Burning with one program or another makes any difference?

[Xylob the Destroyer]

ahhh... Prassi!
I LOVED Prassi, until I got my DVD burner...
I used it exclusively when I was making VCD's and SVCD's, but when I installed my DVD burner, Prassi freaked out and would lock my PC up whenever I tried to run the program.
I uninstalled it and reinstalled, but it wouldn't recognize my burner, even when I just wanted to burn a CD....
It's too bad, I never had a coaster with Prassi.

[Phoebos]

"All engines write different, all burning apps see data different, etc. Same for hardware. " lorsmurf says.

But IF you manage to have a succesful DVD no matter what you used to make it, you have it isnt it right ? I mean it is not possible to have problems after some time, to become a coaster after a year for examble.

[leaglebob]

My take==you are asking that if two programs get the laser to burn a spot at a particular location, isn't that spot burned the same with those two programs??

If the answer is yes, and yes for ALL the other spots, then the programs create exactly the same disk.

Will some programs only partially burn a spot (length, width, deepth, time on spot, power on spot are a few variable I only imagine) so that it is still a spot for now but only for some purposes and not others or will it age differently? Maybe--sounds possible to me.

It seems likely to me that some programs will burn more spots more correctly than others even while both programs will show a final product free from errors unless you get an ocilliscope out or an electron microscope==but we are only interested in human perception here.

I will wager you will reburn all your stuff in 10 years from now on Purple-Ray (ie next generation after Blu-Ray) so the question becomes somewhat academic after you get a good burn that holds up for a day or two.