Blu-Ray Region Problem?

[Wee_Willie]

Hello.

I capture television broadcasts to my PC, so that I can send football games to my friend in the UK. (I live in Canada)

This year, we decided to step it up a bit and go HD, so, I bought a Hauppauge HDPVR, and a bluray burner.

At first, I wasn't sure if a game captured in NTSC format would play on his blu-ray player, so I made up a test AVCHD DVD.

When he told me the results were successful, I burned a full game on a BD, and sent it off in the mail.

When he tried to play it, he got a "cannot play disk" message.

His blu-ray player model is a Samsung BD-P1600, and supposedly is picky when it comes to BD regions, but will play any DVD.

Does a burnt BD encode with a region? Does this sound like its the problem?

His player supports MKV playback. Might this be a better idea that trying to use the blu-ray file format?

Thanks in advance.



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[lowellriggsiam]

If you are both happy with the MKV and it works that is a good option. I can see a number of issues that could do this, digital broadcast flag that gets embeded, a bluray player that doesn't play burned discs, a region code getting added, or not finalising the disc. I am assuming you did finalise and test the disc, right?

[wulf109]

TSmuxer to create BR structure. Imgburn to burn. Some BR players don't play AVCHD disks well. BD25,DVD5,or DVD9?

[Wee_Willie]

TSmuxer to create BR structure. Imgburn to burn. Some BR players don't play AVCHD disks well. BD25,DVD5,or DVD9?

That is exactly what I did.

Sorry if I got the terminology wrong. I said AVCHD because Arcsoft TME software gives you three choices when capturing. They are PS3, XBOX, and AVCHD, and I selected AVCHD.

The TME software captures to a .TS file. I then used TSMuxer to create BDMV and CERTIFICATE folders, and used Imgburn for burning onto a BD25. The disk plays fine in my PS3, but not in my buddy's bluray player.

The test DVD-5 that I sent him was made exactly the same way and it DID play.

Is the Samsung player looking specifically for a region 2 blu-ray, and won't recognize my burnt disk?

Do blu-ray burners encode a region on the blank disk?

The specs on the player state that it will burn any DVD, but only region 2 blu-rays.

I will be sending him a MKV to see if that helps, but its usually a week and a half for the disks to get there before I can hear about the results.




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[Wee_Willie]

I am assuming you did finalise and test the disc, right?

Absolutely, and it played fine here using both PowerDVD amd my PS3.



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[lowellriggsiam]

It would seem likely then that his player doesn't like burned blurays.

[Wee_Willie]

It would seem likely then that his player doesn't like burned blurays.

Right, so I'm worried if a burned .mkv will be rejected as well.

Arrrrgh!


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[wulf109]

I doubt it's a region problem since the DVD5 played. TSmuxer gives the option to create a BR structure or an AVCHD structure,are you sure you used the same selection on the DVD5 and BD25?

[Wee_Willie]

I doubt it's a region problem since the DVD5 played. TSmuxer gives the option to create a BR structure or an AVCHD structure,are you sure you used the same selection on the DVD5 and BD25?

Yep, I selected "Blu-Ray Disk" in TSmuxer for both disks.

[wulf109]

Do you have access to a BR player,not Ps3,see if the BD25 plays on a standalone.

[Wee_Willie]

I do, as my brother owns one.

That might be something to try tomorrow.

Good suggestion.

[wulf109]

I have two Sony BR players and they play almost anything. I tried a Panasonic BR player and it refused to play any BD25 that I burned. I returned it and bought my second Sony. I never read anything but bad news about Samsung BR players.

[Wee_Willie]

The other possibility I thought of, is the format that I burn the BDs in.

In Imgburn, I have the following selected:

Mode1/2048
UDF
2.50

Sound about right?

[fritzi93]

I have two Sony BR players and they play almost anything. I tried a Panasonic BR player and it refused to play any BD25 that I burned. I returned it and bought my second Sony. I never read anything but bad news about Samsung BR players.

Same here, I have two Sonys that play almost anything; dunno about Panasonics. Every now and then there have been posts here that would lead one to think that perhaps the Samsung BDP1600 is..."finicky".

One would think that any Blu-ray player would play a burned BD25, but that hasn't always been the case, especially early players. I don't see anything wrong with your procedure. Region is not the problem, BTW.

You could try:

1) Have your buddy update the firmware on the player. Mind you, IIRC, there have been reports that some people have lost ability to play AVCHD when doing so, but maybe that doesn't apply to *latest* firmware.

2) I'm not perfectly clear what you used to create the test AVCHD. If you used ArcSoft TME to author the test AVCHD, then I'm certain it does *not* include an AUXDATA folder within the BDMV folder. I have TME (and the HD-PVR) and have never seen an AUXDATA folder in TME authored AVCHDs. If that applies in your case, try deleting the AUXDATA folder within the BDMV folder created by tsMuxer. That was a well-known problem with the Samsung BDP1600 not liking the AUXDATA folder for BD 5/9 playback with pre-v.1.03 firmware. Perhaps that doesn't apply to BD25, but you could try it.

3) If MKV works, leave well enough alone and use that.