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Post a log please - as per the pink box up the top

You just install over the top of the old one.

SPLIP is a flag, it's 1 bit in a byte. You set *it* to 0 or 1, not the whole byte - which shouldn't ever be changed to a fixed value. You take the original value, modify the bit and then write back the new value. http://dvd.sourceforge.net/dvdinfo/pgc.html#play Just forget about cells on a DVD5 disc being marked as non seamless (or 'layer break'). You marking a non seamless cell as seamless is probably what's making the PS3 mess up. The flag is there for technical reasons - none of which are anything to do with a physical layer break on the media - which obviously never existed in the first place. Anyway, I feel like I'm hitting my head against a brick wall with this one so I'll leave it at that. You wanted to know why the PS3 is failing to play your modified files and I've said it's probably because you've modified them! Leave them alone

If you just export the whole of 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}' to a reg file using RegEdit, you should be able to remove the upper and lower filter drivers using ImgBurn (or just delete all the entries in 'UpperFilters' and 'LowerFilters' from within that reg key), then reboot and test to see what happens. Fingers crossed, your optical drives should also work in safe mode once you've done that. If not (and if you start safe mode with network support), try this 'Microsoft Fix It' tool here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982116/en-gb Restore the filters by reimporting the reg file you created earlier.

If ImgBurn is still listing the size as 12219392 then you have nothing to worry about - just ignore Explorer, it's talking rubbish.

I still don't understand why you're touching anything on a DVD-5 disc. If it has cells set with SPLIP = 0 (what Ifoedit calls a 'layer break') then it will have them set like that for a reason... and it's nothing to do with a physical layer break. You changing them to 1 could be what's causing the problem.

You just press F8 the second windows starts to load. Your optical drive(s) should be visible in safemode, mine certainly is. Once you've booted in to Linux Live, can't you just add the 'Wine' application as you would do any other application? Then download and install ImgBurn from imgburn.com.

It can create an image file from a disc using Read mode. If you just want to copy the contents of a disc onto your hdd, use Explorer!

Are you actually making an image or burning directly to disc? You should make an ISO first and then burn that to disc. If your compilation contains loads of little files, turning off antivirus might help - each one will be scanned by AV when ImgBurn tries to read it and that'll slow things down.

BD-R and BD-RE (formatted to max capacity - i.e. spare areas disabled) are exactly the same size. They both end up with 12219392 sectors available for use. 12219392 * 2048 = 25,025,314,816 bytes / 1024 = 24,438,784 KB / 1024 = 23,866 MB / 1024 = 23.306640625 GB So there's your 23.3 GB.

That doesn't mean anything. CDs aren't DVDs. You might be able to hit a 10m wide target from 100m, it doesn't mean you could hit a 1m wide target from the same distance.

It's impossible to say 100% Put it this way, if they aren't, you need a new drive - and you'll still have the new/better discs to use in the new drive so you haven't really wasted anything.

Well, I wouldn't use anything other than Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden personally. Their discs are always the most reliable and produce the best quality burns.

Try the lower supported write speeds. Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning discs. RITEKF1 aren't great discs to start with and slimline drives are all pretty rubbish.

Post the full log please.

Do you actually have 2 drives in your machine? If you do, the 2nd drive must have an issue - check it in Device Manager. You might also like to check it in the BIOS at bootup and the cabling etc. If you don't, the drive you do have is just a DVD-ROM drive, it can't burn anything.

Your hidden post doesn't list 'HKCR\DVD\shell\Read using ImgBurn', only the current 'HKCR\DVD\shell\open.ImgBurn' version In any case, I've just checked the 2.5.6.0 uninstaller and it wipes that one out too (well, the 'HKCU\Software\Classes\DVD\shell\Read using ImgBurn' and 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\DVD\shell\Read using ImgBurn' ones anyway) - so it can't be that - assuming the OP did actually try installing + uninstalling 2.5.6.0.

That's all fine and perfectly normal. The disc has been formatted to the maximum capacity. As for the speed, it's not an exact science. Different drives use different values to mean the same thing and so it makes using a single calculation to go from KB -> Speed a bit hit and miss. The speed descriptors reported by the drive are also only accurate to +- 10%. Going by the figures your drive returns and taking 1x BD speed to equal 4495 kB/s (1kB = 1000 bytes)... 35903 / 4495 = 7.9873192436040044493882091212458 10338 / 4495 = 2.2998887652947719688542825361513 35903 / 8 = 4487.875 10338 / 2.3 = 4494.7826086956521739130434782609 So where ImgBurn calls it 2.4x in the current version is probably wrong, it should say 2.3x instead. It's caused by the program using a 2nd calculation (based on a slightly different 1x speed) if the first doesn't end up at a whole number (i.e. 2x, 3x, 4x etc, because speeds typically are). I've now made the program only use the result of the 2nd calculation if its result is a whole number, otherwise it just sticks with the result of the 1st one. Compare those speed values/calculations to what something like an iHBS112 returns... 35960 / 4495 = 8 8990 / 4495 = 2 35960 / 8 = 4495 8990 / 2 = 4495 Clearly those are much nicer to work with! And then back to an LG drive (BH12LS38) for a BD-RE DL disc... 21668 / 4495 = 4.8204671857619577308120133481646 8991 / 4495 = 2.0002224694104560622914349276974 21668 / 4.8 = 4514.1666666666666666666666666667 8991 / 2 = 4495.5

If you backup the filter driver registry keys you can undo it again, but you'd have to know where they are to be able to do that. If safe mode doesn't work, there's probably no point in it. I'm fairly sure the OS wouldn't be using them in safemode. At this point, I've no idea what the issue is. Normally I'd say to change the cable or something but of course you can't do that if it's a laptop drive! How about trying to burn from bootable CD? You could use a Linux Live CD (with Wine and ImgBurn installed), or try something like Hiren's Boot CD (which will boot you into a basic Windows XP).

Burning cheapo media doesn't always work out under normal circumstances, let alone when you're trying to overburn it. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

If you burnt a DVD Video image or DVD Video files, sure, it should play in a DVD player. If you didn't do either of those, no, it won't play in a DVD player unless that DVD player supports the format of the file(s) you burnt. If you want to convert your files into DVD Video format you'll have to use something like DVD Flick or ConvertXtoDVD.

They're system wide filters. If you burn with lots of other apps, it *could* stop them working. Ok so try this instead... boot into safe mode and then try burning again. If it works, your issue is probably due to one or more of those filter drivers.

You shouldn't be editing anything if it was only DVD-5 in the first place. Setting the 'SPLIP' flag (what ifoedit may call the 'layer break') to 1 on a cell that isn't actually seamless could mess things up.

Try the faster supported speeds. You may have more luck with your drive/firmware/media combo at 4x or 6x. If it keeps failing, get yourself a decent non-slimline drive. (slimline drives are rubbish)