Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Joseph wrote:
> On 04/17/09 16:04, Paul Hartman wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Well if you just want to play it on the computer then the format
>> doesn't matter (as long as the mplayer or whatever you use can play
>> it). It's just a data disc.
>
> I want to play it on larger screen TV (it supports all latest formats). I
> don't have (yet) Blu-Ray player and I don't think it is possible to play =
HD
> mp4 files on any DVD player, is it?
No, a DVD video player can only play DVDs (and sometimes VCDs which
are even worse quality than DVD). If they could play HD then Blu-Ray
would have no reason to exist :) While some DVD players can output a
720p/1080i/1080p picture, it is simple scaling the lower-resolution
720 =D7 576 (or whatever the DVD is) image to that size and applying
some filters to make it look better (in theory).
The only way to play the HD content on your TV is to hook a computer
up to it or get a media player capable of playing HD content. Or
figure out how to author and master Blu-Ray discs and get a Blu-Ray
player.
>> If you want to watch it on an actual Blu-Ray player then it'll need to
>> be authored and mastered in the apporpriate way. I think they are
>> *.EVO files in some special directory structure (similar to DVD
>> video). Also, they use UDF 2.5 for the filesystem.
>>
>> Blu-Ray has lots of DRM and commercial licensing requirements to make
>> a player, so legality is questionable :)
>
> That is why I can barely find anything on how to encode the HD mpeg4 file=
s
> onto a disk. I can make UDF file system on a standard re-writetable DVD-=
RW
> (have done it many times) my only question is the encoding format/structu=
re.
> I think I need Blu-Ray burner, don't I?
I think generally the answer is "You have to use windows to author
Blu-Ray movies"... because of the licensing etc. but I haven't ever
tried so I could be wrong.