Eric C

It is a LG WH10LS30K...I haven't checked recently, but last time I did the FW was good to go. Good idea, though - will check that now.

Hello all, I've written a similar post on various forums in the past and received a couple of replies, but thought I'd try again in case there is any more information available these days - and if this is even anything I should be worried about. When burning BD-Rs, I seemingly have no errors..a spot check of the finished product on our BR player seems fine, the verification process of ImgBurn shows no issues...everything seems perfect - until I look at the back of the disc. Sometimes there will be just a line that goes around in a circle (like a "spacer" on a vinyl album) and other times there will be just clearly different shades of the dye (?) on various parts of the disc. I'll attach a pic that is probably hard to see, but if viewed at the right angle might show what I'm talking about. I've read that it is just buffer overruns and the BURN-proof working, but it just looks odd to me. Again, I can't prove that it's a "problem", but part of me just wants a cleaner looking burn. I do make sure no other programs/processes are running, and sometimes it seems that rebooting the machine often helps (but not always). One other concern I have is longevity of the burn, and if the different shades of writing indicate any weakness, etc. Does this sound like anything to worry about at all?

Hi all, I'm quite possibly obsessing over something that doesn't matter, but should I be concerned when the burned Blu-ray has areas of a different shade of color and/or rings around the disc that look like the spacers between tracks of a vinyl album? I just have in my mind that a burn should look consistent all the way through, but if there are no errors in the ImgBurn should I put the faith in that? When I started burning, I ran into this a LOT, then lowered my burn speed to 2X. Burned much slower of course, but the appearance of the final product looked a lot more consistent. I've run into a stretch this week, though, where every burn is looking very diverse (for lack of a more technical term). I'm using a LG burner (WH10LS30) with Optical Quantum (Phillips) media. Thanks!

Had a nice run where all my burns were totally "clean" (no marks, rings, multiple shades of color, etc.) but now I'm in another stretch where every single burn has at least some visual marks. As innocuous as it sounds, it still looks odd to me so thought I'd try to post a pic in case that helped anyone identify issue/confirm harmlessness. Please see attachment...disregard the phone and the odd lighting and you'll see one "ring" going all the way around the disc on the backside. Let me know if this raises a flag at all...thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions and feedback that the different coloration has to do with burn speed...never realized that. I know it's not (overtly, at least) an issue of too many things running at once as I'm pretty particular about making sure no other processes are (knowingly) running while burning a BR. Those suckers are too $$ to waste if I can help it! What about the rings around the disc that I see periodically after burning? Would that just be a momentary change of write speed? I will try to defragment idea, too, and see if that helps at all. Thanks!

Still burned with a few "rings around the disc"

Good call! The drive was running version 1.00-07 instead of 09. We'll see if this makes a difference.

Just proving I am, in fact, a newbie to BR. WITH the attachment now... ImgBurn Log.txt

So I expected some growing pains and a new learning curve when attempting to burn BR, but this is getting ridiculous. I have tried various types of media (Verb LTH, Optical Quantum, Phillips, Memorex, Maxell) and the results have all been similar so I'm thinking it's either my hardware or a setting in the software rather than purely faulty media. Anyway...what I am getting more times than not is what appears to be a completely successful burn. No errors or bad messages, a successful verify process, then when I take the disc out and examine it I see one of two things: 1) a change in coloration in the dye at various points and/or 2) lines that look like song breaks on a vinyl record. In some cases I have gone ahead and tried to play the disc on my standalone BR player and while it seems fine it's hard to have much faith in a "dirty" looking burn. The only thing I have seen that represents a red flag to me at all is the message (in the attached log file) that I get periodically about letting the "buffers recover". Seems like the process slows down roughly 2-5 times per write session for this to happen. That being said, I have had cases where that happened several times and the burn looks perfect and still other cases where I never got that message and the burn looks like a vinyl LP record. I have been backing up my DVD collection for years and thought I had a good sense about how/why things worked and didn't work, but I'm not seeing the logic so far with the BRs. Anyone see anything that jumps out as a problem or symptom to a problem? (OH, and you'll see a note on there about having AnyDVD enabled...I always disable that before attempting the write process so I don't think that's the culprit) Thanks in advance for any help!

Hello all.... First-time ImgBurn user...long-time Clone DVD user. I heard about this program and thought I would check it out after reading about how detailed it is. So far, it looks like a fantastic program, but I had one question that got me stuck before I could get started. Is there any way (in the various "modes") to copy only specific titlesets and/or specific chapters of a titleset? I apologize in advance if this is already in another thread somewhere, but I did not see this when checking out the guides. Thanks for your help! - EC