Need help choosing an output format

Vance

Newbie Joined: Jul 07, 2009 11:56 Messages: 2 Offline

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Jul 07, 2009 12:10

Hello all! I have an LG BD390, a bluray player which can play my own media as well. What I want to do is convert my home movies to a format the BD390 can use.

My HD video camera records in MOV, but I think they are MPEG4 files inside an MOV container (forgive me if this seems horribly wrong, I am a newbie at this). But my device can't handle MOV files. What is the best codec/container to convert to and retain as much quality as possible?

Is there a handy tutorial somewhere which covers this type of thing?

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online

Jul 08, 2009 00:12

Vance -

I've never played with Blue Ray burning, but this tutorial might give you the right guidance...

http://docs.cyberlink.com/event/PDR-gallery/play.jsp?nFileId=1293

Cheers -

Tony
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pjc

Senior Member Location: Aus Joined: Sep 12, 2008 03:48 Messages: 262 Offline

Jul 08, 2009 06:34

Hi Vance,

You have some testing to do I would say.

Firstly if you are going to play HD files over your network you can almost forget the wireless option. Perhaps 720p MKVs but I suspect 1080i/p AVCHD won't manage, let alone 25mbps mpeg2.

So if you have a wired connection you may like to make a few trial files and see how they go.

Rendering to AVCHD is good in theory but PD has a pretty poor rendering engine and artifacts and blocking are introduced.

Rendering to mpeg2, although you are changing the codec, results (for me) in a much better result. Try BD profile but this is 25Mbps. You can use the Mpeg2 HD option and drop the data rate to say 20Mbps if the BD profile stalls.

If all else fails try rendering to Mpeg2 and re-encoding to MKV using the freeware on the net (Google it)

This is what I would do if I had such a machine (not yet available in Oz

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Vance

Newbie Joined: Jul 07, 2009 11:56 Messages: 2 Offline

Jul 08, 2009 11:17

Thank you Tony for that link, I will definitely check it out (I am in education mode).

pjc, thanks a lot for that starting point! I agree entirely about the wireless. While I loved the idea of the built-in "N" to go with my "N" router, it just won't handle a lot of stuff. So, I decided to go with a powerline ethernet system which works better. But, for these HD movies, I have decided just to use a portable 500 GB USB drive that I can swap back and forth. Seems a shame to waste the connection, but I like the consistency of the quality. I use the network connection for music and for the integrated Netflix streaming.

I think you are right about the experimenting as well. I tried to do an MPEG4 in an MP4 container and it ended up with serious artifacts in any action scenes (my son's baseball game). I simply deleted it. I will try the MPEG2 HD as you suggest and see what happens.

BTW, the BD390 is really great so far! My kids really like the Netflix integration and the movie quality improvement is very noticeable over DVD, even on a 32" 720p.