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It must be a 'feature' of your drive, so you're probably out of luck.

Which other one did you try? The imgburn.com one will be giving you the installcore message, the other mirrors (assuming you get the real download and don't click an advert) will not phase your AV software. There is of course nothing actually wrong with either of them.

Get it from a different mirror site.

It's nice to have a collection of logs if you're getting issues with various discs, yes. We can quickly check it's the same sort of problem that way. I'm afraid 'working' copies won't help in this situation, you really need to perform the disc quality / pipo scans to get an idea on the actual burn quality. A new scanning drive (basic liteon ihas124) for scanning DVDs would set you back about £15 here in the UK. The fact you're having issues with different media isn't a great sign. I wouldn't expect a new drive to have trouble burning to Verbatim MCC-004-00 media. Have you tried burning at the various 'supported' write speeds? Are the spindles of discs you've got old or new? If you've had them sitting around for years, that could potentially cause a problem - although it shouldn't normally.

Have you tried burning at 4x rather than 8x? The drive is returning a 'Write Error', so it's just having trouble burning to the disc. It's always worth trying all of the speeds the drive claims to support on the given media. As you've already tried 'MAX' (8x in this case), now would be a good time to try 4x. Beyond that, you'll have to give some MKM-003-00 discs a try.

Please don't enable I/O debug mode when posting logs unless asked to do so. It's a million times harder to actually see the problem and isn't required for the majority of issues. Your drive just appears to have done a bad job of burning the disc and is then unable to read it back. You'd have to PIPO scan the disc to check the quality of the burn and work out if it's bad in general or just a fluke bad bit. You'd then have to burn the same discs in a known good drive to see if it's a general disc issue or something specific to your drive. Basically, you'd need to narrow down where the problem is actually coming from.

What's showing the file as 0 bytes? Explorer? Are you looking inside the ISO when you say the file size is correct at 6GB, or are you looking at the ISO itself? Try ejecting the disc and rebooting. Maybe Windows will refresh itself properly then. Of course none of this is anything to do with your initial question / issue with the layer break window. Maybe now you've learnt it only applies to DVD Video discs and you aren't building those?

Are you burning DVD video files (a Video_ts folder) ? Please post the log so we can see what's going on.

Yes, it pretty much is my answer for everything... and 99% of the time, it's the correct answer. Optical drives conform to a standard. That standard hasn't changed and therefore programs don't need to either. The program actually does very little beside just send the data to the drive. All the technical stuff is done by the drive and its firmware. If it can't write to a certain bit (sector or whatever) on the disc, that's totally out of my hands. It's a hardware (be it the drive or the media) issue. If you'd like me to take a look at the log for your specific case, I'm happy to do so.

If it was perfectly good, your drive wouldn't have errored out If you post the log from that burn session, we'll be able to tell you more.

Every drive should be able to burn MKM-003-00 at 4x without an issue really. I'd therefore say it's a drive problem. You could try enabling the 'Perform OPC Before Write' option in the settings, but it might not make a difference. (sometimes it helps, sometimes it makes things worse)

Try cleaning the drive or get yourself another one.

Glad to hear that solved the problem

I've seen it where some players won't play BD Video from discs where the booktype has been changed to DVD-ROM... because they simply don't expect to ever see BD Video content on such discs. So what I'd suggest is going into the Settings -> Write tab -> Page 1 and enable the 'Use Normal for BD Video Discs' option. Then try again after you've burnt another one.

It could be related to the 'book type'. Post the log of you burning and verifying the disc please.

I never install any sort of codec pack, I just install additional individual codecs as and when I need them. For m4a, I'm using the Orban one. Being able to play a file doesn't mean the necessary DirectShow filters are installed that ImgBurn can then pass a file to the system as 'input' and have it output in the correct format for burning to disc.

I haven't spotted any questions being asked within your post, so I'm not sure how you'd like me to respond... if at all. It's interesting that disc has an audio session followed by another containing both data and audio. A traditional cd extra disc would have the data track in the 2nd session, but I've never seen one with another audio track following that. Weird! EAC uses advanced methods to detect errors in the audio sectors the drive returns during the read operation. ImgBurn just asks it to read the sectors and writes it out to the file. It's down to the drive to detect and report any read issues. Data sectors have built in error correction stuff, audio ones don't - so a drive won't necessarily be able to report an issue when reading audio sectors.

Probably, yes. Just try loading the file in Write mode.

You didn't do anything wrong (apart from ignoring the layer break options), your drive just failed to burn the disc properly. Your best chance of success with DVD+R DL media is with the Verbatim MKM-003-00 DVD+R DL discs - as per that thread you've read.

You need to post a log showing the program burning and verifying the image/disc correctly and without error. Beyond that, if it doesn't work in your playback device, maybe it's the playback device that's at fault?

Yes, same here. Weird.

Update your drive's firmware to the latest release. http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/WH14NS40/files.html If your drive can't produce a decent burn at any of the write speeds it claims to support those discs at (4x, 6x, 8x), you'll have to buy some different ones.

Which os are you using? You may also be better off using the advanced input method. Switch it in the menu at the top of the window.

It works fine for me. Which method(s) are you trying? Please be exact.

Nope. You'd have to modify the firmware to allow such a thing. Normally the program can just send a command to the drive to ask it to do it... no such luck with pioneer drives.