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a whatyamaycallit why didn't you say so all this technical jargon is so confusing

I remember the thread about the NAV discs and some wanker on another forum swearing that he made a usable copy of his ptp nav disc with opt media and swearing it worked just fine

hope you didn't pay anyone for it ,its a free program

like its been said the log looks fine but Panasonic had a reputation about being very fussy about what it would and would not play ,the irony is the cheapest players are the ones that play just about everything .Try to play the discs on some other player, I use the 16x mcc-r's and everything plays ok in my sony 725

Happy Birthday DB may all your drives live to be 100

ditch MPC and use either PowerDVD or Media Player Classic its free btw to view your dvds depending on your standalone player it may nor support the media you're burning to ,if your dvd burner supports booktyping then set it to dvd rom but like Shamus says a log is really necessary to see whats going on

Disc ID MCC-003-00 these are excellent they are Verbatim ,you can go to www.digitalfaq.com and do some reading about media quality

try this www.svponline.co.uk

if the burner supports it booktype the discs to DVD ROM ,its the little book icon on the lower right side of the IB window its for better compatibility with standalone players

IMGburn doesn't rip anything its a burning program

try to read the disc on a friends computer and see what you get

post the log from the failed burn, HELP--> IMGburn LOGS

burn proof has always worked for me so I really dont know why you dislike it so much its a positive thing and with it enabled you dont make coasters when and if the burffers empty . If you hate Burnproof so much then go Tools ,Settings ,Write and remove the check from "enable burnproof".Other than checking the boxes that open the tray after read ,write and verify all my settings are default IMGburn works best with defaults Nec makes a very good drive in my opinion and my 3500 just makes great burns time after time I haven't bought another newer one because I'm not going to fix whats not broken I also have a 2500 and it works perfectly also and a Sony dru 510A my first burner and it also turns out beautifull burns .Its a real Sony when they were actually making their own drives Lite ON makes drives for them now that they rebadge Its important to keep your firmware up to date so that it supports the latest media codes and the other little tweaks they make with the newer versions the discs that you say burn ok and can't be read with your player I dont believe is the fault of burnproof ,its usually down to media ,overcompression or a player that might be old enough to not support some of the formats ,its suggested that you booktype your dvd's to dvd-rom for compatibility but the 3500 wont support booktyping SL + meddia although you can use a cracked firmware which will support it www.liggydee.cdfreaks.com If you can burn an ISO and then verify it OK then thats checking the burned disc against the ISO on your hard drive ,you should take note of where on the burned discs you have a problem and then Download Daemon tools ,its a virtual drive which you can mount the ISO in and watch it and see if the errors are in the ISO itself

files ,build mode, write mode, its all covered in the guides forum, when you have selected your file/folder in build mode(device tab ) then in the settings where it shows the burn speed below that is a box for however many copies you want you just feed the blank discs and make sure you dont have delete image checked in the write mode

get some Verbatim + or - or some Taiyo Yuden discs they are the best ,Verbs are easier to find in stores Yudens are online purchase . Ritek just isn't the company they were the last really good media they made were the GO4 4X discs

from a quick Google I think your firmware is really old and updating it might solve your problems the media code you have probably is not listed in your firmware so try to update .Right click on the burner in the IB window and the last line is firmware update click it and follow the prompts . If this is in a lap top computer then you might have to go back to the manufacturers website for firmware

once you have an ISO on your hard drive navigate to the ISO right click on it and "Burn Using IMGburn " its that easy

"Ok, this things are new to me, In the good old days before shit like burnproof was invented I was able to know that a disc that I burned worked or didn't work, now I have to hope that the drive buffer didn't get empty during burns, I'd rather see a failed burn when it happens." I think you're worrying too much ,burnproof is a great feature, before it if the buffers emptied then the disc was garbage, with burnproof the burn is paused untill the buffers recover it starts to burn again and you get a playable disc.Ive tried to burn faster than my computer could handle and the buffers went mad they were filling and emptying every couple of seconds and I still had a perfect dvd I also have an NEC 3500 and its a workhorse it must have over 1000 burns on it by now and I've never had a problem with it . There is a newer firmware available for that drive has been for a good while its 2.1B changing your drive isn't going to make a difference as they are all pretty much the same buffer wise but they are so cheap these days if you do change it out you wont feel the pinch in your wallet

setting it to dvd rom makes the disc more compatible to dvd players it makes the player think that its a store bought dvd, if you look at a store bought it says dvd rom

test mode is a simulated burn and doesn't actually burn anything to a disc .I think without really knowing how this program works you've gone and messed with the settings so do this TOOLS ---> SETTINGS ---> DEFAULTS IMGburn works best with its default settings ,then burn your ISO and you'll be OK

Can you RMA the drive and get a replacement sounds like the drive might be bad . The PSU could be bigger 300w is on the small side, maybe you have a friend running a box with a bigger supply and you could put your drive in it and experiment

when you learn to read things will go much better for you ,the 2 programs were written by the same guy,when you learn to understand all things will be possible but I'm not holding my breath in your case ,thanks for the Friday morning laugh

Happy Birthday Dave ,all the best

same here although I've burned a couple of spindles of Yudens and they're excellent the Verbs are easier to find locally