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Try a lower speed instead of MAX (8x). You have 2.4x and 4x available supported write speeds. Clean the drive laser with a cotton bud and some rubbing alcohol.

ImgBurn in no way made the menu you talk about. It is impossible this thing as it lacks this kind of feature. As you say you are using Video REDO to alter the original source, I can think that this program creates that menu, so look in settings of it to disable the menu creation.

Where is the log? Read the pink box above.

Try also 8x. Try cleaning the laser with a cotton bud and some rubbing alcohol. If no joy, you need a new drive. It is recommended to avoid replacing the drive, better get one normal drive and put it in an external enclosure.

I won't argue, but isn't necessary to be burned at that date. Could be a copy of that disc that was produced more recently and retained the original date of the files/folders. Especialy when is a copy not a rebuild. Anyway, good that is still readable.

No. You need to reauthor and combine the content with some other program.

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Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc if you have one or manual if you know. Try a higher speed. Try discs from a different spindle to rule out the bad batch.

Are you sure? http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/3186/tdkt.png The image is too small to see what you highlighted there, anyway. Please, look again and pay attention this time. He used TDKBLD-RFB-000 while in the list of Sony is RBD as I already mentioned in my post as not that flavour.

Sure it's your burner. It dosen't like that discs. Isn't mentioned in the list that Sony claim it should work, though some TDK is in that list but not that flavour. An updated firmware that may add more media to support isn't available at the moment. Here's the list, hope it will guide you in your purchase. https://www.sony-optiarc.eu/uploads/media/BDX-S600U_media_list.pdf

If you are still using single layer discs don't bother to continue with this splitting thing. It's for double layer discs. As I told you before, if the source folder is bigger than the space available on the disc don't bother burning it to disc. Just redo the encoding to a custom lower bitrate to not exceed the disc capacity. Use the calculator and add 10 minutes to the running time of the source file, see what comes out. Also, use one of the available write speeds. 2.4x isn't available. Remember, this is for double layer disc so if you want to know more about it and how to deal with this, read this. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=6376

The DVD 4.3 GB and all the settings on Auto in DVD Flick shoud work just fine in general. Don't mess with them if you don't know what's what. The source file size don't matter here. It could be a 700 MB avi and still end as full DVD after conversion. Use the calculator only if you want the disc to be full to the brim. DVD Flick leaves a ~200MB tollerance hence it use the target DVD 4.3 GB when it should be DVD 4.5 GB as the real capacity of the disc.

If the source files are in PAL ImgBurn has nothing to do with that and can't change the format. ImgBurn is a burning tool, it burns whatever you want. What goes in is what comes out. You need to prepare your files in the correct format you want before the burn. Anyway, what's the problem being in PAL? Modern players can play both formats.

I don't know why it gets you a bigger image than you set the target. That's the reason why I suggested to split the proces in two parts. After the conversion you can see the size and decide to burn or not. If the VIDEO_TS folder size is bigger than the space available on disc you shouldn't bother burning the disc. Yes, you can try to squeeze a few MB with overburning but not so much. Try with Target size to Custom instead of DVD (4.3 GB) and set Custom size 4300 (leave all the rest on Auto) to see if that makes it in target or miss it. If the Custom size do a better job than you can use the calculator I linked you to calculate the bitrates according to the running time of movies.

Leave those settings on AUTO. Selecting a low bitrate will make the image small (low quality image) while selecting high bitrate (better/best quality image) will ignore the standard DVD size, that's why your images are bigger. Leaving it on Auto will try to use the space available and will not exceed it. Image quality will depend on source image quality and running time. The more time you want to squeeze into a disc the lower the quality. That's always time vs quality. The highest bitrate (best quality) will give you ~60 minutes on a DVD. Standard bitrate will let ~120 minutes on a DVD (this is also stated on disc or package of discs). A bitrate calculator for your use http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm Also you can read here what's a DVD 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD On the last screen, untick Burn project to disc. You will find the converted files in the Project destination folder in "\dvd" folder. There should be a VIDEO_TS folder with a bunch of IFO BUP VOB files. Using VLC you can open the file VIDEO_TS.IFO (that's the DVD starter) that will load the files and play it as disc (and with MENU if you make one). Windows Media Player should play it too. 25 fps on your speciffication should be a good encoding speed, I think. Almost realtime. NTSC uses 30 fps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC

This process consists from two parts. First the convertion than the burn. ImgBurn is just called up to do the burn part. You can't blame ImgBurn for the work of DVDFlick. Remember that you transcode a file from one format to other. Different formats have different amount of running time/space occupied. If you don't set the parameters in DVDFlick to target a DVD (4.3 GB) I guess it will use the standard compression (~120 minutes/DVD 5). The running time according to IMDB is 135 min so you have 15 min above the DVD 5 standard time compression, hence why your image is bigger. Again, you can set this in DVDFlick to force it to target the output to a DVD 5 capacity making DVDFlick squeeze the whole 135 min in less than 4.5 GB (with ~200 MB tolerance). Don't use custom size. I suggest that you do this process in steps so untick Create ISO image and Burn project to disc. This way you can verify the output files and play them in a software player before you decide to burn them to disc. Use this guide to burn the output files to a disc http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=1778

Try a higher speed. 6x and 8x are available.

On a core 2 duo and 4 GB RAM shuldn't take so long the convertion. Probably your system is screwed up or something hogs your system. (Lots of codecs and filters installed, that interfere in the process, maybe.) Disable temporary your antivirus while convetring. That I/O Error basicaly means your drive don't like the disc you're using. Try a cleaning disc in that drive. Try a lower speed rather than MAX (as seen in that screen). A full log is much better than a screen. You can also give DVDStyler a try instead of DVDFlick.

There is a limitation in XP that can't acces partition larger than 137 GB. Windows XP with at least SP1 slipstreamed should have no problem. In that guide there is a link to a KB article where it explains the simptom: When you try to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) from a Windows XP SP3 ISO or CD that has been manually slipstreamed, your product key is not accepted. Down the page states there is no problem with SP1 and SP2 so you should try making a disc with at least SP1 and try with that. Use your full retail (not the upgrade) disc with SP1 or SP2 and it should work. As an advise, try removing from the computer all the components connected (pci cards, USB pendrives, printers etc.) leaving only the minimum components thats needed to boot up the computer.

As you see 2.4x is not a supported speed so don't bother. Try 8x than 6x since 4x was already used. A cleaning disc my also help. Update ImgBurn to current version.

ImgBurn is a burning tool. No converting, no transcoding. You need to prepare your files according to what type of disc you want. DVD Flick does a good job, you just need to make the setting to output to a single layer DVD 4.7GB if you only have that kind of discs. Dual layer discs DVD 8.5 GB are more expensive. I don't know what you say about watching a movie with VLC turns it into avi thing. Probably just changes the extension not realy convert it but I don't now why this happens and is not related to this forum

Ctrl+A should select all files from that folder. Click on first file than Shift+click on the last file will select all the files in that range. Ctrl+click on file will individualy select the files you click. Hope that helps. DO NOT Ctrl+click or Ctrl+A and click the files again because a slight move of a file or a selected range will make a copy of them in the same location. It's Windows behaviour. You are using an outdated version of the program.

You need to rebuild the disc. Mount the image in a virtual drive. Use "write files/folders to disc" to add first the VIDEO_TS folder from the mounted image than add what you want. Burn to disc or make an image.

Uninstall those and try these. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=5555&&do=findComment&comment=91374