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Are you burning an image or a video_ts folder? You're more likely to get multiple options when burning a video_ts folder in Build mode than you are when burning an ISO in Write mode. Yes the layer break often means there's a pause in playback... that's what marking the cell as 'seamless' helps prevent. It really is your call as to whether you should take the seamless route or not. As all the superbit dvds are marked as seamless by default I'd say 'go for it'.

If it installed the boot files on the wrong hdd then you must have the order mucked up physically or in the boot order sequence. Swap the cables around Disconnect D: Install onto C: Plug D: back in and copy everything off it Write zero's to D: before then reinitialising the disc and copying the stuff back.

ImgBurn just wasn't designed with your needs in mind, it was designed to build an image from an existing hdd structure and the current interface is fine for that. When I change it to make it more flexible I'm sure I'll implement some sort of explorer type tree view.

You need to actually post the error or the bit where there is a pause - that bit of the log is normal. Once you've inserted the disc, keep an eye on the statusbar in the main window. It'll tell you what the program is doing and might offer us a clue as to what's going on.

Reading a DL disc doesn't work how you think it does. The drive takes care of the switch between the physical layers, the location of shifted layer break has nothing to do with anything. If you have an error when reading then it should have been picked up on during the verify stage... you did verify didn't you?

There are several apps you can use to do the conversion stuff - ConvertXtoDVD, DVD Flick, Nero something or other etc... I'm sure a search here on the forum or on Google will get you started.

If it doesn't have 'divx' stamped on it somewhere then no, it can't play your AVI file. Yes you'll need to convert it to a proper DVD Video 'VIDEO_TS' folder complete with the normal IFO/BUP/VOB files.

If you set it to never then that's what it'll stay on - unless something else messes with your settings. Lots of programs call on ImgBurn for burning so it's not unheard of. Going between different versions of the program can also make it happen - like if one doesn't support all the values another one does it'll use the default value.

Ah that's clever! Lucky I made the installer save and read the previously selected options from the registry key! You should be careful when pushing out settings though, it's best to just import the ones you actually NEED to change and let the program configure the others.

You're looking at the wrong thing. Joliet is an option in the 'File System' drop down box.

Wow you must buy from expensive places. Even the verbatims are about

1. Sounds like you've enabled 'Preserve Full Paths'. Turn it off again. 2. ImgBurn truncates names according to the file system specs / restrictions. If you want to ignore them then you need change the options on the 'Advanced -> Restrictions' tab. It should be pretty obvious which one you need to change ('Folder/File Name Length').

That's perfectly normal. Samsung drives cannot be queried to find the current settings. ImgBurn takes care of the booktype stuff automatically on those drives anyway so you don't need to do anything.

Formatting for the first time takes a while to do it properly. (So that the 'Formatted' status in the disc info panel on the right says 'Yes'.) Just leave ImgBurn going and it'll finish eventually or error out.

I'm sure that once it's kicked into gear properly it'll write at full speed from ImgBurn too. ImgBurn is only using standard Windows API calls. Sometimes they just need a bit of a hard kick and random accessing can help achieve that! (I have a couple myself)

Shame on cdrinfo for not keeping their pages up-to-date

Don't worry, ImgBurn accepts APE or WAVE for the file type. It's more for internal usage than anything else. Thanks for the error report, at least I have something to go on now!

Update your firmware and try again. A105 is the latest. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/S...px?DriveId=1048 If that still doesn't work, you know to buy Verbatims 2.4x DVD+R DL (MKM-001-00 dye, made in Singapore)

Those discs are protected and nobody here will help you create an image of them. You'll need to go elsewhere for that info.

Sometimes it's good to play 'dumb'. I guess I need another build where it doesn't autoretry on failures, that should make it behave the same way DVD Dec does.

The program isn't going to have anything to do with this issue. If you're not getting video then either the source files are corrupt or you're missing the codecs needed to play such files. Have you actually got DVD Video player software on your PC? Media Player won't work (as standard). Try something like Media Player Classic or VLC. (both freeware)

ok, I've put some more error messages in weird places that could make it fail (silently), can I send you a test version to your forum email address? btw, by the sounds of it, no CUE file will load for you - correct? But you can load other image files just fine?

To rule out any file name weird goings on, could you put those 2 files in the root directory (i.e. C:\) and load it from there please?

Just to be clear, if you load imgburn, switch to Write mode, browse for and select the CUE file - it doesn't do anything? It doesn't appear in the 'Source' box at all?

I've never seen LG drives fail during finalisation on anything like the same scale that Samsung ones do.