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| Can you make a Blu-Ray with MPEG2 format? |
| faramith posted 2008 Jun 22 09:25 |
| Lets say I want to make a Blu ray with lets say, 25 Episodes (25 min each) of a show, but in standard def Mpeg 2, can this be possible and what sofware (like dvd-lab pro) is capable of doing this.
thanks |
| Baldrick posted 2008 Jun 22 14:51 |
| Yes, it's possible. But I don't know what software that supports it. Maybe nerovision or ulead dvd workshop. |
| Delta2 posted 2008 Jun 22 16:43 |
| MKV2VOB converts files to a Blu-ray container ( making use of tsMuxer tool ) and it can transcode to MPEG2 lossy format, maintaining the resolution. It uses Mencoder for that purpose |
| PuzZLeR posted 2008 Jun 24 03:15 |
| I too confirm from a friend who uses Scenarist (blu-ray standard authoring software) that it fully accepts all SD MPEG-2 streams (and audio) that are fully DvD compliant. (No re-encoding necessary.)
I don't know what to do if you want the menus from these discs to blu-ray. Not sure if this is possible. But it is indeed very possible to pack all the episodes that will fit onto a 25/50 GB blu-ray disc and playback as a regular disc like any other BD disc in any BD unit. Even 50+ episodes/disc sounds realistic on a 50GB disc (even with DvD's bloated MPEG-2). All you have to do is rip them from the DvD as separate episodes and re-author to BD. But I do not know of a free authoring solution... yet. TSRemux and TSMuxeR can do it, but they only currently support one file and no menu. Unless you don't mind using an editor to join the episodes into one, and adding chapters. But I'd wait a bit. Affordable solutions are however on their way. I'm currently looking into TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3 http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tme3.html and ArcSoft TotalMedia Extreme http://www.arcsoft.com/products/totalmediaextreme/ among others like even Ulead. However, some apps only assume that BD is only HD even though the spec allows SD, so I don't know yet if these apps will accept an SD DvD stream for BD authoring. Current solutions like Cyberlink will do it, but it will re-encode first. Not ideal. Others, such as NeroVision will do it, but it too will re-encode, but to HD, which will bloat the files, lose quality and plenty of time to upsize. Unacceptable to me. Nevertheless, we are close enough to such a solution in the timeline today. The bottom line is that it is indeed possible, and will be without the second mortgage on your house to purchase Scenarist. BTW - I personally fancy the idea of encoding them to blu-ray compliant H.264/AVC to fit 2x-3x more episodes in the same disc space... |
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