Long story short, I am burning VHS Home Movies to Blu Ray. The movies have all been uploaded to my computer and edited. Files are all .MP4 files. I am using Blu Ray disks mainly because of storage capacity reasons as these videos are very long and I wanted to put as many on one disk as possible. I have a 50GB disk ready to burn.
Questions:
1. Which video encoding format is my best route to use? I would rather use H.264 since it shrinks the gigabyte output which allows me to add more video to one disk, but I am not sure if most Blu Ray players will read that format or if I have to go the MPEG-2 route.
2. I am selecting HD1920 x 1080/60i since these will be seen on mostly larger flat screens for the foreseeable future.
3. I would like to use DTS audio with 5.1 channel but since these home videos were not shot that way I think that may not help the quality of the audio at all.
Simply put, am I overkilling the settings in hopes to get as good of video and audio quality as possible? Is it even possible knowing that these are older videos that were shot with VHS type of cameras years ago?
I need some education on how this works and then I should be set to go ahead and start burning these disks.
Appreciate any help!
John