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The only way to do that is to burn the mkv file as-is in build mode with the file system configured to 'UDF'. You won't be able to play it on anything other than a pc (or other media device that supports mkv files).

The entire thing relies on DirectShow / ACM. If the filters required are already installed then it works fine, if they aren't then you need to install them. The MP3 one is installed as part of the base OS install, that's why those files work without extra filters/codecs.

Yes. Try madflac for the flac files. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=130498 For the ape ones you'll need the monkey audio one. http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

Yeah, it's not part of the user data area. The drive initialises the disc from special areas when it's first inserted and if they're unreadable then the disc isn't made available to *any* software - making the disc 110% useless. In that situation the drive will report something like 'medium not present' (even when it obviously is!) or 'unable to recover TOC'.

No, they're all crap apart from Verbatim. You can get away with the cheapo rubbish in certain drives but that doesn't make them any good!

It's the reading of the TOC that drives normally fail on. If you don't cycle the tray then the drive just uses what it has in memory and you'll never know if it can actually read it until the next time you put the disc in the drive - only to find it doesn't work!

lol I obviously deleted those having already made the list up to 13.

Thanks everyone

Buy some decent Verbatim / Taiyo Yuden media. RITEK aren't what they used to be - and the RITEKG05's were rubbish back then too! (RITEKG04 were the good ones).

Yes, very. Disc information is a dump of the information returned in response to me issuing the various media related commands - and it's organised as such - with the heading being whatever that command/information is known as.

Nope, no difference at all. Think about it.... you can build an ISO and burn it to CD/DVD/HD DVD/BD. If it had to be built for a certain format then that wouldn't be possible.

You want the 2.4x ones, not the 8x ones. MKM-001-00 dye Vs MKM-003-00. btw, why have you changed the 'Write Mode' to 'BD' ?! Put it back on Auto.

lol, some people hey blu!

The two should be identical. They type of media you're burning to doesn't even come into it. For all we know, the drive might just not be able to read the disc properly.

ImgBurn's CRC calculation was 100% wrong. You have to read the ISOLINUX.BIN file from byte 64 onwards in chunks of 4 bytes and CRC that. ImgBurn was reading them in the wrong order - i.e. it wanted byte[3] to be the most significant, not byte[0].

You can't change the miscompare errors (warnings) that are popping up. The data is different in the image file to what the drive is reporting - end of story! The timeout ones are just where your drive can't read from the disc properly. Use better media (Taiyo Yuden) - and not the rewritable kind.

I like it how it is, sorry.

That wasn't just aimed at you Falcon. The default response to anything ripping related should just be - 'We do not discuss *anything* about that subject on this forum....don't let the door slam on your way out!'

It's quite simple, don't use Super! VOB files should be less than 1GB in size. But not only do you need VOB files, you also need IFO and BUP files - which I guess Super doesn't make. So why not do the conversion in a program that does it all properly in the first place? - i.e. DVD Flick or ConvertXtoDVD.

If you're outputting to a 40"+ TV, invest in something that can play your files without you having to convert them. Western Digital make a cute little media box with hdmi output... it even plays MKV files (and you want 720p really for big TV's)

It's microscopic thin ice every time the term 'ripping' is mentioned.

See, you don't know me at all There's nothing I like more than building up XP installation discs

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There's a CRC field in the area starting at byte 8 (56 bytes long) known as the 'boot information table'. I really have fixed it now though! I rebuilt the Ubuntu 8.04 installation image and my CRC now matches the one on the original disc.