DVDA 5... jsut released BUT

DJPadre wrote on 7/2/2008, 1:14 AM

Does anyone know if it lets u author BD content on DVD5 discs?

It only says BD burner or Standard DVD burner, thers no menion of HD content on standard DVD5 discs...

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megabit wrote on 7/2/2008, 1:26 AM

This shouldn't be a concern at all. Personally, I never use any authoring program to burn BD's or DVD's directly (especially with the still expensive BD-R's, I don't want to risk one should anything go wrong); instead I "burn" an iso image to the HDD. Such images can be then burned to ANY optical disk, using ANY burning software.

LSHorwitz wrote on 7/2/2008, 3:35 AM

The original post is not really concerned about the cost of burning coasters. Use -RW re-writtable disks if that is your issue, megabit.

The original post is regarding the ability to create playable HD content on a 4.7GB red laser standard blank DVD. Till now, DVDA could not handle this, even though many inexpensive programs do it beautifully.

Having played with the new DVDA for a few hours trying to make AVCHD disks, I have yet to find anything which will play in my PlayStation 3 BluRay player, despite downloading the latest PS3 firmware yesterday as well.

I gotta say that Sony has been extremely annoying for several years in my experience. I bought a new Sony FX-1 HD camcorder nearly 4 years ago and to this very moment I have yet to find any way using Sony software to distribute its HD content on a red laster DVD unless I resort to 3rd party software. HD DVD worked great but we all know what Sony did to destroy that format. The new manual for DVDA doesn't seem to mention AVCHD......

Larry

Wolfgang S. wrote on 7/2/2008, 3:55 AM

The DVDA5 supports 002 BDMV-DVDs only, but not 001-AVCHD DVDs. The PS3 reads 001-AVCHD-DVDs only. So, either you burn to BD-R/RE, or you use another BD-player, or you use another authoring tool to generate AVCHD-DVDs (Uleads Moviefactory 6+ with hd pack).

rtbond wrote on 7/2/2008, 3:56 AM

>Does anyone know if it lets u author BD content on DVD5 discs?

According to page 25 of the DVDA5 manual, yes it does for both single and dual layer DVD discs. There is also a note about how the PlayStation 3 will treat such BDMV-formated DVD media as a data disc (a PS3 issue).