Trying to Author HD-DVD on DVD-R for playback on Toshiba HD-A30

[greymalkin]

Hello All,

I've got some HD video that I'm going to be encoding to avchd discs for the future, but I don't own a bluray player now and would also like to encode some to HD-DVD to watch now since I have an hd-dvd player. I'm having a bit of a problem with it, however. Here's what I've done so far.

1) edited the m2ts files from my camcorder (canon hf10) with edius neo 2.5 and export to .avi (using canopus hq codec)
2) Imported the avi to multiAVCHD, use the transcode button to convert the .avi to hd-dvd format (I've tried an 8000 and 12000 bitrate). This builds me the necessary ADV_OBJ, HDDVD_TS, and VIDEO_TS folders (not sure if the VIDEO_TS is needed?
3) Import the folders (tried all and then just HDDVD_TS and ADV_OBJ) to imgburn and let it set up the mode/etc. for me (mode1, udf 2.50..etc.) Then I burn to disc

I've tried a dvd-rw and dvd-r disc of different brands and the result is the same. When I put the disc in it says "Loading for a while"...then it says "HDDVD", then "PLAY", then "00:00:00"....and there it sits for a long time...then finally says "cannot play disc. check disc."

I'm simply putting this out here in the off chance someone has had a similar struggle and might happen to know some things I should try to remedy the problem..I realize there is an infinite amount of detail I could go into and will be happy to provide all that is needed.

[llrj67]

I've done this with a re-encode of a blu ray, then remuxed with tsmuxer, just to play around. But i just imported the blu ray folder created by tsmuxer into multiAVCHD. I burned it onto a dvd-r and it played fine on on my hd-a3.

[festmaster]

It has been a while since I made an HD-DVD disk but I think your issue might be trusting multAVCHD to transcode your file appropriately. Try making an HD-DVD compliant file with Edius and then import that into multiAVCHD. I bet that disk will work.