Other Movie Only Playlist & BD-5 Output

[Rich86]

My question may be answered somewhere in this forum, but I can't find it.
I am playing around with a title and experimenting a bit with BD-RB features. I want to burn a 13 minute short film in HD onto a DVD-5.
1. how do I get BD-RB to list and make available a 13 minute title for selection with "Other Movie Only Playlist"?
2. I used multi-avchd to try to create this 13 minute BD5, but my BD player (Sony BDP-S1000es) has choked on all attempts so far. Is there something special in the format of a BD-5 burned to a DVD-5 or am I just spinning my wheels and this player won't play it no matter what I do maybe?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

At least to me, your question is not very clear:

Do you already have a separate 13 minute HD clip on your hard drive? If so, what is the specific format?

Presumably, it's one of the several formats that tsMuxer will accept for input (.TS, .M2TS, .MKV, .MPLS. etc.). If so, just drag and drop it onto tsMuxer and save it as "Blu-ray" (using the selections at the BOTTOM of the tsMuxer window). You can then use BD-RB to select this Blu-ray "package" as "MOVIE-ONLY"...

[Rich86]

My initial attempts have been to select this 13 minute "extra" off a complete rip of a blu-ray. BD-RB only provides access to the main movie itself when I try "movie only" mode.
I was kind of assuming there was some sort of time floor which BD-RB uses to decide which playlists to offer up for selection in the "Select Movie-Only Playlist" dialog box.
Maybe one of the items in the config file? I just wasn't comfortable guessing at what to play around with and what entries to make to force BD-RB to include short playing time videos in the dialog box for me to select from.

I did use multiavchd to pick the playlist for this 13 minute video, and create an output folder to burn to DVD5 via imgburn. I tried both AVC and BD output formats, my player will not permit either one to play. Should I have used the "strict" AVC output option? That's why I figured my best bet would be to get BD-RB to allow me to choose this video and create a BD-5 output to burn.

[Capsbackup]

If you put "MIN_PLAYLIST_MINS=1" under [Options] in the BD-RB configuration file, you will see even the shortest of playlists! ;)

[Rich86]

If you put "MIN_PLAYLIST_MINS=1" under [Options] in the BD-RB configuration file, you will see even the shortest of playlists! ;)

The Config file change worked as advertised - many thanks.
Still haven't gotten a BD5 to play in my player, but that could be the player. I was expecting it to work as someone reported it works in a Sony BDP-S550 - and I believe the 1000es uses the same basic firmware design. More experiments tomorrow.

Update: I give up. Either I am doing something wrong, or my player simply will not play anything that looks like a BD structure & files on DVD-RW media.

[jdobbs]

I'm pretty sure just about every Sony player will play a movie-only AVCHD disc. Even my five-year-old Sony BDP-S301 will do that.

You have to make sure you're burning in the right format. Have BD-RB do the burning for you, that way you can be sure the settings are correct in IMGBURN. If you're using something other than IMGBURN I'm afraid I can't be of much help.

[Rich86]

I'm pretty sure just about every Sony player will play a movie-only AVCHD disc. Even my five-year-old Sony BDP-S301 will do that.

You have to make sure you're burning in the right format. Have BD-RB do the burning for you, that way you can be sure the settings are correct in IMGBURN. If you're using something other than IMGBURN I'm afraid I can't be of much help.

I DO burn with imgburn, but have always set BD-RB to create folders/files and burned them with imgburn in "build mode". I will try setting BD-RB to initiate the burn directly and see what happens. Many thanks.

[setarip_old]

on DVD-RW mediaTry it on a one-write BD-R...