ImageBurn

[shankle]

Running Version 2.5.7.0 of this program.
It used to work fine on Windows 7 pro 32-bit. Now it's extremely slow.
On Windows 7 pro 64-bit, it doesn't work at all.
Windows 8 screwed DVD burning up royally.

Am I the only one having problems burning data to a DVD???
Is there another program that I can use to replace ImageBurn??

[Vortex]

Hi shankle,

Could you check the DMA setting of your drive? Here is the link :

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=59&p=967

[dedndave]

i have mentioned it before....

i use CdBurnerXp

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

[shankle]

Hi Vortex,
Thanks for the informative article.
So now i have to take all my CD and DVDs over to the New Jersey Bridge and toss them.
Evidently I have been running a bunch of junk disks.

So I gather from all this that the problem is NOT with ImageBurn or Windows 7 64-bit
but with the media. Had no idea things were this sensitive.

[Magnum]

What makes you think the disks are bad ?

Did it fail to read them ?

[shankle]

Hi Magnum,
What else could it be?
Tried one of them  on another Windows 7 puter and the same thing happened and also very slow.
So I am going to try and digest the article that Vortex gave here and learn more about what
DVDs to buy. I am hearing that DVDs are getting hard to find.
All my DVDs are years old. My criteria for buying a DVD was: is it a R/W, reasonable price, probably
Memorex. Obviously this is not enough.
 

[Magnum]

I read were the R/W disks use a different layer that is not as stable as a Read only disk.

I would try one of those.

Andy

[anunitu]

Might just be you got really bad media. I once bought one of those shareware disks that they mainly sold for BBS's (That goes way back) and the damn think snapped when I tried to get it out of the plastic case. It was burned on a VERY thin cd body I guess to save money. Even name brand may not be enough. There are knock offs now for just about anything. There was a case where they found that the airplane parts they were using were bogas,BUT had gotten into their supply chain as "real" with their supplier's name on them. This is becoming a lot more common,and as I read causing some danger because it has happened with drugs as well.
Prescription drugs sold from a pharmacy were found to not contain real medicine but just pills shaped like the real deal. Somehow these things are getting into the supply chain that you used to consider safe. Think about the horse meat scandal in Europe
. It happens and is happening a lot more these days.   

[shankle]

Did more research. The article from Vortex has a lot of good info but most of it
does not apply to Windows 7.
I have 3 brands of DVD R/Ws - Memorex, Imitation and TDK
They show a "Media Id, Disc Id, Manufacture Id" of infodisc-a10-01, optodisc-op4-01
and tdk601 saku. Nothing anyway near the MCC quoted in the article from Vortex.

It gets worse - There is NO identification of any of the DVD R/W boxes that I can see.
So the kicker is - you buy a 10 pack of Verbatim DVD r/w disks. Take them home and
look in ImageBurn on the right hand side under devices and find that the disks you have
paid good money for are NOT MCC :(
So what now.....................

[MichaelW]

Maybe it's the same situation as with the diskette market when 3M decided to get out, stating their reason for doing so as something like "there is no price premium for quality".

[shankle]

Think I have it fixed.
Went into chat with LG and the outcome was to go to Microsoft and run FIXIT.
I did and most of the problems went away. I still had to do full formats on several
DVDs. Threw some away and the rest seem to be ok.
In the past my modus operandi was to only quick format the DVDs. I think maybe
they need to be fully formatted every so often.
The LG drive and ImageBurn were never the problem.
Hope I haven't spoke to soon.
I any event the writes, verifies and reads seem to be much faster.