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You have a 4GB VOB file?! You might like to look into what you're doing a bit more. Clearly you're not quite there yet.

It's probably something in the settings. Perhaps the location of the logs / ibg / ibq files? It certainly wouldn't just make it for fun! EDIT: hang on, I remember now, it's from 'DVD Flick' cus the author didn't make the imgburn settings ini file properly! His name is Dennis Talk to him about it, it's his problem, not mine really.

Nah, most of them are the same thing. It's a heavily 'optimised' disc with loads of duplicates that only exist in one physical location but are referenced from loads of different folders. The actual size if you add all the files up comes to 25GB or something. The image is only 4gb.

Enable 'Verify' when you burn so the program checks the discs are actually readable. When you look at the burnt disc in explorer, do you have 'AUDIO_TS' and 'VIDEO_TS' folders in the root of the disc?

lol 270,000 files, 10,000 folders. No wonder it takes a while!

16x is only reached at the end of the disc. The quality of the media also plays a part. The drives are clever and will slow themselves down if they think the burn quality isn't up to scratch. So you need to be burning a FULL disc, AND onto decent media to get the full 16x / 18x etc.

Yes, that's it's function - unless the image file is split into multiple parts, in which case it'll also tell the program how to reconstruct it (by listing all their names). I urge you NOT to change the layer break setting to 'Manual' and instead to just use the .DVD for the purpose it was intended.

You don't ever need to touch the manual layerbreak selection option. Jeez I wish people would update their guides! If the program detects a .DVD file of the same name as the ISO you open, it'll prompt you to open the .DVD instead. It will always actually do that itself automatically and will prompt you when it's done it. If there's no .DVD to be found, obviously it won't prompt. The .DVD file contains the LB info needed to burn the image correctly. The two are a pair of files, you shouldn't delete either one of them.

That's because the drive can't write to the disc at all. It's erroring out at the very first 'Write' command. You're actually quite lucky they're still ok to use!

Nope, no circles there! Search for one of the LBA addresses mentioned and you'll see it only comes up once. What you've got there is a disc with probably thousands and thousands of files on it. The seek time on a CD is quite slow and so it doesn't get to read many per second - hence it takes ages. If you could send me the first 25mb (compressed!) of the image, I'll see if I can tweak it. (5mb is normally enough but this disc is out of the ordinary). Other than that, just leave it going and it'll eventually finish.

These are hardware issues. The software doesn't even come into it.

Buy Verbatim DVD+R DL discs, the rest are useless in comparison. Burn at 2.4x Check for any firmware updates too.

Press F8 and get me a debug log please. The drive is probably just messing up processing a command.

Looks like you're just getting bad burns with that drive. Try it on another PC and try another drive on your PC.

Perhaps it's a heat related problem then?

Does it burn and verify ok? The LB looks ok. It's bitset to DVDROM. After that, it's not really an ImgBurn issue I'm afraid. All I'd personally say to do is ditch the Ricoh discs and start using Verbatims. Buy the MKM-001 dye ones (2.4x speed) and burn them at 2.4x. You should also update your firmware. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=2238

Your mate is using verbatim discs... I can't see what you're using. Other than that, everything looks fine. A log of the burn would help though.

You shouldn't believe everything you read. Things change! No, your problems shouldn't be Vista related. The errors should be coming directly from the drive itself. The image / software being used / OS have nothing to do with anything. This is purely a hardware / media issue.

If you look at the log, you're actually on the x.57 firmware. http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=2017 Update to the x.58 one from the same family. (Probably this one http://www2.melcoinc.co.jp/pub/hd/dvmrdm16fb_fw858.exe )

Switch to Verbatims and your problems will go away. They cost a bit more, but at least they work Try the 1.21 firmware update too.

If you think you've messed up a setting, uninstall and reinstall. Your settings will get wiped out and you'll be back up and running again. However, if you want us to tell you which setting is killing things, you'll need to get us a screenshot of the 'Build' tab in the settings and probably one of the 'Options' tab when you're in build mode too. It could also just be a case of you hitting the wrong button when prompted on what you wanted to do with the files you'd put in the 'Source' box.

$700.... yeah ok!

No, that line doesn't mean what you think it does. It's simply a generic term. I can only assume one or more of your filter drivers are messing things up and making that API call fail in the way that it is. Obviously I don't know what software you actually use on your PC, but I'd be inclined to remove the following two filters: sscdbhk5 drvmcdb On the other hand, try turning off all the CD/DVD related tools you have running - they'll probably be sitting in the system tray.

Please feel free to email me any small (i.e. the 5k ones) .GI files. I'll examine them and tweak the .GI parsing code. The address can be found in the program's 'About' box.

Windows is erroring out so there must be something wrong with your setup. Do you have any odd programs running? Maybe some packet writing software? Can you please post your filter driver info (look in the 'Tools' menu).