DVD+R and +RW

[Vedmore]

What is the best burining software and settings for doing the following with DVD+R media.

Burning Your Own DVD's
Burning Backup XBOX games

I currently use Nero with Hit and miss results, Mode 1 udf/iso.

Can any help. (Oh and my DVD+R/RW drive is the Memorex one).

[Doom9]

I don't have an xbox but I can help you with part1 of your question: imgtools to create disc images, dvd decrypter to burn the images. Alternatively gear seems to be a rather good option to burn DVDs but I don't have it so I can't personally vouch for it.

[gooki]

Primo dvd does an excellent job of both. (no idea if it supports +R/RW drives though).

[Vedmore]

When using DVD Decrypter what options should i use:

Mode1/2048
Mode1/2352
Mode2/2352

Thanks.

[Doom9]

as you're burning an image these options make no difference. The format is defined by the image already.

[alexnoe]

@Doom9: I don't understand that sentence, neither do I think that you do... ;)

For DVD, there is only one kind of image and only one sector size. This is 2048. The reason is that there is nothing like RAW reading or RAW writing of DVDs (at least not in MMC-4). If there is RAW writing one day, the RAW sector size would certainly not be 2352, but something else. The avg sector size should be found somewhere in the ECMA-267 document ("avg" sector size because actually only working with blocks of 16 sectors would make sense).

For CDs, there is a veriety of possible images (Mode 1/Mode 2 Form 1, Mode 2 Form 2, RAW, RAW-PQ, RAW-PW (interleaved and non-interleaved), RAW-RW). The only kinds of image in which the format of the mainchannel data is predefined are RAW96-images, i.e. containing 2448 bytes per sector, and RAW- and RAW16-images as well. But then, you still need to specify whether subchannel data is interleaved or not, if a program accepts both. Even if you have a RAW-image, the recording software has to look to the file first in order to find out data/audio and, in case of data, mode and form. Just writing it does not suffice.

If you have an image of a CD with less than 2352 bytes / sector, one can only guess the format (or know it), and it is certainly not defined in the image.