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Does the padding fill up the remaining space so Layer 1 is filled to capacity? If so, why? Which of the 2 layers is the smaller one? 0 or 1? If 0 is the smaller layer, then that may be why the VIDEO_TS didn't fit in Layer 0. It fit on a DVD-5, but I know that a DVD-9 is not, as the name implies, exactly twice the size of a DVD-5.

I was, though I'm not entirely sure why. I think the VIDEO_TS was small enough to fit on one layer. So, I don't know why it wasn't on Layer 0 and the 800 MB of files and folders wasn't on Layer 1. So, setting a layer break triggers the creation of padding? How much padding is chosen/how is this determined?

I created a DVD Video image with a VIDEO_TS that was just under a DVD-5 but I added some folders and files to the root directory that made it about 5.5 GB total. The image file created was 8 GB. I know this extra 2.5 GB is Padding, but I was wondering what this Padding is. Why is it necessary?

I never could understand why CD-Text was so hard for people to implement. Back when MusicMatch Jukebox was an actual piece of software, I asked them about implementing it. They told me they'd never support it because CD-Text was never written in the same place on disc each time. I found that a little hard to believe, especially since Easy CD Creator 6's music player had no problem reading in CD-Text. But, maybe there is something to that. My old CD-Text disc which Easy CD Creator 6 would read the CD-Text off of returned no CD-Text in any modern day player or ripper capable of reading CD-Text.

Wouldn't be the first time. Microsoft named 2 separate Windows components Messenger. Before Microsoft disabled the Messenger service by default, I was constantly telling people to disable it to prevent the spam they were receiving by it. They'd tell me they don't use Messenger and I'd have to tell them not Messenger but the Windows Messenger service.

Most likely, it's your car CD player. They're notoriously picky and finicky about how they actually perform. The CD Text is most likely correct on the discs. It's just the player not reading them right. Given that the player seems to display the same thing for each track, it sounds like the player is just filling in dummy data because it's got nothing to actually display for itself.

Depends on what they're ISO's of. If they're ISO's of DVD Video compliant content, then, yes, you can just burn them. Unless your DVD player is picky about burnt DVD's. What I'd recommend if you have the time and are inclined is to install something like Virtual CloneDrive if you don't have a virtual drive software installed. Then, mount the ISO to a virtual drive. There should be a VIDEO_TS folder. In ImgBurn's Build mode, just drag and drop the VIDEO_TS folder into a Job. ImgBurn will make all the necessary folder and Job settings for DVD Video. As long as the VIDEO_TS folder contains DVD Video compliant content, it will play on a DVD player. As long as your DVD player doesn't have a problem with the kind of DVD discs you're burning to.

Even if Desktop.ini were added to the root directory of a video DVD, it would still play. Many DVD's have extra files and folders placed in the root directory. They're some of the "special features" or contain a folder that has scans of the DVD covers in it. I, for instance, when making a DVD, will include root directories other than VIDEO_TS that describe what the disc is. That way, I can insert the disc and navigate the folder structure to see what contents are on the disc. The Volume Label isn't reliable because Windows, idiotically, never displays the full Volume Label if it's beyond a certain number of characters. So, if your DVD player is not playing the video discs ImgBurn is creating, it's not because Desktop.ini is in the root folder. There's some other underlying cause. If you really want to see if Desktop.ini is actually in the root folder, insert the DVD, open a Command Prompt, enter the command of the drive letter of your DVD drive with a colon next to it. This will switch to the DVD drive. Enter DIR *.ini /a:hs command. This will list all the files in the root directory with an INI extension in their file name, which would include Desktop.ini. If Desktop.ini is actually there and not just added by Windows/File Explorer, it will show up in a DIR. Also, just do a plain DIR, too, in case it isn't a hidden or system file.

Well, it's better than 3rd. Depends on how picky your drive is. And, there's always the fact that some drives just don't like certain media, no matter what you do. I wouldn't be too worried. After all, that site calls CMC a 2nd class manufacturer! They are the WORST! Vanguard and Princo on 3rd class list are true but they're on par with CMC. And, at least with Vanguard and Princo, you can usually get a completed burn. They'll be unreadable in a year, but they'll usually finish burning. CMC often times just craps out, either in the writing or the Verify phases.

Did a Google. According to http://www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/dvd-media.htm Moser makes a 2nd class DVD disc. So, I can't say if their CD translates to the same quality, but it may be 2nd class CD, too.

I'm not familiar with that DID. So, I can't say if they're good or bad media. Sorry.

The first thing I would do is insert one of these Verbatim CD-R's into your drive and open ImgBurn in Write mode. Then, in the pane of information on the right side, check for the DID/MID/Disc ID/Manufacturer ID. If the string says CMC in it, you should probably not use those. Verbatim CD-R, unless you get them online under the DataLife Plus brand, will most likely be CMC made, especially if you bought them in a brick and mortar store. CMC is the worst optical disc manufacturer out there. Most problems we see on this board generate from the use of cheap media, and CMC makes the cheapest. If the field says MCC or Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, then that's good. MCC is one of the best manufacturers out there. And, yes, Verbatim sullies their good name by getting into bed with CMC! You could try to get some Taiyo Yuden CD-R while they still make them, but they'll stop manufacturing them at the start of next year. TY is the 2nd choice when looking for quality CD media. As for what speed you should set, I've never been concerned about that. I'd only worry about it IF you encounter a problem. Then you can try changing the speeds. Of course, if you're absolutely worried, you can always set it to the lowest speed. It will take much longer but you've a higher guarantee of not encountering a problem. And if you do have a problem, you know that changing the speed won't help. It would be a problem down to your drive, either the drive itself or it doesn't like those CD-R you've put in it.

My previous LG along with my current one are both M-Disc drives. I've yet to try an M-Disc out because of the higher costs of discs. My Pioneer is not an M-Disc capable drive.

Yeah, unfortunately there's not much else going here, I would say. Your drive apparently doesn't like those Verbatim triple layer BD. There's not much you can do beyond that. You're using Verbatim VERBAT media which means it's quality media Verbatim made to its standards and not farmed out CMC junk. If CMC even makes BD-R XL. Which I think, to keep costs down, CMC only makes single layer BD-R. But, Verbatim does farm out to CMC for its cheap BD-RE. Of course, everyone else but Panasonic farms out to CMC for BD-RE. Except Maxell's BD-RE but their MEI 2x BD-RE only write at 1x, so they're relatively useless if you want to write at something longer than an hour and a half. I've never used a TSST drive so I couldn't say. I've only ever had LiteOn, LG, and Pioneer Blu-Ray burners. LiteOn's were junk and they no longer make them. Mine stopped writing BD-RE after 3 months. So, good riddance to them, I say. LG I've had various issues with, most notably rewritable DVD media dying after less than 20 writes when an LG writes to them. They're also slow readers, it seems to me. Plus, my LG drive won't format rewritable CD/DVD/BD media in Windows Explorer. My Pioneer does but not my LG. My Pioneer has been the best. The only real issue, which was fixed about a year later after a 2nd firmware update, was they wouldn't write to inkjet MKM Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL. Which was odd since it WOULD write to non-inkjet Verbatim MKM DVD+R DL. Same MID, but only the inkjet printable label surface was different. However, I'm not entirely sure about the most recent firmware update for the drive. I've only written 1 8x DVD+R DL since updating, but it seems stuck at mostly 6x. It writes about 8x for only a minute or 2. So, I'd recommend a Pioneer but you'd have to crack open your PC case or get a USB enclosure to put it in since Pioneer doesn't make USB drives, to my knowledge. And, with an enclosure, you do have to worry about possible semaphore timeout issues. Which you won't know if your enclosure will have that problem on your motherboard until you actually connect it and test it to see. The nature of the beast, I'm afraid.

Yeah, it seems you're trying to use Read mode to read a disc to image file? If the DVD is multi-track/session/whatever it is I forget you can't read it to an image file with ImgBurn. But, you can do as ianmaty says. My Panasonic DVD recorder does the same thing. I have to Build new discs. Go into Build mode and drag and drop the VIDEO_TS folder into the Build job. ImgBurn will set all the necessary options and folder structures as long as VIDEO_TS is compliant.

As far as I know, such a thing is based on write strategies. Those are imbedded in the firmware in the drive. So, I'd think there's nothing that could be added to ImgBurn to make burning M-Discs are better. ImgBurn just issues commands to the drive and it's up to the drive to interpret them. However, by that same token, M-Disc drives might have different commands in them that ImgBurn could support. So, bottom line is, I'm not sure. LUK would have to weigh in on that.

I decided to try out DVDFlick. Wow it seems to be slow. I tested a less than 25 minute file with it. It's been 25 minutes now and it's only at 5% into encoding the audio file. ConvertXToDVD does it in like 10 minutes total. Of course, the downside to ConvertXToDVD is it's always loaded with bugs and the programmers are regressing old and new bugs back into the software all the time.

I didn't know that. I always had a VIDEO_TS folder created by ConvertXToDVD for me where it placed the VOB files. I just drag and drop the folder. I didn't know ImgBurn would automatically create the VIDEO_TS folder structure just from the VOB and IFO file combination. I knew it would set the recommended settings based on adding a VIDEO_TS folder.

Yeah, if you're using something that converts to VOB and IFO format, all you have to do is use Build mode, create a VIDEO_TS folder in the root directory, copy all the VOB, IFO, and BUP files your convertor software created into this folder, and let ImgBurn choose the necessary default formats for DVD Video. I use ConvertXToDVD. It creates everything necessary in a VIDEO_TS and I just add that folder to a Build job. Works all the time.

1.) I don't think there's actually an application that would convert NTSC PS games to PAL. 2.) it wouldn't do anything to help you with a region lock issue. PAL and NTSC are just video formats. You could still play an NTCS on your European PS. However, the video might not be compatible. I know from experience playing PAL PS on my NTSC PS, PAL would play on my modded system but the video was impossible to watch. The audio was fine but the video was in black and white and flashing. I don't know if it happens in reverse, but I thought that NTSC played on PAL. Just not the other way around. So, converting to PAL from NTSC wouldn't do any good about the game not loading. It's still a region lock issue.

Let me guess. Symantec is flagging OpenCandy as a virus. It's not a virus. Many AV software vendors flag it as a virus. It's unnecessaryware but relatively harmless as long as you don't get click happy during what it tries to install for you. I just disconnect from the Internet whenever I run an OC wrapped installer like ImgBurn's or Freemake software. That way, OC can't download or run anything. Doesn't help in your case as your AV is deleting the file before you can even run it.

I believe that mod chips have to specifically support bypassing the region lock in order for outer region games to load. They need to be hard coded to bypass the region locking. I don't believe all chips did that, especially older ones. I don't know that for sure, though. I had an ancient PS with the serial port on the back. I got a device that connected to it to play Japanese import games.

Plus, you can't just infer that because they're Verbatim CD-R's that they're any good. Verbatim farms out their CD production partly to CMC Magnetics, the worst optical disc manufacturer out there. Unless they're DataLife Plus they're most likely CMC. If you bought them in a brick and mortar store, they're most likely CMC. You'd need to check the MID/DID field in ImgBurn on one of the CD-R's to see. Also, I don't know why you're merging the tracks together. That should surely cause some kind of problem, I'd think. I believe PS games sometimes store their music as a separate track on their game discs. So, even if the game works, you'd most likely not have any music.

Have you used MKM DVD+R DL before? If so, it must have worked before. If this is your first time using MKM media and it failed, then your drive may not like MKM media. If it has worked before, then a burn that succeeds and suddenly starts failing Verify usually means your burner needs replacing. Especially at the start of Layer 0 or Layer 1. That's been my experience anyway. At least you're using the good Verbatim DVD+R DL. You're not using CMC. Actually, if you were using CMC, the solution would probably be easier: don't use CMC.

Actually, with CMC's not working at all, I don't find it unbelievable.