dowty

Thanks mmalves, uncheck Auto 'Change Book Type' did the trick. I would suggest at this point that anyone who wants to write HD video bigger than a single-layer DVD might want to just get a Blu-ray burner (though I don't know what problems there might be with that). Also the success rate with the cheapest generic DVD+R DL from Americal has been good.

Thanks for the update url; I will check for the latest. But the burn is valid; files are there, I can view them with Windows Media Player. The Blu-ray player just does not recognize the DL disks. On the other hand, Magix Video Editor will do a good DL burn every time, which is recognized by the player. At the moment my best guess is that the Burner will accept only (double-layer) disks with booktype DVD+R DL, and not DVD-ROM (though it will accept single layer disks as DVD-ROM). How can I ensure that ImgBurn will always set the booktype to DVD+R DL? The Tools/Drive/Change booktype option does not seem to do this always, although it seems to have done it once.

I was apparently mistaken in thinking I was able to reset the booktype reproducibly. I chose Samsung and set the booktype for DVD+R DL to "Normal" - the only other choice is DVD-ROM. One burn was successful, and both "Physical Format Information (Last Recorded):" and "Physical Format Information (ADIP):" for the burned disk say DVD+R DL. The disk was read by the Blu-ray player. But for burns after that, "Physical Format Information (Last Recorded):" on burned disks says DVD-ROM and the player will not read them. Of course I don't know what these different format information statements mean, nor what the statements about booktype during burning mean. Here is the log of the last (unsuccessful) burn: I 10:04:46 ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 started! I 10:04:46 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7600) I 10:04:46 Total Physical Memory: 6,290,616 KB - Available: 4,685,216 KB W 10:04:46 Drive I:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 10:04:46 Initialising SPTI... I 10:04:46 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 10:04:46 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! I 10:05:09 Operation Started! I 10:05:09 Building Image Tree... I 10:05:09 Calculating Totals... I 10:05:09 Preparing Image... I 10:05:10 Contents: 19 Files, 7 Folders I 10:05:10 Content Type: BD Video I 10:05:10 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 10:05:10 File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 10:05:10 Volume Label: [Not Configured] I 10:05:10 Size: 8,513,628,460 bytes I 10:05:10 Sectors: 4,157,056 I 10:05:10 Image Size: 8,514,535,424 bytes I 10:05:10 Image Sectors: 4,157,488 I 10:05:10 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 I 10:09:27 Operation Started! I 10:09:27 Building Image Tree... I 10:09:27 Calculating Totals... I 10:09:27 Preparing Image... I 10:09:27 Contents: 19 Files, 7 Folders I 10:09:27 Content Type: BD Video I 10:09:27 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 10:09:27 File System(s): UDF (2.60) I 10:09:27 Volume Label: NatParks_P3 I 10:09:27 Size: 8,513,628,460 bytes I 10:09:27 Sectors: 4,157,056 I 10:09:27 Image Size: 8,514,535,424 bytes I 10:09:27 Image Sectors: 4,157,488 I 10:09:32 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:05 I 10:09:32 Operation Started! I 10:09:32 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 10:09:32 Source File Sectors: 4,157,488 (MODE1/2048) I 10:09:32 Source File Size: 8,514,535,424 bytes I 10:09:32 Source File Volume Identifier: NatParks_P3 I 10:09:32 Source File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.0.0 I 10:09:32 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 10:09:32 Source File File System(s): UDF (2.60) I 10:09:32 Destination Device: [1:0:0] TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C SB01 (D:) (ATA) I 10:09:32 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: CMC MAG-D03-64) (Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x) I 10:09:32 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 10:09:32 Write Mode: DVD I 10:09:32 Write Type: DAO I 10:09:32 Write Speed: 4x I 10:09:32 Link Size: Auto I 10:09:32 Lock Volume: Yes I 10:09:32 Test Mode: No I 10:09:32 OPC: No I 10:09:32 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 10:09:32 Book Type Setting: DVD-ROM I 10:09:32 Optimal L0 Data Zone Capacity: 2,078,752 I 10:09:32 Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: ECC Block Boundary I 10:10:40 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Succeeded! I 10:10:40 Filling Buffer... (40 MB) I 10:10:41 Writing LeadIn... I 10:10:42 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 4157487) I 10:10:42 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 4157487) I 10:10:42 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 2078751) I 10:23:40 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 2078752 - 4157487) I 10:37:09 Synchronising Cache... I 10:37:11 Closing Track... I 10:37:12 Finalising Disc... I 10:37:45 Exporting Graph Data... I 10:37:46 Graph Data File: C:\Users\dowty\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_SH-S223C_SB01_THURSDAY-APRIL-15-2010_10-09_AM_CMC_MAG-D03-64_4x.ibg I 10:37:46 Export Successfully Completed! I 10:37:46 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:28:13 I 10:37:46 Average Write Rate: 5,239 KB/s (3.8x) - Maximum Write Rate: 5,621 KB/s (4.1x) I 10:38:27 Close Request Acknowledged I 10:38:27 Closing Down... I 10:38:27 Shutting down SPTI... I 10:38:27 ImgBurn closed!

I am burning AVCHD videos on DVD+R DL disks. Magix Video Editor will burn these so they can be read with a Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-ray player. ImgBurn will burn the BDMV folder created by Magix (or any other app) and it can be read on my Windows 7 computer, but it is not read by the Blu-ray player. ImgBurn will burn DVD+R DL data disks also. Also, DVD single-layer AVCHD disks burned by ImgBurn work fine in this player. No, it is not the media - this happens even with Verbatim. There is something about the DL disks which the player wants - Magix knows what it is, but ImgBurn apparently does not. Anyone have a clue? Or is there a (free) app that will give complete details about the burned disks that might show a difference? I have not tried any other Blu-ray players. Some other player might read the disks, but then some other player I get in the future might not.