Is it worth to encode from DivX and/or XviD to BluRay?

[rocky12]

I have a 250GB hard drive. I don't have a burner that can burn BluRay. I don't have a special TV. I don't have a BluRay DVD player. Is it worth the space to encode, DivX and/or XviD to high quality BluRay? Isn't BluRay over 20 some gigs? Do they have freeware that will encode to BluRay? Do they have freeware tools to author it? Thank you for any replies!

[ron spencer]

waste of time....xvid and divx already way compressed...bklu ray will compress even more and will need to upsize ALOT....will look aweful

[rocky12]

waste of time....xvid and divx already way compressed...bklu ray will compress even more and will need to upsize ALOT....will look aweful

Is it possible to do it so it doesn't look that bad?

[poisondeathray]

waste of time....xvid and divx already way compressed...bklu ray will compress even more and will need to upsize ALOT....will look aweful

Is it possible to do it so it doesn't look that bad?

No.

You can't increase quality by transcoding with a lossy format and the upscaling algorithm will produce horrible artifacts as ron spencer said.

This is assuming your xvid is a regular SD resolution. If you had a high bitrate HD DivX file, for example, it might look OK, but still a waste of an expensive blu-ray disc IMO

But your post says you don't have a blu-ray burner, and don't have a "special TV" (I assume you mean 1080p), so it really isn't worth your time then.

[PuzZLeR]

It can look decent.

However you would need AviSynth filters like MSU deblock, MSU sharpen, Lanczos resize, etc, etc, and LOTS AND LOTS of processing, and LOTS of hard drive space, to make something at least decent to burn later.

You can use x264 and MeGUI with the blu-ray profile, but again, lots of processing.

But if the content is SD you may have to stick with SD - which is within the blu-ray spec. I would avoid going HD for the moment.

You can still encode to blu-ray compliancy using x264/MeGUI in SD, but I've gotten much nicer results using MPEG-2, in the DvD format, using CCE - you get DvD compliance as a bonus to fully blu-ray compliant content as well.

I'm assuming you are going blu-ray for "future-proofing", which is fine. I would suggest to stick with the SD rez for now until hardware/software gets better, but maintain a copy of your source as a backup for later. You still would need less space this way, even with double files.