Anyone tried creating a AVCHD "bluray player" compatible DVD???

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

I've tried a couple of experiments, with media that ranges from 8 Mb/s to 14 Mb/s, and all tend to have essentially unacceptable macroblocking artifacts and the like.

So, my question is if anyone has tried this, and what was the 'successful' setup.

The utility I was using was called 'RevolverHD', which takes a H.264 QT file, and creates the BLURAY AVCHD disk structure and m2ts packaging required to play in a Bluray player.

The various options on the H.264 compression where

Setting the bitrate down to 15 Mb/s and 1920x1080
Setting the bitrate down to 8 Mb/s and 1280x720

Media that was 'handy'... DVD+R.

The original material was 24 fps using the AIC.

And naturally, all the various H.264 versions played smoothly on the Mac I was using...

 

[Chris Light]

since i have access to only 1 BR player (sony brand), i have had the best success with AVCHD at 8mbs for 1440x1080 24p using Sony avc codec. i stick with 1440 because that's the max for my HDV Canon xh-a1. looks awesome on a 42" sony bravia lcd. i would like to increase the bitrate depending on the motion in my footage, but for some reason, in Sony Vegas MS 9 Platinum, that's the max bitrate for 1440x1080 24p. i'd have to up to 1920x1080 60i to get 16Mbs and higher, and im not sure yet how the footage will look.

sorry, i know you're on Mac and i'm on windows, but hopefully this thread can appeal to both.

i'm also in San Diego, so it's cool to see other San Diegans on here!

Chris
www.vimeo.com/chrislight

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

since i have access to only 1 BR player (sony brand), i have had the best success with AVCHD at 8mbs for 1440x1080 24p using Sony avc codec. i stick with 1440 because that's the max for my HDV Canon xh-a1. looks awesome on a 42" sony bravia lcd.

Well, I tried 1280x720 for a lower bit rate and got about the same in terms of crappy artifiacts. I'm going to try to create a SD device version and pay that through my Panasonic BR player... see if there's just something wrong with my output processing.

 

[OSV]

i've seen a number of posts claiming that blu-ray compatible avchd on dvd-r is doable for *some* blu-ray players, but not at 24Mbps... 16Mbps or 17Mbps is the limit.