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Any chance you could try with a new (different) spindle of Verbatims? As I say, the Plextor (Pioneer) shouldn't be having any trouble burning them - perhaps you've just got a duff (or fake?) batch? That said, if you can return the drive, I'd probably do that and then buy the real thing - the Pioneer 212. It'll be half the price and you'll get firmware updates from the real manufacturer much quicker than from Plextor.

1. Tell DVDInfoPro (or your capture program) to save in PNG format. The pics looks MUCH cleaner then. 2. Your Plextor drive is actually a Pioneer. Plextor don't make their own drives now. (I believe it's a rebranded Pioneer 212, so it should still be a decent burner on those DL discs) 3. Use the 'Automatic Write Speed' feature to configure those discs to always burn at 2.4x (Read the Guides section!) 4. If you want to do scans, you should really get a proper scanning drive - i.e. a LiteOn. I'm not sure how reliable the Pioneers are. It wrote and verified ok, so I'd say the burn is at least ok for playback in the drive that just burnt it.

Click the 'Mode' menu at the top of the main ImgBurn window. They're your different 'modes'. You'd select the 'Imagexxxxxx1302.gi' going by why you mentioned in your post. Just follow the 'how to burn an image' guide in the Guides forum. It's very simple really.

Sorry, I figured you had the 'Auto' checkbox ticked - where it then kinda presses 'Calculate' for you when you add anything into the 'source' box. It can't perform said calculation until it knows where you want the layerbreak (due to the need for padding etc), that's why it pops up there. It then must also actually pop up before a proper 'build' for the same reason. It will try and select the same one you picked last time, but it still must pop up incase you've changed anything. YES, you select the same one each time (assuming you don't change your mind of course!) The seamless options don't apply during a 'calculation', hence why it's not shown. Yes, seamless will either work or it won't.

Please read the Guides forum, that's what it's there for.

It pretty easy to see the blue coloured 'PI Error' graph is much lower in the first burn you did. You got a max of 20 in that one, rather than 300 in the other scans! You should stick to doing the scanning in the LiteOn drive though. You can't really compare 2 different drives - even if they're the same make/model!

The first box that comes up is due to you pressing the 'Calculate' button, or having that 'Auto' checkbox ticked. That's why I don't! I just have it come up when I actually press the button myself manually. The last option you select (in a series of times where it pops up) is the one that gets used. NEVER Ignore the LB options unless you don't want the program to perform *any* special processing. i.e. the disc will be burnt without any regard for double layer, it'll just be like a huge single layer image.

Check it's not a PAL / NTSC issue either. None of these are burning issues though, it's to do with the source files - which of couse ImgBurn doesn't touch.

lol I was waiting for someone to pick up on that

You've probably got a little one (size wise), just load that one in Write mode and the others will be used automatically.

What's the exact drive make / model / firmware version that you've got? Have you ever used the MKM-001 (Verb 2.4x DVD+R DL) disc before? Perhaps you've just got a duff (fake) batch? There really isn't anything you can do about this issue, it's purely a hardware / media one.

It means your drive can't initialise the disc. See if there are any firmware updates available for it. Oh and make sure it can actually burn double layer discs! Out of interest, which Verbatim DL's did you get? the 2.4x ones or the newer 8x ones?

You can change what you like, it's nothing to do with ImgBurn! ImgBurn is a burning tool, not a conversion one!

Bloody hell Charl, have you ever seen / been into a forum before?! You've created about 5 threads, all of which are useless on their own. Just keep all your crap in one place and it'll make things much easier. The log shows you're burning some sort of AVI file and expecting it to play on your (non divx supporting) DVD player. Yeah good luck with that! Don't download stuff you don't understand and then this won't be a problem.

It's nothing to do with ImgBurn, just forget about that idea and then maybe you'll find the real problem.

ImgBurn's build mode wasn't really designed to flexible in what it burns, it's meant for burning an existing folder structure *as-is*. For backing up individual files here, there and everywhere, you should use a more complete package.

You can't order the data, nor can you use wildcards.

Bad media causes all sorts of problem. The discs not working at all or skipping like mad are just two of them.

And this has *what* to do with ImgBurn? If the drive can't initialise the discs, you're stuck. 1. Look for firmware updates. 2. Clean the drive. 3. Try the discs in another drive to make sure *something* can read them. 4. Get a new drive.

Why not unplug 1 drive so it's out of the equation? Then make sure the NEC is set to 'master' via the jumpers and put it on the end of a decent 80 wire (40 pin) cable.

Try not to be so vague when you ask for help. Guessing what you mean isn't much fun.

There's a setting in Alcohol / DAEMON Tools to hide writable media. Locate it in the settings and just disable it. It's also been covered before here on the forum. If you search you might find it. Closing the programs down isn't enough, it's the drivers that do the cloaking.

lol you can tell you're old when '34' is considered young Happy Birthday!

That's just the drive performing WOPC - 100% normal for Pioneer drives. There's really no need for the 256mb buffer (unless for testing purposes), it just takes RAM away from Windows. 40MB is fine.

yup, toss 'em and buy Verbatim. Your drive is having trouble with your current ones so it makes sense to try some others. If they don't work either, your drive may have died. You could also try running a cleaning disc in it.