Again burning double layer disks - imgburn bombs out on 1st layer

[--RS]

Hi folks,

 

First off, I read the spiel on Verbatim disks, and I only have those DV-R DL disks! And you do seem to say DO NOT try these! Nevertheless, I have never had problems with RICOH disks that are only a fraction of the cost of Verbatim's!

 

Now, normally all disks look approximately like this: VTS_01_0.VOB is small! Followed by VTS_01_*.VOB which are all 1048574KB in length, ending with a trailing VTS_01_n.VOB which has less than the 1048574KB! Disks that adhere to this format have NEVER given me any problems!!!

 

Now, all of a sudden, IMGBURN is failing already on layer 0 at the 49% mark! And what is there? A short file like this:

 

VTS_01_4.VOB with size 799994KB right in the middle of the 1MB VOBs, 3 on each side! What happens here? my drive starts to freak out with a ton of error messages! Why is this happening? I selected the Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: IFO Cell Boundary, 'SLIP' flag not set! Why does it freak out before, and if there are ONLY 1MB VOBs in the middle it does everything okay! I cannot believe that this is a faulty disk problem since it concerns ONLY specially constructed disk formats! Maybe, this is a feature and not a bug!

 

In all cases, all DVDs (5) failed at home when there's a small VOB in the middle!

 

I then tried it at work where I have a blueray writer: It succeeded on some of these small VOB format DVDs, but it too DID fail on just such a file! The error is identical to the home errors! Here the HP drive is virtually brand new: It wrote 2 DVD-Rs, 1 DVD+R DL, before freaking out! I am attaching a capture of the files involved in the home example, and also the capture of the files involved in the blueray example! Here also is the log file for this!

 

Thanks for the suggestions and help!

 

--R

p.s. I already posted on the home problem but only with a log there!

dv+r-dl-b5-s3-d3bad.log

[LIGHTNING UK!]

I don't really know what you want us to say here.

 

Everything we have to say on the matter of burning DL discs can be found in the thread I assume you were referring to as 'spiel on verbatim discs'.

 

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

 

If the drives are failing to burn at 'max' speed (8x in the case of your HP one), try again at the other speed(s) they claim to support on that MID (4x in the case of the HP one).

 

You know you have to ignore the packaging on DL media yeah? Those discs use the 'MBIPG101-R10-65' MID/dye - which of course isn't RICOH. They might have used a RICOH MID/dye at one point but they certainly aren't now.

 

Your drive knows / understands nothing of the data it's burning (so having a small file in the middle of a VTS set is totally irrelevant), data is data.