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**90312** · 03-17-2013, 11:16 PM

I would download ImgBurn and install it to the default location and select it as my burning engine in common settings. Open ImgBurn on the desktop and click tool/settings/write on page one there is a setting to perform OPC before write, check it. This will run a short routine to calibrate the laser power to the media before the write attempt. It is worth the effort.

**Scoop** · 03-20-2013, 08:53 PM

Originally posted by 90312 View Post

I would download ImgBurn and install it to the default location and select it as my burning engine in common settings. Open ImgBurn on the desktop and click tool/settings/write on page one there is a setting to perform OPC before write, check it. This will run a short routine to calibrate the laser power to the media before the write attempt. It is worth the effort.

Thanks for the info. Interestingly, I've had ImgBurn loaded for a few months, primarily to burn software iso utilities (HDD cloning tools) onto CD's but I've never played with ImgBurn for DVD burns. I had thought that ImgBurn was was only capable of burning to CD's.

I burned (ImgBurn) one of my DVDFab DL HDD folders to a DL disc and it works good. I didn't use the burner laser calibrate tool option yet. I want to read up on that topic with Imgburn before I try it. Also, I may not have any issues if I use Imgburn instead of DVDFab for most of my media burns.

I'm curious about what's been causing the intermittent DVDfab "Error 100" issues but as you mentioned, it may be a burner laser calibration issue where there's a slight incompatibility that's developed when trying to burn with blank media.

I think I'll use ImgBurn for a while and see how that works with my current stock of blank media and compare with DVDFab regarding any burn errors.

**90312** · 03-20-2013, 09:13 PM

ImgBurn is the only burning engine I've used for years now. As you research you'll find that every different blank media type, DVD-5, DVD-9, and DVD/RW all use different power levels to burn. Switching often will sometimes make the process slip a cog and fail to establish a proper write protocol, OPC helps the drive recognize the media and establish the correct power level and write protocol. When things go a little weird I use an RW disc to prove the process and Verbatim +R to burn the backup. I don't miss!

**DarthCopier** · 03-22-2013, 02:23 AM

Originally posted by Scoop View Post

Hi all

I've recently been encountering an internittent error when I'm trying to burn from a HDD folder.

The error that I'm seeing is Task_1 failed! Error=100:

Here's what I usually see in the "dvdfab_internal" log file - 2 examples:

33m 54.03s: opening drive E
33m 54.18s: opened i/o
33m 54.18s: got media type 14
33m 54.34s: got max lba 3662879
33m 54.39s: got disc type 10
33m 54.50s: type DVD-VIDEO
33m 54.50s: volume label XX
33m 54.98s: internal path E:/VIDEO_TS/
33m 54.99s: failed to read disc key: sensekey 00 asc 00 acsq 00
33m 55.20s: failed to read disc key: sensekey 00 asc 00 acsq 00
33m 55.40s: failed to read disc key: sensekey 00 asc 00 acsq 00

0m 06.49s: opening drive E
0m 06.49s: opened i/o
0m 06.50s: got media type 14
0m 06.83s: got max lba 4117039
0m 06.84s: got disc type 10
0m 06.87s: type DVD-VIDEO
0m 06.87s: volume label XX
0m 07.06s: internal path E:/VIDEO_TS/
0m 07.08s: failed to read disc key: sensekey 00 asc 00 acsq 00
0m 07.28s: failed to read disc key: sensekey 00 asc 00 acsq 00
0m 07.48s: failed to read disc key: sensekey 00 asc 00 acsq 00

Code 05 26 00 [Illegal request, Invalid field in Parameter list][/B]

This is a wonderful conversation, and a quick check of Fab's error codes reveals that 100 is a failed to open disk error, and your internal logs reflect that.

Can only say that either one or both of your drives are on their way out, or, you have a bad destination disk.

(I agree with 90312's assessment of Imgburn - I also have used it for several years, and nary a problem).

DC

**Scoop** · 03-23-2013, 12:36 PM

Originally posted by 90312 View Post

ImgBurn is the only burning engine I've used for years now. As you research you'll find that every different blank media type, DVD-5, DVD-9, and DVD/RW all use different power levels to burn. Switching often will sometimes make the process slip a cog and fail to establish a proper write protocol, OPC helps the drive recognize the media and establish the correct power level and write protocol. When things go a little weird I use an RW disc to prove the process and Verbatim +R to burn the backup. I don't miss!

Thanks for the info on this. I looked at the "write" option settings and I see the OPC checkbox. I'll give that a try during my next burn project.

Originally posted by DarthCopier View Post

This is a wonderful conversation, and a quick check of Fab's error codes reveals that 100 is a failed to open disk error, and your internal logs reflect that.

Can only say that either one or both of your drives are on their way out, or, you have a bad destination disk.

(I agree with 90312's assessment of Imgburn - I also have used it for several years, and nary a problem).

DC

Thanks for the DVDFab error info. Is there an error code list on this site for DVDFab errors?

It's very good for me to see the feedback info about ImgBurn. I guess my nephew knows his burn-software stuff

I've not spent a lot of time looking at ImgBurn in the past. It looks like a powerful burn tool, a lot of parameter options available in the tool.

DVDFab questions:

- Does DVDFab do a "verify" step during the final stages of its "write" mode? I noticed that ImgBurn does that. ImgBurn ejects my burner tray after the "write" step completes, then re-inserts the newly-burned media and performs a "verify" step.

I'm not sure what ImgBurn is doing there but it's impressive to observe

- Have you guys encountered any conflict issues when using ImgBurn while DVDFab is running? In other words, if I copy & burn in the following way:

- Open DVDFab
- Open ImgBurn
- Copy a disc to a HDD folder using DVDFab
- Keep DVDFab open
- Burn HDD folder to media using ImgBurn (at the same time, DVDFab will detect the same blank media in my burner)

Will this generate any conflict issues between DVDFab & ImgBurn if both programs remain open during these steps?

**CBR929** · 03-23-2013, 02:00 PM

Hi Scoop
You can find the error code list here
There should not be a conflict using your method, but if you want to stop DVD Fabs auto play handler, Open Fab Click the Green √ top right > General > uncheck the box for add auto play handler.
Hope this helps
CBR929

**DarthCopier** · 03-23-2013, 11:40 PM

Originally posted by Scoop View Post

Thanks for the info on this. I looked at the "write" option settings and I see the OPC checkbox. I'll give that a try during my next burn project.

Thanks for the DVDFab error info. Is there an error code list on this site for DVDFab errors?

It's very good for me to see the feedback info about ImgBurn. I guess my nephew knows his burn-software stuff

I've not spent a lot of time looking at ImgBurn in the past. It looks like a powerful burn tool, a lot of parameter options available in the tool.

DVDFab questions:

- Does DVDFab do a "verify" step during the final stages of its "write" mode? I noticed that ImgBurn does that. ImgBurn ejects my burner tray after the "write" step completes, then re-inserts the newly-burned media and performs a "verify" step.

I'm not sure what ImgBurn is doing there but it's impressive to observe

- Have you guys encountered any conflict issues when using ImgBurn while DVDFab is running? In other words, if I copy & burn in the following way:

- Open DVDFab
- Open ImgBurn
- Copy a disc to a HDD folder using DVDFab
- Keep DVDFab open
- Burn HDD folder to media using ImgBurn (at the same time, DVDFab will detect the same blank media in my burner)

Will this generate any conflict issues between DVDFab & ImgBurn if both programs remain open during these steps?

I'll tackle these one at a time (and not necessarily in the same order)...

1). No need to run Imgburn before starting a rip/copy... as long as Fab is set up to use Imgburn, it'll automatically run it at the proper time (or, if you're burning an existing file to disc, start Fab, go to write option, set up your files, and Fab will again start Imgburn at the appropriate time.)

2). Both the default VSO burn engine and Imgburn can do a 'disc verify'. I personally never use it, as neither program will detect any pixellation or skips in the picture (more a result of the quality of the blank disc you use for the copy)... all it does is compare the source file to the destination file.

Hope this helps!

DC

**Scoop** · 03-26-2013, 12:40 PM

Originally posted by CBR929 View Post

Hi Scoop
You can find the error code list here
There should not be a conflict using your method, but if you want to stop DVD Fabs auto play handler, Open Fab Click the Green √ top right > General > uncheck the box for add auto play handler.
Hope this helps
CBR929

Thanks for the link for the codes.

I'll check out that option for the auto-play handler next time I'm burning some dvd's.

Originally posted by DarthCopier View Post

I'll tackle these one at a time (and not necessarily in the same order)...

1). No need to run Imgburn before starting a rip/copy... as long as Fab is set up to use Imgburn, it'll automatically run it at the proper time (or, if you're burning an existing file to disc, start Fab, go to write option, set up your files, and Fab will again start Imgburn at the appropriate time.)

2). Both the default VSO burn engine and Imgburn can do a 'disc verify'. I personally never use it, as neither program will detect any pixellation or skips in the picture (more a result of the quality of the blank disc you use for the copy)... all it does is compare the source file to the destination file.

Hope this helps!

DC

1) Thanks for the info. I'll give this a try during my next burning project.

2) Thanks. I'll probably disable the "verify" step in ImgBurn to save some time during burns since it doesn't do what I thought it was doing.

I have a question about the pulldown menu in DVDFab where we choose the burning engine:

I see that the pulldown menu has an option for "DVDFab Burning Engine" and "VSO Burning Engine".

What is the difference between them? Does DVDFab have its own internal burning engine? I was wondering since I had thought that DVDFab uses VSO for its internal engine.

My default choice is VSO. It's been that way since I've installed DVDFab a few years ago.

for you guy's help here

**CBR929** · 03-27-2013, 01:24 AM

Hi Scoop
Last year Fab came out with their own burn engine, as you said they had used the VSO engine exclusively.
I myself have never used the Fab burn engine, only the VSO for a little while until the mods here turned me onto ImgBurn, have never looked back since.

CBR929

**Scoop** · 04-04-2013, 01:00 PM

Originally posted by CBR929 View Post

Hi Scoop
Last year Fab came out with their own burn engine, as you said they had used the VSO engine exclusively.
I myself have never used the Fab burn engine, only the VSO for a little while until the mods here turned me onto ImgBurn, have never looked back since.

CBR929

Thanks again for the info

Here's an update on what I've seen since changing the default burn engine (in DVDFab) to ImgBurn. I've only burned a couple of dvd's since changing the selection to ImgBurn.

When I burned my 1st dvd (Verbatim +R DL burning from HDD folder) using ImgBurn within DVDFab, it worked good but I did notice that, when the ImgBurn "write" dialog window opened and listed the "layer change" choices, it didn't give me the "excellent" layer point option. So I let ImgBurn go with its default choice, which was the "good" layer change point.

From what I could tell, all worked ok. I did a quick scan thru the Verbatim +R DL disc after the burn completed and didn't see any issue. I'm confident that the burned disc will play ok but was curious why ImgBurn didn't offer the "excellent" layer point choice when burning this particular dvd.

The next dvd that I tried with ImgBurn (using DVDFab, from a HDD folder), the original issue returned, with the "Process Failed" error as mentioned in my 1st post.

As you guys have mentioned, it appears that DVDFab doesn't like something about the step where it tries to read my blank disc or something related to the detection of the blank media.

I wanted to see if I could determine the cause of the DVDFab error, so I kept the same Verbatim +R DL disc in my same DVD Burner, and launched ImgBurn independently, without DVDFab as the "write" selector and selected the same HDD folder, keeping all things the same, except for using ImgBurn without launching DVDFab.

The disc burned without problems. I also noticed that ImgBurn offered the usual "excellent" layer change point option when I burned my 2nd disc. I'm assuming that the "excellent" layer change point choice will be dependent on the parameters that ImgBurn analyzes from the target disc.

So regarding the original "process failed" error with DVDFab, the conclusion seems to point to something with DVDFab in conjunction with my particular blank media, and/or a combination of the media and the burner that I'm using.

I would conclude that the problem isn't related to the blank media or my burner exclusively, since ImgBurn burned the same disc when DVDFab was having a problem related to the initial 'write' step, which is reading the blank media.

I'll see if ImgBurn encounters any issues soon, since I'm starting a multi-disc burn project.

[edit] I completed my 3rd burn and all worked good, using DVDFab to start the 'write' process with ImgBurn auto-launching to do the burning.

**90312** · 04-04-2013, 01:36 PM

Scoop, when burning DL disc I uncheck the remove layer break box and the original layer break is preserved. If it's good enough for the studio release it's good enough for me.

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**Scoop** · 04-04-2013, 02:34 PM

Originally posted by 90312 View Post

Scoop, when burning DL disc I uncheck the remove layer break box and the original layer break is preserved. If it's good enough for the studio release it's good enough for me.

Thanks. I did try to uncheck that box on my 4th burn disc but the ImgBurm warning dialog box is displaying this message:

"The image it creates will NOT be suitable for burning onto double layer media."

When I read that part, I decided to keep that box checked for this burn.

Is it ok to ignore the warning messages and uncheck the box?

[edit] I goofed. I thought that you were referring to ImgBurn instead of DVDFab, with the ignore layer break option.

**CBR929** · 04-04-2013, 05:04 PM

Hi Scoop
Glad your at least burning now.

ImgBurn is more configurable than most burn engines, that's why it is the "best burn engine on the planet", bar none.

I forgot to mention, that I also use ImgBurn independently by itself.
CBR929

**90312** · 04-04-2013, 05:44 PM

Right you are CBR929 ImgBurn and DVDFab Passkey is all you need for DL backup. Save the iso to the HDD and burn using the MDS ImgBurn creates to preserve the original layer break.

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