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Are you sure when you drag and drop the folders, you haven't changed the "focus" by selecting just one folder with the mouse? Are all the folders still highlighted when you try to drag and drop them and it only adds one folder? Also, be aware that this sometimes randomly happens, even in the Advanced input interface. If you drag and drop more than one folder and ImgBurn only adds one folder, try dragging and dropping again immediately afterwards, choosing to either skip the folder already added or replace the folder with the new drag and drop. I encounter similar behavior about 1 time in 10.

Can anyone recommend some kind of free software that converts audio files, like MP3, to video container files, like AVI and the like? I'd prefer something where I can set a still image for the video instead of a black screen. But something like an equalizer output that just shows random graphics in synch with the video would also do. I'm looking for something like Freemake Video Converter, but that "free" software adds black bars to the video and a watermark at the start and stop of the video. So, it's crippled, instead of "free." I really can't use any kind of online converter because I'm often converting entire CD's, which can be over an hour. Thanks! Looks like I found something that works. Something called Any Video Converter. I had it already, but didn't think, given its name, it would do what I wanted. But, on a whim, I tried it for this purpose and it works. Even lets me add a still image to the video, which is what I usually do with spoken word CD's. I rip all the tracks to 1 giant audio file, convert to a video file using a scan of the CD cover art for the still image, and then put all the CD's for, say, a book on CD, as a DVD Video. Allows me to replace 5 CD's, usually, with 1 DVD. Music CD's aren't prime candidates for this, but books on CD or Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas fit this category very well. And, I can only play these books on DVD on a DVD player, so it doesn't do any good for playing in a car audio CD player. Well, Any Video Converter works but it doesn't do it "right." You cannot navigate to random points in the container file. It plays but only from beginning to end. If you try to jump around in the video, it just sits there doing nothing. However, I just need these containers to import into ConvertXToDVD. They do and preview so it should seem that they would work, but I won't know for sure until I come across a need to create one.

My best experience with Verbatim BD-RE DL has been Pioneer's BDR-209M, with a few caveats. The last firmware released for this drive borks writing to Ritek 8x DVD+RW. They won't complete Verifies until formatted by an earlier firmware or in another drive. So, it may require downgrading the firmware on if it borks writing to ALL DVD+RW. Pioneer also has a few quality issues. The Eject buttons will go wonky after about 7 months. Pressing the Eject button won't work the first time, requiring a 2nd press. Same with issuing an Eject command in ImgBurn. Happened on my first 2 models. However, if ImgBurn automatically ejects the disc like after a write before a Verify, it seems to work every time. And there may be a general decline in the quality of the drive itself. My first and 2nd ones still work after almost 3 years, save for the Eject button issue and having to downgrade the firmware. My third one stopped writing BD-R after 7 months. My 4th one was borked right out of the box, failing to Verify on BD-R's the 2nd Pioneer of the same model would write properly to. So, it went back to Amazon.com.

I know the WH16NS40 is terrible at writing BD-RE DL media. I've never used a Verbatim BD-R DL, but I have tried Verbatim BD-RE DL with my drive many times. It fails Verify more often than not at the layer change.

Yeah, you won't need a bootable disc for that type of program contents. You can always make it bootable, but you will always need some kind of boot image to tell ImgBurn how to make it bootable. ImgBurn can't just make a disc bootable based on what files and folders you tell it to include on the disc.

Yeah, if you got a disc that fails to Verify on USB, try taking that disc and Verify it in an internal drive. See if you get semaphore timeout errors. I've only generally seen them associated with USB drives. Oh, so you haven't tried the old discs on your external drive yet, then. If your old discs do the same thing, it's most likely your USB drive. Although, as I said, semaphore time out errors generally don't just pop up on Verify and not on Writes. You will usually get them at the start of a burn if that's the issue. Some people have luck with fixing semaphore timeout errors by switching USB ports or swapping out the USB cable for a different manufacturer

It's odd that semaphore timeout issues have suddenly started up. Semaphore time out issues are generally caused by an incompatibility between your motherboard's USB and the USB bridge in the external drive. Generally, semaphore time out errors will pop up right at the start of a write, resulting in a burn that doesn't start. I can't say what might be the issue with it suddenly turning up only on Verifies. Could be the current batches of Verbatim BD-R DL's. You say your old discs still work fine but not the new ones. There have been gradually and worryingly, for me, increasing reports of Verbatim BD-R DL that used to could be trusted are having more and more failure rates.

I didn't encounter an issue with Verbatim BD-RE DL at the layer change. However, despite the Disc ID's being the same, they obviously aren't the same media as one is WORM BD-R DL and one is rewritable BD-RE DL. So, it may just be that the ASUS doesn't like Verbatim BD-R DL. Or I've seen indications in other posts that Verbatim BD-R DL may not necessarily be of good quality anymore. In the days of DVD+R DL, Verbatim was the only quality choice IF you got DataLife Plus and not Life Series. TDK also seemed to make a good DVD+R DL, but that was the extent of my experience. So, it may be that the ASUS drive in question likes Verbatim BD-RE DL and doesn't like Verbatim BD-R DL. Or it could be as simple as Verbatim BD-R DL can't be trusted. I 16:22:51 Operation Started! I 16:22:51 Source File: E:\TEMPDIR\Temporary UltraISO Files\Temporary 01.iso I 16:22:51 Source File Sectors: 12,700,592 (MODE1/2048) I 16:22:51 Source File Size: 26,010,812,416 bytes I 16:22:51 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 593046D05930466F I 16:22:51 Source File Implementation Identifier: Microsoft IMAPI2 1.0 I 16:22:51 Source File File System(s): ISO9660 (Bootable), UDF (1.02) I 16:22:51 Destination Device: [0:0:0] ASUS BW-12D1S-U E401 (D:) (USB) I 16:22:51 Destination Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: VERBAT-IM1-000) I 16:22:51 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x I 16:22:51 Destination Media Sectors: 24,438,784 I 16:22:51 Write Mode: BD I 16:22:51 Write Type: DAO I 16:22:51 Write Speed: MAX I 16:22:51 Hardware Defect Management Active: No I 16:22:51 BD-RE FastWrite: No I 16:22:51 Link Size: Auto I 16:22:51 Lock Volume: Yes I 16:22:51 Test Mode: No I 16:22:51 OPC: No I 16:22:51 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 16:22:52 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 8,990 KB/s (2x) I 16:22:52 Filling Buffer... (40 MiB) I 16:22:52 Writing LeadIn... I 16:23:05 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 12700591) I 16:23:05 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 12700591) I 16:23:05 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 12219391) W 17:06:13 Waiting for buffers to recover... (LBA: 11161536) W 17:06:18 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... I 17:06:18 Writing Sectors... I 17:10:22 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 12219392 - 12700591) I 17:12:21 Synchronising Cache... I 17:12:22 Exporting Graph Data... I 17:12:22 Export Successfully Completed! I 17:12:22 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:49:30 I 17:12:22 Average Write Rate: 8,596 KiB/s (2.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 8,827 KiB/s (2.0x) I 17:12:22 Cycling Tray before Verify... I 17:12:36 Device Ready! I 17:12:37 Operation Started! I 17:12:37 Source Device: [0:0:0] ASUS BW-12D1S-U E401 (D:) (USB) I 17:12:37 Source Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: VERBAT-IM1-000) I 17:12:37 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 6x I 17:12:37 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x I 17:12:37 Source Media Sectors: 24,438,784 I 17:12:37 Source Media Size: 50,050,629,632 bytes I 17:12:37 Image File Sectors: 12,700,592 (MODE1/2048) I 17:12:37 Image File Size: 26,010,812,416 bytes I 17:12:37 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 593046D05930466F I 17:12:37 Image File Implementation Identifier: Microsoft IMAPI2 1.0 I 17:12:37 Image File File System(s): ISO9660 (Bootable), UDF (1.02) I 17:12:37 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 17:12:38 Read Speed - Effective: 2.5x - 6x I 17:12:38 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 12700591) I 17:12:38 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 12700591) I 17:12:38 Verifying Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 12219391) I 17:34:33 Verifying Layer 1... (LBA: 12219392 - 12700591) I 17:35:14 Exporting Graph Data... I 17:35:14 Export Successfully Completed! I 17:35:14 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:22:32 I 17:35:14 Average Verify Rate: 18,801 KiB/s (4.3x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 29,702 KiB/s (6.8x)

I have started my own Verbatim BD-RE DL test. That won't complete for about an hour. I'll get back the results then. I overlooked you were using a BD-R DL. I haven't ever tried burning a BD-R DL on any drive. Only BD-RE DL. You could try using Windows to burn the ISO. However, if it fails, you probably won't get much of an error report. Never used PowerISO so I can't say. I don't know how well the ASUS handles Verbatim BD-R DL. Or the Pioneer or LG. Be aware that my results with Pioneer's XL burner have been going steadily downhill over the last few I've had. I've had 4 and they steadily declined in quality. The last one I had was borked right out of the box, failing to write Verbatim BD-R that the 2nd oldest version of that same model would, so it was the drive I had received and eventually sent back. However, the LG has its own problems. If you're looking to burn DL, I can tell you it's a terrible drive for writing BD-RE DL to. It fails at the layer change more often than it succeeds and Verbatim BD-RE DL formatted as a giant floppy in File Explorer write at half the speed of the Pioneer. So, I'd try the Pioneer before the LG. However, also be aware that you may need to regress to the 2nd to newest firmware for it. The latest firmware for Pioneer drives bork Ritek 8x DVD+RW so they will always fail Verifies until they are fully formatted in a different drive or a Pioneer drive with the 2nd newest firmware.

If you saw the original text of this post, disregard it. I had the wrong model number as I do have that drive you just mentioned as an external. I can't remember if I ever tested writing an image to BD-RE DL in my drive. I know I've written the disc to full contents as a giant floppy in File Explorer without an issue. Yeah, it was weird. The USB ASUS model, which I had first, passed every test I threw at it. I just don't remember if I ever tested writing an image to BD-RE DL. So, I had high hopes for an internal ASUS I tried later. However, it WAS junk. Destroyed rewritable media, BD-RE DL and DVD+RW, thrown at it. How long have you had this drive? If you've been using it for a considerable amount of time, say 7 months to a year, it may just need replacing. Problems at the layer change are down to generally 2 issues: 1.) your drive needs replacing 2.) your drive doesn't like that kind of DL media Now, it could be down to the drive itself simply not being a good DL writer. I know LG's aren't. They fail more often than not on Verbatim BD-RE DL at the layer change. And they write giant floppy formatted BD-RE DL at half the speed of the Pioneer. Is this your first attempt at trying to write to Verbatim BD-RE DL in that drive? If I can remember, I'll try a good test to my model. I have an image that's only just a little bit over the size of a BD-RE SL, so it will test the layer change without taking as much time.

Yeah, don't bother; I'm not going to. It's just something I was curious about if it was information you had readily available in your memory.

This may not exactly be an ImgBurn issue, but it's kind of related. Where does ImgBurn write the Table Of Contents on a disc? Is the TOC written to the inner most ring, outer most ring, or a random place on the disc? I realize it may not actually be down to ImgBurn, but to the standard of an ISO image. I just don't know. Thanks!

So, you're trying to burn an ISO file made by Sonic's application in ImgBurn? It seems Sonic made it incorrectly, but there's still a possibility you can fix this. You could try mounting Sonic's ISO as a virtual drive, go into ImgBurn's Build mode, and drag and drop all files and folders from the virtual drive into a Build project. Then, let ImgBurn build the DVD. It will ask you if you want to change all the various settings for DVD Video when you import the VIDEO_TS folder. If there's still some kind of problem, then Sonic did not author the VIDEO_TS folder correctly. The problem is beyond just the settings Sonic made for the ISO. And, are you use the ISO contents itself aren't actually larger than the size of a DVD+/-R DL?

When you CTRL+SHIFT+Q to bring up the queue, does it show more than 1 in Remaining images? Also, when you press the Write button, are you pressing the Write button in the View Queue view or the write button in Write mode? I've never burned a queue before, so, I'm only guessing, but maybe the write button in Write mode doesn't burn a queue. Although I've had images come up in a queue before when using Write mode that I never intended to queue. As I said, I'm only guessing. Maybe you can't queue CUE? I don't know.

I think at this point you may want to try an external enclosure for these internal drives, connected by USB. You've tried 2 different burners, with different media, and both internal burners return the same error. This may be indicative of an SATA issue, either with the cable or the motherboard connection. Or there's some kind of Windows configuration issue. If you take these drives and connect them by USB and still get the same error, then the culprit is most likely some kind of Windows configuration error. Now, the drives can't necessarily be ruled out. I've never used BD-R DL, so I can't say how well a Pioneer might handle them. I know my LG BD burner doesn't write to BD-RE DL properly, even though they're Verbatims. They fail Verify at the layer change more often than succeed, so I say LG BD burners are just terrible at writing DL BD media. My Pioneer does write to BD-RE DL correctly, but I've never used it write BD-R DL before. So, I can't say how well it writes those. And it could be the Pioneer is simply not as good a quality as it used to be. I've had 4 of them over 3 years and the quality has gradually declined on the same model. The last one I got was borked right out of the box, failing to write properly to Verbatim BD-R that my 2nd oldest version of the same unit still wrote to.

I always just called it the right hand pane of information.

Open Candy isn't a virus. It's basically nagware that people got so fed up with, AV vendors started flagging it as a PUP, Potentially Unwanted Program. It just phones home to a server and asks you if you want to install a bunch of extra free crapware you don't want. It's only contained in older versions of the installer. I believe it has been removed since there are no more Open Candy servers in use, I think.

Well, whatever works, go with it. It shouldn't matter a tinker's cuss, but it did here. As for getting something as good as Sony quality, you were lucky. Starting in 2002, Sony started making 95% junk. They used to make quality products, but they went in 2002 to today. And you definitely won't get an optical burner that will last for 7 years now. Sony used to make quality DVD burners with the Optiarc and DRU models, the first dual format burners. As for my BD burners, I have 2 of them because no one burner does everything right. I have an LG WH16NS40 only because it's the one that writes correctly to Ritek 8x DVD+RW. Its drawbacks are that it writes at BD-R SL and DL formatted as giant floppies at half the speed of the Pioneer BD I have. And it does not write properly to BD-RE DL, even the Verbatim quality ones. They fail more often than succeed on Verify at the layer change. However, it handles Verbatim BD-R and BD-RE SL fine. I would normally have recommended Pioneer's BDR-209M, but Pioneer has really gone downhill in recent years. The last firmware update they released borked writing to Ritek 8x DVD+RW. They will always fail Verify until fully formatted with the previous firmware revision or in another drive that is not that Pioneer revision. I don't know if this affects any other rewritable DVD types. Normally, Pioneer used to only have 1 flaw. After a few months, the eject button doesn't always work the first time you press it. Or issue an eject command to the drive. A second one does work. This affected the first 2 models of the drive I had. My first one still works well save for that button. And that's been about 2 to 3 years. My 2nd one I'm still using, despite the eject issue. The 3rd one needed replacing after 7 months because it stopped writing Verbatim BD-R correctly. The 4th one I had immediately went back to Amazon.com because right of the box, it failed writing all the Verbatim BD-R I threw at it. So, if you're going to go for the Pioneer, you will need to download the 2nd to the last firmware revision, extract the actual firmware from it, and a tool to downgrade the firmware if it's the latest. And there's the eject button issue you will probably encounter. And you'd better test all media you're going to throw at it to make sure it works when you get it. Otherwise, it works great!

It's odd that the problem was in the image, but it's not unheard of. However, if the problem was in the image, then DVDShrink would, most likely, be unable to read the contents, if you mounted it as a virtual drive. I guess you just read the source VIDEO_TS in DVDShrink and used it to make a new image? As for what drives I use, I use only BD burners and I think you're after DVD burner suggestions. I haven't bought a DVD burner since like 2013, so I don't know what's still good in that field. Last time I bought a DVD only burner, it was a LiteOn. However, LiteOn's have an issue where they can randomly add pauses to the DVD playback of DVD+R DL's that aren't layer changes.

I think I have to take back my last comments about my new LG needing replacing after a month. I've written several BD-R, including several near to the edge, which I thought was the problem before, without incident since the 2 back to back failures that did write near to the edge.

Yeah, I would say start with Verbatim media for BD-RE DL first. Like with DVD+R DL, Verbatim may be the only real quality media out there. Plus, it's definitely easier to try different media than to crack open your tower and swap out burners. You could get an enclosure and test them first. Then if you're satisfied a particular burner is fine with a particular BD-RE DL, you could swap it into the case then. Plus, I think the problem is simply the inherent issues always present with more than layer. If something is going to fail, it's almost always going to fail at the layer change(s) with multiple layer media. With my LG WH16NS40, it completes Writes fine but will most of the time fail to Verify at the layer change. If it does once in a full moon pass Verify, the Verify goes less than 1x on Layer 1. Luckily, most of my BD-RE DL's only ever burn like 25 to 27 GB, so it's not that much I really need to burn on to the 2nd layer.

I had 2 different samples of that ASUS model and both did the same thing, so it's a performance flaw in the design on the unit. The BD-RE DL issue didn't happen right away. It wrote a few times and then killed it. DVD+RW killed right away after the first write. Funny thing is my USB ASUS did nowhere near this bad.

Well, I know the internal ASUS I tried was absolutely useless at writing rewritable media, BD-RE DL or otherwise. It was junk; it destroyed a BD-RE DL I threw at it, along with a DVD+RW. LG's BD writer was also trash at writing DL media. So, it's a combination of the drive not liking to write BD-RE DL and the media you're using. The only drive I've ever seen that wrote BD-RE DL correctly was my Pioneer BD-2209.

I was thinking the same thing about the MBA comment. Masters of Business Administration?

That was my point. That the older stuff may be better than the stuff they're making now. It seems to be a pattern with Pioneer drives now. And that BD-R failing now may have been a fluke. I just burned one without a problem. Could have been 2 bad media in a row. I'll have to see if the pattern repeats with any kind of fluidity. So, the month thing may or may not be an issue.