Ulead DVDWS2 + PgcEdit = DL success

[lordsmurf]

I've been DL burning for a year now, but not doing much in the way of DL authoring.

I just wanted to confirm that authoring with Ulead DVD Workshop 2 and burning with the PgcEdit method outlined in the guides works perfectly.

It was fast and required very little interaction. You don't need to be a techie to use PgcEdit for this narrow usage, regardless of how hard or complex the software looks.

This guide for burning the authored disc:
http://www.digital-digest.com/~blutach/dl_burn_guide2/dl_burning_with_pgcedit_v2.htm#BurnSetup

This was used for several smaller titles on a single disc (an "episode" disc, not one long movie).

Just author a folder in DVDWS2, not an image or disc.

Spare yourself headaches and use MKM (Verbatim) DVD+R DL media.

[lordsmurf]

Oh yeah, two special notes for DVDWS users.

1 -- Go to your authored folder and delete the DWS_TS folder. Otherwise you'll get weird errors and the program might crash.

2 -- When you open the DVD, this weird box will appear and tell you it found 0 links or something. It'll give the option to scan or close. Close it.

[DVWannaB]

absolutely smurf. The key piece in the puzzle here is pgcedit without a doubt. I have tried copytodvd and recordnow with mixed successes and now wished I had found the pgcedit trick before using those other tools. I use DVD-lab Studio then open up authored DVD folder is pgcedit, allow pgcedit to find proper layer break point and then burn the ISO image with IMGBurn (using Verbatim DL discs). Using this method for the better part of 2 months now and happy to report the earth is back on its axis thanks to pgcedit