Questions tagged [blu-ray]
Blu-ray is an optical disk storage device capable of holding 25GB of information (or 50GB for dual layer discs), designed to replace the DVD format.
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Why is Windows 11 not recognizing any Blu-ray burners?
It appears that Windows 11 has stopped recognizing my Blu-Ray Drive as a Burner. The symptoms are the 'Format' option has disappeared from the right mouse menu and the eject option does not work.
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Do Blu-ray drives have an RID?
CDs and DVDs have a unique number identifying the drive that writes them named a RID (Recorder IDentification).
Does a Blu-ray, a newer form of optic-media, also have an RID?
This is a follow up to ...
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Stream blu-ray player to PC
I'm looking into buying a Blu-ray player and I want to stream it over my home network so I can be able to watch Blu-Rays anywhere in the house with any laptop or desktop. (Running windows 10)
I've ...
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convert *.mpls (a Blu-ray audio) to tracked FLAC by chapters
how to convert *.mpls (bluRai audio) to tracked FLAC with chapters?
as many single songs
ffmpeg -i "f:\BDMV\STREAM\00003.m2ts" -map 0:4 "E:\Downloads\Blu-ray Disc.flac"
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On opening a BluRay disc, VLC either won't detect Java or crashes when detecting it
On Windows 10, I am trying to read BluRays with VLC and MakeMKV installed. I have the latest versions of both (3.0.17.4 64 bits version for VLC, 1.16.7 32 bits version for MakeMKV).
At first I could ...
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How to sync subtitle from DVD to Bluray
If i have .srt subtitle for DVDrip movie .
Is there any tool or program to sync it to work properly with the same movie in bluray format ?
I'm not professional in this field so i want the most ...
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Does it make sense to add checksums to archived data?
We want to archive some data for long term storage on optical media (M-Disks).
Does it make sense to create checksums for all files beforehand and burn them alongside the data onto the M-Disks?
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Autoplay Bluray with VLC
VLC can support Bluray playback after installing two small files in the right directories.
However, when you insert a bluray disc, you can't right click and play with VLC.
You have to launch VLC, ...
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Bluray: skip intro button [90% done]
I have 65 episodes of some animated series in .mp4 h264 that I want to burn onto bluray disc, and I need to have those 2 functions:
programmable "skip intro" button that (after pressing ...
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is there a simple tool to determine if my combo of video card and TV is HDCP compatible?
I'm using Arcsoft TMT3 to play Blurays. It's been playing fine for a few years but all of a sudden TMT3 says that my system isn't HDCP compatible. No changes to anything in the system -- possibly a ...
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Should I store important Blu-ray discs vacuum packed with a silica gel bag to ensure they will work 10 to 20 years from now?
If I want to store a Blu-ray discs and hope they still work in 10 to 20 years, should I vacuum pack it with some silica gel?
My idea would be to put it into a paper disc storage sleeve, put that ...
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Optical drive failing at specific disc locations: bad drive or bad disc?
I have an issue with my optical drive (DVD/Blu-Ray). It fails to read specific discs always at specific points on those discs. For example one disc always fails at the 49.5% point. Some other discs ...
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CD DVD BD - Does it spin left or right?
So, how do those discs spin? Clockwise or counterclockwise? I cannot find any information on the topic.
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HD movies stutter
I just put together a new system build in the hopes that all of my daily tasks would run smoothly and without any hiccups.
Unfortunately I am still seeing some sound and sometimes video stuttering ...
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Count non-fatal read errors on optical disks
Optical disks use Reed-Solomon codes to deal with limited amount of bit flips and hide them from user.
Is there a way under Linux or Windows to count these bit-flips?
Essentially I want to find out ...
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BD-RE eject only with disc on it
My BD-RE Drive on pc eject normally only if it have disc on it
If there no disc i eject it only by using needle on the hole
Why?
I opened it and clean it but didn't fix
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Can modern PC's boot installation disc from internal SATA Blu Ray/DVD drive through sata-to-usb enclosure?
Does booting operating system installation discs from Blu ray sata drive through SATA-to-USB enclosure work?
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How can I copy files from a scratched CD/DVD?
I have so far tried the following software solutions without success.
Windows Explorer Copy (default)
TeraCopy
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
Unstoppable Copier stops copying as a whole, it keeps ...
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How can I play a Blu-Ray movie on Google TV without first ripping it to another format?
If I put a Blu-Ray disc into the Blu-Ray drive on my PC, is there an easy way to cast\stream it to my Goolge TV dongle that does not involve ripping the movie first (Just playing it live straight from ...
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UDF formatting a BD-RE under Linux - media type "bdr" unknown?
This is on Ubuntu 20.04.1, Pioneer BDR-XS07, 50 GB BD-RE (multiple discs from different vendors tested).
Formatting the disc with UDF version 2.50 works:
$ sudo mkudffs --utf8 --blocksize=2048 --...
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MKV video suddenly stops playing after random time - what could this be?
I have this HP USB drive (16GB, NTFS formatted) that has, a MKV video.
The USB is always detectable, so is the MKV, but when I connect that USB drive with that MKV video on my HT-C5530 home cinema ...
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can i boot from a blue ray? [duplicate]
the easy telled question is in the title.. the hard one is.. can i boot windows 11 (LEAKED) from a blue ray the size of windows 11 (THE LEAKED VERSION!) is 4,5GB big i downloaded LITERALLY 3 hours or ...
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`mkisofs crashed` while burning a movie to a Blu-Ray with K3b
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I want to burn a movie (.mkv) to a Blu-Ray disc.
What I've done
First, I generate a Blu-Ray BDMV directory structure from the .mkv with tsMuxeR GUI (2.6.16-dev).
Next, for how to burn to the ...
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Blu-Ray reader won't read Blu-Ray discs. no issues reading DVDs
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I've tried several Blu-Ray titles and none of them worked. I tried the same discs on the PS3 and no issues playing them.
I also tried DVD discs on the Blu-Ray drive and I had no problems ...
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are blue ray disks the cheapest storage medium per Gb?
The question is as simple as that really. Are bluray disks the cheapest storage medium per gb?
I am recording video which is using about 32gb per day. So a month of that would be almost 1Tb. A year ...
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VLC gets java headless error on Blu-ray discs
I have been using VLC for a long time, watching Blu-rays but unable to access the menus due to a "Java not found" type of error. My environment is Fedora 32, x64
I installed the library ...
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Is it possible to create a Windows 7 System Image, to multiple Blu Ray (BD-R) discs? If so, how?
Is it possible to create a Windows 7 System Image, using Microsoft's built in Backup and Restore feature, to multiple, write once, Blu Ray (BD-R) optical discs? If so, how?
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Mounting a blu-ray disk on arch linux
I'm trying to mount a blu-ray disk on arch linux and so far I'm failing. According to google, my reader is capable of reading blu-ray and wodim also detects the device.
$ wodim dev=/dev/sr0 -prcap
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BluRay-R, DVD+R, DVD-R [closed]
I am presently saving data on DVD+R was always told to use +R, but never knew why.
I am looking into possibly upgrading to BluRay, but can only find -R writable discs: What is the difference between ...
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Replacing laptop optical drive (DVD, blu-ray) - what do I need to know?
Are laptop optical drives always compatible? Do they come in different physical sizes? Are there any specs I need to match on the new drive, such as whether it has SATA?
If so, how would I find ...
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How to navigate DVD and BD menus in VLC with keyboard?
At least with blu-rays I'm experiencing mouse-offset, with some releases I can't select menu elements at all (rendering also may be partially broken). Being able to navigate using keyboard would solve ...
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Using udfutils to create a data BD-R image on Linux
I'm attempting to script burning data Blu-ray media for a large collection of files. I want to generate image files on one server to be burned onto BD-R DL (50GB) media at a later point on another ...
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How to rip Blu-Ray discs using open source software
How can one rip Blu-Rays that he or she owns via AnyDVD as the decoder? Open source would be prefer but not require. H.264 video codec is preferred.
Current Software: AnyDVD HD & Handbrake
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Ffmpeg bluray option
let's take for example I got this https://nyaa.si/view/1235388
According to FFmpeg usage to take Bluray as input we can use
ffmpeg -i bluray:"path/to/bluray/" -map 0 -c copy -c:a flac remuxed-bluray....
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Can I put a Blu-Ray burner in a USB DVD enclosure?
The 5.25" DVD burner in my old USB enclosure is going out, and I'm wondering if it would work to put a Blu-Ray burner in it, or if I should stick with a replacement DVD burner.
Is there any ...
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Convert BluRay iso to mkv or mp4 without changing resolution? (e.g. using Handbrake)
I've got a .iso file of a BluRay movie, and I want to convert that to a single .mp4 or .mkv file.
After searching around I came across this answer to a similar question. But when I use the given ...
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My BD Writer is not working and crashes Windows Explorer
So I bought a new desktop PC with a BD Writer (Asus BW-16D1HT). The thing is that although reads DVDs, when a I try to install a game (Age of Mythology DVD ROM) it crashes Windows Explorer and do ...
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Does a blu-ray reader perform better at recovering faulty CD-R / DVD-R's?
I have some old, partially unreadable CR-R's and DVD-R's. I tried many CD and DVD drives using recovery tools like isopuzzle and so on, but unfortunately there are still missing sectors. Back in the ...
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Is there an easy way to read Blu-ray discs on Windows?
Some time ago, I bought my parents a computer dedicated to media (mostly photographs and movies through DLNA). My father asked me if he could read Blu-ray discs on it, so I bought a Blu-ray reader, ...
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Can I use Bluray as a boot cd?
If so what is the new maximum size of a boot(blueray) cd?
Please explain the differences between boot cds and boot blueray cds if possible.
If this is not possible please explain why.
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growisofs warnings when writing to Blu-ray Dual Layer discs
I'm archiving my media collection onto BD-R Dual Layer discs but keep getting the following IO errors at the end of the writing process (usually > 95% complete) :
:-[ WRITE@LBA=168e800h failed with ...
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How can I remount an ejected and unmounted AudioCD on external USB Bluray drive on Mac?
I am trying to copy my entire CD collection (roughly 200 disks) to MP3s. I use XLD for that task but after a CD is done ripping it disappears completely from the MacOS (10.14) as if it was not even in ...
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Why can't the DVD format store FHD 1080p or 720P (given the fact that their storage capacity is more than 4 GB)?
A standard 1080p movie is 4 GB or less with h.264 or h.265. And the size that a dvd format can support is 4.7 Gb.Which means DVD format should store1080p movies. So why do people say that bluray ...
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Why is the length of the same movie different?
Currently I am digitizing my collection of DVDs. Some of the DVDs have a scratch and cannot be read perfectly. When this occurs I am downloading this DVD from the internet and try to recover the ...
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Can Nero SecurDisc Surface Scan be rerun after the disc had been burned?
I burned a double layered BD-R disc (UDF file system), it finished successfully then in the midst of the surface scan run I had a power outage before it had the time to finish.
All of the data was ...
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Why is Blu-Ray File Read Speed (Data Transfer) slower than Write Speed?
I burnt a full Blu-ray disc (25GB) at 8x speed. It took some 20 or so minutes, but when I try to copy it back to my computer to verify the contents via Windows explorer, it takes over 2 hours and says ...
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Why might a laptop suddenly stop recognizing blank bluray discs?
Said laptop had/has an external BluRay drive that I back some folders up to once a month to create a historical archive of sorts of files that change month to month. This setup has been working for 3 ...
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Play Blu-Rays on Windows XP?
I have been having trouble playing Blu-Rays on Windows XP.
I have AnyMP4 BluRay toolkit, but it does not play titles and menus correctly. I just gives a list of tracks which makes it difficult to ...
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Does converting from DTS-HD MA to AC3 lead to lower quality versus extracting the DTS core?
DTS Core is 1.5 mbps, AC-3 is 640 kbps, but I heard that AC-3 is much more efficient than DTS and that DTS at 1.5 mbps equals AC-3 at 640.
However, if the source is DTS-HD MA, extracting the DTS core ...
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Is it safe to use a SATA to USB enclosure with a Blu-ray drive?
I have an ASUS N56JR laptop, and I’ve just replaced the optical drive (Blu-ray reader/DVD writer combo) with an HDD caddy. This allowed me to install an SSD into the primary hard disk drive slot, and ...
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