When I decided to buy VS11+ I thought that it could do BD5. Seems that it does not, or am I missing something? It either does full-blown Blu-ray on BD disks, or AVCHD file on regular DVD disks. I don't have the former, and I could not read the latter neither on my laptop nor on my Samsung Blu-ray player.
Also, even if my Blu-ray player could read AVCHD disk, I don't feel like re-encoding MPEG-2 to AVCHD.
Any way to burn a BD5 disk (that is, legitimate Blu-ray structure on a regular DVD disk) from VS11P? Maybe some upcoming updates will solve the issue? It can burn 3xDVD, but considering that Blu-ray won the war, I really would prefer burning a BD5 disk instead.
attn etech: VideoStudio 11 Plus and BD5/BD9 disks
Moderator: Ken Berry
To burn a blu-ray disk structure to DVD then in the burning module click on the down arrow to display more burning options.
Uncheck "Create or burn disk" (because you don't have a BD burner).
Check "ON" the "Create Folders" and have the program create a BluRay Disk Structure on your harddisk.
Then open up Nero (hope you have it, if not use the Nero 8 Trial software)
In Nero select DVD UDF Only, then under the UDF tab change from automatic to Manual, physical partition, then assign UDF 2.6
Then burn the BDMV & CERTIFICATE folder (including all the sub-directories & files) to the DVD.
So the workflow is create BDMV folders on your harddisk and then mirror them to a dvd formatted and written in the UDF 2.6 only format (manual, physical partition, UDF 2.6)
After you burn the disk you will NOT be able to read it in Windows XP.
You will be able to read the disk running Vista (Vista supports UDF 2.6)
Not all Blu-Ray disk players will play this, the Playstation3 doesn't but I've heard that the Samsung's can play them back (which is nice).
Using Nero 8 Ultra Edition and buying their HD Add On pack you can playback the above disk using Nero Showtime 4. You can play the BDMV disk back from the harddisk or the dvd you burnt ( XP and Vista).
Post back and let us know if the Samsung plays these disks OK. That would be nice to know.
BTW- You can also use compliant AVC/H264 video in the Blu-Ray disk module, so in the BD module you can put mpeg2 or avc/h264 on the BDMV disk (Both formats on the same disk). The thing is the BD module only encodes to mpeg2 so you have to either use another program to create the avc/h264 compliant videos OR use the AVCHD burning module to first encode them.
Make sure to have the updates to VS11+ installed including the latest distribution of DirectX 9.0C dated November 2007 or later.
Uncheck "Create or burn disk" (because you don't have a BD burner).
Check "ON" the "Create Folders" and have the program create a BluRay Disk Structure on your harddisk.
Then open up Nero (hope you have it, if not use the Nero 8 Trial software)
In Nero select DVD UDF Only, then under the UDF tab change from automatic to Manual, physical partition, then assign UDF 2.6
Then burn the BDMV & CERTIFICATE folder (including all the sub-directories & files) to the DVD.
So the workflow is create BDMV folders on your harddisk and then mirror them to a dvd formatted and written in the UDF 2.6 only format (manual, physical partition, UDF 2.6)
After you burn the disk you will NOT be able to read it in Windows XP.
You will be able to read the disk running Vista (Vista supports UDF 2.6)
Not all Blu-Ray disk players will play this, the Playstation3 doesn't but I've heard that the Samsung's can play them back (which is nice).
Using Nero 8 Ultra Edition and buying their HD Add On pack you can playback the above disk using Nero Showtime 4. You can play the BDMV disk back from the harddisk or the dvd you burnt ( XP and Vista).
Post back and let us know if the Samsung plays these disks OK. That would be nice to know.
BTW- You can also use compliant AVC/H264 video in the Blu-Ray disk module, so in the BD module you can put mpeg2 or avc/h264 on the BDMV disk (Both formats on the same disk). The thing is the BD module only encodes to mpeg2 so you have to either use another program to create the avc/h264 compliant videos OR use the AVCHD burning module to first encode them.
Make sure to have the updates to VS11+ installed including the latest distribution of DirectX 9.0C dated November 2007 or later.
Finally, I was able to play AVCHD content on a Samsung Blu-ray player. Turned out that Samsung turned off AVCHD playback capability in firmware release 2.3, but versions 2.1 and 2.2 work.
With older firmware, I can play both raw AVCHD file (menu item: share -> AVCHD) as well as Blu-ray on DVD (menu item: share->Blu-ray). As suggested, turn option "Create disk" off, let VS11P create the directories, then burn onto a DVD disk (both DVD-R and DVD+R worked) using UDF 2.50. I tried burning with Nero 7 and with a free ImgBurn tool, both work well.
So here you have it: Ulead software is not at fault, player's firmware is.
My Samsung BD-P1200 can play 1440x1080 AVCHD video, but cannot play 1920x1080 AVCHD video.
Raw AVCHD file with max bitrate at about 15Mbps plays well, while proper Blu-ray structured disk with the same video clip stutters. Don't know whether it is a problem with the player or with something else, but most likely the player.
Blu-ray-structured DVD disk with MPEG-2 plays well @ 17Mbps, but stutters @ 25Mbps (HDV video). Raw HDV file cannot be played at all (well, this was never promised).
AVCHD burned onto DVD disks cannot be used for massive distribution, the playback is not implemented uniformly across all available Blu-ray players.
With older firmware, I can play both raw AVCHD file (menu item: share -> AVCHD) as well as Blu-ray on DVD (menu item: share->Blu-ray). As suggested, turn option "Create disk" off, let VS11P create the directories, then burn onto a DVD disk (both DVD-R and DVD+R worked) using UDF 2.50. I tried burning with Nero 7 and with a free ImgBurn tool, both work well.
So here you have it: Ulead software is not at fault, player's firmware is.
My Samsung BD-P1200 can play 1440x1080 AVCHD video, but cannot play 1920x1080 AVCHD video.
Raw AVCHD file with max bitrate at about 15Mbps plays well, while proper Blu-ray structured disk with the same video clip stutters. Don't know whether it is a problem with the player or with something else, but most likely the player.
Blu-ray-structured DVD disk with MPEG-2 plays well @ 17Mbps, but stutters @ 25Mbps (HDV video). Raw HDV file cannot be played at all (well, this was never promised).
AVCHD burned onto DVD disks cannot be used for massive distribution, the playback is not implemented uniformly across all available Blu-ray players.