Hello,

I have been working on a simple family home movie project, used OBS to record many family VHS tapes into MP4 files. I took these into Vegas Pro and cut them up nicely and made the color a little better, etc. My intention has been to put these onto Blu-Ray discs and pass them out to the family for Christmas. Not sure I'll make that deadline due to the issues I'm having, but here's what's going on:

I have in total a little over 40 hours of video. Obviously being sourced from VHS, I'm not looking for anything 4k, heck technically don't even need a 720 presentation, I was just hoping to fit as much as I could on one disc, so when I got my LG Blu-ray writer, I figured I'd just go with the CyberLink software that came included with it (don't need anything fancy and preferred not to spend money on software if unnecessary).

The Cyberlink suite asks what capacity blu-ray disc you are intending to burn to, and I noticed there's a 100gb option, so I chose that and in SD it can fix 20-some hours of my files onto one disc, so that's perfect because it feels better 2-3 discs than handing out 10 discs to each family member. So I bought a spindle of Verbatim 100gb discs and successfully burnt two full discs, with a third one pending, and the disc does not play on my Sony BDP-BX370 blu-ray player, which I'm now understanding only most 4k blu-ray players can read 100gb (triple layer discs). This was my bad as I only thought "don't need 4k, not writing 4k, should be fine" without investigating.

After encountering this, I thought maybe I should get 50gb dual-layer discs and just deal with having to make it a 6-disc or so per family member project, no big deal.

BUT I also have a PlayStation 5, and although I've never played any kind of Blu-ray in it before, it is my understanding that the PS5 CAN play 4k/triple layer discs. But popping in my freshly burned 100GB blu-rays are not able to be read by the PS5 either.

So, here's what I have:
  • 100gb Verbatim Discs
  • CyberLink PowerDirector 18
  • CyberLink settings: BDMV, 16:9, MPEG-2, SD 720x480/60i (9.5Mbps), LPCM audio
  • Playback options: Sony BDP-BX370 or PlayStation 5

Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong? Is CyberLink the problem? Is it SD on a Blu-Ray that's the problem? Is it the 100gb/triple layer disc that's the problem? Burning discs and trying other software takes money so I figured I'd go with hopefully some experienced recommendations before trying alternatives.

Side note - the burnt discs do play in the CyberLink software, but also outside of their ecosystem they are readable by VLC as well.


Thanks for any advice you can provide!