Looking to do some test HiDef encodes

[wiseant]

Hi All

I don't have a HiDef TV or a Blu-ray writer or a Blu-ray player but I want to try encoding some HD video

I can use my brother's Blu-ray player or his Pioneer MPEG4 player with his HD TV to view clips

What I am wondering is what format to use to burn to a DVD-R (as data - not DVD format) and what resolution I should aim for

I would like to preview clips on my 21" Sony CRT Monitor as well

TIA

[Soopafresh]

https://www.videohelp.com/hd

https://www.videohelp.com/tools/multiAVCHD

RipBot264 would be an easy way to encode the files to Blu Ray specs

Burning Blu Ray media onto a DVD is referred to as "BD5" for a single layer DVD and "BD9" for a dual layer DVD.

[guns1inger]

I would guess that his Pioneer player won't do anything for you. It will most likely only play standard definition source, even if it upscales to 1080i for display.

What will be your source ? If your source is standard definition material, or worse, downloaded sub-SD Divx/Xvid files, then you will have to upscale them in software first to HD resolutions, encode them to AVC, then author them for bluray playback. This also assumes that your brother's BD player will play AVCHD discs - not all do.

MultiAVCHD is one method, TSmuxer is another. Both will output AVCHD structures ready for burning with Imgburn. Neither of them will do any encoding for you.

I suggest you start small and download a few 1080p and 720p quicktime trailers from apple, use Xvid4PSP to repackage the content to M2TS files, then use multiAVCHD to create a structure. Burn to a DVD using Imgburn, with UDF set to at least 2.0, and see if it plays in your brother's player. If it doesn't, you haven't wasted time encoding anything.

If it does play then you can look at encoding material yourself. Xvid4PSP is a relatively simple front-end to some high powered tools and will get you started, however if you are upscaling SD or lower source, you may want to look at VideoEnhancer or similar as well.

[wiseant]

Thanks Soopafresh

I'll have to look into that "BD5"

[wiseant]

Thanks guns1inger

Yeah, I didn't think his Pioneer player would handle anything other than SD

I did plan on using VideoEnhancer - I have got good results from it - especially when I do some initial upsizing using Spline64Resize

For sources, I have some commercial DVDs and some 640x480 Interlaced HuffYUV captures

Time to check out XviD4PSP.

Do you have a preference re MultiAVCHD or TSmuxer?

Thanks

[guns1inger]

I haven't had a chance to use multiAVCHD. The big difference between the two are menus (multiAVCHD does, TSMuxer doesn't), and multiple titles (Again, mulitAVCHD does, tsmuxer doesn't)