Unable To Burn Blu-Ray

[Leo Larkin]

Hi just attempting to burn my first blu-ray disc without success so far..... I have an Intel mac pro 2 x 2.66 Ghz Dual Core with 6 gb memory using Toast 10 pro and burning from a blu-ray drive HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH10LS30.

I am putting 3 videos 1hr , 1hr 5min and 15min using all but 300mb or so capacity on to a verbatim 25gb BD-R after about 7 8 hrs I get an error message (Sense Key = Medium Error & Sense code = 0 X 7 , 0 X 3) Do any of you guys know what I am doing wrong? any help will be greatly appreacaited.

[tsantee]

Try choosing Save as Disc Image and then burn the disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window. Also check that your Blu-ray drive's firmware is up to date. One possibility is the drive has gone to sleep during the encoding period and isn't ready to start writing when Toast begins sending the data. That's why saving as a disc image first might help. A medium error is typically an incompatibility between the drive's firmware and the disc used but that shouldn't be a concern with Verbatim media.

[Leo Larkin]

Try choosing Save as Disc Image and then burn the disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window. Also check that your Blu-ray drive's firmware is up to date. One possibility is the drive has gone to sleep during the encoding period and isn't ready to start writing when Toast begins sending the data. That's why saving as a disc image first might help. A medium error is typically an incompatibility between the drive's firmware and the disc used but that shouldn't be a concern with Verbatim media.

Hi tsantee I will give it a go and get back to you.

many thanks for your help

Leo

[Leo Larkin]

Hi tsantee I will give it a go and get back to you.

many thanks for your help

Leo

Hi I tried the disc image solution with the 3 movies 1hr 6m in 1hr and 7min saved as a disc image and the tried to burn onto a Blu-Ray (Verbatim) got to near the end and I got an error message "not enough space" so I then took 1hr 6min video and saved as disc image 11gb then tried to burn this and got this message

SENSE KEY = Medium error

Sense code = 0 x 73, 0x03

I am baffelled by this here is the blu-ray drive info I get from about this mac

HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH10LS30:

 

Firmware Revision: 1.00

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)

Profile Path: None

Cache: 4096 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

BD-Write: -R, -RE

Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

 

Help

 

Leo

[tsantee]

Hi I tried the disc image solution with the 3 movies 1hr 6m in 1hr and 7min saved as a disc image and the tried to burn onto a Blu-Ray (Verbatim) got to near the end and I got an error message "not enough space" so I then took 1hr 6min video and saved as disc image 11gb then tried to burn this and got this message

SENSE KEY = Medium error

Sense code = 0 x 73, 0x03

I am baffelled by this here is the blu-ray drive info I get from about this mac

HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH10LS30:

 

Firmware Revision: 1.00

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)

Profile Path: None

Cache: 4096 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

BD-Write: -R, -RE

Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

 

Help

 

Leo

 

Sorry but but you've tried everything I can suggest. It sounds like you nearly had a clean burn with the multiple titles but apparently came too close to the maximum allowable space. I don't know what the actual capacity of a 25 GB BD-R is. A 4.7 GB DVD is actually 4.38 GB, for instance. I would expect Toast to warn you that there isn't enough room before starting the burn, however. Did you try burning at a slower speed than Best (which is the fastest speed that the drive believes it can burn to that particular media)?

[Leo Larkin]

Sorry but but you've tried everything I can suggest. It sounds like you nearly had a clean burn with the multiple titles but apparently came too close to the maximum allowable space. I don't know what the actual capacity of a 25 GB BD-R is. A 4.7 GB DVD is actually 4.38 GB, for instance. I would expect Toast to warn you that there isn't enough room before starting the burn, however. Did you try burning at a slower speed than Best (which is the fastest speed that the drive believes it can burn to that particular media)?

Hi I was burning at x2 I think it may be the burner.

Leo