What codecs can be used for HD-DVD's?

HookedOnTV · Post by **HookedOnTV** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:24 pm

Can this product output .h264 video for use on HD-DVD's (actually on DVD-9 for use in HD-DVD players)? Can't really find a difinitive answer on this. Looks like MPEG-2 is the only choice (or just grayed out) for HD-DVD projects?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:49 pm

It can with the Power Pack installed. However, if you have not yet upgraded to, or purchased VS11, then you will need to purchase the new version 11.5 which already contains the power pack.

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:05 pm

The common standard for HD-DVD is hd-mpeg2 Video.

I'm not sure how to encode the h264 video for HD-DVD. I can make one with h264 on it but when playing back the video skips and is not smooth therefore I'm assuming that my H264 encoding parameters are wrong.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:26 pm

For what it is worth, this is what the Corel website has to say about H.264 and HD when either the Power Pack is applied to VS11 or the full VS11.5 (one and the same thing) is purchased:

H.264 High Profile (HD) encoding-

* Supports 1440x1080 and 1920x1080 output frame sizes.
* Encoding is optimized for multi-core processors, including Intel® Core™2 Duo and Core™2 Quad.

HD DVD on standard DVD Production
Users can author HD DVD productions with motion menus, and burn to standard DVDs.

* There is now a dedicated workflow for producing such ¡§3X DVDs¡¨.
* Choose a disc size and the capacity indicator will show how much space isavailable on the disc.
* HD DVDs play on set-top or PC HD DVD players, Xbox 360 HD DVD players, or standard PC DVD drives with appropriate software.

On looking at this again, I am not sure that I read it right in the first place as I took the reference to H.264 and HD as including the idea of HD DVD, especially since it was immediately followed by the reference to HD DVD. But of course the two are not necessarily linked... Sorry

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:37 pm

Ken,
Yes, when you encode video it's using all 4 processors for encoding on a Q6600 processor.
The specs for HD-DVD i believe include about 3 codecs Mpeg/h264/V1

Normally we have been using mpeg video on the dvd's and they play in the Toshiba's HD-DVD Players.
I can also put h264 into a hd-dvd but it skips during playback. So something is different. Like Toshiba's new HighDef video cam, it records in H264 but it's not avchd/h264 compliant. Not sure of the different specs yet.

HookedOnTV · Post by **HookedOnTV** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:38 pm

If you have the power pack could you look to see if you can select something other than mpeg-2 on the compression tab when doing an HD-DVD project?

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:20 am

No, you cannot select your project settings to other than mpeg2.
But there are workarounds to this as I have encoded h264 into EVO containers.
But they don't play correctly so right now I use mpeg2 on dvd.

Usually my disks are AVCHD disks to playback in the Blu-Ray Players, works great.