BD2DVD: Blu-ray to DVD guide

Dartman

If your going to end up burning them as a AVCHD disk to dvd they should play on MOST blu ray players but not all of them. There is a list in here somewhere of the players that have been confirmed to work. My Panasonic BD-10A works fine and is a first gen player, so did my sisters Sony BDPS350 with the ones I make from HDTV caps.

pzam

Also, this is probably a dumb question but if I have a mkv file that's originally at 720p is it possible for me to up the resolution to 1080p by using a program before burning it to a DVD?

pzam

Wonderful. Thank you so much. I think the only way to see is to test it out.

pzam

Dartman, when I open TsMuxer I see TS, m2ts, Blu-ray, AVCHD as the few options I can mux to. If I want to play it on my PS3 and other Blu-ray players do you recommend any specific ones? Is burning Blu-ray better than m2ts?

Dartman

IF you want it to go on a regular DVD use AVCHD, you can also use that to burn to a BD disk if you want but I don't think it cuts the size down much.
You can try the other options and see what happens but I know AVCHD works fine for me in my player.
I do have a LG-GGW20 but so far BD blanks are too spendy or hard to find for me to try many, I have burned some things that would fit as a direct disk copy on the BD-RE that came with it and they played fine on every machine I tried them in.
Nice thing is if it doesn't work first try you've only wasted 20-30 cents on a regular dvd. I spose you could try the first ones on dvd-rw disk and see how it goes, but not positive every player will deal with those.

DeathStalker77

Ok, here's the BIG question - how (or CAN) you convert a Blu-Ray rip (files on harddrive) to a proper (or "normal") DVD9?

I've tried BD Rebuilder, but that only makes a DVD9-sized Blu-Ray disc (and takes like a DAY to run!), and I've tried Blu-Ray To DVD II Pro, which works fine, but only converts the main movie with no extras or menus.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks!

--- DeathStalker

SamuriHL

No. You can do main movie but you aren't going to get menu (TOTALLY different format) or extras. ConvertXToDVD can mostly do it, as well.

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ragsta2k

Great guide!
However, I think it should be renamed to BD2BD5 since this guide isn't actually explaining how to convert BD to DVD.

pimpwise999

this dusnt work after doin all steps it just comes out with 18gb split in 4 files and using imgburn or nero that cannot fit on a dvd9 disk just buy a huge external hard drive and split for original files coz even if this guide does work i bet the mbs per second are like the original when u play the disk halloween runs between the region off 20 30 mpbs i compressed a blu ray down to 8gb then it was running at 7-8 mpbs load of rubbish just buy 5 x 1 terrabyte hard drives and split with avchd in 4 ull get pauses other then that u wont get full 1080p quality .

c4m3r4

This is really a great guide, and many to those who spend time and effort writing it. However, it is fairly dated and comments by the latest posters confirm that this thread title is not really correct anymore.

Therefore, is there anyway this thread can be updated? Whether this might be in the first post, or at the end - or both?

For instance: what are the best drives for the task at this moment? And which blu-ray players offer support for these kind of burns? What are the current experiences in PS3 playback with latest firmware?

It's such a waste to see such a great guide getting all cluttered!
Maybe we can make something like an FAQ? For instance:
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Q: Can you convert a Blu-Ray rip (files on harddrive) to a DVD9?
A: No. You can do main movie but you aren't going to get menu. ConvertXToDVD can mostly do it.

Q: I used Avid DVD by Sonic (DVDITPROHD) to create the volume. I burned to a DVD-r using the build mode and setting the UDF as explained in the guide. The PS3 sees the disk as a data disk and will not play it, please help!
A: Remux the m2ts file from the streams folder using TSMuxer and outputting to AVCHD disc.