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I have nothing like that either mate Regards

Rather hard to close the first layer while your busy recording I guess it makes it into 2 SL disks. Really, the format simply stinks. Regards

Yes, other progs are available for SPTI. The prog you are referring to Chewy has a bug, I am sure. Regards

I expect you'll get an error with files too. You may need to split a cell - if so, VobBlanker's the tool for you. Regards

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Anytime mate Regards

Well, really this is a question about how the non-seamless flag works - it's really the reverse. Most, if not all, cell joints are muxed seamlessly - you can't tell there is a cell change if played straight through. This is true also of the cell at the LB. When the cell is marked non-seamless, the player is essentially told to run out the buffers and wait for fresh data. This causes the crappy pause at the LB - and even causes a pause in a single layer DVD if the cell is marked non-seamless. Now, some cells MUST be non-seamless - one example is if a cell command is present, or a cell has still time or is restricted. Another is where the actual sectors being read are non-continguous. But if the sector at the LB is totally contiguous with the previous sector read, generally, you can make the cell seamless, even at the LB. Marking LB cells as non-seamless was a convenient way to allow the player's laser to re-focus on layer 1 and pick up the next bit of data. However, buffers are large enough and modern players are quick enough to get by this, so many players do not need the non-seamless flag to be set. Hope this explains a bit. Regards

did he lay there making toneless noises after drawing on it BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Regards

It's just a long pipe that the aborigines blow into that emits this bloody toneless sound. I thought I caught my son smoking in one, once Regards

If you read it all, we probably won't see you back for a year!! It's pretty boring guff Yes, I can see what you mean about the ID for DVD originals. Puzzled by that one. However, the sectors and reported size are correct. Regards

Re the 196,608. The DVD format specification put out by the ECMA requires this be left free for system stuff like the burst cutting area, the power calibration area, the recording management area and the leadin. After all that crap, the user data recording area can finally begin. This is the only user accessible area on the DVD. So the first phyiscal sector of the data area starts at physical address 196,608, OK? OTP/PTP means the way the way laser changes direction in a dual layer DVD. OTP = start from hub on layer 0, go to outer edge and then go back towards the middle on layer 1. PTP starts from the hub on both layers. ALL DVD-Video is OTP (except single layer disks, which are redundantly coded PTP). Dunno what kinda DVD blanks you got, but all of my single layer DVD+Rs have last sector of data area = 2,491,711. Taking away the 196,607 sectors left for system crap leaves 2,295,104 = the size of a DVD+R = the free sectors reported by ImgBurn (multiply by 2048 to get free space). If you are really interested in all this guff, check out chapters 10, 24 and 25 of ECMA 279 - http://www.ecma-international.org/publicat...ST/Ecma-279.pdf Hope this helps. Regards

There goes another one! But I understand what you mean Take care mate. Regards

@charmed quark Ashes will be ours again in a few days and the poms can actually go home for Chrissie and cancel the rest of the tour. =)) Regards

Yer gunna rival LFC soon, db, for crazy posts if you don't watch out Regards

Burl - Aussie colloquialism for try. But, yes, as in Ives but not in Milton. And here for those who are not Shamus, Ken, zacoz or anyone else from TLDU - http://www.dunway.com/html/aussie_slang.html Regards

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA =)) I'd always wondered why there's no delete button on this forum. Regards

That oughta be enough for the shopkeeper Seriously, he just sends them back to Verbatims saying they are bung and they will chuck 'em out. I strongly doubt he'll be outa pocket. Try it Regards

@LUK I've seen some questions lately about exclusions from thousands of files/folders and thought that in this case, a "-" (exclude) in the IBB might be useful. What's your thoughts on this? Regards

He's a good bloke. Regards

Give it a burl mate. My son has a PS2 and I think SLB works on that. Regards

I think you got it right re DMA - if there is still confusion, see fix your DMA in my signature. Shouldn't be compatibility issues with your controllers. Might be a buncha bad disks, or burner no good or burner don't like them. I feel for you, though. Regards

How's your cabling? Maybe, as corny suggested, slow things down a bit, since you're getting problems. 8x for DL is pretty fast burn. The only good one you've had is at 2.4x (other than 1 at 6x). I'd stick to that. Removing the device won't help with DMA. You need to remove the channel. I suspect it will be better on a DMA enabled IDE channel, although you have indicated this is sub-optimal. Regards

They might is the answer db and I know that is as vague an answer as "I don't really know". You really need to experiment with one and see. I can tell you ALL my SONY players play them no trouble (and SONY is known for being picky about specs) as does my high end NAD. A SLB disk should play in any PC drive of course. As a note - SLB is off spec; the audio buffers run out at the layer break. The verifier programs will compain about a SLB. Some authoring progs even force a non-seamless LB flag by putting in a fake cell command at the LB (sometimes you see this bizarre NOP cell commmand there - it is there to force a non-seamless joint as a joint with a cell command can not be seamless). However, this does not mean that in the practical world, SLB does not work. And to have no pause at the LB is so much better. Regards

Try this - http://bttb.sourceforge.net/ Regards

In any event, that's one the great benefits of UDF - freedom from short files. Since all modern OSs read UDF, I'd switch to that. Regards