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CMC, which now owns Verbatim, appears to have changed the manufacturing processes of its Verbatim DVD-R and DVD+R to the point I no longer use them. The most recent batches of both types of discs were producing constant failures, and those that did succeed didn't play back properly. So, I had to switch to Taiyo Yuden DVD-R. TY's are still made. Even though CMC bought TY, they are also under a brand called CMC Pro. Despite CMC's involvement, the DID is still TY, so they still appear to be quality discs.

The problem is I don't know what a Karaoke BIN or CDG file is. If you're just trying to create a standard Audio CD disc, then ImgBurn can make those with MP3 files. But, if a Karaoke disc has like video associated with where you can sing along, then, I don't think ImgBurn can create one of those natively.

USB 3.0 is also cosmetically identified as USB 2.0 in the current version. These will be fixed in the next version. And, of course, we're not saying when that will be.

I've heard of MediaRange, but I have no direct experience with them. However, given that, I would have to doubt their efficacy. Now, according to this post here from the ImgBurn forums: MediaRange BD-R DL have the same DID, VERBAT-IMf-000, as the ones I use. However, they had problems with them, so who knows? Could just be down to the burner they use not liking them. Which could mean your burner doesn't like them either. However, most burners don't like BD DL media, anyway, failing at the layer break, which was probably where that other poster had failures. So, since they use the same DID as the good BD-R SL I use from Verbatim, I'd give them a shot, at least. In the US, Amazon.com is generally really good at refunding on discs you can't use. Even if you've burned some because, how can you know you can't use them unless you try burning some, right?

Unfortunately, it varies from country to country what you'll get in the same package. For instance, yours says DataLife on it. DataLife Plus is the high quality CD and DVD media Verbatim puts out in the US. But, apparently in Europe, DataLife BD-R means the CMC junk. Well, people's general stinginess made CMC what it is today. People want a cheap product and the cheap always comes out expensive. And the sad fact of the matter is the higher quality manufacturers, Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden, sold themselves to CMC! To be honest, ever since CMC bought up Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden, I'm surprised they haven't just slapped their good names on their products. But, for the time being, Verbatim, when it doesn't farm out to CMC, and Taiyo Yuden are still allowed to produce a quality product under CMC. I see a time in the future, though, when it will all just be cheap CMC junk.

Depends on what you mean by a "karaoke bin file." Do you mean can it make a BIN file from an existing karaoke CD or DVD? If it's a CD, ImgBurn can make a BIN file from an existing CD. If it's a DVD file, then it will most likely create an ISO as opposed to a BIN file. If you're asking can ImgBurn create a karaoke CD, if it's an Audio CD format, ImgBurn can write an Audio CD file from existing containers, but it cannot create a BIN file from them. If a karaoke CD is not a standard Audio CD file format, then, no ImgBurn cannot create a karaoke CD.

What country do you live in? I've never seen that label on the right before. However, the picture of the disc on the left looks pretty much like what I get. But, what I get is not CMC. If you can get from Amazon.com, here's what I get: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GSQ4DBM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 There's no way to tell who actually made your discs until you open the package, put a disc in a burner, and check its DID in ImgBurn. The package gives absolutely no useful information about the actual manufacturer of discs. At least you got discs that complete burns. Lowering the maximum write rate can increase the likelihood of a successful burn. Personally, even if CMC's complete burns, I don't trust them. So, I wouldn't rely on them. I had some CMC DVD+R's one time that completed burns, but the DVD player did not recognize anything to play from them when put into the player.

A few things stand out from the log: 1.) you say the BD burner is a ODPS1203-SU3 but according to this line from the log: I 00:38:39 -> Drive 1 - Info: TSSTcorp BDDVDW SN-506BB JF01 (E:) (USB 2.0) your drive is a TSST Corporation SN-506BB. 2.) here is your most likely culprit: I 00:39:38 Destination Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: CMCMAG-BA5-000) Verbatim didn't actually make those discs. CMC Magnetics, which now owns Verbatim, made them. However, CMC makes the worst junk out there. Verbatim makes some of the best BD-R out there if you can get the discs they actually made. However, Verbatim also farms out to CMC for some of their cheaper discs. 3.) according to the log, your BD burner is connected by USB 2.0. However, the last version of ImgBurn that was released does not differentiate between USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 connections. (The latest beta version does.) So, you may want to make sure you're actually on a USB 3 port because USB 2.x is too slow for BD communications. You could try checking for a firmware update for your drive to see if an updated firmware has better compatibility with CMC media. In Write mode, right click on the burner's drive letter and choose the last menu option in the context menu to check for firmware updates. Most likely, this won't help as CMC is just pure junk, but you never know. You should really see if you can get genuine Verbatim BD-R as opposed to the CMC junk. I don't know where you live, but in some countries, the Verbatim BD-R is only available as the CMC junk.

ConvertXToDVD gives you an unlimited, uncrippled 7 day trial, I believe, so you can fully test if it meets your needs or not.

It's like when I first started burning DVD's in 2002. It would take a full hour to burn an entire DVD-R's available space. And, back then, it was fairly common to get to 99% and THEN fail, wasting 60 minutes! The long processing time is another reason I didn't stick with DVD Flick. I use ConvertXToDVD.

It's a DVD Flick problem. It's known to have issues. If some have a correct resolution display and some don't, it's down to how DVD Flick authored the video. ImgBurn has no control over how DVD Video resolution appears on screen.

Yeah, that was it. I was going by fuzzy memory as it's been over 5 years since I last had a LiteOn drive, and that was a BD burner that failed after 3 BD-RE writes. So, I stopped getting LiteOn after that.

Time for my somewhat annual Christmas song quote. I've gone through pretty much everything, so I've had to dip back into oldies. However, this time, I've got the full A Christmas Carol by Tom Lehrer, including the spoken word pieces at the beginning and end. One very familiar type of song is the Christmas carol. Although it is perhaps a bit out of season at this time. However, I'm informed by my "disk jockey" friends - of whom I have none, In order to get a song popular by Christmas time, you have to start plugging it well in advance. So here goes. It has always seemed to me after all. that Christmas, with it's spirit of giving, of us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect on what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in. I refer of course, to money. and yet none of the Christmas carols that you hear on the radio or in the street, even attempt to capture the true spirit of Christmas as we celebrate it in the United Staes. That is to say the commercial spirit. so I should like to offer the following Christmas carol for next year, as being perhaps a bit more appropriate. Christmas time is here, by golly, Disapproval would be folly, Deck the halls with hunks of holly, Fill the cup and don't say when. Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens, Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens, Even though the prospect sickens, Brother, here we go again. On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to rob him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four. Relations, sparing no expense'll Send some useless old utensil, Or a matching pen and pencil. "Just the thing I need! How nice!" It doesn't matter how sincere it Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit, Sentiment will not endear it, What's important is the price. Hark the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things. God rest ye merry, merchants, May you make the yuletide pay. Angels we have heard on high Tell us to go out and buy! So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle, Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle, Driving his reindeer across the sky. Don't stand underneath when they fly by. Actually I did rather well myself, this last Christmas. the nicest present I received was a gift certificate "Good at any hospital for a lobotomy". Rather thoughtful.

Now I could have imagined this, but I believe ImgBurn had the ability to store how many of a specific DID were burned by a specific drive. However, it only worked with specific certain models of burners.

I hadn't thought of using anything like YUMI or Rufus to put Acronis rescue media ISO's on flash drive. I no longer use the application, but I have several 10 to 20 year old backup sets still in my possession. Acronis does release latest updated rescue media ISO's on Softexia, but you can't edit those ISO's to inject files into. So, I can't put Acronis backup sets on DVD's with the rescue media ISO. But, I could burn the ISO to flash drive and have that drive's free space. Does YUMI use all available space when writing an ISO to flash drive? The drawback I found to Rufus for burning ISO's to flash drive is if the ISO is 1 GB and the flash drive is 16 GB, the resulting ISO burned to flash drive leaves you with a 1 GB flash drive and 15 GB of unallocated space. I could, I suppose, create a 2nd partition on the flash drive with the remaining 15 GB of space, but I'd prefer a situation like when Macrium Reflect creates Rescue Media on flash drives. As long as Reflect doesn't have to format the flash drive, it will leave all extra space available on the single Rescue Media partition. If it has to format the flash drive, it creates a 1 GB bootable flash drive and the remaining 15 GB is unallocated, requiring creating a 2nd partition on the flash drive. I'd like to avoid having to create a 2nd partition.

Is that what YUMI does? I've seen it many times passing through websites, but never knew what it was for, beyond something to do with flash drives.

When you say "multiple bootable files," I am guessing you mean can an ISO have multiple bootable sectors. And as far as I know, a bootable ISO can only have one boot track. Although, technically, you could extract, say, 10 boot sectors with ImgBurn as "files" and store those 10 files in an ISO, but they wouldn't do you much good. They wouldn't boot, just reside in a track in the ISO separate from the boot sector. I don't see a way to automate this, but what you could do is try this. You could make ISO files of these 10 installable discs and store those ISO's on a DVD/BD. You can then navigate into them from the disc natively via Windows and run the installers from them. Or copy the contents to a temporary location for execution. However, as I said, you probably can't automate this process. And each time you navigate the contents, you're mounting the ISO as a virtual drive, so you'll need 10 available drive letters, unless you Eject each one after each installation. So, the downside side, each installation must be performed on its own one after the other and I don't think it can be automated. And, I'm not entirely sure this process would work as I describe it. It's theoretical at this point, but it might work.

You could try changing ImgBurn's driver interface, but since you said even Windows Explorer doesn't recognize 2 connected burners as burners, that probably won't help. The cause does seem to be a deeply rooted Windows misconfiguration. You could try downloading and installing the Elby CD IO package. See if that "fixes" whatever the cause may be. That way, you could set Elby as the driver interface in ImgBurn.

What I have to wonder is given the age discrepancy between Windows 7 and modern burners, if Windows 7 doesn't have updated drivers and is just loading what it thinks will work. Which, in this case, is just a standard DVD-ROM drive driver. You could try going into Device Manager and check what driver is being loaded. If it's some kind of generic Microsoft driver, it's probably just loading a DVD-ROM driver.

To be honest, I have to think you probably can't Given the age of Windows 7, the driver being loaded for that device is probably so old that the driver doesn't recognize such newer drives as writers. You could try seeing if there's an updated Windows 7 driver from the manufacturer's web site, but there probably isn't one, given Windows 7's age.

Verbatim made the discs you used that failed. Check the log and it says this: I 01:31:47 Source Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: VERBAT-IMf-000) The Disc ID says Verbatim actually made them. Hardly anyone actually makes their own media anymore. They farm out to a handful of manufacturers: CMC, which also owns Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden, which is also now owned by CMC! , Mitsubishi, and Panasonic/Matsushita. It could be your drive. A drive lasting a year before needing replacing is a good life span. In fact, it's above average. You could try replacing the drive and see if that helps.

How long have you had this ASUS burner? It may have just reached the end of its life. You're using quality Verbatim media, however Verbatim DL BD media can be very picky. Some drives don't like them at all, like the LG WH16NS40. CMC could also have changed the formula for those discs, introducing all new problems. In the interim, try to see if there's an update for your drive's firmware. That might help. In Write mode, right click on the drop down dialog with your ASUS burner in it. Choose the option near the bottom of the list about checking for firmware update.

PAR and PAR2 were still in use about a decade plus ago, when I last had access to newsgroups. They still even use NZB's to this day, from what I've heard.

Personally, I would see creating parity error recovery on a disc as a waste of time. If the disc has scratches, etc. that make it difficult to read files, then reading a smaller file like some kind of parity recovery would make it even more difficult as small data would be more affected by a larger scratch.

If Device Manager lists it as a "DVD-ROM," it's a DVD reader, not a burner. Unless Windows is not properly detecting the hardware type. I got something similar to this in store from an Office Depot: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-External-DVD-Writer-Compatible/dp/B01BY4PZLE/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2CLBSIX0KFPMD&dchild=1&keywords=verbatim+external+slimline+cd%2Fdvd+writer&qid=1606594366&sprefix=verbatm+externa%2Caps%2C159&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFIV0RMRUFLTE82M1cmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA5OTQzNTFQU05JV0lZQjdCVlQmZW5jcnlwdGVkQWRJZD1BMDU3NDI1MDNVNDBYT0FWMFFYSjgmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl It has worked well in what tests I threw at it. This listed model has M Disc capabilities, which mine didn't, so, as I said, it's not exactly the same one I tried out.