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Try using something like multiAVCHD to make the proper blu-ray folder structure. Then burn that using the Blu-ray Video guide you mentioned.

Your initial post makes it sound like everything works and yet nothing works. Your second post says you were burning on a different computer and it still failed. Let's just stick to one machine, one drive and go from there. So you've got 2 drives on your Dell laptop. One internal BD writer (or BD combo) and one external Samsung DVD writer. Both of those are obviously slimline drives - which isn't ideal. Your Samsung DVD burner has a firmware update available for it - http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SE-S084F/files.html What are the MIDs/dyes used by the 3 'brands' of discs you've tried? The brand name doesn't mean anything. You could buy 3 different ones and end up with the same MID/dye being used on all 3. Your log shows 'RITEKG05'. I lost interest in RITEK media after the RITEKG04 days (about 7 years ago!) When you burn, make sure you leave the 'Verify' option enabled (or reenable it if you've turned it off). If your burner can't read the disc is just wrote then there's a good chance it won't be readable in another device either. Always use the current version of ImgBurn (2.5.6.0 at the mo) and keep Windows updates (you need to install service pack 1 on that Windows 7 PC). When you've got things updated and found out what all of your discs are, burn and verify a disc in each of you drives (also with updated firmware) and post the results.

Please post a log - as per the pink box up the top If it burns and verifies ok, ImgBurn did its job. I'm afraid the rest is kinda beyond what this forum is here for.

I've already told you to put the current version of the program on... but you don't appear to have done so. Please do that so I know what I'm working with. Old versions aren't supported. You're using cheapo CMC discs so try using half of whatever the max speed is. That would be 8x on the CMC DVD media and 24x on the CDs.

What are you actually attempting to do? If you're trying to burn a DVD, forget about it. You drive only supports burning to CDs. You're using an old version of the program there, put the current version on.

You just click the button saying 'Burn files and folders to disc' and then add the files to the source box (or use Advanced input mode so you can see what you're doing). You shouldn't have to change away from the default settings. So bring up the 'Options' tab and click the 'Reset Settings' link down the bottom.

I get angry when people have a go about something they know nothing about. Why not ask for help *before* coming to your own (incorrect) conclusions? ImgBurn gets used by a large number of people and issues like this just wouldn't be issues for very long without me knowing about it. No offence but I don't think I did. Enabling that SPTI related option is the only thing you could have done which (as I've now tried and tested several times) results in the problem you were seeing. 'Enable SPTI for all users' is not a prompt, it's a checkbox in with the other installation options. Oh and the prompt you saw would have been for DVD Decrypter. The autoplay related entries made by 2.5.5.0 and 2.5.6.0 are identical. And even if they weren't, they're just me throwning one more ball in the ball pitt. They add ImgBurn as an option for various autoplay types. They don't change what's already there or what Windows decides to pick as the default one. Do remember that ImgBurn is just a single exe (there are no drivers or anything). If it's not running, it can't possibly be doing anything to your system. 2.5.5.0 doesn't work a treat, that's why 2.5.6.0 contains the bug fixes that it does. Install 2.5.6.0 again and *don't* check the 'Enable SPTI for all users' option in the installer. I'm 100% confident that you won't have any problems with it.

ImgBurn didn't kill anything and its own uninstaller works perfectly fine. I know exactly what I add to the registry and I know exactly what I take away again. None of it would do anything to kill your autoplay stuff or anything else you've described. btw, you don't appear to have even mentioned which OS you're running. Assuming it's Windows XP (because you mention TweakUI for XP), I'm going to guess you may have enabled the 'Enable SPTI access for all users' option in the installer. What that option does is manipulate a Windows registry key - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc957388.aspx It it nothing to do with ImgBurn but provides a workaround to Windows blocking SPTI access for 'normal' users - where ImgBurn (or any other program using SPTI) wouldn't then be able to detect any drives (Windows returns 'Access Denied'). As with most things, there are side effects and I guess one of them is how Windows then deals with discs being inserted in drives. (I wasn't aware of the issue until just now as I don't require that option to be enabled) This is 100% a Windows issue. If you want to mention it to someone, mention it to Microsoft. Of course XP is old now so there's 0% chance of them doing anything about it. The problem is actually detailed here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330135

It tells you in the guide. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=11194 You point it at the etfsboot.com file in the boot folder.

You can't really tell anything if you've only burnt 1 disc. Burn another and see if it happens again. As for why your car wouldn't read the disc, I don't know. Does it support reading DL discs? Does it support whatever you've written to it in the way you've written it? Yes, if a drive can't finalise the disc properly then it could be hard for other drives to read it. It's pot luck really.

Get a different enclosure. Some just don't work well with the USB ports in the computer and cause timeouts long before they're meant to happen. (I've never considered it to be power related at all)

How many have failed like that? There are a few things to try and they're mentioned here - http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

The UAC stuff in Vista. You'd have to be running as Admin (hence 'elevated' above normal user status/level) in order to install the filter. Normally you'd right click and select 'Run as Administrator'... but that probably won't work properly for a batch file calling other files.

You can't really coaster a rewritable

Looks like the same issue then. USB isn't as reliable as an internal SATA connection so it could just be that. Try installing service pack 1 for Windows 7, it could update something useful. Otherwise you're looking at drive/firmware/media issues - and I can't find any firmware updates for that model (it looks quite rare?!)

ImgBurn does (should) tell you that it can't read xbox (xbox 360 anyway) games. They're copy protected. If you ignore what it says and go ahead anyway, it'll create an image which is no use to anyone (the 158mb thing you're seeing). You should probably have a read of this - http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=12200

Are you talking about madFlac? There's a batch file you're supposed to run that then calls InstallFilter properly. You may run into issues with permissions etc if you don't run it elevated. But if you run it elevated, you may not have access to the folder. It's all fun and games

It sounds like your drive has got stuck. You'll have to just turn it off and on again. (ImgBurn should error out when you do that) The 'Zeroing sectors' stage is just like writing to the disc, you should be a little worried that it might get stuck again during a regular burn... but hopefully it won't

You should at least try the obvious things first like installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and updating to the current version of ImgBurn. When you've done that and tried again, get back to us.

I have a Samsung BD combo drive that has the same problem with certain writable discs. You'll notice in this thread that I couldn't scan certain discs in it because it failed to recognise them. The Gigabyte ports will be the ones on the JMicron chipset. Whilst there are worse chipsets for optical drives, the proper Intel ones *are* better. Make sure you have the latest driver installed from here - ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/SATA_Controller/Windows/ Check for motherboard bios updates too because they sometimes contain updated option roms (like for the jmicron controller). The drive has complete control over the format. ImgBurn tells it to format and it formats it. ImgBurn just waits for it to say it's finished. No, upgrading to 2.5.6.0 won't magically fix your problem (it's not a software issue)... but it will fix other ones you may not even know you had.

I'm not entirely sure BD combo drives were ever really designed to read BD-RE discs. Their support for them could be somewhat limited/lacking. I've seen other posts (elsewhere) where people have been having the same problem with them not reading BD-RE discs (maybe they were your posts too?!) Your PS3 shouldn't have a problem with them though (mine certainly doesn't) - unless it has a bad/dirty laser. Are you quite sure it can't read the disc at all? Not even as a simple data disc (rather than a BD video or whatever) ? The 'RAID' bit will be from your drivers. What sort of chipset does your board use? NVIDIA/AMD ones tend to say 'RAID' a lot more (all the time?!) than Intel ones do. You should be using ImgBurn v2.5.6.0 now btw. Old versions aren't supported.

ImgBurn isn't actually doing the erase, the drive is. That's why you can't really terminate it. Best you could do is terminate ImgBurn (using task manager), shut the PC down and then eject the disc when you boot it back up again.

Which thread are you referring to? I'll move your post to the right place. Typically, a proper software DVD player (so that's something like PowerDVD) will set a new drive's (i.e. where no regional code has been set) regional code to the same as the disc's regional code. If the drive's regional code isn't set or mismatched to the disc, it's not normally possible to query the drive for the decryption key. My old program used to warn people about such issues when they were detected.

It's all in here. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

PowerDVD 11 can play file structures and lists itself in wmc. I can't comment on MyMovies as I've never used it.