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Yeah, I'd just do what you did and use Virtual CloneDrive to mount the CUE/BIN (I forget if Virtual CloneDrive supports CUE files. If not, it would support BIN. I don't use BIN/CUE. I have ImgBurn create CCD files which Virtual CloneDrive does mount, but it creates IMG files I think that CCD points to.) file without needing to convert to ISO. But, if you really wanted an ISO, you could mount the CUE/BIN file as a virtual drive and then use ImgBurn's Read mode to read the mounted virtual drive to a new ISO file. I think you could also have used UltraISO to load the CUE file and save it as a new ISO file, which I probably would have done, but UltraISO requires a license and isn't free.

As far as I know, Plextools is not an image creation/burning software like ImgBurn is. It's a collection of drive utility tools, like changing operational settings, etc. I've never had a Plextor to my knowledge, so I don't from experience that that is the case. But, it is my guess. Beyond that, I don't know. I don't buy DVD burners anymore, just BD burners, so my experience would only relate to what I've seen from BD drives over the last 5 years or so. AZO discs are the best out there and for DVD+R DL, AZO/DataLife Plus is the only steadily reliable type of disc for that burning. So, few drives should actually have issues with that media, but it is, of course, dependent on the drive.

I can't really see there would be a difference in load times between the two formats on a standalone DVD player. I do know there are certain aspects where DVD+R writing is faster than DVD-R. For instance, DVD+RW erases faster than DVD-RW because DVD-RW apparently doesn't just erase just the TOC from the disc. DVD+RW erases nearly instantaneously compared to DVD-RW. And I believe the writing of the LeadIn is faster on DVD+R than DVD-R. In ConvertXToDVD, the NTSC setting is set in the settings of the application. It defaults to PAL when you install it because the software company originates there. In fact, I first learned of ConvertXToDVD because I needed something to convert PAL DVD's to NTSC. It was the best application I tried so I stuck with it and bought a license for it. Interestingly enough, I don't think ConvertXToDVD has an option for SECAM. There's a third video type called SECAM that isn't as widespread as PAL and NTSC, but some countries do use it instead of the other 2.

I don't know for sure, but I doubt changing the Booktype would affect the effective read speed of the media. The read speed is capped to a maximum value based on two factors: 1.) the effective read speed maximum value written on the disc itself 2.) the effective read speed maximum cap in the firmware in the drive it's being read on. For instance, Verbatim BD-R have a Write Rate of 6x written onto them, but many BD drives will write them to a maximum of 12x. These are, of course, Write Speed values, but I believe there's a corresponding Read Speed value on media, too. The ISO container will always be larger than the size of the data you're writing to disc. It's the nature of the beast. But, a 4GB DVD ISO will not necessarily be precisely 4GB of data written to a disc. As I've said, it may be because my PS3 is an upscaling DVD player over an HDMI cable, but I see no artifacts when playing back ConvertXToDVD discs. Even on a recent PAL conversion where I put 2 DVD-9 contents to 1 DVD+R DL.

Show what I know, eh?

They still didn't make a "proper" image of the original disc. They should have made it available as just one BIN/CUE file set in an image container. But, it seems they did it that way because a specific PS1 emulator only supports reading BIN tracks. Still a somewhat inefficient way to do it.

The short answer is you don't. You can't burn multiple BIN files to a CD-R as far as I know. It might be possible to do different tracks/sessions, but ImgBurn won't do it, as far as I know. That's inferring each BIN file is an Audio CD with its own tracks. About all you can do is extract each audio track as an audio container file and add each track to a new CUE file with Create CUE file for burning 1 CD. However, that CD may be too large to burn to a CD-R.

Is the only real difference between standard BD and Ultra HD/4k BD is that UHD is on triple/quad layer media? I'm guessing UHD discs are T/QL media, but I don't know. Thanks!

I did a Google for that drive ID string and Pioneer and found no connection between the two beyond mentioning they were separate manufacturers of BD drives. As I said, I doubt LG would use anyone else's drives in their own products since they make such products. They'd be shooting themselves in the wallet missing out on cheaper production costs using their own equipment versus farming it out. Same with ASUS. As far as I know, ASUS makes their own hardware. And it was the first drive I had that out of the box destroyed rewritable media. The Pioneer now does that but only after a borked firmware update.

Oh, it's an external drive? That might explain it. IOMega never made their own external DVD burners, but used LG drives in their own enclosures. Although why LG wouldn't just use one of their own drives in the enclosure doesn't make much sense. I'd have to take the stories that LG is using Pioneer drives with a grain of salt. Unless that drive is really old and LG didn't make their own drives back then. I actually had one of those LG USB drives at one time, I think. Had no problems with it. Didn't last long; like most LG drives, only about 9 months.

Oh, as for the Bootype setting, it's most likely just the default setting to make sure things are as compatible as possible with older players the disc might be inserted in. I think that default setting can be changed, anyway, if you desire it. After 17 years of almost exclusive DVD-R usage for single layer discs, I'm thinking of switching over to DVD+R with my next batch order. While it only happens every so often, I have come across an image I built where it wouldn't fit on a DVD-R but would on a DVD+R, despite the factor of sizes being so incredibly small in difference. I can avoid that by using DVD+R. And, my players are all relatively new except for a still working 2000 PS2 original release model I have, which I don't use to play DVD's anymore.

Build mode does no content Verifying. The only thing it verifies is that the files are actually present when the Build is being done and that the files confirm to the file system type used in the settings. And I think it verifies that VIDEO_TS have compliant structure. I can edit my posts, but maybe that's because of my status? Don't know why you can't edit yours. I'd think someone with over 200 posts could edit their posts.

I've never heard of LG rebranding other companies' drives as their own. I've seen other companies rebrand LG drives as theirs, but never the other way around because LG makes their own hardware.

Pioneer flawless? HA! Pioneer has borked the last 2 firmware revisions making their drives worse! I used to recommend the Pioneer 2209 (The BDR-2209 aka the BDR-209M) as my go to BD model; not anymore! I use the LG WH16NS60 now. First, Pioneer introduced a bug in writing to freshly formatted 8x Ritek DVD+RW. Verify will ALWAYS fail until the first write of media AFTER the 2209 has formatted it in a DIFFERENT drive. Any other drive will write perfectly to the same disc, as will the 2209 once a different non 2209 has written to it. Second, 2x Ritek Memorex BD-RE will always Verify at only 2x speed until near the end of the Verify when it suddenly jumps to proper read speeds. The LG doesn't do this. Then, with the latest firmware, Pioneer borked writing to 6x Ritek DVD-RW media. It will always fail to Erase media and any attempt by the drive and firmware to do so will DESTROY the media! It's useless for any further attempts to write to in any drive. I had 2 discs and the Pioneer did this on both, so it's repeatable. So, needless to say, I don't recommend Pioneer anymore because they don't know what they're doing with their firmware and refuse to listen to me when I try to tell them of the problems. They blame that the media ID isn't supported, which I already TELL them is in the list they always forward to me before they forward it to me or they blame the age of the drive, which is only 2 months. I will always recommend the WH16NS60 now and ONLY that, even if you don't need a 4k Blu-Ray drive because LG borked the WH16NS40! It fails 9 times out to 10 to write double layer BD media. And it's not just me. It's repeatable with other users on this forum. In the world of optical drives, we're dealing mostly with idiots. As I said, I get Device Buffer fluctuations on my Pioneer 2209 all the time. That could explain yours, but not explain why it only does this when connected to a UPS. My LG doesn't do that. And maybe if I disconnected my Pioneer from the UPS, it wouldn't fluctuate either. I don't have an enclosure to test it with at this time, so I can't say. So, I'd recommend dumping that ASUS just because 1.) it's an ASUS and 2.) it may have a Pioneer inside. You may wonder why I'm bad on ASUS. I had a USB ASUS BD; passed every test I threw at it. So, I had high hopes for their internal model... which just destroyed DVD+RW and BD-RE discs! This did this on 2 different units of the same model so it's a design flaw in the unit. And then the USB drive finally went boobs up because it stopped writing 8x to 8x DVD+R DL.

I might be slightly worried about your UPS. I have my system connected to a UPS and I only see Device Buffer fluctuations on one model of drive, my Pioneer BDR-2209. My LG WH16NS60 doesn't do that. So, it could just be a peculiarity of your ASUS burner like it is with my Pioneer. But, maybe your UPS is fluctuating power, which wouldn't be good.

I wouldn't be too worried about buffer variance in a Verify. It only really impacts performance/quality during writes where waiting for threshold pauses might ensue. Most likely, the culprit is as you say, the slower HDD you put in. You could try putting an ISO on a flash drive or on a USB HDD if you have one and try burning from the flash drive/USB HDD as your source for writing. If you don't experience bad buffer fluctuations, you can pretty much peg the problem on the slower HDD.

I wouldn't be too worried about it unless you actually start to see device performance hits.

The first thing to check is to make sure when you click a download link on any of the mirrors that you're actually clicking the download link. Not one of the repackaged installers that generally include stuff you don't want. Those links generally appear on the side of the pages. Try this download directly: http://download.imgburn.com/SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0.exe That's the file directly from ImgBurn and I would think should be virus free. Just downloaded it myself and ran a scan on it with AdAware AntiVirus, which returned nothing. ImgBurn will never ask for your e-mail address as far as I know. This forum might to confirm your account, but installing a real ImgBurn installation won't. Also, there's a difference between a virus and a PUP, potentially unwanted program. Some AV software flags the wraparound software offer as a PUP and will often say it's a virus when it's not.

It depends on how the source DVD is authored. It can be one giant title set but the IFO's could divide it into individual titles, depending. Or each episode could be authored as its own title set. It's really annoying when trying to process the episodic DVD's where they put all the episodes into one title set. As for the Miscompares, post the entire log if you still have it, albeit you can eliminate most of the Miscompare entries since they're just repeating relatively the same information, just with different logical block address ranges for the sectors that are miscomparing. Another thing to try is do a Verify on the disc in ImgBurn but turn off Verify against a file if you have that enabled. See if you still get Miscompares that way. Generally, a few Miscompares you can ignore because, I think, ImgBurn will immediately try again. If it keeps failing, then it will say if you want to cancel it. Generally, I think, the Miscompare entries can usually be ignored. But that many Miscompares is definitely cause for concern.

That message from ConvertXToDVD just means it won't make an exact duplicate of your disc. Meaning, you'll lose the menu. If you load VIDEO_TS.IFO, it will load all title sets from the disc. What it may also mean in that message is if it's an episodic DVD, but all episodes are in one title set, then, you'll "lose" each episode as an individual title because all episodes will be contained in one title set. I've seen that happen before.

ConvertXToDVD will include all title sets off of DVD but NOT Blu-Ray. On Blu-Ray, it only imports the main movie stream. And I NEED it to import ALL title sets from a Blu-Ray like it does DVD.

I've never noticed any real problem with ConvertXToDVD compression in the past. But, I play my DVD's now on a PS3 which upscales DVD's. Even when I used DVDShrink to compress a DVD-9, I never notice any pixelation on the PS3.

Yeah, I had asked if ConvertXToVideo imported all the contents of a BD Video since ConvertXToDVD will only read in the main title. I got the impression it would read in all the titles instead of the main title. But, it makes sense if ConvertXToDVD will only read in the main title, ConvertXToVideo would do the same thing.

Hi, try this: It should be what you're looking for. You may need to install the WV WavPack mentioned in one of the replies. I'm guessing WV was meant to say WAV. Now, if you have 150 CD's that you've made WAV's from, I'm guessing these 150 CD's are source audio discs? If so, you might want to just make backup copies of the original discs to CD-R's. You'd want to use the Create image file from disc and then Write image file to disc for this.

Yeah, I've never heard of ioprp300 before. Try changing it to .ISO like LUK said, however, if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it won't work. It's either not an actual image file format is a proprietary format that only works for specific applications. From what I Googled, there's something called ioprp300.IMG, but it''s not an image file. It's an application file that is required to get a specific PS2 CD game emulator to work.