Burning video to DVD with ImgBurn, why does it burn twice ?

[chris_2012]

Whenever i burn a Video file to DVD with Imgburn using my external DVD writer it appears to write twice .
After about half way through burning my external writer ejects the DVD then closes again and writes for a second time .
The problem is that burning takes twice as long , is there a way to stop it ejecting half way through ?

[maonstad]

I believe that imgburn is verifying your burn. Do you have verify checked. If you do that is what it is doing.

[Noahtuck]

It's not burning twice....

How can you burn a DVDR twice ?!?!


AFTER it has burned it is cycling the tray in order to "verify" what it has written to the disc compared to the original file(s) on your hdd.

[Ai Haibara]

I'm guessing you have the Verify feature turned on. If that's the case, when the burning process is finished, the disc will be ejected and retracted, and then verified. On a number of drives, the ejecting is necessary to reset the drive, IIRC.

(Edit: What, is everybody five seconds faster than me? )

[chris_2012]

If i turn off the verify feature won't there be a greater chance of the DVD's being burn with errors in them ?

[Keyser]

I think it is a good prctice to always verify burns. It takes a little longer, but you can be sure that everything is OK. And another thing: You can have some indication about the burning quality by watching the verify speed; the faster (and more steady) it is the better the burn.

[fritzi93]

If i turn off the verify feature won't there be a greater chance of the DVD's being burn with errors in them ?

Well, a greater chance you'll think you have a good burn...and be wrong.

You can rely on ImgBurn to tell you if a burn completed successfully. In in all but the rarest cases your disc will be fine. Nevertheless, I've had two instances that I can recall in which a supposedly good burn didn't verify and sure enough, had problems playing on a standalone. Note that the discs in question were cheap "junk" media, which I occasionally use as "throwaways".

So I always use verification; others may think it's not worth the time. I dunno, they may be right.

[EDIT] In my experience Keyser is correct as to verification speed.

[jman98]

Verifying burns is a religious issue. Those who believe in it will NEVER stop believing in it.

If you use known good media, which these days means Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim (anything but the Life series), and you burn with ImgBurn, I feel like it's a waste of time to verify your burns. Really, has anybody here ever used top grade media and burned with ImgBurn without it reporting any errors and then had a disc fail verification?

[usually_quiet]

Verifying burns is a religious issue. Those who believe in it will NEVER stop believing in it.

If you use known good media, which these days means Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim (anything but the Life series), and you burn with ImgBurn, I feel like it's a waste of time to verify your burns. Really, has anybody here ever used top grade media and burned with ImgBurn without it reporting any errors and then had a disc fail verification?

Yes it actually did happen to me, but it only happened once in all the hundreds of burns I have done using ImgBurn + Verbatim AZO media.

[smrpix]

I use verification when I'm handing multiple disks to clients on a deadline and don't have time to watch them all. Much peace of mind.

[Verify]

ImgBurn verify fail twice on two consecutive burns recently using Taiyo Yuden DVD media and an LG burner on a new computer (the second try was just in case the first DVD might have been damaged - although on visual inspection it didn't seem to be.

The burn rate was at maximum for the media and burner and when I changed to 8x no further verify failures.

I had burned 100s of DVDs on a previous computer with the same media, brand of burner, and ImgBurn and no verify failures. The burn speeds had never been as high before, so verify did help in this instance

[AlanHK]

If you use known good media,

The only way to know is to test it.
A scratch or mark on it and it can have an error.

Rare, but I only burn a few disks a week, and may have spent 24 hours preparing the files. So letting it run another 8 minutes isn't an issue for me.

Also I do a lot of burns on DVDRW. After a few hundred uses, they tend to get scratched up. But those are for watch once and and delete stuff, so I only do a verify on those if I suspect they may be reaching retirement time.

[harishkumar09]

Is there a specific speed at which the Verify process should happen? In my case I remember accidentally setting the Verify speed to AWS for both data and audio and the Verify was successful.

If the Burn speed is set to 8X , should the Verify also happen at 8X ?

[DB83]

Is there a specific speed at which the Verify process should happen? In my case I remember accidentally setting the Verify speed to AWS for both data and audio and the Verify was successful.

If the Burn speed is set to 8X , should the Verify also happen at 8X ?

No.

I burn at 8x (16x media). The verify speed, also variable, goes up to about 5x

[Keyser]

I usualy burn 16x Verbatim media at 12x. The verify speed starts at about 7x and then slowly goes up until it reaches over 16x at the end of the verify.

[Seeker47]

Really, has anybody here ever used top grade media and burned with ImgBurn without it reporting any errors and then had a disc fail verification?

Yes, and I only use TY or Verb DL for DVD media. Maybe a bad disc -- or even two -- out of some 100 or 50 spindles. (I burn a lot of discs.) Failures have come during verification, or sometimes even during the burn itself.

Note that a burner that is starting to fail can be a factor here, and in my experience that failure tends not to be everything-at-once. I've seen DL, SL, or CD capability go first, and not necessarily in any logical or predictable order. Fortunately, the hardware failures overall have been infrequent. I've had a Pio 106 and 108 go on for 5+ years, burning huge numbers of discs, still working fine when they were replaced with later models having enhanced capabilities. And I've seen a Pio 112D and a recent model Samsung burner that disappointingly crapped out after just a few months. With a lot of these components, I think you could make a strong case for "they don't make 'em like they used to." With way too many things these days -- even expensive things like refrigerators and washing machines -- the trend has unfortunately gone to manufacturers making disposable junk. Quality and reliability becomes harder to find, at any price.