Burning 720p to NON Blu Ray disk using Architect

[Dave Haynie]

Once again, you can put any old data file on a DVD. Well, judt about… some DVD disc formats have limits. But sure, write whatever you want to a DVD. Just don’t expect any DVD player to automatically do anything with it.

This will not involve DVD architect in any way. DVD architect is an authoring tool for DVD-Video, BDAV, and BDMV formats. Each of this is certainly a data format but DVD Architect will not produce a non-conforming format, because no DVD player will know what to do with it.

The format specifications make the resolution decisions. That the reason you have a pretty good expectation of any old DVD playing on any old DVD player. The tools for creating these specific formats, like DVD Architect, create only those industry standard formats. You are free to make something that will only play on one DVD playermodel if you chose to to that, but don’t expect the standards based tools to support that.

I’m not sure whar you mean by “recoding to the original dimensions”… you are suggesting that a player should recognize a non-standard format and downscale on the fly? Most DVD players lack any sort of video DSP that would make that possible. This is very tighly defined embedded ekectronics… no one’s paying extra for features that will never be used. It’s true that some recent DVD players can do video DSP like upscaling, higher resolution playback, etc. In fact, for just about any DVD player over about $50 we have a name for that: Blu-ray. A whole set if actual standards for this, so a manufacturer will know up front that the player can play every disc. It wouldbe stupid to make that some kind of guessing game.

-Dave