New File standard??

[moonbeast]

Is it only me who has this question? Or are there answers out there. My thought is the following: What if I were to purchase a blueray recorder for my computer. I'd like to save some space in my dvd collection by putting all these movies on the bd. That would hold a couple of normal dvd movies, which quality I still think is awsome. Just like we all did when divx came around and we all had dvd burners. 5 movies on one disc :p

So is there any way to go about this? Or is there just no file format out there who keeps the whole quality, menues and the whole shabang, and all just in one file.

thnx

[awhitehead]

Is it only me who has this question? Or are there answers out there. My thought is the following: What if I were to purchase a blueray recorder for my computer. I'd like to save some space in my dvd collection by putting all these movies on the bd. That would hold a couple of normal dvd movies, which quality I still think is awsome. Just like we all did when divx came around and we all had dvd burners. 5 movies on one disc :p

So is there any way to go about this? Or is there just no file format out there who keeps the whole quality, menues and the whole shabang, and all just in one file.

thnx

I don't think that anything stops you from putting a bunch of deCSSed/decrypted VIDEO_TS folders from standard DVDs on a single BD disc. So a filesystem such as:
\MOVIE1\VIDEO_TS
\MOVIE2\VIDEO_TS
\MOVIE3\VIDEO_TS
etc
should work, at least with PCs with software players.

Of course the moment you scratch the disc.....

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Despite your stated desire to conserve space, Presently, another concern would be the relatively prohibitively high cost of blank BluRay media versus blank standard DVD media...

[moonbeast]

I don't think that anything stops you from putting a bunch of deCSSed/decrypted VIDEO_TS folders from standard DVDs on a single BD disc. So a filesystem such as:
\MOVIE1\VIDEO_TS
\MOVIE2\VIDEO_TS
\MOVIE3\VIDEO_TS
etc
should work, at least with PCs with software players.

Of course the moment you scratch the disc.....

Does it really work. I remember doing the exact same thing trying to put several svcd movies on one dvd. Didn't work out that great. But then again. Can't be 100% sure I didn't mess up :p

[CWR03]

Does it really work.
You could go about it a number of ways, but if you're asking if you can put five standard DVD's in their original file format onto a BD disk and have them play in a BD player, I believe the answer is "no." You'd also have the problem, as setarip_old mentioned, of very high blank media prices. A relatively simple method, which would only work for PC-based playback, would be to burn .ISO images of DVD's as a data disk, then mount the image directly from the new disk for playback.

If you do the math, you might find that a USB hard drive would be a less expensive option for storage than BD media, based on current prices.