No AVCHD DVD?

Keyan wrote on 6/11/2010, 4:59 AM

Well I upgraded from 9 to 10 Platinum since the upgrade was on sale...and I'm really dissapointed that there is no AVCHD DVD burning. Not everyone wants to get a blu-ray burning drive and spend $20 per disc on Media, and I know that Sony gets a cut of every blank BD disc sold so I'm sure that is why there is no AVCHD DVD option. Sad when every other major competitor can do this. I do have another program that I can use to create AVCHD DVD discs, I was just hoping that Sony would have had this feature in the software too.

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TOG62 wrote on 6/16/2010, 5:03 AM

Following advice I have now used tsMuxer to author AVCHD DVDs. It works very well, but I have encountered one problem. The discs play on my PC and on my Panasonic PVR/Blu-ray recorder but they won't copy onto the hard drive. This is important to me as I would like to use the Panny to author Blu-ray discs from the material transferred on DVDs. Other AVCHD DVDs I have made copy with no problem.

The discs made by tsMuxer + ImgBurn seem to have no name and are apparently protected. Any advice on how to circumvent this issue would be extremely welcome.

david_f_knight wrote on 6/16/2010, 7:36 AM

TOG62, you haven't told us which operating system is on your computer. I'm guessing that it is Windows XP of some variety. If so, then you need to install the (free) UDF 2.50 file system drivers on your computer to be able to "see" any true AVCHD DVD's contents (with Windows Explorer).

Windows Vista and Windows 7 come with UDF 2.50 file system drivers built-in, so do not attempt to install UDF 2.50 file system drivers on your computer if you have either of those operating systems installed.

You can Google UDF 2.50 drivers to find a download site for them, if you have Windows XP installed.

In any case, when you burn your AVCHD DVD with ImgBurn, you can (and should) specify which file system it should use. You need to set that to UDF 2.50 to create an AVCHD DVD that meets that aspect of the AVCHD DVD specification. If you have not done that, then your AVCHD DVD is out of spec and all bets are off regarding whether it can be played on any given piece of equipment.

TOG62 wrote on 6/16/2010, 9:39 AM

I'm using Vista Home Premium SP2. Yes, disc burnt with UDF 2.50 filing system. As I say, it plays OK on PC or Panny, so I think it's broadly compliant. The only problem I'm seeing is the inability to copy from disc to the Panny's hard drive.

KenJ62 wrote on 6/18/2010, 1:07 AM

I just installed the VMS HD Platinum 10.0 package including DVD Architect Studio 5.0 and I was able to burn a high definition AVCHD disk on conventional media which looked beautiful and played flawlessly on my Blu-ray player and PC. See my contribution, message 8, in the "HD on DVD" topic on the DVDA forum:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=714773&Replies=7

aquaholik wrote on 8/9/2010, 3:22 PM

Speed reading older topics and reading lots of good stuff by our forum members, I was able to fix the audio sync issue and create my first AVCHD disc using regular DVD writer. I render the 1920x1080 clips using Sony AVC(.m2ts). The finished 28 minutes clip in .m2ts format had problem(more likely just a playback software issue) with audio being out of sync. I ran tsMuxeR and fixed it(it was fast). I then used tsMuxeR again to output the fixed .m2ts file to AVCHD.

I then followed david_f_knight advice and used imgburn to burn the folder to regular DVD. The finished DVD was recognized by the PS3 as AVCHD Rom by the PS3 and it played fine(no menu of course). It also played fine on my PC by just selecting the .m2ts file.