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This is just a guess but the somewhat vague "incompatible TV settings" error sounds you're trying to play a PAL video contents DVD on an NTSC TV. Can you play this DVD in a PC drive using a software player?

Nearly every time I restart Windows, I get a dialog from Windows saying something called Main Message Window doesn't close. I have manually choose to cancel it from memory. I was wondering how I can begin to track down what this Main Message Window might be from? I don't know anything about checking Windows system logs, etc. so I'll need some hand holding. What would I use to check for logs that might contain a reference to something that didn't close properly on Windows restart?

I saw a slot loading drive on Amazon.com. It has no tray. Sort of like on the Playstation 3. So, I was wondering. I am guessing that the option to Cycle the tray after Writes, etc. doesn't work on these drives? I don't see how they could. I'd guess you'd have to manually reinsert the disc in the slot after it's ejected after the ImgBurn drive operation in question.

If ImgBurn is returning information counter to the cover text, then the problem is either the cover text is wrong, your drive is returning the incorrect parameters for that disc, or the disc was incorrectly manufactured with the wrong implementation ID's. Anyway, that's the problem. The disc is being detected as a DVD+R DL. RICOHJPN-R03-04 is DVD+R. I Googled it. First thing I'd try is updating the firmware of the drive, see if there's a new revision that might fix this. In Write mode, right click on the drive letter in the destination drop down and select the last option to check for new firmware. If you have a second DVD burner, try this same disc in that burner and in Write mode, check the data in the right window to see if the media type still says DVD+R DL. Now, it could be the burner in question. I notice it says it's a slim drive. Slim drives are notoriously error prone. Try a full size drive.

You're not burning a single sided DVD+RW. You're burning a dual layer DVD+R DL. I 15:55:56 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-R03-04) However, it does appear you're trying to burn an image with the size of a single layer DVD to it. I don't know why you're doing this as a single layer DVD-R/DVD+R is cheaper. As for why you're getting the error message, it's most likely down to some combination of your drive not liking RICOHJPN-R03-04. The only reliable DVD+R DL media is Verbatim DataLife Plus MKM discs. Nearly all the other kinds are junk. They tend to cause most of the problems people have with DVD+R DL. I, however, have come across TDK DVD+R DL that appeared to be good. I've learned Ritek DVD+R DL isn't, from experience. Ricoh and Ritek are essentially the same thing.

If you're absolutely set on creating an ISO, you can mount the BIN/CUE combination in something like Virtual CloneDrive and then using some software to read it that saves as an ISO for audio CD as an option. I think, but I'm not sure, that UltraISO might do that. However, it's a BIN/CUE for a reason in ImgBurn and it's an awful lot of trouble to get an ISO file out of it.

Yeah, I once had a Sony DVD player that would not even recognize Sony brand DVD-R's when inserted. And this was back when Sony still made their own DVD-R's, not outsourced to Ritek. Needless to say, that player went right back to the store, because it failed to recognize 75% of what I threw at it.

No idea. I've never had a problem with it. Of course, I've never used it for a Windows 7 bootable flash drive. Just Windows 8 and 10. Windows 7 may be older than USB Image Tool and it can't handle its bootimage.

Try something called USB Image Tool. It will make images of USB flash drives to an image file and allow you to write them to other flash drives. This is probably what you'll need since the flash drive is most likely bootable.

Also with the stuff OpenCandy installs, the options for Express or to skip or cancel installs are usually designed to appear to be unselectable. They'll be greyed out until you select them. But they should be selectable if you select them.

There's nothing to advise. It's there. It's detected as malware but it's not "technically" malware. It offers other installers for the user to choose or decline to download at the time the ImgBurn installer is run. Some people don't like this. I don't. And some antivirus vendors label it as malware for that reason. About the only solution is to install ImgBurn on your own computer at home and take the files from the installation folder onto a thumb drive and create an installation package. Well, unless you can somehow disconnect the client from the Internet at the time the ImgBurn installer is run. What I do is disconnect my home PC from the web by turning off my cable modem before I run any installer that I know has OpenCandy, like the Freemake ones. That way, OpenCandy can never phone home and offer me something I don't want.

I'd say this is dependent on each individual player. For instance, if the player supports a file browser, then you can have AUDIO and VIDEO folders on a CD and be able to browse into the contents. Some players, if not all, actually check why type of media is inserted and plays them accordingly. For instance, on the PS3, it checks if you inserted a Blu-Ray with VIDEO_TS but won't play it because it detects Blu-Ray and wants to play it as a Blu-Ray. It depends on the included file browser on the player. For instance, on the PS3, you can insert a DVD with MP3's and use its audio player browser to play the disc as an MP3 "CD." However, I don't think it supports putting video container files on a DVD and playing them as video files. It only supports doing that from flash drives. However, don't necessarily quote me as being right on that.

Funny thing is the files are described as something called .m4a but when the RAR is downloaded, they contain things called .m4b. However, I found a free utility that supposedly converts m4a and m4b files to MP3/WAV.

Of course, the first thing I download to test is NOT an m4a but an m4b, which is NOT supported! I was relatively sure m4b would not be supported because it was returning that it was a QuickTime file format.

I'll just have to download an Audiobook from my account on Big Finish and try it out myself, then, to see if I can decode it.

Is the .m4a Audiobook file type supported for creating Audio CD's by ImgBurn? Big Finish releases their audio stories as both MP3 and M4A downloads. I could always download the Audiobook RAR and try it myself but it's easier for me if I just ask if it's supported. Thanks!

Yeah, that option did the trick. I should have realized it before but I think when I scanned over the list of tickable options, I interpreted Underburning as Overburning and ignored it.

I'm generally careful. I can think of only 1 time where I accidentally had the wrong media inserted and would have used an unnecessarily large target media for the image. So, it has saved me once.

Can I disable the prompt that ImgBurn produces when I try to burn a a DVD+R DL sized image to BD media? I only burn DVD+R DL media for DVD Video since Blu-Ray players will idiotically not recognize VIDEO_TS burned to BD because players check for the actual format of the media versus the contents on them! So for data, non VIDEO_TS DL images, I burn them to BD-R because they're single layer and won't have as high a failure rate at the LB change because there is no second layer. Plus, BD-R is an inorganic layer and won't decay as quickly, in theory. Lastly, the write rate is faster for BD-R versus DVD+R DL. Will I have to disable a series of other prompts to stop this one? If so, what prompts will be disabled? Thanks!

The .DAT file ran roughly 200 to 250 MB. The resulting VOB was about 750 MB. I've already deleted the test VIDEO_TS and DAT file, but those Video CD's should be coming up in my queue pretty soon for conversion. I'll try to remember to check the Properties and see if the video resolution or audio compression are altered.

I guess AVSEQ stands for Audio/Video Sequence. Makes sense to call the actual video contents that, I suppose.

Yeah, I'd first try to restart Windows to see if it shows up. If it doesn't show up with the disc ejected while Windows starts, try inserting the disc, powering off the PC, and restarting Windows with the disc inserted. I know sometimes, my Windows won't recognize flash drives inserted until Windows restarts with the flash drive inserted. Particularly with the Recovery Drive application. If it still doesn't recognize, were the discs you previously burnt successfully CMC's or other Disc ID? Sometimes cheaper CMC media isn't recognized as containing anything even though it burned correctly. I know many DVD players that don't recognize them even though Windows does. Of course, that is the exactly opposite case of what you're experiencing now. I'd also stick with the BD-RE's to test with so you don't use any BD-R's. You can always run multiple tests on those.

Someone on Amazon.com took umbrage to my constant (CORRECT!) berating of CMC Magnetics in my reviews of recordable CD, DVD, and BD discs. They asked me what I had against them. Only that they make junk. And that I was out over $1,000 due to their DVD-R's before I was finally clued into them. Then they made the idiotic leap of logic that if every optical company "trusts" CMC to make their media, then it must be good. Yeah, it can't be that they trust CMC to turn them a profit by making cheap products!

Haven't had the chance to actually watch the contents on a DVD player yet. Just loaded them in Media Player Classic. It looks like the resolution is kept relatively intact. No really discernible artifacts that weren't present in the Video CD. Looks like nothing got cut off the top or bottom. So, looks like this process will work. Thanks!

I have started a test conversion and it looks good thus far. I did as you said and renamed the .DAT file to .MPG. ConvertXToDVD loaded it fine. If I had just examined the discs contents, I could have found the source files. They were the largest files on the disc and in a folder called MPEGAV, so that would help me figure out, "Hey, these must be MPEG Audio/Video." I might not have tried renaming the .DAT file to .MPG without you suggesting it, though.