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Try unchecking the 'BD-R Verify Not Required' box in the settings. Have you tried doing a 'Disc Quality' scan using Opti Drive Control on one of your 'perfect' burns?

That 'someone' is wrong. Unless the disc is truly dead to the drive, you should just be able to erase it and start again from scratch. Open ImgBurn, switch to Write mode, put the disc in the drive and copy + paste the disc info from the panel on the right. If the panel is empty (well, only contains a couple of lines), tell me what it says in the status bar at the bottom of the main window.

It sounds like you're using the 'browse for file' dialog box rather than the 'browse for folder' dialog box. They're 2 different buttons. If it's easier, just drag+drop the video_ts folder into the 'Source' box.

You should change the size in DVDFab, not ImgBurn. (The one you're looking at in ImgBurn is unrelated to the issue) If it's producing a set of files that won't fit on a disc then the value you've set in it is too high.

I'd expect that command to fail on a slimline (laptop style) drive but the program shouldn't be displaying the failure. We need to see a log. Don't you have any rewritable discs? CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW etc.

If 2.4x isn't working on your drive, try one of the faster 'supported' speeds. If it fails at all of the supported speeds, try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc and then try again. If it still fails, either your drive has had it and needs to be replaced or you've got a faulty batch of discs. Service Pack 1 is out for Windows 7 btw.

Your drive can only read DVDs, not write them. It's what's know as a 'combo' drive. (Write CDs and Read DVDs)

Try with the current release of ImgBurn and report back with a new log please if you still have a problem. You can probably try that ISO and disc again using Verify mode - no need to burn. If your're still getting errors like in the picture you attached, you have DMA issues. That could be due to the controller the drive is attached to, the cable, drivers etc.

If the disc burnt and verified fine, the disc is fine. If Windows can't see the disc then it's probably because it hasn't noticed it's been burnt - and therefore that the contents have changed. You just need to kick it into gear. Have you disabled autoinsert at OS level or anything?

Brand names don't mean anything, it's the dye/MID the discs use that's important. As you can see, yours use the 'RITEK-F16-01' dye/MID and it's just a cheapo one used by various brands. Get yourself some Verbatim ('MCC' dye/MID) / Taiyo Yuden (a.k.a. Victor JVC with 'TY' or 'YUDEN' dye/MID) discs. They actually make their own and are known to be the best.

Your drive doesn't seem to like the discs you're using, try some different / better ones. It might be worth trying the other supported write speeds first though. You've tried 'MAX' which is 8x for your drive/firmware/media combo.

Try again with the log please, there's nothing in your post.

You've have to double check the command line parameters being passed to ImgBurn when it's called up. I don't know if that's recorded anywhere in DVDFab's logs. Otherwise, you could examine the ImgBurn.exe process via taskmanager having enabled the command line column. If ImgBurn's settings aren't configured to 'Check Close Program' and the 'Close Program' checkbox is checked when you burn/verify, the app calling ImgBurn must be using the /CLOSE or /CLOSESUCCESS CLI parameters.

You really should re-enable the 'Verify' option. It checks the disc is fully readable and that all the data is present and correct. Ditch the 'CMC' dye discs and get yourself some decent Verbatim 'MCC' or Taiyo Yuden discs instead.

Post a log of you burning + verifying one of the problem discs. To me, it just sounds like your Sony player can't read the disc very well. That's usually caused by using low quality discs or the drive just not burning to it very well (low burn quality).

It's just occurred to me that the SPTD installer's message about your platform not being supported could be due to you downloading the 32bit version of the installer rather than the 64bit one. That aside, I'm sure your problems are covered by this thread - http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

You can skip the PGCEdit bit if you're just using it to try and set a layer break position. As you've seen, ImgBurn offers the same selection list and correctly builds the ISO so it can be burnt to DL media. Burning an ISO is not the same thing, you don't have the ability to move things around (apply padding) in a pre-built ISO and therefore will have (far) less potential layer break positions available to you.

Burn your video_ts folder with ImgBurn in Build mode. Post the log so we can actually see what's going on.

1. Nope, sorry. 2. ImgBurn is a 1 thing at once program and has what's known as an SDI - single document interface. Nero uses an MDI - multiple document interface. Saving the project or simply opening a 2nd instance of ImgBurn (via the usual shortcut or by pressing F12) would be the way to go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface 3. Write mode's Write Queue is for disc images. A Build mode project file is not a disc image. You'd have to actually build the ISO files and have the program add them to the Write Queue, then switch to Write mode and burn them.

Can you cancel out of it? Can you verify the disc as a standalone function? Try burning at 24x rather than 'MAX' speed.

If you've changed the sptd service's 'start' value to 'disabled' (4?) and rebooted, you won't get the message from ImgBurn. It's a little odd that their installer says your platform isn't supported. In any case, SPTD is unlikely to be the cause of your problems. Why don't you post a copy of the burn log - as per the pink box up the top We'll then take a look and see if we can get you burning again.

Which mirror? They seem fine to me. Did the MD5 hash (of SetupImgBurn_2.5.6.0.exe) match the one posted on the ImgBurn download page?

The mp4 file is useless, you can't do anything with it except play it on a machine supporting mp4 files. Putting in in a BDMV folder doesn't change what it is. So just forget about the mp4 file and delete it. You're wasting your time compressing to 10gb if you want to maintain as much of the original quality/detail as possible. Obviously you want the output files to be around the size of the discs you're going to be burning to - i.e. 25GB for a normal single layer BD-R disc. If you want to keep menus then you'll have to look for a program that supports doing that. Maybe RipBot does? I don't know. The likes of BDRebuilder/ClownBD can do it though.

Don't forget you're probably just working on a single title/playlist from the original BD structure (the 'main movie' one). So the extras and menus etc will be gone. You can strip unwanted audio/subtitle streams from the output - thus reducing the size. In the end, you might only be reducing the bitrate by a tiny amount - only you know if you can notice the difference, try it.

Whilst I've never used RipBot myself, a quick Google suggests you didn't configure it correctly if you've ended up with an MP4 file. One screenshot I saw seemed to show MP4 / MKV / AVCHD output options. If you're running it with the intention of creating a folder structure that'll leave you with a playable disc then you should be using the AVCHD option. The only alternative I know of is to get an MKV and use tsmuxer to create the proper BD video structure. Rather than wasting discs, make an ISO, mount it in a virtual drive program and test it with PowerDVD etc. Failing that, buy yourself a BD-RE. They're very useful.