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Yeah, I've never heard of just plain DataLife before. DataLife Plus and Life Series are all I've ever encountered before. My guess is because you bought them in a brick and mortar store, you got the CMC junk. Try looking online like on Amazon.co.uk and see if you can find any other Verbatim kind besides DataLife/the ones you found. The brick and mortar store Life Series here in the States is the junk; the stuff found on Amazon.com is the quality media. However, given you live in a different country where I know they do different production runs of media, I couldn't say. Sorry.
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Well, I'm not really sure what to recommend. In the US, Verbatim doesn't make CMC BD-R as far as I am aware. All the Verbatim BD-R I use are VERBAT-IM media, which is quality stuff, and they only make the one kind. With you being in the UK, I don't know what Verbatim releases BD-R wise, but apparently they do package CMC BD-R . Do you have a picture of the packaging I can see? Does it say Life Series anywhere on it? I looked it up and it slipped past me but Verbatim does release a Life Series BD-R. Anyway, avoid anything from Verbatim that says Life Series. Life Series is the media they sell in stores and is CMC junk. What you want says DataLife Plus or AZO on it (Although the quality Verbatim BD-R don't say that anywhere.) and can only be found online. Here's what I always get and it's quality stuff: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GSQ4DBM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 So, you'll want to find similar branding and/or labels on your discs. Here's the Life Series I found: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAE8P62U1938&ignorebbr=1&source=region&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-E-boxes-_-Blu-Ray+Media-_-9SIAE8P62U1938&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkoDmBRCcARIsAG3xzl-PkSNMK3jJAEczEVIPU4HoF_9V8IrAUT3AiYH-oGNqaM9ihjRH_sAaAmpOEALw_wcB Does the packaging from the Life Series link above resemble the ones you have? Do they say Life Series on the packaging? Did you buy them in a brick and mortar store? Hope this helps!
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M-Disc for data backup, proper "Image Options"
dbminter replied to getgray's topic in ImgBurn Support
Then simply dragging and dropping files/folders should be good enough for what you need. With something like Reflect, you can just simply restore a file and folder backup and it will restore the nested folder structure, too. -
M-Disc for data backup, proper "Image Options"
dbminter replied to getgray's topic in ImgBurn Support
I'm not sure if you need an M-Disc drive to read a written M-Disc BD-R. I know with M-Disc DVD, as long as you have a drive that reads DVD+R, it will read M-Disc DVD's. I believe even standalone DVD movie players will play DVD Video discs burned to M-Disc DVD's if that player supports playing DVD+R. I believe M-Disc was specifically made for this kind of compatibility. So, I'd guess an M-Disc BD-R burned in an M-Disc capable drive would read on a standard BD drive. Be aware, of course, since you used a TL disc, you'd need a BD drive that supports reading TL media, and not all BD drives do. Of course, if you always buy an M-Disc capable drive, you won't have to worry about it not being able to be read back in. As for restoring, it depends on what you backed up and how you backed it up. If you used ImgBurn to just add files and folders to an image file job, then all you can do is use File Explorer to drag and drop the files/folders in Windows/File Explorer and replace the files in the destination if they already exist. If you're more concerned about restoring an entire drive from disaster, you'd be better off investing in a drive imaging application like Macrium Reflect (Which is what I use and also offers file and folder backups.) or True Image (Which I've used in the past but don't recommend any longer and it used to support file and folder backups 10 years ago when I last used it.). So, if you're looking to restore something like Windows, then Windows/File Explorer isn't the way to go as you can't just replace files in Windows/installed applications and expect it to work. You'd be better off served by an imaging application. And what you can do is create images to a local HDD and then use ImgBurn to copy these images to an M-Disc for archival purposes. -
Yeah, game CD's sometimes won't read in with certain combinations of discs and drives with ImgBurn. It appears when there are multiple tracks, it can be problematic. When you're mixing one track of data and tracks of audio. That's why I keep Alcohol 120% Free lying around. On the rare occasions when I come across this.
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M-Disc for data backup, proper "Image Options"
dbminter replied to getgray's topic in ImgBurn Support
Yeah, I've been using UDF (only) 2.60 for years now on Windows 10 for all my data file backups and they read fine. I only ever change the settings from my defaults when creating DVD Video or BD Video discs, and I let ImgBurn make the necessary changes for me when it prompts me for those media. In fact, BD Video may not even need changes, just DVD Video to UDF+ISO9660 1.02 -
BTW, there's no need to screen capture log window entries. What you can do is highlight the log entry text you want to post using the mouse or SHIFT and arrow keys, then right click on what you highlighted and select Copy then Paste it into a post entry on the forum.
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You're using the bad Verbatim. CMC MAG is the kind used in Verbatim Life series discs. CMC is the worst junk out there. Granted, I've never heard of Life Series making BD-R. Or are you using BD-RE? I noticed the write speed was 2x, which means you could be using BD-RE which makes sense with the BD-RE since Verbatim BD-RE are CMC junk. If you're using BD-RE, try Panasonic's discs.
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M-Disc for data backup, proper "Image Options"
dbminter replied to getgray's topic in ImgBurn Support
UFD 2.60 is "read only" in Windows 7/Vista/8/10, whatever that means. So, as long as you don't format the M-Disc as a giant floppy for future additions of files, which ImgBurn doesn't do, I don't see you'd have a problem reading it in Windows 7. But, to be safe, you could probably enable UDF 2.50, just to be sure, since that is both read and write enabled in Windows 7. You'd probably only encounter problems with older UDF and ISO9660 with filenames that contained odd characters, like Japanese. -
Yes, I'd blame the UME discs, too. The only really good options for DL discs are Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO discs or TDK DL discs. Don't get the Verbatim Life series you find in stores. They'll be cheap CMC junk. You can only find the good stuff online.
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M-Disc for data backup, proper "Image Options"
dbminter replied to getgray's topic in ImgBurn Support
Really, you won't have to worry about any setting for data backups to M-Disc. There's nothing special about M-Discs that requires any special changes to image file settings. It depends on what you're backing up. Depending on the file names and characters used in them, you may get by using ISO9660, but I'd recommend staying with UDF purely. Whenever I do data backups, I always use UDF 2.60. The discs read fine in Windows 10. You may not want to use UDF or such a newer revision if you want the discs to be readable on older versions of Windows that don't support UDF or the latest revision of UDF. -
What is the maximum number of files allowed in a folder in an image Build job? Is it dependent on the file system chosen? Is it 9,999? Is it that Windows 10/NTFS has a maximum number of files allowed in a folder limit of 9,999? I thought there was some kind of file number limit to 9,999 at some point in history. Did a little digging. The maximum for NTFS is 4,294,967,295. But, what about ISO9660 or UDF on an optical disc? Thanks!
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TSSTcorp CDDVD SH-S202J SB03 won't read disc
dbminter replied to dr_ml422's topic in ImgBurn Support
About my buying from NewEgg. I usually buy from Amazon.com, but sometimes there's no choice. For instance, Amazon.com rarely has the LG WH16NS60 available, but NewEgg does. Or it will be a case where the same reseller offers the same drive on Amazon.com and NewEgg, but sells it cheaper on NewEgg. It's not that NewEgg sells junk. The drive will be whatever it is when it arrives from the manufacturer. For instance, I want to get a WD 512 GB SDD HDD from Amazon.com, but they currently don't have it. Only resellers on Amazon.com do. So, I'll probably have to get it from NewEgg. NewEgg was the only seller who had the WD My Passport 4 TB portable mechanical USB HDD. Amazon.com didn't have it. And, of course, after I got mine from NewEgg, my local Target store had them on sale! But, the price was on par with what I paid for it on sale from NewEgg. I could have saved on the shipping, though. -
I think you're barking up the wrong tree here. ImgBurn will only burn DVD's with VIDEO_TS folders you give it. So, Premiere Pro CC 2019 created a file for you, but you'll need to convert that file to some kind of VIDEO_TS DVD folder. You'll need something like ConvertXToDVD or similar conversion/encoding software to create a VIDEO_TS for ImgBurn to burn. Unless you just plan on putting this Premiere Pro file on a disc and you have a DVD/Blu-Ray player that will play container files. Then, it depends on what file formats your player supports. If that's the case, ImgBurn won't care what file format it is. What will matter is what kind of file systems your player supports from disc.
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Never succeeded in making an autorun disc for Visual Studio 2017
dbminter replied to Dioxazine's topic in ImgBurn Support
Especially if it's a modern application, which something from 2017 is, and it's installed with some kind of installation program, you can't just run the installer, copy over the installed files to a disc, and expect it to run. There's all kinds of Registry entries for various hooks and files that make it much more complicated to run software today versus 25 years ago. -
Never succeeded in making an autorun disc for Visual Studio 2017
dbminter replied to Dioxazine's topic in ImgBurn Support
It can't make 2 ISO's of the same file name unless you have a really big problem with your HDD file system. So, there must be 2 different file names with the .ISO extension. So, what would have happened is either one ISO is from a Read job or they're 2 different ISO build jobs where you or ImgBurn changed the output name. You say you put the EXE containing the icon and the AUTORUN in the root directory, but what exactly are the contents of your AUTORUN.INI? Is VS_PROFESSIONAL.EXE the main executable or just the icon file? Plus, can Visual Studio 2017, being a new application, actually be run from a disc or is it just the installer that would run from the disc? If you have them, use DVD+-RW discs to avoid going through discs when you're testing something like this. That way, you can reuse the same disc over and over. Plus, are you using Windows 10? I never nailed it down before but I don't think any discs ever automatically executed programs when I inserted them in a drive in Windows 10. -
TSSTcorp CDDVD SH-S202J SB03 won't read disc
dbminter replied to dr_ml422's topic in ImgBurn Support
Most of my drives have been internals. Even my external ones now are internal ones put into enclosures. My experience with external drives is they last about as long as the internal drives. The half height drives are the only ones you can really trust. Slim models are typically junk. So, because my Dell doesn't have half height bays anymore, I've had to get enclosures for half height drives. I wouldn't be too worried about your experience. Life hates me and has proven it. So, I'm probably just targeted. But, I also do put my drives through a lot of use. I usually burn something of some kind about once a day. I pretty much now have to take out the warranties or suffer for it. If I don't, I'll pay for it. If I do, I'll have no need for the warranty. So, best to just chip in the cash and go with the flow. On a related note, I've burned my first of the 16x BD-R. They have the same DID as the 6x Verbatim BD-R so they probably would be more compatible with older drives, which are overclocking the maximum rated burn speed. Got near 16x speed, too, on a nearly full image. Burned and Verified without error. Now to perform a manual verification of the contents on the disc against their sources to make sure. -
TSSTcorp CDDVD SH-S202J SB03 won't read disc
dbminter replied to dr_ml422's topic in ImgBurn Support
Built to last? Ha! I've been in the optical burner gig for 17 years and the best result I ever got out of an optical drive was a Pioneer BDR-2209 that lasted 2 years before dying. That is definitely beyond the norm. The average is about 7 to 9 months. -
TSSTcorp CDDVD SH-S202J SB03 won't read disc
dbminter replied to dr_ml422's topic in ImgBurn Support
You shouldn't have to manually check Preserve Full Pathname each time. I would think it should be checked once you check it once and remain checked until you uncheck it. And according to ianmaty, using the OK button automatically enables that option for you. And it must because I always clicked OK and never used Quick OK and I never had to put my CUE files in the same folder as my input files. As you make changes to metadata, it's "saved" when you make the changes. There was a CUE file editing software someone once mentioned, but my tests with it utterly failed to load in the CUE file I created with ImgBurn. On an unrelated note, but related to past discussions in this thread on maximum media write speeds, had to order some more Verbatim BD-R. Verbatim has apparently stopped production of the 6x rated speed BD-R and has replaced it with 16x BD-R. I was always using 6x but getting like 12x speeds max on that media because most drives overclock the max rated speed for 6x BD-R. I'm just hoping these 16x BD-R write okay. Had to fall back to a few years old Pioneer BDR-2209 because the replacement LG WH16NS60 I got February 23rd died already. I didn't get the extended warranty so once the 30 days return window passed, I'm out of luck. First time in years I never needed the extended warranty and, from now on, will always get it. So, now, of course, it will be wasted money, but better to appease the universe than be out $115 for a drive that can't write BD-R anymore. The LG WH16NS60 has a peculiarity. When its BD laser dies (BD drives have 2 different lasers. One for CD/DVD and one for BD.) it scratches the recording surface of BD-R, rendering them unwritable. My first LG WH16NS60 did the same thing after 9 months and this latest one after less than 2. -
TSSTcorp CDDVD SH-S202J SB03 won't read disc
dbminter replied to dr_ml422's topic in ImgBurn Support
I always wondered what the Quick OK button did in that context. I never used it, always using OK. -
TSSTcorp CDDVD SH-S202J SB03 won't read disc
dbminter replied to dr_ml422's topic in ImgBurn Support
The CUE files do not have to be in the same folder as the source files to burn an Audio CD with; I always save my CUE files to the Desktop for sake of easy finding and my source files are always all over the place, usually. The only thing I can think of that may be doing that for you is if you have Preserve Full Pathnames checked. Go into Create CUE File and see if that box is checked. If it is, try unchecking it and see if that helps. -
There are some weird compression cases where even less than 120 minutes of input will generate DVD-9 sized VIDEO_TS outputs. It's rare, but I use ConvertXToDVD to convert some containers in the past that were under 2 hours, but generated DVD-9 sized VIDEO_TS output. My only explanation was how the source file was authored. Some kind of compression that maybe didn't really compress very well. Or could be, as you say, the audio format of the sound track in the container might not have been a compressed one. I still don't understand what the OP is saying when you says he had 1 video title set (VTS) regardless of how he authored the input. Adding each "scene" as its own "chapter" would create a single VTS. Adding each scene on its own should create a VTS for each scene. Then again, I'm not familiar with the conversion software he's using, so it may behave oddly.
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Odd. It is interesting the pauses only occur when you play a physical disc and don't occur when you mount the image and play that via VLC. If the problem was in the VIDEO_TS output or the image, it would show up in VLC when you played the VIDEO_TS/mounted image file.
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I think you're confusing the definition of Title Set. You've most likely either got one Title Set with 14 scenes or you've got 14 Title Sets, one for each scene. If you've got 14 Title Sets, the pauses may simply be when the DVD player is accessing the next Title Set on the disc. However, I think, didn't you say you were seeing these pauses in VLC when playing the VIDEO_TS from your hard drive? If so, you shouldn't see a noticeable pause in the video unless the software that made the VIDEO_TS added something it shouldn't have.
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I don't understand the difference. It sounds like both ways you're putting all 14 scenes in one title set. Well, it's always possible the software is adding 14 non-seamless layer breaks, one after each scene. Since you say DVDShrink removes these pauses, it could be the case. You could try using DVDShrink without compression. That may give you uncompressed video but remove all the layer breaks. There is more than 1 pause, correct? If there's just the one pause, that's the single DVD-9 layer break. But, DVDShrink CAN (Doesn't always work.) remove the layer break if you have that option set in the software. Plus, some idiots author DVD's with more than 1 layer break and some are non-seamless. And the really annoying ones require IFOEdit to fix! Hell, I even found a layer break once on a DVD-5! And it COULDN'T be removed! Any attempt failed and produced a non-playable DVD.