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Are you sure you have the right application? I have ImgBurn installed, but I have no such context menu options. And I don't recall ever seeing them before in the almost 15 years I can remember using ImgBurn.

I do use PowerDVD. It's the one thing I keep installed from Cyberlink if it comes pre-installed. And if it's not, I will use one of my included bundled versions from the discs included wtth things like my LG BD burners. They're pretty old versions, though. Plus, the problem with them and the bundled versions is they're generally crippled and don't support playing back Blu-Ray discs... even though they come included bundled with BD drives! I used to use PowerDVD as my go to DVD player about a decade ago. I've since moved on to newer freeware with Media Player Classic Home Cinema. Although it doesn't play Blu-Ray, but I use Leawo's free Blu-Ray player for that. But, I rarely play Blu-Ray on my PC, just on my PS3.

Depends on the TV DVD player. It should be just as simple as inserting the disc you burned in a DVD player. It should auto play. But, some players can be configured to disable this, like I did with my PS3. As I said, it depends on the player and the disc you used to burn with. As long as it's a quality disc and the DVD player can play them properly, the player shouldn't have a problem playing it. The reason a disc generally doesn't play on a DVD player but plays on your PC is because of the disc you used to burn. The disc is not recognized by the DVD player as having been inserted/playable. Cheaper discs like CMC Magnetics media generally have playback compatibility issues. Which is why we don't recommend using cheap media and recommend high quality blanks like Verbatim (DataLife Series/AZO, NOT Verbatim's Life Series, which is CMC.).

Burning the image again, 99% most likely, will not change the outcome. It's probably not a disc issue but your PC configuration. What version of Windows are you using? On Windows 10, Windows Media Player no longer plays DVD Video discs. I forget if it did on Windows 8 or not. I know it did play on Windows Vista. I don't know if VLC will play DVD's if you double click a disc in Windows/File Explorer or not.

So, you're trying to get your DVD software to automatically start playing a DVD movie on your PC when you double click the disc in Windows/File Explorer, right? Sounds like what's happened is either your Windows setup has been configured to open Windows/File Explorer when you double click a DVD Video disc or you don't have any DVD player software installed. What DVD software did you expect to play when you double clicked on the disc? Was it working before or is this your first time trying to play a DVD Video disc in Windows? If it's the Windows configuration issue, I'm not exactly sure how to fix that. Maybe changing your autoplay settings in Windows might help, but I think that only applies when you insert a disc, not double click on it. I actually know how to do the OPPOSITE. Turn ON Windows/File Explorer opening when you double click on a DVD disc, not turn it off.

Yeah, I paid a fairly high price, too, for this PC. About $1,000. But, I've always believed if you're going to go for it, go for the best you can afford. Future proof it as much as possible. I almost paid the extra price for the Professional version of Windows 10 because I wanted to try out Bitlocker partition encryption protection. I decided in the end not to, though. I've been a fan of Dell PC's since my first one in 2011; have used nothing but them since. They're a bit of a beast to work around inside of, though. For instance, I had to remove the graphics card in one just to access the SATA ports on the mobo to add a 2nd optical drive. And you have to remove the bezel to swap out optical drives. Which was why for the last 2 Dell's I had where I cracked open the case, I simply left off the bezel afterwards. I believe ConvertXToDVD, on its own, can process 8 different input files at one time. Meaning, if you have 9 or more input files, the first 8 all get converted at the same time. As old files finish, new ones in the queue get added one at a time. And I believe there's a software setting where you can change how many files get processed simultaneously. Though I'd think if you increased it beyond the default value, processing speed would be affected as a result. I've heard of Power2Go as having come pre-installed on Dell's and with some of the Cyberlink software CD's I got with various BD burner drives. I never installed it or always uninstalled Power2Go if it came pre-installed because I didn't know what it did and didn't see my ever using it.

Specs of my Dell XPS 8930 PC: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/servicetag/cqfvqp2/configuration I opted for the SSD and Blu-Ray burner upgrades. So, I've got an SSD and mechanical HDD as well. I could probably get faster DVD creation if I created the output to the SSD instead of the spinning HDD, but I don't want to use up finite writes on "temporary" files. In fact, the mechanical HDD is entirely for temporary files like DVD and ImgBurn file creation.

For time comparisons, I converted the BD to DVD with ConvertXToDVD. It was 62 minutes long of Blu-Ray quality video and took about 20 minutes to convert to DVD.

Just tried importing a Blu-Ray into ConvertXToDVD. I had a homemade Blu-Ray movie so I didn't have to worry about ripping anything. And ConvertXToDVD DID import it! I did not expect that would work, given the software's age. That it would not be a viable feature to get you to buy ConvertXToVideo instead.

Good to know ConvertXToDVD will accept BD Video folder for input. I never tried it before but I intended to give it a test sometime. Now that I know it works, I'm more inclined to try testing it on my end to make sure. Not that I doubt you, but I like to verify things on my own. If so, then no need to convert Blu-Ray to MKV first and then to DVD. Because I mostly only needed to do that with European BD's that weren't released in the US. It's entirely possible to get a 90 minute movie to a DVD in 30 minutes. I do it all the time. Maybe it's my hardware acceleration. Maybe you're using 2 pass encoding, which I find too buggy now. Plus, I'm not encoding high definition video to DVD. What I've got are containers made from DVD's of home movies I converted from VHS to DVD. So, needless to say, they aren't high definition. And if I used DVD Video for input from a commercial DVD, who knows how long that would take? I never created high video quality, e.g. 1080p, containers from the Blu-Ray I converted. I purposefully left the conversion at 740x480, knowing they'd go to DVD. If I used the Blu-Ray Video folder as an input source and used high quality container creation, the files may have been much larger. My 740x480 DVD quality files were about 750 MB to 900 MB.

We aim to please! Now, it's always possible your BD could play fine. I'm not entirely sure what the nature of a Miscompare means. I guess it means that the sector contained in the image file when being compared against the sector being checked on the disc do not match. Which, I would guess, is not a good thing. However, the Miscompare could be the result of a bad read from the source file, meaning the source drive with the image might not be being read correctly. It's generally more likely, though, when an optical disc error occurs, it's the result of the disc and not the source drive. Either it didn't burn correctly by the drive or the disc was cheap or the drive has some kind of incompatibility with the media. Another reason I suspect it's the drive is it may be its age. I'm guessing that BD drive is an older generation model. Its firmware may not have up to date write strategies for the newer media. You could try checking for a firmware update to your drive. In Write mode, right click on the drive in the drop down dialog of target writers and choose Check for firmware update near the bottom of the context menu that appears.

I don't know about ConvertXToVideo using Blu-Ray Video folders as a source as I've never tried importing one into ConvertXToDVD before. My guess is given ToDVD's age, it doesn't support BD as a source option. That's what ToVideo is for. It's something worth trying, anyway. Anyway, my point to say that was when I convert BD Video to MKV and MP4 in the past when allowed, the subtitles were always imported automatically. But, that's importing from a container file, as you say, and not a BD Video source. I don't really pay attention to things like FPS for conversion. I just know your standard half hour will be done converting in ConvertXToDVD in about 10 to 15 minutes, depending on various factors. And 90 minute movies in about 30, again given various factors. Of course, there are always the weird standout candidates that do dumb things. Like I've encountered some 45 minute containers that made greater than DVD-5 VIDEO_TS folders when converted.

My first BD burner was a LiteOn. Complete junk. Stopped writing to BD-RE after less than a month. Completely turned me off to LiteOn. I used to use LiteOn DVD burners all the time, but, after that experience, I was tired of the other problem with LiteOn drives. Randomly, when they burn DVD+R DL DVD Video discs, they will add pauses to the video playback that are not layer breaks! The BD burner was even worse at it, doing it 2 out of 3 times I burned DVD+R DL to them. It's the drive doing it because you can take the same image, burn it again in the same LiteOn, and it won't have the pause in the same place... but a DIFFERENT one! ConvertXToDVD handles subtitles in container files and from VIDEO_TS as input.

Most likely not a setting problem. First, check to make sure your hi-fi system still plays CD-RW correctly. If you've got an existing CD-RW you know your hi-fi has played in the past, make sure the system does still play them. I'd most likely think your hi-fi system might have stopped playing them correctly for whatever reason. It's most likely not a setting issue because audio CD's are very finicky. If they can play on your PC, they are compliant audio CD's. Also, to make sure, these are audio CD's you're trying to make, right? Not CD-RW that have audio container files like MP3 on them? If you can, try playing one of these CD-RW that aren't playing on your hi-fi in another player besides your PC. Like someone else's players. Or a Playstation 3/4. If it does play on another player, you can isolate your hi-fi system as being the problem. Also, are you using the same CD-RW you've always used? If these are different CD-RW, like say a different manufacturer or Disc ID type, your hi-fi might not recognize them as having been inserted, especially if they're junk media like CMC Magnetics discs. Do you have a log from one of these CD-RW's that you burned that your hi-fi is not playing? If so, please post that log. It can tell us the Disc ID you're using.

Yeah, I get the impression the original poster is thinking this software converts container files to DVD. Or is trying to burn something like an MP4 to DVD without using Build mode, loading the MP4 as an image file to burn.

You shouldn't be getting that many Miscompares and I'd be reluctant to believe that disc would play properly in a player. If I had to hazard a guess, it may be the drive you're using. I looked up the BDR-UD03 and noticed it's a slim model. Your log said your drive is connected by USB, so I'm guessing you put this BDR-UD03 in an external enclosure? Or it's a BDR-UD03 already contained in its own enclosure. Anyway, it's not the USB part I'm worried about it's the fact that you're using a slim model drive. Slim model drives are notorious for being junk. Returning bad burns and verify failures an awful lot. My first experience with a slim drive was the middle of last year and it only backed up what I've seen on this forum. It won't write CD sized image files to 8x Ritek DVD+RW without failing the Verify stage. And while you won't like this, my next step would be to drop the BDR-UD03 drive all together. Get another Pioneer but try the 209 series half height BD drive. Particularly the 2209 if you can find it because it supports XL and TL BD media. They make an UltraHD BD 4k version but if you don't play on using that type of media/movie, there's no need to get it if you can't find the 2209, although those have been discontinued to force you into the more expensive model. And then get an external enclosure for half height drives. Something like Other World Computing's enclosure or the VanTech. You already appear to be using USB anyway, so it won't be too difficult to do. It just will mean investing more money into hardware and taking a bath on the cost of the BDR-UD03.

I can't think of a case where the container file is the same size as the source video. I don't think there's a container format where it creates 1:1 video size. A BD-25 doesn't necessarily have to be 25 GB. My Alpocalypse HD Blu-Ray is like only half that size on its disc.

You may need to install madFLAC to get FLAC supported. I had to to get FLAC's to work with ImgBurn. Others report they didn't need to install madFLAC, but it's something you can look into. Check this guide: In the second post, there's a link to the madFLAC package. Just run the .BAT file to get it configured.

You could also try converting the MP3's to FLAC's and see if you can import the FLAC's properly.

I generally never have to worry about different resolutions because I don't download movie files. Mine are generally rips from DVD's I own. Generally, it's a case where a DVD is only available in PAL and needs to be converted to NTSC for me. So, ConvertXToDVD can make these PAL discs playable for my NTSC TV. And then there are things like some of my Blu-Rays where I make DVD versions because I find navigating them is easier than using Blu-Ray navigation on the PS3. So, Handbrake will make the MP4's/MKV's necessary for me to put into ConvertXToDVD. And since the 1080 doesn't matter as DVD is only 740, I always choose 740x480 for the output. Now, when converting audio CD's to DVD's, I will always use 740x480 DVD resolution. A standard 80 minute CD is generally about 200 to 400 MB when converted and can be converted smaller when using AVIDeMux to recompress to a different codec than Filmora uses. However, using 1080/widescreen says the resulting MP4 is like 10 GB! I never actually tested this, though, because I know Filmora is incorrectly guessing the output sizes. It defaults to Best quality and on 740 it says the output is about 1 GB. However, if I choose Better Quality and then back to Best quality, the file size becomes the more manageable 200 to 400 MB range. So, I do choose 740 for audio CD's converted to DVD. I don't care if the video is in widescreen or not or if the video is in higher quality because the video is just a still image. I only care about the audio, since I'm converting audio CD's to DVD's.

What I meant by commenting on Blu-Ray players is Sony dictated in their operational behavior that they check the media type that is inserted to determine how they should be played. For instance, if a CD-R is inserted, the player checks that a CD-R is inserted and automatically tries to play it as an audio CD. So, the biggest drawback is you can't write a VIDEO_TS to a BD-R and expect a Blu-Ray player to play it as a DVD even though it has a VIDEO_TS on it. Because the players don't look for content type but media type. EXCEPT in the most absolutely useless way possible: you CAN write a BD Video folder to a DVD and it WILL play! However, very few BD Video will actually fit on a DVD disc. So, what's the point? Utterly useless! More often than not, most of my ConvertXToDVD VIDEO_TS folders will fit on a DVD-5 but NOT with its source container included, necessitating a DVD+R DL. However, it does, on occasion, fit to a DVD-5 with both the VIDEO_TS and source file. Depends on the length of the source files and how compressed or not they already were. Actually, when you make DVD's, I think the entire resolution is 740x480. So, 720 versus 1080 only matters when you're making BD video, where different resolutions can apply. I believe on DVD, there is only the one resolution. I don't know that for sure, but I think it does. I got my ConvertXToDVD license back before there was such a thing as ConvertXToVideo. Otherwise, I'd probably go for that program instead since it can apparently make DVD Video VIDEO_TS from containers. I believe it's output menu generation is the same functionally as ConvertXToDVD, just making things for Blu-Ray.

I doubt HD DVD is supported by ImgBurn. I think, as a format, HD DVD had died by the time Blu-Ray support was added to ImgBurn. Plus, did HD DVD even get writable disc support before it died as a format? Even if it did, you probably couldn't find any media to write to anymore, anyway. Or writers to write with.

I ran it through Google translate, but I couldn't tell if there was a problem or exactly what it was.

I'm not aware of any other software that Wondershare makes, actually. I mean, I know that they do make other software packages. I just haven't looked into anything else they do. If it's free, why not at least try it, after all, right? Although I don't know if they will save subtitles in their output. I've never tried editing a container with subtitles in Filmora to see if it saves them. I know AVIDeMux doesn't. However, "free" often times means that: it's not free. It's either time or function limited or the video output has a watermark added to it to get you to buy it. For instance, VSO claims their video downloader software is free. But, after 5 days, it claims its "trial" is over. So, in other words, it ain't free! As far as Blu-Ray burners go, there are really only 2 options: an LG or a Pioneer. Each have their own problems, though. And they make 2 different kinds: old BD burners that don't support 4K and 4K drives. If you don't plan on playing 4K, there's no need to pay extra for one, unless you're going with the LG model. Then, I do recommend the 4K model over the cheaper non 4K model because the previous non 4K model had a LOT of write issues with BD DL media. Pioneer are generally okay, except it seems with every other firmware revision, they bork writing to Ritek Ricoh 8x DVD+RW

Oh, yeah, that. I just leave it as Undefined or whatever it defaults to because I know what language it's in. Most of my conversions only have 1 audio track to begin with and they're usually always English. And for those that aren't English, I generally don't know what language they're in to begin with unless the source is DVD. So, I just generally leave it as Undefined because I won't be changing the audio track to begin with when there's only one track. As I said, I rarely, if I've ever, worked with SRT files or adding subtitles to a video stream from an external source file. If I have more than 1 subtitle track, it's from a DVD I'm importing, like when I'm converting PAL DVD's to NTSC. Doctor Who PAL DVD's generally have 2 subtitles tracks: the English main feature audio and a production notes informative subtitle track. As for what converters I use, I don't employ too many. Generally, Handbrake for converting DVD and Blu-Ray Video to container files. AVIDeMux for converting from one format to another, but it doesn't support a wide range of types. Plus, if you use its edit function, which I primarily employ AVIDeMux for, and the container has subtitles, you'll lose the subtitles as it doesn't edit or save those. For a wide range of conversions, I use Wondershare Filmora, but generally just to MP4 format. I got the program primarily for its ability to convert audio containers to video containers, which, as I said before, I do to convert CD's to DVD's. I got the added benefit of file format conversion as well as being able to edit video, but AVIDeMux is easier to use. Well, to be honest, I never actually explored Filmora's editing tools to see how they work, so they may actually work better than AVIDeMux. But, the way I see it, if you've found something that works, why bother with trying to learn something new on the off chance it may be easier or better to work with?