Can I burn 1920x1080 video & menus to a DVD disk?

Birk Binnard wrote on 6/18/2010, 7:38 PM

I have DVD Architect Studio 5.0 (DVDAS) and have created a Blu-Ray format project (1920 x 1080) that I would like to burn to a DVD disk and play on my HDTV through my PS3 which has a Blu-Ray player built in to it.

I can create the ISO file A-OK and burn it to a DVD disk OK too. But when I play it the PS3 recognizes it as a data disk, not as a video disk. So all I can display on my HDTV is the complex file structure on the disk and individually select and play the various 1920 x 1080 video files.

The menu page that DVDAS created shows too, but it is only a fixed image with no navigation ability at all.

If I set the DVDAS project type to DVD it resets the video to 720 instead of 1080 (this is standard DVD resolution of course) and I don't want to down-res my video which is all truly 1920 x 1080.

Is there a way to generate true 1920 x 1080 output on a DVD device along with the associated menu structure DVDAS creates? I hope so, because otherwise I'll have to go get a Blu-Ray burner and a stack of BD disks.

(Maybe this was Sony's intention all along.)

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MPM wrote on 7/29/2010, 3:31 PM

> I have DVD Architect Studio 5.0 (DVDAS) and have created a Blu-Ray format
> project (1920 x 1080) that I would like to burn to a DVD disk and play
> on my HDTV through my PS3 which has a Blu-Ray player built in to it.

> I can create the ISO file A-OK and burn it to a DVD disk OK too. But when
> I play it the PS3 recognizes it as a data disk, not as a video disk. So
> all I can display on my HDTV is the complex file structure on the disk
> and individually select and play the various 1920 x 1080 video files.

FWIW, BD5/9, Blu Ray on DVD, is part of the spec & the reason DVDA includes it. Player support is another matter entirely, & AFAIK [& have read] varies somewhat widely. DVD playback uses a different laser than *Blu* Ray, & therefore different circuitry. Many [most?] players recognize BD content then as AVCHD, & some [like I believe the PS3 & Panasonic players] have more specific requirements &/or limits.

You might want to look at multiAVCHD as either a supplement or alternative... As a supplement, mount your DVDA produced ISO in Daemon Tools or similar, import into multiAVCHD, & remux to a disc layout using options for Blu Ray or AVCHD with special tweaks for PS3 or Panasonic playback. Alternatively you can use multiAVCHD from the start, but menu handling is somewhat basic compared to DVDA, though it does have pop-up menus [which of course DVDA doesn't :-( ]. Burn the layout for/from either use with ImgBurn. To preview on hdd AFAIK there's hacks &/or apps to use PowerDVD with ISO files, &/or CinePlayer BD handles it. FWIW at least some Sony BD players handle BD 5/9 with/without menus, mpg2 or AVC, 1280 x 720, 1440 x 1080, 1920 x 1080. Also multiAVCHD has an option to skip straight to title video during authoring [not BD edit/reauthor], that **may** work well in players that don't do BD 5/9 menus as well as those that do. Overall the only caution I've seen is to keep the bandwidth down to DVD levels, since after all that's what you're using, & players may not be able to handle a lot more. Good luck. ;-)

MPM wrote on 7/29/2010, 3:45 PM

>> "Incidentally, my wife's old laptop has XP SP3 and refuses to play
>> any of these AVCHD disks."

> If it does not have it already, make sure your wife's laptop has the
> UDF 2.5 driver loaded.

AFAIK there are 2 updates - I believe the 2nd was included in SP3. That said, installing PowerDVD with BD capability did add something to the mix, making BD discs much easier to work with IMHO. Even then however there are some discs that XP Pro SP3 32 still doesn't like, & may not play -- e.g. it has problems with vc1 content on this rig, but then I don't have an explicit vc1 codec installed, whereas in 7 Ult ffdshow has that responsibility [& BTW vc1 plays fine].

> Now, if only DVDAS5 supported 5.1 audio for Blu-ray...I was hoping this
> would be included in this version, but maybe next time?

If it helps, you can easily swap out audio tracks using multiAVCHD in reauthor mode. Mount [or otherwise copy the contents of] the ISO, open the BD layout in multiAVCHD, & in properties for the title track optionally remove the existing audio, & add whatever audio &/or [graphics-based] subs you want to include.