dbminter

I recently went through an issue with someone else in another thread over their use of WinCDEmu. It didn't seem that that software was very good. But, give it a shot and you may like it. Although with a name like WinCDEmu, I would question whether it mounts DVD/Blu-Ray images or not. For reading certain discs? I've never used a Plextor drive before so I don't know if they're any better for any particular use. I wouldn't think they'd be any better than anything else for specific purposes. Although some types of drives are necessary for burning XBox copies, but I've never had an XBox so I don't know from experience. Just from what I've read on these boards.

If you're going to use Virtual CloneDrive, it doesn't natively support audio CD's as BIN/CUE as far as I've been able to figure out. It supports .CCD files, so you'd need to add the CCD option to the File Layout in the Read options in ImgBurn so it creates CCD/IMG file sets for mounting in a Virtual CloneDrive virtual drive. Alcohol 120% may not be desirable because it installs an extra layer of software for optical drives that can cause an impact hit to optical disc reading. Interestingly enough, I use both pieces of software, because sometimes ImgBurn won't read certain CD's based on their sessions/gap info, like some Playstation CD's and other discs. Alcohol will read them, so if I ever need those read to an image file, I'll install Alcohol, read the disc to an image, and then uninstall Alcohol.

Yeah, the support of virtual drives natively in Windows 10 is spotty. For instance, I don't think it properly plays audio CD's as BIN/CUE. It does natively support ISO for DVD, though, I think. That's why I use Virtual CloneDrive. Alcohol 120% Free Edition is also a viable option.

So, if you have CCD File Layout checked and ImgBurn saves the BIN as an IMG, will ImgBurn be unable to read a disc with multiple sessions?

Is there a reason that there is no Create CCD File function under Tools because the BIN would have to be renamed IMG? I was wondering because there are Create CUE, DVD, and MDS Tools, but not CCD, even though ImgBurn can create CCD/IMG file sets on reading a CD.

I think audio CD will always create BIN/CUE, unless you have CCD checked under the File Layout. Then, the BIN is renamed IMG. I use CCD for compatibility with Virtual CloneDrive, so I'm not too familiar with BIN/CUE.

ISO for DVD. As far as I know, BIN/CUE is only used for audio CD's, possibly data CD's. However, ImgBurn should make the right choice based on your media for you, as far as I know.

No, I've never had any of the gold based (Actually, they're silver based. Gold branded surface, but the recordable layer is made of silver.) CD-R's. The only experience I've had is with TY, Verbatim, and various companies releasing CMC, which I don't do business with anymore. Well, I do business with Verbatim, even though their Life CD-R are CMC junk. I don't think I ever used a Verbatim CD-RW, so I can't say. My CD-RW are Memorex, but since they're 24x, Mitsubishi made them instead of the usual CMC Memorex CD junk. My first CD-RW were also Memorex, back when Memorex made a quality product, circa 2002.

He could create a DVD Audio disc with a WAV that's too big to fit on a CD. First, define "too big." Do you mean its file size is too big to fit on a CD? If so, then, you'll need a DVD to fit it. Are you trying to create an Audio CD with this WAV? If so, the file size may be too large to fit on a CD, but as long as the WAV file is under 80 minutes, you can use Create CUE in ImgBurn to burn an Audio CD. If you're trying to create an Audio CD that plays in a CD player, you'll need to use a CD media. If the WAV file is too long, in terms of playing time, there's little you can do. You can try overburning an Audio CD, but I've rarely gotten that to work and you need certain hardware that supports it. I got one Audio CD overburned once, but it was only over by like 3 seconds. If your WAV is too long, then you can try creating a DVD Audio disc. This just takes your WAV file and makes fancy, long playing DVD menus of the audio. You can't navigate them except by chapter breaks, though. I don't know what else creates DVD Audio as I use Roxio Creator whenever I have to do that. If you want this WAV to play on a DVD player that supports playing audio container files like WAV, then just burn the WAV to a DVD file. If you still want to fit this WAV on a CD and you don't need need to play a CD in an audio CD player and you don't mind playing this WAV as a video container, you could convert the WAV to something like video MP4, AVI, MPG, etc. Freemake Video Converter will do this.

I used to use Taiyo Yuden CD-R all the time. Had to switch to Verbatim DataLifePlus after they closed up shop. Under the JVC/TY merger, JVC released some BD-RE with the TY name, even though TY never released any BD media itself. Guess who actually made them? Yep! CMC! I used to swear by Optiarc, but they eventually, IMO, went pretty bad and I switched over to LiteOn. I used to swear by LiteOn then, but they went downhill, too. Their DVD writers have an annoying tendency. Every once in a while, they will add pauses in the playback of DVD Video that are not layer break pauses. You'd burn an image and get one of these pauses, usually at the start of a VTS. Then, you'd burn the same image, and get a fine burn. This carried over to my first BD drive, also made by LiteOn, but it was much worse. 2 out of 3 DVD's did this. And LiteOn's BD drive was junk; stopped writing to BD-RE after 3 months. And now LiteOn doesn't make BD drives as far as I know, so what does that tell you?

Sort of like Taiyo Yuden. It seems that after they left the optical disc business, CMC might have bought their name to slap their inferior quality product on. I don't know if they did that for sure or not, but if they did, it's pretty low. Buying a good name merely for its reputation and sell crap with it.

Yes, the whole half drive versus full drive debate. I freely admit, I don't use the terms correctly. I use the term full height to describe 5.25 inch drives because they were the original size of optical drives. Then came the smaller size drive, "half" the height of the "full" height drive. Plus, I'm not THAT old enough to remember when 5.25 inch floppy drives weren't the same height as the original generation of optical drives. In fact, I only ever had 2 PC's that had 5.25 inch floppy drives on them before they were supplanted by 3.5 inch floppy drives. I had 2 Verbatim BD-RE SL that they actually made and didn't farm out to CMC. But, starting a few years ago, I can't recommend Verbatim BD-RE SL because they're made by CMC. Yes, I recommend Pioneer as the only BD option. I do have an external ASUS BD drive that I would recommend, but they don't make it anymore. And the current ASUS model is junk. I tested two units of it and it destroys rewritable media! LG I only ever used because Pioneer borked the writing to 8x DVD+RW Ritek discs from firmware 1.33 to 1.34. Pioneer eventually fixed it 2 years later in 1.50, so I took out the LG and replaced it with a 2nd Pioneer unit. And LG is the only model that writes to 6x Ritek DVD-RW. Pioneer won't even read them. It doesn't recognize a disc is inserted. The ASUS will read them, but not write them properly.

I believe this is the thread http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/25151-can-someone-recommend-a-blu-ray-drive-that-is-known-to-work-with-m-discs-bdxl-discs-and-with-imgburn/ but I don't think Sony BD-RE TL were used. I believe Verbatim and Milleniata BD-R TL were at issue in it.

Yeah, I misread something from your earlier posts. I thought you said you were using Verbatim BD-RE SL that were not CMC. But, you were talking about BD-RE DL, which I've found to be good quality from Verbatim, too. Don't get Verbatim BD-RE SL as they're all CMC. I've seen some older Verbatim BD-RE DL that were made by TDK, but they have a unique problem of their own. After about a year after formatting, even if you don't write anything else to them after that first write, they write at less than 1x, even without defect management turned on. BTW, TL writing may not be ready for prime time yet. In another thread I was participating in, someone was trying to get decent writes out of TL media on a Pioneer drive, but only got 1 in 5 that didn't fail Verify. We came to the conclusion it's the nature of the TL beast. That it may still need some firmware revisions before TL will be reliable media. But, the recent 1.50 firmware updates to Pioneer's latest drives addresses BD-R TL media stability. So, who knows? And, I'd still be wary of Sony media. Sony used to make their own DVD-R, which was high quality. Now, they farm out to 2nd tier Ritek. My first BD-RE was a Sony which died before it's 5th write. I tried 5 Sony BD-R SL's and 3 of them failed to complete a burn, let alone even Verify. Which just bears out what I've seen since 2002: Sony makes mostly junk. I've got all kinds of horror stories of slim line PS2's, the 2nd generation PS3 Blu-Ray remote, the PS3 I had that had to be sent to Sony after I bought it because it didn't play Blu-Ray movies correctly, the PS1 I sent into Sony for a new drive assembly that needed replacing after a year after the replacement, etc.

Which ASUS drive? Be warned that if it's the latest BD drive they put out, I thoroughly tested two units and discovered they actually destroy rewritable Verbatm BD-RE DL discs I fed them. Also 8x Ritek DVD+RW I sent the drives back because they're borked. A firmware update in the future may fix this, but it's been about a year so far and there's no firmware update for it.

I've managed to find the good Verbatim DL's on Amazon.com. They sell the branded ones individually. And many Japanese resellers sell the inkjet printable ones. In fact, I need to get some of those inkjet ones pretty soon.

Yeah, if you fully formatted in ImgBurn and then wrote in Nero, I would think Nero would undo the full format and require another full format in ImgBurn if it writes to that disc again. Hm, you actually found good quality Verbatim BD-RE SL with a VERBAT-IM DID? As far as I can find, Verbatim only releases cheap junk CMC BD-RE SL. Hence why I've only gotten my BD-RE SL from Panasonic.

All I know on this subject is Nero does not fully comply with the standards for erasure. A proper format takes the entire writing time you mention: 90 minutes for BD-RE DL. ImgBurn performs "proper" formats, writing all available space. The good news is once ImgBurn does this, it doesn't have to be done again unless you need to do a full erase for a reformat for some reason. I know DVD+RW I'd used in Nero would then have ImgBurn say they weren't properly formatted and then fully format them before writing to them. Now, it may be what ImgBurn does is not "necessary," but does ensure proper formatting. And I don't think this can be changed in the settings. Something you might want to test and see if it's the same is to take an unformatted BD-RE DL and format it in Windows/File Explorer. See if it takes a full 90 minutes or if a "quick" format is performed. Of course, before ImgBurn will write to it, it will properly "fully" format a media.

Yeah, there's no 6x support for any rewritable BD media. There is for BD-R. So, your drive is returning wrong information for that media, and it's most likely as LUK said. No support in the firmware. Or it could be just typical Sony junk. My first BD-RE SL was a Sony and it died before its fifth write.

That's why I wanted to see the Log. To see if the OP was using crap discs. Which might explain why one time it works and one time it doesn't. Now, if quality media were being used, then, there would be cause to troubleshoot further.

Post the portion of the Log with the failed burn. It's under Help. You're saying you do a burn, it fails, but when you do another burn afterwards, it succeeds? Is this a repeatable pattern? Or has it only been this way over 2 burns? Depending on what I see in the log, it could be you'll mostly get failed burns, but, every once in a while, you'll get one that works.

There's nothing that prevents you from copying the .BIN files to an SD card. You'll need the .CUE and any other files ImgBurn generated. However, those files will only be useful for loading into ImgBurn and burning or mounting as virtual drives for playback in a CD software player. As far as I know, nothing natively supports playing .BIN files as audio CD's.

They're all over the place on Amazon.com. Don't know where you live. In fact, you'll only find DataLife Plus media online. However, on Amazon.com, most of what I found are printable surface labels. I use those, so that's what I get. If you don't print labels, you may not want those. If you want branded media surfaces, you'll need to look for Verbatim DVD+/-R with AZO dye. I don't know if you can find those in stores, but I know you can get them online. Here's mine: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00081A2KY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Yes, they're pretty much bad, too. I've only ever had 2 Phillips CD-R's, but they were CMC, which is junk. Sony has made little but junk since 2002. My first BD-RE was a Sony, and it died before it reached 5 writes.

Unfortunately, even the "best" can use the worst. Verbatim generally makes the best media, but even they will farm out to CMC Magnetics, the worst manufacturer of optical disc media out there. Verbatim Life Series CD and DVD media you find in stores will be CMC. And Verbatim BD-RE SL are CMC. But, the DataLife Plus CD-R, DVD-R, and DVD+R DL are Mitsubishi, the best you can get out there. And Verbatim BD-RE DL are good quality. And their BD-R, even though they're not labeled as DataLife Plus, are the gold standard of BD.