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lol yup you were very unclear if that's what you were trying to say in your first post! I would say the 'leading to less padding and no missing audio data' still applies even if the 'gaps' part doesn't. I guess it could be fine tuned if the user really doesn't want to wait the extra 30 seconds.

I didn't expect my latest release to fix your *glitch*, but it probably did fix a few other little things.

It's not decoding to wav, it's decoding to PCM. That may or may not mean it just strips the wav header off. Not all wav files are 44khz, 16bit stereo remember! I let DirectShow decide.

Who's to say anyone would understand what PTP and OTP means?! I guess I could turn the error into an essay

Fastwrite doesn't really guarantee that the 'write' will be successful or that everything gets written to the disc. Bits could even be skipped in order to maintain a set speed. By definition it's actually setting the 'Streaming' flag in the 'Write (12)' CDB so errors might be / are ignored. (See MMC specs at www.t10.org for more info) When FastWrite is disabled the drive performs its own verification of the written data as it's written - hence it'll never say a write was ok unless it REALLY is ok. Streaming probably also stops it from reallocating bad sectors etc which would otherwise be taken care of automatically. So basically, unless you REALLY can't stand the additional time needed to burn the disc, I advise people to leave the FastWrite on the default setting of 'Disabled'.

If ImgBurn wouldn't accept the LB in the MDS file then it's because it splits the layers in a way that's not valid for OTP disc burning (i.e. L1 > L0)

Ok, here's another one based on the code I got from jeanl lastnight. (attachment removed)

Get yourself one of the Verbatim BD-RE discs and try that. Report back when you have and we'll take things from there.

Just exactly what files is this winfast thing creating? What are their names? If you're trying to burn a DVD Video disc then the 'structure' must be the same as the commercial discs you're saying it's totally different to.

Just that the sectors are readable.

I'm afraid not.

There is no offset stuff built into ImgBurn, hence the reason for ignoring CD-DA track content by default. It doesn't look at C2 values either. Stick with other tools if you're a hardcore audio enthusiast - at least until I get around to implementing anything offset related (assuming I ever do!).

No, write retries like that are never 'normal'. How is the writing surface of the disc? 100% finger print/dust free?

I'm more interested in the one with directshow overlays disabled - at least it rules that stuff out then! Just to get it straight though, when you 'seek' to a position (either via the buttons or the slider), does the preview window not show the correct frame? Then when you press play the frame goes from being 'right' to being 'wrong' (a squashed section of the screen as shown in your first pic) before then being 'right' again and displaying properly as per the bottom pic?

If it didn't work with a straight forward 'Read' and then 'Write', you're probably not supposed to be making backups of it. We won't help you with this any more, sorry.

I usually find the 'Print Screen' button works quite well That won't work when overlays are enabled though I wonder if the black screen isn't just it seeking to a decent start point. It lets you stop playback anywhere you like but it must search for something before playback begins. That might have something to do with syncing the audio? I no expert on the previewer or its code.

load graphedit and open the file via the 'File' menu.

That's probably just directshow's doing? Try turning the 'don't use overlays' option on in the setting and see if that's any better. As I mentioned previously, I'm stepping though this frame by frame in the capture and what you're describing isn't happening here. It sounds like it should be really obvious but it isn't to me.

Quite often these new boards come with a 3rd party controller - i.e. by someone like jmicron. They're often not as compatible with optical drives as the proper ones (i.e. from intel or whoever makes the chipset - in your case, nvidia). Have you tried updating to the latest nvidia drivers? What about the bios updates? Basically, you shouldn't be getting 'no additional sense information' returned by the drive so it's likely that the real error has gone awol due to some software/hardware issue.

I made a little change to the combobox code that'll hopefully stop it drawing itself over the screen when you click play. (attachment removed)

What controller is that drive plugged in to? Put it on the motherboard's main chipset's sata controller and make sure it's running in SATA/ATA mode and not RAID or AHCI. You should also check for any motherboard bios updates and install the latest chipset drivers from whoever makes the chipset your board uses.

A bin file is probably a vcd/svcd. Converting it to DVD format is not something ImgBurn can do.

Having captured a few videos of me pressing the play / stop button a few times and examining the output frame by frame, I don't think there's much to worry about. *sometimes* the 1st frame (or 2nd/3rd) will be a bit blocky but it's like a 1 in 10 thing (if that). The problem with the black bar appears to come from the audio drop down box. Notice how in Cynthia's screenshot it's directly in line with it? Well these screens show that even more clearly... (This is me single frame stepping btw) I also have to say that I agree with weisborg and blutach, I think you're examining things too closely. The previewer does its job just fine. Hopefully the combobox issue will be fixed and it might even turn out that it's the only flaw you're seeing. I sure didn't notice the picture not being in the correct place when I was stepping frames in my captured video.

Sorry but this is nothing to do with ImgBurn. Try and contact the people that make the program you used to create / author your DVD files.

I guess I didn't think about creating custom track listings from various songs/albums, sorry. Still, I'm sure you've already found a program to let you edit cue files - ImgBurn's 'Create CD CUE File' window is quick and dirty on purpose.