How do you finalise a DVD?

[Siddy]

Hi,

Im burning a DVD image to a black DVD, and i need to finalise it, however i cant find the finalise option anywhere?

Also, when i choose a certain speed to burn at, it ignores it and burns at the max speed?

(I chose 1x and it burns at 4x)

 

Any help would be great!

[Siddy]

some more info on the write speed issue:

When i am burning it says "Copy: 1 of 1 (Write speed: 1x)" and on the other side of the window "Write Rate: 5,552KB/s (4.0x)

 

But what i really need is to know how to finalise the dvd, please help, im sitting here wasting dvd's.

[lfcrule1972]

Ok first off please post a copy of the log from ImgBurn, that is all the information that appears in the bottom window under the main GUI. That will tell us a bit about the media and its supported write speeds - I am guessing that yours does not support 1x and probably has 4x as the lowest.

 

As for closing, I think you can do this with ImgBurn open, select the Tools menu and it's one of the options there - you may need to close track before disc if that's available to you, sorry never had to do it manually myself and my memory of reading this in the forum is a little foggy.

[Siddy]

Thanks for the reply,

I cant copy the log for you unless i ruin another DVD, but yes you are probably right, 4x must be the lowest.

 

As for the real issue, thanks again, i was looking for a "finalse" button, but i see the Close > track, session, disc, HOWEVER, when i click any of them i get a I/O error! I have tied with a DVD in and my iso loaded.

 

any ideas???

[lfcrule1972]

Well you need the DVD in the drive that originally displayed the error for it to attempt to close the disc. What I would guess (we still need the log - see below) is that maybe the disc is no good and can't be closed manually.

 

Log - ImgBurn auto saves the logs now, via the settings you can see where they default save, find this on your PC and then copy paste the log into your next post. I suspect your media might not be the best hence these problems.....

[Siddy]

They are cheap DVD's, so if its possible for DVD's to not be "closable" i suppose these would be it.

Anyway, here is the log u showed me how to get, its one when i went through with the full process so it should show everythihgn (including min speed as 4x)

 

; //****************************************\\

; ImgBurn Version 2.1.0.0 - Log

; Monday, 18 December 2006, 18:45:57

; \\****************************************//

;

;

I 18:37:22 ImgBurn Version 2.1.0.0 started!

I 18:37:22 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)

I 18:37:22 Initialising SPTI...

I 18:37:22 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 18:37:22 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD?RW!

I 18:39:03 Operation Started!

I 18:39:03 Source File: C:\Documents and Settings\TOSCO\Desktop\NGC07 Everything or Nothing07 Everything or Nothing O07 Everything or Nothing.gcm

I 18:39:03 Source File Sectors: 712,880 (MODE1/2048)

I 18:39:03 Source File Size: 1,459,978,240 bytes

I 18:39:03 Source File Volume Identifier: 007: Everything or Nothing

I 18:39:03 Source File File System(s): None

I 18:39:03 Destination Device: [5:0:0] PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108 1.20 (E:) (ATA)

I 18:39:03 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: CMC MAG. AE1) (Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x)

I 18:39:03 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496

I 18:39:03 Write Mode: DVD

I 18:39:03 Write Type: DAO

I 18:39:03 Write Speed: 1x

I 18:39:03 Link Size: Auto

I 18:39:03 Test Mode: No

I 18:39:03 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 18:39:04 Filling Buffer...

I 18:39:04 Writing LeadIn...

I 18:39:35 Writing Image...

I 18:43:58 Synchronising Cache...

I 18:44:23 Image MD5: 765fcce09699b8632119402ab23d8e89

I 18:44:23 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:19

I 18:44:23 Average Write Rate: 5,441 KB/s (3.9x) - Maximum Write Rate: 5,592 KB/s (4.0x)

I 18:45:57 Close Request Acknowledged

I 18:45:57 Closing Down...

I 18:45:57 Shutting down SPTI...

I 18:45:57 ImgBurn closed!

[Siddy]

Just went out and bought good quality DVD-R's, finalises the disc fine.

 

For search purposes:

 

Finalise, finalize, close disc, close session, SOME DVD's CAN NOT BE FINALISED!

 

Thanks for ur help lfcrule1972!

[lfcrule1972]

Mmm I thought it was only DVD+R's that required that part of the process but I might be confused - it happens !!

 

CMC MAG are terrible discs and you would do well to buy Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden discs in future....

[LIGHTNING UK!]

ImgBurn always tries to finalise any discs it burns, there's never any need to do it manually.

 

Why exactly do you think there is a problem?