Unrecoverable Errors from ImgBurn DL

[SKiNFreak]

Hi all,

Hope this triggers something for someone, as right now I am throwing money down the pan after wasting nearly half a tub of Datawrite 8x DVD+R DL media.

I have previously used the 4x variant of this media to good effect on my old Benq 1620. I bought a tub of 25 and hit problems (shortly after realizing that Datawrite changed the dye). My usual method is ripping with DVDecrypter as an ISO, loading the MDS in ImgBurn and writing. Pretty simple (if slow on a 4x burner).

Tried the exact same process with this new media and ImgBurn would always fail on the layer break (unrecoverable write error?). After a while, I read some reports of this media being finicky, and since my birthday was ocming up, I just invested in a NEC 7173A which was thought to behave well with this brand. Wrong. Two more coasters with ImgBurn (with original 1.01 and RPC1 Liggy firmware)

As an experiement, I then tried an image burn with Nero 7 and it worked fine. At present I am trying to burn with DVDecrypter to see if that works (not hopeful though - currently it has a write rate of 2.1x and is 30 minutes off completion!).

Hopefully this has been experienced by someone else and they can point me in the right direction. I have never trusted Nero's DL burning, but may well have to rely on it.

All the best, and let's hope Wales beat the French tomorrow. But then that is like wishing for decent DL burns...

[SKiNFreak]

Just to confirm, DVDdecrypter did not work. I get a power calibration error (see screen shot).

[VegasBud]

SKiNFreak,

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but only Verbatim +R DL disks produce consistently trouble free dual layer burns, produced by a wide variety of systems and burners, and with a high degree of player compatibility.

Your first post sounds like a problem between the media and the burner, and your second post (power calibration error in the layer break area, or shortly into the second layer) verifies that the burner and the media aren't getting along so well. Since you have some of the 8x Datawrite left, you could try burning at a slower speed. In all honesty, you're unlikely to get really good burns, but it may help in reducing your rate of coaster production until those disks are used up.

The Verbatim disks may sound more expensive, on the surface, but once you factor in the waste produced when using anything else, and the player compatibility problems, they're actually the best deal available. As a bonus, you eliminate all the wear and tear on your nervous sytem caused by running a coaster factory.