Can't burn .iso file to Verbatim DVD-R disc with either of two drives

edwardBe · 01 Mar 2022

bobkn said:

Are there drives that can read both sides of a 2 sided disk without flipping it? Never heard of one.

I have some 100GB BluRay disks. I don't know whether they use 3 or 4 layers.

If you mean an M-disc, their website states it is only one "rock-like layer" that is etched by the burner and will last for a thousand years since it is not based on a dye. mdisc.com.

bobkn · 01 Mar 2022

edwardBe said:

If you mean an M-disc, their website states it is only one "rock-like layer" that is etched by the burner and will last for a thousand years since it is not based on a dye. mdisc.com.

From that Web site:

"With tri-layer technology, 100 gigabyte discs require a BD-XL Blu-ray writer to engrave successfully."

I have a few of those. I also have some 100GB BluRays that aren't M-discs.

If there are conventional BD drives that could read (or write) 100GB in a single layer, I haven't heard of them.

x509 · 01 Mar 2022

cereberus said:

DVD drives can be either double sided or double layer. In fact you can even get double sided double layer but rare. Single Side Double layer is the most common

Reminds me of the floppy disks of 40 years ago, only with much bigger capacities and write-only-once.

bobkn · 02 Mar 2022

x509 said:

Reminds me of the floppy disks of 40 years ago, only with much bigger capacities and write-only-once.

There are RW (rewritable) disks, but I don't think they are very popular.

idgat · 02 Mar 2022

edwardBe said:

I am trying to burn a .iso file ....

edwardBe said:

I'm making a copy of a film for someone elderly who doesn't have a computer, just a DVD player

Why an ISO file when the result has to be played on a DVD player? Why not convert the video file to DVD format (*.bup, *.vob, *.ifo files)?

Some of the ones popular a few years ago ....
DVDStyler
AVStoDVD
MultiAVCHD
.. and even older
DVDFlick
DeVeDe

Pluginz · 02 Mar 2022

Another reason could be that the ISO wasnt created correctly from whichever software was used to image the original disc.
You also have to consider the ISO might be either, PAL or NTSC. Similar to region type.

Can you right click the ISO and mount to Windows ?
Then copy the whole contents of the ISO straight to the disc.

From memory the only two data folders that are needed are 'VIDEO TS' and 'AUDIO TS'
Try and run the video files yourself by going into the VIDEO TS folder and accessing the individual files to see if they will run in Windows. Codecs will be needed. VLC media player can run VIDEO TS files with ease. They should be *.VOB files.

If you can copy these two folders from the ISO to the DVD, then it should be able to play in the DVD player.
It doesnt need to be a bootable disc and it may play in the DVD player from just from copying these two folders across like a data disc.