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Do you get an actual error from ImgBurn? If you do, copy + paste the entire log please. If you don't, there's not much anyone can do. It's probably your drive/media so check for firmware updates and buy better discs.

From what I've seen of ratdvd, it's like the slowest util going, so I/O throughput probably won't be a big issue!

Just so I know exactly what you mean when you say 'crash', are we talking the blue screen of death? Computer basically reboots? If we're just saying the windows gui freezes, you should still be able to see the log window - yes? Go back to the old fashion method of using a pen + paper to write it down! I only need the last few lines, the term 'CDB' should be in one of them, and then its 'Interpretation' (i.e. what it means in english!). If you're getting BSOD, you must have a dodgy driver or something in there somewhere. Does it matter where the IDE drive is connected? i.e. primary / secondary channel - master / slave device. How about a USB -> IDE adapter. Does it still mess up then? Try looking at what filter drivers you have installed by using the freeware util you can find at www.bustrace.com If you get a bsod, you should be able to get a memory dump from windows itself. Probably in C:\WINDOWS\MiniDumps or somewhere like that.

It means your drive can't read what it just burnt. Are you using crappy discs by any chance? Is your firmware on the drive up-to-date?

Well I would guess that Allow means everyone ON the list has access and Deny means everyone NOT ON the list has access. So unless you want to add every MAC Address in the world to the list (other than your own!), I would go with 'Allow'. Of course if this is a per MAC address option rather than a global one (lol global would be shit!), just type in your own ones and select Allow.

If you're after pure (sector by sector) disc to disc copy, you'll have to look elsewhere (stick with nero). ImgBurn can't do it.

Hardly any drives will burn at 1x now on any media. Just look at the 'Supported Write Speeds' text in the info panel on the right. Verify speed isn't anything to do with the burn speed. The program configures the read speed bit at max when it sets the write speed, it also then sets it to max again before the verify for most drives - unless you've specifically set the 'Set Read Speed' option in the settings. If it's reading slowly, either that's all your drive could manage or you don't have DMA enabled. You can change the buffer size yourself, I don't need to do that for you. Just look in the settings.

wpa / wpa2 is the encryption type you want. You then just add a password phrase of 8 - 63 characters. Something like 'ImgBurnRocks!' Just make sure you have recent wireless drivers for your laptops or they might not support wpa. Don't forget the firmware on the router too!

I'd always known this was possible. There were 2 reasons I didn't do anything about it. 1. I couldn't be arsed! There was already checking built in for people typing keys individually. 2. It was a kind of 'feature' so people could override normal ISO9660 limitations. A 'backdoor' if you will. There is of course less of a need for you to copy + paste now as the volume label stuff is automatic if you leave it empty.

An ISO is a complete disc image, you cannot combine them. What you could do is extract the contents, merge them (if possible) and THEN burn your disc. That's out of the scope of this 'ImgBurn' forum though. Search Google.

It's odd that it should fail at the end of the burn like that. That process is performed by the drive itself, not the program / OS. If you're getting rogue error messages, it might be due to a bad filter driver. There's a little tool you can get from www.bustrace.com (for free) that'll list all the filter drivers (i.e. which drivers I/O calls have to pass through) for a given drive. Out of interest, do you always get the exact same error message, and at the exact same point (when it's doing the sync cache bit) ?

I'm amazed you could read those guides and still not work it out. As dontasciime said, you just add the avi files (or the folder they're in?) to the 'Source' box. Then you select your destination and click the 'build' / 'write' button. If you think about it a bit you'll see it's not rocket science!

The same way you make a disc out of any other files... using Build mode. Read the guides forum.

Apps don't normally cause crashes to the system (reboots) so I'm thinking this is a driver problem. Read the FAQ and it'll tell you how to enable debug mode. You can then copy + paste the log when it gets stuck.

The CSS (cascading style sheet) file is part of the website code, it's not part of Firefox (so to speak). If for some reason the connection times out when trying to download the CSS file from the server, the page wont render itself properly. I could probably fix that on the forum for you by making CSS part of the actual page content rather than a separate file. Separate files are good because the browser normally caches them, meaning faster rendering if you visit the site a lot.

Looks like it's missing the CSS file and so it doesn't know how to draw itself.

The DVD -> Play thing is in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DVD If you're talking autorun/play stuff, look at it in the properties of the drive (right click on it in explorer)

Build mode always works by creating a virtual image, be it during the build/write phase or the verify one. Verify is re-reading the files and recreating the filesystem when it does its thing - incase that's what you were worried about? It's not simply checking the disc is readable (like how DVD Dec used to work). In theory yes, if the files hadn't changed and you set all the dates etc the MD5 should be the same.

Oh sorry, I missed that you'd called your file "" '' characters are not allowed in folder / file names.

The CLI log stuff isn't working because the GUI one currently takes preference - and it now defaults to saving all the time, but in a different folder. If you disable auto saving of the log your CLI version will work again. It's impossible to work out exactly what's going on by just looking at that I/O error. Normally that sort of thing comes up if you have the program open twice and they're using the same drive. So dig out the log (you can find the folder if you look in the settings) and then copy + paste it. (or just copy + paste it while the program is still open).

Yes and no! It's not the locking stuff, that's different and hasn't been changed, it's the media change notification stuff. It is a change in v2.1.0.0 because windows never saw the new disc content once the burn had finished. I was getting too many 'explorer won't read my burn discs' support issues so I decided to give explorer more of a chance to refresh the drive.

As windows displays the volume label from the 'best' filesystem, it's not enough to put one in the ISO9660 field and leave out the UDF one - basically, windows wouldn't display a volume label. For that reason, I made the program decided if you'd entered one or not in the exact same way.

If there's no conversion taking place (like AVI -> VIDEO_TS files) then yes, it can do it.

MEDIA_STATUS_UNKNOWN, MEDIA_STATUS_NOT_FORMATTED are also a potential status codes. It should be HD DVD-RAM as that's the new naming scheme, not HD DVD-RW. Also DVD-RW DL, DVD+RW DL exist in the program (not sure if they'll ever actually be made!)

The dialog boxes don't allow for multiple folder selection I'm afraid. It's probably easier to just use drag + drop (or copy + paste) from an explorer window into the box . Oh and the files don't need to be in a video_ts folder, any old folder will do. i.e. just use 'C:\MY_DVD' instead of manually adding all files from the 'C:\MY_DVD' folder.