Is it possible to give still images a duration for Blu-ray?

[SeeMoreDigital]

When it comes to creating DVD compliant disc's, one of the facilities I really like about MuxMan is its ability to import still images (.bmp file) and give them a duration (run-time). Like this: -

http://i60.tinypic.com/105sf84.png

Is it possible to do the same kind of thing when creating Blu-ray compliant disc's?


Cheers

[dvdboy]

With the Scenarist Still Image Encoder, you can encode a Still to Movie of a defined duration, but that file will be larger than an encoded still frame - it actually creates a video clip of that duration.

If you have a Still Image inside Scenarist, you can say whether the Still is held for a finite or infinite duration, but I *think* the finite duration is up to 255s - I'm not in front to Scenarist to double check.

HTH

[Sharc]

You can create a blu-ray compliant clip of 5000 frames from a picture using this script and encode with x264.exe
ImageSource("yourpicture1280x720.bmp", end = 5000, fps=24000/1001, use_DevIL=false)
converttoYV12()

[SeeMoreDigital]

Thanks Sharc,

Is the output video stream 1920x1080?

Or can you input 1920x1080 images and generate a 1920x1080 output?

5000 frames at 23.976 fps is around 208 seconds 3 mins 28 secs. Thinking about it, that's not very long...

[Sharc]

Output frame resolution is same as the picture. If the picture (.bmp, .jpg) is 1920x1080 then the stream will be 1920x1080. Simply play the script in MPC-HC or VirtualDub for testing.
You can also encode a sequence of pictures and create an anime.
Details are found here (http://avisynth.nl/index.php/ImageSource).

[SeeMoreDigital]

Many thanks...

[SeeMoreDigital]

Out of interest, is the provision of frame repeats supported in the Blu-ray specification?