15Mbps from regular PC DVD drive

megabit wrote on 12/31/2007, 4:57 AM

Perhaps this is normal, but I couldn't believe my eyes when I burned my first 15 Mbps ACHD DVD with MF6 (using a Vegas 8 rendered clip without recompression): using Nero Showtime or PowerDVD players, it plays back beautifylly from the regular DVD burner! And with full 25fps, without any compression artefacts.

I always thought some 9-10 Mbps is all a red laser DVD is capable of....

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 12/31/2007, 5:03 AM

Have you tried it in a red laser DVD player? Your DVD burner is built for much more speed than a typical set-top player. For example, i can read an entire 4.3GB's worth of data from my DVD burner to the hard drive in about 8 minutes. This is probably about 72Mbps. That your system can maintain 15Mbps isn't the slightest bit surprising. The DVD burner in your PC is not a "regular DVD player".

megabit wrote on 12/31/2007, 5:40 AM

Oh absolutely - I don't mean set-top boxes; even if they were capable of enough data rate, they wouldn't recognize the BDMV structure for mercantile reasons :(

But with so many people having their PC permanently hooked to their Home Theater systems, it's nice to know you can hand them your HD stuff on o regular DVD, and they will be able to play it back using regular PC DVD drives - with all the HD glory of their HDTV's...

rtbond wrote on 12/31/2007, 6:16 AM

I think the use of the phrase "Regular DVD Player" in the title of this message may be interpreted by many to be a standalone (SD/Red laser) DVD Player when in fact I believe you are referring to playback in a PC DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/- RW drive.

--Rob

megabit wrote on 12/31/2007, 6:24 AM

Yep, not a very fortunate wording for the title - sorry.