[Sharc]

I think it depends on the blu-ray HW player.
My old SONY blu-ray player played blu-ray content on DVD5 and DVD9, including menus etc. Other (newer) models spit the disc out. No avail.
Chances are probably better when you encode and author your footage as AVCHD rather than blu-ray.

P.S.
Why stick to DVD media? Blu-ray BD25 discs are even less costly these days …...