Compiled DVDs to Blu-Ray

[Gussy]

What is the quickest way to compile multiple DVD (main title) only to Blu-Ray?

Thanks!

[mmace]

Blu-ray data disc?
BDAV?
BDMV?

what are you playing back on?
do you need a menu?

[Gussy]

Blu-ray player. Yes, I need a menu but just a simple one. This is for those TV series that comes in multiple DVDs.

Thanks!

[mmace]

personally, for that I'd use Nero, purely for speed (Blu-ray/HD-DVD plug in)
it has menu templates, automatically does all your button mapping etc.

rip your DVD's to single VOB files for each episode & import them, Nero should just remux them rather than transcode them.

job done

[Gussy]

Thanks...I didn't think of that. Rip the main movie only to a single file.

[benjust]

I was hoping this was possible. So Blu-Ray supports the same MPEG-2 specs of DVD? Anyone know if PAL (576i) DVDs would work okay? I've only seen 480p SD content on Blu-Ray.

Definately keen to put entire seasons of TV shows on a single Blu-Ray disc purely by remuxing. (With a simple menu ala chapter selection of course)

[mmace]

I've done PAL ones (576i) and they work on my UK BD player fine (Nero uses smart encoding and just remuxes, no transcoding)

[musicman2311]

one question - which Nero is that ? I have version 7 with HD plugin. But I believe it only does BDAV , not BDMV ?

I am interested in exactly same thing - compile a TV series on one BD-R disc with menu

[glen8]

funny you guys should mention this

I was thinking only lastnight that it would be cool to get the entire season one of star trek on a single blu-ray disc

Then I realised a blank blu-ray cost more than what the boxset cost me lol think ill just buy another set when mine gets worn out....would be cool tho

[mmace]

BDMV is Nero 8.2 onwards but needs the Blu-ray/HD-DVD plug in activating, only BDAV for 8.1 or earlier

http://www.nero.com/eng/bluray-hddvd-video-plugin.html

** Playback of BD-ROM 2.0 and authoring or playback of BD-R 2.0 and BD-RE 3.0 (BDMV formats) requires Nero 8.2 or higher.

[fuzz!]

thanks for the info mmace.. i just bought nero 8 and blu-ray plugin.

do you use "nero vision" to do this? and if so, how did you set it to remux, not reencode?

[musicman2311]

I just bought nero 8 upgrade from nero 7 - had hd plugin already - it seems it does what I want.

there is no remux function, i believe - however, it should result in a remux in case the streams are compliant.

interestingly, I started to compile a TV series from DVD to 1 blu ray disc. It stated it won't recode the audio, but it insists to recode the video , no idea why.
Anyway at that occassion I decided to choose AVC instead of MPEG - 25 episodes of 40 min each lol - my PC will run 50 hours for this....

[mmace]

enable smart encoding, this is "remuxing", it's just Nero's name for it
it tells you what it's going to do just before you click "burn" sometimes the video will be 100% and audio will be 0% (this is an example) this means the video will not be touched but the audio will be transcoded

to give it less chance of being transcoded, make sure you go into video settings when you've imported the videos (click "more" at the bottom) and set everything to as near to the original files as possible (auto fit, auto audio etc, make sure it's not trying to force it to 1920x1080)

[musicman2311]

enable smart encoding, this is "remuxing", it's just Nero's name for it
it tells you what it's going to do just before you click "burn" sometimes the video will be 100% and audio will be 0% (this is an example) this means the video will not be touched but the audio will be transcoded

to give it less chance of being transcoded, make sure you go into video settings when you've imported the videos (click "more" at the bottom) and set everything to as near to the original files as possible (auto fit, auto audio etc, make sure it's not trying to force it to 1920x1080)

thanks, i had inserted original DVDs - it said 100% audio, 0% video, smart encode was enabled - i will try the part with the bitrate as you suggested - thanks

[fuzz!]

thanks, i had inserted original DVDs - it said 100% audio, 0% video, smart encode was enabled - i will try the part with the bitrate as you suggested - thanks

I'm not sure if the information is entirely correct. With remuxing on my machine I would expect a couple thousand frames-per-second performance. What I see is a couple hundred frames-per-second. (This is about the speed that DVDShrink transcodes DVDs at).

Also, when the resulting BD is played back using Nero ShowTime, the (de)interlacing seems to be borked. Either ShowTime is not deinterlacing at all, or it's setting some flags incorrectly (Although after import Nero Vision seems to suggest it knows about the interlaced content).