copying Blu-Ray videos

[Dave Watterson]

I'm no expert, Roy1, but I think you have been told correctly that the LG GGW-H201 does not work properly with Windows 7.

The problem seems to be that Windows 7 connects to discs through something called Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) - which allows more flexibility for drive manufacturers, but the LG GGW-H201 is designed for the older ATA connection system.

There are ways to tweak the BIOS on your machine so that it uses ATA, but that might muck up everything else! If you are not confident about tweaking and twiddling with the computer, don't try it.

There is no Windows7 driver available from LG, so ... perhaps Col Lamb will tell us which burner he chose ...

Dave

[Roy1]

COLIN. Yes please tell us which new burner you chose. I have decided to stick with windows 7 and buy a new Burner. I wish I'd of read your post on another forum before I gave myself all this stress.

[col lamb]

Roy

I got a new LG unit from Scan Computers at Bolton, it cost £70

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/lg-bh10l ... ctFeatures

It works great, no coasters so far (kiss of death there then) and came with some software, note that there is a slightly cheaper model with no software, I am not at home at the moment and so cannot check to see just what the software was. IMGBURN works a treat with it.

NOTE it is a SATA drive.

[Dave Watterson]

Col is using an internal DVD writer: BH10LS38
The external version would be BE12LU38

Oddly I cannot trace either of those on LG's own British website. The nearest they show are versions ending "30" not "38" and those do not state that they are compatible with Windows 7.

BUT PC Advisor website does reckon BH10LS38 is Windows 7 compatible.

As a matter of interest the American LG support site shows the BE12LU38 and does say it is compatible with Windows 7.

BUT these drives do not accept Firewire !!!

[Roy1]

I am in a quandary now. I had decided to buy the LG burner that Col Lamb had installed. And then I read on the vegas forum that Ian Stark says that he has the model BH10LS30 and all though it's compatible with Windows 7 it is not working with DVDA. In fact he is getting the same problems as I am with the earlier LG model. Unfortunately Col does not use DVDA so I don't know if his chosen model will work for me. Is there nobody out there who uses W.7 and DVDA and burns HD discs. If there is please tell which burner you use.

[TimStannard]

Is there nobody out there who uses W.7 and DVDA and burns HD discs. If there is please tell which burner you use.

I don't, (I'm still in standard def land) but I know a man who does. I'll find out for you....

[TimStannard]

Roy, I've received this from my friend:

"My BluRay built-in burner is an LG, model BH08. Bear in mind this is now a couple of years old, so will have been superseded by a later model, BH09.

I can only speak as I find, and this burner has created all the HD films I’ve shown at the club; reliability and quality have both been excellent.

Hope this helps,"

So this looks like an older model! But he is burning BDs with Vegas/DVDA without a hitch. Rather than help, this may have confused the issue further, I'm afraid.

[col lamb]

I did mention it in an earlier post but maintaining a copy on your PC of the most up to date firmware is good practice, that said if the device is working OK do not install it (using the.......if it ain't broke don't fix it ethos).

The same goes for all other drivers in your system, motherboard, audio, graphics card etc. as manufacturers update their systems they tend not to support earlier products and then often use generic drivers. That is precisely the problem I had with my old LG burner as LG failed to support it with firmware that took the new disc dyes into account......sorry to slightly digress.

Back to the original post I have used Pavtube Video Convertor Ultimate for quite a while very successfully with my LG burner, the software costs $55 and produces very good results.

With it you can copy a full disc (DVD or Blu-ray), convert files into other formats and it will even rip commercial DVD's and Blu-ray's.

This last option for me is well worth the cost of the software as I have been ripping my DVD and Blu-ray collection and putting the resultant file on my network hard drive (Synology discstation) so that I can be even more of a couch potato as I have my movies instantly available to view on the TV which is also connected to my home network......sorry digressing again.

Oh, forgot to mention it will also convert AVCHD files to AVI's for use in editing systems that cannot edit the AVCHD files in their original format. So if anyone has a new AVCHD camcorder but their editing system is struggling ... do try downloading a trial of Pavtube and transcode a few AVCHD files and see how it goes, at $55 it is way cheaper that Cineform's Neoscene which is $130 and what I have been recommending previously.............end of digressions (sorry Dave)

[Dave Watterson]

Col - your digressions are, as usual, little gems. Keep them coming.

But none of us have, so far, answered Roy1's problem.


Dave

[Roy1]

Thanks for all the info, most grateful. I know how to burn ISO files to DVD's, but I can not make an ISO file. I want to know how to create an ISO file using Vegas DVD A studio 5 and Window 7. I thought architect made iso's automatically. I must be wrong, I have some ISO files showing in "my discs" but how they got there I don't know. Every time I save from Architect it ends up as a folder file which is not an ISO. I have looked at all the forums I know of, and whatever the suggestion they come up it doesn't work for me and I've had a PC expert with me and he's baffled. I think I'll reinstall Architect and put a new burner in the PC and see what happens. I can actually burn Blu-rays and DVD's but the work round methods take a great deal of time. That's why I want to know how to make ISO,s.

[Dave Watterson]

According to the start-up guide for DVD Architect 5 ...

You can choose when choosing to burn whether to make a DVD or an ISO.
The choice comes when you are asked to choose the burn settings and normally you see a list of the DVD burners on your computer. There is an option there for choosing ISO instead of a burner. You will then be asked to specify a folder to store the ISO file.

In any case, when it prepares a Blu-Ray it first creates an ISO file. When the dialog box with "Prepare" and "Burn" appears, click "Prepare" and then you have to choose where to put and what to name your new image file.

So take a look at those mysterious ISO files on your machine and check the dates they were created. You will probably find they were made when you tried burning some discs recently.

In Windows 7 there is a built-in ISO burning tool. In Windows Explorer right-click on and ISO file and from the menu which pops up choose "Burn Disc" ...

[Roy1]

Dave. Thank you for the info and following your guide the results have been partially successful. I can now make an ISO as long as it is Std Def and selecting make DVD. TO EVERYONE HELPING. If I try to do the same procedure with an HDV file and select burn to Blu-ray then the selection panel does not appear and there there is no way of selecting the ISO choice, and so it will only burn to the BLU-ray Disc. To sum up its works with normal DV files but not HDV. Correction. The selection panel does appear when burning to Blu-ray but the choices are greyed out except for the type of burner and that is fixed with the name of the blu-ray burner with no choice of ISO