[How can I confirm that a burned BD-R of HD home videos will play in regular Blu-ray player?]

I used multiAVCHD and ImgBurn to burn HD home videos on 25GB BD-Rs.   The burned BD-Rs play perfectly on both of my PCs, as well as the Playstation3.   I dont' have an actual regular standalone Blu-ray player, so I can I confirm that these BD-Rs will play on them?(before I mail them out to relatives)    I really don't want to go buy a $89 Samsung or Sony Blu-ray player at Costco or Walmart just so I can check this....  

[what's the proper way of burning 11,000+ photos on a BD-R?]

This is how I always backed up my digital photos:  burn them on one brand of DVD-R(Verbatim, for example), then burn again on a different brand of DVD-R(Sony or TDK), then copy all of them to a WD external hard drive.   I keep them in separate places.  On top of that, I also back them up on a cloud server.   Yes, I know that sounds very paranoid, but as the "official" keeper of family photos, I have photos dating all the way back to 1940. It took me two and half years to scan carefully, one at a time. I could have sent them out and had them done commercially, but I seriously had doubt that they would look at EACH photo carefully before scanning them.   At last count, there are almost 50,000 photos.

 

Now that I have a new BD-R burner, I figured I might as well make another copy on BD-R.   My first batch consists of 11,000 digital photos.   It sure took a long time to burn them, as there are 11,000 files.   I'm wondering if I should place them in a zipped or RAR file so they burn as one single file?   Which is better for data integrity in the long run?

 

Thanks!

[Why does ImgBurn say my Verbatim 6X BD-R can support 12X?]

The speeds are down to the drive, firmware and media combo. ImgBurn has no say in the matter.

 

Decent discs are often supported at speeds beyond what's specified on the packaging, but that varies from drive to drive.

 

 

Thanks! That makes sense... but why does ImgBurn sets it to 6X burning speed by default

if it also report 12X as one of the available burning speeds of this Verbatim 6X BD-R?

 

Should I burn at 6X or MAX(12X)?

[Are there any BD-R that can be burned at 16X using ImgBurn?]

I have a LG WH16NS40 Blu-ray burner.  I bought it for $59 from Newegg when it was on sale.  On the same day, Amazon.com(sold and ships directly from Amazon) had the 14x model, WH14NS40, for only $53.   I decided to pay the extra $6 and get the 16X model.   

 

However, I just realized that there are no blank BD-R that can be burned at 16X using ImgBurn.   At least I have not been able to find anything that's been reported as capable of 16x burn speed.

 

Any info appreciated!

[Why does ImgBurn say my Verbatim 6X BD-R can support 12X?]

Why does ImgBurn say my Verbatim 6X BD-R can support 12X?

 

It does burn fine when I set it to "MAX"(burning at 12X and takes about 9 and half minutes for a full 25GB BD-R)

 

If it's capable of 12X, why doesn't Verbatim put that on the package?

 

Thanks!

[am I supposed to leave UDF at 1.02 for burning BD-R with data?]

You can use what you like. 1.02 is the most compatible but 2.50+ provide extra protection against file system corruption (and therefore data loss) as a result of scratches etc.

 

ImgBurn's default UDF setting is 1.02.  I'm guessing this is for compatibility?  

 

I will only use the burned data-only(non-video) BD-R for my own archive on the PCs in my home.(two WinXP, one Win7, one Win8)   For maximum file protection, I should burn the BD-Rs at the highest UDF setting, is this correct?  (2.50, 2.60....)

 

Thanks!

[Burning BD-R - shouldn't burning at 12x be twice as fast as 6x?]

No, the speed ramps up over the entire disc. It'll only reach max speed right at the end.

 

Thanks!

 

When I use Verbatim 6X BD-R, ImgBurn shows it capable of 12X max burning speed.

 

Which burning speed is better? 6X or 12X?   I don't really care about saving time...   

[am I supposed to leave UDF at 1.02 for burning BD-R with data?]

By default, my ImgBurn uses UDF 1.02, even when I'm burning BD-R with just data.

I'm only using BD-R to store large 10GB+ back-up files of my computer's hard drives. 

 

Is this setting fine? Or do I need to pick a higher UDF setting?

 

Thanks!

[How do I choose multiple folders for burning?]

I have several folders that I want to burn.  

 

When I was picking folders, ImgBurn would only let me add one folder at a time.  

For example, if I have 5 folders, I have to repeat the process 5 times.

 

Is there a way to choose multiple folders for burning?

 

Thanks!

[Burning BD-R - shouldn't burning at 12x be twice as fast as 6x?]

I am a newbie to burning BD-R.   Just bought a LG WH16NS40 16X BD-R burner.  

It was only $59.99 from Newegg during a sale.... price too good to pass up.   

 

I also got a 50-disc spindle of Verbatim 25GB 6X inkjet printable BD-R.

 

I fired up ImgBurn and the default burning speed was 6X.  I burned several discs

and everything went smoothly.  I verified the burned discs on another computer

and they checked out fine.

 

Next, I decided to up the speed to MAX.  ImgBurn started burning at 12x.  

After several discs, everything looked great.  (again, verified the data on

another computer)

 

Here's something I don't quite understand.  When I burned roughly 21GB of

data on the BD-R at 6X, ImgBurn reported burning time of 16 minutes.

When I burned the identical data at 12X, it reported 11 minutes. That's only

5 minutes faster.  Shouldn't burning at 12X take half the time, which is 8

minutes?  

 

Thnaks!