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Sony still sells DVD-R, but they don't make them. Ritek/Ricoh does, which is decent enough 2nd tier media. However, Sony has made little but garbage since 2002, in everything they sell. Back when they made their own DVD-R, it was quality media, then farmed it out to raise profits. Don't know about Maxell anymore. It's been over 10 years since I had a recordable DVD from them. Ricoh stopped making 8x DVD+RW, that much I do know. I think they also ceased production on 6x DVD-RW. It would be interesting to see if CMC still makes its own crap media. Of course, even if the DID was changed, I wouldn't trust them. It would be just like CMC to use faked DID's. Plus, if they were still the price of CMC's but said MCC, how could they sell the better quality media at the same price as their crap media? Answer: they couldn't.

Odd. Why wouldn't drag and drop work in ImgBurn if it's running as an Administrator?

Depends on your definition of reasonable price. Some people see DataLife Plus as too expensive, even though you're only paying about 50 cents a blank. And the cheap always comes out expensive. Personally, I find DataLife Plus priced reasonably. I don't mind paying some cents extra for quality media. And DataLife Plus is all I use or recommend. So, CMC media is cheaper but it's also cheap.

Sounds like you're trying to create a Windows 7 installation disc. Or are copying contents from a Windows 7 installation disc into this image job. Sounds like you'll want the guide here:

I wouldn't trust CMC as far as I could throw their corporate headquarters. You only get 1 chance to make a good impression. And they have, for over a decade, made a bad impression. To be even more shady, CMC just happens to be an arrangement of the letters of the good DataLife Plus stuff. The good stuff will be labeled as MCC for Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. The only JVC media I've tried in the last few years were BD-RE, and they were CMC.

If your DVD/BD player upscales DVD video output, it will look much better than if it didn't have upscaling. So, while converting to DVD would result in resolution loss, upscaling probably makes up for some of that.

Yeah, I was wondering if he might need to create a Blu-Ray video disc to keep such a resolution.

Some DVD/BD players do play MP4 files, like the Playstation 3. It depends on if the player was designed to natively support them, which the device's instruction manual will say so or not. Or you can do tests and see if they will play MP4/AVI on your own, but you should use rewritable media for that. DVD Video is contained in a folder called VIDEO_TS which contains .IFO control files and .VOB files, which are the actual audio and video files (VideoOBject). ConvertXToDVD will convert container files to VIDEO_TS compliant folders and files that you can import the VIDEO_TS folder into ImgBurn's Build mode with. ImgBurn will set all the necessary options for DVD Video compliance by itself. Keep in mind ConvertXToDVD will generate its own proprietary menus but there are several menu types to choose from and, for the adventurous, you can edit the menus to fit your own design. I've never done that as I find the standard menus are fine for me, but it's an option. As for resolution on DVD, the resolution in the container file is unimportant, I think. For DVD, resolution only exists, as far as I know, in standard screen (full screen) and widescreen (16x9). If you want better resolution controls, I don't know what to say except that ConvertXToHD by the same company as ConvertXToDVD may be what you need, but that only creates Blu-Ray discs. You can contact them to see which option is better for you to try out and if they can tell if there's a way to preserve the video resolution. ConvertXtoDVD has a free 7 day trial function which is uncrippled except for watermarks on video output, I think. You can try it out for yourself and see if it creates something you'd be happy with before buying it.

Well, first, does your DVD player support playing AVI file from a disc? Have you done this before and the DVD player played the disc? If your DVD player doesn't support playing back AVI files natively, then, you cannot do what you did and get a playable DVD. You cannot just drag and drop an AVI to a disc for burning and get a DVD player to play it unless your DVD player natively supports AVI file types. If your DVD player does not support AVI playback, you'll need a DVD conversion software like ConvertXToDVD, which is what I use. If you have successfully created DVD's with AVI's on them that your DVD player has played in the past, then, post the log of the burn where you wrote this AVI to disc. I'd need to see more detail.

Yeah, I once asked what this was. And, I also commented that it appears to be random. Check out the answer here: Click on the title of the post in the embed above to open the original thread.

Yeah, I think .MDS files are binary files, which means you won't be able to get much "English" sense out of viewing the contents. Hence why they can't be opened in a text editor. They only function with a dedicated application that can read them, like Daemon Tools or ImgBurn.

BTW, if you wanted to make a data CD with the tracks in a particular order or an MP3 CD with another application, what you do is you add numbers to the start of each MP3's file name. For instance 01 - First File.MP3, 02 - Second File.MP3, etc. Oh, wait, I think Cholla just said that as part of that previous reply.

The only thing I can think of trying, though it probably won't matter in this case, is use one of these discs where you haven't tried Test mode on it, if you haven't already tried it. As I said, I doubt it will make a difference, but that's about my only advice. I've never heard of this media, so, as you say, you'll probably just need MCC/Verbatim/DataLife Plus/AZO CD-R. Sometimes, Test mode actually can render a disc as partially "written."

I had a feeling you were referencing a flash drive with the phrase transistor drive. In ImgBurn, copying means reading a disc in an optical drive to an image file on another storage media, usually a hard drive. This image file is then burned to a recordable optical disc in a burner. Burning doesn't necessarily have to be copying, though, as you can use Build mode to create an image file for burning to a recordable disc. Flash drives cannot be "burned" to in ImgBurn. I would guess as long as you left it plugged in, you could Read an optical disc to an image file or Build an image file to a flash drive. But, you can't burn to flash drives in ImgBurn. Burning only applies to CD/DVD/Blu-Ray writers. (Well, though I've never gotten it to work, if you had a virtual drive that could be written to, I suppose ImgBurn could burn to such a virtual writer.)

What's a transistor drive?

As for the first part, you probably have Details checked under View in File/Windows Explorer. Try enabling Large Icons and see if it displays the contents of the images off of the disc you're talking about. As for the 2nd part, as Ch3 said, that's down to whatever application you're using to view image files does. You'd have to figure out how it behaves or change the viewer you're using to something like the Windows default application.

What you've created is just a data CD with MP3's on it. If your player supports playing MP3 files from the disc, it will play them, but they will be displayed in alphabetical order because that's how they're arranged on the disc. As the other poster said, you'll want to create a CUE file. That's the only way to create a standard audio CD that will play as a music CD. And that will create the tracks on the CD in the order you place them.

I've been seriously considering using Reflect's redeploy function to restore an image of my PC after changing the BIOS setting from RST to AHCI. I've just never done anything like this before, so I'm a bit iffy on it.

Could it have something to do with Dell's now being configured for Rapid Storage Technology as their controller versus AHCI? At least, I think that's how they are factory shipped.

My internal optical drive is configured in RAID mode according to ImgBurn. How exactly can an optical drive be configured in RAID mode? What is it mirrored against? I admit I'm not familiar with RAID as I've never had a setup with mirrored drives before. But, I don't see what's the benefit for an optical drive? And even how can it be in RAID mode? Thanks!

Probably because the root directory contents of all 10 ISO's contain the same contents except for the actual stuff being installed. However, it's most likely in the same place, but with different contents, on each disc. The program looks for the contents in the same place on each disc but each disc has different contents. So, you probably can't just copy over the contents and expect it to work. It would be like taking 2 Windows 10 install ISO's and trying to put their contents onto one Blu-Ray disc and expect the installers to work for both versions of Windows 10. It just can't be done.

Yes, I now see you wanted to copy all 10 ISO contents to the root directory of one disc. The 4 folders you were getting were the same four folders found in each ISO. Because the same four folders probably exist in each ISO, copying the contents to 1 disc probably won't work. But, with that being the case, the virtual drive suggestion I added may be what you need, if that works. If it does work, you can copy all 10 ISO's as 10 separate ISO files to 1 DVD. Then, you can mount each ISO as a virtual drive as you need it from the DVD. Or, copy the ISO's from the DVD to a folder on your hard drive. That way, you'll have all 10 ISO's on 1 DVD to access whenever you need them by copying them to your HDD. The image files will mount and read faster when running from the HDD than from the DVD.

I would guess anything from LiteOn's current web site for its drives would work. I just checked, but one thing to keep in mind is LiteOn only seems to make slim model drives now. Slim model drives are generally junk, failing to burn all the time.

It looks like this Language program you are talking about is looking for specific content in the root directory of a disc in order to load its contents. Unless you can tell this Language program to load from a specific folder, you will probably need to burn 10 different discs. If this Language program only loads from discs and it's looking for what to load in the root directory, you probably can't copy the 10 ISO contents into the root directory of 1 disc unless there are different folder/file names. Some files might work by not copying over them, e.g. if the contents are contained in different named folders and the Language program uses the same root directory contents for each disc. Without having the contents to look at, without knowing what this Language program is, without knowing how it works, I can't say what will work for you. You'd just have to try different configurations and see if they work, which, if you're going to do that, use rewritable discs. However, you do know 10 separate discs should definitely work. Now, one thing you could try doing is copying all 10 ISO's to 1 disc and when you access contents from 1 ISO, you mount the ISO as a virtual drive from the disc. If this Language program is looking for specific contents in the root directory of an optical drive, this virtual drive approach might work. You'll need some virtual drive software to try this out, though. Something like Virtual CloneDrive, Alcohol, or Daemon Tools. If you're going to do this, I'd test to make sure an ISO from your hard drive for one of these discs when mounted in a virtual drive works for your Language program. Whatever this Language program is, it may only work for physical drives and not virtual ones. Although I would think you could point the Language program to a virtual drive, but without knowing how it works, it may be crippled to just physical drives.

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what the OP originally wanted. I got the impression they wanted 10 ISO's burned to the target disc, but the disc that was burned only had 4 folders and 1 ISO file on it.