The complete HD (Blu-ray/HD-DVD) back-up thread.

Thank you very much. I do try. :-D

Yes, basically Blu-ray is a format built upon AVCHD. As we've discussed, Blu-ray has a wider specification and has larger mandatory codec support.

I'm sorry but I can't help you there. My Blu-ray player is a PS3.

 

I agree with LOCOENG. Ryu's been very helpful.Thanks for your answers thus far.

Yeah, I guess what's fully playable in a PS3 is not necessarily compatible with all BD players. The PS3 is the ultimate multimedia machine no doubt. Nevertheless, in the meantime I will prepare some tiny samples, post them (assuming it's Ok with Mods) and hopefully some other kind folk who has just an "ordinary" BD player can report back.

 

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Ryu77,
Is there a way to merge two video files? Some of the D/Ls I have come in part 1 and part 2, just wondering if I can make them in to one file.

 

Odin, I found a guide to compress a HD-DVD to fit onto a DVD-9 (you asked for this a while back). I added a link on the first post on this thread.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/639346/3869774

 

Thanks, I'll look in to them.

 

Ryu77 thanks for this great thread. I've been searching the web for a couple weeks and this is by far the most comprehensive collection of HD back-up info available. All your responses in other threads have been very informative.

I'm in the process of buying a PS3 (40Gb) and upgrading my computer (I currently have a E6600 OC'd to 3.2ghz) and I want to make 720p DVD's playable on my PS3 from 4.4gb mkv files, which are readily available on the web.

From my understanding all the mkv files need to transcoded/re-encoded to play. And the transcoding process makes the files slightly larger and won't fit on a DVD5. So they need to re-encoded at lower bitrate, which takes hours. Am I right so far? Has anyone tried to overburn the trancoded files on to a DVD+R? They can typically hold 4.6gb. LINK

Alternately, if the overburning doesn't work. What type of computer system do you recommend for the conversion process? I have a core 2 duo now, but I'm considering a Q6600, E8400 or Q9450. Does the re-encoding programs take advantage of SSE4 and the quad core? And how long does it take a 2 hour movie to re-encode.

thanks again.

 

HAAAADUUKEN HAAADDDUUUKEN!





Excellent thread Ryu!

 

I aquired a copy of Scenarist myself. I gave it a try by following the user guide that came with it, only to find out I did something wrong along the way. It really seems like a lot of work just to get subs on to a 720p movie. I think this is a little beyond my understanding at this point. It does however look like a really good authoring program that I would like to utilize at some point.

Please let me know how your project went, I am curious to see if everything worked out for you.

 

Go quad core! Using Nero recode it takes about 2-4 hours to recode a 2 hour movie. No hiccups while running other apps either.

 

Here is my input and output for a file that has no video.

General #0
Complete name : K:\Movie Software\Work file\movie
Format : Matroska
File size : 7.95 GiB
PlayTime : 1h 34mn
Bit rate : 12.1 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2008-03-31 13:51:05
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.1.0 ('Another Place To Fall') built on Aug 19 2007 13:40:07
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Cover : Yes / Yes / Yes

Video #0
Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Codec profile : High@L5.1
Codec settings, CABAC : Yes
PlayTime : 1h 34mn
Bit rate : 10.0 Mbps
Nominal bit rate : 10.6 Mbps
Width : 1920 pixels
Height : 822 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 2.35
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Title : 1920x822 @ 10558 Kbps
Writing library : x264 - core 58 r786M aa5391a
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / me-prepass=1 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=6,4 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=10558 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.6:16.0
Language : English

Audio #0
Codec : DTS
PlayTime : 1h 34mn
Bit rate : 1536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 24 bits
Title : DTS Core 5.1 @ 1.5 Mbps
Language : English

General #0
ID : 1
Complete name : K:\Movie Software\Work file\Movie
Format : BluRay Video
Format/Family : MPEG-2
File size : 7.77 GiB
PlayTime : 32ms

Video #0
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
MenuID : 1 (0x1)
Codec : AVC
Codec/Family : AVC
Codec/Info : MPEG-4 AVC
Language : English

Audio #0
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
MenuID : 1 (0x1)
Codec : AC3
PlayTime : 32ms
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

 

Is there a picture guide for this it would help me out alot.I'm about to buy BD-ROM drive is this all i need as far as a need for a drive or do i need a BD-Buner drive?

 

When changing the 'level' of a blu-ray file shown here: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_play_mkv_content_on_playstation_3_ps3.cfm
Will it affect/degrade the quality of the movie itself?

 

No, it just makes it playable in the PS3

 

tsMuxeR has been updated to v1.8.4(b). It now accepts srt subtitles as input! :-D

 

"Bout friggin time. That's good news

 

Can we get a picture guide for this? I have searched goggle & yahoo & can't find one. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

I thought that the steps were quite self explanatory. I have started a MeGUI guide which I hope to extend to a full guide explaining the above conversion in more detail. The only problem is I am working many hours lately. I recently made a career change. I am now working in a large Audio/Visual electrical appliance store and I am dedicating all of my energy to becoming the best that I can in my new choice of career. In my first 2 weeks in the store (having never worked in a retail electrical appliance store before) I have sold about $75,000 worth of A/V equipment myself. So needless to say, I can see a bright future here and that is certianly my highest priority at the moment.

I will continue to work on a guide in my spare time but I can't give any indication as to when I might complete this. I actually have a day off tomorrow for the first time in a while, so I plan to have a good crack at my guide tomorrow. I can not guarantee it's completion though. I'm sorry if this disappoints you but I also feel that given a little patience and dedication that you should be able to complete the above process without photos. Instead of looking for a guide, you could also try doing research on each of the applications I have mentioned. That way you could become familiar with each individual application and that inherently will make your efforts a much smoother process.

 

Hello,

I have some Region A concert Blu-ray discs that I want to watch in my Region B PS3. Can I achieve that using one of these methods?

Thanks!