How to make your own HD DVDs on DVD-Rs

Even though HD DVD burners are still off in the distance, you can make a DVD that will play back 720p or 1080i content on your HD-A1 or HD-XA1 with your existing DVD-Rs. The guys over at AVSForum have been working on this since the the Toshiba HD-A1 player launched, and they've pretty much got it down to a science. Particularly given the lack of content available so far on the format, many people have .ts files, HDV content, or mariposaHD episodes they'd love to play back from a single shiny platter. They've boiled the process down to a few steps that anyone familiar with DVD burning should be able to follow.

Basic Steps for Creating HD DVDs:

1. Capture a high definition MPEG2 video to your computer.
2. Convert the video file from .ts, .tp or .m2t transport stream format to program stream format
3. Create an HD DVD folder on your computer
4. Burn the HD DVD disc using Nero Burning ROM.

For more details and list of necessary software check out the thread, currently this walkthrough is PC-only, although WiFiSpy also notes he is working on a Mac version so that shouldn't be too far off. With a guide like this, all you need is a DVD-R, a sharpie and a Qosmio laptop to recreate the Sony Blu-ray incident. Or you can take that old rip of The Fifth Element you've got laying around and see if you can do a better job at a lower bitrate. The possibilities are endless.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=7936017&&#post7936017

Your such a newb vhelp click here:

https://www.videohelp.com/hd


(just teasing about that )

The links it provides are here:

http://www.blu-raydisc.com/

http://www.dvdforum.org/hddvd-tech.htm


My understanding is all hd and bluray material are 1080p. Don't quote me but I had the distinct recollection that its now all 1080p for the next gen stuff.

HD-Mpeg2

Originally Posted by vhelp

My "Fifth Element" re-creates attempts from my SBit disk are mostly
successful. (you could have at least posted a few specs pieces here,
for us to see - like me)

Ok. So, w/out having to resort to jumping around to other forums,
what are the basic HD-DVD specs so that we can experiment *here*
on a few scenarios ??

Basic HD-DVD recipe:
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Thanks BJ_M,

-vhelp 4022

copied verbatim from AVS forum - but i cant copy the whole guide as they would be mighty upset about that ..plus there is a lot more info there worth reading (the whole thread)

basically Ulead Movie Factory 5 can do HD-DVD and if you are lucky - they also have a version that does bluray - but they pulled it from retail (but it works fine and is sold with sony machines with the bluray burner) .. the trick is that you are not burning it on a hd-dvd disk -- but the player doesnt know this if the disk structure is correct

Basic Steps for Creating HD DVDs:

1. Capture a high definition MPEG2 video to your computer.
2. Convert the video file from .ts, .tp or .m2t transport stream format to program stream format using Womble MPEG2VCR.
3. Create an HD DVD folder on your computer using Ulead Movie Factory 5.
4. Burn the HD DVD disc using Nero Burning ROM.