VS X4 Blu-Ray Burning Crashes

[rreynard]

I've been a VS users since version 6 and have been able to work around the many nuances that each version upgrade had (thanks for all the postings by the moderators Ken, Steve, Ron, et al.). I upgraded to VS X4, got myself a blu-ray burner and some BD-R's, and prepared my home videos. I'm consistantly geting the 'Unspecified Error 5:0:0' during the burning stage. I've read through the boards here and have tried every suggested combination I could. After 6 wasted BD-R discs, I'm posting for help.

Camera: Canon Vixia HF20, all AVCHD formatted video
Background music selected for all menus
Motion menu checked (tried unchecked as well)
No background image (using one of the provided 8 templates)
Moving path unchecked (tried checked as well)
Menu In/Out: none (tried both enabled at default, initially)
Video length is 19.66GB total, 26 menued video segments
I've updated to X4 SP1
I even tried copying over the afCvtTitleMenuRenterUnit.dll 'fix', suggested in a post

For the video segments, I initially let X4 render them all. When it failed, I created video files (previously my standard method when making discs), creating .m2t (blu-ray H.264 (1920x1080)) for each segment and used those video files for all future burning attempts (as opposed to the VS Project files).

I can see the blu-ray disc has almost fully been written to after ejecting it (after the error). However, it can't be read either on my computer or on a standard TV blu-ray player.

I haven't tried burning a DVD yet, and will try that next to see if this is just related to blu-ray discs, or not. I can't really tell if all of the other posts on this similar topic were in regards to DVD burning, or blu-ray burning.

Running into this issue on earlier verisions, I was able to make an ISO file then burn a DVD with other software. That option doesn't seem available for blu-ray discs?

[Ken Berry]

I'm afraid I can't be much help on this one for the very simple reason that I have never yet burned a Blu-Ray disc! The blanks are just too expensive in New Zealand (NZ$38/US$32 for one!) But I do have a Blu-Ray burner (external) and an internal DVD burner, both of which successfully burn 'hybrid' discs (AVCHD in a Blu-Ray folder but on a standard DVD).

All I can think of is a work-around. You cannot prepare an ISO of a Blu-Ray, no. But you *can* prepare a Blu-Ray folder. Like a DVD Folder, it contains the final format of a Blu-Ray disc in a BDMV folder, with the video component contained in the STREAM sub-folder. As far as I am aware, you can then use third party software or even Win 7 to simply burn this (or rather copy it) to a Blu-Ray blank.

The only other think I could suggest would be to try converting your AVCHD to Blu-Ray mpeg-2 and trying that....

[JimmyB7]

I know you said you’ve tried every fix posted here but the only thing that seemed to help me with a similar problem was getting the latest firmware for my Blu-ray burner. I only repeat this because it seems to be an overlooked fix.

[rreynard]

Thank you for the quick responses. My power went out before I could try them (planned neighborhood electrical upgrade). Anyways, I created the folders successfully. However, before attempting to burn those folders to a disc, I tried Jimmy's suggestion about a firmware check. Well, there was an update. I applied the update and tried a burn one more time from VS and IT WORKED!

Now to start backtracking to see what configurations actually need to be set (or unset) for a successful burn. I will try different combinations and will post if I come across something that hasn't been posted yet. Oh, it feel good when if finally works!

Thanks again, guys!