RushFan

I occasionally get burned BR's and sometimes dual layer (Verbatim) BR"s sent to me from a friend with various video on them. It's hit or miss as far as them working. I have 2 BR players in the house, a Sony and a Samsung. Many times the discs won't play in either of them. They are both roughly 5 years old and barely get used. I don't understand why all burned DVDs seem to play fine without exception, yet when you pop in a BR it's an adventure as to whether the #$^@ thing is going to play or not. Don't know if buying a new Panasonic player will solve anything but I am considering it.

No 'piracy' there at all, these are shows filmed with the band's blessing for private use only and freely distributed among fans with zero commercial gain. They are freely available for download on popular (and very much legal) torrent sites. I guess you are not aware, but Metallica encourages fans to record their concerts and in the past even had 'taper sections' at their concerts set up for those who wished to do so.

Here's an example, don't know how much of a help it would be. https://www.sjmike.com/modules/recordings/public/video.php?details=2167

I can only pick what I want from what source is available. If a guy mastered his show to dual layer blu-ray format only then that is what I am sent and hope for the best when attempting to play the disc.

I see some of the music concerts are put on standard dvds with 2 channel stereo sound. Others are on dual layer dvd. For the best quality audio and video experience recent video files over the past few years are only available on dual layer blu-rays. The latter are the ones that never seem to play in my machines.

Private video. No idea on the MB and GB, most discs would be approx. 150 minutes of video with 1536 FLAC audio.

So what's your diagnosis?

He said he uses ImgBurn.