Any advantage in burning disc in ImgBurn vs DVDA?

S35 wrote on 2/20/2015, 7:54 AM

Hi everyone,

Basically the title says it all: if I'm making a playable disc to send in to a replication house (rather than an ISO image or mastering files) is there any potential for increased compatibility by burning the disc in a program such as ImgBurn vs directly through DVD Architect?

Thanks!

Comments

Jack S wrote on 2/20/2015, 11:26 AM

The advantage you gain is that you can't get DVDAS to verify the disk. Imgburn does, if you ask it to.

Chienworks wrote on 2/20/2015, 2:36 PM

Agreed. That's why i use Nero instead of burning in DVDA.

videoITguy wrote on 2/20/2015, 11:33 PM

No, the best possible thing you can do is burn the disc in DVDAPro - then verify it with another program, in 2nd different PC install of different app like Nero Ahead on a different drive. Write and verify should be on two different platforms.

S35 wrote on 2/21/2015, 11:44 AM

Thanks for the responses!

UKharrie wrote on 3/5/2015, 8:20 AM

Am I misunderstanding the screen msg. of my version (5) of DVDAS?
- Doesn't it say the DVD was burnt successfully?

- Why isn't this a "check" . . . ?

( Otherwise, what is the purpose of the msg? ).

I agree that checking on a different m/c is a good idea - I use an older DVD Player and a more-recent BD player - - - which I sometimes take along to shows, just in case. It has HDMI out, - whereas the DVD player is SCART

ImgBurn is an old burning program - not sure why it's not been kept up-to-date as it was/is a robust program.
However, I try to avoid using it, as it's hardly user-friendly despite being FOC.

videoITguy wrote on 3/5/2015, 9:16 AM

Ukharrie, what you are seeing in the dialogue, is a programmer's statement read from the code of the application. Something like this, when DVDAPro completes the disc burn, the code interrogates the burner to see if IT stopped burning.
What this SCS programmer should have said more eloquently and profoundly - "The burn appears to have stopped and so must be completed by now" - but there is no disc verify statement and "successfull'" must be only assumed but not proved.