Venting frustration, alternative products for Blu-ray + DVD

[Daniel Ludwig]

hey pete,
there are several issues with encore and adobe is not going to fix it, or extend it´s features the way BD could work.

I´ve seen you are working on MAC (as I do, too), there is no playback-solution on mac, as apple (in person steve jobs) does not like blu-ray and especially the entire encryption.

acording to playlists technically a blu-ray works totally different than DVD, and adobe didn´t implement blu-ray-playlists very clever into encore.

as you didn´t show your programming, we all just could just look into glas ball.

maybe there is some strange programming in your programming as well – who knows.

cheers

danny

[Steve Mac kenzie]

I work on PC and it still sucks. Very high maintenance and buggy. Would love a replacement that actually works.

[Juan Salvo]

There is a blu ray player for Mac.

https://www.macblurayplayer.com/

There is also the new version of VLC which has some bluray support as well.

As to encore, it’s not a good solution for anything but one off discs. If you want to make a fully compatible mass produced disc, you need a good author with real bd authoring software (scenarist, Bluprint or maybe do studio). None of the prosumer type solutions are usable in the way that DVD studio pro was before.

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https://JuanSalvo.com

[Daniel Ludwig]

juan,
forget about macbluray-player, as the standart is not fully supported – in fact no IG-graphics working, so it´s absolutly useless if you would like to check BD-programming.

@steve:
if you would like to have a full-spec-authoring-tool you might look at DVD-Logics.

they have a more easy Solution called EasyBD and a professional (full-spec) solution BDEditor.

both are at real good price-target.

cheers

danny