[Doug Mokaren]

So it’s not true that the Elementary stream is for video only with no audio as stated in the Adobe blog?

interesting…..

[Doug Mokaren]

oh. thanks for filling in the details on your response. I learned a lot.

I was relaying some info I found from the Adobe blog in response to some previous posters. It’s not my information. I added what we had tried in Toast 9 with bd plug-in and what we’re trying to do. Lot’s of us are in the same predicament in sorting thru blu ray and using this forum to gain some insight and HOPEFULLY an answer to cut thru the trial and error crap.

I don’t want to run a Windoze app to create a blu ray, whether on a separate platform or in parallels or bootcamp. I just want to do what many of us have done in the past in creating dvds, only now with blu ray disks.

So the information on streaming mpeg is a load of manure?

[Doug Mokaren]

From https://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2008/04/apples_compressor_encore_blura.html#more

Apple’s Compressor MPEG-2 settings.

Step-by-Step instructions for using Apple’s Compressor v3.0 to
create Mpeg-2 stream and burn Blu-ray disc using Encore CS3.

Background Info on MPEG-2 Streams.
Types of MPEG-2 stream:
There are three common Mpeg-2 stream types that are used to deliver MPEG-2 encoded video in Compressor(v3.02) :
• Elementary streams: These streams contain only one Mpeg-2 content and no audio.
• Transport streams: These streams can contain several Mpeg-2 content channels and associated audio.
• Program streams: These streams contain only one Mpeg-2 content channel and its associated audio.

By default, the Compressor Mpeg-2 encoder creates elementary streams. You have to configure the Mpeg-2 encoder to Program streams to create Mpeg-2 files for Blu-ray.

We did a straight FCP export to .mov file and dropped into Toast 9 with bd plug in, burning to BD-RE. Set it for autoplay – no menu. Got an error at the end of burn, but tried playing the blu ray anyway to see if we were on track. It played, but was choppy. I saw one could burn the bdrm (sorry if I used the wrong folder name) folder in toast, so we’ll try a compressor conversion with the settings above and drop that into toast. Just trying the options to see what works the best.