I'm working on a project to convert a TV series with 31 45-minute episodes originally spread over 9 PAL, Region 4 DVDs. I have ripped the DVDs to MKV by MakeMKV and ISO by "DVD to ISO." The entire series occupies about 57GB in either format. Ultimately, I'd like to give this as a gift to someone who is not tech savvy enough to use the MKVs. A better gift would be disks he could put in his Blu-ray player for his living room Sony 4k TV.
Some issues I know need covering are:
Transcoding the video - can the videos play in their native MPEG2 PAL on a North American Bluray player and 4K TV? If not, what are the best transcoding settings to use?
Reducing the number of disks - I know this will require some level of disk authoring. I would like to have episodes that are individually selectable, perhaps on as few as one or two Blurays.
Some other notes:
- I am familiar with ffmpeg from command line and Xmedia Recode for Windows, but I'm willing to learn any software.
- I have Windows and Linux available to me.
- I have a recent AMD 2700x / Nvidia 2080 PC for transcoding.
- I have the Archgon MD-8107S-U3-UHD and Pioneer BDR-XD05S portable DVD/Bluray writers.
- I have until late April to deliver the gift.
- I may be able to sneak around and find the exact model Bluray player / TV if needed.
So, if you have any tips on how to proceed, I'd appreciate it.
Here's the output of MediaInfo for one of the MKVs:
ThanksCode:Video ID : 1 ID in the original source medium : 224 (0xE0) Format : MPEG Video Format version : Version 2 Format profile : Main@Main Format settings : BVOP Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, Matrix : Default Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12 Format settings, picture structure : Frame Codec ID : V_MPEG2 Codec ID/Info : MPEG 1 or 2 Video Duration : 45 min 16 s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 6 300 kb/s Width : 720 pixels Height : 576 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 25.000 FPS Standard : PAL Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Interlaced Scan order : Top Field First Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.608 Time code of first frame : 00:00:00:00 Time code source : Group of pictures header GOP, Open/Closed : Closed Stream size : 1.99 GiB (97%) Language : English Default : No Forced : No Original source medium : DVD-Video Audio ID : 2 ID in the original source medium : 189 (0xBD)128 (0x80) Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 45 min 16 s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 62.2 MiB (3%) Title : Stereo Language : English Service kind : Complete Main Default : Yes Forced : No Original source medium : DVD-Video
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Your 'intent' goes beyond the forum's aim of fair use and back up.
Your questions are therefore irrelevant.
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"can the videos play in their native MPEG2 PAL on a North American Bluray player and 4K TV?"
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Your 'intent' goes beyond the forum's aim of fair use and back up.
Your questions are therefore irrelevant.
Others may have different opinion.
A better gift would be ... -
Let's address some of the above.
The notion of 'public domain' does not exist, as far as I know, outside the US. Most countries would use the term 'Out of Copyright' and that could vary according to the laws of the country where the item originated from. And copyright law is most complex but, generally, it belongs, unless transferred, to the original creator and not another party who releases the content under licence. A good example of that is the original BBC series of Monty Python. The BBC did not own the rights to release more than a sample and one would have to obtain a US release to get the entire programs.
A '9 disk set' suggests a tv series which may not be available outside a Region 4 area and I would suggest that is Australia. Just because it is not available outside of Oz does not make it 'Open Season' to make it available elsewhere.
There was a topic on here some time ago when a poster wanted to make a copy of a disk available to a third party. Since that third party was not related ie immediate family to the OP it was generally agreed that the copy infringed the definition of 'fair use' and effectively was infringement of copyright.
This forum could never support that since it leaves it open to action by copyright holders. But if one wishes to see the forum vanish then do carry on. -
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I've been criticized for being quick to call out posters and advise them about the forum rules about copying copyrighted discs for anyone but themselves, whether it's obvious and not so obvious that the discs are copyrighted. The forum rules are there to project the forum for being called out for DCMA violations. IMHO, better to be cautious, than risk these forum from being shut down.
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