Blu-ray has me feeling blue...

guartho · Post by **guartho** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:01 pm

I recently purchased DVD MovieFactory 6 + the HD pack in order to author BDMV Blu-ray discs. Unfortunately I have yet to burn a disc that my Sharp BD-HP20 Blu-ray player can read. Every attempt has yielded the "Cannot play Disc" message and the player ejects.

I have updated the player firmware to version hu8022000.

I'm using a Matshita Blu-ray burner.

Right now I'm focusing on just getting something to play. I've captured about a minute and a half of random footage from my Canon HV30. I tossed a few chapter markers on it and am burning it to a Verbatim SL BD-RE.

I've tried making it re-encode as well as passing through compliant files. The only thing I can think of still to try is to use one of my 2 TDK BD-Rs, but I'm hesitant to risk making such an expensive coaster.

Anyone braved this front before?

guartho · Post by **guartho** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:36 pm

I went ahead and used one of my BD-Rs. Everything was the same except I got the "Incompatible Disc" message prior to ejecting rather than the "Cannot Play Disc"

guartho · Post by **guartho** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:39 pm

Ok. looks like My Sharp Blu-ray player is the likely culprit. It seems that it doesn't support BDAV or BDMV on BD-R or BD-RE discs. This pretty well infuriates me since it's listed as supporting BD-R and BD-RE. Just what the heck are you going to be sticking a BD-R in your set-top BD player for other than playing back BDAV or BDMV content!?

I'll be looking in to exchanging it soon. Is there a list somewhere of players that support BDMV on BD-R? I'm specifically looking at the PS3, or the Sony BDP-S300.

thebombers · Post by **thebombers** » Fri May 16, 2008 1:04 pm

guartho wrote:Ok. looks like My Sharp Blu-ray player is the likely culprit. It seems that it doesn't support BDAV or BDMV on BD-R or BD-RE discs. This pretty well infuriates me since it's listed as supporting BD-R and BD-RE. Just what the heck are you going to be sticking a BD-R in your set-top BD player for other than playing back BDAV or BDMV content!?

I'll be looking in to exchanging it soon. Is there a list somewhere of players that support BDMV on BD-R? I'm specifically looking at the PS3, or the Sony BDP-S300.

I have a Sony BDP-S300 and it plays back BDMV on BD-RE disks. (The problem for me is that I can't get UDMF6 to burn a BD-R successfully but it does work with BD-RE - but that's another problem ...)

neonbob · Post by **neonbob** » Sun May 18, 2008 1:38 pm

I mentioned this in another thread. Blu Ray players are literally all over the map in what they support and what they don't. An not just on the video front, but on the audio front as well.

Blu Ray does not have any sort of real minimum set standard, at least one that includes home burned disks. The best (and cheapest) player out there for playing a wide variety of disks and format types is the PS3. Yes... it is officially a game console but it does work and works well.