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Originally Posted by shmendrapolk
So I guess my question is - if one wanted to create a blu-ray disc playable in a blu-ray player hooked up to a TV what format should the source files be? Like a DVD-video's files would be in mpeg-2.
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To avoid re-encoding, video should be H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC), VC-1 or MPEG-2 at 1080p24, 1080i25/30 or 720p60/50/24. However, the Blu-ray specs limit the bitrate, GOP size and some other parts of the format. You need to use Level 4.1 for H.264, for example.
If Pinnacle doesn't support exporting a Blu-ray structure or as AVCHD (which the Blu-ray players support), you'll probably need to re-encode with some other tool. In this case it is best to keep the intermediate video lossless or encode at very high quality, if possible.