Can Verbatim 4X burn at 8X?

[Boston Joe]

I have seen through reviews that people state that even though these are 4X BD-R's people burn them at 8X. Can DVDFab do this if I change speed from "recommended" to "8X" in the options? Any experiences?

[GregiBoy]

You will end up with a lot of coasters !!!

Recommended burn speed is 1/2 the rated speed of the media.

[AGJ]

I have seen through reviews that people state that even though these are 4X BD-R's people burn them at 8X. Can DVDFab do this if I change speed from "recommended" to "8X" in the options? Any experiences?

download and install ImgBurn and then do a discovery for the blank media you have. It will then give you the burn speeds that are available for that media. Do a copy paste to post that info here and then someone will be able to tell you what speed you can burn those at and get a good burn from it

[W&B]

I wouldn't suggest it even with the verbs. That's usually what causes playback problems is burning to fast.

[Boston Joe]

Hear you guys loud and clear on making coasters. I am actually in no hurry in trying to go from 4X to 8X because this time is trivial compared to the amount of time it takes to compress to 25GB! (my 50GB discs are on the way).

Here is my imageburn discovery information, let me know if anything of this means anything to any of you with regard to 8X:

HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH08LS20 1.00 (RAID)
Current Profile: BD-R

Disc Information:
Status: Empty
Erasable: No
Free Sectors: 12,219,392
Free Space: 25,025,314,816 bytes
Free Time: 2715:27:17 (MM:SS:FF)
Supported Write Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x

BD Disc Information:
Disc ID: VERBAT-IMc-00
Disc Type: BD-R

Performance (Write Speed):
Descriptor 1...
-> B0: 0x02, B1: 0x00, B2: 0x00, B3: 0x00
-> EL: 12219391 (0x00BA73FF)
-> RS: 14,881 KB/s (3.4x) - WS: 8,991 KB/s (2x)
Descriptor 2...
-> B0: 0x02, B1: 0x00, B2: 0x00, B3: 0x00
-> EL: 12219391 (0x00BA73FF)
-> RS: 14,881 KB/s (3.4x) - WS: 17,982 KB/s (4x)
Descriptor 3...
-> B0: 0x02, B1: 0x00, B2: 0x00, B3: 0x00
-> EL: 12219391 (0x00BA73FF)
-> RS: 14,881 KB/s (3.4x) - WS: 26,973 KB/s (6x)
Descriptor 4...
-> B0: 0x02, B1: 0x00, B2: 0x00, B3: 0x00
-> EL: 12219391 (0x00BA73FF)
-> RS: 14,881 KB/s (3.4x) - WS: 35,964 KB/s (8x)

[AGJ]

OK, the burn speeds available to you with those verbs are 2x, 4x, 6x and 8x speed. I burn my Double Layer verbatim at a burn speed of 6x so for you using Blu-ray media I would not go any faster than 6x but that speed will not guarantee a good burn so the safe speed for now I think would be a burn speed of 4x speed. I would also wait for others who actually use the Blu-ray feature of DVDFab as I have not gone the Blu-ray way yet

[Boston Joe]

Thanks! Yes, I am hoping the Blu Ray to Blu Ray folks will chime in as this is the forum for it I believe.

Another question, how does "recommended work"? What is the speed DVDFab sets?

[AGJ]

Another question, how does "recommended work"? What is the speed DVDFab sets?

Check out this link below for that

http://forum.dvdfab.com/showpost.php?p=55&postcount=2

Follow the youtube video for setting up the recommended for ImgBurn

[W&B]

Thanks! Yes, I am hoping the Blu Ray to Blu Ray folks will chime in as this is the forum for it I believe.

I think AGJ is correct, same holds true for Blu-ray same as DVD recommended burn speed. Half the reported speed available using ImgBurn (from my personal experince)

[Methos]

In regards to the Verbatim 4x burning at 8x, I have a package of 10 Verbatim BD-R 25gig discs rated at 4x (same ones as Boston Joe seems to be using) and Imgburn sees them as 8x after the latest firmware update to my drive.

I have burned all of the discs at 8x (using an LG BH08LS20) and all have worked perfectly. No coasters, no digital picture break-up, or pauses. Burning a 25gig disc in around 12 minutes is very cool

My drive is an internal Sata burner and I wouldn't recommend using 8x any external burners as the buffer will not be able to handle the data as fast.

Thanks

[Boston Joe]

Methos - we have the same setup. Thanks for chiming in. Great burner so far!

[Methos]

No problem Joe,

As of your original posting, you were using older firmware (HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH08LS20 1.00). I would suggest updating to the latest firmware (v2.x) for that LG drive. I will assume that BH and WH are the same drives, just different colors.

http://www.firmwarehq.com/download_1512-file_BH08LS20_200.exe.html

Hope this helps, let me know what happens when you try it at 8x.

Thanks
Ray

[Boston Joe]

Strange, I have the black drive, got it from newegg. The firmware you posted as well as the 'B" version on the LG site will not recognize my drive probably because of the "W" and there is no "W" drive on the LG website.

[Methos]

Nice, oh well, maybe your drive is newer and doesn't require any update. I saw another posting that said v1.0 was the latest for your drive.

Oh, and the LG site and the lack of updates and products has been a pet peeve of mine for years.

Thanks
Ray

[Boston Joe]

Did some googling and searching here. Not the same drives. 1.00 is the latest for me.

http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php

EDIT = posted at the same time as you. Thanks for checking it out as well.