HD DVD Authoring

[EricM]

This has been bugging me all day, to the point im getting pissed off.

I have bought a HDV camcorder (canon HV10) i am trying to copy video from it and put it on a HD-DVD and it just wont work no matter what i do.

I have tried about 15 different settings, PAL/NTSC, 1080i 16:9 and 4:3, variable bitrate, contant etc... and nothing works.

I tried with cyberlink powerproducer and ulead dvd movie factory 5 plus.

With ulead, it errors when i want to create a menu (i dont really care or want one) so i just author with no menu. I play the disc in the xbox 360 HD-DVD drive and the xbox freezes with a black screen (nothing works, i have to power it off and back on).

With cyberlink it creates the menu, when i play the disc the menu works fine, i can see the motion menu of my movie, but when i try to play it, it freezes.

The xbox360 plays the king kong hd-dvd perfectly.

Also, if i try to upconvert a movie recorded with my old DV camera with ulead, it plays perfectly.

What could it be???
Its really driving me nuts.

Please help.
Thanks,
Eric

[tmelo38]

In order to author an HD dvd, you have to have a HD dvd burner in your computer.
An ordinary dvd burner WILL NOT do the job.

You can burn HD video on a regular dvd (about 24 minutes worth) with Pinnacle Studio 10.7, but I believe you need a HD dvd player to play it.

tmelo38

[EricM]

I am burning it onto a regular dvd which is supposed to work.

It does work when i burn SD upconverted to 1080i but not HDV 1080i.

[tmelo38]

But Pinnacle Studio 10.7 WILL burn High Definition video on a 4.7Gb dvd with an ordinary PC dvd burner.
I know Ulead will burn ONLY on HD DVD's, I've tried it.

tmelo38

[EricM]

I will try pinnacle studio thanks.

Ulead only burns to hd-dvd but it can save HVDVD_TS folder which can be burned with nero. or at least it is supposed to work that way.

[edDV]

But Pinnacle Studio 10.7 WILL burn High Definition video on a 4.7Gb dvd with an ordinary PC dvd burner.
I know Ulead will burn ONLY on HD DVD's, I've tried it.

tmelo38

They are both encoding for HD DVD players on DVD-5 (20min) or DVD-9 (up to 40min) media and these discs will only play in a couple of Toshiba HD DVD players. That is if you can get it to work.

Am I right?

[edDV]

HD DVD ref:

http://dvdforum.org/images/Forum_HD_DVD_Universal_24.pdf

The times the quote above are for VC-1 or H.264 encoding but I haven't heard that anyone has been successful with anything but MPeg2.

[GeorgeW]

Back in May I used Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5.0 (very early release of it) to burn the HD-DVD to an IMAGE file (*.ISO). I then used DVDDecryptor to burn the image to DVD5 using my regular dvd burner. Took it to Bestbuy (retail store in the USA) and played it on one of their Toshiba HD-DVD display units -- looked great

Regards,
George

[bobkart]

I did that too a couple of months ago. I used Ulead DVD Movie Factory 5 Plus and played the disc at Best Buy in a Toshiba HD-A1. Since then I ordered one but it arrived broken and I've sent it in for warranty repair. Should be getting it back soon.

Here is where I learned how to author and burn the disc so it would play correctly: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=705146

[EricM]

I figured it out.

You have to convert the HDV from transport to progressive stream mpeg.
Then it works on xbox360 hddvd player, burned on normal dvd-r

These authoring software should do this.
With SD DVD it re-encodes if the movie is not dvd compliant, seems like with hd-dvd it just burns the mpeg as you supply it.

PS. The canon hv10 sucks if used indoors or where there is not alot of light. In low light its worse the SD.