My Blu-Ray Movie Burning Experiences... - Page 13

Originally Posted by Phloyd

Most recent news:

I took a look at the Fotis_Greece image and have worked out why the PS3 does not play it.

It seems that the first two bits of each 192 byte packet are set. These are some kind of 'copy protection' bits. In any case, the PS3 does not like them both being set. If you take this image, burn to BDRE, extract the 00000.m2ts file, and zero the first two bits in each 192 byte packet, replace the 00000.m2ts file with the new one and burn that file set to BDR(E) it will play in the PS3, complete with 5.1 audio.

The Display shows almost constant 15 Mbps AVC video and 640 kbps 5.1 DD audio.

Have Fun!

Originally Posted by plee

Good find... I wonder if it's set then it must only on BD-ROM, otherwise reject playing the disk...

Originally Posted by MozartMan

I have similar issues with power2go. I think power2go is junk. I use Nero or ImgBurn.

Originally Posted by creator441

Ok about the UDF 2.5 I got the issue resolved with that Toshiba UDF 2.5 driver for Windows XP. Works great now I can read the files looks like it's not a coaster!

Thanks for the information, I will check for Nero or ImgBurn then!

EDIT: Damn, I am using Nero 7 to erase my BD-RE disc and it'S taking forever again? It originally said that it would take about 48 minutes but now it's been at 100% for a long time and it's at 89 minutes right now. Looks like it's gonna take 100 minutes again

Anybody saw that kind of reaction when you erase a disc? I'll try writing some data back to it after but it may be slow according to what I read on this thread so far. Do you need to have an ultra DMA level compatibility on your PC for it to work in 2x speed or something?

One other thing, the light of my HDD access blinks at the same time as the light on my BWU-100A drive? I find that odd? It's always done that since I installed the drive but the drive seems to work fine (writing, read) except for the write speed so far. Anyone has that too? THe HDD does not load when the light blinks, it's just the HDD light access that follows the BWU-100A blue access light?

EDIT2:
Ok some more tests and info. First I started to write some new files on the newly erased BD-RE with ImgBurn and it showed my write speed as 0.9x, so basically 1x. Then, I cancelled that and wrote a 7GB file on the same disc using Nero. Nero said "writing in 2x" but by calculating the time it took to write the 7GB file it wrote at 1x again.

After that, I did some cdspeed tests and I did a "Read" operation in ImgBurn to test out the read capabilities and it went to 2.0x stable. So, it doesn't seem that my CPU's bandwidth is the problem? THis PC can write DVDs at 8x speed with no problem and that needs 11MB/s whereas writing to a BD-RE at 2x only needs 9MB/s. I am at a loss? This probably means my drive or the media is at fault? My drive makes perfect burns all the time but seems stuck at 1x. THe media I used so far is Sony BD-RE 25GB (BNE25A). It says on the disc that it's V2.1 compliant and in the instructions they say the BWU-100A is 2.0 compliant. I would think 2.1 you would be able to get 2.0x speed with this disc?

My drive is installed internally as the master on the secondary IDE wire.

Any ideas guys? Anybody else can't write at 2x on those Sony discs?

Originally Posted by plee

Have you got the latest firmware/software installed? Also, remove any other DVD/CD drives just to make sure there no other driver/conflict problems.

"As cited in our updated Burning Benchmarks section of the article, we now know the reason for the slow writing speed of the BWU-100A. A verification process kicks in by default for BD-RE media and this effectively doubles the time taken to write a BD-RE, making it appear to 'burn' at 1x speed. However, this applies only to data files and you could still burn video files at the maximum specified 2x speed. There seems to be no way of disabling this function for BD-RE media, though on the other hand, one could enable it for BD-R or when burning video files too."

Originally Posted by creator441

Basically, both those reviews says they got 2x speed on BD-R and 1x on BD-RE. They seem to have used Sony BD-REs.

Originally Posted by UxiSXRD

is there a consensus on whether BDMV/BDAV could be used to make playable HD movies with 5.1+ surround on the PS3?

Originally Posted by Phloyd

This is pretty much what I get also.

I have not looked into making changes to get faster writing to BDRE.

I would be interested to hear if it can be done though since BDRE writing takes forever on a full disc!

Originally Posted by creator441

I tested erasing a disc yesterday night with the fastwrite option on and it worked. Tonight, I tested burning data on a BD-RE using the same option in ImgBurn and it worked! I filled a 25GB Sony BD-RE disc to the brim (720KB free space left!) and it took 45 minutes and 23 seconds to burn the entire disc! That's more like it.

I didn't test if you can do that with other burning programs yet but my guess would be no. I suggest that if you want to burn data files that you either make an ISO image with the other software and burn the image with ImgBurn or use ImgBurn's "build" tab to write the data files. You can't create folders though. ImgBurn requires that all your files on the HDD be in the correct directory tree to begin with.

Here's a picture of ImgBurn's settings panel. Activate the FastWrite option!



This deactivates the drive's internal verifying process which slows down everything to 1x speed. My disc seems to be fine even without that process. I did a full check of the disc with ImgBurn after burning it and it's fine.

I must lift my hat to ImgBurn's creator. This program is pretty much superior to Nero and all the other costy software and it's free too!

I need to test that with BD-R media next because, for me, even a BD-R would go to 1x when I tested it.

Hope this helps!

Originally Posted by plee

I would think it's simular to verify for CD/DVD, most of the time you don't have it on because of the slower writing but for a valuable disk it might be just "safe of mind" to have it on.

Originally Posted by creator441

Well I never used verify in my life so I don't know what it does on DVD burning but for the BWU-100A, it seems there is an additionnal verifying step inside the drive itself and you can only turn it off by using the fastwrite option in ImgBurn. Seems like another layer of verification ABOVE the one normally done by the burning software. If you look at the description that ImgBurn's instructions gives of the option they say just that. They say it disables the drive's internal verification process and let the software decide.

No way will i wait 100 minutes to burn a disc I know will burn just fine at 2x (it's a 2x drive and a 2x media) but that's just me. It's even more true for BD-RE media imho.

Originally Posted by SS Scott

Sony BDP-S1 (1.55) ------- BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-R (when AACS folder is removed)

Originally Posted by Phloyd

Short news - maybe not very interesting

I found a way to get the 'true' write speed and it seems that the Sony writer writes BD-R at 1.9x and BD-RE at 1.3x.

Not yet found a way with the tools I have to make the BD-RE go faster... but that's ok for now It is interesting that it is a little higher than 1.0x....

Originally Posted by creator441

Didn't you try my trick with imgBurn? I get full constant 2.0x speed on a BD-RE. I didn't test on a BD-R yet but it should be the same.

I used a Sony BD-RE disc that had been written onto multiple times already (not new).

Also, is your drive installed internally on IDE or in an USB external enclosure?

Finally, what drive are you using and what firmware? I have the Sony BWU-100A and the latest firmware from Sony.

Originally Posted by Phloyd

I don't think I have imgBurn (unless it came with the drive).

The drive is internal - not updated the firmware that I can recall. It might be useful to do the firmware update.