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Create Blu Ray files for a media player?
I’m told that if I wish to store a copy of my old SD DVD projects on a computer that I should store them as an iso file rather than the standard Video_TS file because they can always be burnt back as a DVD as well as being able to be played by some of the media players & still be able to use the menu’s
I’m only starting on my first HD project & have been working with the M2TS files which I have rendered out & player OK in my media player from a USB drive.
I wished to know if burning my project out as a Blu Ray using DVDA, is the only way that I can end up with a HD disc that can also have chapters? What codec does one use for the video on a Blu Ray, M2TS or some other codec? Is there any other way that I can create a Blu Ray file that can be played by media players without having to burn a Blu Ray disc? The reason that I ask is because I have a back up copy of all of my old SD projects on a portable hard drive & its easier to have every file together in one place since discs appears to be be used less than before.
Thanks in advance
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Most DVD/BD player software can access your VIDEO_TS directory in a DVD project and play it just as if it were a DVD. This is, in fact, more common than the ability to play ISO files. Though ISOs are not a problem either, there a numerous free utilities that let you mount an ISO file as a virtual disc drive. I typically store DVDs as separate files and BDs as ISOs, but that’s pretty much because that’s how DVDA delivers them.
As for fully authored BDs (menus, chapters, etc) you need DVDA or some other authoring tool. M2TS isn’t a CODEC, it’s a file format… specifically an MPEG-2 transport media container format. This file format is, in fact, used for BD output. It can contain MPEG-2 or AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10) in one of the formats supported by Blu-Ray. DVDA will happily take your BD-compliant AVC or MPEG-2 and put it into a properly formatted MPEG-2 TS file, or it’ll transcode most anything else to your CODEC of choice (AVC or MPEG-2… VC-1 is also supported by BD, but may not be supported by DVDA).
-Dave
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