Convert .AVI to Blueray

[sheikh]

hello guys, is there any conversion tool out there that i can use to convert .avi to .m2ts or to a blueray file, while making the converted file a size of 700 or 800MB to save space. can anyone help thanks

[guns1inger]

Short answer : No.

Long answer : maybe, if your source is high enough quality and very short. 700MB will give you around 5 minutes of footage at full 1080p, or maybe 12 minutes at AVC HD 720p, if you use 384 kbps AC3 for the audio.

If your souce is standard definition, don't waste your time upscaling it unless you are incorporating it with real HD footage. You are just wasting your time.

What is your source ?

[sheikh]

my source is a computer, but if the computer is having a HDMI out and is connected to a HD tv with 1080p will that not help??

[guns1inger]

What is your source video ? is id HD or SD ? Does it come straight from a camera, or is it something you have created ? Or is it something you have downloaded ?

Simplest way to answer these questions is to post a Tree View output from mediainfo of one of these files.

[sheikh]

really am a novis on all these terms, but thanks for your guid it seems am getting there, the movie file i want to convert are normally downloaded files or a DVD that i rip and then convert to an avi file. but here is the data you wanted i have never used it before, but check and see if this what you ar asking for thanks

[guns1inger]

Assuming the majority of your files are like this sample, converting them to HD is a waste of time, will not look good, and will require each file expand to at least 4.36GB each. Leave them as they are, and let your player do the upscaling. Any movie compressed down to low resolution and 700MB has already had the life crushed out of it. This data is gone for good, and cannot be retrieved or recreated.

[sheikh]

Hmmm you are the expart thanks for your advice. but can i use these media streamers that are out there such as the netgear EVA150 that claims to do an upconversion on the fly as it plays it to your HD TV. do you have any idea as to the quality of picture of these devices that does the upconversion??

[guns1inger]

It varies depending on the source, but you have a lot of issue to deal with. It is a big upscale, you have compression and mosquito artefacts to deal with. Some source will look OK, some won't. There is no absolute answer.

[sheikh]

what infomation were you looking for in the mediainfo that made you to conclude as you did. i just want to know so that i can start to make my own analysis thanks

[guns1inger]

Anything that has a resolution less than 1280 x 720 should be questions. Less than 960 x 540 (which Apple considers HD, for some bizarre, sub-standard reason) is a not worth the effort. Any movie squeezed into 700mb - 1.4gb is not worth the effort.

Basically, if you want to do HD, start with HD.

[sheikh]

Thank you