BD won't play on disc player

[ABWay]

I cannot play the BD created by Adobe Premiere Elements 9 on my Blu-Ray Disc Player BD270 (firmware BD.8.08.028.B).
The BD is created with my Blu-Ray Disc Drive BH08LS20 (firmware BH08LS20_200(ew)) under Windows 7.
I can play my BD on my BD disc drive BH08LS20, but my BD disc player BD270 just churns until it reports error.

[Chuck Engels]

Hi AB, What brand of discs are you using? Most failures occur due to bad media.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Here in the UK blank BD discs are still relatively expensive at UK£3-4 each for Verbatim. You can find cheaper ones at around UK£2 or so but not in brands that I trust.

I always use a BD-RE rewritable disc to produce a test disc that I can check on my BD player before I burn the final disc image to a BD-R. That way I avoid costly coasters.

Note - UK prices above include national sales tax (VAT) at 20%.

[George Tyndall]

Here in the UK ....

Off topic: The band Two Doors Down tells a story of how they got their name: The restrooms at the gas station had been moved "two doors down."

May I/we know the story behind "twosheds"?

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

.....May I/we know the story behind "twosheds"?....

It's all here, George!

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[Steve Grisetti]

From your description of the situation, there is no problem with your software. You have created a valid disc.

There could be a number of issues:

1) You used a poor quality blank disc. You don't say which brand of media you used, but Memorex discs are notoriously unstable and often don't record well.

2) You recorded at too fast a speed. Try burning your disc at no faster than 16x (or less, if your discs aren't rated faster).

3) Your disc player can't play home-burned discs. This is more rare these days than it used to be, but disc players never work as well with home-burned discs as computer disc drives do. Have you tried the disc on a friend's disc player? It may simply be your player. Or it could be one of the issues above.

This is all assuming, of course, that you didn't stick a label on your disc or smudge it with a marker or something.

But it's definitely either the disc (most likely) or the disc player that's the problem. Since you can play the disc on your computer, everything else is working right.

[Chuck Engels]

2) You recorded at too fast a speed. Try burning your disc at no faster than 16x (or less, if your discs aren't rated faster).

Just an FYI on this one, Blu Ray discs cannot be written at faster than 12x and that is the new Blu Ray burner models write speed only, not the disc recordable speed. Most of the Blu Ray discs at the moment cannot record faster than 4x
As of the end of 2010 there were only 2x and 4x discs available, so I don't think that the recording speed has anything to do with the issue, unlike it could have with DVDs.

[George Tyndall]

But it's definitely either the disc (most likely) or the disc player that's the problem. Since you can play the disc on your computer, everything else is working right.

I've learned the hard way not to assume that a Blu-ray that plays well on my computer will also play well on a customer's standalone player, and that is why I continue to test each one with an older LG player, despite the fact it takes "forever" to load the disc.

My experience to date is that, if my Blu-ray discs will play on that antique (for which I've purposefully never updated the firmware), then it will also play on any and all other players that the customer may own.

[ABWay]

Thanks to all. It turns out that my disc player had gone bad (I thought I had checked that). The new one reads my BDs.
FYI: PrE-9 has no clear write speed option for BDs (it does for DVDs). "Fit contents to available space" seems like it may alter speed by ca. 20% at least if the project is less than a full BD disc.
BTW: If anyone has knowledge of archival BD discs for "heirloom" photos and movies, I would be interested.
Tony Way.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Hi Tony. Glad you got that sorted out.

I haven't given any thought to archiving BDs so can't help on that particular point.