dbminter

If you got a successful Read to an image file without any kind of errors, it is generally a good test that the burn is good. Not 100%, of course. A 100% test is if it's a BD Movie disc is to play all of the contents on a disc in a Blu-Ray player and check, but that can take hours. I am a bit concerned that the read speed dropped to 2x after the layer change. Generally when read/write speeds suddenly drop, you're about to get a failure.

Well, I wouldn't call 2 betas released within the last 6 months dead software development. Just because YOU haven't gotten your hands on new code releases doesn't mean there aren't any.

I tried it just now, and it doesn't have be burning to replicate. I just opened ImgBurn, left it as the main focused application, locked Windows, powered off the monitor, waited like 10 seconds, powered the monitor back on, and it was reproduceable. Is your monitor an HDMI using UHD driver? I thought you said before you were using an nVIDIA graphics card, but I could be wrong. BTW, it's not just ImgBurn. Macrium Reflect has a similar issue. If a backup is running and you lock Windows and power off the monitor, if the backup completes before you power the monitor back on, the Close button on the log window doesn't work properly. Even though the log says the operation is 100% complete, pressing Close asks if I'm sure I want to cancel the operation. If I choose Yes, Close becomes grayed out and the window cannot be closed. Task Manager must be implemented to kill off the application. Another application's operation completed window with an OK button in a similar situation will fill up the entire screen, even though that window cannot normally be resized. The OK button cannot be selected either, forcing another Task Manager kill of the application. So, it seems to be some kind of Windows related issue. Possibly involving HDMI and UHD combination.

@LIGHTNING UK! I got a new monitor. One using a direct HDMI cable instead of a DVI to HDMI bridge. The issue is still present. Here are steps to replicate the issue: 1.) Start a disc burn. 2.) Once the burn starts, lock Windows so you must enter your password to keep using Windows. 3.) Power off the monitor. 4.) After, say, 1 minute, power back on the monitor. 5.) Log back into Windows with your user password. 6.) What I have is a Log window that minimized itself to the far lower left hand side of the screen. See attach screen capture video for what I'm seeing. ImgBurn Log Window Video Hm, I can't explain why the video quality is so poor. It's never done this this way before. You're probably better off saving the file and viewing it locally for a better chance of seeing what I'm seeing. Hopefully, it will still express what I'm seeing. If not, here are some screen captures: Minimized Log Window Opened Log Window From Mimized Window Resized Window To Normal Position Thanks!

Well, the initial problem should still remain. Unless you convert the MP4 to VIDEO_TS, a DVD player won't play it. Unless your Magnavox does support playing MP4 as a native format, which most DVD players don't. That would explain why it plays in Windows but not on a DVD player. Windows natively supports MP4, but most DVD players don't. If you do somehow have a DVD player that plays MP4 files from a DVD, then the next step would be to post the log of one of these DVD's you burned that isn't playing in your Magnavox player. You could be using different DVD discs, like CMC's, which may not read on the Magnavox because they're junk and have high compatibility read failure rates. Under Help, you'll find ImgBurn logs. Just open the .LOG file and find one of these burns that didn't play. Post the entire log, both the creation of the .ISO and the burning of the ISO to DVD.

Oh, failed to notice it says what location you're in under your ID. I would say it's most likely an incompatibility issue with the Pioneer and that media. You said you got some to work but some not to, which means the solution could be as simple as replacing your Pioneer with a new one. Bottom line is, I think, you'll need a different BD burner in some capacity in order to fix this issue. But, trying those MediaRange could solve the problem, and if it does, it's definitely cheaper and easier a solution.

I've never used BD-R DL before, but I do notice that even in that log, the error occurs at the layer change. People using the apparently good MID for Verbatim BD-R DL in places other than North America have reported problems using that media. So, it could simply be based on where you are in the world, which is why I asked. Verbatim uses the same MID across the board for BD, except when they're using CMC. You could try something other than Verbatim, but you'll most likely just get CMC media, which you won't want.

I don't know about OPC, but you can always try it and see. Personally, I wouldn't think it would matter in this case, but, as I said, I know nothing about OPC. If you do disable it and try again, you're only out one disc. There is one other thing to take into consideration. What part of the world are you getting these Verbatim in? Some people in places outside of North America have reported problems with Verbatim BD media. I intend on trying a Pioneer again pretty soon, but my experience with them is their quality control has gone downhill for years. The last one I had 2 years ago died within 2 months. Pioneer sent me a replacement and it, too, died in 2 months, after which they issued me a refund. However, Pioneer did make the longest lasting BD drive I ever had at 2.5 years, which is an unheard of amount of time in my user experience. And Pioneer continues to ignore my pleas to fix their firmware issue with old generation Ritek 8x DVD+RW. Their drives for the past 5 years have incompatible firmware with them, even though they claim to work with them. Verifies will always fail, but writes and verifies pass in the LG WH16NS60, which is why I've been using it for like 5 years. The NS40, though cheaper because it doesn't support UltraHD BD, I don't recommend because it does not write properly to BD-RE DL, which means it most likely does not write properly to BD-R DL. Even though I don't use UltraHD BD, I do use BD-RE DL, so I pay the extra for the NS60 over the NS40.

It is quite common for errors to occur at layer breaks of multi-layer media. The problem is a poor implementation of the write strategy in the firmware. This can generally only be fixed by updating the firmware or trying a different BD burner that might like those media better. The easiest and cheapest solution is to first check for a firmware update for your Pioneer. In Write mode, right click on the Pioneer drive in the drop down list of target devices and choose the last option in the context menu which should say something like Check for firmware updates. Other than that, I'd try an LG drive like the WH16NS60, which is what I use. I've never used BD-R DL media, but I have used BD-RE DL from Verbatim in the NS60 for many years.

That would be my first check. Make sure you've actually got a VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD you're trying to play in a DVD player. If you're just burning .MP4 to disc without converting first, most DVD players won't play the disc. However, if you have a DVD player that supports playing container files like MP4 from disc, then it would play fine on that player, but not on most other players. Windows doesn't care because it can natively handle containers with many different kinds of software, such as VLC.

Dell towers are really easy to work inside of. They're easy to crack open the case, easy to swap components in and out, and enough working room inside of them for someone with large hands like myself. I'm 6 foot 6 and a half so my hands are larger than most people buying PC's. For all intents and purposes, I should be building my own rigs to take into account all of this and still get what I want. But, I've never actually done that before, so I stick with prefabricated PC's. I actually tried out a Dell on LUK's recommendation 11 years ago.

I gave up on their tech support nearly 2 years ago. After times spent with their tech support, about 2 years ago, I had a relatively new XPS 8930. After only 18 months, it developed an issue where if an external HDD was connected, precisely 45 minutes later, Windows would lock up and refuse to start on restart of PC of every time. Repeated restores of images before the HDD's were connected worked fine, but regardless of the manufacturer, model, or size of the USB HDD, the lock ups occurred. Even if the HDD's were disconnected on restart of Windows, Windows stubbornly refused to start. Dell eventually wanted me to send it the entire PC to check it. Wasn't cost effective to send it in because it was out of warranty and in order to properly test it, I'd also have to send in one of my external USB HDD's for them to connect and test with. I probably wouldn't get that HDD back, so I just bought a new 8930. And their preinstalled Dell suites are almost always full of bugs, so I uninstall them whenever I get a new Dell PC. Particularly SupportAssist.

I love Dell for their prefabricated tower PC's, but their tech support totally sucks.

That ASUS model is a half height drive and not a slim. You can tell slim models by the fact that ImgBurn cannot automatically reload the drive tray once it ejects it.

Unfortunately, it's not really easy to discern the reputable discs from the non. Plus, it varies based on where you are in the world. For instance, in North America, Verbatim makes a quality BD-R, but it seems in Europe, they're using CMC. You might have luck with a seller possibly on eBay who is in North America who is willing to send to Europe. Of course, that's hardly cost effective. I've not noticed any odd behavior with the forum today, so it must have been transient.

Is your PC drive also a slim model? Slim models are rarely good. There are, of course, some good slim model units, but most are trash. The worst things that happened to the Playstation models were the creation of the slims. I had a slim model PS2 I returned right away because it would play DVD's back with skips.

Hm, that's extremely odd to get an MS DOS error on copying files. Unless you were in Command Prompt and used its COPY command. Even then, "MS DOS" is an archaic term and no longer applies to current Windows. I'd have expected a CRC error near the beginning, but getting any kind of error message on an attempt to copy reinforces my thoughts that the disc is probably no longer fully readable. You're welcome!

Given that the PS2 doesn't appear capable of reading it anymore and the read error doesn't occur into shortly after reading starts, it appears that the disc is probably no longer fully readable. I still have my original, first generation, fat model October 2000 PS2. It still works, but I haven't played a game fully in it since 2014.

It's odd you could cross flash a BH to a WH16NS60. And downgrading makes sense as most firmware is locked down so you can't regress back to older packages without unauthorized third party utilities. Pioneer drives have some such tools, but, as I said, they're not supported.

I was not aware of this. Thanks! It would serve as in between if I ever need it (I was really just suggesting the feature for future use.) if ImgBurn can't do/doesn't add the feature.

In absence of a log, the initial guess I would make is the disc went bad. It was fine a year ago when backed up but has since become partially unreadable. You could try using a different drive to make sure. Another probably sure fire way is if this PS2 game disc is a DVD. If it's a DVD, then this test will work. In File Explorer, try to copy and paste all the contents from the disc's root directory to a temporary location somewhere on an HDD. If File Explorer copies all the contents, then the disc is most likely not bad. If it fails, say it returns a CRC error, then it's either your drive or the disc that may have gone bad. If this test does work, does not rule out a problem somewhere reading the disc structure, though. When does this error pop up? Immediately or after some portion of the disc has been read in?

Depends on your definition of a few. I always try 3 times in a row before I declare a hardware failure. If you burned 3 to 5 discs that failed in a row, then it's most likely the hardware, particularly if you had no problems with these BD-R before. However, there is something to note: I 07:30:15 Destination Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: CMCMAG-BA3-000) CMC Magnetics makes the worst optical discs out there. So, it's not uncommon to have a package of discs where a lot of them burn fine in a row and then you get some errors in a row.

The ASUS BW-16D1HT is a good enough BD model of choice so long as you don't need to burn DVD+R DL. I stopped testing it when it failed on that media, but it was working on DVD+RW, DVD-R, and BD-R. However, as I said, I never tested it beyond those 3 media types so I don't know what other gotchas may be present. Although the jury was still out on DVD+RW, I think, because I seem to recall being uncertain if the skips in playback on testing were because of the ASUS drive. I never got around to further detailed testing before the DVD+R DL failure was a deal killer.

One of the good things about LG is their very good replacement policy. I have one that I need to return sometime this week. I've been returning dead or faulty units for about 3 years now and I've never been charged a replacement fee. Even though the out of warranty replacement fee is $50, and they've told me it would cost $50, they've never actually ever charged me for a replacement, even for out of warranty units. Even if they did charge me, I'd pay for it as it's cheaper than buying a whole new unit.

I've read on these forums that it does seem to matter in what part of the world you live in that determines who makes what. So, I've heard a few times here that in Europe, Verbatim farms out to CMC for their BD-R. So, there's really not much you can do about that. Unfortunately, LG is the best of the worst. Pioneer used to make a fine product, but no more. I've been telling them of a firmware error in their drives for over 5 years now and they still haven't corrected it. The last one I had, Pioneer had to refund my money because it died before 2 months after purchase. ASUS is fine if you have no plans on burning DVD+R DL discs as it cannot properly write to those. I told them, too, what the firmware problem was, but they refuse to address it, either. The different model numbering schemes of Pioneers generally refer to the extra features they have. For instance, the base model doesn't support XL media. One model is probably an Ultra HD BD drive. If you're going to give Pioneer a try, you may want to hold off for a bit. There are rumors Pioneer is preparing the 213 line for release soon. They've already ceased production, so it goes, on the 212 series and are just selling remaining stock now to clear out for the 213's. I am waiting on the 213 to see if they've ever fixed the nagging firmware issue. If you're interested in what I use, it's the LG WH16NS60. The NS40 is cheaper, but it does not write properly to BD DL media. While I'll never use the Ultra 4K Blu-Ray feature of the NS60 that makes it more expensive, it does properly write to BD-RE DL I've tested it with.