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Time means nothing, it's all about the bitrate of the video. If you lower the bitrate enough you can fit loads on a disc... make it higher and you'll get much less. So if you want to burn to single layer media, go back to your original set of files and 'shrink' them so they fit on a SL disc. Nero Recode can be used for that, along with DVD Shrink and DVD Rebuilder etc.

If you want to burn a double layer image you'll need double layer discs. Buy DVD+R DL, not DVD-R DL and make sure they're Verbatim 2.4x ones with the MKM-001-00 dye.

Data is data, you can burn it onto whatever media you like.

The 8x verbs might have suited your burner better if that's all it can do on DVD+R media.

lol yeah 101 and you still know your way around these 'computer' things as well as the next person! Hope you have a great birthday

DVD-R might be more compatible than DVD+R because it's been around longer, however the opposite is true for DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL. DVD+R DL are infinitely more common.

Does it happen on ALL CD's? i.e. data ones, audio ones, originals and ones you've already burnt? And you said it happens when reading said disc with either of your drives?

I think you're the only person, everyone else just uses DVD+R DL.

Can't you set the output size in Nero Vision and tell it to fit on a single layer disc? If not, have it make the IFO/BUP/VOB files and then load them into Nero Recode to shrink it down to SL size.

What I'm trying to say is that the source file is wrong/faulty/incorrect. The program isn't finding any valid file systems within it, hence there's no chance in anything playing it. (It should say 'ISO9660 + UDF' where it says 'None') Just have Encore output the IFO/BUP/VOB files and use ImgBurn to write them to the disc (or build an image and write that to a disc)

Your drive probably doesn't support that MID / dye at all.

Exactly what you tell it to. It'll tell the drive to burn at 16x. The drive will of course just ignore that request and burn and the next closest speed IT supports.

Don't skimp on the TY's, get the real thing, not the datasafe/datewrite cheapo versions.

They don't look like writers to me. That fact that is actually says 'DVD-ROM' in the device name gives it away a bit. The other one with the random name is a virtual drive.

Because you can be burning things from anywhere on your hdd and might just want that folder and not all the ones before it. Each to their own.

You keep buying discs that are far too new to be used in your 'old' burner. If you want to burn the newer 8x dyes you'll need a newer burner. As I said in my 1st post, your best chance of success with that drive is when using Verbatim 2.4x (MKM-001-00 dye) discs.

If your drive doesn't like those discs, try some Taiyo Yuden 8x ones (TYG02 dye) instead.

It would appear your source image is faulty in some way, make it again from the raw files.

When you say 'just after the "creating thread graph" message', what exactly is displayed in the status bar when it you're saying it's hung? A copy of whatever's in the log window at the time would of course be useful too.

You can just mount them full stop actually, that's what I do There's certainly no need to burn them - of course it does mean you need Virtual CloneDrive or DAEMON Tools on your server... both apps are invaluable so I don't see that as a huge problem. (personally I'd go for VCD as it's less intrusive)

Out of interest, is the drive on an NVIDIA controller?

More detailed but complete bollocks. Personally I'd have preferred my first 'honest' answer. I have no idea why it's vanishing on your PC. Anything I tell you now is just me fumbling my way through basic troubleshooting which anyone with any IT knowledge would tell you to do. Nope, that's all there is to it. Keeping a close eye on the screen / status bar / log window, what's the last thing you see it do before it vanishes? Does it bomb out every single time?

Assuming that ISO was pre-built and exactly as you downloaded it from Pioneer, it burnt and verified just fine so if your player won't accept it, it's probably down to the media you're using. Try it on a decent (Taiyo Yuden) CD-R (not CD-RW) or a Verbatim / Taiyo Yuden DVD-R.

I doubt that drive supports the newer 8x Verbatims (MKM-003-00 dye), buy the 2.4x ones instead (MKM-001-00 dye).

It's talking about any software that communicates with that specific filter driver. i.e. the pfc one is used by the likes of Padus DiscJuggler. It's no issue to just reinstall anything that stops working so I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you.