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That's not the same alert really, it's warning you to the presence of 'PUA/opencandy', where PUA stands for potentially unwanted application or addon I assume. That one is meant to be there (OpenCandy that is). You'll need to take charge of your AV software, tell it to allow the file, install it and just be sure to read the wizard screens properly so you only install what you want to install. OpenCandy inserts extra pages in the wizard that offer you 3rd party software. If you don't want what it's offering, just opt out of installing them. You can always opt out.

Go into read mode and click on the button that shows the media info. ImgBurn will show you the cdtext info if it's on the disc.

There's a plugin to let windows media player read cdtext. Yes, they look up the details in a database. Hardware devices that support cdtext will show it if it's encoded on the disc. If it isn't or they don't, they won't.

That file is not the one from the ImgBurn mirror listed on the ImgBurn website's download page. What you've got there is a 'downloader' - as can be seen from the file name. Do not run it, go and get the correct file from mirror 7, the 'ImgBurn' one.

If your drive can't burn those discs at either of the speeds it claims to support them at, you'll have to buy some different discs.

Nope, you can use Explorer to copy from the stick to a folder though.

Verify can't cause issues, it finds them!

Your drive is producing an unreadable disc. It's nothing to do with what you're burning or how much you're burning, it's just one of those things with the drive/firmware/media combo you're using. Try installing the latest firmware and give it another go. http://www.tsstodd.com/eng/firmware/fwdownload/?functionvalue=view&no=812 If it still doesn't work, try different 'supported' write speeds (notice 2x isn't even an option so it's using 16x) and try different discs.

Is it not on the 'open with' one if nothing else? It should fix itself if you run it once as admin and close it down again. That menu option might make it a bit easier but you can always just load the program and click the 'write image file to disc' button. Browse for your source file and then burn away.

That's what your drive is reporting and that's all it can go by. Was there nothing else in that window? Were you in Write mode? Find some different CDRs and see if the drive reports the correct size for those.

It's ok, I just mentioned ISO files because your initial post said you'd burnt those ok. Had to make sure we're comparing apples with apples There's no reason your drive would have worked for those but not for what you're burning now - assuming the same discs were used etc. Although you haven't provided the burn log, it looks like you burnt the disc at max speed (8x). Try burning at 4x instead.

So you had the same problem in safe mode? Can you do anything to the 'mode' of your sata controller in the bios? Try the ide/ compatible/ahci type options. If you have access to another drive, try that instead of your current one. Have amd released any driver updates for you controller? Not a fan of anything non Intel myself.

No. It depends on what your drive actually supports.

I very much doubt 1x is an option for your drive/firmware/media combo. Are you verifying your burns when you burn the ISO files? You aren't going to have run into this issue unless you are - the burning phase itself is completing without error. DVD-A should be fine. Your drive doesn't know or care what's on the disc. Data is data.

It'll support anything your system can decode. It's all down to the directshow filters you have installed.

This isn't related to what you're putting on the disc, the disc is just unreadable. What speed did you burn it at? Regardless, your drive did a bad job of burning the disc.

How many successful burns have you had with your current hardware / software setup? As the program says it's attempting to write the LeadIn, I'd say your machine/drive isn't processing any of the 'Write' commands at all. Boot into safe mode and see if you have the same problem. I'd also suggest installing the current version of ImgBurn and copying ImgBurn.exe into the DVDFlick installation folder - as the one it bundles is very old now. Once you're on the current version, load it up and go into Write mode. Right click on the drive selection drop down box and pick 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window please.

The 'Underburning' checkbox on the General tab in the Settings should take care of that. It'll obviously turn off all such prompts where a smaller than current disc could be used for the selected image though - you've been warned

Post the log of that burn please.

It burnt and verified ok, so I can't see there being a problem with it really. Maybe the OS just hasn't noticed the contents of the disc have changed. Eject it, reboot and insert it again.

Does the disc verify ok after the burn or have you disabled that step? It would be nice to see the log.

I'd say it's just having trouble reading the disc.

All you need to do and should be doing is feeding the video_ts folder into ImgBurn's Build mode. If you're burning direct to disc and click the calculate button, it should prompt you to select a layer break position - assuming your video_ts folder is large enough to spam both layers of the disc. If you run into a problem when doing that, post the log so we can see what's happening.

It finds the opencandy plugin used by the installer. You can read about opencandy on their website. It's an advertising plugin for installation programs. If you don't want what it offers you, opt out of installing said 3rd party apps.

That's something external to ImgBurn then.