Sparky054

Thanks again! I'll check on this through that.....

Thanks for the reply!

After solving the interference of a driver with my BD authoring through Express Burn, I attempted to export my good sequence to ISO for BDMV from within V-Pad. Took about 3 hours. After creating an ISO, it seems like V-Pad halts there without an obvious route to write it. Writing it using Express Burn, where it was easy, the burn was a no-go for a play test. Coaster again! My impression is that V-Pad is best only for getting you to a video data output file, and that E/B should take over from there if you want a valid burn in blu-ray. My subsequent trial with E/B creating an ISO, and handling the BD burn, with the exact same file that V-Pad failed with, and all was well. I'd love an explanation......

I researched a bit and found that region is within our code, so I still wonder: Do NCH burns set any or all 3 region flags when burning?

Hi - Thanks to this forum for assisting in my exotic (other) mastering problem. Being new to the circumstance, I know 6 of my burns need to play upon blue-ray players in the Philippines. Is there any "region code" sort of compatibility issue if I send them them my discs to be played there? This finalizes my publishing event if recent concern, and I want to be sure the trouble to send these won't be in vain....Thanks for a prompt reply; I wanna mail these!

Um.....additional query: If I burned BDMVs bound for the Philippines, would there be any "region code" -esque issues with the blue-ray players they have there?

Just submitted report of the above to NCH development. YA!

OMG!! I've done it!!!! Deamon Tools' SPTD driver impaled us! If a different program hadn't flagged the issue to me, who knows how many Seas of Coasters we may have gone through together, scratching our heads! All new installers should be warned of this, and a similar detector in the code for V-Pad could save your crew, and many users, from many useless hours! (Now THERE'S a developer's nugget) If it is, see if you can pitch a key to Express Burn for me! (I'd be quite grateful)! Please leave this open and refer back to see if I get OK results with the authoring "end" of V-Pad without problems as I attempt to copy and burn good ISOs for BDMV. As that's the program I paid for, let's be sure all is OK while I have your ear, OK?

I appreciate the update! When might we expect such folk available?? Today a different program flagged the fact that I had an SPTD driver on board, and that it can compromise drive performance...It goes in with Daemon Tools, (which I had), and requires a separate exe to extract it, even after an uninstall of D.T. I did so, and am re-trying yesterday's test with Express Burn. I'll report on all channels of a play trial after it's done.... Sure hope a playable disc gets to the Philippines by Christmas!

I sure appreciate your help. Eloy, @ NCH support, had me download Express Burn demo, add the exported mp4 sequence file, (exported to PC data), then burn it under that as a "Video Blue Ray." Though the m2ts stream will open & play from STREAM, (in VLC in the PC on the burner drive), and the folder structure seems OK, the LG BD-670 recognized it as,under it's "Movie" media choice, a data disc, which is how it then listed our source as such in it's disc area of it's menu. When chosen, it reads and reports the disc as "Empty!" As the player has shown no fault with commercial BD at all in it's low-traffic 4 years, I've tended to not yet doubt it. Many potential recipients of this project may have units of similar age, but I insist on delivering full HD to them, as in the mp4 play I already have. (On a PC). I'll say what I told them too: I'll send you any files, go to a TeamViewer session, whatever it takes to get my new relatives happy....please!! Don't give up on me just 'cause there's a ticket @ NCH!

Hi - Now that's a revelation! The V-Pad "help guide" is woefully inadequate as for informing the user of traps like that, the actual file format that's required for BD, (which I've since learned is restricted to UDF 2.5 or 2.6 only for blue ray), and many other useful and necessary details. ISO to hard disc,later burned, or "Blue-ray Movie," or "Blue-ray Data Disc" files, created with an mp4-from-sequence file, (which plays well in VLC), all fail in the home player. Mostly massive drop-frame is the result. The only burn success is: making that export mp4, taking care to have the encoder settings conform to BD, (29.97 fps, 1920x1080p, H.264, etc..), then burning that file as a "Data Disc" to Blue-Ray, then playing said mp4 in VLC on my PC. Any direct burn of this in the 2 "Blue-Ray" outputs result in a 10:1 file size reduction to m2ts that won't play anywhere! My guess is that there are scores of users out there who have authored multitudes of blue-ray discs from V-Pad with equipment and requirements like to mine, and I hope that several might chime in to what works consistently for them. Any and all replies are extremely welcome, and will be consistently checked until I can play a disc in my living room, and I won't fail to post when I'm there, THANKS!

As to a test of a 720x480 standard res video going to a DVD, rather than blue-ray, that is seen. BlueRay playback problems in 1920x1080p format, as blue-ray burns, are quite a different animal from a standard player digesting standard res DVDs, from my experience. As to the validity of my burner & media, testing out with data disc performance on the PC, (granted, with the drive that did the burn), seems to cast the doubt either on my export method, settings, or the media itself, to my latest reasoning. This is why I'm requesting a procedure and settings that a user has previous experience achieving OK, with the same media and resolutions, and a higher audio bit rate, below the max kbps. I extremely appreciate your comments and time, borate! Very kind of you. All viewers please consider my question still open for now, and I'd love to carry to the point where I can report on results of any suggestions being tested, it would be so good.....

This regards my being able to play a completed sequence well in V-Pad, able to export to hard disk data the same, and able to playback a burn of same under VLC Player in Win7 with no errors. Settings when compiling are: .mp4 or .avi extensions, as they are stated as supported by LG BlueRay players, 1920x1080p, 29.97 vertical, with a 190 bps audio rate, H.264 codec. The same discs, compiled as "Data Discs," which play fine on a PC, but either will not play at all, or will do so with dropped frames on the B/R home theater player. Compiling either to "BleRay Movie Disc" or "Blue Ray Data Disc," results in the original 19 GB file being squeezed into a 1.9 GB burn that won't do anything anywhere! Theater player works fine with commercial B/R discs, and is also LG; the BD-670. Burner is LG WH16NS40 16x BD/BDXL/MD. This project is a family wedding with many recipients waiting, and the majority has only B/R access with a home theater player, and now I've no way to publish to them! PLEASE, given my requirement, can someone just give me a step-to-step procedure to successfully get to a compatible burn in .mp4 or .avi from a functional, un-exported sequence? Nothing in the help files has, done so, and the coaster count is mounting trying variables, Help prevent media waste, and I'm surely most grateful; this serious problem has to go! Also: Is the best way to duplicate such a desired burn with no re-rendering by exporting to an ISO file, or is that not the method for duplicating hi-res' BlueRay? Admin: Even though I mention this poorly in another thread, this one states my problems much better, so I'm dying for a solution, please keep posted until solved; and you may delete my first mention if you wish.Thanks!

Actually, I have an even larger problem of not getting any success playing many compilation schemes, the failure occurs in a otherwise fully functional Blu-Ray player. Though any data Blu-Ray that fails in the living room plays flawlessly as a data file under the burner drive and locally installed VLC Media Player. I've assured that my LG BD-670 supports "BD-R/RE movies recorded in the BDAV format," and ISO 9660+Joliet, UDF, and UDF Bridge. With an LG player paired with an LG burner, (LG WH16NS40, 16x), I should get compatibility. I see either choppy frame drop or no play at all...(when compiling a "Blue-Ray Movie!" The project is 19 GB when exported to a file I've also assured that the native res' of 1920x1080p, frame rate 29.97, and the H264 codec is specified, as I've tried the following, with no good commercial player results: Will such an ISO be effective towards a Blue-Ray player playback? Data burns and exports of .avi, .mov, and .mp4 files. I first exported to a file, and then burned in data disc mode. Any compilation of a "movie" into a .m2ts file in the "STREAM" folder won't play in player, OR within VLC from the burner drive. ""Blur-Ray Movie" mode. I now have a good master I can't publish, and it happens to be an important wedding video that the majority of viewers shall require good commercial player compatibility, almost no-one has a blue ray drive in the bunch. HELP, I'm fricckin' desperate!!

When I export to disc for play in movie players, (as a BluRay Movie in Compilation), the only copy of the encoded file is that on the disc itself, when the long process is over. May that source, (the burn's disc contents), be dragged into a fresh sequence, in preparation for a re-burn of the same movie without the long encoding time repeated, as in a copy operation for duplication? Like: What's the most efficient duplication procedure for an encoded & burned project? Thanks for the help, friends!