Blu-ray projects

[bairradino]

It is my intention to start archiving some H.264 encoded videos for later Blu-Ray burning.
I'm also searching for a good multimedia player (like Popcorn Hour A110) for seeing those videos while I don´t have the burned Blu-Ray disks.
My question is: What is the type of files that I should keep? Streamed .m4v+.ac3? .m2ts? .mp4? .mkv?
Meanwhile I know that most HD Multimedia Players play .mp4 and .mkv files.

[ACrowley]

I use a popcornhour A110 too.

I suggest to use M2TS because the Popcornhour NMT A110 can passtrough TrueHD/DTS-HD_HRA Bitstreams via HDMI 1.3. You can mux M2TS with TSmuxer.
Latest v1.9.4b can mux compliant DTSHD/HRA in M2TS for Standalones/Popcornhour.
I pers. mux my Bluray Reencodes in 1080p x264 with the lossless Audio Tracks from Bluray to M2TS. When i have "standard" Audio is use MKV Container.

Otherwise MKV works perfect too. But not with HD Audio (only AC3/DTS)

[eric97]

It is my intention to start archiving some H.264 encoded videos for later Blu-Ray burning.
I'm also searching for a good multimedia player (like Popcorn Hour A110) for seeing those videos while I don´t have the burned Blu-Ray disks.
My question is: What is the type of files that I should keep? Streamed .m4v+.ac3? .m2ts? .mp4? .mkv?
Meanwhile I know that most HD Multimedia Players play .mp4 and .mkv files.

mp4 is your best choice

[turbojet]

M2TS will give you the same basic size as burned bluray would be which is about 6% larger then mkv, M2TS is the only container being discussed the popcorn hour, tvix, etc. that's natively hardware supported, everything else they support has to be demuxed through software.

mkv if you want to save some drive space but remember to not crop them or you will be encoding again when burning as bluray. Oversizing shouldn't be an issue burning to bluray media but if you are burning to DVD at some point you'll want to make the mkv at least 7% smaller then the DVD capacity to make sure it won't be oversized when converted to bluray.

mp4 comes with 4 GB file size restriction and lacks audio/subtitle support but it can play on some players M2TS and mkv can't like xbox360.

I don't see a reason to keep the audio and video separate.

Also when considering a player you might want to know that if your in EU the LG BD370 does about everything popcornhour, tvix players do plus plays bluray. If you are anywhere else in the world the LG BD390 is out soon offering the same capabilities as the EU BD370. Oppo is also coming out with a network bluray player that supports mkv, divx, mp4, streaming, usb hard drive playback.