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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.

Actually, I just came back here to say the same thing myself. This ProShow can make an ISO, mount the ISO, add the VIDEO_TS folder from the virtual drive into a Build job in ImgBurn, write a new image, and burn it. If the disc still fails to play, then it's either ProShow making improper VIDEO_TS or it could be the manufacturer of your DVD+R DL. Although that 2nd explanation doesn't explain away why it doesn't play on a PC.

When you say you can't burn, you mean you can burn, right, it's just that the disc doesn't play? Try posting the log of a burn of a disc that doesn't play. I have an idea of what might be the problem. Although it wouldn't explain why it doesn't play on a PC. First, put one of these failed discs in a PC drive and open its contents in Windows/File Explorer. Is there a VIDEO_TS folder in the root directory? To get the log of a burn, in ImgBurn, under Help, ImgBurn Logs. The folder containing the logs opens. Open the log file, find the part of the log with a burn of one of these discs that doesn't play, and copy and paste the contents into a reply.

And this is the first time you've gotten an ISO from ProShow that was larger than a DVD-5 and had to go to a DVD+R DL? If so, I would guess ProShow is not making compliant ISO files for DVD-9.

No, I can't guarantee anything, unfortunately. I use a VanTech USB 3.0 enclosure with the LG WH16NS60 without problems to the VERBAT-IM BD-R made by Verbatim. So, that's what I'd recommend. My tower doesn't have half height bays, so I had to USB route since most slim models are trash. Even the one that came with mine, while so far no problems writing, is a super slow writer. Writes 2 to 3 times slower than half height drives. You may be tempted to get the cheaper LG WH16NS40. I wouldn't recommend it if you ever plan on writing DL BD-RE or BD-R. I've seen several reports here, backed up by my experience with BD-RE DL, that the NS40 will fail Verify 9 times out of 10 with DL BD media. Which the NS60 does not. But, if you never plan on writing DL BD media, the NS40 passed all other tests I threw at it. Again, can I guarantee switching drives will fix the issue? No. But, I can say you won't know for sure unless you try switching drives.

Well, you're using the good BD-R from Verbatim and not CMC Verbatm BD-R, so that's a start. That would generally mean there's probably a conflict between your burner's firmware and that kind of media. You could try and see if there's a firmware update for your burner, but there probably isn't. The only other solution is to try a different BD burner from another manufacturer or another model number and see if that helps. I had an ASUS BW-16D1H internal model, I believe. I don't remember if I used it long enough to try BD-R in because my first tests were abysmal with that drive. It constantly destroyed rewritable media! 8x Ritek DVD+RW and Verbatim 2x BD-RE non CMC. So, I sent the drive back for a replacement. That drive did the same thing so it was a firmware/hardware issue.

Well, I would THINK just powering off the device and powering it back on would be enough. But, I've never had a laptop, so I don't know how power cycles work on those.

If you want to be really safe should the device ever drop communication, power off the enclosure, power off the PC, restart the PC, and power back on the enclosure. This would ensure a complete wipe of everything in memory from ImgBurn/Windows/the device.

In future, if you encounter weird problems like that, try powering off the PC if the BD drive is internal or powering off the enclosure if it's external. Don't just reboot. A power cycle can clear out sometimes weird nagging things like that.