Kubuntu and blu-ray recording

[Greg_M]

I'm getting a Pioneer blu-ray recorder for my computer. I use Kubuntu 16.04.
I will not be using it for playing, I have an oppo for that.
I just want the large capacity discs that blu-ray offers for the bunch of vacation videos that I have accumulated over the years. (Archival stuff)

Can someone suggest some good software that will work on Linux for burning?

Dell Optiplex 990 (64 bit)
Kubuntu 16.04
Pioneer Internal Blu-Ray Writer BDR-2209

I will probably be moving to Kubuntu 18.04 in a few months.

Thanks
G

[ZoetMB]

I would not reply upon BD-R for archival recordings if you're not backing them up somewhere else. I have had a ton of CD-R's fail after a few years and I bought a commercial Blu-ray of a documentary that turned out to be a BD-R and it won't play on my relatively old Sony BR player. if you don't want to pay for online server space, I'd put them on a backup drive or a thumb drive, but I'd put everything onto at least two drives.

[Greg_M]

You're right about the back ups and I do have them elsewhere. Just wanted to be able to watch them on occasion without having to fiddle with them.
I have heard there's a new type of media that is something like "M" something for the blu-ray. Supposed to last 1000 years?
Who will be here to prove them wrong or care?

[DVD Phreak]

Originally Posted by Greg_M

You're right about the back ups and I do have them elsewhere. Just wanted to be able to watch them on occasion without having to fiddle with them.
I have heard there's a new type of media that is something like "M" something for the blu-ray. Supposed to last 1000 years?
Who will be here to prove them wrong or care?

Nowadays it's easier to just copy the videos to a USB drive and plug it to a Roku or Blu-ray player. Or copy the videos to your smartphone or tablet.

Forget the 1000-year durability. Even if a disc has perfect data, it will still not be readable on 100% of the readers/players due to the inherent imperfection of the disc-burning technology, which is why it has fallen by the wayside.

[DVD Phreak]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

I have had a ton of CD-R's fail after a few years

Try the CD-Rs on another drive and they may work. My experience has been that a burned disc will always work on the drive that burned it and/or drives similar to it.

In my experience, either a disc fails soon after burning or it won't likely fail at all. I have about 2000 optical burned discs and I've never had one that failed "slowly over time." And yes, I watch them pretty frequently. I burned mostly Taiyo Yuden (now owned by CMC) DVD-Rs, which was considered the best-quality brand.

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by DVD Phreak

Try the CD-Rs on another drive and they may work. My experience has been that a burned disc will always work on the drive that burned it and/or drives similar to it.



In my experience, either a disc fails soon after burning or it won't likely fail at all. I have about 2000 optical burned discs and I've never had one that failed "slowly over time." And yes, I watch them pretty frequently. I burned mostly Taiyo Yuden (now owned by CMC) DVD-Rs, which was considered the best-quality brand.

I’ve found the opposite. When they fail, they won’t play back on the machine that recorded them. Sometimes my OPPO will play them and I take the analog output and re-record them. (The digital output replicates the errors). If the OPPO doesn’t work, I try an old Sony BD player and that almost always works in analog. If that doesn’t work, I try an Apple Super Drive, but that almost never works. Sometimes I can digitally re-copy some of the tracks and analog copy the damaged tracks. (I’m referring to CD-R’s, not DVD-R’s).

Strangely, that Sony won’t play a commercial BD-R that I bought accidentally thinking it was a regular BD.