I was successful on a blu-ray burn with these disc settings in PD9: blu-ray 25gb, mpeg-2, hd1920x1080, dolby digital audio, 5.1, use hardware accelaration. The resulting video on the blu-ray disc was NOT recognized as HD by PowerDVD9ultra. Even my eyes could tell that the video was not HD sharp. I played the rendered mpg mentioned above and it was sharp and recognized as HD. Big disappointment. The settings have no way to adjust bit rates, compression, audio, etc like VideoStudio (which has its own problems).
I then attempted a burn using these settings: blu-ray 25gb, h.264, 1920x1080x24, dolby digital, 5.1, use hardware accelaration. The burn gets to 99% then failed with the error code eEB191E82. Huh? No indication of what the error is. Blu-ray discs are too expensive to keep making coasters.
I was also going to try to burn using mpeg-4, but with that setting there is no audio option other than stereo.
What is this error eEB191E82? Is there any way to tell PD9 to burn blu-ray (or DVD) using same settings as source video file? Does the purchase version have more settings? All I want to do for now is author a blu-ray with, hopefully, editable and/or creatable menu templates.
Can anyone help? I hope I haven't been too long winded.
Thank you.