Burning Std DV on Blue ray disk & play

Siby wrote on 3/14/2011, 7:17 PM
I have 3.5 hours standard definition NTSC mpeg2 (sony dvd architedt theme) dvd. It probably won't fit in a dual layer dvd -R. Therefore I wanted to find out is it possible to burn it into a blue ray disk and play it from sony PS3 or any blue play player. Anyone have any experience, please share with me. I don't want to compress it into a regular dvd because it may loose the picture quality.

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BlackMax wrote on 3/15/2011, 9:08 AM
I don't recall seeing this discussed anywhere before, but it is an interesting idea. I would expect that if you master to DVD, and burn the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders onto a BD disc (with appropriate file system settings e.g. ISO9660 + UDF and not UDF 2.50 as for BD disc) , that players may well still read that it is a BD-type disc and that a DVD format on it would be perceived as invalid. But it seems worth trying, though if you do you may want to use a rewritable BD for testing. You would have to burn with ImgBurn or another tweakable proggie like BurnAware.

If you try it, by all means post-back here whether it works!
TOG62 wrote on 3/15/2011, 2:39 PM
I have a set-top Blu-ray recorder that can record SD video (TV programmes) onto BR-R discs. It records in Blu-ray format but at appropriately lower resolution and bitrate. I would be inclines to experiment along those lines and see what results you get.
BlackMax wrote on 3/15/2011, 3:02 PM
The OP can almost certainly master the SD program to BD disc (as BDMV) i.e. it's probably already in a format acceptable to the BD standard. But I read his request as wanting a disc to play in ordinary DVD players too (though maybe I was wrong about this)...
PeterDuke wrote on 3/15/2011, 4:49 PM
You can put SD video on a Blu-ray disc but it has to be authored in accordance with the Blu-ray disc standard if you want it to play with menus etc. on a Blu-ray player. A standard DVD player won't play a Blu-ray disc whatever its content.
PeterDuke wrote on 3/15/2011, 4:54 PM
You could put 3.5 hours of SD video on a DL DVD but the quality probably won't be quite as good as your source. It may be good enough, however, but only you can make that judgement. It would be about VHS tape quality, but the degradation would be different.
Siby wrote on 3/16/2011, 11:50 AM
Thanks everyone for the inputs. I wanted to burn standard definition footage into the blue ray disk and play in blue play player or PS3.
Electromen wrote on 3/18/2011, 5:22 PM
I've been doing it for a few weeks, the quality is very good. I have one BD with 3 hours of SD on it and another with 4 hours. It could easily handle 5 hours of SD. The quality is only as good as the source video but the menus and chapters work very well.