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Well crap, I slowed it down to 2.5X burn and it made none of the noise it made before and worked perfectly. It got me wondering, is it possible that the burner hardware is "intelligent" enough to stop if the high spin-rate has overheated and wait for a cool down, while the software doesn't recognize this and thinks it's still writing (with the fine buffer) at 0 kbps? I'm just wondering if this explains how my buffer can be fine and it still "writing" at 0... maybe the faster burning I was doing was just overheating the drive? Does anyone know if this is possible? Thx, Chris.... PS How am I supposed to find Taiyo Yuden discs in North America? After looking on the net it appears they don't have an actual "branded" brand, they just outsource their product to other companies, e.g., Sony uses Taiyo Yuden, Sony, Ricoh, and Mitsubishi as manufacturers, without labeling their packaging specifying; so how are you supposed to figure it out?

Okay, I'm updating right now, and I'll try pulling the burn speed back. I'll also go find a cleaning disc. As for the discs, with the Sony ones I've been using I've gone through about 60 fine before I started having problems; is there a particular problem with the Sony ones I'm using? I've never seen the other ones for sale around where I live. With respect to the buffer problems, that's what really confuses me. I ran defrag last night, it checked my HD and said it didn't need to be done. I have always used the computer while burning, with some really "hogging" programs (i.e., video transcoders, and streaming downloads from the internet at the same time). I thought this might be stupid, so since I've had the problem I stop everything and even disabled my internet. Still happened. Given that with large loads before, I'm not sure what's going on. But I'll try what you said (1) update (2) clean it and (3) slow it down (especially as I think I used have DVDFlick set on a slower setting as it led into ImgBurn). The mechanical sounds my burner is making now which it never made before is particularly creeping me out.... Thanks again for your quick response! Chris . . . .

Okay, I've never had problems with the program or my burner before, and I don't know much about the technical details, but something weird is happening which I can't seem to find any mention of on a search of the net. What happens is my burner will be burning using ImgBurn, and it has started burning as usual. Now before once-in-a-while I'd get the normal buffer running out and the burn stopping until hard-disk activity reaches threshold and it continues (I still get this); but, now every once-in-a-while Write Speed will go down to zero (with the buffers still fine) and it will still say "Writing Sectors" just as normal. Sometimes this is accompanied with a bit of a mechanical noise from the burner itself. After a while, it will make another bit of noise, and start up again as normal. It may do this a few times. It doesn't show up in the log as anything, because through the whole process it shows as "Writing Sectors." It got to the end of burning a couple times regardless of this quirk; but, now it has started to give me a fail near the end ( ~ 75 - 85%) as shown below. The disk isn't full; it still gives me the option to finalize after it fails, and the disk clearly shows it just stopped. I can watch the footage, but it just stops approximately where the disk stopped burning. Any clue what's up? I'd be happy to provide any more details if needed (as I'm not sure what's germane to this particular problem); below is the warning I get when it "fails," and below that is the log (not showing the "quirk" mentioned above. Thanks for your time and consideration! Chris.... ________________________________________________________________________ I/O Error! Device: [0:0:0] TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632M 0817 (E:) (ATA) ScsiStatus: 0x02 Interpretation: Check Condition CDB: 2A 00 00 1F 82 20 00 00 20 00 Interpretation: Write (10) - Sectors: 2064928 - 2064959 Sense Area: 71 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 Interpretation: Write Error (Retry) (Cancel) ________________________________________________________________________ I 12:36:47 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started! I 12:36:47 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6002 : Service Pack 2) I 12:36:47 Total Physical Memory: 1,037,632 KB - Available: 352,704 KB I 12:36:47 Initialising SPTI... I 12:36:47 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 12:36:51 Found 1 DVD

Thanks for your help; awesome guides! Probably should've been able to find them myself somehow... I've never encountered an issue with being deined a search because it was only three-letters long, maybe I'm just not on message boards enough! Thanks again.

Hello. Just a quick question. Whenever I get anything I want to put on DVD, it's usually an AVI (or "easy") filetype, and I just use DVDFlick to encode it then burn it with imgBurn, or it's an ISO image, and I just burn it with imgBurn. Now, I've got a package that I've never encountered (and I can't search the forums for it because it won't let me search for anything less than four letters!): VOB / IFO / BUP files. After a quick bit of searching on Wikipedia, it appears these are the quite common base constituents of DVDs, but how do I use them? How do I get imgBurn to create a DVD out of them? I can't seem to figure it out as intuitively as all the other things I've done with imgBurn! Thanks for your time and help!.....