dbminter

Every program you run on a laptop can "affect" your laptop. You're more likely to "affect" the optical burner in it if you update the firmware and it fails for whatever reason. Or if your battery dies during firmware update. The check for update feature in ImgBurn does not actually execute anything other than your default web browser. It sends the Drive ID string for your burner model to a web site where it checks to see if a database has any entries for firmware for that model. You then choose to instigate to download anything you might find useful. Then, you choose to execute that firmware updater package executable.

Quote from earlier: "You could try trying a different burner. That may help. May not. You could check for a firmware update, but there most likely isn't one and probably wouldn't help here even if it did. In Write mode, right click on the TSST burner and choose the option at the bottom of the context menu list for checking for firmware update."

Oh, I see. It's a soft mod. No, I did not try it with DVD-R because it won't make a difference. If it burns to one, it burns to another. If you were try it on a DVD+RW it might or might not work. Might work if it's not a CMC DVD+RW. Might work because it isn't a DVD-R in that drive. Might not work because your TSST is picky with DVD+RW. But, we know it's not a faulty ISO. So, it's on your end, which means most likely the medium or the drive. As I said, a firmware update might help, but I'll tell you right now, it's either the CMC discs or your TSST. Replacing either option seems out of reach for you, though. You could try updating the firmware, but I doubt it would help and I doubt there even is a firmware update. Could be one and it could help, but unlikely.

Well, whatever this is, it burns fine on my end. So, the ISO isn't damaged, regardless of how useful it is. The problem is with your media or drive.

What is this?! It's a 1 MB file of a DVD Video ISO that plays nothing!

Oh, I did that before, and failed to see the Download button. 1.3 MB seems like an awfully small amount for PS2 ISO's. It's also an awfully small amount to be burning to DVD-R. I'd try CD-R instead. And the fact that it's so small may be the reason it fails. I'd expect an ISO to be significantly larger than that.

I've no idea how to download that. It doesn't show any obvious way to download it and when I try to right click and save as I get a file that is less than 200 KB, which can hardly be an image ISO file that works.

Well, what you should do, you can't. What you should do is get some better media and see if that clears it up. But, you can't do that. You could try trying a different burner. That may help. May not. You could check for a firmware update, but there most likely isn't one and probably wouldn't help here even if it did. In Write mode, right click on the TSST burner and choose the option at the bottom of the context menu list for checking for firmware update. I could try burning your ISO to a DVD+RW but it's hardly an apples to apples comparison. I'm not using the same drive as you are. I'm not using the same media manufacturer. I'm not using the same media type, even. But, it would determine if the ISO is at fault. If I can successfully burn it on my end, the problem is either the media you're using, which is my guess, or your drive. So, give me a bit to do that.

If one ISO works and another doesn't, it's most likely the fault of the ISO that is failing. Particularly if you downloaded the ISO, which if it's a PS2 game, as it appears it may be, then it's higher likely the ISO itself is at fault. However, it is also the nature of CMC media that you'll get discs from the same package that work when others don't.

Yeah, it's what I thought. This is most likely your problem: I 13:17:37 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: CMC MAG. AM3) CMC Magnetics makes the worst discs out there. Unfortunately, most companies use them to maximize profits. You probably bought some Verbatim Life Series in a brick and mortar store? Those will be CMC. While it's not 100% guaranteed to solve your problem, more than 50% of the problems on this board are caused by cheap CMC junk and generally disappear when people switch to higher quality media. Try genuine Taiyo Yuden DVD-R, the ones not made by CMC, or Verbatim DataLife Plus. NOT the Life Series. DataLife Plus can only be found in online stores. Or look for Verbatim DVD that is listed as AZO brand dye. Those will also be DataLife Plus quality discs. Another possibility is the TSST drive you're using. Those have proven to be somewhat picky and problematic according to posts on this board.

Post the log of the failed burn. Under Help, choose the Logs option. Then, open the .LOG file, find the appropriate part of the log, and copy and paste it into a reply. I have a pretty good idea what it possibly could be, but a log would tell me what precisely I needed to know.

Still shouldn't have mattered. If the BDMV played on one Blu-Ray player, it would play on them all, regardless if a menu was present or not. If it was the authoring program that was the problem, then the resulting BDMV it created wouldn't play on any Blu-Ray player. But, as long as you found a solution that works, I always say that's the way to go.

It must be down to the players not liking the BD-R you're using. If the same disc plays in some players but not others, you're not doing anything wrong. That would most likely be the fault of the hardware that is not playing the disc.

I don't entirely know what you're saying. Did you burn an MP4 to BD-R or a BDMV folder you made from an MP4?

Oh, I didn't think about that. I should have said Alcohol 120%/52% so you could narrow down a search. Or Alcohol virtual drive software.

Well, I don't know how "trusted" you're looking for, but here's the company's download repository: http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/downloadtrial.php Plus, there are different versions. There's Alcohol 52% and 120%. There's 15 day free trials and free versions. There are versions for different versions of Windows. So, you'll have to decide which one you want. I don't remember what the difference between 52% and 120% is and I am not entirely sure if the free versions even offer reading from discs to image files anymore, but I think they do.

Certain PS1 games cannot be read by ImgBurn with certain hardware. I would try downloading the free version of Alcohol and see if it can read it. If it can't, then you probably can't copy that particular disc with your hardware. Parts of it may be playable, but not all.

Any other users of Virtual CloneDrive come across this? I'm using the latest release, 5.5.2.0. What I've noticed is not something that happens immediately, but occurs gradually over time. When an image is mounted in VCD, after some time, File Explorer starts to slow down. When you select a folder, particularly in the root directory of a drive, you get a swirling icon and it's some time before you can actually do anything in the folder. The issue gradually gets worse until restarting the PC. (I've not tested if just unmounting an image clears it.) This makes sense as I have the option to not remount images on Windows start enabled, so the images are effectively unmounted on restart of PC. And I don't get slow downs in File Explorer after restarting the PC until I mount an image in VCD. I've had Windows up for like 24 hours without a mounted image and no slow down in File Explorer. Thanks!

Oh, that's right! That app never went gold. My bad.

Don't forget HDD Tools!

I would also recommend you create the ISO and then mount it as a virtual drive. You can then perform the 7Zip CRC comparisons against the contents in the ISO mounted as a virtual drive. If that passes, then you can be relatively confident in burning that ISO to disc and performing the same CRC checks against the disc you just burnt.

@LIGHTNING UK! You know how for a long time now I've reported on random crashes I get on ImgBurn shutdown? That you could never see a cause for? Well, I believe I may have isolated a possible cause. It's repeatable, so you may be able to test it for yourself. It seems to be generated if a folder added to a Project has been detached. What I can do is assign a partition on a USB HDD a drive letter then add a folder to a DVD Video project from that partition on the USB HDD. Then, if I remove the drive letter from the partition that that folder was added to the Project from WITH ImgBurn open and the Project unchanged, when I close ImgBurn after the partition had been "hidden" by removing the drive letter in Disk Mangement, I get a crash on shutdown of ImgBurn. This may give you something to go on now.

That only applies to games and it depends on if you have a fat or slim model PS 2. MKM's worked fine for DVD Video for a decade on my fat model PS 2. The slim, not so much. However, the slim model never played DVD's correctly without skips and pauses in playback because, well, it's a slim model, and almost all slim models of anything with an optical drive are junk.

I've known 2 people with modded PS 2's and neither one of them had a chip that supported double layer games.

2 things. 1.) Is your PS 2 modded? If it isn't, copies of games won't play at all, regardless of if they're single or double layer. Unless you're using a soft mod, which is still a mod. 2.) Be aware not all mod chips supported double layer copies. You can write below 4x. But, 1.) you need 2.4x media, and it's not guaranteed the drive isn't hyped up to write beyond 2.4x on that rated media. 2.) you can try setting a slower write speed, but user entered values are not always honored by the drive itself, as the hardware will do whatever the Hell it wants to.