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According to Liggy and Dee, it seems that the Sony AW-Q170A is an Optiarc AD-5170A, and that the Sony AW-G170A is an Optiarc AD-7170A. Remember that cross-flashing is dangerous, so do it at your own risk.

DVD-ROM, HD DVD-ROM and BD-ROM are always greyed out in the Write section of the 'Device Capabilities' window because such discs, as their name says (Read-Only Memory), can only be made by way of pressing, usually in large scale, i.e., commercial discs. Booktyping/bitsetting is just a trick used to make older/incompatible devices think that the media is a pressed DVD-ROM, and it can only be done on the DVD+R(W) SL/DL format. Also, there's no sure way to detect if a device allows booktyping or not, besides burning a DVD+R(W) and verifying after. Different manufacturers use different methods for enabling booktyping: some of them enable booktyping by default, others don't even offer this option. The brand/model of your drive is shown in the first line of the information section of ImgBurn, on the right side of the window.

For Windows XP it would be: ;----- Disable Hibernate [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power] "Heuristics"=hex:05,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,3f,42,0f,00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Power] "Heuristics"=hex:05,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,3f,42,0f,00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power] "Heuristics"=hex:05,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,3f,42,0f,00 But these values may vary on different configurations/systems (timeouts etc), so the better option still is powercfg.exe. Now, if you really want the registry values for your current configuration, run Regmon, enable/disable hibernation with powercfg.exe and collect the data from Regmon

*cough* http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920730 *cough*

There's newer firmware available for your $700 toy, if you feel like playing around...

Your original DVD is a dual layer, so you'll have to burn it to a dual layer media. We recommend using Verbatim DVD+R DL media, as it's the only one that really works. Please read this article on Wikipedia if you have any doubts about DVD types/sizes. Another option is to use a program like DVD Shrink, Nero Recode, DVDFab, etc. and recompress the disc to fit a single layer DVD+R.

Isn't an ISO image "a file" too? Please describe with more details what you want to do

ImgBurn automagically booktypes on LG (HL-DT-ST), Samsung (TSSTcorp) and Lite-On drives

The % column shows (roughly) how much data goes on the first/second layer of the disc for that layer break. LU and SPLIP are explained in this thread. V/C ID means VOB and Cell ID, subdivisions of the VOB file if I recall correctly. Padding is explained here, by the boss himself!

Unless your DVD player reads DivX/XviD AVI files, it won't work. For playing on a standard DVD player you'd first need to convert your AVI to DVD-Video format, which you can find guides for doing so at VideoHelp.com.

I 12:04:30 Source Device: [1:0:0] HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B A102 (D:) (ATA) D: is his burner, so, apparently he tried the Build mode to build an ISO from the files inside the DVD, which is doable but somewhat wrong approach, and got the read error. He then used Read mode (correct approach) and got the read error again. Also, it's a pressed DVD-ROM, so that's why it doesn't have Media ID or supported write speeds. Your DVD is dirty/scratched, so please try some cleaning kit on it. You could also try and read it on another drive, but that might not work if it's badly scratched. You should also upgrade your firmware, since yours is A102 (which is pretty old) and the newest is A106. Doing this won't instantly solve your problem, but certainly will ensure better burns and media compatibility in the future.

Let's approach this in another way: please state the problem(s) you're having with ImgBurn and also please attach a log of a successful/failed burn (they can be accessed in Help/ImgBurn Logs). That'll help us help you

It's already booktyping to DVD-ROM: I 15:04:29 Source Media Type: DVD+R (Book Type: DVD-ROM) (Disc ID: MCC-004-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x) Taiyo Yuden and/or Verbatim media may help, but I think the problem is your DVD player. I've had the Cyberhome CH-DVD 300 and mine barely played pressed DVDs, didn't play DVD?R and didn't even recognize CD-RWs/DVD?RWs. At the time I had bought 2 brand new units and they both had the same problems. I've returned them and bought a Philips DVP642K (which is old now) and this one plays any media you throw at it, plus it has support for DivX/XviD.

That happens because ImgBurn doesn't support either multi-session or packet writing, thus it burns the whole lot of data and then finalizes the DVD, a method known as Disc-At-Once (DAO). The one you were using probably uses packet writing, so that's why it was shown with free space. Notice that ImgBurn's method produces DVDs that are readable on computers, DVD players, consoles and any devices that reads and "understands" DVDs, while packet writing can be read mostly on computers (may need additional software to work), very few standalone players and consoles, if any. Choosing one method or another depends on what use you'll make of it.

Could be. The fact is that ImgBurn doesn't support reading any kind of protection, be it old or new.

ImgBurn generates standard DVD-Video discs, so, any DVD player should be able to read them. What happens is that older players don't like recordable media, others prefer DVD-R or DVD+R, and so goes on. I think any new mainstream DVD player will play these discs without a hitch.

If you want an exact copy, ISO is the way to go. As you can see from ImgBurn's log, it also replicates the original layer break: I 15:52:04 Optimal L0 Data Zone Capacity: 2,079,104 I 15:52:04 Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: Copied From Original Disc The following is also good as it increases compatibilty with DVD players and consoles: I 16:13:45 Source Media Type: DVD+R DL (Book Type: DVD-ROM) (Disc ID: RITEK-S04-01) (Speeds: 4x, 6x) Notice from your screenshot that if you want to go where the layer break is on the disc, you should go to chapter 18 or 51m40s (maybe less a few seconds to be completely sure) and let it play. As you can see ImgBurn tells you everything If you can, you really should try Verbatim DVD+R DL media, as they're the only good DL media. The others may work for a while, but you'll soon have problems with them, either playing or even copying/backing them up.

With ImgBurn in Build mode (works for both 'Device' and 'Image File' outputs), simply add your VIDEO_TS folder and ImgBurn should detect the DVD-Video content and set things up accordingly. Have you tried this disc on another DVD player? If it plays OK, then your Philips doesn't like the media you're using. You can try different types (DVD-R/DVD+R) and brands of media and see what works best for you. Verbatims and Taiyo Yudens are the best all the way.

What are your options in the 'Potential Layer Break Positions' dialog? You can see it by going to Tools/ISO/Display IFO Layer Break Information and selecting your ISO image. Also, please attach the full log of your burn, which you can get by going to Help/ImgBurn Logs.

With ImgBurn, did you burn it with Verify enabled? Could you post the log from such burn?

For archiving purposes, you could use WinRAR/7-Zip/others to compress the ISO and set the program to split volumes at 4.700.000.000 bytes. Now, if it's DVD-Video and you want it to be playable on standard DVD players, you can use DVDFab Platinum to split it to 2 DVD-Rs. Don't you have a friend with a dual-layer capable burner? If it's external, just hook it up to your computer and burn the ISO to Verbatim DVD+R DL media. If it's internal, use the archival method I mentioned above and take the ISO onto 2 DVD?R(W)s to your friends computer. In any way, please do use Verbatim DVD+R DL media, it's the only good dual-layer media to be used.

You're trying to burn 20.8 GiB of data to a single layer DVD-R, which supports only 4.38 GiB per disc. Did you not get a warning about not having enough space? You'll have to split your music into separate folders of 4.38 GiB (or less) each and then burn each folder to a DVD-R.

I also get that error while trying to send a private message. After a few tests I found that one or more words from my text were causing the forum to return the 403 Forbidden Apache web server message. The solution is to try and find which line/paragraph gives the 403 error and rewrite it in another way and/or using another words. I haven't been able to iron out the exact word(s) myself because my text is very long, but maybe I'll try later... UPDATE: I've just found out that the forbidden word I was using was /e t c (without spaces), which could be seen by the webserver as a *nix path and, thus, forbidden to be messed with.

Burning the ISO from the HDs on IDE probably won't have buffer underruns. FireWire is much faster than USB 2.0 and probably won't have buffer problems. In any case, I think burning at slower speed is always the best option.

That's probably why you're getting empty buffers: USB 2.0 can only sustain transfers at around 15 MiB/s, which is too slow even for 12x. The HD itself is much faster, but the USB 2.0 interface acts as a bottleneck. In your case, increasing the buffer size will only give you a little more time before the buffers get empty again. The best solution would be burning at a slower speed.