dbminter

I read this, but I have to wonder, given today's date, if it's not just an April Fool's Day joke. Is it true the UK is about make it legal to copy CD/DVD/Blu-Ray discs that you own? And that you can copy them to mobile devices and view them how you wish to view them, rather than being locked down to whatever format Hollywood dictated? That as long as you keep the physical copy you bought/were given, you can have a copy for backup purposes? If that is true, would this make the UK the first country to legalize what should always have been legal in the first place?

So, I guess Windows 8's install disc is now a DVD-9? I would guess it would have to be considering about half of Windows 8 must be devoted to the OS restore function files.

Saw a field called Disc Time Stamp under BD Disc Information. What is this field? Is it just the date of manufacture of the BD-R disc? I saw the field was 03/2010, not an exact date, so I was wondering if it was just the month and year the BD-R was manufactured. Also, is there a way to tell when a disc was burned with ImgBurn? Is there some kind of field somewhere that records this information on a BD-R/other disc? If there is, what is it and how can I see it/see it with ImgBurn? I know ImgBurn burned this disc and that it was another BD-R that was read to an image file in ImgBurn.

What software are you using to mount the image? Slysoft's Virtual CloneDrive will mount .DVD files. So, you may want to try swtiching your emulating software. However, I have to worry it may not be an issue with your mounting software but an error in the image itself. Try this. Open ImgBurn and select Write mode. Drag and drop/open the .DVD file for this image. See if it opens correctly and check the Size listed on the left side pane. If it says it's 40 MB, then there's some kind of error in the image and there's nothing that can probably be done. If it says it's 8 GB, then I can only say it's the mounting software.

I just tested Hibernate from the Start Menu Shut Down options and it worked!

That seems to have done it! Thanks! At least it's (I originally typed leas tits! Shows where my mind is! ) shown up in the Shut Down options now. I've not tested it yet. I wonder why it wasn't enabled to start with.

I don't have a Suspend to RAM option in my BIOS that I could find anywhere. Here's what I got from the command line utility: The following sleep states are available on this system: Standby ( S1 S3 ) The following sleep states are not available on this system: Standby (S2) The system firmware does not support this standby state. Hibernate Hibernation has not been enabled. Hybrid Sleep So, it says Hibernation has not been enabled. How can I enable it then? Actually, what that utility returned isn't entirely accurate! I DO have Hibernate enabled, in a way, because I can Hibernate the PC with PowerOff's Hibernate option. It's just not enabled in that it doesn't appear as an option in my Start Menu's Shut Down button.

That was the setting that I found on Google that wasn't there under the Power Options. I don't have that tab under my options. Well, I have a Sleep tab, but only 2 items under that and none of them are for Allow hybrid sleep. I only have Sleep after and Allow wake timers.

According to Amazon.com, Verbatim has discontinued its brand of BD-R DL discs with inket printable labels. Can its inkjet BD-R discs be far behind? The only BD-R's Amazon.com seems to have in stock are the branded ones with WAY too little label space on them. Too much shit on them, with their logo, capacity, speed, etc. The inkjet printable ones are listed as in stock but take 1 to 3 weeks to ship. Which essentially means they don't have them.

I have no Hibernate option on my PC. I've NEVER had Hibernate. I've even tried the Hibernate function in PowerOff, but it doesn't work. I have Sleep, but not Hibernate. I Googled it and it was suggested to try disabling Hybrid Sleep. I tried to change it in Power Options, but where it was said there should be a Hybrid Sleep tab, there was no tab of settings to change! I have a Dell XPS 8300 from 2011 and am running Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Google also said I should check my BIOS settings to make sure power options are set. My power settings were only for charging USB devices while the PC was off and to turn on the power at set times of day. Is it just that some PC's don't support Hibernate? EDIT: Actually, it seems now I DO have Hibernate enabled. I tried PowerOff's Hibernate again and it works. So, I do have Hibernate, but I don't have Hibernate in my Shut Down options in the Start Menu. Is there something I can do to enable Hibernate in my Start Menu?

And I had said before it was related to just DVD-9 VIDEO_TS jobs. Turns out it only appeared to be that way to me because I was only building those kinds of jobs. After I discovered it appeared to only be started by reading discs to images, I did some more tests. Because in the past I had been building jobs and then reading the burnt discs to image files to check their readability. So, there would be a Build and then a Read. And it seems this Read that adds files to the queue is what is causing my issue. That after a Read, I have to manually add the image being Built by using recent files.

Hm, it's odd that you had to shutdown twice for it to release control of the drive. If it didn't do it the first time, frankly, it shouldn't have done it the second! But, I say, when you deal with PC's/Windows, whatever works is good.

Remember probably over a year ago I posted about how Built DVD-9 Video_TS image files weren't showing up in the queue after being created and I had to manually load them via the recent files? I'm guessing it was over a year ago because I did a search for my posts and it only listed up to March 22, 2013. Unless there's a way to increase the search for the time of a post was made. I believe I've discovered something else related to it. I noticed it seemed to have stopped! Then, it reappeared and I think I know why. This seems to only happen after a Read mode to an image adds an image file to the queue. If I did a string of Builds, the image labels changed, showing that the image, even though the name is always the same, was being loaded. But, if I did a Read of a disc to an image file and ImgBurn added that file to the queue, I'd have to manually load the image file name from the recent files after each Build after the Read.

I have received the newer kind of these Verbatim DVD+R DL's with inkjet labels that are now hub printable. They're made in the United Arab Emirates, but the Manufacturer ID is still MKM, the same manufacturer as the ones made in Sinapore. I haven't burned one yet, but the indications are the UAE made ones are probably as good as the ones made in Singapore.

Yes, shut down Windows, power off the PC, wait a minute, then power the PC back on. Try to eject the drive before Windows starts to see if it's not Windows still holding on to the drive even after Windows starts to see.

Does the eject button on the drive itself still work? If not, first, try to manually eject the disc that failed with the little hole in the drive and remove the disc. Then, if you haven't tried it yet, try powering off your computer, leave it off for a minute, and restart it.

LUK, do you remember in a previous post I made where I was in Build mode and the ISO9660 label field suddenly turned into all Asian characters after I dragged and dropped some data in the Advanced interface? Well, it happened again! I can't recreate it because it appears to be random. Or, rather, there's a cause, but since I don't know how to trigger it, I won't know when it will pop up. This is similar to another random issue in the Advanced interface I once mentioned years ago that still happens randomly. I'll drag and drop a folder or a series of folders and instead of the folder/folders I selected, a different folder appears in the job. Even if I selected multiple folders, only one folder appears in the job. I've also had this happen with files, too.

What exactly is the Buffer? A buffer in system memory as opposed to a memory buffer on the burner itself, which would be the Device Buffer? And does the Buffer pass information to the Device Buffer? I would think so, given it would make sense to send a chunk of information into system memory, which would be larger, and then filter pieces down to the burner itself.

Verbatim has discontinued manufacture of its Lightscribe DVD-R's according to Amazon.com. They've sold out of their stock; I got the last 50 stack it seems. Only resellers have it listed now. At least the prices aren't outrageous... yet!

You'll want to look for something like this in Verbatims: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005F2YPH2/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I live in the United States so I get them from Amazon.com. Where you live, your mileage may differ. You'll also want to try and get the DataLife ones made in Singapore. Like these: http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DataLifePlus-Printable-50-Disc-98319/dp/B00DT6OWFG/ref=dp_ob_title_ce It will say so on the white label on the outside of DataLife Plus brand. I think they may have switched to United Arab Emirates now. I've not tested those yet to see if they're MKM's and if they write okay. The Singapore I used to get are no longer sold by Amazon.com, only through resellers selling 50 of them for between $130 and $280! The ones Amazon.com sells now are white inkjet hub printable ones made in UAE rather the non hub printable ones I used to get from Singapore. The above links are ones I've used before with very few failures that weren't down to a failing drive. Except, as I said, I've not tried the UAE made ones yet.

The track size was the first thing I noticed, too. Had no idea what could be done to fix it, though.

MKM's are Verbatims. MKM is part of the Disc ID, the string on a disc that identifies its manufacturer. Well, ideally it does. Sometimes they're faked, like past fake Sony discs were made with SONY in their Disc ID.

Have you used those Ricoh DVD+R DL discs before? i.e. were you able to write to them before and now you can't? The usual cause of write errors for DVD+R DL's is inferior quality discs. Verbatim MKM's are the preferred choice for DVD+R DL. While I've used Ricoh DVD+R DL's before in the past without problems, I've only used a few because I could find them at Office Depot, and I needed them immediately versus waiting for Amazon.com Verbatims. The peripheral device error is probably specific to using a USB burner. However, it could be down to the media not being liked by the drive. Again, have you used these discs before in this drive? Most people's DVD+R DL write problems go away when they use Verbatim DVD+R DL instead of whatever they're using.

So, what is the maximum MB / min size a pressed CD can be?

I remember PrimeDisc. They made the first DVD-R's I ever bought in bulk. From Shop4Tech, back before I put them on my list. Before, the only DVD-R's I could get were $15 a pop from a local Sears. They were quality, though, made by Panasonic.