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| Thread ID: 123808 | 2012-03-17 21:57:00 | Dual Layer DVDs | Bobh (5192) | PC World Chat |
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| 1265567 | 2012-03-17 21:57:00 | Has anybody here had experience with dual layer DVD discs. I have a Lite-On IHBS212 SATA 12x Blu-ray Writer, 8x Blu-ray Reader, 8x DVDRW Lightscribe Retail Black Model Number: IHBS212(BLACK which can also write to DVDs My problem is that I have a rather large movie project which is too large to put onto a single DVD (project is larger than 4.7 Gb). I have successfully written it to a blue-ray disc. Not everybody I want to give a copy to had a blue-ray player. Can all writers write to dual layer DVDs? I am assuming that dual layer has twice the capacity of a single layer DVD and at a higher price. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1265568 | 2012-03-17 22:34:00 | Most writers can write dual-layer unless they are quite old and from the early days of writeable DVDs in which case they may only be able to write single-layer. If your drives are recent enough to write Blu-Ray I see no reason they couldn't also write dual-layer DVDs. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1265569 | 2012-03-17 22:42:00 | I tried to burn a dual layer DVD years ago when they first came out, at that stage a blank dual layer dvd cost about $21, after making 2 failures, I gave up, it was either the software or the drive, but it cost to much to fail. I have never tried since. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1265570 | 2012-03-17 22:50:00 | + 1 for what Agent 24 says ... if it will burn BR, it shouldn't have a problem with Dual Layer. Somewhere in the software you are using to burn the discs, it should give you details of the burn capabilities ... alternately, put a dual layer disc in the drive and your software (or My Computer) should recognise it as such and tell you it has 8.5GB of free space available. | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1265571 | 2012-03-17 22:52:00 | I have an ASUS Quiet Track DVD reader/writer about six years old. It successfully writes to Imation 8.5 GB Double Layer DVD + R DL discs. I generally use DVD Fab 8. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 1265572 | 2012-03-17 22:52:00 | I tried to burn a dual layer DVD years ago when they first came out, at that stage a blank dual layer dvd cost about $21, after making 2 failures, I gave up, it was either the software or the drive, but it cost to much to fail. I have never tried since. Likely your drive was too old or the firmware was too old or you were trying to burn too fast. I never burn discs at maximum speed. Edit: That's not entirely true. I have found that high-speed CD-RWs (~12x and higher) do not work at slow speeds or in old drives that can only rewrite at slow speeds. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1265573 | 2012-03-17 22:57:00 | I might go down the shops this afternoon to see if I can buy a DL (dual layer disk) at a price and then try it out. I have found that I can tick a button in Serif MoviePlus 6 when writing to a DVD. This forces the programme to compress the movie project to fit onto the 4.7 GB DVD disc. There will be a loss in quality but I have a high definition camera which I record the movies on so hopefully the loss in quality will not be noticed. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1265574 | 2012-03-19 04:33:00 | Personally, I'm really disappointed with the long term stability of DVD media, and doubling the layers just means there's twice the likelihood that they'll become unrecoverable all too soon. My choice would be either two single layer DVDs, or to use an 8GB memory stick if you can handle the cost, and don't need to circulate a dozen copies. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1265575 | 2012-03-19 06:02:00 | Most optical media is crap now. Several years ago there were some good brands but now it seems a lot have gone downhill, and the market is full with really cheap rubbish from China (of course) I always loved the Mitsubishi stuff Dick Smith used to sell. Haven't found anything local that beat them yet. Don't waste your time trusting USB flash drives, those are even worse. While CD\DVD slowly gets worse, USB\Flash often just suddenly and completely die. But, I like the idea written on the GNU ddrescue (www.gnu.org) page. "Recordable CD and DVD media keep their data only for a finite time (typically for many years). After that time, data loss develops slowly with read errors growing from the outer media region towards the inside. Just make two (or more) copies of every important CD/DVD you burn so that you can later recover them with ddrescue. " |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1265576 | 2012-03-19 19:12:00 | I've been using Verbatim for ages with no problems, but there are better ones.Usually buy in the 100 disc packs, but they're getting scarcer now, so decided to go with these guys last time I needed some.Not much dearer than N Leemings or the Warehouse. Also they sell the Taiyo Yuden which are meant to be the best, so got a pack to use for my home movies. But I still don't trust DVD's so I keep my original tapes. www.thediscshop.co.nz |
Neil McC (178) | ||
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