burning a dvd

[pete1967]

hi there everyone,
I am new to this site,
I hope someone can help me, I am trying to burn dvds from either x264 or mkv files so they will play on a Panasonic dmp-bd65 Blu-ray player, any help would be greatly appreciated


thanks

pete

[emilroh]

Try ConvertXtoDVD

[jman98]

General recommendations not specific to your BluRay player are the same for everybody, namely...

1) Use ImgBurn (it's free) for burning.
2) The ONLY consistently top notch DVD media in the world any more is Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden. Period. Avoid the "Life" series of Verbatim discs, if they even sell them in the UK. All TY discs and all other Verbatim discs are the highest quality. If you buy another brand to save money, do NOT return here crying about your bad burns.


I do not know if your Panasonic can play MKV from burned discs, but I would guess that it will be OK. I really can't stress enough getting the best media to burn too. Many people use low quality discs and have problems they could avoid with better media.

[pete1967]

thanks emilroh, I will give it a go.

[pete1967]

hi jman98, I am using tdk discs at the mo but I don't mind looking at other makes,
thanks jman98

[hello_hello]

I found the manual for the US model and and a link for the player on Panasonic's site (the Australian site in this case), and there's no mention of playing MKV files, so I'd assume without converting them, all the burning in the world won't do any good. If you look at the list of supported formats here, you'll see DivX HD isn't checked, which would no doubt mean it won't play MKV files. If you scroll down to note #2, you'll see it supports Divx video. I'm not sure exactly what that means, although I'd assume it's the usual Xvid/Divx encoded AVIs (standard definition) or maybe files with a divx extension.

Ideally you'd invest in another player (there's plenty of standalone media players which aren't expensive) but if that's not an option then you'll probably need to convert the video in order to burn it as a standard Blu-ray or AVCHD disc. I'm pretty sure both those formats require standard 16:9 resolutions, which would mean re-encoding to add back any black bars which were removed when the MKV was encoded etc. Or you could convert them to a standard definition AVI if you don't mind watching them that way. Or convert them to video-DVD format.

If converting and creating compliant video discs is something you want to do I can't help as I've never done it myself. I gave up using discs for anything but backing up a long time ago. Someone else will no doubt be able to recommend software and offer instructions if need be.