VH 2015-08-29 Bristow, VA

Any advice or tips on how to burn this to a disc using imgburn. I’ve made too many coasters trying to burn the Blu-ray version of this show. I did the dvd9 just fine but have no idea what folders to load. Unfortunately I’ve gone through my last 5 discs and can’t even try anything else right now. I should have more tomorrow.

I know a while back Randy had a great short but sweet set of instructions that went along with one of the 2012 Blu-rays. I remember that working like a charm but have know idea where to find them.

Also – I usually declick the “verify” box because that adds a lot of time to the operation (basically doubles it). If you’re really worried about not getting a good burn, you can still use it. But as I said, I don’t – and I have never had a bad burn.

And don’t forget – just like DVD-Rs, there are shit quality discs and high quality discs – and the chances of burning coasters goes up when you burn with shitty quality discs. I burn all my blu-rays on Verbatim discs.

That did the trick Randy. Thanks a million. The shows looks even better now.

kubacheck: stupid question: is imgburn only a pc program?… or am I SOL on a Mac??

From the ImgBurn website.

ImgBurn supports all the Microsoft Windows OS’s – Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 and Windows 8 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

I thought that Guy (Radikal) said he couldn’t burn this to a single-layer blu-ray with Toast – it kept on saying it required a dual-layer disc because it wouldn’t fit on a single-layer blu-ray. I might be mis-quoting him though. I can’t find his original post.

I don’t know much about Macs – only what I’ve been told. I think my son runs Windows on his Mac somehow – maybe that’s a possibility; run Windows on the Mac and burn it with ImgBurn. I don’t know why ImgBurn seems to be the only program that’ll work for this -but so far that appears to be the case.

JasonA: How big is it? Maybe instead of burning it as an ISO/disk image, take the BDMV folder and tell Toast to burn a Blu-ray from that?

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It’s not an .iso file – it’s the standard blu-ray file structure with a BDMV folder and a CERTIFICATE folder. The CERTIFICATE folder only contains an empty sub-folder (BACKUP), so I kind of doubt what you proposed would make a difference. But I guess you never really know.

Randy, as always, huge thanks on filming and authoring this great show. Some of the close-ups of Ed are fantastic – really enjoyed it.

I managed to burn it ok to disc using ImgBurn and a blank Verbatim Blu-ray.

If anybody is still having problems burning the BD to disc, I’ve burned a couple of extra copies which I can snail-mail out if needed.