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There's nothing I can do about your machine hanging on certain I/O commands. (Not sending them in the first place isn't really an option ) I've only ever used Silicon Image and ITE based PCI IDE cards. Others may or may not have issues with optical drives - most are designed for hdds and do not fully support the command set used by optical drives. Do you have any other IDE ports you can attach the drive to? Maybe you should have ditched IDE, got a new SATA PCI card (Silicon Image 3512 chipset based - ~£10 off ebay) and an SATA drive - where you of course then have loads more choices.

DVD Flick is seeing your AVI as being 6761 long. 6761 seconds = 112.683333 minutes 112 minutes = 1 hour, 52 minutes. Your topic title suggests 152 minutes (2hrs, 32 mins!)... could that be a mistake on your part?

Sorry, I thought you'd been burning the 4x discs at 4x but it appears (from your initial log) that you've been using 2x. You should try burning them at all of the supported speeds. There could be a firmware bug that produces low (lower) quality burns on them at 2x. So give the 4x discs a go at 4x (and then 6x) What you're burning (the ISO) isn't important. Data is data. The 'f' and 'd' are what differentiate the 4x discs from the 6x discs. It could be anything though so long as the 2 complete strings are unique (against themselves and those used by other manufacturers on other discs).

Had you tried 2x on the 4x 'VERBAT-IMd-000' discs? Without trying multiple spindles of the same discs (same MID/dye) at all supported speeds, it's hard to pin point the problem. With the 'VERBAT-IMf-000' working ok, that should mean it's not a general drive fault. I've seen a few BH10LS30 drives fail with 'VERBAT-IMd-000' discs. Changing speeds or a future firmware update will hopefully fix the issue.

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It's only a Verbatim disc if it uses the actual Verbatim MID/dye. Proper Verbatim BD-RE DL discs are still quite new to the market. Lots of ebay sellers say their BD-RE DL discs are Verbatim ones when they actually have a totally different MID/dye. So before you buy it, ask the seller to provide that info. You probably shouldn't rely on the results from a BD-RE disc, they're just not as reliable as BD-R discs. Try and get the 2x or 6x Verbatims as I mentioned earlier.

You can't, ImgBurn currently always closes/finalises when it burns. Unless you're still running XP (or earlier), just use the burning feature built into the OS for basic multisession data burning.

The image should come out the same both times. Your drive is still returning empty sectors (probably for an entire 32 sector ECC block) when reading. No, writing slower doesn't always produce the best results. You'd have to burn a disc at each speed and then do a disc quality test on each one to see which speed produced the highest quality burn. Try getting the VERBAT-IMb-000 (2x) or VERBAT-IMf-000 (6x) discs instead of the VERBAT-IMd-000 (4x) ones you have now. The alternative would be to try a different drive... maybe a Pioneer BDR-206DBK or a LiteOn iHBS112. The iHBS112 can do the disc quality scans with 'Opti Drive Control'.

They are still unreadable so your drive is producing low quality burns on the media you're using. Try clearing the drives OPC history via the Advanced Settings feature (or in the eeprom tool) Are your Verbatim discs made in Singapore? They seem more reliable than others made elsewhere - check the packaging, it should say around the barcode area somewhere.

ImgBurn is burning whatever you give it. If you burn a 1.4GB AVI file, it'll still be a 1.4GB AVI once it's on a DVD. If you decide to convert it to a proper DVD Video format and that doesn't output the correct size / misses something, that's down to whichever program you used for the job. So if DVD Flick isn't working for you, try another program.

You missed my point. Uninstalling + reinstalling isn't necessary. ImgBurn is just a single exe. If you've wipe out the settings via the registry key then it's as good as gone. Just run the ImgBurn.exe file again via the normal shortcut and it'll start with fresh (default) settings. If you have a problem with it after that, post the log so we can try to help you. I don't know why the installer is failing but that's an NSIS problem and not an ImgBurn one. Disabling AV doesn't always disable it enough.

It means the disc is unreadable. Post the log if you want actual help.

By selecting the 'Verify' button when you start the program.

It's probably related to whatever antivirus/malware type software you're running. There's no real need/point in uninstalling+reinstalling, just delete the ImgBurn registry key (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ImgBurn) and then run the program as normal - it'll revert to default settings.

It looks like your drive is returning lots of empty sectors when reading the disc back. It's impossible to say if it's a problem with the disc itself or the drive at this point, you'd have to verify the disc in another drive and see if it works ok in that one. Even trying the disc in that same drive would probably do - just to see if it produces the same errors in exactly the same places.

Why are you verifying your new image against the old disc? The two are going to be totally different now in terms of file systems etc. The file data will still be the same though. I'm pretty sure that if you manually override the program's selection of CUE/BIN in the Destination box and pick ISO instead, it'll prompt you and just save the user data from the Mode 2/Form 1 sectors (2048 bytes per sector) rather than the entire thing (2352 bytes per sector), thereby giving you a nice ISO.

I'd expect 'Load' to fail on a laptop drive. You can only eject the tray on those, not load it. If the drive isn't able to recognise/initialise any discs you put in it, yes, it's probably dead. Try cleaning it - you'll have to use the manual method because a cleaning disc won't work!

It would make the program do a basic 50/50 (still ECC block aligned) split - with no regard for updating the cell flags in the IFO files (be it marking them as seamless or non-seamless). Physically, yes, there always has to be a layer break - and there always will be. That's a media thing. The layer break options are just there to control file alignment and optionally update the IFO based on said alignment/the seamless setting.

There isn't, no. If you leave the fields blank on the main window, the program generates one based on content and then prompts you to confirm it. That prompt contains a button that autofills the fields with the current date. (That's the best I can offer you right now)

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=12200 It's all in there.

Surely you burn the content of CD1 to 1 disc, then the content of CD2 to another and so on? As for making it bootable, that would depend on what system it uses for booting. Is it a copy of the normal Windows Vista install disc boot method (boot folder with etfsboot.com file) or does it use isolinux etc?

You can't, Wii discs are copy protected.

If your drive errors out 3 for 3, consider cleaning it with a cleaning disc / trying the other supported write speeds / using some discs from another spindle.

1st and only failure? Ignore it and try another disc.

I assume you know what unchecking that box actually does? The % stuff comes from the drive. So if it's inaccurate, it's not ImgBurn's fault. Copy + Paste everything currently in the Log window.