dbminter

I once asked for a way to disable the layer break prompt. Got the same answer. I never tried it out, though, because I'd had to mess with the settings and get DVD+R DL's to not play properly.

When you say it's burning as a movie file, what exactly do you mean? .AVI, .MPG, .MOV, .DIVX what? Also when you say it won't play PAL or NTSC files, what exactly do you mean? The DVD HAS to be either PAL or NTSC. There's no other choice. In order to play on a standard DVD player, the ISO image contents must contain a VIDEO_TS folder inside it. Unless your player also plays other file formats like .DIVX, as some players do, there must be a VIDEO_TS folder.

Unfortunately, most brick and mortar store offerings use cheap CMC Magnetics Corporation discs. I would not trust these, ever. So, I can't tell you what is good, but, I can tell you some things to avoid as they use CMC. Don't get HP, Verbatim, or Imation.

Is that Defensor I see as your avatar?

DVD+R DL discs do the same thing. They start at 4x then grow to 8x then drop back to 4x near the end of the burn. LiteOn drives sometimes do similar things to rewritable DVD's. 6x DVD-RW start at 4x then grow to 6x. 8x DVD+RW start at 6x then grow to 8x.

Having had a bad experience with them, I am warning people off of slim Playstation 2 models. They choke in parts of recorded DVD's that other players have no problem playing at the same parts on.

I currently have that Optiarc model installed in my machine. I can't complain about Optiarcs in the past I've used. Except that they hated Ritek 6x DVD-RW's and would never start a Verify on them. Unfortunately, I can't really gauge the Optiarc's performance as I had numerous system problems in the PC related to SATA and USB drives.

IF the image is a DVD Video image, of course. Otherwise, DVDShrink won't do.

In conjunction with my MP3-CD application question, anyone have a program they'd recommend for creating DVD-Audio content? Again, preferably free. Thanks!

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.