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The only Verbatim CDs I'd ever buy now are the 'Pastel' ones... and that's because they use the Taiyo Yuden dyes. Other than that, it's Taiyo Yuden all the way. Oh and thinking all CDs are created equal because they're all called 'CDs' is a little naive. There are good and bad versions (and a load more inbetween) of everything in this world, CDs are no different. Your error means the drive(s) can't read the disc. So either they're all bad readers or the discs haven't been burnt properly in the first place. You could chalk that up to a manufacturing defect in the discs too - faulty spindle or whatever. Personally, I'd have asked for help after say 5 failures, certainly not 47 failures over 3 drives. Your issue is hardware related and nothing to do with software. You just have a bad drive/firmware/media combo - they're all that matters in the world of burning.

That's still not the whole log The log starts with something like this... Going by the screenshot, that's about 2mb/s which probably means your drive is in PIO mode. Follow the DMA post in the faq and see if you can get it back into DMA mode. Please post the 'family tree' info for that drive. Right click the drive selection box and you'll see the option on the context menu. Close the prompt and then copy + paste the info from the log window.

It should be working fine, just close the program and reopen it via the icon.

What are the buffer levels at? There should be 2 buffer bars visible in the main window. Ideally, both should be at 100% Oh and if you could post the top section of that log I'd appreciate it.

It's probably worth you picking up another spindle of discs so you can rule them out as being the problem. See if you can get the MCC based Verbatim DVD-Rs. Also keep an eye out for proper Taiyo Yuden 8x TYG02 discs. Slimline drive are all pretty rubbish so that wouldn't be helping matters. It shouldn't be having problems burning to decent media - which TYG03 certainly are.

Try at 4x. No drive that has proper support for MKM-003-00 should be failiing to burn them. Slimline drives are rubbish so that's probably half the problem here.

Correct, you need to adjust the ifo file for the given vts set. To be fair though, I'm not sure how you'd end up with a proper set of DVD Video files where the IFO doesn't already match the actual contents of the vob files it belongs to. Ifoedit is what you'd need to use - or perhaps PgcEdit.

It's due to a bug in the lg drive's firmware. It's returning the wrong error code. Just click ignore/continue.

What you write to the disc has no effect on its readability. If it burns and verifies ok, you should be good to go.

Nope, that's totally unrelated.

Post the log please. Try searching too as I'm sure this has been covered before.

So no problem with VLC whatsoever. And I tried to enable subtitles from my remote, but my DVD player seems to think there are none available (and I checked, they definitely are there on the disk). I've searched for authoring tools and stumbled on DVD Flick. Problem is it won't handle .vob files. Know of any authoring tool that does that? And as I stated, playing the raw VOB file is NOT the same as playing a DVD Video disc properly via its VIDEO_TS.IFO file. If you play a raw VOB file the player will attempt to locate valid streams in the file by reading its content. If you play a DVD Video disc properly via its VIDEO_TS.IFO files it'll go by what whatever's mentioned in the IFOs. So the raw VOBs could contain 8 different subtitles streams and it would still show 0 subtitles if that's what the IFOs say.

I don't remember ever saying it was bad to quick erase DVDs. It's pointless to quick erase DVD+RW and BD-RE because they support Direct Overwrite, but that's about it. What I usually say is that doing a full format is a 2 part process. It has a foreground part and a background part. By default, ImgBurn waits for both to be completed. Some/most other tools do not (they just wait for the foreground part) and it leaves the 'formatted' status of the disc in limbo. The problem(s) you're having is/are not a software issue.

What you're talking about is beyond the scope of ImgBurn. It's just burns as-is. The ability to enable subtitles etc is down to the authoring tool and whatever created the IFO/VOB/BUP files in the first place. If you can't enable them via the menu system then you can usually do it via the subtitle button on the remote (if you're using software, it'll probably be on a context menu somewhere). Playing a raw VOB file is not the same as playing a DVD Video disc properly via its IFO files. If it's just VLC that you're having problems with, try something else... like Media Player Classic - Home Cinema or a proper bit of software like PowerDVD.

You haven't even said what type of discs you're trying to erase. ImgBurn's 'quick erase' will be no different to that of any other program. There's a set command for it defined in the MMC specs. The program sends it and drive does it's thing.

Can you please provide me with the info I asked for in my previous post. Oh and invest in some BD-RE discs.

Based on what you've told us... not really! Post the burn+verify log please - as per the pink box up the top

As it's only a 'data' disc, your Pioneer would need to support the type of file you've burnt - be it AVI or whatever.

Don't expect to see anything in the log that actually says 'finalising'. That command isn't required for all types of disc... but ImgBurn always leaves discs in a closed/complete state. So if you were hoping that was the reason behind something not working, I'm afraid you'll have to think again!

It would have helped if you'd showed us a log so we could see what the program was doing and a screenshot of the main window. If it's getting stuck somewhere on your machine that can be avoided, I will of course do everything I can to fix it.

But HKCR is a virtual key, built based on the values of HKCU and HKLM... both of which are definitely removed by the uninstaller. Weird!

ImgBurn didn't prevent anything from happening. The verify process just warns you of potential issues with the disc - like it not being 100% readable.

And iTunes can still burn them ok? To ImgBurn, your drive is reporting itself exactly as you see it there - 'Medium Not Present'.

Your drive doesn't appear to support the disc(s) you're trying to use. You're quite sure it's a CD you're putting in the drive and not a DVD? Can the drive read other CDs ok?

It's working ok under 11.04 (so I assume 11.10 would work too). The only thing worth mentioning from WineDebug is that is says to update to Alsa v1.0.24 drivers (I understand they're at a lower level than pulse?) - but they don't seem to be available for 10.10! I'm taking that to mean it's actually a bug in Alsa rather than Wine - as the same Wine code works fine on 11.04 (with does use Alsa 1.0.24) That WOD_PushData just repeats forever on 10.10. On 11.04 is looks like this: