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Jmicron is just the most common one, I was guessing really. It could be marvel or silicon image too. You have to look at the hardware identifier of the device and then you can lookup what it is via google by searching for the vendor and device id codes. To do that, bring up properties on the device, switch to the details tab and select 'hardware ids' in the drop down list.

The problem is your drive/firmware/media combo. Goto the plextor website and update your firmware to 1.12.

It would use layer 0 and layer 1 though on DL media, and being an ISO I can't do anything in the way of padding. So the message is technically correct. If you want to burn it to DL, extract/mount the image and then rebuild it (direct to disc or it'll just make another single layer ISO) from the video_ts folder/ifo,bup,vob files.

Try cleaning the drive maybe? Failing that you'll have to get another spindle of discs.

I've never even seen that dye before, get yourself some decent Taiyo Yuden / Verbatim discs.

Windows is complaining. Try a motherboard bios update and also update the drivers for whichever chipset your motherboard uses - i.e. Intel or nvidia.

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Use DVD Flick or ConvertXtoDVD to convert your mp4 to DVD Video format (don't worry, you won't lose the sound), then burn it. I have no experience of putting wavs on DVD, I guess the authoring program would need to make up some sort of still video/picture to go with it. You can probably just Google that one.

It says you're running the 1.04 firmware, not 1.05.

Burn one, scan it and see the quality for yourself (if your drive supports it of course).

It should have actually told you that it would fit on a single layer disc - did it not do that?

Can you get hold of some decent Taiyo Yuden DVD-R / Verbatim DVD+R discs to try out? It's a waste of everyone's time trying to troubleshoot with media we know is rubbish.

Put it on a single layer disc.

No idea, full erase is a 2 part process. The first is 100% the drive (i.e. you send it 1 command and it does its thing), the 2nd is just imgburn writing zeroes to all the sectors on the disc. Quick erase just zero fills the first 800. You've nothing to gain by performing a full format twice unless you're going between having spare areas enabled / disabled. You might aswell just use discovery mode to zerofill all the sectors.

Yes, ImgBurn has lots of command line switches that you can use. Take a look at the readme.txt file in the program folder.

Your drive (with its current firmware) simply doesn't support it.

No, take a look at the 'Supported Write Speed' in the disc info on the right.

There's nothing in ImgBurn that makes one type of content work any better than another, it's all down to the source files.

Yes, build mode works with whatever you want to burn to disc - just remember that it doesn't convert anything.

Burning to dvd and converting to a dvd video disc are two very different things. You first need to work out which one you want. Do you want to keep the mp4 file as an mp4 file or do you want a disc that works in all standalone DVD players? As for the wav file, you can only burn that as a data file really (i.e. via Build mode) because DVD's don't support audio in the same way CD's do (i.e. CDDA / CD Audio discs).

The drive is slowing itself down, it's not ImgBurn that's doing it. ImgBurn will always read as quickly as it possibly can. Basically, because the drive can't 'stream' the data off at the rate it wants to, ImgBurn's buffer will no doubt be filling up or something and because the drive has to keep stopping and starting it's just messing things up and the speed then drops to one it *can* stream at. Is your DVD drive on the same channel / cable as the hdd you're writing to? Is the drive correctly connected to the 'master' position on the cable and set as 'master' via the jumper? Have you tried uninstalling your ide controller from within device manager and rebooting?

It's probably more of a windows issue than anything else, I shouldn't worry about it.

What media are you using? DVD-R DL or DVD+R DL? If no LB can be found then you won't get prompted. That could happen if you're using DVD-R DL and nothing lines up nicely. Have you actually tried burning? What does it say in the log when you do? (copy + paste it all please)

If the drive doesn't like the media then there isn't much you can do. You'll have to wait for the next firmware update and hope that it fixes the problem.

Nope, I don't do eye candy (in my program anyway!) Windows themes are fine for me.