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That means the drive is probably still busy processing a command. ImgBurn isn't in control at this point, hence you can't quit. What you need to figure out is why your drive / machine is getting stuck like that. Is the firmware on the drive up-to-date? Are you using decent Verbatim/Taiyo Yuden media? Do you have the drive setup properly on the correct controller and with the correct/up-to-date drivers?

Fast Write wouldn't do anything as the error is being returned by the actual 'FORMAT UNIT' command, all be it delayed. Once the 'FORMAT UNIT' command has finished doing it's thing, ImgBurn then writes zeroes to every sector on the disc - that's where the 'fast write' bit comes in. To be 100% sure the drive is ok to burn to every sector I'd probably leave fast write off for the erase. That way, the drive's automatic write/verify process will point out any dodgy sectors. I've never used the LG media, it's still sealed up in the box with the manual etc. I only have verbatim BD-RE discs and a panasonic BD-RE DL one. Spare areas doesn't apply to DVD-RW, only DVD-RAM and BD-RE.

See now that's a totally different problem. Your drive is unable to read back that sector and is timing out - Samsung drives tend to do that after 10 seconds. If the drive can't read the disc (and it's a data one) then it's pretty useless. Another drive might have more luck though. If it was a DVD Video disc you might find standalone devices are more forgiving, but it's not! Where were your verbatim discs made? Look on the box / packaging / spindle / tub. btw, adding 4 bin/cue's in build mode (which basically just backs them up) doesn't mean you can verify against any one of them - that won't work, period. If you were trying to get a usable disc with the program somehow magically merging the 4 cd images into 1 bigger dvd image, you'll need to rethink things as it just doesn't work like that.

There's not really any problem here. The image file data sent to the drive has been corrected on-the-fly (by the drive) during burning and you can't really avoid that. (not with ImgBurn anyway as it doesn't support the 'RAW' writing mode) If the disc doesn't play then it might well be a protection issue and again, ImgBurn cannot help you with that... and nor can we.

I believe the spare areas are used for defects / sector remapping etc. I don't know much about it. The error isn't a good sign, what discs are you using? I've never had such an error when using my verbatim bd-re discs and we have the same drive. The drive seems to have a problem with formatting the sectors at the end of the disc (as it failed on 99%). Still, it looks as if the drive did then manage to write all zeroes to the sectors so it's not all bad.

An ISO isn't something you convert, it's something you burn *as is* to a disc, sector by sector. If you have an ISO, burn it in 'Write' mode. You can also mount the ISO in a virtual drive program like DAEMON Tools and then see what's on the disc (i.e. inside the ISO) by just browsing it in Explorer as you would do any other disc.

Maybe it's a size thing. The disc is pretty full there and you're only using the cheapo Ricoh discs. How many times have you tried burning it? Have you tried using a LB position that uses less padding (i.e. so the data going onto the disc is smaller) ?

Sorry, it won't happen.

This isn't really the place for that.

Ok well you can't do anything with 'project' (ppp) files, you need to export the project video etc to a proper movie format - be it an AVI, DVD Video (VIDEO_TS) files etc. I'm not familiar with the tool you're using so I can't help with that. It's probably best that you read the cyberlink help manual or something so you can figure out how to use it properly.

It helps to have the entire log from that burn+verify session.

You're verifying that 8GB disc against a 472MB image - is that on purpose? BIN/CUE files should be burnt to a CD, not a DVD and certainly not a double layer DVD! It's impossible to say that there's any problem when looking at the log above. Yes there are miscompare errors (normally from bad memory or filter drivers messing things up) but it looks like you might just as easily be verifying against the wrong image.

I should have mentioned to set the 'Speed' to 4x and put the 'Show PIE' and 'Show PIF' on 'Block'. In any case, it's not going to solve anything so don't worry too much... just make sure you use the settings above next time you need to scan. Your current ones aren't producing accurate graphs and they're much harder to read than they should be.

It'll burn as much is free. Look in the disc info panel on the right, it tells you everything you need to know about the sizes. BD media has 'preferred' sizes and max sizes. To use max you need to format it without spare areas (option in the settings).

It's pretty obviously that ImgBurn's current 'Build' mode is meant for burning from an existing hdd structure. If / when that changes, it'll do what you want it to. Personally I'd laugh at someone that's got a backup of something twice on a disc. If it's that important you'd have multiple copies on different discs, not the same one.

I'm not going to integrate anything. ImgBurn is designed to work with DirectShow and whatever filters are already installed (or can be installed).

You can't really tell from that. Maybe you can bring up properties (right click) on the source box. Some filters will offer a little info / about / configuration box. I guess the quick way to test is to see if you can uninstall dc bass source and then open the flac again. If it doesn't work then there's no chance it can be anything other than dc bass!

They both burnt and verified fine and both booktyped to DVD-ROM... so it's a bit weird that one works and the other one doesn't. Scan both discs via the PIPO function in DVDInfoPro (using the same drive - probably the liteon) and post those screenshots for us please.

It looks like you opened a wav file there - going by the 'source' box?

That FAQ entry is nothing to do with what's going on here. You should set it back to Automatic if it's not on that now. Can you burn single layer discs ok or is the drive now useless for both? Maybe you damaged it during the move to/from your friends house.

open a flac file in graphedit, if it loads the dc-bass source filter then that's the one ImgBurn will be using too.

They're not supposed to play ISO images, they play the content of it. Once the ISO has been burnt to a disc it ceases to be an ISO image. i.e. ISO image containing a VIDEO_TS folder becomes a disc containing a VIDEO_TS folder once it has been burnt. It appears to me that you don't quite understand that whole concept. You've been thrown off course by the muppet that made an ISO containing the AVI files. That's just not how things are supposed to be packaged up - because it throws people for six and unless you've got a DivX capable player the disc wouldn't work. The AVI's should have just been compressed into a zip or rar file.

It is indeed useless until rpc1.org gets fixed properly. Google is useful too though, just search for 'UJ-841S firmware' or something similar. As that's a laptop drive you should just go to the website of whoever made it and download the one for your model of laptop.

Correct, Windows XP's built-in burning only supports CDs. DVD burning is new in Vista.

Opening in WinRAR etc is the same as mounting the image in DAEMON Tools and browsing the virtual drive, or burning to a disc and browsing the disc. All of those methods let you see the content of the ISO. Where had you been reading about ISO files in the first place?! They seem to have got you in a right muddle. The whole point is that you shouldn't need to convert anything that's in an ISO. It's already going to be in the format it's supposed to be. You wouldn't (normally) get an AVI file in an ISO (hence no need to extract the AVI, convert to DVD Video and then burn), you'd only get a playable DVD Video ISO (i.e. with a VIDEO_TS folder and IFO/BUP/VOB files).