#1 Burning Software

I'm new to the SDK and hoping it will help resolve the issues I've run into with bluray and UDF. I'm looking to use the SDK to format BD-R and BD-RE disks as UDF (probably 2.01), then copy various file types to the disks. File sizes will vary from several hundred megabytes to tens of gigabytes. I'll be using VC++ 2003 on Windows XP. What samples should I look at to get a better understanding of the steps I need to take for formatting a BD-R or BD-RE for UDF and writing files to the disk?

You don't need StarBurn at all to achieve this goal. Rather you need Packet-At-Once UDF driver (like the one coming with Longhorn & Vista). But PAO is dog slow & waste of space and not reliable Try using it in Vista and check the time you'll spend just dropping the files to the f.e. DVD+RW media...

Vista isn't really a solution for me. If the Starburn SDK will work for me, I'd like to give it a try. I'm just looking for a little help in figuring out which samples that are included with the SDK I can look at for an example of either creating UDF on a disk or writing to BD-R or BD-RE disks, or both. Any suggestions?

We don't have Packet-At-Once UDF burning... So you cannot format the disc into UDF with the StarBurn and drag-n-drop files in the explorer.

So to use the SDK wit BD-R and BD-RE, is DAO the best method?

DAO is for CD media only, stick with TAO for DVD, BD & HD DVD.