mkv to blueray on dvd 5

[Greg6721]

hi im a newbie to the site although i have read it quite a lot!

i would like to apolagise in advance incase i have missed a similar post but i did have a look and couldnt see anything!

the problem i have encountered is this- i have some HD mkv files that i want to convert to avchd on dvd for playback on my panasonic blueray player.

the thing is most of the files i am converting are ending up larger that 4.6gb and therefore cannot be burned onto dvd 5 ihave been using tsmuxer and mkv2vob both have the same problem!(the original mkv files are 4.3gb before being converted!)

any help would be great as i have been struggling with this all week!

Greg

[poisondeathray]

The difference is from the .m2ts container overhead.

You would have to re-encode it using a lower bitrate to make it fit. You will lose quality doing this, and it will take a long time, probably 1-2 days if your computer specs are correct. An easy GUI for this task would be ripbot264. If your video is cropped (ie. not full frame 1920x1080 or 1280x720, etc...), you will have to add borders to make it compliant with a stand alone player

[Greg6721]

to be honest my computer specs listed are not correct as i dont know what they are and couldnt be bothered checking

i have downloaded ripbot and will give it a try! going by what you said about quality im not sure if its going to be worth my while! i might be as well savingthe mkv file on a disk and waiting til another, newer program comes along that can shrink the m2ts without losing quality!

thanks for your help!

[poisondeathray]

You can't shrink the .m2ts without losing quality (impossible)

Whenever you encode using lossy compression you will ALWAYS lose some quality.

What you had been doing earlier was switching containers, the video and audio were untouched (not re-encoding). The only difference was the overhead in the container.

So don't hold your breath waiting for that "new program"...