Troubles Using Sony DVD Architect 5 with a Blu-Ray Burner

[danvm]

I'm running DVDA5 (latest build) on an Windows 7 64Bit machine with an HP BD-RE drive, model BH20L (with updated firmware). Since BD's are expensive I purchased a couple BD-RE discs to test my compilation before burning to a BD-R. Using DVDA5, I select the "prepare & burn" option and though it reports the presence of a BD-RE disc, it asks for a "writable disc". Thinking the brand of media might not be compatible (Optical Quantum) I tried the same thing with a Sony brand BD-RE and received the same "Please insert a writable disc" message. Am I doing something wrong?

[danvm]

Hmmmm... I just made an ISO and right now am burning the BD-RE using ImgBurn. I noticed that it required the disk be "formatted" first. Perhaps that's why DVDA5 couldn't write to it? You'd think DVDA5 would have suggested that! Whether or not it works remains to be seen...

[BOMOON]

Using DVDA5, I select the "prepare & burn" option and though it reports the presence of a BD-RE disc, it asks for a "writable disc&quot

I ran into the same problem with DVDA 5.0b. Like you I posted on a few forums about it, and like the response here I found that 3rd party burning software was the only thing that worked. I use the free Ashampoo Burning Studio program that I downloaded from www.download.com. It's a good general-purpose burning program and it has no problems at all burning the Blu-Ray ISO files that DVDA 5.0b produces. I think I posted my first question about this on the Sony Blu-Ray forum hosted by Agoraquest. When I found out about using the Ashampoo burning program, I posted a message asking what good DVDA 5.0b was if it couldn't even burn its own ISO files. And why could a piece of freeware do a better job at burning. The answers I got amounted to "DVDA is a good authoring program and worth using for that reason". So I'm not the only one who authors Blu-Ray discs with DVDA and uses a 3rd-party burner. But I don't like it. You and I paid big bucks for this program and it has a very fundamental deficiency in one of its main processes. If Sony can't do what the folks at Ashampoo can do, what else is wrong with DVDA? I could go on with Vegas too, but I wouldn't inflict that on you. Give Ashampoo Burning Studio or some other freeware burner a try and see what happens. It works for me even though it's a workaround for DVDA and not a solution provided by Sony. Oh yeah: the burner drive I'm using is the LG GGW-H20L. It's one of their older models but I've never had a problem with it - with software that works, that is. Good luck! PS: Ashampoo burning studio is good with audio discs too, MP3, etc. I like it.