Getting My 1st Dual Layer Burner - What Do I Have To Learn?

[heyjjjaded]

I've been backing up DVDs for a few years now with DVD Decrypter & DVD Shrink. Now we're about to get a new computer with our first dual layer DVD burner. I suspect I'm going to have to learn a few new things if I'm going to take advantage of this. DVD Decrypter will still work fine, right? But what about DVD Shrink ... will I still have any use for this program with a dual layer burner? Or is there a new program that I should learn that will write to dual layer DVDrs? Thank you!

[budz]

First of all use VERBATIM DVD+R DUAL LAYER MEDIA and use IMGBURN to burn the discs. Any other brand of DUAL LAYER media is just pure crap.

[heyjjjaded]

Nice ... thank you. I've already found a good-looking guide for IMGBURN. Anything else? I kind of feel like I've been "out of the game" for a while & I have to relearn all this stuff again.

[jman98]

To follow up on budz' advice, I can't stress enough to ONLY use Verbatim DVD+R DL media. Don't use another brand. Don't use DVD-R DL discs made by anyone. Deviate from this at your own peril.

The following article
http://www.digital-digest.com/~blutach/pgcedit_guide/burning_with_pgcedit/burning_with...pgcedit_v2.htm
describes how to use PgcEdit to create ISO files after ripping. These ISO files will have 32K gaps between the BUP and ISO files. There is an explanation on the page as to why you want this. Then you can use IMGBURN to burn the ISO. If you use the Verbatim DVD+R DL discs and follow this method, you should have success. It takes longer to do it this way, but it's worth it in my opinion. Burning without setting 32K gaps saves time, for sure, but it does open up the small possibility that in the future if the wrong block goes bad, your entire disc is useless.

[jimbucc]

Verbatim DVD+R DL are excellent - never a bad burn.
I use Nero Ultra 6.x and it works fine. Of course IMGBURN is free so that is an advantage.

[lordsmurf]

The only time I get a bad DVD+R DL Verbatim burn is when I do 6x on a 2.4x disc or 8x on an 8x disc. Using 4x on the 2.4x, and 6x on the 8x, works best, in my experience.