Converting Blu-ray to DVD.

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There are times one would like to convert a Blu-ray disk to standard DVD. This can be done on a single- or double layer disk, which is relative inexpensive in comparison to a Blu-ray disk and still retains a very high quality and flexibility.

What you need is:
You need the FOX (Any DVD HD) to rip the Blu-ray. http://www.slysoft.com/en/
You need ‘tsMuxeR’ (free ware) http://www.smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html
And then you need a burner program to burn to DVD5 or DVD9. (single or dual layer) That’s all.

How to:
After you have ripped the Blu-ray to the HDD, drag the largest m2ts file (you find this file in the directory on the hard drive where you put it, then go to, BDMV/Stream, a file that is usually larger than 20Gig) into ‘tsMuxeR’. There you will see 2 pans on top. Drag the file into the first one. The one beneath will display all the streams in detail that are contained within this large m2ts file. This is usually a long list and varies from one movie to another.

The first line is the main video stream and the second line the master audio stream, i.e. the main movie without anything else. The following streams are other audio streams, usually in foreign languages that can be removed if not wanted. The next lines are mostly presentation streams (PGS), i.e. copy warnings and so on that can be removed as well. All streams are clearly identified, i.e. MPEG-2, DTS-HD, DTS, AC3 and PGS, and so are the languages. Everything can be removed except the first 2 lines which hold the main movie and sound, unless one wishes to include a second language or copy warnings. After this cleanup one can mux the selected lines together. I usually select ‘TS muxing’.

The muxed file contains DTS-HD audio. Not every software can deal with DTS and that’s why I use ‘ConvertXtoDVD’ which does a very good job and has a multitude of functions under the hood. It converts the DTS-HD to AC3-2 or 6 (2 or 6 channels) and shrinks and burns the video to DVD5 or DVD9 (single- or dual layer).

http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/

Another burning option is to use ‘Sothink HD Movie Maker’ that burns virtually any video file into BD5 or BD9 and Blu-ray formats.

http://www.sothinkmedia.com/hd-movie-maker/index.htm

The finished disk is a high quality video.

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Thanks for the mini-guide. The PGS streams can also be subtitles, if you need those. And sometimes the main movie is on more than one .m2ts file, but that's usually obvious if the biggest file is less than 14 - 20GB. With tsMuxeR you can append a second or more .m2ts files to work with if the main movie is split between multiple .m2ts files.

I also use ConvertX to convert the MKVs that I have already converted from the BD video to a standard MPEG-2 DVD. It's a good conversion program.

For more info about the Blu-ray structure, format and specification, look to the top left of this page for 'WHAT IS' Blu-ray.

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