The following is a compatability list for BDMV discs created with DVDit Pro HD.


Player

Playstation 3 (1.6 + DVDit patch) ------- BD-R, BD-RE

Sony BDP-S1 (1.55) ------- BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-R (when AACS folder is removed)

Sony BDP-S300 (3.2) -------BD-R, BD-RE

Pioneer Elite BDP-HD1 ------- BD-R, BD-RE

Samsung BD-P 1000 (1.0 firmware) ------- BD-R, BD-RE

Samsung BD-P 1200 ------- BD-R (mixed results - could be certain media that works)

Samsung BD-P 1400 -------BD-R, BD-RE

Panasonic DMP-BD10 (A) ------- BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-R

Philips BDP9000 ------- unknown

LG BH-100 ------- no

Scott- I would agree with all of the above (have tried my discs in all these players) except Samsung BDP 1200 - tried a BD-R and was unable to play it back in two different BDP 1200 players - I have seen some people with success (except video quality is described as "jerky" at times). Also - you should modify the
Sony BDP-S1 to 1.55 and not 1.5 - two different firmwares and the 1.5 will not play DVDitProHD discs.

Scott,
I took a BD-R burn to Fry's this weekend to try it out on the LG BH100 multiformat player. No joy, it spit it out right away. So, put this one on the "does not play" list.

john

My PS3 has version 1.7 on it sony BD-R disk created witht he patch in place did not not play. Any one know how to roll back the PS3 software to previous version?

I have 3 PS3's with 1.7 and have played both BD-R and BD-RE without problems

i guess my first attempt did not burn right because when i burned the project again it played this time in the PS3. at 15 bucks a disk i hope i dont have too many burn errors in the future

honestly, that is the first bad burn I have heard. Though I think you said the disc works on your computer. use BD-RE with your projects first to make sure everything is in order. Then you can burn to BD-R

Scott

Ok after reviewing the project again i think i may have figured out what happened. After the first burned attempt did not work on the playstation I re opened the project and burned again. this attempt worked. i saved the project as a different file name so i would be able to identify which project file worked and which did not. after comparing the two what i believed to be identical projects, i noticed that the "open dvd" box on the first project was checked but not on the second. that was the only difference. So my question is will PowerDVD play the disk if it left "open"? if so then this is probably why it played with powerdvd and not on the PS3. I am still a newbie at this DVD / BD authoring so I am learning as I go.

thanks for the help

It's probably not a surprise but Panasonic DMP-BD10A (from the initial firmware 2.0 to the actual 2.2) works with BD-RE (I haven't tested with a DVD-R so far and I will only use BD-R when the price of the printable ones will drop)

Patrick

In Egypt (middle east) we have PS3 being sold with firmware version 1.5 and I tried my projects on it and it gives a message invalid disc.... but the salesman is telling me that if it needed a firmware update it would say so and the fact that it said invalid disc means it won't be playable even with newer firmware... is that true? and did any one try the discs with firmware 1.5? what message does it report????

REgarding that Samsung BD-player 1000 they have published a firmwareupdate, that supposidly solves
playback problems for BD-R and BD-RE. Haven't tried it myself but sounds reasonable...
Funny though the Sony is supposed to play BD-Rs. Cause when I asked at the german branch of Sony they said, it does not play BD-Rs, unlike the PS3 which does.

That's if your connect to the internet so it can check for the latest firmware. You'll need to upgrade the firmware and apply the patch and you'll be good to go...

Hi!

I'm having a big problem with my BD authored in DVDit Pro HD software. It plays very well in PS3 but it doesn't play in any other BD player I terted (Samsung BD-P1000 and BD-P1200, Sony BDP-S1, Panasonic DMP-BD10A) even with the latest firmware on all this players. I tried burning a BD-RE directly on disc, generating a image than burning the disc and gerenating the BD volume than burning on the disc. All this doens't work.

What can I do to sove this problem?

Thanks.

Peter Gatz Birle - artmos@ig.com.br

For the BD-P1000, you have to use the original firmware (1.0). Not sure about the other players, can you verify the firmware versions?

No, i cannot check the firmwares of this palyers. On the BD-P1000 you tested, it plays a authored BD-RE or BD-R disc with menus and a empty AACS directory on the disc?

Thanks.

I have not tested a disc on this unit, others have and were successful only on firmware 1.0

Well, I tested in a Panasonic, Samsung 1000 and 1200, Sony S1 and any on plays the BD-RE disc. The Sony's PS3 and the driver BWU-100A plays it with the menus and subtitles without any problem. Only the BD-ROM players have problems.

What's going on with the DVDit Pro HD BD authoring discs? SS Scott, help me, please.

Thanks.

Peter.

Peter, I think you have the wrong assumption. If it is playing in the PS3, it is a legal BDMV structure. above in this posting are the players and their firmwares that have shown compatability with DVDit Pro HD created discs. Sounds like the PS3 you are using is properly configured and the other players are not.

BDMV on BD-R/RE is a nacsent thing right now. BDMV on BD-R is an optional part of the BD specification. I believe it will be more widely supported in the future as things shake out, until then such discs are really only good if you know for sure where they are being played. Great for tradeshows, lobby video, dailies, personal collections - as long as you are not passing around a disc and hoping it will have wide playback capability.

I got a DVDitHD BD-R and BD-RE disk to play on the Samsung BP-P 1200. I tried the BD-R disk in a Pioneer Elite BDP-94 and Sony S300, and no joy on either one. It concerns me that some of the latest Blu-ray players do not support BD-R, maybe even less than the earlier models?

Also if you remove the AACS folder so that it can play on a Sony BDP-S1, will it still play in the other players without the AACS folder? Anyone try this?

Camron

Hi, SS Scott!

First of all, thanks for your help and a question: when I author a BDMV disc on DVDit Pro HD software, It generates a empty AACS directory. If I register any BDMV title on ISAN, with a AACS code, how can I burn it on a BD-R or BD-RE disc? So it'll be like the SUPERMAN movie I have here. Can this help to increase de compatibility with BD player?

Thanks.

Peter

I've used the firmware update on several inits and it works fine with BD-R discs. As for the Samsung 1200, I've had no problem playing BD-R disc. Could be I've been lucky

Has anyone tried the new 2.60 firmware update on the Sony BDP-300 or 301? I would be curious to find out
it it supports BDMV. The product page for Sony lists all of the Bluray players as playing BDMV discs.

Since this is an ongoing process and ever changing, too - dispite the fact that some members around here don't like that topic - however: is there an update on which BD-player a Blu Ray (BD-R or BD-RE) works or not? Today is the 3rd of October 2007... In addition, annoying or not, any experiences with the PS3 Firmware 1.93 yet?
Someone said, it works with 1.9, what about the latest status. I'm getting a PS3 strictly for to play BD-Rs or BD-REs on (my own little productions) and wonder if I can safely update to the latest firmware.
To all of those, who don't want PS3 topics up here, forget about those PS3 forums, they are full of crap and kiddies who behave like babies. I spent hours browsing various forums and my head is spinning by now...

The PS3 is probably the safest bet on playback of \BDMV on BD-R/RE. 1.93 fixes the network issue caused by 1.92

I recently updated the firmware for my Panasonic DMP-BD10A to V 2.4.
This update doesn't affect playability of BDMV authored disc (BD-RE) with DVDit Pro HD.

Cheers

Patrick

The following is a compatability list for BDMV discs created with DVDit Pro HD.
Player

Playstation 3 (1.6 + DVDit patch) ------- BD-R, BD-RE

Sony BDP-S1 (1.55) ------- BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-R (when AACS folder is removed)

Pioneer Elite BDP-HD1 ------- BD-R, BD-RE

Samsung BD-P 1000 (1.0 firmware) ------- BD-R, BD-RE

Samsung BD-P 1200 ------- BD-R (mixed results - could be certain media that works)

Panasonic DMP-BD10 (A) (up to actual 2.4 firmware)------- BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-R

Philips BDP9000 ------- unknown

LG BH-100 ------- no

Hi, Scott. My BDPlayer is Pioneer BDp-LX 70, it cannot play BD-R/BD-re Disc which produced by DVDit Pro HD. So is it True? Or Something wrong in my processing?

Help.

Thanx.

This player is not compatible!! However Pioneer ARE working on a new firmware that will conform to the specifications required for this playback. Hold in there it will happen.

Personally I think its good news, that Sony will start shipping new Blu Ray recorders for pc soon. They won't be better than from LG for example, at least the specs. don't show, yet this will force Sony and Panasonic to include BD-AV and MV formats back into their player firmwares. After all, why should people buy a recorder if they can't play the result...

And then it won't take long, til a professional BD production branch as from Sony will accept an ordinary BD-R as a master for replication.

Just so you guys know, the latest firmware, 3.20, for BDP-S300 adds
BD-r(e) BDMV playback options. Just a heads up.

Great to hear that...maybe Scott can add the BDP-S300/301 the list.

Samsung 1400 plays BD-R and BD-RE OK

Sharp Aquos (didn't get the model) doesn't play either

Bill in Ohio

I just tried the Samsung 1400, and no joy with a Fuji BD-RE. The disk was not bad, as it played just fine after that in a Panasonic DMP-BD10. Is the Samsung 1400 finicky like the Samsung 1200? Is there a list of which media/burners work best?

Update on the Version 2.00 for the PS3: It works. Simple as that. I used a TDK BD-RE and a BD-R and both worked with BDMV no problem at all.

The same disk that did not play in the Samsung1400 does play on the Sony S300 once the firmware is upgraded to 3.2. Good to see Sony headed in the right direction!

From HDV pinnacle Liquid 7.2 HDV (1440 X 1080i/50hz) footage I upscaled with procoder 2 from canopus to HDTV 1920 X 1080 progressive/24p and I could only burn it on BD with a 3 minute clip. A 25 minute clip was not accepted. Then having the same hdv footage upscaled in canopus procoder to a HDTV 1920 / 29,97progressive even the long film burned just fine - and played in the PS3 fine as well. (in procoder set on "no closed gops")
There are still many little issues with hd stuff, if everything and every flag is set correctly - so one just needs to test til success and last but not least: never change a winning system!

I saved all my settings to make sure, it works when producing a professional film.

The only time you should be outputting to 24p is if your footage has pulldown in it.
The next reasonable question is - why output to NTSC progressive? Just use PAL interlaced, there's no benefit in doing what you are doing.

Tried a Sharp BD-HP20X today.

Although the box and manual states it plays BD-R & BD-RE it did not play any discs i have made.

I purchased a Samsung BDP-1400 which I had tested at the store as able to play BD-R and BD-RE. However, after a few days the one I brought home began to make cyclical noises like a motor driving the laser somewhere and would not read any disk. BD-ROM or BD-R or BD-RE.

The Samsung website gives mixed messages -- under Support FAQs it says BD-R and BD-RE are supported, but when I took a closer look at the manual it lists the disks as incompatible, but does not say they will cause damage. So I don't know if I had a bad player or the burned BD-R or BD-RE caused this.

Is there anyone out there who owns a BDP-1400 who has been playing it for some period of time (like a couple months at least). I need to know, as I got a replacement and I could go for a different player if need be.

Thanks,

Bill in Ohio

I decided to trade in my Samsung for the Sony BDP S300 and installed the firmware update 3.3 without any issues. I then played my BD-R video (first one I made) and the menu flickeered on and off. However the last project on BD-R and BD-RE worked exactly as advertised.

My only problem is the player has such a big box, it won't fit where I wanted to put it.

Bill in Ohio

Is it necessary to have the AACSS folder for the disks to play OK on the PS3?

Yes. I just bought the Sony BDP S300 a couple of days ago and burned to a BD-RE and it played just fine after I loaded up the firmware update for the player.

Anyone tried the SONY BDPS500

Yes, I have the BDPS500 and have tried BD-RE which works fine. It will playback disks created with DVDit Pro HD (and Nero) on BD-RE. Nero suffers from lip sync and interlacing problems. DVDit Pro HD discs work perfectly.

Has anyone tried the Panasonic DMPBD30K player with BD-R/RE? The manual states that the player is compatible with both single and dual layer.

Thanks,
Diamond Dave

Thanks for this list. is there any update or current complete list?

dear scott

First of all congratulations for the great forum you guys have here.

i am about to buy dvdit pro since ive been looking for a long time for an authoring software for Blu ray.

I have a bdp s1 sony with the latest firmware. I ve been able to play blu ray files burned on dvds as data with m2t files (change that extension for mpeg) which play great of course no menues or any authoring.

As you pointed out regarding disc playback compatibility "Sony BDP-S1 (1.55) ------- BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-R (when AACS folder is removed)" I just want to be sure that it means that after version 1.55 the bdp s1 will play blu ray . So is it still valid for the latest firmware? or do i have to go back to 1.55?

Thanks in advance and best regards from bogota colombia south america

Have tested

Sony BDP-S301 (same as 300 model but purchased at Costco) and updated to latest firmware immediately ... required, otherwise no luck

ALL BD's (RE or R) created with DVDIt HD Pro and also with NERO, burned with either of these or with Cyberlink product or with IMGBurn
work just great.

firmware for 301 link: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=BDPS301
firmware for 300 link: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list....PS300&LOC=3

I suspect it is the same firware for both products, but have only used the 301 so cannot speak to other

ALSO: Tested brand new Samsung Model out of box, works GREAT

I can only speak to this using TDK, Verbatim and LG BD-RE and TDK BD-R, as I am newbie at this

SAMSUNG BD-P-1500 JUST HIT MARKET IN LAST WEEK IN MY AREA
4th Generation Blue Ray Standalone Player
WORKS with all the BD-R and BD-RE has ethernet connectivity for upgrades, boots up immediately (unlike Sony above which is slow)
Seems to work great.

Does any one have experience with either of the above playing m2t or other 'video stream' files directly burned to DVD as DATA, or to BLUE RAY Dvd as DATA or with other non conventional BD structure, MKV Matroska etc. or others?

Hey Diamond Dave,
We have tested our:


Panasonic DMP-BD30K
Playstation 1.6 with patch

using TKD Discs and they work well.

Just tried out Sony BDP-S350 and it works ok with DVDit ProHD made disc - but it is very slow to recognize the disc and slow to go from menu to menu. The Samsung BDP 1500 worked well but much faster than the Sony (displaying the disc and going from menu to menu)

I've been using Memorex BR-R/RE's (2x speed, 25 gb single layer). I have had several playback problems with BD-R (they actually don't seem to play at all) but the BD-RE's seem to be noticeably more successful. Is this common? I see so many people reporting on BD-RE's while a smaller percentage seem to report on BD-R's?

Are particular brands of BD media more prone to problems or success? I've already invested in several BD-R/RE's but since they are trash once burned (and don't play) I guess it doesn't matter much. I just want my discs to play.