dbminter

At least it's finally not a case where it does it for me and only for me!

Why is that DVD+RW needs formatting and DVD-RW doesn't?

I did not know that. It's been so long since I've needed to format one, probably not one new in 10 years, I never noticed it before. I mostly use +RW. I did have to format a -RW recently only because my LG Blu-Ray burner doesn't write to them correctly. When VIDEO_TS is burned to them in it, my Panasonic DVD recorder can't use them again until they are fully formatted in one of my LiteOn drives. So, that format, a full one, was the last time I can consciously recall ever formatting one. So, you're right.

Unfortunately, Avidemux just doesn't work. I knew something was up when the slider wouldn't move. I tried using the mouse to move it to the end of the video clip because I needed to trim out Freemake's stupid logo that they add to the end of their clips in Video Convertor. But, the slider wouldn't move. So, tried some of the buttons at the bottom. Discovered one that advances the slider by 25 seconds. So, I thought I'd just use it to advance to the end of the clip and use the individual frames button to go back. Avidemux just started Not responding for a while but finally made it to the end. However, this tool is NOT for video editing. You need to be able to move the slider with the mouse to move to different positions within the video. Jumping by 25 seconds at a time and then advancing back frame by frame just doesn't cut it.

Wait, you're saying that either DVD-RW or DVD+RW don't need to be formatted? I thought I had to format both of them before in the past. Also, why don't they ship rewritable discs formatted? Floppies eventually were shipped formatted because it was such an annoyance to format them ourselves.

Yeah, I was using Load project instead of Load most recent project. I never tested it with Load most recent project.

Try loading a Project where the UDF and ISO fields are blank, no text. That's how my job is. And, before you load the job, place the "focus" on the UDF field, i.e. place the cursor in the UDF field. That's where I had mine when I load the Project.

Do you know how many total there are?

I was wondering about the list of sayings that appears in the lower left corner of ImgBurn when it starts. Did you actually add each one to a list or was it a pre-compiled list? Or was it pre-existing and you added your own to them? Because of the sheer number of them that can appear, that looks like a monumental task!

I don't know if this would be considered a bug, but it is something I've been able to reproduce every time I've tested it. I had a VIDEO_TS job where I had entered UDF and ISO9660 labels text. I then loaded a saved Project file but I noticed something. While the UDF and ISO9660 labels text was reset to blank, the number of letters on UDF and the "progress bar" that shows how much text is used/is available does not reset to zero until you select another Options tab like Options and then select the Labels tab again. Then, the text number and bar are reset.

Funny, according to the ImgBurn firmware check I did on this drive I swapped in, it's apparently a rebranded LiteOn! I fell out with LiteOn after my last 2 purchase. This drive I'm replacing I had to order a replacement for from NewEgg right out of the box because it didn't work right. My next purchase, though, put LiteOn on my list. I got a Blu-Ray drive from them that did not write DVD-9 Video_TS images properly to discs; they had random pauses in playback on them. 2 out of 3 I burned did that. Then, it stopped writing BD-RE's after half a year! I notice there are no more LiteOn Blu-Ray burners on NewEgg where I got it. So, maybe they exited the Blu-Ray business or NewEgg got too many returns/complaints on them and stopped carrying them. Or maybe LiteOn is just getting out of the optical drive business altogether. Who knows?

I've decided to swap out the LiteOn. It's been in use since July 2012. It's been my drive for reading discs to images, for writing LightScribe disc surfaces, and for writing to rewritable DVD's since the LG doesn't write to them properly. And, an LG drive usually lasts about a year before it has to be replaced. It's been like a year and a half now. I had the original drive that came with my Dell in 2011 just sitting around doing nothing. So, I think I'll swap in that drive. I've still got my USB LiteOn that write LightScribe, since NewEgg only has 2 Lightscribe drives. One $99 LiteOn from a reseller of an older drive and a $150 USB Blu-Ray burner. I am guessing Lightscribe drives are going away.

I've also got an issue starting up with my LiteOn SATA drive. A disc was ejected from it after an ImgBurn operation. I tried to remove the disc and the tray started to close on me! I had an eject just now where, after a read, the tray stayed open for a few seconds and then reloaded itself! So, I ejected it again and its stayed open, but the drive makes a funny, barking noise, like gears in the motor that ejects the disc are still spinning. I had a Sony Optiarc that when it ejected discs, it would reload the tray if the tray was jostled in any way, such as vibrations caused by removing discs from it. I replaced that. Think it's time to replace this drive? It's also started to do things like on reads of DVD-9 Video_TS discs, at the layer break, the reads drop down to almost 0 and then start back up again. It didn't do this before and the last time I had a LiteOn that did this, I had to replace it.

I've seen this behavior twice now with the LG Blu-Ray XL burner Info: HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40 1.01-A1 (SATA) I believe this was a drive you said you couldn't lay your hands on as it wasn't available in the UK. So, you can't test it for yourself to see.

I've noticed this before and I wanted to see if it was expected behavior of ImgBurn/the drive. I've had my drive loading a disc in Read mode and ImgBurn returned the status of the drive as Logical unit in the process of becoming ready. Then, I realized I had the wrong disc in the drive and used the eject button in the ImgBurn interface to eject the disc. However, on eject, the drive immediately reloads the tray. Is this common behavior for a drive in the Logical unit is the process of becoming ready status? I've not tested it on my LiteOn drives. I've only seen this on my LG Blu-Ray burner.

To put the video into context Oompa Loompas are a race of beings who help Willy Wonka make candies in the 1970's movie Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. The words are parts of the many songs the Oompa Loompas sing within the movie. Those words that appear in the left corner are little quotes and jokes that the program displays on start up. They can be disabled in the settings if you like, but I forget at the moment the setting that turns them off.

Let's change the subject, then. Can anyone recommend a freeware video editor that will edit video like VirtualDub so I can trim out segments of video? I need to save the file in the same audio and video format as the input.

Well, I tried it out with my test file, but it was no go. Got the error: AVI Filter Import error: (Unknown) (80040154) The always helpful Unknown error.

I've downloaded and installed AVISynth. So, I'll try this trick next time I want to edit a Windows codec/H264 or whatever it's called file. I hope I can remember to try it.

I need some freeware utility that will convert Windows codec container files into .AVI or some format that VirtualDub can edit. I need it to convert the source file into a VirtualDub compatible file that will convert without loss of video quality. Can anyone recommend such a thing? Thanks!

On dual layer Blu-Ray video discs, is there a pause in playback at the layer break like there is sometimes on DVD-9 video?

It's good to know. When I got this latest PC 2 years ago, I used the included SATA cable for the HD but swapped in the longer cables from my 2009 PC for the 2 optical drives I wanted to use. I didn't think about it at the time but I might have been using slower cables. So, I was thinking of getting some of the newer cables to have on hand for when I get my next PC. Of course, by then, who knows? SATA may be replaced by something else! I actually still have 2 unopened PATA cables. I got them back when PATA was the standard and wanted some on hand in case I ever needed to replace them. Of course, as the story usually goes, the standard was replaced by another one before I ever even needed to open the PATA cables packaging.

I noticed there are apparently 4 types of SATA cables: SATA, SATA II, III, and VI. So, I was wondering. If I got an SATA VI cable and I didn't have SATA VI, only say II or III, would this cable still work on my SATA connections? Thanks!

I'm also about a year too early! I just now noticed I said in the topic "My 2014 Christmas message."

I remember reading your original post before and the replies. I reread them just now and I don't see anything where I directly contracted what was said before. As LUK said, you can name an image file any name you want, including .ISO, .IMG, and even .BIN. Inside the file, though, the image file contents will still be the necessary image file type for the disc you read in. Apparently, .IMG was a file extension used by CloneDVD or whatever it was. I never used it so I don't think I actually have any .IMG files. Just .ISO and .BIN/.CUE combos.