Blu-Ray Rip to DVD9

[DeathStalker77]

Ok, I went & followed Baldrick's Guide on using BD Rebuilder which, as I understood it, would convert the Blu-Ray rip files I have to a DVD9 structure, keeping the menus and such intact. It only succeeded in creating a DVD9-sized Blu-Ray disc, which, obviously, is not what I want. I also tried Blu-Ray To DVD II Pro and all it did was convert the main movie into a VIDEO_TS/VOB format with no menus and no extras.

So how can this be done? I have the full Blu-Ray file structure and I want to convert it to a DVD9 with DVD format, keeping the menu and extras structure intact.

Anyone know how this can be done? (And yes, I've searched and Googled endlessly on this).

Thank you for any assistance!

--- DeathStalker

[guns1inger]

It can't be done. It sounds like Baldrick's guide did exactly what it said it would do, you just hadn't read through it properly to realise this before hand.

You are unlikely to find a program that will ever do what you are after, simply because the the difference between how bluray menus work and how DVD menus work is too great. The DVD specification is a simple beast, and menus are necessarily limited because of it. Clever design and creative thinking can get you around some of it, but the bottom line is that you have a very strictly define set of rules to work within.

Bluray menus are far more complex, with far greater interactivity, the ability to appear over the movie while it is running and many other tricks. They can be programmed in java, with animated pop-ups and all manner of tricks.

There is no simple one-to-one mapping of menu functions, and therefore no easy or straight forward way to translate a menu from Bluray to DVD. Someone may, eventually, create a method to strip down a bluray menu to a series of simple still menus for DVD, but I would not hold my breath waiting for it.

[DeathStalker77]

<sigh> wasted 2 days on that conversion too.

FWIW, Blu-Ray to DVD II Pro *does* work, it just only converts the main movie.