dbminter

I also use Reflect, and their mri files are probably proprietary, too. In fact, I think you recommended it to me way back in Version 4. OT, 7.2 was released yesterday. Seems if you have the updated CBT enabled, your system shutdown and restart times are longer. I've noticed longer restarts and I do use CBT.

I believe the Acronis TIB file type is a proprietary one. So, you'd need Acronis installed to mount those files. Hence, I don't think they'd work as virtual machine images.

Ah, now that I hadn't thought of. I can see where you'd need an ISO of something that large for a case like that.

And what would you do with a 275 GB ISO? It would only fit on a 512 GB flash drive or stored on a HDD.

You should build to image files whenever possible. While it will work from one optical disc to another as you say, there's a higher likelihood that a read error from the source disc will result in a useless target disc. If you create to an image file first, if there's a read error, you haven't wasted a writable disc.

Isn't this the way it always works? After I posted the above, I attempted to build another "hybrid" DVD DL. However, I couldn't, but it was entirely explainable. The VIDEO_TS spanned both layers, nearly 5 GB, and the other additional files were about 3.5 GB. This resulted in a Build job that was roughly 99% of the available space. My experience with building DVD DL discs has been that when you have contents that exceed roughly 95% of the available space, the unable to find a layer break End Of The World error occurs. Which is what happened here.

I do these kinds of things a lot with ImgBurn. In fact, I just did one today. And they're generally this type of situation, where the VIDEO_TS doesn't span layers. I've not had any issues with them, even when the VIDEO_TS does span both layers and there are other container video files.

Did this mastering software create an ISO you're trying to burn with ImgBurn? If so, that software may have made an invalid ISO file. Your best bet is to use ImgBurn's Build mode and make your own image file with the VIDEO_TS and the MP4, if you're not doing so already. If the mastering software didn't make a VIDEO_TS file and only made the ISO, you'd have to extract the VIDEO_TS from the ISO for using in Build mode. You can do that with either something like UltraISO or mount the ISO as a virtual drive with any of a number of utilities.

Wow, is Google Chrome's installer really screwed up! You download and install the 64 bit version of Chrome... and it installs it into Program Files (x86)!

If this error is being returned by the mastering software and not ImgBurn, I'd just ignore it. If ImgBurn is not returning this error, the resulting image should be fine. If ImgBurn is saying this, again, I can't see why it would.

HL-DT-ST indicates the drive is an LG. Why the LG tab wouldn't work I couldn't tell you.

What exactly do you mean by a hybrid DL DVD? Do you just mean a mixture of VIDEO_TS folder and this MP4 file? I can't see why a layer break should matter here. Well, it might, I suppose, depending on the size of the MP4 file. How big is it? About this Layer 1 message you got. You say it comes from the program you used to master the VIDEO_TS? So, I don't see the point. As long as ImgBurn doesn't complain, it shouldn't matter. Since VIDEO_TS is less than 4 GB, a layer break shouldn't matter. And, as I said before, I can't see why ImgBurn would complain about this job.

If it's anything like my HL BD drive, the HL-DT-ST BD-RE BU40N A102, in Write mode, right click on the target drive in the drop down list of available drives while it has selected your drive in question. Towards the end, there's a Change Book Type option. Try that and see if that does the trick. I've never used it before so I don't know.

I'm guessing he has an autoloader that is not being recognized. Or, rather, it detects it's "there" but is not assigning a drive letter to it in ImgBurn.

What exactly is Padding and what determines how much Padding is added? I ask because I had a DVD-9 VIDEO_TS job that was just barely over a DVD-5. Something like 4.9 GB. However, the resulting image file created was just under 8 GB. I was wondering why about 3 GB of padding was necessary for such a job. Thanks!

Have you actually tried booting this disc? Just because it doesn't have an autorun in its root directory doesn't mean it won't boot. And what exactly are you trying to make? What do you want booting from this disc?

Hm, so they do offer their Life Series on their web store. Well, you probably just wasted your time and money if you bought the Life Series ones off of the Verbatim store. If it says Life Series, regardless of where you get it, it's CMC media. The branded ones are AZO, which is good stuff, too, like the DataLife Plus series.

I don't think the Verbatim online store sells the Life Series media. I believe you will only find AZO and DataLife Plus media there. I didn't see anything labeled Life Series there. And I believe Life Series is just the media that Verbatim sells in stores. It's more likely to reach mass penetration so they sell the cheaper stuff there to maximize profit.

Yeah, I think the forum search function doesn't work for anything that is 3 characters or less. There's a minimum number of characters a search must be given before it will perform it.

One thing I've noticed about rewritable DVD media beyond 4x rated top write speed. It seems once you exceed 4x, the lifespan of a rewritable disc is considerably less. I've been using 4x Ritek DVD-RW and 8x Ritek DVD+RW for years now. The 8x discs I get about 20 writes out of before they die. I'm getting dozens out of my 4x discs. So, why is this the case? Is it a difference between how DVD-RW and DVD+RW are constructed? Or is it more down to highest rated speed? That 8x is more inherently "unstable" than 4x media. Thanks!

The write speed is determined by the write descriptors on the disc. So, if the available lower speed is not present in the write strategies, I doubt the drive will burn the disc at anything slower than its slowest write descriptor. In Write mode in ImgBurn with one of these discs inserted, check the pane of information on the right hand side. It should tell you what the slowest acceptable burning speed is. As for the Verify error, that's probably because you're using cheaper Ritek media or your drive doesn't like them. Try Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO CD-R's and see what you get.

I wonder why there are different entries on that one disc example I posted.

There's apparently a difference between the Manufacturer ID and the Disc ID. I put in a blank Verbatim DataLife Plus DVD-R and noticed this: Pre-recorded Information: Manufacturer ID: MCC 03RG20 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded): Disc ID: 0@P-!-00 So, what's the difference between the Manufacturer ID and the Disc ID? I guess the better question is what is the Disc ID? The Manufacturer ID is obvious.

Unfortunately, CMC seemed to buy the Taiyo Yuden good brand name and proceeded to slap their crap media with its good name to trick people. Now, I've not seen any discs since TY closed up shop and CMC bought their name, so, maybe, though I doubt it, CMC is shipping decent quality media. Most likely, it's the same old CMC crap with a good name slapped on it. Check in ImgBurn for the Disc/Manufacturer ID. In Write mode, look for a DID/MID field in the right hand side pane of ImgBurn and copy and paste it. If it says CMC, it's probably typical CMC However, DID's can be faked with anything the manufacturer wants to put in there. I wouldn't put it past CMC to slap a Taiyo Yuden DID on their cheap crap CMC media. There's an old Spanish saying: "The cheap comes out expensive." Verbatim DataLife Plus costs more but it's worth it. Plus, it's only just a little over 50 cents a blank! I can remember paying $14 a blank 16 years ago for quality Panasonic DVD-R. It's up to you whether you want to use cheap media. But, cheap media tends to be unreadable, sometimes even after less than a year, after it burns. Plus, a successful burn is no guarantee a CMC disc will be readable by a particular brand of player. I had some CMC's to use as temporaries for someone to view, being only a $10 stack of 10 DVD+R. The person I made these home movies for couldn't get them to play in their DVD player because they were CMC crap. Actually, you shouldn't need the silver shiny media if you're never going to write a label on to them. The branded media will do and it's probably cheaper.