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I tried an experiment using 1 Frame Pre-Gap and still got the audio hiccups/pauses sometimes between the end of one track and the start of the next one. So, a custom 75 Frames/1 Sec setting would do the same thing, I'd think. Thus, I guess I will have to request a request for cross-fading.

Can we get an option in ImgBurn when creating Audio CD's to cross fade on tracks like Nero and I believe Easy Media Creator have in their applications? Unless it's already there and I don't see it. Using a Custom Pre-Gap of 75 Frames, e.g. 1 sec, wouldn't do cross fade the tracks would it? The reason I ask is this is something I've noticed for many years in Nero, Easy Media Creator, and in ImgBurn. When selecting a 0 second Pre-Gap for tracks that make up spoken word audio CD's, there is sometimes a slight pause between the tracks, even when 0 seconds gap is selected. If I make an image of a spoken word CD, the image burns with no pauses in between the tracks. But, if I make MP3's of the tracks on the same spoken word CD and then create an audio CD, there is sometimes, but not always, a noticeable hiccup in the audio when the tracks change. The only way I've found around this is to use 1 second cross-fading in Nero. So, I'm suggesting a cross fade option. If it's already there in ImgBurn, please let me know what to do to get a spoken word audio CD to get around the hiccups I mentioned.

It's a piece of junk. I had to replace my previous 12 years of good service HP printer because there were no 64 bit drivers for Windows 7 for it. Plus, it connected by a parallel to USB connector. The point is, it would have continued to work had it not been for planned obsolescence. HP purposefully did not create drivers for to drive up sales of newer printers. So, I thought I'd get another HP. I'd never buy HP PC's or digital cameras again, but, their printers used to be good. No more! I got the HP Officejet 6000 E609a. After 3 or 4 months, I'm having to replace it. It epically failed after the first attempt to replace the ink cartridges! First, it said 2 of the 4 colors were out. So, I replaced them. When I did, THEN AND ONLY THEN did it say to replace the 3rd color! So, the next day, I had to go out and get another cartridge. I printed a test page, everything seemed all right. The software said the replaced colors were full. A week later, I tried to print a page and it wouldn't print anything. I finally got something to print and discovered that yellow no longer printed at all! THEN, the printer software said that the cartridges which were just replaced A WEEK AGO were empty! Yellow was full but no longer printed! So, I knew then and there I got a piece of junk, and, now, I'm warning other people away from it. Discovered after posting my negative review on Amazon.com that others had similar negative reviews. In fact, I learned a few things I never knew before. It was said that there was, apparently, a lawsuit over this printer or similar HP tactics because they had designed the printer or their printers across the board to add blank ink to colors in order to use up black twice as fast as it normally would. And, since black costs twice as much as the other colors and black is being used more than it should be, coupled with the fact that black is used up faster anyway, they're only charging twice as much for the same amount of ink to make more money! X 2! And they call us 's. So, HP printers now join my shit list of HP/Compaq PC's and digital cameras. The only HP item I now have that has worked well is the scanner I got a year ago. Needless to say, I'll looking for a NON HP printer to replace this one. IF I have that option. HP is pretty much the only game in town around here. But, I'll see what I can salvage.

My guess is the reason this works is the same principle behind how when one stands near a radio, the reception is better than when you step away. The human body is an excellent amplifier because of its contents. Salts and other metals in the blood, the density of bone, and other reasons.

I've not had an issue with video quality on ConvertXToDVD except when converting YouTube FLV files. That is, of course, down the quality of the image that the user posts. Plus, YouTube would have lesser quality files to keep the file sizes down and thus the download times down. The registered version does not have a watermark, as has been said; I can verify that if that's an issue.

What I'm not sure of is there already was a dead mouse in the driveway from about last week. I don't know if this is a new mouse or the old one that something decided to eat the head off of. The exposed organs were too fresh, IMO, for it to be a week old dead mouse, though.

I saw this printed in the latest PC World magazine and decided to try it out. It may be strange, but it's true! PC World tested the idea that placing a keychain remote control for your car against your head transmits the signal further than if you just held it up away from the head. I decided to see for myself. I walked a distance from my car and tested to see if I was far enough away that the remote wouldn't activate the headlights while trying to locate the car. It failed to turn the lights on. So, I held the remote to my head and tried again. Sure enough, as PC World said, the lights came on!

Today, it was a headless dead mouse on the walkway leading to the drive way! :&

But, it still qualifies under "write quality."

My experience has been it depends on what is running. I was burning a DVD recently and a scheduled Ad-Aware Smart Scan started while the burn was in progress. The Verify failed because the write didn't write correctly at one point. Most likely due to the threshold for HD activity being reached. What happened when I examined the recorded side of the disc was there was a large band of unburned dye around the middle of the disc.

Probably depends on what "file" you burned. What was it? If it was a video file like an AVI, you only created a data DVD. The PC DVD player is probably designed to play both standard DVD Video discs and PC video file types. (One annoying thing those players often do is hijack the video file types extensions from what the PC previously had them set at. WinDVD used to NOT do it, but DOES with the latest 2011 version. Divx 8 does, too.) If by file, you mean you burned a DVD image file like an ISO, then, you'd have to check the contents of the disc in Windows Explorer and see if there's a folder called VIDEO_TS. If it's not there, then, a standalone DVD player definitely will most likely not play it. (Some players may be designed to play video files like Divx discs.) Also, are you sure your DVD player supports DVD+R discs?

I just now came up with a new name for what CMC should stand for! Crappy Media Company!

I never buy local. I always buy online. Brick and mortar stores only carry the same crap, which is usually CMC. Office Depot used to use Ritek, but, I don't know if they do anymore. If I get CMC by online, I send it back for a refund. I've had to pick and choose many times. Optodisc used to make a good blank, then switched to CMC. Memorex sometimes uses good media, but mostly uses CMC. Even Verbatim uses them in their CD-R's. I discovered that one by online, too, and sent them back for a refund.

Is your image file contained on a USB hard drive or is your Windows TEMPDIR set to a directory on a USB hard drive? I encountered the same problem and after I moved my TEMPDIR directory from my USB HD to an SATA HD, the problem went away. TEMPDIR holds my Windows temporary files and the default directory where I hold image files made by ImgBurn, both from reads and builds for writes. When this happens to you, do you have to power off the PC to stop the burner drive from writing? e.g. does the drive light stay on even though ImgBurn reports a 0.0x write speed? I had to power off my PC, even after using Task Manager to close off ImgBurn because the drive kept having activity. I would also recommend something other than CMC Magnetics media. Memorex and a lot of other companies use that cheap media. Unfortunately, there's no way of knowing the MID on the package. You have to physically open the package and insert a disc into a drive that can return MID's in ImgBurn. Verbatim (Usually. Even they use CMC for their CD-R's.) and Taiyo Yuden make the best quality DVD blanks.

I still remember my days of C class in college. I remember being so amazed at how the format of a variable didn't necessarily have to be declared. e.g. a number could be read in as either a regular number or as a string by just declaring 1 variable. If I remember my formatting correctly. It's been almost 20 years since I last touched C.

Happened again! Had to restore a daily backup from yesterday to fix it! Am going to add a shortcut for a daily Scheduled Task job for me to check this every day after the backup runs.

Have you used these discs before? Or is this your first time trying to use them? I'd blame it on the quality of the discs themselves. Princo is a notoriously cheap brand of media manufacturer. I once purchased a DVD from Amazon.com that turned to be a DVD-R that was made by Princo. I made sure to make a backup copy on a good quality DVD-R right away. Put one of these CD-RW's from Princo into a DVD burner drive and open ImgBurn in Write mode. From the pane of information on the right side, what is listed under Disc ID under the line that says Physical Format Information? Looks like LUK answered while I was typing.

I was also having 2 other issues I discovered while using the USB HD as my tempdir. Sometimes, ImgBurn would be burning to a DVD-R and then just stop. The write speed would drop to 0.0x, but, the drive activity still continued. The drive wouldn't stop spinning until power down, even after restarting Windows. The other was a minor issue writing to 24x CD-RW using image files that were stored on the USB HD. A window would pop up during the write that said something about a read error, but the write would continue until end of burn, even if I didn't close the error dialog window.

My answer to that is that time period is stating Jon Pertwee's run. So, Pertwee is not a Time Lord.

Here's another amazing Doctor Who time discrepancy! http://westfieldcomics.com/comic-books/Doctor-Who-Colony-in-Space-DVD/11101083 Instead of saying Jon Pertwee's run as the Doctor was from 1970-1974, it says he's STILL the Doctor and will be until the amazing year 9174!

I submitted this for the back of PC World magazine, where they publish web site errors and goofy software error messages. (e.g. The software failed to installed. The operation completed successfully! which I believe is one from the current issue) They're going to publish it in the December issue!

Discovered another limitation of the drive that is making me a little wary about it. First had a difficulty in getting the drive recognized when I first partitioned it. It would NOT be detected when connected to the USB port that my old 1 TB USB HDD used to run on. It would be detected on one of the PC's front USB ports and when I eventually swapped around USB cables connected in the back, got it detected. But, I think it's a problem with that particular port or in Windows because my keyboard also wasn't detected when connected to that port. What I've discovered now is if I use one of the partitions for temporary files, like ImgBurn disc read image files, ImgBurn target image files, DVDShrink output, and for temporary files in general, the output is inconsistently corrupt. For instance, some DVD target files created by DVDReMake work and sometimes they freeze up PC DVD playing software. Not when those files are burned to the internal SATA HDD. So, I won't use one of the partitions for its intended purpose: to store Windows temporary files, my DVD temporary work files, ImgBurn temporary files, and the like. It just means adding one extra step to setting up a new PC, instead of just plugging in the USB HDD and changing the drive letters around. For my own future notes, for testing on future new PC's, I was using Doctor Who: Earthshock as the source for DVDReMake. When VIDEO_TS.IFO is loaded in Windows Media player, there is NO freezing of the DVD playback after playing the BBC logo. Plus, there was one major drawback to using the USB drive for temporary files: the read/write speeds. ImgBurn writing to HD was significantly slower than SATA HD, which makes sense.

I've not had any issues with Ritek media either. I've used several kinds ranging from Office Depot CD to DVD media. It's just I've heard a lot of people apparently outside of the US have had quality control problems with Ritek. As I said, I didn't have any issues even with their DVD+R DL that was TDK branded from Office Depot. (No longer made, it seems. I still use Verbatim MKM as my primary source of DVD+R DL, though.) I've used Optiarcs for several years now. I don't know if Optiarc is even still a brand actually. They may all be branded as Sony drives now. I know when I do searches for them on NewEgg, I usually use the term Sony Optiarc. Or sometimes just Optiarc. I violate even my own systems.

Got some Sony DVD-R's and they've started using Ritek as their manufacturer. The MID used to be SONYD16 or something like that; it is now RITEKF1. I've not had problems with Ritek, even using TDK Ritek DVD+R DL. But, I know some people have had trouble with Ritek before, so, I'm passing this piece of information along.

I don't know what build mine was beyond what they called it: Windows 8 Developers' Preview. As I said, it worked once and then it didn't work; typical Microsoft software behavior. I have to install it over my primary partition and then restore the daily backup in order to try it out. I've done it like 3 times thus far, and that's enough as far as I'm concerned!