BD-RB beta success

[MikeyBK]

Just wanted to start a thread talking about successful BD-RB re-encodings.

As I mentioned, House Bunny, full disc, 40.2 GBs to 7.72 GBs was a complete success. The new BDMV folder on the harddrive behaves and functions like the original BD for movie, menu, & extras. I didn't have any DL media currently to test it on an actual burn, so what I did was to take the movie m2ts (now 4.42 GBs) and used TSMuxer to make a movie only BDMV folder (ended up 4.21 GBs after deselecting all other PGS languages), and then used IMGBurn to burn it to DVD5... And the picture quality on that disc played thru my BluRay player is unbelievable!! Near impossible to tell if it was the original or the BD5 back-up. I'm sure if you were able to play both side by side on two HDTVs, you might see a slight difference, but not playing them one after another...

I plan to pick up some DL media in the next few days (being XMas, couldn't find anywhere closeby to buy some ore) and will put the full disc onto a BD9 and see how it fully functions...

Also hope to re-encode one of my BluRays to Movie-only BD9 and see how great it looks, I'm sure the movie-only setting will function correctly on one of them.
:thanks: to jdobbs

[jdobbs]

I've done over 100 NTSC titles (almost all as full backups) in testing. I think once you get over the configuration issues the likelihood of success should be pretty high.

[MikeyBK]

I've done over 100 NTSC titles (almost all as full backups) in testing. I think once you get over the configuration issues the likelihood of success should be pretty high.

Configuration issues are all sorted out, (was only that I had to manually set MPEG2 in ffdshow).
I've just downloaded v.17.11 and will give it a try tonite.
I was going to rip another BluRay to my harddrive to test movie-only option again... but thought of soemthing. Since I already had several movie only m2ts files on my harddrive which I view thru a connection to my HDTV... I used TSRemux and created a movie-only BDMV folder of Iron Man, and then BD-RB did it's thing on it last night down to BD-9 and it looks awesome. Took 8 hours to do the 25.6 GB movie-only. ;)