dbminter

I'm not entirely sure why you're trying to burn a .CUE file to a DVD-R. .CUE files are expressly for CD burning. In fact, I don't think you can even write a .BIN/CUE to a DVD-R. They're expressly for CD-R. That may be why it's not working, but I'd like to take a look at the Log file that generated that Invalid field in CDB to check for other things. Under Help, choose the ImgBurn log option. Open the .LOG file and find the portion containing the failed burn. Copy and paste the entire portion of that log to a post here so I can look at it.

Yeah, I've never heard of it, but, most likely, it's some established optical company's drive in a rebadged model. For instance, Verbatim's own USB BD burners are made by Pioneer.

That goes back to what I said about the Disc ID. The same Disc ID is used for Verbatim BD-25 and BD-50 recordable discs. If you're using BD-R DL, that probably explains it. BD-R DL writing, in general, is kind of a crap shoot. If you want my recommendation, the best of the worst, as they all have some kind of flaw, is the LG WH16NS60. NOT the NS40. The NS40 will fail 9 times out of 10 to write to DL BD media. The NS60 appears to work okay on BD-RE DL I tested from Verbatim. But, you most likely don't have a free half height bay in your PC. So, you'll need a USB 3.0 enclosure. I recommend the VanTech Generation 1. The Generation 2 works to an extent, but you CANNOT update the firmware of the NS60 in one. You can in the Generation 1. But, finding the Gen 1 is a problem. I do not recommend the other option, Other World Computing's enclosure, because if you power it off or it encounters an error where the power must be cycled, the drive will NOT be detected again by Windows until you restart the PC.

Pioneer's have been problematic over the last few years. Your BD-R appears to be quality Verbatim media, but the same Disc ID does appear across different Verbatim BD-R. So, it's a bit difficult to determine what exactly you're using. At this point, I think the best bet is to try a different drive. Preferably from a different manufacturer and a different model. A USB drive would be easiest to install and test with, but most USB's are slim models, which are just generally problematic.

Actually, I did not know what an SACD was and having looked it up, it may not be possible to copy those with ImgBurn. Super Audio CD may actually be a DVD format. So, it should be possible to copy those. I really shouldn't say they can't be copied. I worry if a copy can be played in a standalone SACD player. I doubt they were designed to reflect recordable media in mind since the hardware preceded the recordable DVD format. And there was mention of something called a Hybrid Disc which appears to have a CD and a DVD layer. I doubt those could be copied.

Yeah, it's hard to make an apples to apples comparison. You're using two different disc formats. Most likely, it's just a particular disc manufacturer that the HP doesn't like.

If these "Sony DVD" were DVD+RW like the "Philips DVD" are from the log, then the problem is, most likely, that HP GUE1N drive does not like those Philips discs. A firmware update might fix it, but 1.) there are actually few firmware updates released anymore and 2.) firmware updates often times don't fix issues but cause more. Anyway, right click on the HP burner in Write mode and choose the last option from the context menu, the one about firmware updates. Try applying any updates and see if burns work better. If they don't, then most likely you need a different drive. The MKM discs are generally the best out there. The DataLife Plus variety. You could try a different kind of DVD+RW and that might work better. For a list of possible replacement drive candidates, check this thread: It contains a list of drives tested with that type of media.

There should be nothing preventing ImgBurn from making a copy of the disc, physically. The best thing to do is just try to make a copy. If it doesn't work, the worst you're out is some time and one CD-R. If you're worried about wasting a single CD-R, you can always try copying to a CD-RW first.

Well, I'm not the best person to ask. I have terrible "luck" and I use my drives to burn something probably on average once per day. My general average mean time before failure is about 7 months. The best I ever had was a Pioneer that lasted 2 and a half years. Pioneer, though, is NOWHERE near that level of high quality anymore. And some people have optical drives that last for a decade.

MCC is Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. Those discs are one of the top two of the best discs you can get out there. Never heard of DAXON-AZ3-00, so I'd be wary of anything I'm unfamiliar with. So, if those DAXON's are the ones you used it the burn from the posted Log, that means DAXON is junk CMC media. Which makes sense. Any no name brand is cheaper because it's cheap CMC trash. I'd try those MCC discs and see if they turn out any better. The MCC's are the DataLife Plus/AZO from Verbatim, which are the top quality discs out there now.

Not necessarily. Could be the burner didn't burn the disc properly or you used a cheap media with playback problems. Although if you're using the same discs from the log you posted, you're using the quality stuff. What precisely does VIDEO_TS.IFO not playing mean? Do you get any kind of error message? Or does just nothing happen? It most likely isn't ImgBurn's fault on its own because I just burned a VIDEO_TS folder to DVD that plays on my LG BD player.

Besides just doing a general search for CMC, I don't know what you can find on the web. I know from experience CMC is junk. I wasted like $2,500 before someone turned me on to CMC. I kept having failure after failure, despite replacing hardware and getting more discs. Then, someone mentioned CMC and I checked the discs I was using. Optodisc switched from their quality discs to CMC, and that explained my failures. When I stopped using the CMC Optodisc and began using the Mitsubishi high quality discs, they worked every time. I also have other emperical evidence. CMC DVD+R DL are trash. After a year from burning, even though they passed burn and Verify, they were totally unreadable. More evidence: more than 50% of the problems on this board were cured when people switched away from CMC crap to some quality like MKM/Mitsubishi or Taiyo Yuden. CMC, when they make it themselves, make the cheapest quality media out there. They will either fail to burn, fail to Verify, fail to read/play properly in hardware, or if they pass all of those, will die much sooner than quality media.

I probably know why, but I need to see the Log of the failed burn. Under Help, choose the option for ImgBurn Log. Open the .LOG file in the folder that opens and find the portion of the Log where the burn fails. Copy and paste the entire portion of that failed burn here.

No. A single person writes the software and it's freeware. This forum is the only tech support.

ImgBurn can burn audio CD's, both images, creating images from audio CD's (99% of the time.), and for creating audio CD's from container files. You need certain plugins like madflac for FLAC, etc. but they work.

Here's the most likely culprit: Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: CMC MAG-D03-64) The only reliable DVD+R DL is MKM media from Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO. NOT the Verbatim Life Series, which are the CMC junk. You can only find the good Verbatim in online stores, usually. The first thing I'd do is switch from the junk media to quality. If it still fails on quality, then I'd begin investigating other issues. Switching to quality media is the easiest and cheapest solution. So, might as well start there.

MP4 is a container format and uses a better compression method than MPEG-2, which is the compression format for DVD Video. So, a VIDEO_TS made from an MP4 will generally be larger than the size of the MP4. Generally noticeably larger.

You said your source file was a 2.2 GB MP4 file. That would indicate to me the VIDEO_TS output for a DVD would be greater than a DVD-5. Plus, that last screen mentioning cells and layer breaks only applies to double layer DVD's. Well, DVDFlick shouldn't be installing ImgBurn itself unless the author of ImgBurn gave his okay. But, to find the ImgBurn log, open ImgBurn (How you might do that with how ImgBurn is installed on your system, I don't know.) and under Help you'll find an entry for the Log. This opens the folder where the Log is stored. Open this .LOG file and find where in the Log the burn failed. Copy and paste everything related to the burn and, if it got that far, the Verify of that burn.

Well, those are different errors for different things. You apparently had a double layer DVD image, which explains the first and last images. Because you had a double layer DVD, you should have selected the MDS file instead of the ISO file for burning. ImgBurn is just telling you which file you should have loaded and loaded it for you. The middle screen is an indication your drive did not like the discs it was burning to. The DVDFlick log won't do much good here. We need the ImgBurn log of the burn that generated the 2nd image. The 3rd image is because the disc failed to burn or you cancelled the burn and ImgBurn is asking if you still want to close the session/track/disc on the DVD. In both cases, you can probably generally skip it because the disc generally won't be playable at that point. The last screen indicates the double layer DVD image file contents were too large to find a good layer break position. Technically, that DVD probably shouldn't have played at all.

Usually, every year I offer some kind of cynical song lyrics to showcase my feelings for the Christmas holiday. But, I've pretty much run out of them by now. However, I did remember this spoken word piece. A take on The Twelve Days Of Christmas called Christmas Countdown by Frank Kelley: Thank you very much for your lovely present of a partridge in a pear-tree. We're getting the hang of feeding the partridge now, although it was difficult at first to win its confidence. It bit the mother rather badly on the hand but they're good friends now and we're keeping the pear-tree indoors in a bucket. Thank you again. Yours affectionately, Gobnait O'Lúnasa Day Two Dear Nuala, I cannot tell you how surprised we were to hear from you so soon again and to receive your lovely present of two turtle doves. You really are too kind. At first the partridge was very jealous and suspicious of the doves and they had a terrible row the night the doves arrived. We had to send for the vet but the birds are okay again and the stitches are due to come out in a week or two. The vet's bill was £8 but the mother is over her annoyance now and the doves and the partridge are watching the telly from the pear-tree as I write. Yours ever, Gobnait Day Three Dear Nuala, We must be foremost in your thoughts. I had only posted my letter when the three French hens arrived. There was another sort-out between the hens and the doves, who sided with the partridge, and the vet had to be sent for again. The mother was raging because the bill was £16 this time but she has almost cooled down. However, the fact that the birds' droppings keep falling down on her hair whilen she's watching the telly, doesn't help matters. Thanking you for your kindness. I remain, Your Gobnait Day Four Dear Nuala, You mustn't have received my last letter when you were sending us the four calling birds. There was pandemonium in the pear-tree again last night and the vet's bill was £32. The mother is on sedation as I write. I know you meant no harm and remain your close friend. Gobnauit Day Five Nuala, Your generosity knows no bounds. Five gold rings ! When the parcel arrived I was scared stiff that it might be more birds, because the smell in the living-room is atrocious. However, I don't want to seem ungrateful for the beautiful rings. Your affectionate friend, Gobnait Day Six Nuala, What are you trying to do to us ? It isn't that we don't appreciate your generosity but the six geese have not alone nearly murdered the calling birds but they laid their eggs on top of the vet's head from the pear-tree and his bill was £68 in cash! My mother is munching 60 grains of Valium a day and talking to herself in a most alarming way. You must keep your feelings for me in check. Gobnait Day Seven Nuala, W e are not amused by your little joke. Seven swans-a-swimming is a most romantic idea but not in the bath of a private house. We cannot use the bathroom now because they've gone completely savage and rush the door every time we try to enter. If things go on this way, the mother and I will smell as bad as the living-room carpet. Please lay off. It is not fair. Gobnait Day Eight Nuala, Who the hell do you think gave you the right to send eight, hefty maids-a-milking here, to eat us out of house and home? Their cattle are all over the front lawn and have trampled the hell out of the mother's rose-beds. The swans invaded the living-room in a sneak attack and the ensuing battle between them and the calling birds, turtle doves, French hens and partridge make the Battle of the Somme seem like Wanderly Wagon. The mother is on a bottle of whiskey a day, as well as the sixty grains of Valium. I'm very annoyed with you. Gobnait Day Nine Listen you louser ! There's enough pandemonium in this place night and day without nine drummers drumming, while the eight flaming maids-a-milking are beating my poor, old alcoholic mother out of her own kitchen and gobbling everything in sight. I'm warning you, you're making an enemy of me. Gobnait Day Ten Listen manure-face, I hope you'll be haunted by the strains of ten pipers piping which you sent to torment us last night. They were aided in their evil work by those maniac drummers and it wasn't a pleasant sight to look out the window and see eight hefty maids-a-milking pogo-ing around with the ensuing punk-rock uproar. My mother has just finished her third bottle of whiskey, on top of a hundred and twenty four grains of Valium. You'll get yours! Gobnait O'Lúnasa Day Eleven You have scandalised my mother, you dirty Jezebel, It was bad enough to have eight maids-a-milking dancing to punk music on the front lawn but they've now been joined by your friends ~ the eleven Lords-a-leaping and the antics of the whole lot of them would leave the most decadent days of the Roman Empire looking like “Outlook”. I'll get you yet, you ould bag ! Day Twelve Listen slurry head, You have ruined our lives. The twelve maidens dancing turned up last night and beat the living daylights out of the eight maids-a-milking, ‘cos they found them carrying on with the eleven Lords-a-leaping. Meanwhile, the swans got out of the living-room, where they'd been hiding since the big battle, and savaged hell out of the Lords and all the Maids. There were eight ambulances here last night, and the local Civil Defence as well. The mother is in a home for the bewildered and I'm sitting here, up to my neck in birds' droppings, empty whiskey and Valium bottles, birds' blood and feathers, while the flaming cows eat the leaves off the pear-tree. I'm a broken man. Gobnait O'Lúnasa

If you have an ISO already, you can skip the Read step altogether. Just use Write image file to disc.

The reason it probably failed was you used Write files/folders to disc instead of burning an image file. Bootable CD's require a lot more finesse than just copying over the files from a disc. You need bootable images to inject into the files in order for the CD to boot. If you have a GPARTED ISO, you need to use the Write image file to disc option from the E-Z Picker and choose the ISO to burn to CD. If you already have a GPARTED disc you're trying to copy, you want to first use the Read option to read the disc to an ISO image file and then use the Write option to burn the read image file.

First, check to make sure something was or wasn't written to the disc when you attempted to burn before. Check Windows/File Explorer and see if there's anything on the disc. Then, in ImgBurn, go into Read Mode and see if it's Disc Is Empty. If the disc is empty, then nothing was written to the disc. So, try again, and check this Guide for instructions:

Is there any way you can and you're willing to recreate this issue and capture a screen shot of the error message window, if there is one?

I believe the Playstation 1 also couldn't read CD-RW and it was relatively at the same time as the Dreamcast.