? You'll either have to try some different DVDs or try a different drive with your disc. Can the drive read proper commercial (pressed) DVD Video discs ok?

Making sense or not, I'm just telling you what I've seen over the years. If you haven't already done so, please do what I said and compare the file on the disc with the ones on your storage drive / hdd / whatever. Only then will you be happy that everything is as it should be. It's then down to the player to play the disc as you'd intended it be played. What standalone do you actually have?

It doesn't look like that drive should have a problem burning DVDs. What message is displayed in the status bar when you put a blank dvd in and switch to Write mode?

I doubt it's anything to do with the burning process itself. The files you provide the program with are what gets burnt. You can compare them yourself (MD5 / SHA-1 etc) and you'll see nothing has been changed. Maybe the player ignores HDR when playing from BD-R? Check with whoever makes it. Lots of them have weird limitations when using certain types of media.

Copy and paste everything from the Log window please.

That should not be the case. There’s nothing in the program to be aware of any other instances. Perhaps check the log file when it closes and see if anything gets mentioned. Are you actually enabling any sort of option to make the program close when it has finished anyway? If you are, stop doing so. If not, perhaps something else is actually terminating it.

You said you were burning multiple copies of the same, so I tailored my response accordingly. You can burn what you like, as many times as you’d like. The program will only be closing when it thinks it has finished all the work you’ve given it - assuming you’ve also told it to close when done.

You’d just tell both instances to burn the same image to a different drive multiple times. Sounds like you had 1 instance burning a single copy to one drive and another instance burning multiple copies to the other drive.