Help with Authoring BD-R Video that plays on Playstation 3 PS3

[robbalvey]

Hey everyone,

I've been searching around videohelp.com and I'm usually able to find everything I need here, but this one question specifically I can't find an answer to.

I am creating a BD-Video (Editing with Premiere CS4, outputting with CS4 Media Encoder, and authoring with Nero 9, and making the Blu-Ray copies with Nero Burning Rom 9 selecting the Blu-Ray UDF option) and all the BD-R's I've made work GREAT on just about every player I've tried them on (Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, etc) ...except for a PS3. I've tried on a 4 different versions of the PS3 with two different types of blanks purchased from meritline.com:

- Optical Quantum Blu-ray Media Disc (BD-R Disc) 4X 25GB Silver Shiny
- Ritek Ridata Blu-ray Media Disc (BD-R Disc) 4X 25GB White Inkjet Hub

The BD-R is just under 22gb and it's full of home brew video.

It's not a rip of any store bought Blu-Ray, its our own footage we shot on Sony AVCHD cameras that output a .mts 1080i image.

My questions are:

1. Are there any known blank BD-Rs that work better than others on a PS3?

2. Are there any tricks or extra steps I should be going through to get a BD-R to work on the PS3?

3. To anyone who has successfully mastered a BD-R that has worked on a PS3, what programs did you use?

Thank you in advance for your help.

--Robb Alvey
http://[URL="http://www.themeparkreview.com"]www.themeparkreview.com[/URL]

[musr139]

Hi,
I use Imgburn 2.5.10 all the time to burn the BD movie that was generated by tsremuxer tsmuxerGUI.
I have been using Memorex BD-R, also SONY. TDK, Panasonic BD-R DL and BD-RE DL,
and Memorex BD-RE 25GB.
ALl of them work on my PS3. (my PS3 is 60GB original which can also play PS2 games).

[fritzi93]

Since you've tried two types of media, my suspicions would center on Nero.

1) No reason to ever use anything but ImgBurn for burning video, whether BD 5/9/25 or DVD-Video. It will automatically apply proper settings.

2) I would definitely try authoring with tsMuxer instead of Nero. No menus (you can use multiAVCHD if you require menus), but tsMuxer is simple and as near to foolproof as possible. This will help determine if Nero's authoring is at fault.

I was about to say welcome to the forum, since the above is apparently your first post. Then I saw your join date.

[robbalvey]

Since you've tried two types of media, my suspicions would center on Nero.

1) No reason to ever use anything but ImgBurn for burning video, whether BD 5/9/25 or DVD-Video. It will automatically apply proper settings.

2) I would definitely try authoring with tsMuxer instead of Nero. No menus (you can use multiAVCHD if you require menus), but tsMuxer is simple and as near to foolproof as possible. This will help determine if Nero's authoring is at fault.

I was about to say welcome to the forum, since the above is apparently your first post. Then I saw your join date.

Thanks for this. I'm going to try authoring with Nero and making my copies with ImgBurn. I've used DVDDecrypter for years so I'm familiar with it.

I'll have a look at tsMuxer, but I will need menus so it won't be a final option. but you're right, I can at least test to see if it's the blanks or Nero.

I'm making the assumption based on the lack of other people having problems playing BD-R's on a PS3 is that they *should* work?

And yeah, been a "lurker" for many many years, but this was the first time I needed to post!

--Robb

[musr139]

I have tried this with NERO also.
I used Nero vision to make bluray disc compilation,
Then use NERO BURNING ROM to burn (you have to set UDF 2.5).
That works for me.

[robbalvey]

I have made a new master with Nero using just a small file to test with (my BD-R was only about 600 megs) but using IMGBURN it created a 23gb .iso file when I told it to make the image from that 600bm disc. The disc that I made with IMGBURN worked on my computer (haven't tried it on a PS3 yet), but I just wanted to ask if this was normal for IMGBURN or if there is a setting that only creates an .iso out of the data that is on the disc rather than an entire image of the blu-ray?

I don't remember this being a setting with DVD Decrypter.

Thank you for your help.

[musr139]

I have not done that (create Imgburn ISO file using output from NERO). It should not make a bigger file than the necessaary.
Check again.
I can try a test and tell you.
If you have the output from NERO (example):
myBDDisc-->BDMV (all the other subfolders here)
|->CERTIFICATE
Then use Imgburn 2.5.10 use option (from dropdown mode --- choose build
then click on folder, a window will pop up, browse and pick the directory
C:\...\myBDDisc

Then clock burn.

It will start burning to disc.
You can try a DVD+RW just to see if it burns. This may not play on PS3 because it has to be AVCHD on DVD
(To do that you can use AVCHDPatcher)

[robbalvey]

I have not done that (create Imgburn ISO file using output from NERO). It should not make a bigger file than the necessaary.
Check again.
I can try a test and tell you.
If you have the output from NERO (example):
myBDDisc-->BDMV (all the other subfolders here)
|->CERTIFICATE
Then use Imgburn 2.5.10 use option (from dropdown mode --- choose build
then click on folder, a window will pop up, browse and pick the directory
C:\...\myBDDisc

Then clock burn.

It will start burning to disc.
You can try a DVD+RW just to see if it burns. This may not play on PS3 because it has to be AVCHD on DVD
(To do that you can use AVCHDPatcher)

I did the create ISO from disc option in IMGBURN and that is what created the 23gb .iso file (even though what was on the BD-R was only about 600megs.)

I'll try the build option now.

[musr139]

What is the size of the BDMV folder output from the NERO vision project? It should be 660 MB or close.

[robbalvey]

What is the size of the BDMV folder output from the NERO vision project? It should be 660 MB or close.

The size of the output folder is about 700mb, but when I tell IMGBURN to create an .iso file from it, an .iso of about 23 gigs is created.

[musr139]

That is encouraging. As I said before I never made an ISO file using the BDMV folder.
I opened the Imgburn, and from drop down menu (or first statring up screen with several choices), I pick
build option. THen go to the folder (myBDDisc ) that contains BDMV and CERTIFICATE point to that,
Then click burn.
Since it is only 700 MB try to play with a DVD-RW or +RW so you do not wast BD-R.