Our Naturally Ningaloo DVD has been made into a Blu-ray DVD by a company on the east coast of AUS.
It got me thinking and was wondering if one can author a Blu-ray to specs and burn in onto a normal DVD (red laser) disk. If so would it play in a Blu-ray player. Waiting on some software to try this out.
I have been reading that you can author a HD DVD and burn it to a normal DVD disk and it will play on a HD DVD player. Have some software now and will try it out.
I suppose you could get about 15/ 20 mins on a disk.
Anyone have more information about doing this.
Here's the thread Mary Lynn started about achieving this for HD-DVD using one of those Mac thingies:
I encoded out a HD Program Stream, 1920/1080 MPEG2 CBR 18500kbps file straight out of a EDIUS HDV timeline.
Using Unlead DVD movie factory I compiled it to a HDVDVD_TS folder on the hardrive.
Burnt that file to a DATA DVD-r disk.
Downloaded the latest VLC player and directed it to the HDDVD_TS folder on the DVD and away it went.
Looks great
I also tried making some menus and stuff but VLC had a hard time with them.
I'll try it on a HDDVD player when I find one.
OKAY for you PC folks.
I encoded out a HD Program Stream, 1920/1080 MPEG2 CBR 18500kbps file straight out of a EDIUS HDV timeline.
Using Unlead DVD movie factory I compiled it to a HDVDVD_TS folder on the hardrive.
Burnt that file to a DATA DVD-r disk.
Downloaded the latest VLC player and directed it to the HDDVD_TS folder on the DVD and away it went.
Looks great
I also tried making some menus and stuff but VLC had a hard time with them.
I'll try it on a HDDVD player when I find one.
Thanks for looking into this Wags. I'm very interested in this topic but hadn't researched it yet. I know that there are different lazers being used for the different formats, but if they were to invoke the same code then it would seem like a possibility. Look forward to hearing how the testing goes!
Nero just emailed me an ad this morning for Nero 7 Reloaded.
There is an HD Plugin for it too for authoring/editing and PC playback.
The upgrade from version 6 is 38.99 Euros and the plugin is USD29.99.
Hey Nick
I'll try out Nero, as long as it does not take over my computer with all it's other rubbish.
Also from what I read, so far you you cannot make a mini Bluray onto a normal DVD-r DVD diks.
HD DVD you can though.
Unlead DVD movie factory 6 seems to be too basic and runs very slow on my computer. I think they need to work on it more. It also takes quite abit of time to empty the memory once you close the program down. I don't like the feel of it.
Hopefull the boys at www.mediachance.com will make a DVD lab pro version to make them with as I hate ones that hold your hand & limit what you can do.
Just tried Nero 7 only to quickly uninstall it forever from my computer.
Why do they make software full of so much other rubbish, it was a huge install.
And why did it install a nero quick search on my taskbar?
And it left over 600megs of temp files after I had unistalled it as well.
All I wanted was some simple software to burn with
