miamicanes
3rd May 2005, 16:51
Has anyone figured out how to author a 720p or 1080i EVD or HVD that will play on a compliant player (like Neodigit.com's NeoNeu HVD 2081 or some other one)?
From the little I've found online, it looks like HVD is likely to be the most straightforward to hack together with otherwise-naive apps normally used to build the files that will be burned to DVD. As far as I can tell, they just took DVDs as their starting point and added MP@HL 720p24, 720p60, 1080p24, 1080i60, and a few more as valid MPEG-2 profiles, moved the files from VIDEO_TS into HVD_TS, dropped all the patent-encumbered expensive-to-license DRM that consumers don't want anyway, and possibly grafted a few extensions onto the menu subsystem. The problem is, the few documents that (I think) have details are all 100% Chinese, so it looks like someone from China (or at least able to read Chinese) is going to have to write the first draft of any HVD or EVD-authoring guide :-)
HVD might never see a single Hollywood movie, but I think it has the potential to become wildly popular with home users as a way to burn and trade captured HDTV videos until HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray become affordable (I suspect EVD and HVD support will quickly become the norm among Chinese-made DVD players by next year, the same way xVCD support did... it doesn't cost much to add, and can quickly become pervasive in the US by virtue of 90% of DVD players coming from China anyway). Of course, we ALL know that lack of support for the standard by Hollywood guarantees that consumers won't have any interest in it :D
From the little I've found online, it looks like HVD is likely to be the most straightforward to hack together with otherwise-naive apps normally used to build the files that will be burned to DVD. As far as I can tell, they just took DVDs as their starting point and added MP@HL 720p24, 720p60, 1080p24, 1080i60, and a few more as valid MPEG-2 profiles, moved the files from VIDEO_TS into HVD_TS, dropped all the patent-encumbered expensive-to-license DRM that consumers don't want anyway, and possibly grafted a few extensions onto the menu subsystem. The problem is, the few documents that (I think) have details are all 100% Chinese, so it looks like someone from China (or at least able to read Chinese) is going to have to write the first draft of any HVD or EVD-authoring guide :-)
HVD might never see a single Hollywood movie, but I think it has the potential to become wildly popular with home users as a way to burn and trade captured HDTV videos until HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray become affordable (I suspect EVD and HVD support will quickly become the norm among Chinese-made DVD players by next year, the same way xVCD support did... it doesn't cost much to add, and can quickly become pervasive in the US by virtue of 90% of DVD players coming from China anyway). Of course, we ALL know that lack of support for the standard by Hollywood guarantees that consumers won't have any interest in it :D