Unreliable DVD burning - can't verify disks

You can try http://cdburnerxp.se/e​n/download make sure you get the without opencandy version. It's not as good as imgburn but you want this just for a short test anyway.

I have CDBurnerXP, but I tend to make an ISO then burn it seperately, because it wouldn't recognise an older burner I used. I'll give it a go.

I just got a new Samsung DVD drive and decided to install Nero that came with it. I burned 3 DVDs all fine at 16X, different DVDs. Then I burned one DVD at 6X with ImgBurn and validation failed.

As unlikely as it seems, it looks like software was the issue here. I find it hard to believe a popular piece of open source software just doesn't work properly, one I've used for years with no problems, but that's the only conclusion I can really come to. I might put the old DVD drive back in see how it works with Nero later.

tim wrote in post #14305258
I find it hard to believe a popular piece of open source software just doesn't work properly, one I've used for years with no problems, but that's the only conclusion I can really come to.

ImgBurn actually isn't open-source.

But yeah, that's practically like the most popular ISO burning program on the planet and I hardly heard any error.

Now, it sounded like even with ImgBurn it's the *verify* step that blew up but not the burn step? Are the discs really busted?

Yep, I had a customer report that a DVD I made for them had images that wouldn't open. Very weird.

Here's a couple of things I've noticed recently regarding burning DVDs:
- Software counts. Nero is more reliable than the free stuff. I have no idea why.
- Burning at the maximum speed of the DVD burner seems to be most reliable. DVDs burned at lower speeds have a higher chance of verification errors.

tim wrote in post #14351823
- Burning at the maximum speed of the DVD burner seems to be most reliable. DVDs burned at lower speeds have a higher chance of verification errors.

That I did notice with my CDRW way way back, they worked better at the max rated speed.

strongly disagree.
You probably talking about setting the speed to auto and not specific speed ie.52x
that means the computer will increase or decrease spinning speed based on data transfer.
lower writing speed ensures no buffer underuns.

also Tim, for your verification problems with imgburn I suspect you have a driver corruption.

Chrizz wrote in post #14352082
strongly disagree.
You probably talking about setting the speed to auto and not specific speed ie.52x
that means the computer will increase or decrease spinning speed based on data transfer.
lower writing speed ensures no buffer underuns.

*CDRW*. And CD buffer underruns is so 2000.

Those 10x CDRW would absolutely crap out burning at 4x. Yes I did use AUTO I think, and it came out fast.

Not saying my case is the majority, just saying nothing surprises me.

Chrizz wrote in post #14352082
strongly disagree.
You probably talking about setting the speed to auto and not specific speed ie.52x
that means the computer will increase or decrease spinning speed based on data transfer.
lower writing speed ensures no buffer underuns.

also Tim, for your verification problems with imgburn I suspect you have a driver corruption.

You could be right, it could be on auto, but I selected the maximum speed which is 22X or so. 6X gave me a dozen burn errors, 22X was perfect.

Driver corruption? Really? How did you come to that conclusion? I know the write failed, when I looked at some of the jpegs in photoshop they were corrupt, but they're fine on the source HDD.

You could try this.
It's CDBurnerXP in case you can't get to the US url.

I tried that, same problem as ImgBurn. I tried them on low and high speed too. Nero is the only software that seems to work reliably.

Too bad it's gotten so bloated.

I know, the install is half a gigabyte, but I did a custom install and only installed the parts I really needed. Not sure how big it was, but much smaller than that.

tim wrote in post #14355891
You could be right, it could be on auto, but I selected the maximum speed which is 22X or so. 6X gave me a dozen burn errors, 22X was perfect.

Driver corruption? Really? How did you come to that conclusion? I know the write failed, when I looked at some of the jpegs in photoshop they were corrupt, but they're fine on the source HDD.

I was referring to the spti driver...
Imgburn uses microsoft spti driver by default but you can change it.

You can find it here
goto imgburn
go to tools,settings and then I/O. look for the Interface options. You must have SPTI - microsoft selected.

1) Restore Defaults just in case
2) and select a different interface from the options. try elby or patin. You can download these from imgburn website.