How to? A DVD-R to a Blu-Ray BD-R

[andy jackson]

Hello EVERYONE.
I have many home movies on DVD-R

I want to put all these on Blu-ray BD-R. What is best software to do this?

I have Nero, Img Burn, AnyDVD, Clone DVD2, Alcohol 120%, DVD shrink, DVD De-cripter, Aiseesoft Blu-ray Converter Ultimate (seems to go from Blu-ray to DVD but not the other direction)

What is the best and simplest method? (I am not very technical) What software do I need?





Is there a way to put two (2) or more DVD-Rs on one (1) BD-R?



Thank you. Have a fine day!
Andy

[Baldrick]

Do you want it in standard blu-ray video format?

Or just as a data blu-ray disc?

[Kerry56]

If you want standard blu ray video (not just a data disc), you can do this with MultiAVCHD. I find MultiAVCHD to be a little flaky though, and the output is not universally accepted in blu ray players. Works for most people.

I wrote a guide for making compilations of dvd video on blu ray using other free tools. You can read it here: http://club.myce.com/f32/guide-combining-dvd-videos-into-blu-ray-331859/ I wouldn't describe the process as particularly simple though.

[andy jackson]

Mr. Baldrick,
Thank you for your reply.

You say............Do you want it in standard blu-ray video format? Or just as a data blu-ray disc?


I do not know the difference. What is the difference, Mr. Baldrick?


Is there - one simple software I can buy that will do this in a simple, easy manner?

Thank you.

[Kerry56]

To be certain that your blu ray disc will play in any blu ray player, you would need to make it in blu ray video format. If you simply burn the dvd movies onto a blu ray disc as data, which any burning program that supports blu rays will do, then you would probably need to play it back in a blu ray drive in a computer. That is the difference.

As I said before, MultiAVCHD will make a blu ray video for you, and you can build a simple menu to select each dvd-video that you put into the compilation. I'd use ImgBurn to do the actual burn to a disc.

If you want a commercial product, I would think that TMPGenc Mastering Works would do this, but I won't guarantee that it will pass the video and audio through without re-encoding it. There is a free trial available to test it.

[andy jackson]

Thank you Kerry 56,
OK! I think this makes it clear to me................Both softwares that you mention - MultiAVCHD and TMPGenc Mastering Works
will make it (the Blu-ray disk) in standard Blu-ray video format so it will play on almost all players. Is this correct?


Will these softwares allow me to make a simple menu for the Blu-ray disk?
Also, I want to take the video files from many DVD-R disks and put them all on one (1) Blu-ray disk. Will these softwares allow me to do that?

Thank you.

[Kerry56]

There are two different ways to try to convert dvd video into blu ray video. If your dvds are full sized resolution (either 720 x 480 NTSC or 720 x 576 PAL), then they should already be compliant to blu ray specifications and do not need to be re-encoded. It depends a little bit on what type of audio is in these dvds. But to make a blu ray video from most dvds, you simply put them into the program of choice, make a menu, then the program outputs as blu ray. The whole process is relatively quick. Your constraint is the size of the dvds, since that will not change. A normal dvd on a single layer disc would be no larger than 4.3gb. So you could fit five of those on a single layer blu ray.

The second way of doing this is to convert the mpeg2 video found in dvds over to H264. This conversion would take a lot more time, but you would be able to fit a great many more dvds into the blu ray video. Instead of five full sized dvds, you could probably fit 20 into a blu ray video, if the program will accept that many as input. I haven't tried this many in MultiAVCHD, and frankly I'd be afraid it would crash before finishing the project.

You should be aware that conversion of mpeg2 to H264 will degrade the quality of the video slightly, but if done well, may not be noticeable during playback.

Both of the programs I mentioned will let you make a menu to select the various videos.

[sanlyn]

If you want a commercial product, I would think that TMPGenc Mastering Works would do this, but I won't guarantee that it will pass the video and audio through without re-encoding it. There is a free trial available to test it.

Mastering Works will re-encode. This differs from TEMPGENC Smart Renderer, which is a frame=specific MPEG/HD editor which like most smart renderers will re-encode only a portion of video around the cut area. Mastering Works is basically an encoder with editing capability but is designed more for unencoded input.