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The one disc that did work: was it Verbatim, too? Same Disc ID or was it another manufacturer? From the same stack of Verbatims where you got 2 failures?

Another possible source of conflict is a, well, conflict between the drive's firmware and the MKM-003-000 discs. The only solution there would be to try and see if a firmware update is available and see if that fixes it or replace your burner with another make and model. If the drive does need replacing, that covers both bases.

Sort of. There was a piece of free CUE editing software I tried, I forget what it was called. However, the results were 50/50. Sometimes the CUE file would write and sometimes ImgBurn refused to load it for some error.

Burned 2 of these new TY discs and they seem to be fine. I burned 1 disc with about half of its capacity and another nearly full. Both played their contents completely fine in my PS3. No skipping in the playback like the Verbatim DataLife MCC DVD-R do when burned in my WH16NS60 and played back on my PS3. So, even though these discs are cheaper than the MCC DVD-R, they do appear to still be quality Taiyo Yuden media.

Yes, MCC is Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, the good stuff from Verbatim. So, I'd fall back on my previous reply that you got a bad batch out of the factory. While I've never left recordable media just sitting around unused for a length of time, I don't think they go bad with time. Except the normal time it would take for the dye to decay just from entropy. And that's at least 20 years because I've got DVD-R from 2002 that are still playable.

So, is Maxell deliberately trying to swindle people by promising something on the label DVD+RW can't deliver?

OIC, these are errors that occur when you try to run/boot the Linux disc. Not errors returned by ImgBurn when writing/burning ISO's. Unfortunately, creating a bootable disc from files is not an exact science. In fact, I never got it to work ever before. And you're using Linux. I know there's a How To in that section on creating a Windows bootable disc. But, as far as Linux goes, I've never used it, so I can't say anything about its boot discs. Those kinds of error messages do sound like, though, things that would be generated by an incorrectly made boot disc. Question: do you just want to make a copy of an existing Linux disc? Or are you making your own from various files you have lying around? If you have an existing disc, don't bother using Build mode. Use Read mode to create an ISO of the existing Linux disc and then Write that ISO to a new disc.

Wait, what are you doing? It sounds like you're trying to create or burn an ISO but you say it happens during the install phase. So, that would be before you even could create an ISO or burn it because you're trying to install ImgBurn. Have you been able to actually install the ImgBurn software and get this error message trying to install the software? Or have you been able to install the ImgBurn software and this error message occurs when you try to create an ISO? Or trying to burn it?

They can go bad over time, but Verbatim generally doesn't. It would be more likely they were bad to begin with when they were bought. And, are they "true" Verbatim or CMC Verbatim? If they're Life Series and not DataLife Plus Series, they're the CMC junk.

Not a typewriter? Never seen an error message like cannot find live image. Can you provide screenshots of what you're seeing? Or a log of a failed burn, if there are any errors generated in it?

Wow! 16x DVD+RW! At least according to Maxell's own label. https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/274784/Maxell-DVDRW-Rewritable-Media-Spindle-47GB120/ Hover around the posted image and check out the label. Maxell says you can get up to 16x on their DVD+RW! That's amazing! And impossible as far as I know, since 8x was the last known highest speed achieved by DVD+RW that I'm aware of.

PIOData doesn't make BD burners that I could find on their website. For me, BD is a must. The last projections I saw from VSO was the 64 bit version was coming out around May. I guess they got delayed. Those TY's I ordered to try out should arrive tomorrow. I'll see if they're actually worth anything.

Actually, now that I know you don't have an actual physical game disc, Alcohol 120% wouldn't have worked anyway. I wasn't aware you had only a downloaded image. I thought ImgBurn read the disc wrong for whatever reason and corrected the image on the fly. That's probably why ImgBurn had to correct the image on the fly while burning it. The image itself is faulty. If you still have that failed CD-R from the first post you made, just try playing it in your machine. It may still work, and what have you got to lose at this point?

Alcohol shouldn't have said it can't verify discs with audio tracks. Are you sure you specified a Game Disc to read in? It's been a long time since I last used the software, but it used to have various default types of discs you could select before reading them in. I still have my PS1 Namco Museum Collection Volume 2 North American disc. I made a copy without problem. However, I probably didn't use ImgBurn to do it. That was 15 years ago, so I probably used something else like Roxio. Or maybe even Alcohol. I wouldn't necessarily trust the image you downloaded is good. And who knows what this "workaround script" does and what it does to images? I'm afraid I can't help you anymore beyond this. Sorry.

Wait, you merged the audio tracks? What exactly did you do? You shouldn't be doing anything other than reading in the disc to an image file and writing it out. If you merged the audio tracks before in the image you burned in ImgBurn, that may be why it failed before.

Never heard of that error before. Sorry, can't help.

Be sure to make a whole new image with Alcohol. Don't use the ImgBurn image as the exact same thing will probably happen.

This is probably the reason: W 17:39:52 Note: The drive probably corrected the L-EC Area because it's wrong in the image file. The image wasn't made properly and ImgBurn corrected it while burning it. So, it burned something different. That's probably the reason for the miscompares. Whether this game disc will still play properly is up for debate. Did you make this image yourself with ImgBurn? Some game discs can't be made/burned with ImgBurn. You may have to try Alcohol 120% Free.

I think you're confusing files with DVD Video discs. What you apparently have is some M2TS files or BDMV folders you're putting on a DVD+R DL and expect to put it in a DVD player and have it play the file or BDMV. Unfortunately, you can't necessarily do that. You have to clear up the confusion. WHAT do you have on these discs? VIDEO_TS? BDMV? Or M2TS files? If it's anything other than a VIDEO_TS, you can't just insert a disc and expect it to play on a DVD player. If it's a BDMV folder, you can put those on DVD+R DL, but only a Blu-Ray player will play them. And most PC software doesn't play Blu-Ray discs. It has to specifically be for Blu-Ray playing. If it's M2TS files, you CAN put those on a DVD+R DL, but you CANNOT insert that disc in a DVD player and have it automatically play the file(s). First, you most likely need a Blu-Ray player. And then, your Blu-Ray player must natively support playback of M2TS container files. You can put M2TS files on a DVD+R DL and have them play on a PC but you CANNOT just insert the disc and have them automatically play. The user has to load the M2TS files from the disc.

That's not the log of the burn. See my earlier replies on how to open the actual log. And, most likely, VLC is saying to check ITS log. And it will say DVD is not playable because you've burnt a BD Video. I doubt VLC supports playing Blu-Ray's as I know most free player software like Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which I use, doesn't. Mostly, you need paid software to play Blu-Rays unless you use the free Leawo Blu-Ray Player software. VLC is returning that error because it can play DVD's but you've inserted a Blu-Ray Video disc. Even though it's on a DVD+R DL, it's still a Blu-Ray Video Disc because of the BDMV folder. No, that discrepancy between memory totals is to be expected. One is the total available memory installed in your system and the other is the available free memory not in use from that total.

Some lines were omitted from the log as there's always an Operation Completed entry for successful burns. And, I believe that line will be the one that says what the actual write and average speeds were.

If you're adding a BDMV folder, it's a Blu-Ray. DVD Video is a folder called VIDEO_TS. The 2nd error message is because the file trying to be added is larger than 4 GB. For DVD Video, the file system doesn't allow files greater than 4 GB, I think. Blu-Ray Video discs do allow for such files. m2TS files are for Blu-Ray.

I've been using it for over 5 years and I can't think of a single installation or usage issue with it except the bug introduced in the previous version that they quickly fixed. So, it's very reliable software. However, should you have an issue with it, Alcohol 120% Free Edition is something I've also experimented with. I used to use Alcohol 52% before I moved to Virtual CloneDrive.

As an added plus, it was just updated recently for the first time in 4 years. Of course, the first updated release introduced a new bug but it was quickly fixed in the most recent release.

It's the virtual drive software I use.