Any Disc Player that handles high bitrates from HD conversion?

[EAO]

I'll shortly be looking at HD TV's and I want to have HD movies from Bluray (off of a PC drive) converted into a compressed format... but still watchable ( I know... subjective) on this new TV without excessive banding due to lower bitrate, etc..

What I'd like to do is convert either into xvid or 264, then burn it onto a SL DVD (not in mpeg2 dvd format) to watch on a new player. Dont care about authoring or conversion right now.

Anyone know of a DVD player that can handle the high bitrate xvid, mp4, or 264? I'd like to also know if there is something that will adjust to play 'almost' properly on the screen - sort of like the way the DVP642 will playback 'weird' resolution downloads.

[Baldrick]

I guess you also want HD resolution / frame size(or else I don't know why you need high bitrate)? Then you don't have that many dvd players to choose from( see our dvd player list and search for hd divx/xvid). I would instead get a media center device like the www.popcornhour.com .

[edDV]

I don't think any DVD players short of Linkplayer or Buffalo class that play xvid/divx much over 720x576 resolution.

[EAO]

Would that resolution look decent (viewable without a lot of banding) on a say...720p TV?

( I suppose it would since a lot of people here have commented that DVD's look fine on their HD TV)

And yes... the rest of it was correct assumptions but I want the DVD player flexability in the same location.

[edDV]

Would that resolution look decent (viewable without a lot of banding) on a say...720p TV?

( I suppose it would since a lot of people here have commented that DVD's look fine on their HD TV)

And yes... the rest of it was correct assumptions but I want the DVD player flexability in the same location.

Then why mess with BluRay transfer. Just convert or play your normal DVD.

[jman98]

There are ZERO current DVD players that can meet the original poster's requirements. Well, the closest one is one of the expensive Helios media players. Take a look at:
http://www.helios-labs.com/us/products/xline/index_xline.shtml
There doesn't appear to be any H.264 support though, but MP4 and HD Divx supposedly work.

Various media streamers such as the previously mentioned Popcorn Horn or the very similar iStar (http://www.istarhd.com) might work, but they do not allow direct playing off DVD or CD discs.

[EAO]

Starting to see that. Kind of sucks as I believe there would be a good market for such.

And the few that are somewhat available - like the H4000 - seem buggy (A/V synch after pause).



edDV... I guess because the quality of the conversion would be superior due to superior source if one assumes that the people creating the bluray disc actually took advantage of it's potential.

[edDV]

Starting to see that. Kind of sucks as I believe there would be a good market for such.

And the few that are somewhat available - like the H4000 - seem buggy (A/V synch after pause).



edDV... I guess because the quality of the conversion would be superior due to superior source if one assumes that the people creating the bluray disc actually took advantage of it's potential.

Maybe. But if DVD quality is the goal, a modern DVD that has a BluRay counterpart was derived from the same master. 480p xvid conversion from 25Mb/s MPeg2 1080p vs the 6Mb/s MPeg2 480p DVD envolves a lot of downconversion work that may not be rewarded with much quality advantage. Test a clip.