dbminter

I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a program that creates MP3-CD content. Preferably something that is free. Thanks!

Oh, wait. Never mind. It's only stuck on 6x on the USB after an initial burst of 8x. The SATA drive finally made it to 8x. I forgot that on these 8x discs there is an initial period sometimes of writing at 6x before going to 8x.

Now, ImgBurn is stuck at 6x on 8x DVD+R DL, both on SATA and USB connections!

Since I now know that HP CD-R's are CMC Magnetics and that a Google returned that Taiyo Yuden does NOT make a Lightscribe capable CD-R, I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good brand of CD-R that is Lightscribe printable. So, no HP or Verbatim CD-R's, because they're junk CMC. Thanks!

Who knows? Maybe swapping out the cable did the trick. I'll know for sure 2 months after I get the new burner and put it in. The current problem's time frame is roughly 2 months before these burns that burned successfully stop burning successfully.

Then, the simple guide to Build mode should help you. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=1779

I said LiteOn when I meant Optiarc. The USB drive is a Sony.

I fully erased the 8x Verbatim MKM DVD+RW in my LiteOn and tried another test burn, as I noted above. This time, the burn was at 8x AND the Verify completed with no errors! Go figure yet another instance!

Clarification requested. (Futurama quote. ) Do you want to put these flash videos on a DVD in a way that the flash video plays on a DVD player, i.e. not a PC DVD drive, or do you want to play the flash videos from the DVD in a PC program, like a web browser?

The disc now writes at 8x. Go figure. It doesn't write in my USB drive anymore, though. Go figure, again, of course.

Good! That means I can get one if I need to try that route.

The topic basically says it all. I swapped out my SATA cable to see if I had problems with my SATA cable and after putting in the new cable, ImgBurn writes a previously 8x writing DVD+RW at exactly and only 3.3x. The only thing I know about this cable is it said it was for HD's and that the back of the package said the transfer rate was 150 Mb/sec. I'm afraid the log doesn't offer much. The Verify is still running. I 20:12:07 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 20:12:07 -> Drive 1 - Info: ATAPI iHAS422 8 4L18 (K:) (ATA) I 20:12:07 -> Drive 2 - Info: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S 1.03 (S:) (ATA) I 20:12:07 -> Drive 3 - Info: SONY DVD RW DRU-830A SS25 (R:) (ATA) I 20:12:07 -> Drive 4 - Info: VIXWP Alcohol 3.5Z (L:) (SCSI) I 20:12:07 -> Drive 5 - Info: VIXWP Alcohol 3.5Z (N:) (SCSI) I 20:12:07 -> Drive 6 - Info: VIXWP Alcohol 3.5Z (Q:) (SCSI) I 20:12:07 Found 3 DVD±RW/RAMs and 3 BD-ROMs! I 20:12:58 Operation Started! I 20:12:58 Source File Sectors: 874,939 (MODE1/2048) I 20:12:58 Source File Size: 1,791,875,072 bytes I 20:12:58 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 00E144B3DVDSHRNK I 20:12:58 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 20:12:58 Destination Device: [2:1:0] Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S 1.03 (S:) (ATA) I 20:12:58 Destination Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: MKM-A03-00) (Speeds: 8x) I 20:12:58 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104 I 20:12:59 Write Mode: DVD I 20:12:59 Write Type: DAO I 20:12:59 Write Speed: MAX I 20:12:59 Link Size: Auto I 20:12:59 Lock Volume: Yes I 20:12:59 Test Mode: No I 20:12:59 OPC: No I 20:12:59 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 20:12:59 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 11,080 KB/s (8x) I 20:12:59 Book Type Setting: DVD+RW I 20:13:00 Filling Buffer... (40 MB) I 20:13:01 Writing LeadIn... I 20:13:21 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 874938) I 20:13:21 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 874938) I 20:19:53 Synchronising Cache... W 20:19:55 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (99%, 0/3) - No Seek Complete W 20:19:55 Synchronise Cache Failed! - Reason: No Seek Complete W 20:19:55 Retrying (1 of 3)... I 20:19:56 Closing Session... I 20:19:59 Exporting Graph Data... I 20:19:59 Export Successfully Completed! I 20:19:59 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:06:59 I 20:19:59 Average Write Rate: 4,475 KB/s (3.2x) - Maximum Write Rate: 4,725 KB/s (3.4x) I 20:19:59 Cycling Tray before Verify... W 20:20:06 Waiting for device to become ready... I 20:20:14 Device Ready! I 20:20:18 Operation Started! I 20:20:18 Source Device: [2:1:0] Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S 1.03 (S:) (ATA) I 20:20:18 Source Media Type: DVD+RW (Book Type: DVD+RW) (Disc ID: MKM-A03-00) (Speeds: 8x) I 20:20:18 Image File Sectors: 874,939 (MODE1/2048) I 20:20:18 Image File Size: 1,791,875,072 bytes I 20:20:18 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 00E144B3DVDSHRNK I 20:20:18 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 20:20:18 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 20:20:19 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 874938) I 20:20:19 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 874938) The good news is after swapping out the SATA cable, I no longer had the problem I was having with writing to 8x DVD+RW. Verifies complete. Well, they run instead of crapping out at the start of a Verify with Miscompare errors. The only problem now is I can't even get 4X write rate out this disc that I was getting 8x on. Goddamn crapped out! At the end this time. Fuck! W 20:24:33 Failed to Read Sector 874928 - Reason: No Seek Complete W 20:24:34 Sector 874928 maps to File: \VIDEO_TS\VTS_33_1.VOB W 20:24:48 Failed to Read Sector 874928 - Reason: No Seek Complete W 20:24:48 Sector 874928 maps to File: \VIDEO_TS\VTS_33_1.VOB W 20:24:50 Failed to Read Sector 874929 - Reason: No Seek Complete W 20:24:50 Sector 874929 maps to File: \VIDEO_TS\VTS_33_0.BUP W 20:24:53 Failed to Read Sector 874929 - Reason: No Seek Complete W 20:24:53 Sector 874929 maps to File: \VIDEO_TS\VTS_33_0.BUP W 20:24:55 Failed to Read Sector 874930 - Reason: No Seek Complete W 20:24:55 Sector 874930 maps to File: \VIDEO_TS\VTS_33_0.BUP E 20:24:56 Failed to Read Sector 874930 - Reason: No Seek Complete E 20:24:56 Sector 874930 maps to File: \VIDEO_TS\VTS_33_0.BUP E 20:24:56 Failed to Verify Sectors! I 20:24:59 Exporting Graph Data... I 20:24:59 Export Successfully Completed! E 20:24:59 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:04:37 I 20:24:59 Average Verify Rate: 6,317 KB/s (4.6x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 12,641 KB/s (9.1x) Tried a Ritek 8x DVD+RW. It's writing at 8x. I'm waiting to see if the Verify completes. Crapped out right at the start of the Verify. Like always to my drives 2 months after being connected. I 20:30:00 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 874938) E 20:30:06 Miscompare at LBA: 35, Offset: 4 E 20:30:06 Device: 0x77 E 20:30:06 Image File: 0xFE E 20:30:06 Total Errors in Sector: 46 E 20:30:06 Failed to Verify Sectors!

Do they make PCI cards with internal SATA ports on them? I got to thinking. I've been having an SATA related problem since March of 2010. My thought was if there is a problem with the SATA on the mobo, I can try, instead of replacing the entire PC, to add a PCI card with internal SATA ports on them and connect the two devices that currently connected to the mobo and see if the problems get better. It appears that not all the SATA ports on the mobo are problematic. I had had a problem with random PC reboots failing to start Windows until I swapped around the SATA connection with a different one. I've not had the problem of random file renames, folder undeletions, etc. on that HD connected to that SATA port. Only one of the CD burners and a 2nd HD connected to the mobo. Thanks!

Do NOT use HP Lightscribe CD-R's! Got some from my local Staples store today. They were CMC Magnetics Corporation! Also at my Staples store for charging $20 for a SATA cable that NewEgg charges $5 for! A 400% markup!

Actually, you know what? I'm tired of this. I've been having SATA related issues since March 2010. In like a year and a half, once I get this computer paid off, I'm replacing the whole thing. New burner in the new machine, I won't be putting in one of these apparently scarred by the SATA drives and instead putting in a new one, with new SATA cables for those drives. Besides, by then, a new Windows should be out, my USB is 2.0 and 3.0 should be in a new machine by then. My machine will be about 4 years old, which is the usual window I have to replace my machines in.

I'm still a little worried about the SATA thing. The SATA burner craps out during Verify after burning a VIDEO_TS compliant image to rewritable discs, where it had been writing them fine. I can burn the same image to the same rewritable in my USB burner, so, I'm not entirely sure on my SATA side since last year I had problems booting from my SATA HD from time to time as well as problems booting from bootable media in the SATA optical drive. So, soon, I'm going to swap out the SATA cables for the HD and burner in question to rule that out, replace the SATA burner with another one that is a copy of it, and see how the drive handles.

I did change the Destination folder, yes. It was working fine before that, too. As for any unwanted startups, I've been using MSCONFIG for like a decade now. I even have my Services optimized, disabling the never used ones and putting the rarely used ones to only start when called.

I did a little digging. Thumbs.db was removed in Windows Vista. So, these files must have been generated during the reign of our Lord XP.

I thought Thumbs.db was removed for Windows 7. I've not seen it in my folders that have had graphics files in them. These files were very old. The file may have even been created by Vista. I don't know. I hadn't turned it off in Windows 7 because, as I said earlier, I thought Thumbs.db was no longer a part of the OS. As you can tell by the very fact that I can see Thumbs.db I have some advanced Explorer settings that let me see hidden and system files. I know what I'm doing usually so I don't like things to be hidden from me. I know what to delete and what to leave alone. Hence why the files reappearing bugs me. It happened with MP3's, folders, and now Thumbs.db. I deleted Thumbs.db and it never returned until after I started moving those files over. And, I had viewed the files after I deleted Thumbs.db, so, I don't see Windows 7 recreating them. In fact, I thought Windows 7 had moved the Thumbs.db database file into some kind of arcane area in the Windows folder. The only thing I can think that might do that is K-Lite Codec Pack I think offers some kind of preview enabled for some files. But, those would be movie files and not still image files like I've encountered above. I think, anyway. I've run CHKDSK on the first partition with the MP3's and used Partition Master's check on the entire drive itself and they returned no errors. I restarted the last time when the MP3's kept reappearing after deletion, being deleted when I never deleted them, folders being renamed back to the old folder names after I renamed them, and deleted folders returning. So, that doesn't help. Never does, of course. I still am, unfortunately, leaning toward something wrong with the SATA connections. The only common link between my optical burners misbehaving after they've been connected for a while and the drive with the weird behavior is they all connected to SATA on the mobo.

Sometimes it's really weird. I've encountered cases where there were multiple layer break pauses, i.e. physical pauses during playback. The Simpsons Movie has 2 of these, one that occurs during the movie proper and a 2nd one that occurs at a different point during the actors' commentary track. The Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl disc also had 2 different physical layer break pauses. Then there are the cases where odd layer breaks are inserted. For instance, there's a LB pause at the end of the final episode on the Genesis Of The Daleks DVD. It occurs just after the screen starts fading to black, so, it's only visibly noticeable, i.e. not audibly noticeable.

Had it happen again, this time with image files and with WMP not even open at the time. It was with some Thumbs.db files that were lying around in some old graphics file directories. The files were in duplicate subfolders within a folder, so, I moved them to the parent folder and deleted the contents of the subfolder by deleting the subfolder. I manually deleted the Thumbs.db files because they weren't of use to me. I then moved the root folder to a USB HD, but the move asked me if I wanted to move the system file Thumbs.db. There were multiple such files from directories I had already deleted. I said no to moving the files, but checked the folders after it was done. Sure enough, the subfolders in that folder that I had deleted manually were back with Thumbs.db files that I had manually deleted previously! This time, it was a different partition, but, on the same HD. Thus, the SATA cable was the same and the same SATA connection was being used as with the previous encounter with this random undeletion and renaming. So, it has to either be 1.) a problem with Windows 2.) a problem with the HD 3.) a problem with the SATA cable 4.) a problem with the SATA connection on the mobo 5.) a problem entirely with the mobo on with the SATA port is. See, this is why I hate my life and will mostly likely try to end it again! It never stops with me! Dying burners, dying Playstations, dying dying dying! The only thing that doesn't die is me! I have to keep on going!

I remembered now the reason why I asked. I had a DVD where the layer break was still present even after selecting Seamless Layer Break. It happens from time to time. I've encountered 5, maybe 10, out of a 100, of these. I usually just manually remove the layer break with IFOEdit and create a new image by telling ImgBurn not to update the IFO/BUP files because I manually edited them. I remember one time where I told it not to update the files and the layer break was still present in the new image. Maybe I edited wrong or maybe I don't know the function correctly but if I manually have to edit out a layer break, I should choose the option not to update the IFO/BUP files, right?

Just to be clear, though, as I, too, have wondered some things about that option. It changes them in memory but writes the changed value IFO's to the image file ImgBurn creates, right? I would guess it does, because, otherwise, it's just kind of silly to change them in memory and not write them to the image file, right? I know this is kind of a silly question I really shouldn't be asking.

Yes, you will need VOB and IFO files in your VIDEO_TS folder in order for it to play on standalone DVD players. I've no idea why the software you mentioned would say it converts video container files to standard compliant DVD's and not create VOB and IFO files. (The .BUP are really useless as far as I can tell as they're just backups of the .IFO files, but, apparently, the DVD standard requires them. Go figure.) I use ConvertXToDVD, but, if you're going to buy and use that software, I have one comment you need to know. The default options for the software are that the resulting volume level on the DVD will blow out your eardrums! Don't know why they do that, but, I recommend changing the volume level in the options to Soft, something like 54%. You can set manual levels so you may want to test some discs and see what level you like.

Have had weird behavior with ripping CD tracks with WMP since installing this plugin. First, it's returned weird results like naming the last track in the list the name of the CD Disc name. Second, some description text appears as random garbage, even though the discs were created by ImgBurn where I set the desired CD-Text to what I wanted. The third one is the weirdest. Seems that in WMP is open, the target folder's contents appear and disappear at random! Directories that were deleted randomly reappear. Folders that were renamed from Unknown artist to something else switch back to having Unknown artist as the folder name. Files moved into subfolders are there at one time and then gone at another. Now, this indicates to me more than likely it's a drive problem. That it's dying or has an error on it. I ran a test on both the partition and the entire drive itself and got no errors. However, the drive is connected by SATA, of which I've had problems with starting with over a year ago. So, I can't say it's not a problem with the SATA connectors. I can't say just because I installed this plugin that it would be the problem.