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Had a chance to install the trial of ConvertXToVideo. EPIC failure creating MP4 with H264. Creates a file with audio but no video on MP4 and H264 video! However, I had multiple chapters in the Blu-Ray I used as input and the program did NOT create individual MP4 files for each chapter. There's no reason why the program should create individual MP4's for each chapter. I tried to recreate the file as MP4 with Mpeg4 as the video type. Got video in my file that time. Don't know why the H264 isn't working. I know I've got the necessary codecs because AVIDeMux will save nVIDIA H264 video in its output that plays, so it's probably some kind of bug in the ConvertXToVideo software. Ah, I think I may have discovered where your one file per chapter may be coming from. Under the setting in ConvertXToVideo, check under Chapters. Do you have the box checked that says Create one title set per chapter when loading a file? If you have that checked, try unchecking it and see if that doesn't improve your file set creation. That setting may only apply to DVD Video or BD Video creation, though, but it may fix the output behavior you've been getting. I tried creating to DVD Video and it seems to work fine. So, the H264 error would prevent me from using this software to do my DVD to container conversion. Mpeg4 is too large an output format. It creates 1 GB 10 minute files. But, it does work to convert BD Video. It does import all titles, the main feature and bonus features.

I was thinking it should be in the Guides section. I had forgotten it was already there under the title End Of The World problem.

There's really not much else you can do. I don't know how to do it but there are supposedly ways you can manually set the layer break that may get around this. Others may tell you how to do that. There is one thing you can do in the meantime. You can use DVDShrink to shrink down your VIDEO_TS contents to a new VIDEO_TS. Use a custom compression ratio and keep shrinking the VIDEO_TS down until you get a size ImgBurn is happy with. However, this will reduce the video quality, and it will vary depending on how much you shrink it. But, on an upscaling DVD, you won't notice it. And if you only have to shrink it like 1% or 5%, again, you won't notice too much of a quality dip.

From what you've described, the problem would be either 1.) the mini DVD-R's have somehow changed manufacturing process so they're not the same quality they used to be; it happens. It happened to me before. 2.) the Resident Evil image you have is bad 3.) your iHAS burner has gone bad. What to do? Well, you should try testing these things in a certain order. Try getting some Verbatim DataLifePlus/AZO DVD-R and see if they burn okay. That will test both #1 and #3 in the above list. I don't see why you have a particular desire to use mini DVD-R since they are so hard to find quality blanks. If the Verbatim (NOT the Life Series you find in stores. They're junk.) burn fine, then you know the problem is not with your burner or the image and with the mini DVD-R's you'd been using. If you still have a problem, then the problem is either with the image or the burner. Unfortunately, there's very little you can do to test the image itself. About all you can do at that point is replace the iHAS burner. If you still have a problem after that, the problem is most likely a corrupt image file.

Yeah, I wouldn't rely on CMC even if they do pass Write and Verify. There would probably be playback issues and longevity issues. I would think the CMC wouldn't last very long. I know I had some Ritek DVD+R DL I was testing out because I found them in an Office Depot store. They wrote fine, but, a year later, they weren't readable.

It is possible, but I don't think ImgBurn can do it and I doubt you can do it with just the Create CUE File option if it is possible for ImgBurn to do it. What you'd have to do is create a disc with 2 tracks (Or is it sessions? I forget which one ImgBurn can't do.) one with the audio CD tracks on it and one with a 2nd bit where you'd store the data part of the audio CD.

The general rule of thumb is when you're dealing with multi-layer media, regardless of if it's DVD+/-R DL or BD-R/RE D/T/QL, Verbatim is the only consistent performance quality. So, Ritek will be more iffy. I'm surprised you got any kind of decent quality out of CMC DL media. I wasn't even aware CMC made BD-R DL media. Which will just cause me more worry whenever I should ever have to get some. I've never used any before, just Verbatim and TDK BD-RE DL.

Well, I can't explain why you got success before with the WH16NS40 and I can't say much about the WH14NS40, but the WH16NS40 absolutely does not properly write/Verify dual layer BD media. Fails Verify 9 times out of 10. I had multiple units of this drive and it did the same thing. And this behavior was verified by someone else on the forum. The only thing that seemed to work, and it wasn't always certain, was not to burn images with ImgBurn but to use the write on the fly method. So, it may have been the 1.03 firmware the entire time. Seems they borked that firmware like Pioneer is now constantly borking their firmware. And here I thought the 1.03 firmware only introduced a plug to keep people from copying discs. Looks like they screwed the performance of the firmware, too. Since you don't mind trying new drives as a possible solution, I'd recommend trying LG's WH16NS60. It doesn't have that problem that the WH16NS40 had and is now my go to BD drive. However, it is a bit more expensive since it's an UltraHD drive. And if you don't need that feature, you may not want to invest in it. I don't need that feature, but I invest in the drive because, well, it works. You're using Verbatim IMF BD media, which is the best out there, so I wouldn't change BD-R SL type. I'd not use the Ritek media at all as I know Ritek has certain playback issues with their BD on the PS3. Plus, Ritek has a higher failure and incompatibility rate than the Verbatim IMF media.

Now, are you sure these stutters aren't in the original VIDEO_TS output you have? Try playing the DVD from the VIDEO_TS folder from the hard disk you're importing in Build mode, inferring you used Build mode to create this image. See if you get the same stuttering between sectors. It seems highly unlikely you'd get the same results from playback both on a PC DVD drive and a standalone DVD player unless it wasn't in the original video. The other common denominator is the DVD burner you're using. Maybe it isn't very good. I know LiteOn drives can add random pauses to DVD Video that aren't layer breaks. I don't know what track record the TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222AB has. What is the source of this image? Did you Build it from a VIDEO_TS folder or was the ISO generated by another application? Other application generated ISO's are well known for producing output that isn't right.

Unless he wants the image files for a backup or to mount as a virtual drive. As for playback, unfortunately, the answer isn't as simple as yes or no. It depends on the player you put the disc in, the type of CD-R you use, and sometimes even which drive burns the CD.

I failed to notice that. That is why it didn't play. So, whatever created your Blu-Ray output appeared to have not actually created anything that plays. In your BDMV folder, is there a subfolder called STREAM? I THINK that's where BD Video is stored. At least, that was on the only BD Video I can remember ever navigating. I don't do BD Video creation too often, so I know very little about its functional structure versus what I know about DVD. Is there anything in STREAM? If so, how large are the contents?

Generate a BIN file from a CUE file? Not with ImgBurn, no. What you'd need to do is burn the CD with the CUE and then create an image from that CD in ImgBurn to get a BIN/CUE file set. As far as I know, anyway.

That could be probably one of two main things in your case. 1.) Whatever made the Blu-Ray video folder you imported may not have authored it correctly. 2.) Your log says you used a Ritek disc. Your Blu-Ray player may not like Ritek discs. They do have well known recognition issues with players. I know the PS3 doesn't like Ritek BD-R and doesn't play them properly. It does seem the job was detected as a Blu-Ray movie because the log says the appropriate settings were changed to reflect a Blu-Ray disc. If that's the case, try Verbatim BD-R SL/DL. Also, you used a BD-RE versus a BD-R. RE does have more compatibility issues with players versus BD-R. Try a WORM (Write Once Read Many) BD-R SL/DL. And don't try Verbatim BD-R SL. DL is quality, SL is cheap CMC Magnetics crap, which is even worse than Ritek. In the meantime, try this disc that doesn't play in someone else's Blu-Ray player. See what results you get.

No, that's probably my fault. I forgot about the different file system in Blu-Ray Video versus DVD Video. If you were following the DVD guide, it would probably say use ISO9660 + UDF instead of just UDF. Anyway, just select Yes to let ImgBurn make the default changes for you. ImgBurn is smart enough to detect if you're probably making a Blu-Ray/DVD Video and prompt the user to make any appropriate changes that are not set by the user/changed by the user.

Use one of the DVD creation guides (It's essentially the same thing for Blu-Ray except you won't use VIDEO_TS as the folder source.) I linked to earlier. Just ignore the parts dealing with layer breaks if you're using the double layer guide. There are no layer breaks on double layer Blu-Ray that the user needs to worry about. Or you can use the guide I linked to labeled How to write a Blu-Ray Video disc using ImgBurn. In fact, that second guide might be better because it directly deals with BD Video creation.

No, BDMV is the Blu-Ray file format. ImgBurn won't do any converting. You'll need some kind of conversion software to convert Blu-Ray to DVD. ImgBurn can then burn that conversion output, but it won't convert, no.

The irony about Verbatim's quality is they farm out to both MCC, the highest quality material out there, and to CMC, the lowest quality material out there. Avoid their Life Series you'll find in brick and mortar stores as they're CMC. Avoid their BD-RE as they're CMC. Their BD-R and BD-RE DL are quality media. And, of course, their media labeled DataLife Plus or AZO are quality discs. Notice how CMC, CMC Magnetics, calls themselves an anagram of MCC, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, so they think they can trick some people who aren't paying attention? I've never had a problem burning DVD+R DL at the highest rated speed the drive will allow. The conventional wisdom is burning slower will yield better discs, but, as you've seen, you got Miscompares going at a slower speed than the rated maximum on other media. I've always just set ImgBurn to Max writing speed and let the drive/firmware/media write descriptor combo determine the speed it's written at.

We'll need more from you. Post the log of a failed burn. Under Help choose ImgBurn Logs, open the log file, find the failed burn, and copy and paste it into a response. Also, there's no such thing as BD-RW. BD-RE is what should have been called BD-RW. Do you mean BD-R DL and BD-RE DL since you're having trouble at the layer change? Also, the BU20N may be the problem. It's a slim model drive and slim models are notoriously prone to poor performance. However, the log will also say if you're using some kind of cheap BD media. Cheap media is never a good idea, and an even worse one for double layer media.

No, I've never heard of those before today. The only inkjet I've ever seen or used are white. I still use inkjet Verbatim DataLife Plus DVD-R and DVD+R DL but they're all white label surfaces. And when I go to the DVD+R, they're white inkjet printable DataLife Plus I have bookmarked.

Never heard of those before. Anyway, those aren't the silver surface ones I've been describing. They're called silver shiny. Those you linked apparently are just inkjet printable surfaces but instead of being colored white, they're dyed silver. WHY it should matter is beyond me. Whatever you print to the surface will cover up the color, be it white or silver. Although, maybe, silver would retain a finish similar to the top of a DVD blank. Apparently, now they're also differentiating between silver top and silvery shiny silk screen printable. They keep the changing the names on me so now I don't know what I used to use before.

Unless your BD Video disc is around 8 GB or less, you can't but BDMV files to DVD. While you can put BD Video content to DVD (I think) and have a Blu-Ray player play it (I know it doesn't work the other way around. You can't put DVD Video content to BD discs and get a Blu-Ray player to play them.), you're limited to about 4.7 GB for a single layer DVD and around 8 GB for double layer DVD. It sounds like maybe you want ImgBurn to take a BD Video contents and convert it to DVD? ImgBurn does no software conversion. It just burns what you tell it to burn it. If you're just trying to burn BD Video to Blu-Ray discs, then ImgBurn will do that. Depending on what you want to do, you'll probably find what you're looking for in one of these Guides:

Fair enough argument.

Try this: http://download.imgburn.com/SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0.exe That should be full installer you need. Although don't click happy on every screen. Be sure you read what you're agreeing to let install and not.

I must have run Verify on discs that weren't CSS protected before, because I know I ran Verify on DVD Video discs without AnyDVD resident. They were probably the first time I attempted to do such. That must be what confused me. The scramble message indicated CSS, but it doesn't actually SAY CSS.

I've been trying to perform Verify on some DVD's. I'm not trying to Read them, just Verify, to make sure they're playable. I keep getting these on all the discs I 16:43:04 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2045775) W 16:43:06 Failed to Read Sectors 384 - 415 - Reason: Read of Scrambled Sector Without Authentication W 16:43:06 Failed to Read Sector 385 - Reason: Read of Scrambled Sector Without Authentication W 16:43:06 Sector 385 maps to File: \VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.VOB E 16:43:08 Failed to Read Sector 385 - Reason: Read of Scrambled Sector Without Authentication E 16:43:08 Sector 385 maps to File: \VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.VOB E 16:43:08 Failed to Verify Sectors! The discs are not protected by any kind of advanced protection, just CSS. Even with CSS, I thought Verify would still perform on these discs. I thought I'd done it before. What does work is to enable AnyDVD. I don't see why this should be the case though because I thought I'd used Verify before on discs even when they were CSS protected. I'm not trying to copy or Read them, as I said, just perform a Verify on them. Any ideas?