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If your program refuses to exit upon that (exit) command being issued, then this is a programmers error, not the operator or anything else. This occurs on 3 (three) different BD burners in two different manchines (two different OS's), all running the most recent firmware from the manufacturer, including one model that is the newest BDXL drive. The fact that many folks that report this error have found that the only way to end the program is up to and including a hard (power cycle) reboot is fairly serious, although I have been able to end the Imgburn task through the windows task manager every time. The DL discs used are properly id'ed by several programs, so exacly why Imgburn is not recognizing them is a good question, and why burning of discs right up to the 'limit' of the disc space have proven to work and be good with no errors. The only other possibility is that it's somehow figuring the size of the data to be burned (from the HD space report) is somehow being figured wrong, or (see below). Without looking at the source code (and I'm not about to, I have way too many NDA's that cover what I can do and can't, and will not spend good time/money getting my lawyer to review things) it does appear that burning certain disc sizes is falling into a programming 'trap' of some kind. In short, I'l guess I'll have to get a commercai burning program, something I haven't done since the early days of Nero and the like. Perhaps you will eventually realize the problem exists.

I've been using vr. 2.5.8.0 since it came out, was using commercial programs before that, but I've never run into this particular problem. Looked it up and found that many others have run into it upon occasion, don't really see why it came out of the woodwork right now. No changes to the machine (Vista64) other than the usual weekly 'fixes' by m$. My burner is the tried and true Pioneer 205 that's burned almost all my discs except for about the first 500 which were done by a very old Sony back 10+ years ago. Burning about 1 disc per day on average, started doing BD50's some 6+ months ago, Ritek 6x (burned at 4x) no problems whatsoever. Zero 'coasters'. All play just fine on multiple systems, both linux and consumer. Then I hit this 'reserving track' error. Size of data is well within the 50GB of the disc, somewhat less than 48GB. I've read through all the topics that are listed here where folks hit the same thing, and don't see any real 'solution', just the usual/typical response: replace your drive, replace your firmware, replace your OS, replace your (put whatever here). I simply don't see any specific reason as to why the program generates this error, other than some internal calculation tells it that the media doesn't have enough room (although it does) and exactly where that limit is, is not well defined so one can easily burn data larger than that which triggered the error, just that it doesn't trigger something in the program that tells it that is 'too large'. So this problem has been out there for awhile, and probably is going to be seen more often now that BD50's are more common/lower priced. So in the meantime, what exactly is the 'trigger' for this error, and if indeed the program is somehow not seeing enough space on the disc, one doesn't get that 'disc too small' message (I used to get it all the time burning DVD9's that were just a bit too large).

I would suggest that you put down the disaster (according to WIRED) of the health care site programming, and stop trying to be the tail that wags the dog. By blaming the user or the firmware of the burning drive for the problem, when it did work (obviously and now confirmed) at one point, that something changed, and it isn't the drive or the user. It's the programmer. Proof Positive here. Sorry, but I went back to school three times during my career and spent a better than fair piece running around the country firing folks (watch 'up in the air' for a good example of 30 years of my life, I put a good 10,000 programmers and engineers out on the street over those years), so you need to take a really hard look at what's going on with your program.

Success! But I had to go all the way back to v2.5.1 to make it work! Where exactly IMGBurn went 'off the tracks' is a good question, perhaps someone who has the time can tear into the program internals to figure it out. One thing I did find out is that IMGBurn has gotten a VERY POOR rating from most folks/sites of late, mostly due to all the spamware/baggage it seems to have collected up lately; I'm sure that folks don't mind it IF they have the opportunity to 'opt out' (even the old 2.5.1 had something, but was easily refused). But beyond that, usability and operability is at question here. When it lost the ability to properly burn is a good question. If I was still working for a living, I'd give you a quote on what my services would cost to 'hunt it down'. But I think some young person with all their full facilties would do a better job. But I continue to test 2.5.1, but I'm pretty sure everything that I remember that works in the past, still works. Just not on any of the newer versions (in particular 2.5.8!)

PowerDVD plays the ripped file just fine, both the ISO rip (takes off the instant Daemon tools mounts it from the hard drive, or as soon as the burned disc is inserted) and the file (BDMV/Certificate) rip. Burn either to disc, both don't work on a 'standard' stand alone, or a network player with BR disc player (which, btw, plays those files across the network just like PowerDVD does, right away with no hesitation whatsoever). You're right in that the ISO 'should' have no room for error, but although it plays fine on both the PC and through a network media player, the burned disc starts up then stalls right at loading. I tend to get blinders on with problems such as this, so I pulled out another BD disc I knew to be BD25 size (secondary or 'bonus' disc of a 2-disc set are prime candidates) but it acted just the same, playing perfectly in any format directly from the ripped source and stalling right after loading on any burned media. One of the other 'paths' I've tripped across is to attempt to 'filter' the ripped files through tsMuxr and see what happens (grasping a bit at straws here), but it's kind of Edison like, trying every conceivable way one can figure may get it to work. Something is keeping it from loading up, I've even seen where folks have said that if a 'proper' disc lacks any copy protection it won't play on a standard player. Interesting idea, except I have several discs that don't have any (independent studio and such) that have no problems playing. The way it appears the players are acting is as if the Certificate folder isn't there. However, once again, I have noticed several discs I have don't have a Certificate folder whatsoever yet play just fine. Well, I'm a bit on the running out of options to try, just a couple more and I'm out of ideas. Could it be my drive? I have two machines, each with the same drive (checking f/w).; the older is old, it was the drive I originally burned 'discs that played', so ran a burn test and.... no go yet again, but used the newest vr. of ImgBurn. So that's another thing that gets checked off. Sill have not gotten a single burned disc to work. The biggest thing that has changed is the version of IMGBurn. I still have all the versions going back to Aug09 so I think I'll be giving that a try.

I re-installed the program yesterday, just to make sure it hadn't been corrupted; the settings are at default. AnyDVD is disabled, unless I'm actually ripping something I turn if 'off' anyway (grayed out) just to make sure. I've re-ripped the disc 4 times, twice to files and twice to ISO (re-burning that last ISO rip as I write this, I'm a glutton for punishment). Every rip I've done plays perfectly with the several network players I own. No burn plays in the 6 players I own (up to and including the newest, a Samsung 3D capable player; actually, it's kinda the worst feature wise, although it does do 3D, it was 'free') I've burned to several discs, both BD-RW (Ritek and Verbatim) and to BD-R (Ritek), first coaster in about 3 years. I've followed the 'How To' at http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/9512-how-to-write-a-blu-ray-video-disc-using-imgburn/ to the letter when burning files; ISO burns, there isn't much (if anything) to actually 'set'. And yes, all that horsepower and whatever, IMGBurn is the only program running outside of a couple windows explorers and such. I don't even have any anti-virus/anti-malware installed on that machine, as I don't use it to browse the internet or d/l anything (it's my 7th machine, so it literally has only a couple tasks in life to do, and is behind three (yes, three) h/w firewalls both in my local network and my VPN/ISP. Also on it's own UPS (1KW) for good measure. I have the 'original' tested BD-R burns I dug up yesterday after I ran into problems. I just don't think there was any 'special' settings I did to produce them, except of course it was 3+ years ago and several IMGBurn versions ago. Something to do with Vista64? I have another machine that's a Vista/32 with the same model (Pioneer) bluray burner in it if I get really desperate. These machines have had Win7 on them years back, but networking problems made me take them back to the shop and Vista put on them. I may be the only person in the world (although I doubt it) that had Win7 muck up their network so badly (it's a mix of windows and linux) where Vista was a 'solution' (!!). But there it is.

Well, nope, nothing works. Broke down and did a BD-R burn, it doesn't work. There is something wrong in the way this program is 'working' (or not), when burning/creating actual BluRay format discs. The tutorial must be missing some piece of information, or something else is wrong. Here is the logfile from the BD-R Burn: I 11:02:45 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 11:02:45 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Edition (6.0, Build 6002 : Service Pack 2) I 11:02:45 Total Physical Memory: 8,385,756 KiB - Available: 6,657,032 KiB W 11:02:45 AnyDVD can interfere with ImgBurn's ability to verify accurately, please ensure it's disabled! I 11:02:45 Initialising SPTI... I 11:02:45 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 11:02:45 -> Drive 1 - Info: DTSOFT BDROM 1.05 (K:) (Virtual) I 11:02:46 -> Drive 2 - Info: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 1.08-GENERAL (J:) (ATA) I 11:02:46 Found 1 BD-ROM and 1 BD-RE! I 11:05:26 Operation Started! I 11:05:26 Building Image Tree... I 11:05:29 Calculating Totals... I 11:05:29 Preparing Image... I 11:05:29 Contents: 1,101 Files, 23 Folders I 11:05:29 Content Type: BD Video I 11:05:29 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 11:05:29 File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 11:05:29 Volume Label: DISC2 I 11:05:29 Size: 24,494,700,300 bytes I 11:05:29 Sectors: 11,961,009 I 11:05:29 Image Size: 24,501,747,712 bytes I 11:05:29 Image Sectors: 11,963,744 I 11:05:54 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:28 I 11:05:54 Operation Started! I 11:05:54 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 11:05:54 Source File Sectors: 11,963,744 (MODE1/2048) I 11:05:54 Source File Size: 24,501,747,712 bytes I 11:05:54 Source File Volume Identifier: DISC2 I 11:05:54 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 434C58AD00B68891 I 11:05:54 Source File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 I 11:05:54 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 11:05:54 Source File File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 11:05:54 Destination Device: [3:1:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 1.08 (J:) (ATA) I 11:05:54 Destination Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: RITEK-BR2-000) I 11:05:54 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x I 11:05:54 Destination Media Sectors: 12,219,392 I 11:05:54 Write Mode: BD I 11:05:54 Write Type: DAO I 11:05:54 Write Speed: 4x I 11:05:54 Hardware Defect Management Active: No I 11:05:54 BD-R Verify Not Required: Yes I 11:05:54 Link Size: Auto I 11:05:54 Lock Volume: Yes I 11:05:54 Test Mode: No I 11:05:54 OPC: No I 11:05:54 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 11:05:54 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 17,980 KB/s (4x) I 11:05:54 Advanced Settings - Optimal Writing Speed: No I 11:05:54 Filling Buffer... (40 MiB) I 11:05:56 Writing LeadIn... I 11:06:14 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 11963743) I 11:06:14 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 11963743) I 11:29:09 Synchronising Cache... I 11:29:10 Closing Track... I 11:29:11 Finalising Disc... I 11:29:20 Exporting Graph Data... I 11:29:20 Graph Data File: C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_BD-RW_BDR-205_1.08_SATURDAY-OCTOBER-12-2013_11-05_AM_RITEK-BR2-000_4x.ibg I 11:29:20 Export Successfully Completed! I 11:29:20 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:23:26 I 11:29:20 Average Write Rate: 17,414 KiB/s (4.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 17,626 KiB/s (4.0x) I 11:29:20 Cycling Tray before Verify... I 11:29:38 Device Ready! I 11:29:38 Operation Started! I 11:29:38 Source Device: [3:1:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 1.08 (J:) (ATA) I 11:29:38 Source Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: RITEK-BR2-000) I 11:29:38 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 8x I 11:29:38 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x I 11:29:38 Source Media Sectors: 11,963,744 I 11:29:38 Source Media Size: 24,501,747,712 bytes I 11:29:38 Image File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 11:29:39 Image File Sectors: 11,963,744 (MODE1/2048) I 11:29:39 Image File Size: 24,501,747,712 bytes I 11:29:39 Image File Volume Identifier: DISC2 I 11:29:39 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 434C58AD00B68891 I 11:29:39 Image File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 I 11:29:39 Image File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 11:29:39 Image File File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 11:29:39 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 11:29:40 Read Speed - Effective: 3.3x - 8x I 11:29:40 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 11963743) I 11:29:40 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 11963743) I 11:45:50 Exporting Graph Data... I 11:45:50 Graph Data File: C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_BD-RW_BDR-205_1.08_SATURDAY-OCTOBER-12-2013_11-05_AM_RITEK-BR2-000_4x.ibg I 11:45:50 Export Successfully Completed! I 11:45:50 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:16:10 I 11:45:50 Average Verify Rate: 24,692 KiB/s (5.6x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 35,000 KiB/s (8.0x) And oh, btw, this is the first 'coaster' I've burned in at least 3 years. I knew the BD-RW's were trying to tell me something. So, I'm back at ground zero.

Okay, I continued to try and figure this out. Found a posing on another website that takes ImgBurn to task for making the 'prefer format without spare areas' as default, and the poster had run this down as the reason why burning to BD-RE disc types failed. Now. way back when, when I did some burning 'straight to disc' was at least 3 years ago, and I had some Ritek BD-RE's I had formatted, but had bought a file of Verbatim's later on (and formatted them) and thought perhaps that particular setting had been changed in the interim so pulled out one of the 'original' Riteks and tried burning, but with the same result unfortunately. Will try re-formatting one of the Verbatim's (with that particular setting 'unchecked' and give it a run. I searched back for this particular problem on this site, and their were 'hints' as to it, but not very specific. But the complaint was very specific on that other site, and I didn't try burning to a BD-R (at $1 a piece) so tie up my machine with the BD Burner (Pioneer) later this morning re-formatting a disc, and give that a whirl (again, since the 'source' data plays perfectly fine on my network players, just not from the BD-RE's I try to burn). Oh... just for fun, I 'made' a Imgburn ISO from the original disc structure and burned that. Same (didn't work) result, although again my network players played the ISO just fine, thank you. Now on to the formatting.

I've been using the program (and kept it updated) literally for years. I burn lots (LOTS) of data discs all the time, and it appears to still be working fine. A few years back, I did do some burning of BR discs (BD25's) and had no problem, obviously this was several versions ago. But in the last day I had the need to do so again, so re-checked my settings and the 'tutorial' and it seemed I hadn't forgotten anything settings wise. So off I go, luckily burning to a BD-RW (I always do before committing to a permanent). No Go. The burning appears to work fine, the 'verify' passed (I ALWAYS verify!), but the disc simply will not play in any of my BR players (I have 6 scattered around the house... yes, it's a bit much, but everyone gives out 'free' BR players when buying a new flatscreen, a new home theater box, you name it). Now, the tutorial specifies that one use: MODEL1/2048 UDF 2.50 which is what my (possibly poor) memory says is right, and is the same setting(s) I use for data discs. But again, the result(s) simply will not play. The source file(s) WILL play across the network to (here we go again) several media players that play BR (and DVD) discs across the network, so from the standpoint of that, it works fine. Just not from the burned media (some of those players have BR disc players as well, and they won't play the burned discs either). So, I'm at a halt here. I figure there must be some 'trick' I['m missing out on, but for the life of me I can't remember it, or find it on the site here The RW discs are okay (Verbatim) and check out, and of course do pass verify. This did work, again, several years ago. ??? I'll try another burn after re-installing (v.2.5.8.0) and will post the log here in a couple hours. Here it is; nothing jumps out at me: I 19:42:17 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 19:42:17 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Edition (6.0, Build 6002 : Service Pack 2) I 19:42:17 Total Physical Memory: 8,385,756 KiB - Available: 6,776,036 KiB W 19:42:17 AnyDVD can interfere with ImgBurn's ability to verify accurately, please ensure it's disabled! I 19:42:17 Initialising SPTI... I 19:42:17 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 19:42:17 -> Drive 1 - Info: DTSOFT BDROM 1.05 (K:) (Virtual) I 19:42:18 -> Drive 2 - Info: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 1.08-GENERAL (J:) (ATA) I 19:42:18 Found 1 BD-ROM and 1 BD-RE! I 20:06:08 Operation Started! I 20:06:08 Device: [3:1:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 1.08 (J:) (ATA) I 20:06:08 Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: VERBAT-IM0-000) I 20:06:08 Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x I 20:06:08 Quick Erase: Yes I 20:06:08 Erasing Disc... I 20:06:19 Synchronising Cache... I 20:06:19 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:11 I 20:06:33 Operation Started! I 20:06:33 Building Image Tree... I 20:06:42 Calculating Totals... I 20:06:42 Preparing Image... I 20:06:42 Contents: 1,098 Files, 23 Folders I 20:06:42 Content Type: BD Video I 20:06:42 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 20:06:42 File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 20:06:42 Volume Label: DISC2 I 20:06:42 Size: 24,494,514,436 bytes I 20:06:42 Sectors: 11,960,916 I 20:06:42 Image Size: 24,501,551,104 bytes I 20:06:42 Image Sectors: 11,963,648 E 20:06:44 Operation Aborted! - Duration: 00:00:11 I 20:06:46 Operation Started! I 20:06:46 Building Image Tree... I 20:06:53 Calculating Totals... I 20:06:53 Preparing Image... I 20:06:53 Contents: 1,098 Files, 23 Folders I 20:06:53 Content Type: BD Video I 20:06:53 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 20:06:53 File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 20:06:53 Volume Label: DISC2 I 20:06:53 Size: 24,494,514,436 bytes I 20:06:53 Sectors: 11,960,916 I 20:06:53 Image Size: 24,501,551,104 bytes I 20:06:53 Image Sectors: 11,963,648 I 20:06:55 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:08 I 20:06:55 Operation Started! I 20:06:55 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 20:06:55 Source File Sectors: 11,963,648 (MODE1/2048) I 20:06:55 Source File Size: 24,501,551,104 bytes I 20:06:55 Source File Volume Identifier: DISC2 I 20:06:55 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 434BA0D700B68834 I 20:06:55 Source File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 I 20:06:55 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 20:06:55 Source File File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 20:06:55 Destination Device: [3:1:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 1.08 (J:) (ATA) I 20:06:55 Destination Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: VERBAT-IM0-000) I 20:06:55 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x I 20:06:55 Destination Media Sectors: 12,219,392 I 20:06:55 Write Mode: BD I 20:06:55 Write Type: DAO I 20:06:55 Write Speed: 4x I 20:06:55 Hardware Defect Management Active: No I 20:06:55 BD-RE FastWrite: No I 20:06:55 Link Size: Auto I 20:06:55 Lock Volume: Yes I 20:06:55 Test Mode: No I 20:06:55 OPC: No I 20:06:55 BURN-Proof: Enabled W 20:06:55 Write Speed Miscompare! - Wanted: 17,982 KB/s (4x), Got: 8,990 KB/s (2x) W 20:06:55 The drive only supports writing these discs at 2x. I 20:06:55 Advanced Settings - Optimal Writing Speed: No I 20:06:55 Filling Buffer... (40 MiB) I 20:06:57 Writing LeadIn... I 20:06:58 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 11963647) I 20:06:58 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 11963647) I 20:52:35 Synchronising Cache... I 20:52:36 Exporting Graph Data... I 20:52:36 Graph Data File: C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_BD-RW_BDR-205_1.08_FRIDAY-OCTOBER-11-2013_8-06_PM_VERBAT-IM0-000_4x.ibg I 20:52:36 Export Successfully Completed! I 20:52:36 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:45:41 I 20:52:36 Average Write Rate: 8,742 KiB/s (2.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 8,830 KiB/s (2.0x) I 20:52:36 Cycling Tray before Verify... I 20:52:55 Device Ready! I 20:52:56 Operation Started! I 20:52:56 Source Device: [3:1:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 1.08 (J:) (ATA) I 20:52:56 Source Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: VERBAT-IM0-000) I 20:52:56 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 8x I 20:52:56 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x I 20:52:56 Source Media Sectors: 12,219,392 I 20:52:56 Source Media Size: 25,025,314,816 bytes I 20:52:56 Image File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 20:52:56 Image File Sectors: 11,963,648 (MODE1/2048) I 20:52:56 Image File Size: 24,501,551,104 bytes I 20:52:56 Image File Volume Identifier: DISC2 I 20:52:56 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 434BA0D700B68834 I 20:52:56 Image File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 I 20:52:56 Image File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 20:52:56 Image File File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 20:52:56 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 20:52:57 Read Speed - Effective: 3.3x - 8x I 20:52:57 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 11963647) I 20:52:57 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 11963647) I 21:09:11 Exporting Graph Data... I 21:09:11 Graph Data File: C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_BD-RW_BDR-205_1.08_FRIDAY-OCTOBER-11-2013_8-06_PM_VERBAT-IM0-000_4x.ibg I 21:09:11 Export Successfully Completed! I 21:09:11 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:16:13 I 21:09:11 Average Verify Rate: 24,616 KiB/s (5.6x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 34,955 KiB/s (8.0x) Result: No difference. Disc refuses to play in any player (starts up, then stalls). Stand-alone types tend to give out a 'disc dirty' message, for whatever reason. Several recent BD-RW and BD25 burns (not BD's but MKV's) play perfectly. FYI, I thought the logfile would have it, but it doesn't. This is on a Vista/64 box, 6core AMD CPU, 8GB ram, (2) 1TB SATA drives.