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The trial is 7 days, I do remember that. I just wasn't sure whether it was crippled with a watermark or not during that time.

I had initially thought it was a topic about multiple folders, too. Not putting multiple video containers on a single DVD Video disc. I use ConvertXToDVD for this. Although if you have 2 VIDEO_TS folders, you can use something called DVDReMake to put 2 DVD's onto one with a rudimentary menu to choose between both. I've never actually used this feature, so I don't know how well it works, but I know the software can do this. Be aware both applications are pay programs, although ConvertXToDVD has a free trial, though I don't know if the output might be crippled with a watermark.

I connect my enclosure directly to a USB 3.0 port on the back of the PC. I don't know if a hub would slow the communication, but I figured since I had a free port, why not use the direct connection?

Unfortunately, for BD drives, you need a USB 3.0 enclosure, and there are only 2 options. The VanTec and the Other World Computing. Both have their drawbacks. VanTec is cheap, Chinese made stuff. First one I had kept dropping communication with the drive. The one I currently have is a few months old but it's still working. Other World Computing's model has an annoying habit that when you first connect it, Windows WON'T recognize it until you restart Windows! And if you power off the drive, Windows won't recognize it's powered back on until you restart Windows! The VanTec is easier to swap drives into and out of, too. If you have a write that goes bad, the VanTec will just drop communication with the device. With the Other World Computing model, you will, at least, generally get an abend error from the device. So, with all that said, I'd recommend the VanTec, but be sure to thoroughly test the one you get to make sure it works right because you may need to send it back. VanTech: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MRUN0HQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Other World Computing: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XRCCV44/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I didn't have any problems getting my drive swapped with LG. It was a relatively painless experience, so I can't relate to yours. What LG does ALL the time that irritates me is whenever I tell them of firmware problems, they always ask for my name, address, etc. "for our records." I just tell them they already HAVE it, which a simple search would have returned. They then DO search their records after I tell them and verify they already have it. I also get pissed off when I tell LG and Pioneer of firmware updates they need to make. They tell me they will forward my "suggestions" to their engineers... who promptly IGNORE it and NEVER update the firmware problems.

What you'll have is a massive archive of all allowed files, but they're relatively useless for restoring Windows to a working condition. It won't be a bootable system so Windows would not start if you had to restore everything. Restoring everything wouldn't get your applications back or restore your user settings. And some files couldn't be restored to their original location anyway because they're in use at the time by Windows. I've been a satisfied user of Macrium Reflect since version 4 and it's currently in version 7, so several years. Acronis soured me to its product from years of successive Rescue Media that would conveniently "forget" USB HDD's were connected, but only AFTER deleting the target partition for restore, resulting in a useless application.

Either Verbatim or CMC changed the production of DataLife Plus MCC DVD+R so that the LG WH16NS60 no longer writes properly to them. Discs are rendered unreadable.

No, the external ASUS I had was a half height drive. And ASUS makes an external USB of the BW-16D1HT. It's just the internal half height BW-16D1HT drive put into an external USB enclosure. Given the I've had to put with from LG and Pioneer, I may be willing to try ASUS again with the latest firmware update installed. If it no longer destroys rewritable media, I'd be willing to try swapping in one of the BW-16D1HT into my enclosure in place of the Pioneer BDR-212DBK.

VSO seems to have released 2 more application updates versioned 4.0.0.98: VSO Blu-Ray To DVD and VSO Blu-Ray to MKV. However, since these applications all relatively do the same thing, just with different output formats, it makes sense.

If you're looking for a BD drive, I would highly recommend you PASS on ASUS's current model, the BW-16D1HT. I tried 2 different units of the latest model and they both did the same thing: destroy DVD+RW and BD-RE! I've had 3 ASUS BD drives: one USB and 2 units of the same internal model. The USB model was great. The latest internal model was trash. Maybe the firmware update released in the intervening 3 years fixed the problem, but you only get 1 chance to make a first impression with me. Interestingly enough, when I check VSO's forums for new posts over the last 2 days, there are none! I only learned of the new updates from softexia.com.

Looks like VSO released two new versions of some of the products, including at least one of them being a gold update! VSO Blu-ray Converter 4.0.0.98 – Final and VSO DVD Converter 4.0.0.98.

It generally is. Multiple layer media from anyone other than Verbatim is asking for trouble. However, with Verbatim's sale to CMC, the worst maker of optical media out there, I expect the axe to fall anytime now. It's already started with their MCC DVD+R DataLife Plus and the LG WH16NS60. Either Verbatim or CMC changed the manufacturing process so these discs are useless on that drive.

I think you're not understanding what ImgBurn does. ImgBurn just creates what you feed it. It does not create DVD's from source files itself. If you have an application that supports creating VIDEO_TS folders with these SCC closed captions files, as long as it creates Subtitle Tracks, then ImgBurn can burn this VIDEO_TS folder and create a DVD movie disc for you that will play on a DVD player. But, ImgBurn will not create VIDEO_TS files on its own.

Oh, that's just ch3vr0n being ch3vr0n, his usual abrasive self. You should see him on the AnyDVD forums! As for what my drives are returning, I really couldn't say. Without knowing what particular disc was burned by what, which means going through the lengthy logs, and then finding those discs I've already file away, to check and see what the bit setting is. Or taking my BDR-212 out of the enclosure and putting in the WH16NS60, I wouldn't know. And it wouldn't work anyway because it's not writing properly to Verbatim MCC DVD+R. I'll see what I can do about going over the log to finding a WH16NS60 disc that last worked and then seeing if I can find it stored away where I think it would be.

I went over my logs to be sure. The LG WH16NS60 does not support book type setting. It returns an Invalid Command Operation Code, so it doesn't support the command. Whether that means the drive actually does set a book type or not, I don't know. But, it's a drive you can look into getting if you're that concerned about it. However, also be aware that current Verbatim DataLife Plus MCC 16x DVD+R may not work on it.

There is one reason to buy DVD+R over DVD-R even if it does set the book type to DVD-ROM. DVD+R is SLIGHTLY larger. So, you can create a DVD that is nearly full but it will only fit to a DVD+R and not a DVD-R. That's why I switched from DVD-R to DVD+R. I may have to switch back to DVD-R to get the WH16NS60 to play right IF it doesn't choke on the MCC DVD-R like it does on the MCC DVD+R.

I forget if it's my LG WH16NS60 or my Pioneer BDR-212, but one of those two drives doesn't support book type setting while the other does. I don't know for sure, but I believe as was said some drives do it automatically and the user cannot change that behavior.

Either that or your drive only just now started to act up. Given how you've not had problems with the media before, even though it's cheap, it would seem either the manufacture of the discs was changed or your drive needs replacing and it only just now is showing up that it needs such. However, it seems highly unlikely they'd change the manufacturing process of discs right in the middle of a cake stack of discs that did work. If you still get failures on Verbatim discs, then you do know it's your drive that needs replacing. So, your best bet is probably, at this point, to invest is some good quality Verbatim BD-R DL's and see if the problem persists. If it does, the drive probably needs replacing.

Probably best to start a new topic on the book type setting so that LUK can better see it.

Does Power2Go make just data discs and not just audio and video? I also don't think I have it. I don't see it anywhere available in my Start Menu. Plus, it wouldn't be version 12 as I had version 10 of the Media Suite installed.

That's why I used 2 different USB enclosures, in case it might have been the enclosure that had gone bad. Why I used both my 2 WH16NS60's and my Pioneer, to make sure it also wasn't the enclosure. Why I also changed ports on the USB hub, changed USB hubs, and changed the USB port on the PC itself. To isolate what it could be. Because the only thing that had changed was the DVD+R's and because they worked on the BU LG and the Pioneer BDR-212, it had to be a conflict with the DVD+R's and the WH16NS60. The only thing that had changed was a new stack of DVD+R's. And CMC had just recently bought the company. So, either CMC made the change or Verbatim did before CMC bought them. QED. Actually, I don't know what else I'd use to test to burn discs with. I only have ImgBurn. Nero would be the only other thing I know to use, but I don't have a license for it. Windows, I think, can natively burn ISO's but I don't think it says how fast it is burning them. The big secret of burning discs is it's always down to the drive. You can insert a 16x DVD recordable disc that your drive supports writing at 16x, but the drive many only, for reasons unknown, decide to write at 8x for that one particular write. And it's also down to the write strategies in the firmware of the drive for what speed you'll get when writing discs. So, again, it's also down to the drive. The drive is always the biggest factor in performance, which also includes the maximum write speed you'll get. For instance, my internal LG will write 8x to 8x DVD+RW... but only for the last 30 seconds! Technically, it's writing at 8x, but really, what use is that? And, before that, you don't even get 4x, but 3.3x. LG says there's nothing wrong with the drive, but there obviously is a need for a firmware update to properly write to this media. As for your end of the world problem, what you can do is us DVDShrink to compress the VIDEO_TS down JUST enough so that it's not nearly filling the disc. You'd have to experiment to see how much compression you'd need to get a size where ImgBurn won't error out on it.

No firmware update. Otherwise, I'd have blamed that. LG hasn't updated the firmware on the WH16NS60 in 2 years, as I said. And I doubt they will. I told them they needed to update the firmware for a production change on the MCC's; they said they'd forward it to the appropriate department. They also said the same thing when I told them 16x BD-R only write at 12x. So, we'll see if we ever actually get a firmware update.

I admit I didn't think that Verbatim itself might have changed the manufacturing process rather than CMC. But, someone changed it somewhere. I still have some left over DVD+R DL Verbatim DataLife Plus 8x inkjet discs from before I got my latest ones. I never got a chance to test them in the WH16NS60 to see if they still worked.

I'm guessing since you said this was a DVD recorder, you're trying to make a DVD Video disc? With a VIDEO_TS folder in the root directory of the disc you're trying to copy? If so, try following this guide: Toshiba is not the only one that does this. My Panasonic DVD recorders since 2002 do the same thing and can't be copied to ISO by ImgBurn. But, you can Build your own DVD Video from the contents on the disc. Even though the guide probably tells you only to copy the VIDEO_TS folder, also copy the AUDIO_TS folder and any other files and folders in the root directory of the disc you're trying to copy. The disc must have been finalized by the Toshiba DVD recorder and thus playable on any DVD player in order for this to work.

The only rational explanation is that CMC changed the manufacturing process. They can't be a bad batch because then they'd fail on both LG models and the Pioneer. They're only failing on 2 WH16NS60's, which indicates a bad firmware/media combination problem. They worked fine on the last batch and suddenly stop working when CMC has bought the company? LG would have recommended Verbatim back when Verbatim was a known quantity. After the CMC buy out, it's not. It's always possible Verbatim itself made the change in the process instead of CMC. Verbatim might have made the change mid run. Either way, the only plausible explanation that fits all the given data was the DVD+R's were changed somehow. And they can't be a bad batch as I said because then they'd fail on the LG internal and the Pioneer. Firmware/media combination problems are not unique. Pioneer used to have a bug in its firmware where the same disc ID was on both the branded and inkjet Verbatim MKM DVD+R DL's of the same write speed. However, the inkjet ones would always fail but the branded ones wouldn't. Pioneer eventually fixed this in a firmware update.