How do I quickly identify if my DVD movie backups have bad layer breaks?

[doughless888]

After making DVD movie backups on DVD+R DL (DVD9), I realize that some of them have very bad layer breaks, and playback cannot go beyond the first layer at all. Is there any program that will verify the quality of the layer switch? If not, is there a way to quickly find out in which chapter or at what minute/second the layer break occurs (minimum number of clicks)?

[VegasBud]

doughless888,

Good/bad layer breaks can only really be measured by the viewing experience. I can't imagine an algorithim that would do that.

Any burning software should be able to handle the technical requirements for a layer break.

I can tell you that when I was getting started with dual layer, I made about every mistake possible, frequently with a horrendous viewing consequence at the layer break...but the dvd still played the second layer. If you can't get the second layer to play on a standalone player or your computer, I would suspect you're having a media problem. If you're not using Verbatim +RDL media, it's even more likely.

The best answer I have to your one question is you can tell when you have a good layer break when you (and your audience) can't tell there is any layer break at all.

There's no reason that a program couldn't (theoretically) give you the title/chapter/time for a layer break on a burned disk, but if there actually is one, I'm unaware of it. Doing it manually is something I've only tried a couple of times, and it not only gave me a headache, I wasn't even absolutely certain of my results. Maybe someone else will see this thread, and know of such a program. That would make us both happy.

Since this was your first post here, welcome to VideoHelp.

[TBoneit]

Sounds to me like a bad burn. Everytime I had problems after the layer change it the burner and the media. Now I burn with imgburn and it will present you with choices for the layer change graded from poor, good best so you can choose. Changing the burner let me use the rest of the spindle of so-so media. Changing to Verbatim +R DLs and using imgburn and all is good.