Suggestion for another encoding possibility

[Devilman1]

Now that most people are buying Blue-ray or HD-DVD player wouldn't be possible to add the possibility to encode the video tracks to an h264 compliant stream inside the vob container instead of reducing the bitrate?

TIA

[jdobbs]

But what would you use to play it back? VOBs can only be MPEG-1 or MPEG-2... or am I missing something? Are you telling me that the decoder on a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player will read H.264 from a DVD format? If so, I've not heard that.

You also have a bitrate limit associated with VOBs/DVDs.

You can, however, using the MOBILE feature, encode to H.264 and output into an MP4 container.

[Devilman1]

I didn't know that VOb can only be MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 and I thought that one can include also h264 stream because I saw that progam mkv2vob to let PS3 read HD x264 matroska files.

[jdobbs]

Well -- it has to be MPEG-2 or MPEG-1 by the DVD standard, and I don't know of any other use for a VOB file except withing the DVD standard... of course that doesn't mean it doesn't necessarily exist, only that I am unaware of it.

If there is a HD player that will playback X264 from within a VOB, I'd certainly be interested to know that. I've heard of HD-DVD players that can play from standard DVDs before -- but to the best of my knowledge they had to be implemented with the HD-DVD format (e.g. EVO files).

[Devilman1]

Could be a possibility the use of this program?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=131782&highlight=mkv2vob