dbminter

Have you always used RITEK DVD-R? Are your DVD+R Ritek as well? Are you using the same DVD-R's you've always used? If so, maybe the manfucaturer changed dye manufacturers. How many different DVD players have you tried? If you've tried multiple players, then if your DVD-R's changed, maybe your drive doesn't like Ritek DVD-R.

Ricoh can be iffy media in some parts of the world. For instance, in the US, Ricoh media is generally pretty good. I've had Ritek DVD+R DL that burned fine. But many European users have reported Ricoh media isn't very good. Since you reported good burns with Verbatims, it's most likely the Ricoh media is not liked by your burner. Although the Verbatims you mentioned being made by umedisc is a little unusual. I've never heard of umedisc being a Verbatim outsource company, like CMC.

I'm not really interested in it being lossless or not. FLAC was simply the delivery method. I'm perfectly happy with MP3, as long as I set the settings to make it the highest possible and CBR. But, I'll install madFlac. I can remember the ancient 1997 days when I had to go completely out of Windows and use a DOS utility to rip CD's to WAV and then back into Windows and run a Windows app to convert the WAV to MP3. I couldn't rip to WAV except completely out of Windows into DOS. And I didn't have an app yet that ripped directly to MP3 until MusicMatch Jukebox. MMJ was actually the first piece of software I ever bought a license for online.

I just used the convertor to change the FLAC's into MP3's and ImgBurn imported them fine into an Audio CD.

Actually, I just found a free FLAC to MP3 convertor. ImgBurn may accept those converted MP3's. If not, then Nero or Roxio should.

The bit depth is listed as 24. Is that the same as 24 bit, which I'm guessing it is? If it is, then, is there nothing I can do about this?

I guess I should ask the important question IF FLAC files can be converted to Audio CD with ImgBurn.

I'm trying to create an Audio CD from FLAC files. ImgBurn said that all 4 files either needed a DirectShow filter installed or that they might be corrupt. How would I know what DirectShow filters to install and where would I get them? Here's the relevant information: E 14:06:11 ConnectFilters(Source, Sample Grabber) Failed! E 14:06:11 Reason: No combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection. E 14:06:11 Hint: You may need to install some additional DirectShow filters in order to support files of this type or the file might be corrupt.

When a music CD is read to an image file, the read process starts with Analysing Tracks. What exactly is this analysis? What is it analyzing for?

Try shutting down Windows, powering off the PC, leaving it turned off for a minute, and restarting. Then see if ImgBurn recognizes the disc. If the drive is external, power it off and leave it off for a minute. I've encountered instances where ImgBurn won't recognize media even though just a minute before it had and powering off the PC/restarting Windows was the only thing that fixed it.

Oh, wait, you said so media player can play them. So, it depends on what kind of media is on the disc. AVI, MP4, etc. Along as it's not a DVD Video, with a VIDEO_TS folder and VOB files inside it, you can use My Computer to drag and drop the contents to HD. Even if it is a Video DVD with a VIDEO_TS folder, if the disc isn't protected by CSS or other video content protection, you can just drag and drop the VIDEO_TS folder to HD. Then, you can open the VIDEO_TS.IFO inside the VIDEO_TS folder in Windows Media Player to play the DVD Video contents. If you can't drag and drop the VIDEO_TS contents, then the disc is protected. We can't help with protected video discs, I'm afraid.

What kind of DVD is it? Is it a video DVD or does it contain some kind of non video data files?

I've noticed that from time to time, the right panel of disc information just disappears! It just displays a blank window with no text. This seems to happen most often when the Device Arrival/Removal has occurred. The panel is blank in both Write and Read modes. Ejecting and reloading discs doesn't populate the window with any text. The only thing that fixes it is to close down ImgBurn and reopen it. Am I the only one who has encountered this?

Is a CD-DA disc an audio CD?

Why is it most drives write media like 8x DVD+RW and 8x DVD+R DL's at graduated write speeds? I know it's based on the write strategies on the disc/in the drive, but some drives don't write at these gradually increasing speeds. Sony/Optiarc wrote 8x DVD+RW and 8x, not starting at 6x and then eventually going to 8x. They also wrote 8x DVD+R DL at 8x, not starting at 4x, then going to 6x, and then to 8x. So, why the graduated write strategy?

I see on Amazon.com that TDK makes a BD-RE. I may try those out. TDK used to make a good CD-R. UNTIL they, too, got in bed with the whores known as CMC for their LightScribe CD-R's. I'd have returned my TDK LightScribe CD-R's if it wouldn't have cost me more to return them than what I paid for them off of Amazon.com. There's also Sony, but they're I had one that died before 5 rewrites. That needless to say went back to the store. So, I won't try those. There's also something called Gigablock, I think, but I doubt they're trustworthy, either.

You know the funny thing? My first Verbatim BD-RE DL was in a red and white labeled case. It was made by Verbatim though according to its MID. But, I got some Verbatim BD-RE DL's with inkjet printable services, and TDK made them! I think Verbatim may go on my shit list if this trend continues. Used to be I could trust Verbatim for DVD-R, DVD+R DL, BD-R, and BD-RE. Now, I know I can't trust Verbatim for BD-RE and CD-R. I wonder how long it will take before their trusted DVD-R, DVD+R DL, and BD-R are no longer made by Verbatim and become untrusted CMC.

Yeah, Verbatim discontinued the blue and white one I bought before. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HHSTWW/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Looks like the only viable option now is Memorex's Ritek brand. However, 15 of them are selling for 100 and they're still only at best a 2nd tier product. The PS3 does not like Ritek BD media. I normally return CMC media whenever I get it, like the Verbatim CD-R's I got a few years ago. However, there may not be a choice anymore. It's a shame Verbatim is letting their reputation go to horse shit over some profit margin. Good to know about the difference between the blue/white and red/white labels. I'd know what to look for now... if Verbatim hasn't totally discontinued their own brand of BD-RE's.

Do NOT but Verbatim BD-RE's sold in 10 disc spindles, like those found here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FB7KT6/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 They are made by CMC Magentics! Like Verbatim does with its CD-R's, they have farmed out their bulk BD-RE's to CMC, the absolutely worst, bottom of the barrel optical media manufacturer out there. WHY Verbatim continues to damage their reputation by getting it bed with these fuckers is beyond me!

In the DiscID for CD's and in other time length fields, there are entries for minutes, seconds, and frames. What exactly is a Frame?

This addresses something I just thought of yesterday! I was contemplating the use of BUP files as part of the DVD Video standard. My thinking is if a disc is damaged where IFO files are stored and can't be read, then the damage would most likely prevent its BUP file from being read because the IFO and BUP would probably be stored in the same area on the disc. Of course, most damage to a disc means that part of a VOB can't be read, so it makes playing the IFO or BUP redundant.

What is IFO/BUP 32K Padding and what exactly does it do when enabled? Other than, obviously, padding IFO/BUP files to 32 K size if they are less than 32 K. Thanks!

I would say it shouldn't be the use of a CD-R. CD's are region free, as they were created before the technology existed to enable region specific areas of the world. The odd thing I see is that recordable media should always be region free. I thought region enabled areas on a disc, as least as far as DVD is concern, is hard recorded, physically, on a disc. For instance, an R2 DVD copied with ImgBurn's copy function, inferring it's not copy protected, which then it won't copy it, will be region free on the recordable DVD you copy it to. This is because the region area is physically present on a pressed DVD. I also wasn't aware Windows Media Player checked the region code of a DVD before playing it. PAL/NTSC also shouldn't be an issue because Windows Media Player is computer software, where a computer monitor doesn't care if video is encoded in PAL or NTSC. So, unfortunately, the bottom line for me is I've no idea why you'd have the problem you're having. However, you can try copying the contents you created to a rewritable DVD and see if that fixes the problem. Then you can copy that disc to a DVD-R or DVD+R. Using a DVD+RW or DVD-RW, you can save using a write once DVD in case it doesn't work as you can reuse the rewritable DVD.

There are still a few issues being ironed out. For instance, it's legal but certain general copying provisions still need to be ratified. The practical upshot is you will most likely not be faulted legally for making copies of what you own without posting them for others to get, time shifting, device copying, and cloud backup.

I inserted a blank DVD+RW I had just Quick Erased. I started to accidentally read it to an image file and noticed ImgBurn was reading the entire 4,700 KB's to an image file. However, the disc is empty. Shouldn't ImgBurn say Disc is empty and not read it to an image file? If I double click on the disc in Windows Explorer, it asks how do I want to burn it, like a flash drive or with a CD/DVD player. So, it does seem as if this disc is empty. And when I insert the disc in the drive, SOMETIMES Windows displays the Blank disc Autoplay. I thought if a disc was blank, ImgBurn would say it's blank and not read it to an image file. Am I wrong?