dbminter

Granted, I haven't put LG's latest Ultra-HD BD model through all of its paces. I haven't tested it as a reader except for automatic Verifies yet and I haven't tested its BD-RE DL writing capabilities. The drive that LG released before their Ultra-HD BD was terrible at writing BD-RE DL's, both in ImgBurn and as giant floppies. Someone else even discovered that when they wrote images with other software, they didn't fail Verify. I tried that myself and while I initially had success with on the fly burning, it wasn't consistent enough to recommend the drive for that purpose. The LG I had terrible reads on was one from like 5 years ago, so it may have improved on that front. On that LG, I was getting failures to read discs to images that my Pioneer would read fine.

The only drives I recommend for reading and writing are Pioneer BDR-2209. LG's also have had problems with some writing, such as the most current, pre-Ultra HD model from LG. It doesn't properly write BD-RE DL media from Verbatim. Writes are 9 times out of 10 bad on the 2nd layer. Even when the discs are formatted as giant floppies. I'm no expert, but as far as I am aware of, UltraHD discs are just triple and quad layer discs. They have to have larger capacities because the BD files are larger because the video quality is higher. As long as a drive supports TL/QL media, it should support UltraHD discs, as long as the software player supports playback of UltraHD media.

You could have told whether they were DataLifePlus or Life Series by looking on the packaging label. No need to insert a disc.

Without trying other types of DVD+R DL, it's hard to say. You'd have to try some other brand and see if it can recognize those. If it can recognize one kind and not the other, the drive does not like that particular brand of disc. Are these Verbatim DVD+R DL Life Series or DataLife Plus series? Life Series are CMC junk, so I can understand those not being recognized. Plus, you can't rule out, it being a used a drive, that it isn't simply a drive that has reached the end of its life.

I never had any luck with cleaning CD's that had brushes on the bottom fixing writing issues. Since your other option is to replace the drive, you could always, also, try getting a can of compressed air and blowing into the drive to clean it out. Since you're replacing the drive anyway, if you blow it into oblivion, what have you lost?

In fact, it generally happens to me all the time. Also, single layer DVD's burning fine but double layer DVD's failing to burn is also common. So, yeah, CD's still burning fine but DVD's not is not an unusual thing.

You could spend the rest of your life trying to explain inexplicable computer errors and get nowhere. Let me tell you a story from almost 25 years ago. I was called in by the guy who sold me my first x86 PC. He knew I was more knowledgeable than he was and asked for my advice on a computer he had brought in that wouldn't boot. He couldn't determine anything so called me in. I took a precursory look and found the problem, but, as I told him, it was impossible. Yet, there it was, staring us in the face. The computer wouldn't start because, somehow, the system thought 115% of the available hard drive partition space was in use! In FDISK, 115% of the available HDD partition space was listed as being used by C:. As I said, impossible, but there it was. How that could even happen, I couldn't have even begun to explain, but that was obviously the cause. The solution was simple, but radical: delete the C: partition, recreate it with the proper amount of space, and reinstall MS-DOS and Windows. Luckily, the guy who brought in the PC said there was nothing on the hard drive he could do without so we had permission to nuke the HD if necessary, which it was. Doing what I said fixed the problem. However, as I said, to this day, I cannot explain HOW it happened.

If that's in a Nero log, you'll have to ask Nero that. In the ImgBurn log you posted earlier, there doesn't appear to be anything about being unable to close, so it's beyond the scope of this forum. But, I will say this, Nero does some unconventional things when it comes to burns. For instance, with unformatted DVD rewritable media, it doesn't properly fully format them.

Happens to us all. I was converting an audio tape and there was no sound. So, I thought the tape was blank for some reason. After 28 minutes of converting, I stopped it and checked the MP3 only to find there was audio. What had happened was, I had connected the earphone jack to a specially designed setup to convert earphone jacks to VCR input. And I had muted the TV the entire time, resulting in no audio, of course.

No screen shot was apparently attached, but I don't think I need one at this point. Trying creating a new image in Build mode in ImgBurn, importing the BDMV folder and the CERTIFICATE folder if it exists. Basically, drag and drop all folders your encoder created. Create this image and burn it to a BD-RE for testing. See if it plays alright when ImgBurn makes the image. Check you get audio in the movie, too. If it still doesn't play right or there's no audio, the fault is most likely in the encoder. You could also try mounting the image ImgBurn creates and see if it plays in a software player. If it plays in a software player as a mounted virtual drive but doesn't when you play the disc from your BD drive, your drive is probably at fault. You'll know the image is good and the authoring software isn't the culprit. So, the only remaining suspect is the drive.

Video "file?" Only one file? Then there's probably something wrong somewhere with the encoder because BDMV should contain multiple files, unless it's a really small video you've created. All in all, it seems there's a problem with your encoding software on this particular project. First, it created a BD that only loads menus. And now you can't get audio to play back. There's something wrong with the encoder or the player you're using doesn't support that audio codec, so you're getting silence on playback.

Most likely in a situation like this, the problem is with the authoring software. It didn't generate properly playable contents. Do you have an actual BDMV folder on your hard disk where the BD was generated? If so, try playing that folder in a software player on your PC. If it still doesn't play properly, it wasn't authored correctly. Have you changed the type of BD-R you've been using? I've never heard of Disc ID: OTCBDR-002-000 so it may be a cheap type of media. If you've always been using it, then you wouldn't care about that.

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. If ISOBuster might do the trick.

Most likely, I/O errors mean either the disc was burned incorrectly or burned correctly and your drive is reporting it can't read it for whatever reason. As for what you can do, first we'd need to see a log of a burn where the verify fails. Under Help, choose ImgBurn Logs to access the log of a failed burn. Post the log of that write and verify where it fails. It will tell us what we need to know, like if you're using cheap discs, the most common cause of bad burns, or whatever else may be the cause.

While this isn't related to your questions, there is something you should be aware of, if you're not already. Your Saturn most likely must be modded in some way, either internally or externally, in order to play copies of games, I'm guessing. You probably can't just backup Saturn game CD's, pop them in, and expect them to play. At least, I'd think there must surely be some kind of copy protection that prevents this normally. The Playstation 1 and 2 did, and every console released since then has some kind of copy protection scheme embedded in it.

Yes, but I believe the 1.03 firmware update is only to appease Hollywood. It seemed that drive may be able to decrypt UltraHD Blu-Rays. So, a firmware update was rushed out to patch that hole. It's the only update in it. But, there were also 1.01 and 1.02 released in the 6 years since 1.00 came out. You'd be surprised at what can happen. The contents could be corrupted but only just corrupted enough as to still be "readable" just incorrect. Does Daemon Tools have its own tool for creating disc images? If it does, try creating a disc image in Daemon Tools and see if it can mount its own image. If it can't, then the disc is definitely the problem. You said it was a data CD, right? What exactly are the contents of this CD? Do you remember what you burned to it?

There may be a firmware update for that drive. It seems you have 1.00 firmware and there is a 1.03 for that drive. Check to see if that helps improve read/detection, if there is one. The drive string indicates it's an LG drive and I think I've had that model before. LG's aren't really very good readers. But, as you say, the disc is decades old and may have just reached the end of its life cycle.

Well, if it is a BD-ROM, you can't set the book type on a read only (ROM) drive. It has to be a writer.

Yeah, I don't think Verbatim makes any of its own media. They farm out, and, unfortunately, they farm out to the great (Mitsubishi) and the worst (CMC). Any Life series (Not DataLife Plus) CD or DVD media will be CMC, as will Verbatim's BD-RE SL. Mitsubishi and TDK make their BD-RE DL and Mitsubishi makes the DataLife Plus CD and DVD media. All I've ever seen are just plain called Verbatim BD-R, but they have the VERBAT-Im DID. So, I guess Mitsubishi makes those because I rarely have issues with Verbatim's BD-R.

When you just copy the MP4 to a BD, if your Blu-Ray player supports playing MP4 files, it will play it. ImgBurn will make an auto playing Blu-Ray from a BDMV and CERTIFICATE combination IF they're both compliant. IF they're authored correctly to auto start, ImgBurn will create a BD that will automatically play in a Blu-Ray player. Which is why it's best to have authoring software that doesn't create the ISO itself. To let ImgBurn create its own ISO. Most likely, this muxing software isn't creating compliant content. Either it doesn't play or it doesn't create proper ISO's for auto play. Having never used it, I can't say. If I were going to get such software, I'd get VSO's ConvertXToHD, since I've used ConvertXToDVD for years to create DVD's from video containers. I think it has a 7 day free unlimited trial. Although the output may be watermarked. Couldn't say.

Could be the fault of the ISO created by the muxer. You'd have to mount the ISO in a virtual drive and see if you can get it to play on a PC.

My only experience with DL BD media are Verbatim BD-RE DL. Some were made by Verbatim and some by TDK. When it comes to DL DVD media, Verbatim is the only one that can be trusted across the board. I know the 5 Ritek DVD+R DL I tried, only 2 were still readable after a few years. The other 3 weren't even recognized as discs. I only use Verbatim media where possible, except for DVD Video, where I use Ritek's 8x DVD+RW because Ritek was the only company still making them. I wouldn't use Verbatim's BD-RE, though, as they're CMC now.

Plus, a larger image file size that approaches the maximum space of the media means you're writing more data closer to the edge of the disc. Another common place for errors to occur is when you're writing near the edge. The smaller ISO could explain why it worked.

You should generally avoid CMC as a rule. However, if you've used them fine for a long enough period of time that they haven't given you reason to question them, the drive may have reached the end of its life. Failures to Verify generally mean the burn wasn't done correctly. And that generally, but not always, means it's the fault of the drive or the media. Without using quality media, I can't say what the situation is in this case. What you could try to see if it's just a problem with the ISO is try to find a CMC disc that did burn and verify, read it to an image, and then try burning that new read to another CMC disc. If it fails again, then you know it's most likely not the ISO that's the problem in either case. It's the CMC discs or your drive has reached the end of its life.

You shouldn't be using Ritek media for dual layer discs, but since you've used them fine for months, that won't alter the situation. Generally, when drives start failing to write correctly at the layer change, it's time to replace the drive. It's reached the end of its viable life. When you get consistent failures of Verify at the layer change, the drive isn't burning the 2nd layer correctly. Generally.