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Verbatim does farm out to CMC for it's BD-RE SL now. I have physically verified this, too. The good news is CMC apparently doesn't do BD-RE DL or Verbatim would farm those out to them, too. Unfortunately, LG doesn't really support its firmware at all anymore. The last model they released hasn't had a firmware update in over 2 years. And it needs one. It's borked on Verbatim BD-RE DL inkjet printable discs, but is fine on the same Disc ID for Verbatim branded BD-RE DL. Pioneer had the same problem with Verbatim DVD+R DL. A firmware update finally fixed the issue. WHY the same Disc ID discs and the ONLY difference is the LABEL surface should matter is beyond me!

This seems familiar.

Something went wrong with the burn. I 16:12:18 Verifying Layer 1... (LBA: 1219488 - 2438975) W 16:12:24 Failed to Read Sectors 1220032 - 1220063 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 16:12:34 Failed to Read Sector 1220036 - Reason: No Seek Complete W 16:12:34 Sector 1220036 maps to File: \BDMV\STREAM\00000.m2ts W 16:12:36 Retrying (1)... W 16:12:42 Retry Failed - Reason: No Seek Complete E 16:12:44 Failed to Read Sector 1220036 - Reason: No Seek Complete E 16:12:44 Sector 1220036 maps to File: \BDMV\STREAM\00000.m2ts E 16:12:45 Failed to Verify Sectors! The Verify failed, so the burn didn't write correctly, it seems. It seems to have failed at the layer change? It failed to read the contents on the 2nd layer, so that's probably why your DVD player can't play it. The burn didn't complete correctly. Either at the layer change or the 2nd layer itself wasn't burned correctly. Is this your first time burning DVD+R DL? If you've successfully burned them before, then your drive probably needs replacing. When drives fail at the layer break during a burn, it's either because your drive is dying or it doesn't like the discs it's trying to burn to. You're using Verbatim MKM media, which is the only reliable media out there. So, it's not like you're using cheap discs that fail all the time. So, it would seem either your drive doesn't like MKM media or it needs replacing. What kind of DVD+R DL are you using? Are you using inkjet printable surface? I've noticed you're using a Pioneer drive. I've learned from experience with Pioneer Blu-Ray burners that Verbatim DVD+R DL that were branded burned fine in them but Verbatim DVD+R DL that were inkjet printable surface, even though the Disc ID's were the SAME, failed in the drive until a firmware update came out that fixed the issue. Try to see if there's a firmware update for your drive. I looked and couldn't find your drive listed, so it may not have one. In Write mode, right click on the drive in the drop down list for targets to write to and select update firmware. Also, I fail to see how your DVD+R DL even plays at the first layer. You're apparently not burning VIDEO_TS contents. You said you were burning AVCHD content and your log mentions an M2TS file. This indicates me to me some kind of Blu-Ray content. Maybe these are files you're burning to disc that your player supports playback of? Because, natively, a player won't playback DVD+R DL DVD video contents unless they're on DVD media, a VIDEO_TS with a DVD recordable disc. So, unless your player supports native playback of .M2TS files, your player shouldn't be playing anything on DVD+R DL because you're not putting VIDEO_TS on it. If you're putting Blu-Ray contents on it, then you must use a Blu-Ray disc. However, if you're putting container files on the DVD+R DL and your player supports that format of container file for playback, natively, it will work.

I don't know anything about booktype settings. In fact, I didn't even know that each layer HAD an individual booktype setting so that one layer could be set one way and one layer another. LUK will have to answer that. As for what knowledge I can import, problems at the layer change are fairly common. The issue could be with either your burner or the DVD player. The DVD player may simply not like that Disc ID manufacturer and the laser can't read the 2nd layer. The burner may also not like that media. It may have successfully completed the burn but it doesn't mean it did it well. Is this your first time burning DVD+R DL discs? If not, have you had success burning that Disc ID before and playing them in your DVD player? Post the log of the burn and verify of this disc that is failing. Under Help, choose ImgBurn Logs to load the log file folder. Open the log file there and find the burn. If you haven't done any other operations in ImgBurn, the log will be right at the top of the file.

Got this on my first attempt to burn a DVD+R DL in my newest burner. I 13:04:45 Book Type Setting: N/A (Reason: Invalid Command Operation Code) I had one of these drives, an LG I 13:04:42 Destination Device: [0:0:0] HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH16NS40 1.02 (S:) (SATA) about 2 years ago. I burned DVD+R DL in them, but I don't recall ever seeing an entry about the book type setting failing before. Does the WH16NS40 simply not support Booktype settings? It may have always said that before and I just failed to notice.

I've learned you have to be careful with how drives are described online. I came across what I thought was a BD burner because it listed write speeds prominently. Closer investigation revealed the drive only read BD, not burned them. It was a DVD/CD burner, but not a BD writer. A combo drive.

Ah, that explains the Invalid Command error. It can't perform a write command because it's not a writer.

I don't have any experience with BD-R DL. I do have some Verbatim BD-RE DL. My LG doesn't like the inkjet printable ones Verbatim started making themselves. Before, Verbatim farmed them out to TDK, which the LG likes. The LG likes the SAME Disc ID on Verbatim's branded BD-RE DL. My Pioneer doesn't mind these inkjet BD-RE DL's from Verbatim. If the BD-R DL experience is the same experience as DVD+R DL, then only Verbatims are really any choice to go with. There's always a tricky issue when switching layers. Although I had no issues with the few TDK DVD+R DL's I tried. The Ritek DVD+R DL weren't reliable.

Memorex single layer BD-R would also, most likely, be Ritek media. Last time I bought their BD-R SL and BD-RE SL, they were Ritek. The PS3 didn't like the Ritek BD-R for playback, playing with skips and jumps in the video, sometimes skipping entire video streams on playback. If you can find it, try Verbatim BD-R. I know you can find those at Office Depot, and they're made by Verbatim. I use them all the time without an issue that wasn't caused by a dying/bad drive. If you have a problem with those, then it's most likely your drive that's the problem. Oh, wait, you said these Memorex were labeled Quantum? Labeled Quantum on the package? What's the Disc ID in the Disc Information? I've never used any of Quantum's labeled media, but it's probably cheap and could be a culprit, too.

I don't know of anything that does it for free. I use paid software, ConvertXToDVD.

Never heard of an Invalid Operation Code error before, so LUK will have to comment further on that. If I had to hazard a guess, your drive probably doesn't like the RITEK BD-R DL. Ritek DVD+R DL were problematic with users and my experience with them was more than half of the ones I successfully burned weren't readable 5 years later. People have a sort of 50/50 result with Ritek media, even the single layer, on their burners. RiData was even worse quality.

Yeah, TDK is a good brand. Even their DVD+R DL appears to be pretty good. It's the only non Verbatim DVD+R DL I've used where all the samples I had were still readable after 5 years. Really the only way you'll know other than putting the disc in is to get them online and read reviews where they list the Disc ID. Even then, the company can always change them. Like how Optodisc changed from its decent quality dye to CMC junk and lost my business forever.

Ritek media can be iffy with a lot of drives. I've never had a problem with burning Sony Ritek's, but your mileage may vary. I stopped buying them because Ritek media is 2nd tier at best and Sony makes mostly junk since 2002. I checked your log and am kind of surprised your Verbatims were made by Taiyo Yuden. TY stopped making media this year. I had never known Verbatim to farm out to TY. Not that that's a bad thing at all. TY made some of the best recordable CD and DVD media you could buy. However, Verbatim does farm out to CMC for some of its products, and CMC makes the worst recordable media you can buy.

Ah, so MTS is a Blu-Ray video format, then?

The 1 GB minimum is not a factor for playing back successful DVD Video. I've created many VIDEO_TS folders that were under 900 MB and fit on a CD, even though you must burn them to DVD media in order to be recognized as playable DVD's in stand alone players. You shouldn't be using CMC Mags, but if you want to and they've "worked" so far, well, we won't be changing any hearts or minds today. Given the VOB's play fine from the disc, it's not anything to do with ImgBurn, most likely. It's most likely an incorrectly authored IFO file. See if you can successfully play where it failed before by loading VIDEO_TS.IFO from the disc in your preferred player. Barring that, about all you can test at this point is mounting the ISO in a virtual drive software and try playing it past where it failed before. If it still fails, then the ISO is being made incorrectly by the authoring software. I don't know what an MTS is so I've no idea what you're converting from to a DVD.

I am guessing, since he said that was the bottom of the log, that that was just a read from another disc. If I had to make another guess, that log isn't from the burn in question. Check the bottom of the disc and make sure it hasn't actually been burned. There will be different colors to the part of the disc that was burnt. You might have received already opened and returned discs that have already been burned. It does happen. However, how can it say it can't write the disc if it is stuck at 71% burning? I'm guessing he cancelled the burned and the disc was still in the drive? That's why it would say it cannot be written to. It's already been written to, even though the burn didn't complete, it was partly burned and therefore unable to be written to.

If the VOB file plays properly on its own, it sounds like some kind of incorrectly authored IFO file. Are you creating your own VIDEO_TS with some kind of conversion/creation software? What are you using? If it has the option of writing VIDEO_TS to hard drive, try that and see if it plays okay on the HDD. If it still doesn't play properly from the HDD, then the culprit is, most likely, the software that created the VIDEO_TS.

It's highly unlikely that any Registry key changes will affect how an optical drive performs. Now, there are certain settings in the past that used to matter, but in this case, it's not very likely to help. Generally, bad burns are down to 2 things: 1.) the drive 2.) the media. Either a drive is bad, the discs are bad, or your drive doesn't like that particular brand of disc. Now, it's always possible there's some kind of bad connection on the mobo or a bad cable. But, you seem to have already eliminated at least one port being the problem. As for the various modes and changing them, I don't know anything about that and will have to leave that up to LUK to answer.

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. When an optical drive says it works with Windows X, they're just trying to make sure you won't worry that it works with the current version of Windows. The Pioneer and LG drives were created before Windows 10, so their packaging won't mention that version of Windows. Online reviews by people who bought it might say it. Anyway, it won't matter with optical drives. Some other kinds of hardware, you might have a problem with a particular driver not working with Windows 10 on an older piece of equipment. My ASUS, both LG's, and the Pioneer all worked with Windows 10. Both LG's and the Pioneer also worked with my Windows 8.1 Update 1.

I never understood things like that. For instance, in America, we had G.I. Joe. When it was imported to Europe, it became Action Force. Then, after a while, it was G.I. Joe: The Action Force. It finally became G.I. Joe in Europe, too, because Marvel Comics UK didn't want to spend on the budget to edit the comics to say Action Force everywhere it said G.I. Joe. And I believe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles because of the violent connotation of the word ninja. Plus the banning of things like nunchuks in England. Which always made me wonder if the character of Michaelangelo was simply edited out of every fight scene if he was using his signature weapon. And then there's the game Final Fantasy. I believe it became Mystic Quest in Europe. Which begs the question, what was Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest called in Europe? Mystic Quest: Mystic Quest?

I've never heard of an EBK model. Is it older? Or is it E for External? I'm only familiar with the BDR-2209 which supports XL and M-Disc and the BDR-209DBK. Is the EBK a 208 model?

BTW, the Disc ID on my Verbatim BD-R that have worked is VERBAT-IMe-000.

Because of the reflective surface, it's hard to get a really good image of the bottom of media. For instance, that picture looks more like the bottom on a Playstation 1 game CD with its black surface. However, it is close to what I see on my BD-R. Yeah, Pioneer initially impressed me by not really needing replacing after a year except for the eject button issue. I usually have to replace drives after 9 month, but it's been 2 years now and my first Pioneer is still going. If only my last Pioneer hadn't failed right out of the box.

I have some inkjet printable BD-R from Verbatim that worked fine in the Pioneer XL I have. I've not tested them, I don't think, on the LG. These are the ones I got that work in the Pioneer BD-209/2209: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004477BQQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Pioneer used to be high quality, IMO. I still have my first Pioneer XL and after 2 years, it still burns fine. Just the eject button issue made me replace it. Then I got a 3rd Pioneer. The 2nd Pioneer I got as a reader is still going. The 3rd Pioneer I got as a burner needed replacing after like 7 months because it stopped writing to BD-R. Then the 4th Pioneer I got I returned because out of the box it didn't write properly to the same BD-R's the first and 2nd Pioneer XL's of the same model still burned to. Yes, if you're using LTH, Low To High, abandon those. They're DVD dye lines converted to BD production. So, they use organic dyes which decay faster than the metal oxide layers of HTL, High To Low, BD-R. Plus, there were all sorts of compatibility issues with burners and Blu-Ray players. So, they were quickly abandoned. They only saved the production companies money because they were cheaper to make. While some of those savings were passed on to the consumers, the trade off in quality and compatibility wasn't worth it. People didn't adopt LTH and they thankfully stopped production, as far as I know. As for the colors of BD-R that are good, I've never seen purple or gold. What I'd call the color of good Verbatim BD-R is metallic black. Don't know anything about Lacie making any BD drives. As for knowing what you'll get by anything on the package, the manufacturers don't put that information on the packaging. Because they know if you knew what you were actually getting, you wouldn't pay their outrageous prices for things like CMC junk. The only way you're going to know what you're getting is by reading reviews on online stores. I've left all kinds of reviews on Amazon.com telling people what Disc ID is on media so they will know what they can and shouldn't spend their money on.

Well, I cannot say about the UK, which is where you appear to live. I live in the USA. It seems that where you live, you'll get different Disc ID's from a manufacturer in one country versus another. For instance, the BD-R's I get are made by Verbatim with VERBATIM Disc ID's. Verbatims in the UK may be CMC MAG. Unless you bought these BD-R's in a brick and mortar store. Most brick and mortar store Verbatim media is CMC MAG junk. However, here is the States, Office Depot sells BD-R that are the VERBATIM kind. I know Verbatim farms out their BD-RE SL's to CMC, but I didn't know they were also farming out BD-R to CMC. For instance, these are the one I get that I've rarely had issues with that weren't drive related: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00471HK0Q/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Unfortunately, the issue of which BD drive to get is not clear cut. You basically have 4 choices: LG, Pioneer, Asus, and Plextor. Plextor only sells slims models and slims cause more troubles than they're worth. The LG internal model has 3 issues. 1.) they don't write properly to the second layer of Verbatim inkjet printable BD-RE DL. They write to the same Disc ID as Verbatim branded BD-RE DL, but not the inkjet printable. Unfortunately, this will only be fixed by a firmware update, and LG has not updated the firmware to their BD model in 2 years. 2.) LG's aren't very good readers. 3.) writing to BD-RE DL's as giant floppies is half as slow as the Pioneer and Asus USB models I have. Plus, reading back the data from them usually fails in the LG but passes on things like the Pioneer. However, other than these 3 issues, there seems to be little issues with the LG model. Asus made a great full size USB model I have, so I expected a lot from their internal BD burner, the one you have. I was highly disappointed with what I got. Unfortunately, you can't get the USB model new anymore. Pionner used to be great, but their quality control has gone down the crapper. The latest firmware update to their internal drives, released in May, borks Ritek 8x DVD+RW. The previous firmware revisions were fine with them, but Verifies always fail on them with the latest. Then there's the eject issue. After about 7 to 9 months, the drives will have eject issues. I've read reviews were eject simply stops working at all! My experience has been the button press simply fails the first time but works the second time. Same for an eject command sent to the drive. Then there's what really turned me off to these drives. I recently got one of the XL Pioneer models, the 4th one I've had in 2 years. It failed to write to BD-R out of the box! Now, it may simply have been a bad one I got, because the other 3 burned the Verbatims fine. Except for the one I was replacing, which stopped writing to BD-R after 8 months. So, I think Pioneer quality control might have turned to So, I've learned you need TWO drives! I have an LG for all my needs except writing to Verbatim inkjet BD-RE DL or writing to BD-RE as giant floppies and my Pioneer XL model for reading data and for writing to Verbatim inkjet BD-RE DL and BD-RE as giant floppies. Unfortunately, that's the nature of the beast. The optical media market is dying, and no one wants to support it anymore because it's not as profitable as it used to be. Coupled with the fact that companies don't give a damn about their product, only their profit, you're not going to get decent product. Everything's farmed out to China because they make everything cheap.