is possible to burn HD video to a DVD and play it on a normal DVD player?

[kozmo62]

I just bought a Canon HV20 which records HDV in MPEG2. If I only had 20 minutes of video, why couldn't I burn it to a regular DVD? I'm assuming a regular DVD player wouldn't be able to play it back, unless the CODEC was hacked or upgraded to recognize HD. Anyone have any ideas? I really don't want to drop $1000 or more on HD DVD or Blueray just now.

[jagabo]

DVD players do not play high definition anything. You have to convert to standard definition MPEG2 for normal DVD players.

[edDV]

Options are limited

1 Buy HD DVD player and author to DVD-5 or DVD-9
2 Buy one the Divx-HD certified players and encode divx,xvid,wmv, etc.
http://www.divx.com/products/hw/browse.php?c=7
3 Play from a computer
4 Play from a server of some sort
5 Wait for a HD/BD recording player.

[Sal C]

...

1 Buy HD DVD player and author to DVD-5 or DVD-9
...

Are you saying one can author in HD, burn to a DVD-5 or 9 disc and have it playback in true HD on a HDDVD or Bluray player? If so any idea how many minutes of video will a standard dvd (5 or 9) hold?

Thanks...

[ronnylov]

As always it depends on the bitrate. If you do not do any recompression you can fit 20 minutes of HDV format as HD-DVD on a DVD-5 disc or 35 minutes on DVD-9.

But HD-DVD can use VC-1 or h.264 as alternative to MPEG-2 to gain more compression but then I do not think there are any easy authoring software available at the consumer level yet.

Check this guide how to create HD-DVD in MPEG-2 format on DVD-R discs (3X DVD):
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=705146

[edDV]

The MPeg2 DVD 5/9 to HD DVD player authoring is supported in ULead Movie Factory 5 (if detail instructions are followed) but I haven't yet seen a success story (with procedure) for VC-1 or h.264 to DVD 5/9. Maybe it has been done but is not yet mainstream.