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In "Build" mode, I add the folders & an option comes up with 5 places for a layer break. I select the break I want, and create the ISO image. Go to WRITE mode, and I get a warning that the image is not properly mastered for OTP writing, and there is no legal cell for a layer break! WTF? I have obviously got something wrong, but what? It worked yesterday.....but I add 2 small files today, and this happens. (The added files were properly authored before compiling the Video_TS folder, and it works) IMGBurn is the latest one.

Hi all, and thanks ahead for ImgBurn- very useful tool ! The "error" mentioned seems to happen when I create and burn a DVD UDF1.02 compatible "iso", using ImgBurn, from "DVD Decrypter" made files in my hard-disk folder. -I have attached the log file below. Now, basically, it fails to "finalize" the DVD-disc at 99%, with the "Subject" error above(see output log below). -However, when I click the "Retry" button it successfully "finalizes" the DVD-disc and everything is ok, my backed up movie plays fine.? (I guess since it worked this time it may not be a bug, random glitch maybe?,cheap DVD media ?,just thought if someone else ran into similar it may be my settings or somethin'? ) -thanks. My Hardware: WinXP Pro(all updates, drivers,...) (SATA)Pioneer DVR-212D (Firware 1.21) DVD Media used: PLAYO 2.4-8X DVD+RDL 240min. 8.5Gig output log: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I 12:54:54 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 12:54:54 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 12:54:54 Total Physical Memory: 2,062,764 KB - Available: 1,649,980 KB W 12:54:54 Drive F:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 12:54:54 Initialising SPTI... I 12:54:54 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 12:54:54 Found 1 DVD±RW! I 12:55:41 Operation Started! I 12:55:41 Source File: C:\tmp\firefly1.mds I 12:55:41 Source File Sectors: 4,092,544 (MODE1/2048) I 12:55:41 Source File Size: 8,381,530,112 bytes I 12:55:41 Source File Volume Identifier: FIREFLY_D1 I 12:55:41 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.3.2.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 12:55:41 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 12:55:41 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 12:55:41 Destination Device: [3:0:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-212D 1.21 (E:) (ATA) I 12:55:41 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: RICOHJPN-D01-67) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x) I 12:55:41 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 12:55:41 Write Mode: DVD I 12:55:41 Write Type: DAO I 12:55:41 Write Speed: MAX I 12:55:41 Link Size: Auto I 12:55:41 Test Mode: No I 12:55:41 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 12:55:41 Optimal L0 Data Zone Capacity: 2,046,272 I 12:55:41 Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: Copied From Original Disc I 12:56:08 Filling Buffer... (256 MB) I 12:56:12 Writing LeadIn... I 12:56:13 Writing Image... (LBA: 0 - 4092543) I 12:56:13 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 2046271) I 13:04:20 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 2046272 - 4092543) I 13:14:01 Synchronising Cache... I 13:14:02 Closing Track... I 13:14:09 Finalising Disc... W 13:14:32 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (0/2) - Session Fixation Error I 13:20:16 Image MD5: 6bea7f4b1c25f271bd67c13ef150cfac I 13:20:16 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:24:35 I 13:20:16 Average Write Rate: 7,663 KB/s (5.5x) - Maximum Write Rate: 11,206 KB/s (8.1x) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- regards, Rick.

Just to clarify, it's not Imgburn that isn't reading the disk. It's the drive itself. Imgburn only reports the errors - it doesn't create them. Try burning a disk with a different burning program like Nero. If it succeeds, there could be a problem with your SPTI.device as Nero uses custom drivers and not the ones provided with Windows.

So, whereas standard Liteon drives can be easily flashed with a windows exe, HP decide that their "Liteon" drive can only be flashed with a DOS flasher! What's that all about? What average home/entertainment user these days is familiar with DOS!! As the PC is probably out of its 1 year warranty, I'd probably use Codeguy's flashfixed firmware. But if you still want to try the official HP way, apparently, as well as a floppy and CD you can use a USB pendrive to create the bootable "disc".

Hi, I use Acronis True Image to backup my PC regularly. Acronis allows creation of rescue media & even rescue ISO files. I was hoping using ImgBurn to create a DVD with a backup *.tib file on it & use the Acronis rescue ISO image to make the DVD bootable with the Rescue version of Acronis on it. I created the DVD adding the *.tib file & choosing the rescue ISO in the boot section of ImgBurn. Everything seemed fine & ImgBurn created the ISO with the *.tib file and the Acronis rescue files on it but the disk won't boot?. Any help on the 'Boot disk' options of ImgBurn appreciated. Thanks Paul.

Hi Guys and thanks for the help, Re the screen shot, yes that is the dialog box I get, but "Follow on-screen instructions" means having to create a bootable disc. This isn't a step I have a choice over other than my preferred bootable media choice. Anyway, since slowing the speed of the image burn to x1, I've managed to successfully burn all of my videos so it's fine (so far!). I'll keep trying the firmware in my spare time. Regards, Jez

Not sure I agree with you there. It needs to create a bootable floppy in order to do the update, I've downloaded the exe file, it's on my harddisk, I double click it, it asks for a media type and then it doesn't like my cd. Anyway....... I tried imgburn at the slowest speed 1x and it worked ! maybe for now I'll just see how I get by with this work around.

You don't need to create a bootable CD. Just unrar the file you downloaded to your desktop, then empty the drive and double-click the HS0E.EXE file that you unpacked.

Thanks everyone for your input, unfortunately, even though you've convinced me to go for the firmware update I can't get the update to work ! "Unable to create Bootable CD. Please use CD-R media only and try another Vendor. Please click yes to try again". Originally I was using Verbatim CD-R, and then I tried a cheaper CD-R but still got this message. So I can't go any further down the Firmware route unless I start using CD-RW or DVDs to create a Bootable CD and the creation software claims that this option should only be used by Experts (remember this isn't my machine and it doesn't have a floppy disk drive) Finally, on here I've read something somewhere about WOPC (I think) and QSuite and disabling WOPC (though Lightning UK advised against doing this). Any other thoughts ?

Hello and welcome to another of my legendary guides *cough* In this one I'll be explaining how to burn a set of DVD Video (IFO/BUP/VOB) files to a double layer disc. (Once you've done it a couple of times it becomes second nature and you'll whizz through it in about 10 seconds!) Let me just start by saying that if you're going to burn to double layer discs, do yourself a favour and buy Verbatim DVD+R DL ones! The alternatives might look better value but they're no way near as good as the Verbatim discs and you could quite easily end up throwing half of them away due to failed burns. As with most things in this world, you get what you pay for. You should also stick to burning double layer discs at 2.4x speed. It's better to burn it slower and know you'll have a disc that works perfectly rather than one that skips and jumps all over the place when you try and play it. =========================================================================== Right, so obviously the first thing we need to do is load ImgBurn. I'm going to assume you at least know how to do that! Once it's loaded, switch to 'Build' mode. You do that by clicking on the 'Mode' button in the menu at the top and then selecting 'Build', as shown in the picture below. Next you need to tell ImgBurn you want to write to a disc rather than creating an image file. You do that by clicking on the 'Output' button in the menu at the top and then selecting 'Device', as shown in the picture below. When you've done that, your screen should hopefully look something like this: Top Tip: When storing DVD Video files on your hard disk, follow this 'tried and tested' method - it makes things simpler later on! 1. Decide on a drive / folder where you'll store all your movies - let's refer to this as 'DVD_ROOT'. 2. Create a folder within 'DVD_ROOT' and give it a name that's appropriate for your movie - let's refer to this as 'MOVIE_ROOT'. 3. Create a folder within 'MOVIE_ROOT' and call it 'VIDEO_TS'. 4. Store the DVD Video (IFO/BUP/VOB) files in the 'VIDEO_TS' folder. Example: 'Z:\SUMMER_HOLIDAY_2007\VIDEO_TS' Now we need to tell ImgBurn where the DVD Video (IFO/BUP/VOB) files are that we want to burn. Assuming the files are already in their own folder (see the 'Top Tip' above!), we just need to add that folder to the 'Source' box. To do that, click on the 'Browse for folder...' button as shown in the picture below. You'll then be presented with the standard Windows 'Browse For Folder' dialog box. Just select where your files are and then click on the 'OK' button. You'll notice the full path of that folder has now appeared in the 'Source' box. Let's just do a quick check to make sure ImgBurn is configured correctly for burning a DVD Video disc. (This isn't vital because it'll tell you if something major is wrong!) Select the 'Options' tab as shown in the picture below and correct any settings you have that differ from mine. Top Tip: You can actually just click the 'Reset Settings' text if you're worried you might have messed something up - ImgBurn's default settings are perfect for burning DVD Video discs! Now that's done, insert your new double layer disc into the drive (if you haven't already done so) and switch to the 'Device' tab. Adjust the write speed as required. (2.4x speed is recommended!) Top Tip: You could have skipped that step if you'd already configured ImgBurn's 'Automatic Write Speed' feature for the media you're using as per this guide here. Right, now you're ready to start burning... well, almost Click on the big 'Write' button as shown below. OK, so now here's the clever bit - and the reason why I mentioned (in an earlier 'Top Tip') that it's a good idea to put your DVD Video files in a folder with an appropriate name! Although you could have specified a volume label for the disc on the 'Labels' tab, it's better / easier / faster / cheaper to do it here! (The 'volume label' is what you'd see in 'My Computer' / 'Explorer' when the disc is in the drive - i.e. it's name) The program will automatically generate a name for the disc based on one of the following (and in this order): 1. The disc name as taken from the 'DVD-TEXT' table in the IFO files. (I don't expect everyone to know what that is, don't worry!) 2. The name of the folder the files are stored under. (This is the one being used here) 3. The volume label of the drive the files are stored on. Whilst you're very welcome to change the volume label to anything you want at this point, the default value should be fine unless you've totally ignored my advice. Top Tip: Only the label from the 'best' file system supported by playback device is ever visible/used. So the UDF one takes precedence over the Joliet one and the Joliet one takes precedence over the ISO9660 one. Just click 'Yes' when you're ready to proceed. Now that you've given your disc a name, you'll have another option to configure - the layer break position. The transition between layers normally causes the player to 'pause' playback for a second whilst the drive's laser moves to where it needs to be and focuses on what it needs to read. What you need to do on this screen is pick (from the options provided) a nice spot (Cell) within your movie for that transition to take place. The item (Cell) you select will be the first thing on the 2nd layer and hence what's shown AFTER the momentary pause. Where possible, you want to avoid having a pause in the middle of a fast moving 'action' scene and instead put it somewhere you're less likely to notice it. The coloured stars will give you an idea of the best place (technically speaking) for the layer break position, but just remember, you're the only one that knows what's going to work best for your movie. Luckily for you, ImgBurn has this great feature whereby you can preview what you're looking at - Cell wise! If you want to, select each option in turn and click the 'Preview Selected Cell' button to see what's going on in the movie at that point. If you do decide to preview something, the preview window will appear! Within the preview window, Cell 1 is what would play just BEFORE the layer transition, Cell 2 is what would be played straight AFTER it. You can use the buttons to 'step' through the movie frame by frame. Alternatively, just drag the slider! Remember to close the preview window when you're finished - ImgBurn won't let you do anything else until you do. When you've made your decision, click the 'OK' button and breath a sigh of relief. You'll then be shown a summary screen that contains some details about the image. This is your last chance to back-out if you don't want to go through with the burn! Ah ha, got balls of steel have you? Fine, go ahead and click the 'OK' button then. >_ Hoorah! The disc is burning! It's going to take a while so go and do something else until it finishes. Of course if you want to stick around and watch the 'Time Remaining', please do! Each to their own and all that. When it's done, click 'OK' and go show off to all your friends that you've conquered double layer burning with ImgBurn. The End!

greetings Burners, i have an iso file. the file contains 2 folders (1. VIDEO_TS 2. AUDIO_TS). These 2 folders are from a dvd (vidoe, audio, menus, extras). what i need help with is this : i would like to create a working dvd which will play on my dvd player (excluding my computers dvd player). i know i either have to burn the iso or extract the 2 folders and burn those. ive tried to make a dvd with ImgBurn but it only plays on my dvd. i used a dvd+rw disc. ------------------------------------------------------- what method should i use? which disc type? why didnt the disc i made play on my dvd player (not comp) please help me thank you to everyone in advance

That's how big your image is and so that's what was burnt to the disc. I see the hard drive is only using FAT32 rather than NTFS for the file system. If you look in the log you'll see these messages So I suspect that whatever program made the ISO simply didn't account for you using FAT32 and it not being able to create a file > 4GB in size - which is what a DVD image would normally be. Unless you have a specific reason not to, you should convert them both to NTFS. Just look in the XP help for how to do that. (Basically you run the line 'convert c: /fs:ntfs' from the command prompt window, followed by 'convert d: /fs:ntfs') hi there, i was reading your forum and wondered if you could help me? i'm trying to convert my d: drive from fat32 to ntfs but i dont seem to be able to. For many weeks now iv been trying to burn dvds but with no success, then i read what u wrote about converting my drives, so i'm desparately hoping that this will work, can u please please please help me to work out where i'm going wrong. thanx

Thanks I'll try that. I used DVDShrink to make the ISO image. That is a good program to use to create an ISO image right? Yes it's a laptop, but it's only temp. The burner in my tower just went out so I'm gonna replace it this weekend and use that to burn the ISO images. Hopefully with a new burner everthing will work out.

Ok, so you've got a laptop drive or something yeah? Well, at least it's one that can't 'load' the disc/tray by itself. It ejects the disc after the burn and before the verify so it's more accurate. As your drive can't do it automatically, you'll need to push it in by hand. There's no problem with anything so far. That's how big your image is and so that's what was burnt to the disc. I see the hard drive is only using FAT32 rather than NTFS for the file system. If you look in the log you'll see these messages So I suspect that whatever program made the ISO simply didn't account for you using FAT32 and it not being able to create a file > 4GB in size - which is what a DVD image would normally be. Unless you have a specific reason not to, you should convert them both to NTFS. Just look in the XP help for how to do that. (Basically you run the line 'convert c: /fs:ntfs' from the command prompt window, followed by 'convert d: /fs:ntfs')

If I setup ImgBurn do create ISO-Images from some files/directories it creates mds-, i00- and i01-files. Why? How can I create it in one ISO-file?

If you have the actual files, just use Build mode - read the Guides forum. If that's not working (I'm a little confused now as to what you're trying exactly!), you've no choice but to make the files smaller and/or create new cells (by splitting existing ones).

I need to create a Hybrid DVD. The disc when inserted into a DVD player or computer should be recognised as an ordinary video DVD, however, when loked at by Windows Explorer, there needs to be another file visable, which will contain either PDFs or pictures. I would be most grateful for any help in achieving this. Thanks, Nick

Well today i just bought the 300, but my only DvD player is of pretty poor quality; I want to create an image of the Dvd, then mount it with emulation software so i can watch it properly, otherwise i have to put up with broken sound and stuttering framerates. I created an image using the default settings, mounted it, but when i tried to watch it, there was no video, the audio was playing, but not properly. What exactly do i need todo in order to create a functional image of my Dvd with imgburn?

I haven't find an option that will allow to create catalogs in bulid mode, and then move files across it, change file structure. I found only on option to move the whole file structure from disk to image, but cannot change it in a way described above. Thanks for greate iso burnign work! )

I'd also recommend buying an el cheapo multi-framerate player. Otherwise, the process is not trivial, although there's some good software out there which works. EG Canopus Procoder (very expensive). SUPER (freeware) might be able to convert the VOBs' framerate but then you'd need to create IFOs around the newly created VOBs (easily done with IfoEdit). Not sure how well the menus would come out, either. You can also look here for some guides. Regards

ImgBurn and its forerunner ( which will remain nameless) was'nt intended for novices, it was more for people who knew what an IFO , UP , VOB , ISO ect ect was. having read the links you gave , all of them had been answered/covered in the guides section or the web site. I can see your point about a simplified interface, but i dont think theres a need for it, as the intention of the support forum was to help anyone with difficulties, wether they had simple or technical issues.Also this method allowed people to help each otehr in real time as well, as opposed to guessing what a certain phrase or statement actually meant Anyone who "wants" to use a program will find how to use it if they really want to , even if it means asking in the "Help" section. I dont think theres been anyone who has'nt found out how to use it yet after coming in here and asking. Nero's the same, it may have a simplified "express" menu, but you still have to select files to work with using the "ADD" button . regarding nero , as you said, you still have to show them how to use the "Express" interface !!. there IS lots of options within ImgBurn , but as the home page says " Whilst ImgBurn is designed to work perfectly straight out of the box, advanced users will appreciate just how configurable it is." Like all programs, if you mess with settings and you dont know what they do, your bound to get into troubles, however, if you leave ImgBurn at default/installation settings, you should be able to burn a disc without problems. to create a simple Interface , as you mentioned, you have to have hardly any options/choices at all , unfortunatley not eveyone wants to make the same disc/content of the same thing, so you have to have options . I tried your program on a basic XP machine, and it gave me the ".NET framework initiallization error", prompting me to ask my application publisher about which version to use. admittedly you said it was included in vista, however i would guess the majority of PC users round the world are still on XP , so i foresee a few users getting problems trying to install .NET framework anyway. point being that even the simplest of statements can cause confusion. its all about how something is explained

Thanks, mmalves. I'd meant to write "Build" mode, but had written "burn" mode The "Build mode" guide is full of references that I don't understand. Here are some of them - and some related questions - if anyone has the spare time to help me understand them: ISO: ?? Output mode: will ImgBurn both compress/layer (?) the files and burn them to DVD if I select "save to DVD", or must this be done in two steps? If in two steps, how? file system: man, I need help with this! I've no idea what determines which file system to use. Create Layer Break Position: same here. All I know is that I used DVDFABHDDecrypter to create the HD files, and will be burning onto a DVD-R blank. Media: "building to an ISO image rather than burning on the fly to a disc." I'm not sure which I'm actually doing (see second question)! Single Layer profile: ??? Double Layer profile: ??? Restrictions: ??? Thanks for any help you care to send my way! - Michael

Are you in 'Read' mode, trying to read a disc to an image file that you've called 'D:\DVD_VIDEO.ISO' ? It looks like you don't have permission to modify that folder (create files in it) - i.e. the 'D:\' drive, or there's already a 'DVD_VIDEO.ISO' file there and you don't have permission to modify / create / delete it. Even if you are in 'Write' mode, you still don't have permission (this is a system thing, part of the NTFS file system) to access it.

I'm a new ImgBurn user trying to read a DVD with media errors. I can read 75% of the video before it hits bad sectors. I've configured ImgBurn to skip errors but it is still taking too long since it seems that all the remaining sectors have errors and ImgBurn must try to read each one until it times out. It's been running for 2 days now and it hasn't progressed very far through the errored sectors. This is a home video and I would like to salvage as much as possible. Is there a way to simply truncate the DVD to eliminate the bad sectors so that ImgBurn can read it and create a burnable image? Thanks in advance...

This is a repeat of other posts to get a confirmation of what I need to do. I'm running Vista Home Premium with the latest updates and Windows DVD Maker. I used Windows Movie Maker to create a wedding movie which is stored as a Windows Media Audio/Video file (.wmv). I burning onto a DVD+R (single layer) and followed the ImgBurn instructions specifically setting option to UDF format. No problem burning, no problem verifying, no problem playing the burned disc on the computer. Does not play on the DVD player. One post indicated to use DVD-R disc instead. However a much earlier post indicates what's needed is something like: ConvertXToDVD (aka DivXtoDVD) to convert your movie files to a compatible DVD playable on any home DVD player. I was 'tuned on' to ImgBurn from http://vidmar.net/weblog/archive/2007/03/2...g-software.aspx which indicated ImgBurn could be used to create Video DVDs for DVD play back (as opposed to Windows DVD burner.) Is this not correct. Do I need to ConvertXToDVD? Thanks, Here's the burn log: ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 - Log ; Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 18:51:36 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 17:12:25 ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0 started! I 17:12:25 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6000) I 17:12:25 Total Physical Memory: 2,094,404 KB - Available: 999,932 KB I 17:12:25 Initialising SPTI... I 17:12:25 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 17:12:25 Found 1 DVD