Take 480p or 1080p MPEG-4s to a DVD format with little or no loss?

[fdecker]

I have a media player that can play progressive scan HD MPEG-4s directly from SDCARDs. It can also take a ripped standard definition DVD and play it when I copy the folder structure to the SDCARD. I want to create my own HD DVD file structure from these files. What happens when you try to author a DVD format that has HD files? Assuming my portable media player can handle it, can I edit my MPEG-4s, then publish them to a DVD format so I have menu selection, etc. The HD/Blu-Ray formatting is new to me so I am not sure what is involved. In an ideal world I could just edit some MPEG-4s together, losslessly save them back out as one MPEG-4, then in a DVD authoring program create the menu structure and wrap the MPEG-4s into VOB files also without degrading them much or at all. If the media player just looks at the BUF and IFO files and they point to a file of any resolution it can handle like HD VOB files, it should play. Thanks for all your help.

[Baldrick]

Nope, you wont find any dvd authoring applications that accepts hd mpeg4 files without reconverting them.

But the old mkv2vob could remux mkv to a vob....but I'm not sure what you can do with it if you want menus.


Have you tried a blu-ray/avchd on your media player?

[fdecker]

What do the re-author use for mimimum conversion loss? The media player is a Micca Speck. It can take a USB device (stick, hard drive) or an SDCARD. I was just trying to figure out how to take such hiqh quality files and put them through the minimal conversion to get a high quality output. I have taken them and made a regular DVD, but wasn't sure how to make the equivalent of blu-ray quality output. Obviously people are authoring blu-rays. I just want to generate the equivalent of a blu-ray to a file structure on my computer and copy it to the media player and see if it can play it like it plays a DVD or my original MPEG-4 files.

[manono]

What do the re-author use for mimimum conversion loss?

If you want to make a DVD playable on any DVD player, much more than authoring is involved. You have to do a full-scale reencode. And since DVD is standard-def only, you'll lose the high-def quality. Try AvsToDVD to see if you're satisfied with the results.

[manono]

Ad if your files are already Blu-Ray compliant and just need authoring, then try multiAVCHD.