Hd-DVD authoring help, been at it for days.

[phatrat1982]

I am getting to the point where I am losing my sanity over this. So please if anyone knows a simple solution or one that works please let me know.


What I am doing,


I have some HDTV rips that I want to watch on my Toshiba HD-30 HD-DVD player, I am unemployed and have not had a chance to upgrade to Blu Ray yet so I am stuck with this out-of-date player. Anyways what I want is a way to burn movies in HD that my player will read but putting them onto normal DVD +R media. I am willing to accept some loss of quality and already de-mux the audio and re-encoded it to MP3 320 kbps to reduce file size and I managed to get the files on my PC down to below 3 and a half Gb so I know they will fit onto a DVD, but if I try using NERO it DOWN converts to SD DVD and that is not what I want.


I also have a divx certified DVD upconverter but it does a terrible job of upconverting and the HD-DVD player won't play divx movies so I am stuck trying to get HD-DVD compliant video streams onto my DVD +r media, please any help would be greatly appreciated.



The video files I have are all MPEG4 h.264 encodes. I used software to extract the audio from the video, down mixed it from the uncompressed PCM to MP3 at 320 kbps bitrate and re-muxed the audio/video together and managed to get decent file sizes and everything looks great on my PC. All the video is in 1280 x 720 at 30 FPS, well 29-whatever it is, and the video is great quality, well better than when I converted them to SD and let my player upconvert them.


I have Nero 7 Ultra Edition, Sony Vegas 8 and Win AVI 6 among other programs but most of the ones I have are for doing PC type video and so far nothing allows me to come close to burning HD-DVD, I have a couple that allow HD-DVD data disc but that doesn't seam to work.

[guns1inger]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=126676

[phatrat1982]

is that the only way to do it? Man I was hoping there would be an easier route. Thanks for the reply, looks like I got my work cut out for me.

[guns1inger]

The problem is that now that HD DVD is basically dead as a format for playback, no-one is investing any time or effort into software for it. Nothing new will offer authoring for it.

However if you are patient someone else may offer an alternate suggestion.

[festmaster]

When you say that your files are HDTV rips, are they captured from over the air broadcasts? If so, they are MPEG-2 encodes and not H.264. Ulead Movie Factory 6 can author over the air captures into HD-DVD's that are burned on DVD-/+R. Your limitation is that you have to cut the movie file into 45 minutes chunks.

[multiAVCHD]

Some basic HD-DVD output may be possible with multiAVCHD after reencoding the source to fit some specs.