Downdude

Sweet!!! I think I'll have to make a donation now. Ok, donation sent. You really earned your money this time.

If it converts mp3 files directly into CD Audio format to play in a normal CD Player I have no idea how you are supposed to do that. I didn't even think that build mode worked for burning cdr. So how would someone go about doing this?

It starts out at 2.4x speed and then it slows down. I saw it drop as low as 1.7x but it was on 1.9x most of the time. It took about 26 minutes. I don't know why it burns slower than 2.4x with nero but slower is probably better than faster for these old discs. Oh and btw, thanks for making such a great burning app! I use it for everything except making audio cds from mp3s. part of the nero log: 8:04:07 AM #19 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 8372 Drive: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203B Book Type request [TSST]: DVD-ROM Changing the Book Type was finished successfully, return code 0 8:04:07 AM #20 CDR -1207 File DVDR.cpp, Line 6477 Book Type automatically set to: DVD-ROM 8:04:07 AM #21 Text 0 File DVDPlusRW.cpp, Line 675 Start write address at LBA 0 DVD high compatibility mode: Yes 8:04:07 AM #22 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 269 Pipe memory size 83836800 8:30:12 AM #23 Text 0 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 113 <U: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203B> start writing Lead-Out at LBA 2000390 (1E8606h), length 0 blocks 8:30:35 AM #24 Text 0 File DVDPlusRW.cpp, Line 935 EndDAO: Last written address 2000400 8:30:35 AM #25 Phase 37 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1762 Burn process completed successfully at 2.4x (3,324 KB/s)

SB04 didn't make any difference. I guess since I don't have that many of these discs left it wont matter soon. Strangely I tried one of these discs in Nero and it gave a warning that the disc was not in the burner's write strategy list, as mmalves said, and then it defaulted to 2.4x. The actual burn went at 1.9x though and not 8x so I'm not sure what nero did differently but I guess I'll just use it for these older discs till they are gone.

Oh and thanks for the info about the log files. So here is the log for the 2.4x maxell disc: I 16:15:16 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started! I 16:15:16 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 16:15:16 Total Physical Memory: 2,096,168 KB - Available: 1,436,680 KB W 16:15:16 Drive F:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 16:15:16 Initialising SPTI... I 16:15:16 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 16:15:17 Found 1 DVD

Um the point was that i was not trying to burn them at 8x. That's the bug. I tried to burn at rated speed and imgburn instead burned at 8x. Look at the first screen shot it clearly shows write speed at 2.4x but the write rate was at 8x. I do not want to burn them faster.

I was trying to use up some really old media I had packed away and when I tried to burn an iso at 2.4x on a Maxell 2.4x rated disc it burned at 8x. I tried a TDK 4x rated disc at 4x and it also burned at 8x speed. The maxell disc failed verify with unreadable sectors but the TDK survived ok. I never had issued with my old 4x burner and older versions of imgburn with these discs. maxell screenshot: TDK ibg: Here's the TDK's log because I didn't save the other one: I 01:40:50 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started! I 01:40:50 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 01:40:50 Total Physical Memory: 2,096,168 KB - Available: 1,470,412 KB W 01:40:50 Drive F:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 01:40:50 Initialising SPTI... I 01:40:50 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 01:40:50 Found 1 DVD