Trouble burning Dual-Layer discs using various programs... suggestions?

Hello, I could really use some constructive, helpful recommendations here. I've been trying to burn some large (5+ GB) disc images (ISOs, but mostly VIDEO_TS files) to a Dual-Layer disc that would play on a regular DVD player.
So far I've tried a couple different DL disc brands (HP, Memorex), and various programs (Finder, Liquid CD, even Toast Titanium 10 seems to have a hard time doing so), but without much luck-- mostly just end up with coasters.
Have you had this problem trying to burn Dual-Layer discs? And what's a good freeware/shareware program or method that's done the job that you can recommend? I have at least 75GB of space on my 250GB drive (so I would imagine that's enough for any temp burn folder purposes...)
Thanks!

I use Verbatim usually and never have any problems so try one of those if possible, but before you do run a DVD Lens Cleaner disc through it as just a small spec of dust or dirt can sometimes play havoc.
I burn most things with Toast or the Mac OS itself.

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Hi please can someone help!!
I am pretty knowledgeable about macs but having problems.
My mac came with a pioneer 103 superdrive and have had no problems burning CDs and DVDs with Toast 6 Titanium. Recently i wanted to back up my dvds i have bought as some you can't easily buy anymore.
So i bought an external usb pioneer 108 and some 2.4x Dual layer DVD+R Rivision discs.
When ever i burn it gets right to the end of finishing and comes up with various errors and says it may have a lead-in lead-out connectivity problem. I have installed a patchburn which recognised both dvd drives and i installed before trying to burn. I have read somewhere that OSX 10.2.9 + can burn Dual layer and i have 10.3.9.
I have tried best and 2x with no joy. I am also using the setting DVD-ROM (UDF). After the disc mounts it plays through DVD player but is really jolting and is spit out by my normal DVD player connected to my TV.
I have got the DVD info off the disc using MactheRipper and just placing the two folders Video T_S and the other on the disc. I am keeping the Name as it was orginally. I have successfully copied a DVD that was less than 4.7gb which worked on both of my dvd players with my Pioneer 103 drive that can only burn normal DVDs.
I have not tried burning any other disc formats on the Pioneer 108 but felt it was a software problem rather than a hardware.
I have looked on Pioneer.co.uk and they have Firmware's i can download for the Pioneer 108 but not sure what firmware is or does? or whether they are PC or Mac versions.
thanks for your time, hope i have given all information required, would appreciate anyones help.

Hi
See Mac OS 10.4 Help
And Mac OS 10.3 Help
You need Tiger if you want to burn DL Media using the Finder, otherwise you'll need to invest in Roxio's Toast.

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I have recently installed the Samsung SH-S202N. I have Toast 9. I have tried to burn +R DL discs several times now, and they simply stick at around 2% complete. I then can't force quit toast or eject the disc.
I looked on the Samsung site for firmware updates, but there are currently none.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Ben

I have had an issue with the Toast display getting stuck while the burn is actually completed; it'll say 18% completed forever, but the "time remaining" continues to tick down, and eventually I have a disc. Don't suppose that is your case? The latest Tiger upgrade may have whacked roxio software pretty hard, I am having lots of roxio trouble now.
As always, delete the toast plist in preferences, restart.
Internal superdrive or external after market burner? Toast is pretty good with after market externals. I gotta say. Also never use a hub or daisy chain on an external burner.. always connect directly to mac.

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Hi all,
so i finally decided to bite the bullet and divorce my PC, Windows and almost everything microsoft,
my new life with Mac is fantastic!!!
so, a little advice is what i need with me being still new to the world of mac.
last night i tried to burn a large amount of data to a dual layer disk, after it was complete it took a while to verify it, then a new window popped up saying i had inserted a blank disc?? so i ejected the cd and slid it right back in, after a minute or so and a few noises it was spat right out, do i need to use a seperate burning program in order to burn dual layer propperly??
thnaks all!!!!

I am having problems with burning DL discs too. Below are the specs on my MBP and SuperDrive. BTW, I am trying to burn to TDK DL and have made 10 coasters, over half of those with Apple support on the line.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N:
Model: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N
Revision: AP09
Serial Number: K1N79BD5217
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: Yes
Power Off: Yes
Firmware Revision: AP09
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CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
I am going to try Verbatim DL disc per the suggestion of the link below:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/dvd-media.htm

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I have an iMac9,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz with 8 gigs of ram, with a OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S DVD-writable to -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW. It will not spit out a properly formated disc from IDVD. I get the "Supported disc not available" message, even though I have encoded it for dual layer in NTSC.
Has anyone ever experience problems with this? If so, what did you do to resolve it? I've burned through a half a dozen dual layer disc and these are still not supercheap.
TommyBoye

Yes I called and my warranty was up so the nerd on the other end tried to sell me the applecare protection program. I guess my next step is to go to an apple store, but as the person that replied last in that discussion said time is an issue. I guess my biggest problem with this whole thing is that it is obviously the update that messed up all of these superdrives, so warranty shouldn't be an issue. Apple even removed the download link: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070716082804520&query=superdrive

Trouble burning dual layer dvd's with my superdirve

Hello, my question is regarding burning dual layer dvd's on my macbook pro. After finishing up a 5.6 GB movie in DVDSP4, i exported as an image (burned it as a .img) and then opened it up in disk utility for burning. Upon execution, i received an error message that said " the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media." I then tried burning the .img via DVDSP4 as well as the standard drag to disk on my desktop, all with the same luck. When trying the standard drag, drop and burn method (burn folder on my desktop), i received the error code 0X80020022.
After having no luck, i tested my super drive with standard CD's and single layer DVD's which it burned to just fine. I then tried switching media from memorex dvd dl +r's to sony dl + r's, but unfortunately it just refuses to burn to dual layer.
Any ideas as to what might be the problem?
Thanks.
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Great Job

Problems with Burning Dual layer discs

I now have a pile of DL +R disc coasters as a consequence of failed burns....
I've put a new DL+R disc in th drive and system profiler says;
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA:
Firmware Revision: AE39
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Type: DVD+R DL
ID: MKM 001
Blank: Yes
Erasable: No
Overwritable: Yes
Appendable: Yes
Write Speeds: 2.4x
which seems okay.
Burning an ISO to the drive gives an error right at the start and the disc is unuseable. The log files show ;
2009-03-06 21:29:46 +0000: Burning Image “10A286-UserDVD.dmg”
2009-03-06 21:30:56 +0000: Image name: “10A286-UserDVD.dmg”
2009-03-06 21:30:56 +0000: Burn disc in: “HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA”
2009-03-06 21:30:56 +0000: Erase disc before burning: No
2009-03-06 21:30:56 +0000: Leave disc appendable: No
2009-03-06 21:30:56 +0000: Verify burned data after burning: Yes
2009-03-06 21:30:56 +0000: Eject disc after burning
2009-03-06 21:30:56 +0000:
2009-03-06 21:30:56 +0000: expected CRC32 $9769A210
2009-03-06 21:30:56 +0000: Preparing data for burn
2009-03-06 21:31:19 +0000: Finishing burn
2009-03-06 21:31:28 +0000: Burn failed
2009-03-06 21:31:28 +0000: The burn failed because of a medium write error.
2009-03-06 21:31:28 +0000: Additional information can be found in the ~/Library/Logs/DiscRecording.log log file.
2009-03-06 21:31:29 +0000: Unable to burn “10A286-UserDVD.dmg”. (The burn failed because of a medium write error.)
2009-03-06 21:31:29 +0000:
Looking at the logfile;
Disk Utility: Burn started, Fri Mar 6 21:30:56 2009
Disk Utility: Burning to DVD+R DL (MKM 001) media with DAO strategy in HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA AE39 via ATAPI.
Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 47x, actual burn speed is 2.4x.
Disk Utility: Burn failed, Fri Mar 6 21:31:18 2009
Disk Utility: Burn sense: 3/0C/00 Medium Error, Write error
Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x8002006E The burn failed because of a medium write error.
DiskUtility has the 2.4x speed set but its grayed out - the above suggests that DiskUtility is trying to burn at 47x but as the speed setting is grayed out I cannot reduce the speed in any way.
Anyone had this before - I have used this brand of disc before and its from the middle of a box which has been fine.

I'm not convinced this is a hardware issue. My logs definitely point to a software-based bug.
The clue that points to a software issue is this snippet from your log. Did anyone at the Genius bar comment on it?
*Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 47x, actual burn speed is 2.4x.*
I think I've found a solution to my particular problem. Here's a repost of my success from another thread.
This thread solved my verification problems
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1726622&tstart=0
Read the second posting. It gives a fantastic argument for not doing anything on the computer after you press the "burn" button in the finder.
It resolved this error for me:
Finder: Verify started, Thu Mar 12 17:47:35 2009
Finder: Discrepancy in block 300 at byte 79.
Finder: Source data: 0000 0000 0000 0200 0000 0000 0000 0D00
Finder: Burned data: 0000 0000 0000 0200 0000 0000 0000 0C00
Finder: Verify failed, Thu Mar 12 17:47:37 2009
Finder: Verify error: 0x80020063 Verification of the burn failed.
Also be sure your computer is burning at the proper speeds. Previously I was recieving this message:
Finder: Requested burn speed was 47x, actual burn speed is 8x.
Which is false because I intentionally picked to burn at 4x. After updating to 10.5.6 and repairing permissions suddenly, the log was appearing correctly as this...
Finder: Requested burn speed was 4x, actual burn speed is 4x.
You can see logs of your dvd/cd burning by opening Console (use spotlight to search for it) and looking under "LOG Files". The file is named DiscRecording.log in the console app.

Exporting to burn dual layer disc from FCP

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I exported a short video of mine from Final Cut Express and the size of the file came out to 7.3 GB. When I put it into an iDVD project, it says that the file is only 800 MB. I tried just burning it onto a dual layer disc anyway to see if it might still burn at the original file size, but the disc came out unusable for some reason, and obviously hadn't been burned anywhere near full-capacity. So, I tried it again, and the exact same thing happened.
I guess my first question is: why is iDVD changing the size of the file? I want the quality to be the best it can be, so keeping it at 7.3 GB as opposed to 800 MB is rather important.
Secondly, why did the dual layer discs come out unusable? I've burned single layer discs before and they haven't been an issue. Also, I know for a fact that the drive can burn dual layer discs, so that isn't the issue.
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LivelyJamesS wrote:
I exported a short video of mine from Final Cut Express and the size of the file came out to 7.3 GB. When I put it into an iDVD project, it says that the file is only 800 MB.
Guessing here but it looks like you edited/exported an SD/DV sequence of about 30 min in FCE. DVD needs to be MPEG-2 so iDVD compresses the original file down to the size that you report.
LivelyJamesS wrote:
I guess my first question is: why is iDVD changing the size of the file? I want the quality to be the best it can be, so keeping it at 7.3 GB as opposed to 800 MB is rather important.
The quality will be what the MPEG-2 compression and the software allow for. MPEG-2 is DVD standard .... there's no way around that.
LivelyJamesS wrote:
Secondly, why did the dual layer discs come out unusable? I've burned single layer discs before and they haven't been an issue. Also, I know for a fact that the drive can burn dual layer discs, so that isn't the issue.
Guessing again but it would seem that you burned a Data DVD instead of a Video DVD which would be unusable by a set-top player. As I said above you can't get around DVD standards.
If by any chance your video was HD originally you can try to go the Blu-Ray route using Roxio Toast or FCS 3 (discontinued) or FCP X. You will also need a Blu-Ray burner.

DVD Burns Dual Layer gives Scrambled Results & Crashes OSX!

Hello,
I'm using Disk Utility in Leopard to try and copy a DVD dual layer. The method I use is create DVD Master image using disk util, then burn to Dual Layer disc using Disk Util again. I've tried DL +R and -R from Verbatim, Imation, a No-Name brand, TDK, and the result is all the same - the DVD when played back on a Sony DVD player is all scrambled and jerky. The source DVD is fine.
Also if I try and play the burnt DVD in Leopard DVD Player, the whole MacBook freezes and requires power off to reset it!
Anybody else seen this before?

KimonoW wrote:
the DVD when played back on a Sony DVD player is all scrambled and jerky. The source DVD is fine.
This could be due to your DVD Player not being able to play DL burned media. Mine places burned SL DVD's no problem, but balks on DL DVD's. Won't even load them. Does the original DVD have DRM enabled on it? If so, then that is most likely the problem. Most movie DVD's have it enabled now a days, and some computer games (like The Sims for example) have it enabled too.
KimonoW wrote:
Also if I try and play the burnt DVD in Leopard DVD Player, the whole MacBook freezes and requires power off to reset it!
No clue, sounds like a kernel panic. What happens if you try to run the DVD on another machine?

Can't Burn Dual Layer BD Disc with Share Option

I burn bluray discs from FCP 7 using the "share" option, and each time I do it, it's a crapshoot whether it will work or not, particularly with dual layer discs (50GB) as is the case now.
Bacially, after waiting the 15 hours for the files to output, I am greeted with the following message: "There was an error burning your disc. Please check to see if your boot volume has sufficient space." At that point I try reloading the disc and click "Try Again", but the same thing appears. I know I have more than sufficient space on my hard drive, as well as on the bluray itself (the H.264 video file is only 26gb). I also load the BD disc proir to starting the Share as I've been told that this is how the program knows you have a large enough disc capacity.
Here are the specs of what I'm using. Perhaps they can offer some insight:
iMac Intel Core Duo with most recent Snow Leopard
Buffalo BRHC-6316 Bluray/HD DVD Combo Drive
Verbatim Dual Layer Recordable 50GB Disc (6x speed)
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Thanks!

SHORT ANSWER: Try a different BRAND of BD-R. Worked for me!
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This is my first attempt at using iMovie. I used slides, added a music and speaking track over it.
I would like to reduce the size to a standard DVD rather than using expensive dual-layer discs. How do I determine the size?
My Mac is only 80 GB, is that a problem?
Thanks,
Carlos Marques

It seems as if perhaps you've clicked, in iMovie, on 'File' and 'Burn Project to Disc...' instead of Exporting to iDVD.
When you Export to iDVD, your project ought to easily fit on a DVD.
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I encountered the following article when recently researching the same question however I have not tried it.
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