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[Jurg_t]

hi forum...I wondered if anyone had any experience with burning a Blueray files on regular dvd's. I bought the HD plug cause I need to send a movie that can be played back on a blue-ray player...Since it's a short movie I thought I'd just as well just burn it on a regular dvd, since it's stated that this is possible (and I'd just as well could avoid investing in a blue-ray-writer). I do not have a blue-ray player myself, so I cannot even check the result, and wondered if anyone could tell me if they had good experience with this...? - that means the toast-blue-ray conversion + playback.

thx...would greatly appreciate any feedback.

J_T

[WayneH]

hi forum...I wondered if anyone had any experience with burning a Blueray files on regular dvd's. I bought the HD plug cause I need to send a movie that can be played back on a blue-ray player...Since it's a short movie I thought I'd just as well just burn it on a regular dvd, since it's stated that this is possible (and I'd just as well could avoid investing in a blue-ray-writer). I do not have a blue-ray player myself, so I cannot even check the result, and wondered if anyone could tell me if they had good experience with this...? - that means the toast-blue-ray conversion + playback.

thx...would greatly appreciate any feedback.

J_T

Well, there's no doubt it CAN be done, and if you get far enough that Toast actually burns a disk and says it's done, you might have a good disk.  But I had quite a bit of difficulty with my first attempts.  I gave Toast a pre-compressed movie (video as H.264 , audio as AAC) and this produced a disk with the audio leading the video by 7 (!!) seconds.  I would have never known without testing it first.  I fixed my problem by making an uncompressed export from iMovie (video as AIC, audio as Big Endian).  This gave an acceptable result and I was able to put over 35 minutes on one DVD - pretty cool.  Every other problem I had with Toast showed up before any disk was made, so those things shouldn't be a problem for you.

I believe the target player needs to be able to play AVCHD disks.  Sony and Panasonic back this technology and their players should work.  (My player is a Sony.)  If you know your target, it might be worth looking into.

[Jurg_t]

Ok... thank you! i'll give it a try then. and back it up with a regular dvd. When I use toast I always feed it with a non compression Animation codec, letting toast do all the down size compression, and regular dvd's usually looks fine.

Do you have any experience on the target limit size?....does it play smoothly just hitting the roof at about 27 mb/s....or do you have to take it a bit down.?

[WayneH]

Ok... thank you! i'll give it a try then. and back it up with a regular dvd. When I use toast I always feed it with a non compression Animation codec, letting toast do all the down size compression, and regular dvd's usually looks fine.

Do you have any experience on the target limit size?....does it play smoothly just hitting the roof at about 27 mb/s....or do you have to take it a bit down.?

Well, you're way past my pay grade with that question, but the Toast default is AVC at 8 avg, 16 max, and I thought I read somewhere that the AVCHD spec is 18 max, which would be consistent with Toast's settings.  There are definitely posts here from folks encoding with, for instance, Comrpessor at higher bitrates.  But results weren't good.

[Jurg_t]

Well, you're way past my pay grade with that question, but the Toast default is AVC at 8 avg, 16 max, and I thought I read somewhere that the AVCHD spec is 18 max, which would be consistent with Toast's settings.  There are definitely posts here from folks encoding with, for instance, Comrpessor at higher bitrates.  But results weren't good.

Thanks...I'll leave the Blue ray as the lucky option I think, and count on the regular dvd as the main thing.. thanks for sharing your experience.

[DavidZ]

hi forum...I wondered if anyone had any experience with burning a Blueray files on regular dvd's. I bought the HD plug cause I need to send a movie that can be played back on a blue-ray player...Since it's a short movie I thought I'd just as well just burn it on a regular dvd, since it's stated that this is possible (and I'd just as well could avoid investing in a blue-ray-writer). I do not have a blue-ray player myself, so I cannot even check the result, and wondered if anyone could tell me if they had good experience with this...? - that means the toast-blue-ray conversion + playback.

thx...would greatly appreciate any feedback.

J_T

I burned a 38 minute HD video from EyeTV to a DVD-R using the HD-BD plug-in.   I was able to play back the stream using VLC on my Mac.  However, my LG BD370 Blu-ray player would not recognize the disc.  

The manual says that AVCHD format discs are supported on various media types including DVD-R.