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My Blu-Ray player is a PS3 that was given to me as a replacement for my malfunctioning one by Sony in January of 2012 or 2013, I forget which year. Most likely 2013. Since Sony pretty much forced Cinvavia into the Blu-Ray specs, it's probably enabled in my player. If not when they sent it to me, then enabled later by a future PS3 firmware update.

TDK is normally good for the DVD+R DL's I tried. I tried a few and they burned fine and were still readable years later. IF TDK actually made them, that is. With TDK in the Disc ID. I know they make Verbatims inkjet BD-RE DL which I've been using for years without issue. Last I checked, Sony stopped making their higher quality DVD-R and switched to second rate Ritek. The Riteks I used were fine, but Sony now makes junk. Their BD-R wouldn't even complete a burn. If Sony uses Ritek to make DVD+R DL, don't use them. I tried 5 Ritek DVD+R DL's years ago and only 2 of them were still readable a few years after burning. I've never used Sony DVD+R DL so I can't say what they use, Ritek or CMC. With DVD+R DL, the only really reliable manufacturer is Verbatim MKM. Although, as I said, I had no issues with TDK DVD+R DL. Try Amazon.ca. I get my DataLife Plus Verbatim medium from Amazon.com exclusively. These should be what you're looking for: https://www.amazon.ca/Verbatim-DataLifePlus-Printable-Spindle-98319/dp/B00DT6OWFG/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479487019&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=verbatim+datalife+plus+dvd%2Br+dl However, before you burn one, put one in a drive and check the Disc ID in the ImgBurn pane in Write mode. Make sure it says MKM and not something else. You should then be able to return them if they're cheap discs since you haven't burned any yet.

Like LUK said, the underburning "warning" you got was just to let you know the user accepted the fact that you could burn that image to a single layer disc instead of a double layer disc and chose to burn to a double layer disc. Your image file is, in fact, about half the size of just a single layer disc. And this was the disc that failed to Verfiy? Can you find the part of the log where the Verify failed?

Do you mean DVD+R DL? Or DVD-R DL? You can retrieve the log if it hasn't been deleted. In ImgBurn, open Help and choose ImgBurn Logs. The folder containing the ImgBurn.log file will open where you can open the .LOG file for viewing in a text editor. Just go through the log until you find the failed burn/verify. Then just copy and paste the relevant information. If you did nothing in ImgBurn since you burned that disc/verified it, then the first item in the log will be the failed burn. Until I see a log, just going by what has already been said, I can guess it's probably a DVD+R DL. Even if it's a DVD-R DL, it should still be the same, since you probably bought these discs in a brick and mortar store? Verbatims in brick and mortar stores, or their Life series bought online, are made by CMC Magnetics, the bottom of the barrel optical disc manufacturer. They're responsible for about half of the errors we see on this board. Given you said it failed during a Verify, it wouldn't surprise me if it was a CMC. Or some other cheap disc manufacturer. The only good Verbatim DVD+R DL's are the MKM brand from the DataLife Plus series (NOT the Life series.) that you can only find in online stores. With a log, I could see the Disc ID field to see if it's CMC or some other less reputable manufacturer.

And don't try double layer DVD's you find in brick and mortar stores. They will be CMC Magnetics or other cheap discs. To get the good Verbatim MKM discs that were recommended earlier, you will need to order the Verbatim DataLife Plus series from an online store.

You may have some luck with, after you burn 1 disc, shutting down Windows, powering off, and leaving it powered off for a minute. Then, restart. This will cycle the power to the drive. In fact, doing it just once may solve the issue all together. Sometimes a simple power cycle will fix odd issues like this.

Not without a log. Please post the log. Just going by what you've said, is it a BD-R you burned? It is "normal" sometimes for blank spaces to appear in rings on burns of BD-R's I've seen. However, I/O errors in Verify are not. I guess the Verify didn't complete, then, at 25%?

I guess this only applies if you're trying to play content on a PC? Meaning if you burned a physical disc without using option 2, would Cinavia play any part on a standalone Blu-Ray player like a PS3? Would it be silent on a standalone Blu-Ray player?

I replaced my 7 month old Pioneer Blu-Ray burner last week because it stopped writing to the same BD-R's it had written to for the past 7 months. Burns were crapping out randomly during the Write phase. The same discs in 2 other Pioneers of the same model burn these BD-R's fine. The replacement drive burned 2 discs with failures. The only difference in the drives is the age. The first Pioneer is almost 2 years old and still going. The other is a 9 month old I use for reads only. Same firmware, same BD-R's as before, same cake stack of discs, yet the replacement drive doesn't write them correctly. The 3rd Pioneer I had, using as a writer, needed replacing after 7 months. My first Pioneer of the same model is still going, except for a fundamental design flaw where the Eject function stops working the first time it's issued, randomly. So, I think Pioneer Blu-Ray burners have gone to I will only get one now because LG's are rotten readers and use it for reading. ASUS is out of the question because their internal model Blu-Ray burner destroys rewritable DVD+RW and BD-RE DL.

That I did not know. I just guessed it was some kind of structural copy protection. But, it makes sense. Supposedly, doesn't AnyDVD have some kind of Cinavia thing where AnyDVD must be loaded in order to play the copy? That would be, like you say, something like what you describe, versus a copy protection.

Yeah, Princo is definitely not going to help. However, the issue here, as was pointed out, was the attempt to overburn. The disc image is too large for a DVD-R. Your image may barely fit on a DVD+R DL/DVD-R DL. Your image is almost twice as large as the disc you're attempting to burn to. Overburns often fail, anyway, and will definitely fail in this case.

Burning will almost always fail before reading ever will fail. And when burning fails, you'll often find that every other kind of media burns fine EXCEPT one. Usually DVD+R DL. My most recent drive replacement, last week, was because it wrote everything else fine but failed on BD-R. So, just because reading works, that's no indication the drive hasn't failed writing.

Well, those Verbatims could have been CMC, as Verbatim does farm out to CMC for its Life series. Memorex also uses CMC for its DVD-R. So, it's kind of hard to say. The only thing you can say for sure is if you know you used Verbatims from CMC before and they worked, then your drive probably needs replacing if they were working before and then just suddenly stopped.

Looks like both failed burns were to CMC Magnetics media. I 15:05:57 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: CMC MAG. AM3) Try something other than CMC. CMC is the bottom of the barrel disc manufacturer. They are responsible for about half of the errors we see on this board. Most people find their problems disappear if they switch away from cheaper media. Unless you have had success with CMC's before. Check the log for the last successful burn and see what the Disc ID was for it. If it was the same, CMC MAG. AM3, then your drive has probably given up the ghost and needs replacing. If your last successful burn was to something other than CMC, that's probably why it succeeded. Your Read log shows a TYG media was the successful burn for that read. TYG is Taiyo Yuden. Back when Taiyo Yuden was making media, they were the 2nd best manufacturer of optical media out there. So, it's no surprise if this TYG03 burn was successful and read was the other DVD you burned, then that just points more fingers of blame to the CMC media.

Open Help and choose ImgBurn Logs. The folder with the .log file opens. Open the .log file from the folder that opens and find the appropriate burns in the log. Copy and paste the 2 burns here.

Post a log, please. Preferably, both logs, one for each type of blank DVD you burned to.

I thought MP4 was a video container file. So, shouldn't it always fail to try to convert it to an audio CD?

If they're copy protected DVD's, ImgBurn can't make copies of those, so you won't get "1:1" copies with it. For those, about the closest you can get is to use Windows Explorer to copy the DVD contents to HDD and use Build mode to create a new DVD. Of course, that won't be "1:1" but the contents will still be copy protected. However, if you did this, I still don't know if the movie contents would play back. I guess it also depends on what you mean by "broken" DVD's.

Yeah, slim models seem to very prone to problems. Hm, must have been an issue with the USB 3.0 to SATA bridge in the enclosure. Could have been the USB 3 cable. Sometimes such issues are fixed by trying a different kind of cable, however, I've rarely seen that help. What concerns me is why one brand of discs worked and another didn't. Yet, switching to USB 2 fixed that problem? I can't think of a reason why USB 3.0 would make a difference in that case. Such issues are usually down to the drive itself not liking a particular DID. But, the way I tend to see it, as long as you find a working solution, go with it. The USB 2.0 speed shouldn't be an issue since, regardless of if you're using USB 2 or 3 speed, your SATA drive is still capped at the maximum write/read rate of the media. You might get faster transfers to the HDD from USB 3.0 during reads and faster sends of data to the drive in writes, but your drive is still capped at its max speeds, which should probably always, theoretically, be less than USB 3.0 max.

Ritek's are better quality than CMC's. I would be more likely to lay the problem on the CMC media. Your drive probably doesn't like that DID. CMC really is the bottom of the barrel optical disc manufacturer. Probably over half the DVD burning issues we see on this board are caused by people using CMC media. When they don't use it, the problems usually go away. As you say, you don't have the problem with the Ritek's but you do with the CMC's. So, it is probably the CMC's causing the problem. Is your Pioneer the full size drive in an external enclosure or is it the slim USB 3.0 powered model they make? Slim drives can be very problematic and aren't recommended.

Well, all I can say is ImgBurn returns this on my Verbatim BD-RE DL I tested that worked: Disc Version: 2 I don't know if ImgBurn or the drive just isn't returning the entire version string or if there is such a thing as just version 2.0.

I performed a test. I made a Blu-Ray movie and burned it to a Verbatim BD-RE DL to test in my PS3. I copied over a Blu-Ray disc's contents to HD and then built an image file from them. I burned that image file and it played on my PS3. I didn't watch it, just enough to see that the PS3 detected a playable Blu-Ray and played all the contents before loading the main menu. MID: VERBAT-IM1-000, which is the same Disc ID as the discs you used. A few caveats. The Blu-Ray I used was not copy protected. I don't know the circumstances of your Blu-Ray folder contents. My Blu-Ray was a fan made anniversary release of a TV show not available on Blu-Ray. I simply copied over the 2 folders in the root directory to a temporary directory on HD. I then just dragged and dropped the 2 folders into a Build job in ImgBurn. I let ImgBurn do any necessary changes it needed for Blu-Ray movie discs. My disc was a single layer disc, but I burned it to a BD-RE DL. Even though the 2nd layer was not burned to, it still shouldn't have mattered. As long as the PS3 can read the disc as a single layer movie, it should work with a double layer. And I have tested double layer Blu-Ray movie images before with my PS3 and these discs. However, just because the MID's are the same doesn't mean they're the same discs. I've had Verbatim DVD+R DL's that had the same DID, but the same burner would burn to branded discs of the same DID and write speed max but NOT to DVD+R DL's of the same DID and write speed max that were inkjet printable discs. Options: MODE1/2048 UDF 2.60 So, I'd make sure you have the right options set in your build job first. Then, it could be your burner. It may not write correctly to those MID's for your PS3. If your PS3 is a slim model, that may be the problem. Slim model PS2's were junk. I have one and it doesn't play DVD's right. Plays them back with skips. Fat models of all Playstations were better. The PS1, PS2, and PS3 all were good as fat models, but terrible as slim models.

Then, it must be a setting in your image file. I believe your Disc ID is the same as the Verbatim made Verbatim BD-RE DL I used in my test. My PS3 played it fine. However, my PS3 is an older, fat model. Depending on your model, maybe the laser is different enough that it doesn't like your Disc ID anymore. Now, one thing to take into account, you seemed to create an image from a folder's contents? My test was an image made from a read of a disc. Plus, I believe it's been said elsewhere on this forum that 3D Blu-Ray's don't work if you create a disc from a Blu-Ray folder. You must read in the disc 1:1 and burn that image. So, maybe it just doesn't work to import Blu-Ray folders? Can't say, never tried it.

Do you have Blu-Ray capable player software on your PC? If so, test that it works in that. If it doesn't work in a PC player, which is far more forgiving, then there's something wrong in the images being made.

Yeah, post a log for further help. I can say that Verbatim BD-RE DL that Verbatim makes itself works on PS3. I've tested it myself.