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I've done all I can do now, the rest is out of my area of expertise.

The 'Device Not Ready (Cannot Read Medium - Incompatible Format)' message you're getting in the status bar shows the drive doesn't support the discs. You're lucky your drive gives you that much of a clue, normally it'll just say 'Device Not Ready (Medium Not Present)'. You need a new drive if you want to use those discs.

DO NOT use Build mode to burn the image, it's for something totally different. You need Write mode and you also need to get discs that your drive supports properly.

I had a go at speeding up the ' It's quite noticable when previewing from slow media - i.e. direct from an optical drive. The real reason for the delay is that when you press those , >> buttons and the video is playing, the program defaults to playing all the buffered data (note: this is nothing to do with my recently added 64k read buffer - which is now 32k btw). I've told it not to do that now so you should find it's much better. (attachment removed)

If the log window has been closed, open it again via the 'View' menu. You should leave it open really, it contains a lot of important / useful / interesting information.

I think a lot of the sluggishness comes from extra code put in to analyse the stream a bit before playback starts - maybe to find/buffer audio streams, I dunno. The horizontal lines are probably because the source material is interlaced.

Not in ImgBurn you didn't! lol Maybe you just had a 10 second 1st cell on the last disc you really looked at?!

To be honest, I think all the prev/next buttons should have been broken! The 'seek' functions were all using the wrong value for the current sector.

The project doesn't have to include files, you can just have it so it configures all the settings.

What drive is it exactly? Please copy + paste everything from the log window.

There's no way in hell that drive has a proper write strategy for those discs. They're quite new and the drive is ancient.

Ok, try this one... (attachment removed)

You've already got an image there, why aren't you following the 'how to burn an image' guide?!

Check the description of the item you're buying? Get them from www.svp.co.uk The verbatims are

I'm sure I mentioned this before... playing is not the same as decoding to be put on a disc. You can play a 48kHz file as-is, you can't burn anything other than 44kHz. PM me a good email to send you a beta version to and then you can examine the raw output in the same way I did. What you have to understand is that ImgBurn is at the complete mercy of DirectShow. ImgBurn is just telling DS which file to process and then capturing the decoded bytes, there's no clever conversion code in ImgBurn or anything.

Getting an I/O error means it could be something totally different that's making it fail on his pc. Can you post his log?

Cell '1' (cell before the LB) has always been there in full, the previewer just jumps in at the 2nd of the two though. I'll look into the step back issue.

The files shown in SoundForge sound identical (well, to my ears anyway ). So yeah, I cannot reproduce the problem. As ImgBurn lists that the ACM Wrapper filter is being used, it means some *.acm (Audio Codec Manager) file is being added to the mix (rather that just pure DirectShow filters). Assuming your filters are the same as mine, I guess it can only be some difference in the ACM filters that we both have installed. Can you get a screenshot / listing of what yours are? You can use this tool - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/installed_codec.html Turn off the video/directshow ones in the options (or view?) menu.

Ok, here's 1.1.3.0. I had a little look at why it might be moving and I think it's because the window is initialised in the top left corner of the screen and then gets moved later on. I've tried to move it sooner now but as I never noticed the problem in the first place I don't know if it'll be any better or not! This one also includes a 64k read buffer so it should play ok from optical drives now. I also made the info window default to snapping to the top left corner of the main window rather than popping up at 400 x 400! (attachment removed)

Try something like Nero Recode. ImgBurn is just a burner, it won't shrink/convert anything video related for you.

The asapi.dll isn't enough, you need the sys file and/or vxd too and again they both need to be registered properly as an admin user.

I'm sure that whatever it does is just the same thing you've been trying. All these methods require you to be admin to change a setting or install another driver than can then be accessed by (or allow access to) 'normal' users. I have to assume this is a work pc or something and so that's not likely to happen. Course the easiest thing would just be to reset the local admin password via any number of the available dos tools, install the drivers and be done with it!

define 'DVD collection' ?! ImgBurn cannot read protected discs - which is what all DVD movies are. For 'normal' or burnt discs, you can of course use 'Read' mode. There's no direct support for the changer in read mode. What you have to do is write a batch script and use another CLI tool that can change the currently mounted media and then call ImgBurn via CLI to do the reading. I'm pretty sure I've read about this all being automated in existing freeware programs - on one of the AV forums on the internet.

Only administrators have write permissions on the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE' branch.

I'll see what I can do