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I received my 50gb D/L Verbatim disc today and successfully burnt the 8 Harry potter films as AVCHD files. I did leave the tick in the box to "Prefer format without spare areas" and it plays on my LG Blu-Ray player to my TV with excellent quality film. Thanks for your help Lightning.

Thank you very much lightning. I will remember that for future use. When the disc comes next week I will burn it and let you know here, how I got on. If my drive messes up, I will put that down to experience. So far I have never had a bad disc using ImgBurn.

I don't know as this is the first Blu-Ray BD-R-DL disc I have ever bought. The BD-RE disc I had to format because ImgBurn wouldn't write to it without, that was done with the tick out of the "Prefer format without spare areas" does it only format new BD-RE disc's then? I just wanted to make sure of writing the 8 films to one disc, trying not to make an ash-tray out of it. I have successfully written 5 AVCHD films to the BD-RE 25GB disc without problems and it plays all films fine on my LG player to my TV, with 5.1 sound and excellent quality video.

The settings of ImgBurnI have successfully written files using MultiAVCHD using my DVD collection and burnt them onto a PanasonicBD-RE 25GB disc without any problems many times over using ImgBurn. I have just bought 1 single Verbatim 50GB-R D/L disc for my full collection of Harry Potter disc's, total output 45.5GB AVCHD. Would it be better in the write section of ImgBurn to have the tick in the setting "Prefer format without spare areas" or take it out? I will only be able to have one shot at this.

OK Thanks Lightning.

I have several small avi's of our holidays I made into Blu-Ray iso's, after burning them with Imageburn, my Blu-Ray player attached to my TV will not play them. If I make them into Blu-Ray folders and then burn them using Imageburn they play fine on my TV, Another question is, can I burn more than one Blu-Ray folder in Imageburn, as long as I don't exceed 25GB. I know there is a queuing system but wasn't sure if it would do that.

Hi Lightning, yes I am testing them with the actual BD-RE disc in my computer using PowerDVD9 with the patch update. It plays just fine on my computer, but not on my TV through my LG Player. The only thing I haven't done is a full format using the tick in or out of the box, so will have to try that next. I haven't even tried a new Blu-Ray film in my LGBD550 to TV yet, so will have to go and hire one to see if it works OK. I only just bought that too. I will keep trying.

I have had the tick in the box and out of the box where it says "Prefer Format Without Spare Areas" is that what you mean? I have just completed two films from ISO files, one made with Imgeburn and one with Freemake. Both burnt using Imageburn and play fine on my computer but not in my LGBD550 Blu-Ray player attached to my TV. Nothing wrong with Imageburn, it seems so I am guessing it must be my stand alone player that wont play these films, although the manual for that says it plays BDRE/R. Glad I only bought a BD-RE to try first at the moment. It doesn't recommend Verbatim like I use for ordinary DVD films. Mitsubishi, Kagaku Media, Maxell, Sony and Panasonic, which I used for trial. To format do I use the ReZero, I can't see format in the right click?

I notice when I try to burn my Panasonic BD-RE, Imageburn tells me it has to do it at 2.4 but the disc cover says 1-2x and nothing about 2.4 on it. So if my new LG burner only writes at 2.4 is the BD-RE not compatible with imageburn settings of 2x. My manual says the LG BH10 will burn these disc's at 2x/2x I have put that reading in for the media but it doesn't recognise it. Perhaps that is why my disc's do not play on my LG Player, because they are burning too fast. Is this a possibility. Have tried other forums without luck.

OK Thanks Lightning, I will try them. The authoring program by the way was Freemake Video Converter. The disc does play and Imageburn made a good job of it to play on my computer.

Hi I just installed a new LG BH10 Blu Ray writer and updated the firmware straight away, and burnt my first disc which plays great on my computer but not in my LG Blu Ray player to my TV. At the moment I am just trying it again. I just wondered if you viewed my log you could tell me if I could have done anything different. LG recommend the Panasonic BD-RE so that is what I used. ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.6.0 - Log ; Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 16:11:43 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 12:10:19 ImgBurn Version 2.5.6.0 started! I 12:10:19 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 12:10:19 Total Physical Memory: 2,095,532 KB - Available: 1,364,308 KB I 12:10:19 Initialising SPTI... I 12:10:19 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 12:10:19 -> Drive 1 - Info: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202J SB03 (J:) (ATA) I 12:10:19 -> Drive 2 - Info: HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH10LS38 1.00-A2 (H:) (ATA) I 12:10:19 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM and 1 BD-RE! I 12:15:31 Operation Started! I 12:15:31 Building Image Tree... I 12:15:49 Corrected file system selection for Blu-ray Video disc. I 12:15:49 Corrected UDF revision selection for Blu-ray Video disc. I 12:15:49 Calculating Totals... I 12:15:49 Preparing Image... I 12:15:49 Contents: 16 Files, 15 Folders I 12:15:49 Content Type: BD Video I 12:15:49 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 12:15:49 File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 12:15:49 Volume Label: [Not Configured] I 12:15:49 Size: 23,510,565,816 bytes I 12:15:49 Sectors: 11,479,781 I 12:15:49 Image Size: 23,511,629,824 bytes I 12:15:49 Image Sectors: 11,480,288 I 12:15:49 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:18 I 12:16:27 Operation Started! I 12:16:27 Device: [2:0:0] HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH10LS38 1.00 (H:) (ATA) I 12:16:27 Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: MEI-T01-001) I 12:16:27 Media Supported Write Speeds: 2.4x I 12:16:27 Quick Erase: No I 12:16:27 Format Properly: Yes I 12:16:27 Format Size: Preferred I 12:16:27 Format With Full Certification: Yes I 12:16:27 Format Without Spare Areas: No I 12:16:27 Erasing Disc... I 13:25:59 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 01:09:32 I 13:25:59 Operation Started! I 13:25:59 Device: [2:0:0] HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH10LS38 1.00 (H:) (ATA) I 13:25:59 Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: MEI-T01-001) I 13:25:59 Media Supported Write Speeds: 2.4x I 13:25:59 Media Sectors: 11,826,176 I 13:25:59 BD-RE FastWrite: No I 13:25:59 Zeroing Sectors... I 14:49:54 Synchronising Cache... I 14:49:55 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 01:23:55 - Total Duration: 02:33:28 I 14:49:55 Average Write Rate: 4,697 KB/s (1.0x) I 14:49:56 Operation Started! I 14:49:56 Building Image Tree... I 14:50:03 Calculating Totals... I 14:50:03 Preparing Image... I 14:50:04 Contents: 16 Files, 15 Folders I 14:50:04 Content Type: BD Video I 14:50:04 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 14:50:04 File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 14:50:04 Volume Label: APOCALYPTO Title 1 I 14:50:04 Size: 23,510,565,816 bytes I 14:50:04 Sectors: 11,479,781 I 14:50:04 Image Size: 23,511,629,824 bytes I 14:50:04 Image Sectors: 11,480,288 I 14:50:06 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:09 I 14:50:06 Operation Started! I 14:50:06 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==- I 14:50:06 Source File Sectors: 11,480,288 (MODE1/2048) I 14:50:06 Source File Size: 23,511,629,824 bytes I 14:50:06 Source File Volume Identifier: APOCALYPTO Title 1 I 14:50:06 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 4039763C00AF2C65 I 14:50:06 Source File Application Identifier: ImgBurn v2.5.6.0 I 14:50:06 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 14:50:06 Source File File System(s): UDF (2.50) I 14:50:06 Destination Device: [2:0:0] HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH10LS38 1.00 (H:) (ATA) I 14:50:06 Destination Media Type: BD-RE (Disc ID: MEI-T01-001) I 14:50:06 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 2.4x I 14:50:06 Destination Media Sectors: 11,826,176 I 14:50:06 Write Mode: BD I 14:50:06 Write Type: DAO I 14:50:06 Write Speed: 4x I 14:50:06 BD-RE FastWrite: No I 14:50:06 Link Size: Auto I 14:50:06 Lock Volume: Yes I 14:50:06 Test Mode: No I 14:50:06 OPC: Yes I 14:50:06 BURN-Proof: Enabled W 14:50:06 Write Speed Miscompare! - Wanted: 17,983 KB/s (4x), Got: 10,338 KB/s (2.4x) W 14:50:06 The drive only supports writing these discs at 2.4x. I 14:50:06 Filling Buffer... (40 MB) I 14:50:07 Writing LeadIn... I 14:50:08 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 11480287) I 14:50:08 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 11480287) I 16:11:30 Synchronising Cache... I 16:11:31 Image MD5: 69c18bf8b356c439b3b1a677a6cbb6c9 I 16:11:36 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 01:21:25 I 16:11:36 Average Write Rate: 4,704 KB/s (1.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 5,330 KB/s (1.2x) I 16:11:43 Close Request Acknowledged I 16:11:43 Closing Down... I 16:11:43 Shutting down SPTI... I 16:11:43 ImgBurn closed!

I don't know if this is a stupid question or not. If I make a film of photos with menus and chapters in Pinnacle Studio for a friend in the USA, would they be able to watch it in their NTSC machines. I know we can in our DVD players, but really I wanted to know if it was possible to just make it as NTSC with Image Burn.

OK Thanks then. I managed to put three films together with menus and chapters and burnt with Pinnacle so that is the way I will have to do them.

I meant six already made individual films with title and chapters. I know it will make an .iso with titles if I make all six as one in Pinnacle with chapters, but sometimes the longer the film goes the audio goes out of sync. I just wondered if ImgBurn would write them as one file maintaining the menus and chapters.

Hi. If you make films in Pinnacles Studio with a title and menu of about 30 minutes, can you burn six different titles onto one single layer DVD keeping the menu's for each film please.