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Is the format speed of rewritable media the same as the maximum write rate for that media? For instance, if you had a 4x DVD-RW, formatting it would format at 4x speed. And a 6x DVD-RW would format at a 6x format speed? Thus, the 6x DVD-RW would finish formatting sooner than the 4x DVD-RW? I'm guessing this is the case because isn't a format just writing out zeroes to all sectors? This implies a write operation and the maximum format speed would be the maximum write rate. Is that so?

I would highly recommend avoiding all Sony products. I had a Sony BD-RE and it died before its 5th write. The only BD-R I ever had that failed to complete a write was, you guessed it, a Sony BD-R. IMO, Sony has made 95% nothing but junk products since 2002. I could go on about Sony junk I've had since 2002 but I won't bore you with the details.

I have those BD-RE DL's. Actually, Verbatim doesn't make those. Those are made by TDK. Like their BD-RE, which is farmed out to CMC Magnetics, the worst manufacturer of optical media out there, Verbatim farmed out those BD-RE DL's to TDK. I've not tested them for playing double layer Blu-Ray movies on. I use them entirely for data backups. The only BD-RE DL I used for playing Blu-Ray was back when Verbatim made their own BD-RE DL discs. That one played without issue. However, Verbatim no longer apparently makes their BD-RE SL or DL anymore. In fact, everyone but Panasonic and Maxell farms out to CMC for their BD-RE SL's. I can't tell you what discs to use as I've only ever used Verbatim made BD-RE DL for playing Blu-Ray movies. I've not tested my TDK Verbatim BD-RE DL's for Blu-Ray movies. As for why it works when you shrink it, the answer is most likely the change to the 2nd layer. Your standalone player seems to have no problem focusing the laser to play the first layer. However, your Blu-Ray player doesn't appear to be phase changing properly to the 2nd layer. Hence why shrinking to 25 GB seems to work okay. Unfortunately, this is most likely an issue where your Blu-Ray player just doesn't like those brand of TDK media. Sort of like how the Playstation 3 doesn't like to play at all well with Ritek BD-RE. And there's no way to fix that. Or your issue could be BD-RE DL layer in general. Your player may not play BD-RE DL well at all. Or the issue may even be dual layer pressed Blu-Ray movies, too.

Multi-session discs are not supported. So, you can't Read them to an image file. What are the contents on this disc? Is it something like a DVD recorder recorded disc? Or is it an audio CD with multiple sessions, one for the CD Audio tracks and one for data? Depending on the contents, what you can try to do is use Build mode and drag and drop the contents from this disc into a Build session. Then, you can create an image file that way. However, if there is data on separate sessions, this won't work. I know some of my Panasonic DVD recorder discs are apparently multi-session as ImgBurn won't Read them. I have to drag and drop the VIDEO_TS contents from the discs into a Build session, create the image file that way, and then burn that image.

Probably a drive compatibility issue with that kind of BD-RE DL you're using. Are you using a Memorex, Ritek, or CMC BD-RE? They can be problematic for playback on certain players. For instance, the PS3 has playback issues with Memorex/Ritek BD-RE but not Verbatim's own non-CMC BD-RE. Please post a log of one of these BD-RE DL burns or insert one of them into a drive in Write mode and check the right panel of information of the MID/DID/Disc ID/Manufacturer ID field and post that information here. As for why Quick Erase fails, please post a log of a write where Quick Erase fails and/or post any error dialog information that pops up.

If you want to image a USB stick, use USB Image Tool. It will image USB thumb drives and write them to sticks. It will even image and write bootable sticks. Unfortunately, you can't take a CD image, even if it's an ISO, and write them to USB sticks.

Can't install KB3081455 Windows Update on Windows 10? There's probably a simple, stupid reason why. Thankfully, there's a simple solution. What most likely causes the problem is, believe it or not, moving or deleting default Windows shortcuts from the Start Menu. Yes, believe it or not! To fix, don't try any of those unnecessarily complicated steps Microsoft will uselessly put you through. Try this first: simply run System File Checker. Open an elevated Command Prompt and run SFC /SCANNOW Then, try downloading and installing the update again. If that doesn't work, you may need to delete your old Windows Update folder. See my older post about stopping various services and deleting folders.

With this DVD+R DL inserted in the drive, go into Read Mode and make sure ImgBurn returns Disc Is Empty. This will make sure you didn't get some kind of rip off stack of already recorded discs. Or it will isolate if it's a general reading problem with that drive and the type of disc. Also try more than one of those CMC's and see if happens on more than one of those discs. Could be the CMC discs you're trying to use. Some drives may not like that DID and CMC is the worst manufacturer of optical discs out there. Their DVD products have a high failure rate. So, even if you do get it to recognize as a burnable disc, it may not Write complete or complete Verify. And, if it does, it may not play properly. And if it does, it probably won't be readable after a short while. If you buy DVD in brick and mortar stores, they will 99% of the time be CMC. Verbatim DVD+R DL is pretty much the only good quality disc. However, you can't buy their Life series discs or DVD+R DL discs in stores. They will be CMC. Yes, even Verbatim farms out to the worst manufacturer out there! You can only get the good stuff online. You'll want the DataLife Series Plus DVD+R DL.

Since you've had this drive for 2 to 2 and a half years now, I'd be worried that it's dying at this point. However, you said it worked before installing Windows 10. Could be a driver that isn't updated for a drive that old? Just a guess.

How old is this drive? Have you been able to burn DL BD before? Or is this your first time trying? You're getting this on 2 different discs, but they DID could be the same, despite the name on the product label. Can you post the log from the RiData and the Philips burns? Or insert each type of BD DL into a drive and get the DID from the pane of info in Write mode. They could be cheap CMC media, despite the name on the labels. Or some kind of media your drive doesn't like, as LUK said. However, if it could be the age of the drive, it is possible for a burner to write just fine to other brands of media but if it's gone bad, it may no longer write to one specific kind of media. I had an LG that when it died it wrote everything fine except DVD+R DL media it had written to before.

I know, as LUK said, there are no layer breaks on BD DL and BD XL as Blu-Rays are treated as one gigantic layer/disc. However, what I want to know is on video Blu-Rays, do players have a pause when switching between layers when playing the video like they can on DVD-9's?

Actually, discovered that didn't work with the DVD in question from this original post! It DID fix an errant left over layer break on a DVD-5, though, from a different disc. Yeah, whoever authored that disc for Antarctic Press that I had trouble with before added THREE layer breaks into a VTS on a disc that was a DVD-5! Well, technically only 2. The 3rd layer break is the layer break that appears at the end of all VTS's.

I had intended to post the same request earlier when I first saw this post. I forgot.

In the future, what you should do before running the ImgBurn installer is to turn off your cable modem if you don't want OpenCandy to get anything from the web. The installer for ImgBurn will run after it tries to phone home to OpenCandy servers for offers. You'll get a slight pause as the installer tries to connect to the server and an error from the installer after it completes because it couldn't access the servers. Otherwise, only ImgBurn installs.

Actually, I just discovered a simple way that doesn't cause navigation errors. Take the VIDEO_TS with the .IFO you want to remove the layer breaks from and open it in DVDShrink. Shrink's output will remove the layer breaks.

It could be. Verbatim may not make their own BD-R DL. So, it looks like Verbatim farms out their BD-R DL to Panasonic. Panasonic used to make one of the best DVD-R lines, so their other products should be pretty good. Just got some Panasonic MEI BD-RE's last week. My only experience with BD DL are BD-RE DL from Verbatim. Verbatim used to make their own but now farm out to TDK. TDK madessome pretty good products in the DVD-R and CD-R field, and I haven't had any problem with their BD-RE DL so far after about 2 years. Just wrote to one yesterday. As for good media to buy, don't buy any in a brick and mortar store. They will all be CMC, the worst optical disc manufacturer out there. Same story with DVD-R, DVD+R DL, and CD-R. Even Verbatim's store bought media is CMC. So, yes, even Verbatim, which makes quality products in their DataLife Plus series because they farm out to Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, farms out to crap CMC for a cheap buck leeched off the consumer. As for which is the best BD-R DL, I've never bought any so I couldn't say. Verbatim, when they make their own and don't farm out to CMC, are good. And they farm out to other manufacturers for their BD-R DL apparently because CMC doesn't make BD-R DL's. Otherwise, Verbatim would probably use them. Panasonic made those discs you used so they should be good, but I've not got practical experience with them. Just going by the Disc ID string.

Those aren't rewrtiables. Those are write once BD-R DL.

Until a new version of ImgBurn is released, ImgBurn will return that Windows 10 is Windows 8. It's a somewhat technical story. As for what's wrong, have you ever used these discs before in this drive? It could be the drive doesn't like the discs. You're using quality MCC so it's most likely not the media causing the problem. How long have you had this drive? If it's new, then, it would be relatively unlikely to be a bad drive, but you never know. If you don't want to waste discs, try a rewritable DVD. If you get the same error on those, since you used both DVD+R and a rewritable, you can most likely lay the problem on something to do with the drive. Either the drive itself or some issue with it and your computer or Windows. If the rewritable works, then it's probably that that Asus drive doesn't like those kind of DVD+R from Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. Did you upgrade an older version of Windows to Windows 10? Did burning work before under the older version of Windows? Also I don't know why the image file is 4 GB in size yet returns CDIMAGE. That seems to indicate to me it's a CD image, but no CD image is 4 GB as CD's usually max out at like 800 MB. However, it is a Windows 10 installation image from Microsoft, so MS could have read it as some kind of CDIMAGE file system type. Why it has multiple editions on it I can only guess. I'm no expert on drive error messages, but the ones I see seem to indicate something physically wrong with the drive. That it keeps wanting to turn off/reset/eject itself when it's trying to burn. Also, though it probably won't help, I would also recommend a shut down of Windows, powering off the PC for a minute so that the power cycles, turn it back on, and restart Windows before trying again. Sometimes a simple power cycle of a drive can fix odd issues.

There is software that can convert .IFO streams into containers. Freemake's Video Convertor does, but if your video is longer than 5 minutes, if you use the free version, the software appends its logo at the end of the stream. While you could play/convert the individual .VOB files and there are many software choices that would do this, there are reasons not to do this. According to the DVD standard, a .VOB file can only be 1 GB in size maximum. So, if your video stream is larger than 1 GB, it is split up into multiple .VOB files. You'd need software that can read in the .IFO file to form a complete stream. Otherwise, you'd only be playing a part of the stream. Of course, you could have multiple .VOB's that are each their own stream, if they're less than 1 GB. And that depends on how long your converted tapes were in terms of running time and what method of compression was used to make the MPEG-2 video. Ah, I think you created these .BIN/,MDS files with a version of ImgBurn from many years ago? ImgBurn uses .ISO now but it can also create .MDS and .DVD files to go along with it. I believe older versions created .BIN with .MDS combinations. It can also split images into file size parts you set and uses .DVD and/or .MDS files to put them together.

Actually, I got to thinking. If you have a DVD-Video disc where you just pop it in a DVD player and it plays, you may be better off forgetting about the .BIN file altogether. Use ImgBurn's Read mode to read the disc to a new image file that will support a proper extension like .ISO or .MDS/.DVD. Because I think some player software actually loads .ISO files into them and plays them. .ISO can also mount in Virtual CloneDrive, if you're inclined to install it afterwards.

The oddest thing is that you have a .BIN file to begin with. .BIN is reserved for audio CD formats, with a .CUE format file. A DVD shouldn't be saved as a .BIN file. What extension is the volume identifier you mentioned? You can't convert a .BIN to any container format like .MP4. Your best bet is to convert the file into some kind of standardized DVD file format. You could try the Tools in ImgBurn and choose to create a DVD file, selecting the .BIN file for input. See if that works. Then, you can install something like Virtual CloneDrive to mount the .DVD as a virtual drive. Then, any Windows software you use to play DVD's should play this. Another thing you could do is use ImgBurn to burn the .DVD to a rewritable DVD. Then, copy the VIDEO_TS folder from that disc to your hard drive. You could then use software like Media Player Classic to load the VIDEO_TS.IFO from the folder to play the DVD. Or just burn the .DVD to a write once DVD disc and load the VIDEO_TS file from that disc. I recommend using a rewritable DVD because I'm not sure creating a .DVD file from a .BIN for a DVD-Video job would work, so you won't waste a write once disc doing this. When you say this tape was copied to DVD, you do mean the DVD is playable in a DVD player, right? It's not a data DVD that you insert in your PC and it has like an AVI or MP4 on it that you play in something like Windows Media Player?

Odd. You said you were using Verbatim DL RW yet this log line I 17:01:52 Destination Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: MEI-T02-001) said you were using BD-R. MEI usually means Panasonic, too. Or Maxell. At least made by Panasonic, whoever put their label on it.

Yeah, I wish that wasn't the case, too. Unless I want to use a DVD+R DL, I have to shrink my DVD-9's to rewritable DVD-5's in order to play them so I don't put as much wear and tear on my original discs. If it would work, I could just ISO a DVD-9 DVD-Video and burn that to a BD-RE to play it on my PS3. However, I have tested this, too, with a DVD-5 DVD-Video ISO and it doesn't play on the PS3 either. Another reason to hate Sony. Cheap quality products and stupid decision making are their norm. Yes, it's essentially the wrong kind of disc as far as I know. My tests have revealed this is most likely the case and the PS3 does display the media type that is inserted, which backs up my theory and my test results. And I have tested, as I said, trying to burn a DVD-5 DVD-Video ISO to BD-RE and get it to play on the PS3; it doesn't. As far as a I know, Sony basically created the finalized standard for Blu-Ray players. So, I'd guess if the PS3, a Sony product, behaves this way, all Blu-Ray players would behave the same way. However, I don't know this for sure. There is software that will convert Blu-Ray to DVD-Video. VSOSoft makes a piece of software that does this. Slysoft's CloneBD should eventually add support for that function but I don't think it does yet. If Slysoft's did, I think you can get a 30 day free trial of CloneBD. VSO's will work during its trial, but they will watermark the output so it's essentially a non-starter unless you want to pay for it. But, why would you want to for a one time task? I think there is a software, but I don't know what it is, that will convert Blu-Ray folder contents to container files like AVI. Then, you can convert the AVI to DVD with a variety of free software. You could try searching for that and try that to convert to DVD.

You can also change one of the Settings so that Seamless is always checked.

Unfortunately, I have tested this. You cannot just put the contents of a Blu-Ray that fits on a DVD onto a BD. The PS3 does a media type check and attempts to play the contents based on the media inserted. It does not check the contents of the disc and attempt to play them based on the contents. For instance, if the PS3 did a check for the contents on a disc, you could put a VIDEO_TS from a DVD onto a BD-RE and have it play as a DVD on the PS3. I have tested this and this does not work on the PS3. You will notice when you insert a disc, the PS3 displays the media type that is inserted if you have turned off auto play or if auto play is on when you exit playing back to the PS3 main screen. So, the PS3 plays media based on what type of media is inserted, not the format of contents that may be on it.