LIGHTNING UK!

Make a proper Blu-ray video disc out of them using multiAVCHD. That's assuming your player doesn't just support MKV anyway.

You already know they aren't the recommended discs. Do you have any Verbatim ones? Your buffer issues were caused by the hdd being too busy to supply a steady stream of data - and at 2.4x, it really isn't a lot! Try not to make your hdd thrash around whilst burning. Random access kills the sequential transfer rate. You have a fair bit of memory spare so perhaps try upping the buffer to 80MB or something. It'll give you more of a safety net should it happen again.

The different shades are usually caused by the drive changing write speeds during the burn and/or just adjusting the laser power (in order to achieve better burn quality). What burner do you actually have? Is the firmware up-to-date?

You need to set the Write Speed to 'AWS'. It's the first entry in the drop down box. 'AWS' is now the name used in that box, not 'AUTO'.

Correct http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000 That ASUS may or may not just be a Lite-On iHASx24 B clone. Whilst you can always crossflash to the real thing, you're better off just buying the original drive in the first place!

Cleaning it with a cleaning disc may help. Using one of those slower supported speeds might do too. Failing that, yeah I think I'd just replace it. Drives are really cheap these days. I assume those TYG02 discs are the real thing? (and sold by Verbatim / Taiyo Yuden?)

This happens when your 'Advanced Format' drive uses 4k physical and 4k logical sectors. 4k physical are fine but all of my 'Advanced Format' drives still present 512 byte logical sectors to the computer. The issue has been worked around in the next release.

If you don't configure the AWS feature it'll just default to burning at MAX speed - i.e. 8x for MKM-003-00 media. Yes, that's a great burn.

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

If it won't burn anything, you probably need a new drive!

The stuff you're burning to the disc makes no difference. So you're saying that the drive won't burn *any* media at all?

and by 'same problem', you mean this? Can the drive burn other discs ok? Like normal DVD-R or DVD+R discs? Slimline drives are ok in an emergency but I wouldn't use them if I had any sort of choice in the matter.

Well if you've read it, you know why it's happening. As for this bit... ... that shouldn't be happening. Were you using a brand new disc? That's not an error code a drive normally reports after the first 'Write' command has been sent. Try another new disc and use 4x or 6x write speed. 2.4x might not be the optimal one for your drive/firmware/media combo. btw, don't ever trim bits off the log. It's important we get to see all of it (for that session).

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=19012

Your other drive would have errored out too... but it's an 'expected error' when the drive returns the correct error code and the program semi ignores it (you won't get the prompt).

You missed something. To quote myself again...

The program isn't ejecting it, the drive is doing that by itself.

You're getting the error due to a bug in the drive's firmware. The drive *should* be erroring out (because you're attempting to use a layer break position that is beyond the maximum possible) but it should be returning a different error to that.

Then you should try with some other media.

Your drive is returning garbage, it's nothing to do with the application. If you eject and reinsert the disc a few times, I'm sure it'll eventually initialise it correctly and then the program will be able to work as it should do.

Are you trying to read a commercial blu-ray disc to an image file? They're copy protected and ImgBurn tells you it won't work right at the start - before you even click the big 'Read' button.

If you want lightscribe, get the 224. You'd also need an external enclosure to put the drive in. A 'Sumvision Tempest' should do the job. Personally I wouldn't waste money on lightscribe DVD+R DL discs, they're over double the price of normal ones.

This is a drive issue. If there are no firmware updates available, you'll just have to live with it.

There your drive just returned a 'Write Error' whilst attempting to burn to the disc. The discs you're using are the cheapo 'RICOHJPN-D01-67' dye rather than the recommended MKM-001-00 or MKM-003-00 dye. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000 You'll also notice that thread tells you to avoid slimline drives. They're handy when you're totally stuck but are generally pretty rubbish so far as burners go.

No that's right, I've never had to buy discs before and have no idea how much they cost. Think yourself lucky you don't have to pay UK prices for stuff. Verbatim make the best quality / most reliable double layer discs. When others fail to burn, Verbatims usually succeed. Nobody ever said other brands just flat out won't work, of course that's not the case... they just fail a lot more than Verbatim ones do. So now you have the best media and your drive is STILL unable to burn, you need to think about buying a drive that actually works. This is just basic troubleshooting. If you know/knew of a better way to find the source of the problem, by all means share it with us.