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If the format command fails then your drive doesn't like the disc. Ignore me when I mention format when you expect me to say erase... they're basically the same thing but I called it 'Erase' in the GUI and the actual command I send to the drive is called 'FORMAT UNIT' - so I'll often use both terms. Make sure you use 2.4.4.0, it has lots of new bits for formatting/erasing bd-re. You can quickly change your existing 'spare areas' format to a 'no spare areas' one by turning off full certification and turning on the option to format without spare areas. If you also disable 'prefer properly formatted discs', it won't try and zero all the sectors.

No, they're aweful. Why don't you just use DVD-R?

Well, burn 1 and if it works - all good. If it doesn't then you still have 9 others you can use in whichever new drive you end up buying.

Hmm weird that it wouldn't work under XP, I never had an issue with it. Normally the overlays thing only has to be disabled under Vista and that's done automatically. Any idea what graphics card you have? Are you running the latest driver?

Update ImgBurn too.

You have to format them 'without spare areas' if you want to use the full size.

Why don't you just re-encode the source files (which I assume were AVI files) and put 3-4 (or 6-8 if using DL media) episodes on a disc?

What OS are you running?

I for one would love you see you read a Wii disc with ImgBurn.

*cough* http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GSA-H54N/files.html

You have to enable Unicode cue files, otherwise the program uses Ansi (both when making them from 'Read' mode and the 'Create CD CUE File' feature). If the CUE contains CD-Text I don't think the CDT file is parsed at all. And even then, I've never seen a CDT with unicode data in it. If you have one (a unicode CDT), PLEASE send it to me! Being from the UK, I don't really come by foreign discs all that often - and by 'often' I mean 'ever' !

I don't know where you read that but it's nonsense. You can only use LiteOn booktype commands on drives based on their firmware/hardware.... and yours isn't. Try flashing your drive in safe mode.

No chance, sorry.

Why are you trying to use LiteOn booktype commands for a drive that's made by Pioneer?!

If you post a log of you burning / verifying a DVD+R disc I'll try.

If your drive supported it, it would be done automatically anyway.

Ah you mean copy 'on the fly' from one drive to another. Read and Write modes will still get you a 'copy' of the disc, just not in the exact 'on the fly' way you mean it.

Nope, it's not. They're copy protected.

Yeah but for all I know, the other 2 PCs might have equally ancient DVD-ROM drives in them. A DVD burner is far more tolerant of writable media than a DVD-ROM is. For the purposes of just checking the disc, attempting to actually read it is a waste of time. It's enough to just insert the disc and wait for ImgBurn's Read mode to say 'Ready' down the bottom in the status bar. Everything I need to know will then be visible on the main window and in that disc information box on the right.

Do you not have a newer drive you can try to read it in? No DVD burner or anything? I'm just after a screenshot when it says 'Ready' in the status bar really.... no need to start a read operation. Personally I'd give up though, the drive obviously hates the disc.

It means the program can't read the data quickly enough from your hdd. Are you doing something else with your C: drive that might be making it 'random access' and therefore totally kill the transfer rate? If you're using a laptop, they're even worse for that kinda thing. Reading a steady 8mb/s from a hdd is NOT a lot to ask for! It looks like you have enough memory going spare so try upping the buffer size a bit on the I/O tab in the settings.

Welcome to the world of unreliable DVD burning (not that I'm in it, I never have a problem )

I'm sorry to have to tell you this but the data you're burning doesn't even come into it.

Click the 'Create image file from disc' button (or 'Mode' -> 'Read' in the menu at the top). Put the unreadable disc in the drive and give it a minute to initialise, then get me another screenshot like that.

Almost all errors are a problem between the drive/firmware/media combo.