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Got my most recent order of DVD+R's made before I found out about the Verbatim sale to CMC. These had the disc label of MCC, which leads one to believe they're the quality stuff. Are they left over stock, though? Or, are they CMC's typical junk just given the DID of MCC to make them look good? Anyone can put anything in the DID filed, and I wouldn't put it past CMC to use trickery with the DID's to pass off their garbage under a good brand name.

It sounds like you have the same DVD as I do, although mine doesn't have a paper label on it. And the extra cartoon can only be "played" in DVDShrink or extracted with DVDShrink and made into its own DVD. My DVD has the two trailers you mentioned along with the radio spot. Although your DVD might be an R2 PAL one it sounds like whereas mine is an apparently region free Chinese made NTSC one. I live close to you, actually. I'm in Owensboro in Kentucky, just on the state line with Indiana before you get to Evansville. Where I was also born and lived most of my life, except for like a 5 year period in Phoenix, AZ. I became disabled in 2007.

Yeah, narrow minded people like to think Song Of The South glorifies slavery, when, it quite clearly states the film is set during Reconstruction. People will always find some cause to rally behind, even if it has no merit. I'm pretty sure my copy is a VHS to DVD conversion given fancy menus. It does have a special feature with a radio spot for the then recently released movie. But, it was the only way I could see it since Disney refuses to even acknowledge the film exists anymore in the United States. I think this DVD might be a bootleg. If you examine the contents in DVDShrink, there's a video stream you can't access anywhere. This stream is of the Warner Brothers banned cartoon Coal Black And Da Seben Dwarfs. It's highly unlikely two cartoons from competing studios would be released on the same DVD if it were authorized.

Let me guess. This movie is Song Of The South. While too many people exploded over that movie for very little valid reason in the United States, Disney continued to distribute it on home video in Europe and Asia. My DVD is a Chinese release, so it's NTSC. Amazingly, it's in English. Disney last released Song Of The South to home video and television in the United States in 1985. Since it's German, makes me wonder if Germany, post war, has ever seen the US WW II propaganda Disney short, Education For Death.

I use 7Zip, but was not aware .ISO was a supported file type for the program. Good to know. Thanks for educating me! Unfortunately, it cannot inject files into an ISO. Just extract the contents out of it. So, I still need UltraISO.

The German DVD might be PAL. If you have a DVD player that supports R2 or the DVD is region free and if you have a TV that supports PAL, then you might be able to play a German DVD if it's in PAL. PAL DVD video is sped up because of the different types of TV's they use. Just a thought.

I don't see one.

It shows the slow and gradual death of optical media. They don't include optical drives in a lot of new PC's nowadays. They're gradually phasing out DVD for new movies. The sale of recordable discs shows how $36 million is seen a good deal now for Mitsubishi. With everyone streaming today their movies and TV shows, optical disc is dying. Everyone downloads their software now so there's no market for physical discs. CD's are dying because everyone is streaming. It's really a sad time for anyone who wants to actually OWN something instead of renting it. I refuse to streaming anything because I want to own a physical copy. If I can't own a copy on my end, I don't want it. With streaming, they can take away your "license" at any time, bring it back at a higher price point, and force you to buy it back again. No deal as far as this guy is concerned!

Particularly if you used some kind of conversion software to create the source you burned.

Try a piece of paid software called UltraISO. It's what I use to inject files, the process of adding files and folders to an existing ISO. And I believe you can extract contents from an ISO in UltraISO and copy the contents to another folder. If you're using native, pure ISO, one thing you can do on modern versions of Windows is navigate the contents either natively through Windows/File Explorer or mounted as a virtual drive. I forget how Windows does it. Either way, you can copy the contents and paste them to another location. I use a virtual drive software called Virtual CloneDrive. Then, I just mount ISO's to the virtual drive and copy and paste the contents from the virtual drive in Windows/File Explorer.

Plus, CMC sells more because they're cheaper. But, there's a reason why they're so much cheaper. Then, when people realize the meaning of that old Spanish saying, "The cheap comes out expensive," they switched to the better quality DataLife Plus media. But, now, that option will probably fly right out of the window! The best hope we have is that CMC buys the Verbatim brand and name and continues to outsource to Mitsubishi for the actual creation of DataLife Plus media. But, we all know the real deal. CMC will just slap Verbatim's good name onto its crap, like they did when JVC bought out Taiyo Yuden. JVC apparently just slapped the good TY brand name on CMC garbage. I wonder if TDK still makes their own DVD+R DL. The only other brand of DVD+R DL I ever found to be any good were the ones made by TDK. After 2 years, they were still readable, unlike the Office Depot branded ones from Ritek I experimented with. Panasonic used to make a quality DVD-R back when I can remember paying $11 a disc in 2002! I wonder if they make DVD+R, if they still make it, and if they still make quality or just farmed out to CMC. My first DVD+R DL's from Verbatim DataLife Plus that I made in 2008 are still playable today. I have one disc I watch every Halloween night. It was made on a quality Verbatim DVD+R DL and was still playable as of last year.

It really is an iffy proposition. Mitsubishi made the quality discs for Verbatim, since they apparently never made their own media. They always farmed out to Mitsubishi and CMC. If Mitsubishi doesn't see a profit in making the media anymore, I doubt they'll make them for CMC anymore, either. If I could afford to and had the space to store them, I'd buy 2,000 quality Verbatim DVD+R, too, along with 2,000 DVD+R DL and 2,000 BD-R. I need to buy some DVD+R DL next month so I'll see if it's left overstock of the good stuff or, if it's changed, if it's CMC Tomorrow, I'm expecting an Amazon.com order to arrive... IF USPS delivers it to my house! In that order is a stack of 50 DataLife Plus DVD+R. I ordered them before I heard Verbatim was sold to CMC. So, it will be a good test to see if I get the MCC stuff. It could be left over stock or it could be all new stock made by CMC!

Well, really bad news. Mitsubishi sold Verbatim to CMC! There goes the only provider of quality DVD-/+R, DVD+R DL, and BD-R!

Well, that's just We all know CMC probably didn't adopt Taiyo Yuden's quality and just slapped their good name on crap media. That's what they'll do with Verbatim. Just mark my words.

Please, please, oh please don't tell me Mitsubishi sold Verbatim to CMC! Verbatim was already farming out to CMC for its Life Series and it's BD-R, resulting in crap media. Verbatim's DataLife Plus series was the last bastion of quality media! Will DVD+/-R SL/DL/RW now all be CMC garbage?! Who else is there left to get DVD+/-R, DVD+R DL, and DVD+/-RW, not to mention CD-R, if Verbatim goes completely to the dark side?

I extrapolated that from this forum thread: https://forums.vso-software.fr/spam-t20799.html Even though it was about controlling Spam, check towards the last few posts.

It looks like ConvertXToDVD has been "frozen" until they get a 64 bit version of the software released. They probably stopped development of the software to concentrate on getting this new "version" working.

There's not even a need to do a full erase. Just do a quick erase. Full erase will take 45 minutes. Depending on the speed, could be twice that. Quick erase is just a few seconds. Or just use DVD+-RW discs.

Yes, as long as the bootable DVD ISO is in fact bootable, you can write it to BD media, regardless of the kind and type. I do it often since BD-RE DL writes faster than DVD+RW. However, I would do a test first. Burn the bootable DVD ISO to a BD-RE DL and test that it can boot on your system/drive. There should be no problem booting from it as long as the PC recognizes the drive in the boot menu options when you press the proper function key for your system. Be aware you will probably receive a pop up asking if you want to burn a smaller sized ISO to media that is unnecessary for it. Just select that you want to underburn and proceed.

That file probably comes from the "boot sector" of a bootable CD. There's a kind of invisible portion of a bootable CD that is only present during the booting phase. If you were able to access the various drives that were visible after booting from a bootable CD, you'd find a drive letter assigned to the "bootable partition" of the CD. This eftsbootcom file is probably only extractable from a bootable CD. You can insert Windows 10 installation discs and extract the "boot sector" from it with ImgBurn, making it available for the bootable section for a bootable CD. Now, to be honest, I've never actually gotten a manually created bootable CD made by ImgBurn to actually boot, so this is probably the extent of my expertise.

Ah, yes, there's your common thread! With the discs that aren't working, you appear to just be putting MKV files in the ISO. If your DVD player natively supports playing MKV files, then you can do that. Otherwise, you can't. You need DVD Video compliant VIDEO_TS folders for a DVD player to play a DVD. As LUK said, there are a few options out there to convert to your MKV to VIDEO_TS. Freemake does it, like you said, but you have to pay to remove the watermark and to get "sane" processing time. I use a paid piece of software called ConvertXToDVD. I've been using it for about 10 years now to convert container files such as MKV to DVD Video. I've never used anything else extensively to convert containers to DVD Video beyond ConvertXToDVD so I can't recommend any particular piece of software otherwise.

Are you sure AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS on that disc were files and not folders? They should be folders on DVD Video compliant discs. IF you just fed MKV files into an ISO and burned it to disc, then maybe your DVD player supports playing MKV files natively from disc.

Okay. As I said, I think, but I don't know for sure, that the author updated the installer this year. So, maybe the hash info is old. The author would have to address this at this point.

Ah, just because a container plays on a PC doesn't mean you can put it on a DVD and expect it to play in a stand alone DVD player. The DVD player has to support playing back container files like MKV. Has this portable player played MKV files from DVD's before? If it used to, then, the problem is the MKV file itself. It may have a codec that is not supported for playback by the DVD player. Or the job settings for this DVD you created are not set properly for that player to recognize a disc has been inserted. I thought you were dealing with movie DVD's, commonly called DVD Video.

Which mirror did you use? Try Mirror 7, the one from the "official" site and see if you get mismatches. I believe the installer might have been updated recently and maybe old checksum hash info is on the site.