#1 Burning Software

Does StarBurn support DVD-R Disc-At-Once and Session-At-Once? I have a Lite-On iHAS424-08 internal DVD burner, which supports DAO and SAO recording modes. In Starburn (12r10) under "Device\Properties\Supported Modes" the drive is only showing TAO when I insert a blank DVD. (DAO and SAO are all unchecked.)

When I insert a blank CD, then DAO and SAO *are* checked. So is StarBurn not able to burn DVD-R Disc-At-Once?

Thanks for any info...

Hmm... ok I see the page here: http://freecddvdburner.com/?page=faq#q_56 which seems to suggest it's just a matter of terminology... but I'm also seeing this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc_recording_modes which defines DVD-R DAO as "Disc At Once recording for DVD-R media is a mode in which all data is written sequentially to the disc in one uninterrupted recording session. The on-disk contents result in a lead-in area, followed by the data, and closed by a lead-out area. The data is addressable in sectors of 2048 bytes each, with the first sector address being zero. There are no run-out blocks as in CD-R disc-at-once."

So when I burn a DVD-R data disc is StarBurn writing a single lead-in and lead-out for the entire disc as in DAO mode?

Yes. In a single-session mode your have everything exactly like you write.