What do you use to burn Blu-ray?

[Rich Kutnick]

I use DVDA to author and prepare a Blu-ray ISO image file, then burn it using IMGBurn.

Rich Kutnick
VIDEO IMPRESSIONS

[John Rofrano]

I use DVD Architect Pro 6.0 to author all of my DVDs and Blu-rays. I usually create an ISO file that can be used with my Primera Bravo II disc duplicator for making final copies. The ISO also serves as a great archival copy.

~jr

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[Jerry Hart]

John:
Can you explain what an ISO file is and how it’s created. Do you render it in VP or DVDA?

[Ken Bennett]

Well something is wrong with Sony’s DVDA when it comes to BD burning. All the BD’s I ran today will not play on any Blu-ray player I have. It “Can’t play disk”.

Why does Sony’s DVDA even give you this option to burn BD’s?

Ken Bennett
Video Adventures
Capturing Your Life’s Adventures!

[Nigel O’neill]

[Ken Bennett] “Do you just use DVDA or another burning program to burn Blu-ray discs?”

I use DVDA to author and Nero to burn. DVDA for some reason consistently gives me disc coasters. Might have something to do with programs such as IMGburn and Nero being able to configure the parameters used to do the burn.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Ken Bennett]

I just tested these Taiyo Yuden Blu-Ray, BD-R, 25GB, 6X disks on the BD burner they were just burned on in the computer and they play fine. But will not play on standard Blu-ray players.

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Ken Bennett
Video Adventures
Capturing Your Life’s Adventures!

[Ken Bennett]

I just download IMGburn and still the BD’s will only play on the computer. Will not play on any Blu-ray player.

Ken Bennett
Video Adventures
Capturing Your Life’s Adventures!

[Nigel O’neill]

If you you IMGburn, follow the guide that it recommends.

I cannot comment on the quality of Taiyo Yuden BD-R. I use Shintaro, Sony or Verbatim.

I did have an issue with my older Sony BD player and had to do a firmware update before it would play ‘home brew’ discs. It played commercial discs fine, but when it came to ones I had authored, it appeared as though I had made lots of coasters until I tried it on another brand of BD player.

I test my discs now on at least 2 players.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Dave Haynie]

Try one of those discs in a PS3. They might be just fine.

Some BD players won’t play BDVM formatted discs from BD-R. Period. Technically, the BD spec didn’t originally allow playing a BDMV disc that’s not AACS encrypted. Some do anyway. Last I checked, my PS3 does it just dandy. On the other hand, I have heard that Sharp intentionally prevents all of their BD players from playing “home made” BDMV formatted discs, though they will play the lesser BDAV format.

BDAV is a much simpler format originally intended to differentiate “home movies” from “commercial” movies. And if it sounds like independent video professionals were not considered, that would be exactly correct. BDAV was also the basis for the AVCHD format, though they’re not identical either. Some BD players will also play AVCHD discs; usually those who made AVCHD camcorders, such as Panasonic and Sony.

Sometimes, the lack of BDMV support on BD-R is just due to bugs; always run your BD player with the latest software. Unless, of course, that software was released to disable BDMV on BD-R playback (never heard of that, but it’s not impossible).

THEN, there’s the BD-R format specifications. Originally, the Blu-ray specs only allowed BD-R to carry the BDAV format. In the 2.0 BR-R and 3.0 BR-RE specifications, they finally deemed BDMV worthy of living on a BD-R… that’s legal. But it still may be necessary to have it AACS encrypted, at least on some players. Players released before the 3.0 spec are technically following the spec in rejecting a BDMV formatted disc. So again, be certain they’re up to date.

BUT WAIT, there’s MORE!! Could be the media. The original Blu-ray recordable media was very unlike most DVDs. Rather than use an organic dye, it used a sandwich of copper and silicon. This started out very shiny, and the write-laser heats this sandwich hot enough to fuse the two layers, causing a nicely irreversible non-reflective “pit” to be created. This made BD-R immediately more reliable than most DVD-R formulations.

But that wasn’t good enough for a few comedians at Pioneer, Taiyo Yuden, and Mitsubishi. They worked up a version of BD-R that uses the same kind of organic dye technlogy as most DVD-Rs… you hit the dye with a laser to make it transparent, allowing access to the reflective layer behind it. Thus, the original formulation is called H2L (high to low), and this new and evil formulation is dubbed L2H (low to high). Players technically need a software update to correctly play L2H discs… the PS3 got this update in version 2.20 software, March of 2008.

So, things to try:

– Your burned discs in a PS3.
– Update all your BD player software and try again.
– Hut up some H2L discs and try again

-Dave

[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Hi Sir,

I am using DVDA 5.2 to write blu rays and dvds with PLEXTOR writer.After Mr.John Rofrano adivice me to use this great DVDA programme,i dont have any probleums now.But i have probleums comes up went using NERO programme,its not playing in bul ray players or dvd players properly.

Thank You Mr.John Rofrano.

Thank You
Thayalan Paramasawam