Image Quality Of A Burn ?

[thekochs]

What is the best software....within ImgBurn (eg. Verify) or other to determine if a movie backup DVD burn is good without having to play on a DVD player the entire movie ? I have Neros' DVDSpeed that has Quality Test and Scan Disc but my Burner is a LG Burner and only BenQ and few others...not LG.

 

I recall some software on a thread within this Forum but can't recall it.

I'm trying to keep it simple....burn....test....go.

 

Any help in advance is much appreciated !!!!

[Cynthia]

The Verify option in ImgBurn will show you if the disc can be read.

 

Benqs are normally good scanners, so I would do a Disc Quality Scan with Nero. Scan it at 8x - you should then see if there are any "bad" burning spots on the disc.

 

[mmalves]

Leave Verify enabled and that'll verify if it was good burn or not

[thekochs]

The Verify option in ImgBurn will show you if the disc can be read.

 

Benqs are normally good scanners, so I would do a Disc Quality Scan with Nero. Scan it at 8x - you should then see if there are any "bad" burning spots on the disc.

 

 

I don't have a BenQ...I have a LG GSA-H55L burner....thus Nero DriveSpeed I don't think does me any good.

I have a SL disc that glicthes on DVD player and ran Verify on it in ImgBurn and it came back OK....I know there is issues.

I did have to burn useing Nero Recode because I took a IFO/VOB folder that was just over 4.7GB and put/recoded to SL disc....kept about 95% quality.

Anyway, I stated this because unfortunatelty I cannot use ImgBrun all the time when I need to recode down to a SL disc...I'm a newb...perhaps I'm missing a way ? I ask because I imagine Verify works better at burn time so it can compare.

 

Thoughts ?

[mmalves]

You can set recode to output to a folder, which you can then use ImgBurn to burn to DVD

 

If the disc passed verify and glitches on the DVD player it may be due to the media you're using or the DVD player needs cleaning with a lens cleaning disc. Post the log of a burn+verify from one of those glitchy discs and we'll be able to help further

[Cynthia]

Sorry, didn't knew you didn't had a Benq.

 

There is one option left. When you burn - there is a .ibg file created. You should see the file name of it in the burning log.

 

I 20:43:59 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Cynthia\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\BARBIE_PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-216D_1.09_DEN-6-JULI-2009_20-29_MCC_03RG20_6x.ibg

That one can show if the burning is somewhat ok or the graphs are jumping around to much depending on a crap burn.

 

You can attach it to a posting window here.

[thekochs]

Sorry, didn't knew you didn't had a Benq.

 

There is one option left. When you burn - there is a .ibg file created. You should see the file name of it in the burning log.

 

I 20:43:59 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Cynthia\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\BARBIE_PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-216D_1.09_DEN-6-JULI-2009_20-29_MCC_03RG20_6x.ibg

That one can show if the burning is somewhat ok or the graphs are jumping around to much depending on a crap burn.

 

You can attach it to a posting window here.

 

The bad disc I did with Recode.......but you mention graph data....I assume if I use Recode for SL future efforts to disc, then ImgBurn or ImgBurn for DL.....this generates a graph ? If so, how do I read the graphs on the burn at that point and interpret ?

 

Thx.

Edited July 7, 2009 by thekochs

[Cynthia]

Nero Recode can output the files on the hard disk. Then burn those files in ImgBurn to your DVD disc (you can find a guide in the guide forums that tells you how to do this). That way you catch the graphs during the burning/verify.

 

You can either use DVDInfoPro (guide included)

 

http://www.dvdinfopro.com/

 

or a new free tool - BurnPlot that you'll find in this thread:

 

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=10647

[thekochs]

You can set recode to output to a folder, which you can then use ImgBurn to burn to DVD

Thanks...sometimes the right things are in front of your face to miss. I feel so stupid.

[thekochs]

Nero Recode can output the files on the hard disk. Then burn those files in ImgBurn to your DVD disc (you can find a guide in the guide forums that tells you how to do this). That way you catch the graphs during the burning/verify.

 

You can either use DVDInfoPro (guide included)

 

http://www.dvdinfopro.com/

 

or a new free tool - BurnPlot that you'll find in this thread:

 

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=10647

 

Where is the download link for BurnPlot ?...I don't see it in the thread....thx.

[Cynthia]

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?act=att...ost&id=6542