paultara

February 10, 2018

If you've used these discs with this drive and your preferred Blu-Ray player fine for a while now, then the problem is a hardware one, most likely. Either the burner needs replacing or your Blu-Ray player has ceased to function properly. Have you tried these discs in a different Blu-Ray player? That would help isolate if it's the player or the burner that's the problem.

Now, it could also be a case of MediaRange changing the type of discs you used to get. Did you just recently start burning from a new batch of discs you bought? Or are these from the same "stack" you had been burning from successfully before? However, since you said this also happens with Verbatim's BD-R DL, you can pretty much rule out it's a disc problem. It would either be a problem with the burner or the player.

Since you say this happens at about an hour into the movie, could these freezes be happening at the layer change? If they are, then it's most likely either the player has stopped properly switching layers or your Pioneer is no longer properly writing between the layers.

Barring anything else, there could be some kind of weird Windows error causing bad burns. Unlikely, but you can't put it past Windows bugging up.

I think it might have been beacuse of my player reading speed or error-correction speed. On my pc (PowerDVD 17) it works. Thanks!

February 10, 2018

So I have burnt quite a lot of blu-ray's. (MediaRange BD-R DL - not the best but seem ok). I have used MAX speed a lot. (6x-8x) and I tried with 4x also. All of them have a problem when playing the movies. On discs burnt with 6x or 8x at about 1hour mark the movie starts cutting the audio out and the screen freezes.This takes about 5 seconds then it goes back to normal. Then after some time, again. This is very frequent and annoying. On 4x is not as frequent but is still there. I am using Pioneer BDR-209DBK with latest firmware. Should I try other speed (2x)? Also, I have tried other discs (the better Verbatims) but same problem. What should I do?

Device log:

PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209D 1.34 (SATA)

Current Profile: BD-R

Disc Information:

Status: Unknown

State of Last Session: Unknown

Erasable: Unknown

Formatted: Unknown

Sessions: Unknown

Supported Write Speeds: 2x; 4x; 6x; 8x

Format Capacities:

DT: 0x02 - NB: 24438784 (0x0174E800) - TDP: 0

Performance (Write Speed):

Descriptor 1...

-> B0: 0x00; B1: 0x00; B2: 0x00; B3: 0x00

-> EL: 24438783 (0x0174E7FF)

-> RS: 8.990 KB/s (2x) - WS: 8.990 KB/s (2x)

Descriptor 2...

-> B0: 0x00; B1: 0x00; B2: 0x00; B3: 0x00

-> EL: 24438783 (0x0174E7FF)

-> RS: 17.980 KB/s (4x) - WS: 17.980 KB/s (4x)

Descriptor 3...

-> B0: 0x00; B1: 0x00; B2: 0x00; B3: 0x00

-> EL: 24438783 (0x0174E7FF)

-> RS: 26.970 KB/s (6x) - WS: 26.970 KB/s (6x)

Descriptor 4...

-> B0: 0x00; B1: 0x00; B2: 0x00; B3: 0x00

-> EL: 24438783 (0x0174E7FF)

-> RS: 35.960 KB/s (8x) - WS: 35.960 KB/s (8x)

Write logs:

I 14:08:24 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started!

I 14:08:24 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200)

I 14:08:24 Total Physical Memory: 16.716.692 KiB - Available: 7.333.180 KiB

I 14:08:24 Initialising SPTI...

I 14:08:24 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 14:08:24 -> Drive 1 - Info: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209D 1.34-ID61 (D:) (SATA)

I 14:08:24 Found 1 BD-RE!

I 14:08:58 Operation Started!

I 14:08:58 Building Image Tree...

I 14:08:58 Calculating Totals...

I 14:08:58 Preparing Image...

I 14:08:59 Contents: 1.340 Files, 18 Folders

I 14:08:59 Content Type: BD Video

I 14:08:59 Data Type: MODE1/2048

I 14:08:59 File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 14:08:59 Volume Label: [Not Configured]

I 14:08:59 Size: 44.151.225.345 bytes

I 14:08:59 Sectors: 21.559.184

I 14:08:59 Image Size: 44.159.860.736 bytes

I 14:08:59 Image Sectors: 21.562.432

I 14:08:59 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00

I 14:09:00 Operation Started!

I 14:09:00 Building Image Tree...

I 14:09:00 Calculating Totals...

I 14:09:00 Preparing Image...

I 14:09:00 Contents: 1.340 Files, 18 Folders

I 14:09:00 Content Type: BD Video

I 14:09:00 Data Type: MODE1/2048

I 14:09:00 File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 14:09:00 Volume Label: [Not Configured]

I 14:09:00 Size: 44.151.225.345 bytes

I 14:09:00 Sectors: 21.559.184

I 14:09:00 Image Size: 44.159.860.736 bytes

I 14:09:00 Image Sectors: 21.562.432

I 14:09:00 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00

I 14:09:51 Operation Started!

I 14:09:51 Building Image Tree...

I 14:09:51 Calculating Totals...

I 14:09:51 Preparing Image...

I 14:09:52 Contents: 1.340 Files, 18 Folders

I 14:09:52 Content Type: BD Video

I 14:09:52 Data Type: MODE1/2048

I 14:09:52 File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 14:09:52 Volume Label: ROGUE_ONE

I 14:09:52 Size: 44.151.225.345 bytes

I 14:09:52 Sectors: 21.559.184

I 14:09:52 Image Size: 44.159.860.736 bytes

I 14:09:52 Image Sectors: 21.562.432

I 14:09:52 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00

I 14:09:53 Operation Started!

I 14:09:53 Building Image Tree...

I 14:09:53 Calculating Totals...

I 14:09:53 Preparing Image...

I 14:09:53 Contents: 1.340 Files, 18 Folders

I 14:09:53 Content Type: BD Video

I 14:09:53 Data Type: MODE1/2048

I 14:09:53 File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 14:09:53 Volume Label: ROGUE_ONE

I 14:09:53 Size: 44.151.225.345 bytes

I 14:09:53 Sectors: 21.559.184

I 14:09:53 Image Size: 44.159.860.736 bytes

I 14:09:53 Image Sectors: 21.562.432

I 14:09:53 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00

I 14:09:57 Operation Started!

I 14:09:57 Building Image Tree...

I 14:09:57 Calculating Totals...

I 14:09:57 Preparing Image...

I 14:09:57 Contents: 1.340 Files, 18 Folders

I 14:09:57 Content Type: BD Video

I 14:09:57 Data Type: MODE1/2048

I 14:09:57 File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 14:09:57 Volume Label: ROGUE_ONE

I 14:09:57 Size: 44.151.225.345 bytes

I 14:09:57 Sectors: 21.559.184

I 14:09:57 Image Size: 44.159.860.736 bytes

I 14:09:57 Image Sectors: 21.562.432

I 14:09:59 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:02

I 14:09:59 Operation Started!

I 14:09:59 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==-

I 14:09:59 Source File Sectors: 21.562.432 (MODE1/2048)

I 14:09:59 Source File Size: 44.159.860.736 bytes

I 14:09:59 Source File Volume Identifier: ROGUE_ONE

I 14:09:59 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 4C4A713C0148FE70

I 14:09:59 Source File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0

I 14:09:59 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn

I 14:09:59 Source File File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 14:09:59 Destination Device: [0:0:0] PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209D 1.34 (D:) (SATA)

I 14:09:59 Destination Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: VERBAT-IMf-000)

I 14:09:59 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x; 4x; 6x; 8x

I 14:09:59 Destination Media Sectors: 24.438.784

I 14:09:59 Write Mode: BD

I 14:09:59 Write Type: DAO

I 14:09:59 Write Speed: 4x

I 14:09:59 Hardware Defect Management Active: No

I 14:09:59 BD-R Verify Not Required: Yes

I 14:09:59 Link Size: Auto

I 14:09:59 Lock Volume: Yes

I 14:09:59 Test Mode: No

I 14:09:59 OPC: Yes

I 14:09:59 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 14:09:59 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 17.980 KB/s (4x)

I 14:09:59 Advanced Settings - Optimal Writing Speed: No

I 14:10:27 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB)

I 14:10:31 Writing LeadIn...

I 14:10:34 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 21562431)

I 14:10:34 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 21562431)

I 14:10:34 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 12219391)

I 14:34:00 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 12219392 - 21562431)

I 14:51:59 Synchronising Cache...

I 14:52:00 Closing Track...

I 14:52:01 Finalising Disc...

I 14:52:19 Exporting Graph Data...

I 14:52:19 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Paul\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_BD-RW_BDR-209D_1.34_SÂMBĂTĂ-10-FEBRUARIE-2018_14-09_VERBAT-IMf-000_4x.ibg

I 14:52:19 Export Successfully Completed!

I 14:52:19 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:42:19

I 14:52:19 Average Write Rate: 17.361 KiB/s (4.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 17.623 KiB/s (4.0x)

I 14:52:37 Close Request Acknowledged

I 14:52:37 Closing Down...

I 14:52:38 Shutting down SPTI...

I 14:52:38 ImgBurn closed!

January 16, 2018

I have a possible suggestion, although it may not swallow well. I had one of those ASUS drives you're using here. Two of them I tested out, actually, and it's pretty much junk. I never even got to the point of testing BD-RE DL with it before I sent it back for a refund. I tried another copy of the same drive to see if maybe I just didn't get a bad drive, but they both did the same things, which means it's a problem with the drive. First failure was Ritek 8x DVD+RW. It would write to the discs but Verify would always fail because the drive borks the discs, even when they're new! They're unreadable after writing and cannot be reformatted to recover. Second failure was writing to BD-RE DL as a giant floppy. It would write to the disc but, as with the Ritek rewritable discs, render them unusable afterwards! Third failure was the same kind on a new BD-RE DL, from Verbatim, like the first failure. Same results. So, the drive doesn't write rewritable media correctly, for sure. If it can't do something that simple, I can't see it writing BD-R DL media correctly either.

And some drives, like LG's, support writing to BD DL media, but they don't do it correctly. So, on to my solution: replace your ASUS drive with a Pioneer BD burner. Pioneer's have their own problems, but they seem to be the drives that have the highest success rate at writing BD DL media. I've had 4 Pioneer 2209's over the past 4 years, with a new one on the way. My first Pioneer still works save for the eject button issue that seems common to Pioneer BD drives. I've never used BD-R DL in it, but I write Verbatim BD-RE DL's every month on Day 1, with daily file backups going to BD-RE DL's. I can't see a Pioneer that writes to Verbatim BD-RE DL failing to write to Verbatim BD-R DL. Plus, a few other people with BD DL burning issues when they took my advice to replace LG's with Pioneer fixed their burning issues that way.

So, as I say, it may solve your problem, too. However, it's not the "easiest" solution and definitely not the cheapest. It may be the one more likely to solve your problem, though.

So the problem might be the burner itself. I thought it might be the discs. I will try to see what I can do about the drive. Thank you!

January 16, 2018

If your drive can't cope with burning at the max speed it claims to support on those discs (i.e. 8x), try the remaining 'supported' write speeds.

I wasted 14 discs trying to burn files. I tried every speed, always the same. At about 60 percent it stops and has the error. Any other ideas?

January 16, 2018

Hello, so in the past few weeks I have been trying to burn bd-r dl's. The first one worked perfectly but the rest give me I/O error with check condition (Write Error). I have an ASUS BW-16D1HT and I am using Mediarange BD-R DL 6x (appears as VERBAT-IMf-000 - I don't know why). I am using AWS speed which is set to MAX. OPC Is turned on but I tried with it turned off, no luck.

Device part in ImgBurn:

ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.02 (SATA)

Current Profile: BD-R

Disc Information:

Status: Empty

State of Last Session: Empty

Erasable: No

Free Sectors: 24.438.784

Free Space: 50.050.629.632 bytes

Free Time: 5430:52:34 (MM:SS:FF)

Next Writable Address: 0

MID: VERBAT-IMf-000

Supported Write Speeds: 2x; 4x; 6x; 8x

BD Disc Information (L0):

Disc ID: VERBAT-IMf-000

Disc Type: BD-R

Disc Size: 120 mm

Disc Class: 0

Disc Version: 1

Number of Layers: 2

Layer Type: Writable

DVD Layer Present: No

CD Layer Present: No

Channel Bit Length: 74.50 nm (25 GB Per Layer)

Push-Pull Polarity: Positive

Recorded Mark Polarity: HTL

BCA Present: Yes

Maximum Transfer Rate: Not Specified

First PAA of Data Zone: 131.072

Last PAA of Data Zone: 1.658.494

BD Disc Information (L1):

Disc ID: VERBAT-IMf-000

Disc Type: BD-R

Disc Size: 120 mm

Disc Class: 0

Disc Version: 1

Number of Layers: 2

Layer Type: Writable

DVD Layer Present: No

CD Layer Present: No

Channel Bit Length: 74.50 nm (25 GB Per Layer)

Push-Pull Polarity: Positive

Recorded Mark Polarity: HTL

BCA Present: Yes

Maximum Transfer Rate: Not Specified

First PAA of Data Zone: 2.535.808

Last PAA of Data Zone: 4.063.230

Format Capacities:

DT: 0x01 - NB: 24438784 (0x0174E800) - TDP: 413696

FT: 0x00 - NB: 23652352 (0x0168E800) - TDP: 24576

FT: 0x32 - NB: 23652352 (0x0168E800) - TDP: 0

FT: 0x32 - NB: 11200512 (0x00AAE800) - TDP: 0

FT: 0x32 - NB: 24307712 (0x0172E800) - TDP: 0

Performance (Write Speed):

Descriptor 1...

-> B0: 0x00; B1: 0x00; B2: 0x00; B3: 0x00

-> EL: 24438783 (0x0174E7FF)

-> RS: 35.968 KB/s (8x) - WS: 8.992 KB/s (2x)

Descriptor 2...

-> B0: 0x00; B1: 0x00; B2: 0x00; B3: 0x00

-> EL: 24438783 (0x0174E7FF)

-> RS: 35.968 KB/s (8x) - WS: 17.984 KB/s (4x)

Descriptor 3...

-> B0: 0x08; B1: 0x00; B2: 0x00; B3: 0x00

-> EL: 24438783 (0x0174E7FF)

-> RS: 35.968 KB/s (8x) - WS: 26.976 KB/s (6x)

Descriptor 4...

-> B0: 0x08; B1: 0x00; B2: 0x00; B3: 0x00

-> EL: 24438783 (0x0174E7FF)

-> RS: 35.968 KB/s (8x) - WS: 35.968 KB/s (8x)

Log after error:

I 01:17:00 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started!

I 01:17:00 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200)

I 01:17:00 Total Physical Memory: 16.716.740 KiB - Available: 13.082.928 KiB

I 01:17:00 Initialising SPTI...

I 01:17:00 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 01:17:00 -> Drive 1 - Info: DiscSoft Virtual 1.0 (H:) (Virtual)

I 01:17:00 -> Drive 2 - Info: DiscSoft Virtual 1.0 (G:) (Virtual)

I 01:17:00 -> Drive 3 - Info: DiscSoft Virtual 1.0 (I:) (Virtual)

I 01:17:01 -> Drive 4 - Info: ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.02 (E:) (SATA)

I 01:17:01 Found 3 BD-ROM XLs and 1 BD-RE XL!

I 01:17:16 Operation Started!

I 01:17:16 Building Image Tree...

I 01:17:16 Calculating Totals...

I 01:17:16 Preparing Image...

I 01:17:16 Contents: 400 Files, 22 Folders

I 01:17:16 Content Type: BD Video

I 01:17:16 Data Type: MODE1/2048

I 01:17:16 File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 01:17:16 Volume Label: [Not Configured]

I 01:17:16 Size: 40.443.665.265 bytes

I 01:17:16 Sectors: 19.748.101

I 01:17:16 Image Size: 40.446.853.120 bytes

I 01:17:16 Image Sectors: 19.749.440

I 01:17:16 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00

I 01:17:51 Operation Started!

I 01:17:51 Building Image Tree...

I 01:17:51 Calculating Totals...

I 01:17:51 Preparing Image...

I 01:17:51 Contents: 400 Files, 22 Folders

I 01:17:51 Content Type: BD Video

I 01:17:51 Data Type: MODE1/2048

I 01:17:51 File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 01:17:51 Volume Label: THE_MATRIX

I 01:17:51 Size: 40.443.665.265 bytes

I 01:17:51 Sectors: 19.748.101

I 01:17:51 Image Size: 40.446.853.120 bytes

I 01:17:51 Image Sectors: 19.749.440

I 01:17:53 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:01

I 01:17:53 Operation Started!

I 01:17:53 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==-

I 01:17:53 Source File Sectors: 19.749.440 (MODE1/2048)

I 01:17:53 Source File Size: 40.446.853.120 bytes

I 01:17:53 Source File Volume Identifier: THE_MATRIX

I 01:17:53 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 4C300A39012D5825

I 01:17:53 Source File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0

I 01:17:53 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn

I 01:17:53 Source File File System(s): UDF (2.50)

I 01:17:53 Destination Device: [0:0:0] ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.02 (E:) (SATA)

I 01:17:53 Destination Media Type: BD-R (Disc ID: VERBAT-IMf-000)

I 01:17:53 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2x; 4x; 6x; 8x

I 01:17:53 Destination Media Sectors: 24.438.784

I 01:17:53 Write Mode: BD

I 01:17:53 Write Type: DAO

I 01:17:53 Write Speed: MAX

I 01:17:53 Hardware Defect Management Active: No

I 01:17:53 BD-R Verify Not Required: Yes

I 01:17:53 Link Size: Auto

I 01:17:53 Lock Volume: Yes

I 01:17:53 Test Mode: No

I 01:17:53 OPC: Yes

I 01:17:53 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 01:17:55 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 35.968 KB/s (8x)

I 01:18:35 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB)

I 01:18:39 Writing LeadIn...

I 01:18:40 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 19749439)

I 01:18:40 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 19749439)

I 01:18:40 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 12219391)

W 01:34:30 Failed to Write Sectors 12190400 - 12190431 - Reason: Write Error

W 01:34:30 Retrying (1 of 20)...