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Neil Wilkes

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  1. I just got off the 'phone to Verbatim & they tell me that it is a drive & firmware limitation, not media. The media is capable of PTP, as it (apparently) doesn't care either way. I have talked to Pioneer, who say they will get back to me tomorrow morning about any (if any) drives that are PTP capable.
  2. Fully understood. Can I please quote you on this one, as VSO just won't have it. I have pointed out to them what you say before, and I know who I believe here!! (Clue - not the french!) They are still saying they can pull it off.
  3. I know this has been discussed before, and I was told in no uncertain terms it is not possible. However, I have since been talking to VSO software in france, and they say this is not correct and that all is needed would be an instruction to the burner to move the heads back to the inner point before writing Layer 1. What is the truth here please? I desperately need DL PTP writing, and cannot accept there is no way to do this.
  4. ??? How would I know this? The way I have been working is like this: Create the Video_TS as usual, and compile this to a Video_TS folder. Import this into Sonic's DVD-Audio Creator. Author the rest of the Audio_TS Set the cutting point in the Command Editor to PTP, setting the cutting point to the first track in the Video_TS. Compile to Audio_TS, Video_TS & DDP files ready for imaging. To test the compilation, use the MakeIMG applet (otherwise the IMAGER in DAC will only write to DLT or a Pioneer S201 Authoring device) Open this IMG file using GEAR Pro Mastering Edition - this asks me to tell it what type of media the image is, and has options for Dual layer or single layer, with both OTP & PTP in the dialogue. Select PTP & import. Load up Verbatim DVD+R DL disc. Burn On playback, there seems to be a correct setting of the disc to PTP - there is no layer break glitch in any of the streams, and it would be immediately obvious if there was one. However, no pause, no glitch in audio, no nothing apart from perfect playback. I was sort of assuming that the PTP option is being honoured. If it were not - then why am I not getting any layer break glitch? Layer 1 is larger than Layer 0 here as authored. If the burn is going down as OTP - with Layer 0 larger than Layer 1 - why no glitch? There is always a momentary glitch in a DVD-Video disc, unless I set the break to be at a point between timelines (I test on a player that glitches at the break, not the ones that refocus instantly) So - if this is being written as OTP, why no glitch?
  5. Will PTP burning for DL discs ever be added? I need this for burning DVD-Audio/Video hybrid types, and right now cannot do so as OTP is the only option.
  6. When I look in the guides, I read that DVD-R DL is not recommended for DVD-V. Why? I have never had any trouble with them at all. Also, I see writeups of quality of burns to Verbatim DVD-%R DL 4x discs, with poor results. However further looking reveals they appear to have been burned at way faster than 4x. Again - Why?
  7. I author my DVD-A/V discs using Sonic's DVD-Audio Creator package. This has a "secret" applet that comes from Sonic called MakeIMG that turns the encoded Audio_TS and Video_TS from their own folders into an image with a .IMG extension. When I load this into IMGBurn, it tells me the disc is not correctly mastered for OTP burning - and indeed it is not! One of the options in DVD-Audio/Video "universals" is PTP mastering - especially if Layer 0 has less data than Layer 1 will have. This particular disc has the cutting point set to track 1 of the Video_TS, so that the Audio_TS is on Layer 0 and the Video_TS is on Layer 1. It matters not to the players: A DVD-A capable player will first look for the Audio_TS.IFO files in the Audio_TS folder, and if it cannot find anything it will then look for Video_TS.IFO in the Video_TS. Failing that it will look for a CD TOC. Anyway - is there any plan to update IMGBurn to burn a PTP mastered DVD-Audio Image? It would help me considerably. Burner = Pioneer DVR-109 so no way to reset the book type to DVD-ROM as I can with GEAR.
  8. Thank you. Appreciate the information.
  9. Yep - that is exactly it. For some odd reason he sent an .nrg CD-DA image instead of a CD-A disc! Are there any plans to include CD images in IMGBurn at all?
  10. Me too! It's a file that was sent by a potential client - CD image of an album he wants remixed into 5.1 I wish people would not use Nero images though - I loathe that piece of software myself. Appreciate the information - thank you.
  11. I have just tried to write an NRG image with IMGBurn, and failed - I got a message telling me the format is an unsupported one. Is this because the NRG image was a CD image as opposed to a DVD image?
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