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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?

There's no such thing as inkjet silver printable. Inkjet and silver shiny are two different kinds of surfaces. Since that's not a link, I can't see what you're referring to just by the name.

Depends on the burner. A CD/DVD one is less expensive than the enclosure. A BD one is more expensive.

I'm not familiar with ACM so it may not be supported. Are they MP3? If no one else can help, you could try and see if you can convert these audio files to FLAC with an audio converter software. You may need to install madFLAC to get FLAC supported for CUE creation in ImgBurn.

SATA is faster than USB 3.0. USB 4 should close that gap. There are USB ports on the front of this Dell. However, the time I'd take swapping enclosures in and out, I'd probably not save any time I'd gain from a faster write. Are you sure those are shiny surface and not silver lacquer or thermal printable ones? I've used several shiny surface ones before but have never had a case of the surface peeling away or a fluid being underneath the surface. I've never used silver lacquer or thermal printable ones so I wonder if those are maybe the ones you had in this case?

Be aware that the current Taiyo Yuden is not the same company of old. The old company used to make some of the best quality media out there, and then they decided to get out of the market. Their brand name was bought by CMC Magnetics, which makes the worst media on the market. So, it goes to reason that CMC probably just slapped a well known name on their junk media to mislead people.

USB enclosures have their own power supplies. Internally, there's a power cable to connect to the drive. Why crack open the case to add a card when connecting by USB is so much easier? And with USB 3.0, you've got enough speed to communicate with a BD drive's need for data.

What I do since it's hard to find actual prefabricated USB BD burners anymore that are of quality that aren't slim line models is I buy an internal BD drive and put it in an enclosure. You can't always go by what it says on the box as for the maximum write rate. Pioneer and LG drives say BD-R is rated at 6x max but you put in a Verbatim BD-R and you will generally get 12x in the Pioneer BDR-2209 and LG's WH1xNSx0 models. DVD Video discs are just data discs. In fact, everything but an Audio CD and some Playstation 1/2 game CD's (PS2 DVD games are data discs.) are data discs. DVD Video has just had some file system specifications particularly set for the DVD standard. So, there's really no way to burn a DVD Video disc as anything other than a DVD Video disc and expect it to play in a standalone DVD player. It's already a data disc.

Yeah, the dual lasers being a reason why my BD writers never got to 24x even though they're LG's was my possible explanation. I don't know that, of course. Just a shot in the dark. All my drives are external so I can't really "stack" them inside a case like I used to since Dell removed half height bays from their cases. And I just barely have room on my desktop for the external BD I've set up. Even then, that writer has to sit on its side. So, I've pretty much limited to just one and I don't want to have to swap in and out a drive just to get some possible faster writes. I've used both the inkjet printable and branded DVD+R DL just fine. I always use the inkjet just in case some day I get a label capable printer someday and can print labels to them. And, if I don't, I can write to the surface with a CD marker. If you never plan on using a CD label printer, you can save a good amount of money going for the branded surface. Or, if they make them, I don't know, you can get the silver shiny surface kind to use a CD marker on. You'll have the entire surface area to write a note on instead of the relatively useless little amount of space on the branded surface ones.

I use the 8x Verbatim DVD+R DL myself. But, I don't do things like disc scans to see how they turn out. As long as they burn and play all the way through, it doesn't really matter to me. Of course, if you get the slower media, it should burn "better" but you had been getting miscompares on slower burns with other types of media. So, it's sort of a toss up.

Yes, I should have been clearer before about the Create CUE File function. That won't create BIN/CUE files, just CUE files that write the converted audio files directly to a CD-R as an Audio CD.

Depends on what you're intending to do. Are you trying to create BIN/CUE from discs with WAV files on them or are you trying to create audio CD's from the WAV files on these discs? If you're trying to create BIN/CUE from discs, use the Read mode in ImgBurn. (If you select in the settings to create .CCD files for Virtual CloneDrive/CloneCD, then you won't get BIN/CUE but IMG files.) If you're in the EZ Mode Picker, you'll want the Create image file from disc option. If you're trying to create audio CD's from the WAV files, you'll want the Create CUE File option under Tools.

I really couldn't say. Here in the US, we only have the one kind of Verbatim BD-R, which doesn't say anything about being AZO like some of their higher quality CD-R and DVD-/+R/R DL. However, they seem to be of high quality because I rarely have write errors that aren't the result of bad/dying hardware. At Office Depot here, they sell 10 packs of Verbatim BD-R for about $17. At the current exchange rate, that's about 13 Pounds. So, you're getting better deals. But, I get a better deal from Amazon.com ordering 25 of the same thing for $20. I only get the Office Depot ones when I need some right away.

LG made the slim model BD in the Dell XPS 8930 I got last year. But, it's a real stinker. Only writes at about half the speed of my half height LG WH16NS60. If it's just a DVD writer, then I wouldn't be interested in it, probably. I need BD writing now, too, as a lot of my backups go to BD-R. BD writers may be capped at 16x because they use 2 lasers, one for CD and DVD and one for the wavelength of BD. Maybe having 2 lasers would cap the ultimate write speed of the DVD laser? Don't know.

To be honest, I wasn't sold on the firmware being the problem. BD media has never been problematic over the firmware releases over the years. It was DVD-/+RW. So, don't worry about regressing the firmware as that won't help. As I said, I'm more betting on the Verbatim BD-R media fixing the issue.