Blu Ray on DVD (Mac)

[gooberguy]

I'm trying to find a guide that helps me burn blu ray movies on a DVD (only playable on a blu ray player) specifically on a mac

I remember doing this a while ago, but i can't seem to find the article. Anyways when I did it back in the day, I did it on a windows computer, but this time I'm trying to do it on a mac.

any help will be appreciated, thanks!

[Case]

Roxio Toast Titanium with the additional High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in;
or the Pro version, which includes the plug-in.

There is also a tsMuxer for OS X 10.5, but that only authors the file structure, iirc. It took a few harder steps to create a UDF 2.5 disk image from that with the Terminal.

[gooberguy]

just to be clear will the toast plug in burn the blu ray to a normal dvd?

[Case]

Yes, Toast will burn to any media type that the drive supports, and the plug-in helps it author HD content (in the correct file system).

"High Definition on DVD!
You don't have a Blu-ray burner yet? No problem. With Toast 10 and the HD/BD plug-in you can burn high-def video content on standard DVD discs and play them back on your set-top Blu-ray Disc™ player! This is an innovative way to get between up to an hour of high-def content on affordable DVD media."

(Note that Toast 9 requires the Toast 9 Plug-in, and Toast 10 requires the Toast 10 Plug-in. These plug-ins are different products.)

(Note 2: I'd take the "up to an hour" skeptically. An hour would require a very low bitrate.)

[jman98]

I have a saying that "Friends don't let friends use Roxio" so you have my deepest sympathies that this is your option on Mac.

You should be aware that some BluRay players are much fussier than others about playing BluRay format on DVD media. Some will play just about anything. Others will require that the discs be authored in AVCHD format. Still others will only play discs authored like regular BluRay discs. And throw in that your player may be fussy if you use low quality DVD media, which in the USA means anything not made by Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim (everything is good except their cheap "Life" series). I's suggest doing some tests with RW discs first to see if your player is fussy. So in the end if you finally figure out what works on your BluRay player, please understand that such discs may or may not work on your friends' BluRay players.

[gooberguy]

thanks for the tips guys, but I now have another problem.

The file i want to burn is an MKV file, and it seems like nothing on my computer will open it up. VLC plays it fine but adobe encoder cant open it, and toast cant open it either. any ideas on that?

[Case]

toast cant open [an MKV file] either.

Install Perian to let QuickTime, and thus Toast too, handle the MKV container, depending on codecs and streams contained within.

[gooberguy]

Since after installing perian toast would crash every time i would add the mkv file, i used mkv tools to convert my 7gb file into a mp4, but when encoding that with toast after 30 minutes, i only progressed 1%. Other than using my quicker windows desktop to do this, I'm lost for ideas