Best Blu-ray Burning Software for Windows: What to Use Since InfraRecorder Can’t

Let us save you the search that brought many readers here: InfraRecorder cannot burn Blu-ray — not data, not video, not at all. Its final release was in 2012 and no version ever added Blu-ray recording. So this guide does the honest thing: it points you to the maintained tools that actually do the job.

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First, the fact in full. InfraRecorder 0.53 (1 September 2012) is a CD/DVD burner. Version 0.50 added the ability to display a drive’s Blu-ray and HD-DVD capabilities in the device information panel — that is a readout, not recording support. If a site tells you InfraRecorder burns Blu-ray, it is wrong, and if your project is a Blu-ray, InfraRecorder is simply not a candidate. Download it from our download page for the CD/DVD jobs it genuinely does; for Blu-ray, read on.

Decide which Blu-ray job you actually have

  • Blu-ray video with menus (a disc that plays like a commercial Blu-ray in a standalone player): you need authoring software — this is the Leawo/Power2Go territory below.
  • Video files to a playable disc, DVD included: a converter-authoring toolbox such as UniConverter is often the practical answer.
  • Blu-ray data discs (25–50 GB of files on one disc): several suites burn data to BD-R/BD-RE; even legacy ImgBurn can write Blu-ray data, though it is unmaintained too.
  • Just storing large archives: ask whether a disc is the right medium at all — an external drive plus a cloud copy is the modern default for many readers.

1. Leawo Blu-ray Creator — the specialist pick

Leawo Blu-ray Creator is our lead recommendation for the job this page is about: turning videos into Blu-ray discs with menus, as well as Blu-ray folders and ISO images. It is a dedicated, maintained Blu-ray authoring tool rather than a general suite that happens to include burning, which is why it leads this list for readers whose intent starts and ends with ‘burn my video to Blu-ray’. Check the current edition, features and price on the vendor’s page via the link — we do not print prices that go stale. If your source material needs converting first, Leawo’s broader media bundles cover that within the same vendor’s range.

2. CyberLink Power2Go — the all-round burning suite

CyberLink Power2Go is the like-for-like modern successor to what InfraRecorder was: a general burning suite for current Windows, extended into the Blu-ray era. If you want one supported program that handles data, audio, images and Blu-ray burning in a familiar burner-shaped interface — rather than a video-first authoring tool — Power2Go is the natural candidate, from a long-established vendor. It is the paid option we point comparison readers to most often, and it anchors our InfraRecorder alternatives hub for readers leaving InfraRecorder behind entirely.

3. Wondershare UniConverter — when the video needs work first

Wondershare UniConverter earns its place when the burning is the easy half of the job: your videos are in the wrong format, too large, or need trimming and compression before any disc is involved. UniConverter is a broad video toolbox whose features include converting and burning video to disc, so a single program can take a folder of mixed clips to a finished DVD — and it is a sensible route for readers whose real problem is the footage, not the burner. For a second converter opinion, Movavi Video Suite is a beginner-friendly suite we also list in our alternatives — compare the two on their vendor pages and pick by the workflow you prefer.

You also need: a Blu-ray burner and blank BD-R media

Software is only half the purchase. Most modern laptops have no optical drive at all, and a DVD burner cannot write Blu-ray — you need a BD-R-capable drive (external USB models are the usual answer) and blank BD-R or BD-RE media. For media, start with Verbatim BD-R blank media on Amazon (affiliate link): buy recognised-brand blanks, burn one test disc before a batch, and store burned Blu-rays upright, cool and dark. Treat any per-disc price as ‘check at Amazon’ — media prices move, and a price printed here would be wrong by the time it matters.

What about free Blu-ray options?

Honestly: thin. Free burners that write Blu-ray data exist (ImgBurn is the famous one, and BurnAware’s Blu-ray support sits in its paid tiers), but free Blu-ray video authoring with menus is essentially not a maintained category in 2026. That is the real reason this page is a paid-tools page: the capability gap left by free legacy burners like InfraRecorder is exactly where commercial software still earns its money. If your need is only data, start with the free roundup — best free CD/DVD burning software — and the data-disc notes above. For the full ranked picture across free and paid tools, see 8 InfraRecorder alternatives for 2026.

The bottom line

  • Video to Blu-ray with menus: Leawo Blu-ray Creator.
  • One modern burning suite for everything, Blu-ray included: CyberLink Power2Go.
  • Messy video that needs converting before burning: Wondershare UniConverter (Movavi Video Suite as the alternative).
  • InfraRecorder: still the free answer for CD/DVD — and a hard ‘no’ for Blu-ray, stated plainly because that honesty is why you can trust the three recommendations above.

Your first Blu-ray burn, without wasting a disc

  1. Confirm the drive first. Check that your drive actually writes BD-R — many ‘Blu-ray’ drives in older laptops only read Blu-ray. The drive’s model page or its packaging will say BD-R/RE writing explicitly.
  2. Author or burn one short test. Use a few minutes of video, finalise the disc, and play it in the standalone player you actually care about — not just on the PC that burned it.
  3. Only then burn the real project, at a moderate speed, and keep the source files until the disc has been played end to end once.

That three-step discipline costs one blank disc and saves the classic failure of this category: a box of expensively authored discs that only play on the computer that made them. It applies to every tool recommended above, and it is the same verify-before-you-trust habit we teach for InfraRecorder’s CD/DVD work — the medium changed, the discipline did not.

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