Blu-Ray which is better MPEG2 or H.264

[lenti_75]

I want to switch to Blue-Ray in the future even though I don't like it because to many changes to it. Every new release something happens, looks like they change the specs every month

I am kind of confused right now which is the better codec to use: Mpeg2 or H.264. I would choose H264, but I just want to make sure this is the right way. I think that Mpeg kind of had his time.


I want to sell my SD Canon GL2 and get a HD HDV and start using blu-ray.

[poisondeathray]

h.264 is usually better if you use a good implementation and you are re-encoding, but beware, some avc encoders produce very poor quality

If you are shooting hdv, it is already blu-ray compliant (it's mpeg2). You can author the native streams as is. So if you use smart rendering software, and do cuts type editing, there is no generation loss either - this would be better than re-encoding. But if you are in a situation that requires re-encoding (e.g. global filters, color correction) , then h264 is usually better