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mayhem2408
1st January 2008, 20:47
I am currently making a procedure to see if I can automate the conversion of a standard definition DVD-9 using MPEG2 compression into a standard definition HDDVD using AVC compression. The process it slow and time consuming and was wondering is anyone else as tried this. I am using a handful of tools including:

DVD Demuxer (to break down the DVD into its parts and make a scenarist script)

DVD rebuilder (to get redistributed bitrates)

Main concept H264 encoder (to reencoder the MPEG-2 video into a HDDVD compliant AVC H264 stream) This is a manual process at the moment and is time consuming

Sonic Scenarist (to reauthor to broken down DVD)

Now when I say slow, I mean slow. It has taken about 5 days to do, but the end result is picture perfect. My first movie was Die Hard 4 which is a 2 hour movie and really shows the advantage of H264 encoding even for standard definition content.

CruNcher
8th January 2008, 21:08
im doing the same but for HD-DVD->Mini HD-DVD ;) it's a little easier then what you doing tough :). And for sure sooner or later we gonna have automated stuff that does this DVD9->DVD5 AVC and HD-DVD->MINI HD-DVD5/9 i think it won't take that long anymore, but actually it took 1 year before Mini HD-DVD now arrived finaly by Nero :)