To burn a blu-ray – best way?

[Jeff Greenberg]

I had Toast Titanium Version 10 up till this week when Toast 11 was released.

in SD you’re only allowed MPEG2 streams.
in HD, you’re alloved MPEG2 and MPEG4 streams.

You may have built a Blu Ray with SD material on it.

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Jeff G

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[Andrew Harman]

Is this hi-def then and not SD?

I am a graphic designer so NOT a video pro hence my video noobiness.

Thanks All

[Jeff Greenberg]

Walter – do mpeg2’s work? Sure. They work great.

And I’m telling you nothing you don’t know when I say that h.264 is a more advanced codec than mpeg 2- and provides better looking files at the same exact bit rate.

So, at the same file size, you’re getting a less ‘damaged’ file. I haven’t bothered to go out and do extensive testing on a variety of blue ray players – it’s just the ones I’ve built work (or don’t work) regardless of MPEG 2 or h.264 encoding. I haven’t bothered to try in windows for VC-1.

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Jeff G

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[Jeff Greenberg]

yes that’s an HD file.

You said it came up 480i, which means it was SD video.

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Jeff G

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[Eric Pautsch]

There were some titles early on which were MPEG 2 but almost titles in the last 4 years have been AVC or VC-1

https://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1155731

[Andrew Harman]

Hi,
I have discovered that the issue was with the Blu-ray player. it was not seeing hi-def. now another question. I have made the slideshow from stills. Made them all 1920×1080 pixels – so all images the same. it is made up of real photos and architectural renders. Again, all the same size.
Weird thing is, the renders, especially on the diagonal angles appear semi bitmapped where the photos, all look great.

What the!!

Thanks All