Digital Jacket Picture for Blu-Ray

Tien23 wrote on 7/12/2014, 2:08 PM
When playing theatrical movies, my PS3 and other players often display the movie name and artwork on the screen before the disc loads. I want to add this feature to my own blu-ray projects. However, the project properties in DVD architect show that "jacket picture" and "DVD start script" are "DVD-only features". Why does DVD Architect not support this for Blu-Ray? Anyone know a workaround to it?

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Smithee wrote on 7/12/2014, 3:47 PM
The Blu-ray spec simply doesn't support the simplistic equivalent of DVD's JACKET_P.

My experience is that most players don't support JACKET_P in the first place. Based on my commercial DVD collection, most discs aren't authored with the JACKET_P folder, although many of my early Warner Bros. discs have them, as do some from MGM/UA and Sony (Columbia).
Tien23 wrote on 7/12/2014, 10:46 PM
Thanks for the info. It adds a nice touch when it is shown on the player. It makes me wonder if some players pull info from the web and display that. I hope they will add to the Blu-Ray specs in the future to include this. Additionally, support for 30fps would be nice as well.
Smithee wrote on 7/13/2014, 5:45 AM
Since Blu-ray supports Java, there would be a way to do a sophisticated equivalent of JACKET_P. That of course would be the realm of a very skilled programmer/author.
Smithee wrote on 7/16/2014, 3:00 AM
Apparently Blu-ray does support an equivalent of JACKET_P, at least for the PS3.

TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5, in its Blu-ray (BDMV) settings, with Output disc information selected, has a thumbnail feature. The manual states: "If you click the "Browse..." button and specify a thumbnail, this thumbnail is displayed by compatible players like the PlayStation 3."

Googling around, I see that the thumbnails are stored in BDMV/META/DL, with an XML container.

After doing a test burn, the link below nails the procedure.

<http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-140293.html>

Follow the directions and manually copy the required files to the Blu-ray's directory.
videoITguy wrote on 7/16/2014, 7:43 AM
Unfortunately few set-top players accomodate setting a jacket picture such as this style of authoring has went by the wayside.

But THIS is good find on the how to do it. In a similar way you cannot use DVDApro to directly create Blu-ray discs with an extras folder for BDROM authoring - but you can first create you author steps in DVDAPro then create the extras folder in a second copy of the authored project with Nero or Imgburn.
Steve Mann wrote on 7/16/2014, 11:21 PM
It's not a jacket picture, but how about a curtain video loop as the action item of the last video title?