Bluray player calling blueray disk "data disk" and saying no video files

[jbitakis]

I used Ashampoo 11 to Burn home HD video files that are on my computer (which originally came from my panasonic HD camcorder).
Step 1. I installed a blank BD-R phillips disc into the computer.
Step 2. I opened up Ashampoo 11 and clicked on "Burn files and folders" which took me to "create a new cd/dvd/bluray disc" (burn files and folders on CD, DVD, or Bluray disc).
Step 3. I transferred all the AVCHD video files (23GB) into that "burn files and folders" of Ashampoo 11.
Now, I also transferred all the .tmb & .pmpd & .cont files that seem to go along with each video file as well.
Step 4. I pressed "write blu ray disc", and then after it finished it ejected the disc and I brought it over to my Samsung blu ray player and it sees the blu ray disc as "Data disc" and says that there is NO VIDEO FILES IN IT!
So, wondering what I did wrong, I verified the blu ray disc and tried it again. Same result. I then finalized the disc and STILL got the same result, the samsung just recognized that their was a data disc in the player but said NO VIDEO FILES IN IT.
I placed this same BD-R in my computer that has a blu ray player in it and I open it up and the video files are in it and play perfectly.
I checked the properties of the BD-R and it says: type: CD drive File system: UDF

What did I do wrong?

[Baldrick]

Imgburn, add the BDMV folder, see http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides/blu-ray-copy/260-burn-blu-ray-avchd-using-imgburn

[jbitakis]

Was the problem Ashampoo 11 or what? Yes, I will use imgburn NEXT time, but this disc is toast correct?

[hech54]

You posted this in the "authoring" section. Apparently Ashampoo has an "authoring" portion of it's program. Did you use the authoring portion of Ashampoo? Just like "burning files to a blank DVD" does NOT make it a DVD playable in a set-top DVD player(it makes a DATA disc)....the same goes for Blu Ray(hence Baldrick's hint - "add the BDMV folder").

[Wizard23]

Maybe i can help i own ashampoo burning studio 11. To burn a blu ray movie.

1. one choose burn movies choose burn blu ray disc
2. hit browse and and go to the location where your blu ray disc is choose the main folder that has all the blu ray files.

That's all the program needs cause i use it to burn my dvds to dvd after edit and author.

I hope this helps.

[hech54]

hit browse and and go to the location where your blu ray disc is choose the main folder that has all the blu ray files.

He doesn't have a Blu Ray "folder"....he only has video files.

[jbitakis]

I think the probelm is that the video files that I put in there to burn were AVCHD (m2ts) files, not blu ray specific. I thought that Ashampoo 11 authored it and burned it together, when I clicked on "Burn files and folders" which took me to "create a new cd/dvd/bluray disc" (burn files and folders on CD, DVD, or Bluray disc). Maybe ashampoo does not author it to bluray, and just basically burned the avchd files.
I will check and see if there is an authoring portion of ashampoo. If there is, I missed that important step.

[edDV]

I used Ashampoo 11 to Burn home HD video files that are on my computer (which originally came from my panasonic HD camcorder).
Step 1. I installed a blank BD-R phillips disc into the computer.
Step 2. I opened up Ashampoo 11 and clicked on "Burn files and folders" which took me to "create a new cd/dvd/bluray disc" (burn files and folders on CD, DVD, or Bluray disc).
Step 3. I transferred all the AVCHD video files (23GB) into that "burn files and folders" of Ashampoo 11.
Now, I also transferred all the .tmb & .pmpd & .cont files that seem to go along with each video file as well.
Step 4. I pressed "write blu ray disc", and then after it finished it ejected the disc and I brought it over to my Samsung blu ray player and it sees the blu ray disc as "Data disc" and says that there is NO VIDEO FILES IN IT!
So, wondering what I did wrong,

That would be a data disc. It seems your Blu-Ray won't play your files as a data disc from root (without authoring).

[jbitakis]

That would be a data disc. It seems your Blu-Ray won't play your files as a data disc from root (without authoring)

I guess that is why it didn't play at all. I brought this same data disc over to my friend's house and tried to play it on his PS3 and it played, but extremely choppy, both the video and audio.
OK, so I need to author it first. How do I identify what the "authored bluray files look like", after I author. This is my problem, after I use multiavchd I don't know where to look for the authored bluray files and what they are called.

[edDV]

This picture shows representative AVCHD disc and Blu-Ray disc file structures


http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/blu-ray-authoring/133756-burning-bd-5-9-discs-plays-bd-ps3-6.html

But an AVCHD disc formally should use the 8.3 (name.extension) file format like this

[edDV]

I think the probelm is that the video files that I put in there to burn were AVCHD (m2ts) files, not blu ray specific...

Most AVCHD v1.0 files are Blu-Ray ready but still need authoring for most players*.

Exceptions include 1920x1080 60p and AVCHD Lite 30p (with frame repeat flag). These are outside the Blu-Ray spec but still may play on some players.


* my Sony BVP-BX37(aka S370) will play AVCHD v1.0 files from DVDR/BD root as a data disc.