disc issues

[dvd1304]

hi guys,i have sucessfully managed to back-up a blue ray disc movie only onto a dvd9 but i am only able to play this back-up on my sony blue ray player.it wont play on the other dvd players i have around the house.the reason for doing the back-ups is so that the kids dont get their gritty little hands on my blue rays.
is there a way to make these discs playable on normal dvd players???our forum college GAPONY has helped me out quite a bit by telling me to uncheck the stricker compliance to avchd box but that has not helped.any ideas guys>???really apreciate your assistance with this.
cheers guys

[drmih]

Are you seriously asking why a blu ray disc (regardless of what it's burnt on) won't play on a dvd!! Look for some software (there's loads) to produce a dvd from a high def source.

[dvd1304]

ermmm..yea..i am...maybe you didnt read my post correctly..i have burned a movie from a blue ray to a dvd9 using bd rebuilder and imgburn but my question is i want to play these discs on a regular dvd player and not on my blue ray player and was asking if there are any tweaks in the bd rebulder or imgburn process to make these copies more normal dvd player friendly.like i said above,i am trying to get back-ups of my movies for my other players in the house without the kids getting their fingers on my blue ray discs.they are quite expensive to import to the u.k so am looking for a solution...hope this clears that up...thx

[jdobbs]

ermmm..yea..i am...maybe you didnt read my post correctly..i have burned a movie from a blue ray to a dvd9 using bd rebuilder and imgburn but my question is i want to play these discs on a regular dvd player and not on my blue ray player and was asking if there are any tweaks in the bd rebulder or imgburn process to make these copies more normal dvd player friendly.like i said above,i am trying to get back-ups of my movies for my other players in the house without the kids getting their fingers on my blue ray discs.they are quite expensive to import to the u.k so am looking for a solution...hope this clears that up...thx In order to run on your DVD player it would have to be completely reformatted into a DVD structure -- and, more importantly, it would have to be shrunk to 720x480 and converted to MPEG-2.

There is software out there that can convert an MKV or AVI file into a movie-only DVD. So if you extracted and converted (mpeg2, 720x480/576, etc.) to one of those you could do as you want.

[dvd1304]

any idea on what programs i should be pointed to please.?/or is that against the forum rules...any help greatly appreciated mr dobbs...

[dvd1304]

alos as the tv,s in the bedrooms are smaller than my 50 in pioneer i am not that fussed over the resizing from 1080 to 720...

[Furiousflea]

ConvertXToDVD fro VSO Software would do the job but it's not free although a trial is available...god I feel dirty like I'm promoting them...but it works pretty well.

[steptoe]

And it takes about and hour or so on my Q6600 3.4ghz with an MKV running at 1080p

For a 110% freeware converter have a look at AVI2ISO, it uses HCEnc and avisynth so is a lot slower and it basically rebuilds the video to match the best bitrate it can get on a single DVD but the final quality is much better than convertxtodvd

[jdobbs]

ConvertXToDVD fro VSO Software would do the job but it's not free although a trial is available...god I feel dirty like I'm promoting them...but it works pretty well.Ahhh... the birth of a salesman. :) At least you aren't marketing a bug as an "undocumented feature" yet.

[Furiousflea]

Ahhh... the birth of a salesman. :) At least you aren't marketing a bug as an "undocumented feature" yet.

:)

Well, hey I'm not working at the mo if you need any offices in the UK once you hit the bigtime give me a shout :p

[jdobbs]

:)

Well, hey I'm not working at the mo if you need any offices in the UK once you hit the bigtime give me a shout :p I wouldn't hold my breath... a few dozen more donations and I might reach poverty level. But you never know!

[GaPony]

ConvertXToDVD fro VSO Software would do the job but it's not free although a trial is available...god I feel dirty like I'm promoting them...but it works pretty well.

Yea... ConvertXDVD does work well. I'd highly recommend starting with a Movie Only copy from BD Rebuilder, so you just have the single .m2ts file to deal with.

On another point... If anybody is interested in streaming their Blu-Ray movies to their PS3, the Movie Only, single .m2ts file works especially well.

[dvd1304]

Yea... ConvertXDVD does work well. I'd highly recommend starting with a Movie Only copy from BD Rebuilder, so you just have the single .m2ts file to deal with.

On another point... If anybody is interested in streaming their Blu-Ray movies to their PS3, the Movie Only, single .m2ts file works especially well.hi mate,,if i pay for the full licence on convertxtodvd,can you do more than just the movie??i'n not expecting the whole disc but can you add the menu or the beginning of the disc.just a thought before i spend my hard earned cash..cheers

[GaPony]

You can create your own menus and chapter breaks.. I'm not sure about keeping the original ones, but I never tried.

Why not try it out on the free trial period... then you know what you have.