12 Replies Latest reply: Oct 28, 2010 9:22 AM by h2ofun RSS

    Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?

    h2ofun Community Member

      Since CS5 seems to have a bug with BR layer breaks, I have one project that I go to build to a folder correctly.  So, what is the best windows program

      to use to convert this folder into an ISO with a correct layer break.

        • 1. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
          John T Smith CommunityMVP

          See if the FREE

          http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download has a BluRay option (I only use it for DVD)
          • 2. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
            h2ofun Community Member

            John, I just tried the progam on my CS5 BR folder, and it worked great.  Since the BR CS5 image failed, nice work around.

             

            THANKS!!

            • 3. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
              Stan Jones CommunityMVP

              Did you burn a disk from the folder, or have ImgBurn create an iso?

               

              Either way, did it set the layer break automatically, or ask you to set it?

              • 4. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
                h2ofun Community Member

                I have never burned a disc yet.  I had ImgBurn create an iso.

                 

                It never asked me to set the layer break, so it must have done automatically.

                 

                The size of the BR image that is made from the CS5 folder, (where CS5 failed the image making saying there was not enough space) is basically the same size that CS4 made correctly directly to an image iso.

                • 5. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
                  Stan Jones CommunityMVP

                  All good signs!  Good workarounds are sometimes the best you can do for some problems.

                   

                  When you burn, let us know how the layer break worked.

                  • 6. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
                    h2ofun Community Member

                    Great question, but I have no BR hardware.  I never plan to buy anything since I have believed for years that physical media is dead.

                     

                    Now, with that said, would not a program like Nero break the layers if needed?

                    • 7. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
                      JSS1138 CommunityMVP

                      Since CS5 seems to have a bug with BR layer breaks

                       

                      Does it still have issues with DVD layer breaks?

                       

                      Up until CS4, Encore always asked me where to put the layer break when it was supposed to, and it always put that break where I told it to.  CS4 broke that, and unfortunately, ImgBrn doesn't quite offer the same flexibility that Encore did when it worked properly.

                      • 8. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
                        JSS1138 CommunityMVP
                        I have believed for years that physical media is dead.

                         

                        "Blu-ray continues to show strong growth in every category, new release packaged media sell-through is up" - Ron Sanders, President, DEG and President, Warner Home Video

                         

                        Blu-ray Discs shipped to retail in the first three quarters of 2010 topped 98 million, up 57 percent over the comparable period in 2009, according to figures compiled by Swicker & Associates on behalf of the DEG.

                         

                        Blu-ray hardware sales continued to climb in the first three quarters of the year as well, selling more than three million set-top units, an increase of 104 percent over the same period last year.

                         

                         

                        I'd agree the future of media distribution is the digital download, but it'll take a good while for it to kill off packaged media the way DVD killed VHS.  If only because the high bandwidth infrastructure to deliver comparable quality is only now just getting started, and will likely take several decades to roll out to a significant portion of the US.

                         

                        In fact, we're more likely to get yet another TV format (Super Hi Vision) and associated packaged media long before enough of the country has the bandwidth required to ring in the demise of packaged media.

                        • 9. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
                          h2ofun Community Member

                          It took me a few years after DVD came out before I dumped my laser discs and bought one.  (And I am an early adopter)

                           

                          So, if in a few years BR is still around, and the discs get cheap enough, and the movie selection gets great enough, and I find a job, who knows

                          what I will do.

                           

                          But for know, 100% of my SD and HD home videos are encoded to ISO, and on the hard drive in my popcornhour settop box.

                          • 10. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
                            John T Smith CommunityMVP

                            >If only because the high bandwidth infrastructure to deliver comparable quality is only now just getting started, and will likely take several decades to roll out to a significant portion of the US

                             

                            I have had DirecTV since 1995 and have been happy with the service, if not always the pricing for the movie channels

                             

                            January of this year the local telephone company put a fiber optic "backbone" in my part of Vancouver WA, so I was able to up my DSL speed from 1.5 to 7mps

                             

                            Once that happened, I dropped all DirecTv movie channels and switched to Netflix streaming for about 1/3 the cost (I still have DirecTv for non-movie channels)

                             

                            The Netflix streaming quality is just as good as DirecTv and I'm saving 2/3 so this works for me

                            • 11. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
                              JSS1138 CommunityMVP

                              I'm a big fan of Netflix myself.  Took me about ten minutes with the service to realize that streaming media is the wave of the future.  However, while Netflix may be just as good as DirectTV (which I don't have), it is nowhere near as good as Blu-ray.  (And it's still in stereo, not 7.1.)

                               

                              And I've got a 15 MB FiOS connection.

                               

                              Problem is, even 15 MB is less than half of what Blu-ray is capable of. Hell, it's less than free over-the-air broadcast, which sends out favorite Prime Time programming out at around 19 MB.

                               

                              Back on topic.  Is the CS5 DVD layer break issue resolved, or does it still mess up?

                              • 12. Re: Best windows program to use to take BR folder to ISO?
                                h2ofun Community Member

                                So far on all the SD DVD's that have shown too large, looking at the files it suggests and how it encodes, they are too large.

                                These are on projects over about 3.5 hours with CS5.  Longer than this, setting the encoding down to 4mb works.

                                So, for SD DVD, I have not data that would say the layer break issue is a problem.

                                 

                                BUT, on BR it clearly is!   I have 9 same basic structure BR projects. All of them showed 32 gig of a 50 gig being used.  3 of the 9 failed

                                for the size error, when looking at the encoded files it was was below 50.  I took all three, out they outputted to a folder just fine.

                                I then converted to an ISO with Igburn.  So, I cannot say if these would burn to a real BR media okay, but as I have stated, I do not care.

                                BUT, I do care that CS5 encore clearly has a BR disc layer bug!!!!!