On Friday 15 February 2008 05:06:12 Francois Dion wrote: > Alright, I know some might say heresy, Sun is a Bluray partner and > all, but I'm looking at the following. > > I'm currently archiving my non HD video recordings to DVD-R. I have > 2 DVD burners on my sun box. Using a script that takes whatever is > in my archive queue, preps the dvd with dvdauthor, mkisofs > dvd-video and then I burn the UDF image to DVD. > > The only downside is that I cant use this process with my 720p > streams from OTA HDTV (over the air), unless I downscale. I dont > want to do that. This is where the hd dvd part comes into play. > Apparently, you can put HD mpeg program streams on a regular DVD-R, > but with the proper HD authoring, and play this back in an HD-DVD > player. HD on cheap media, that's like having your cake and eating > it too. > > So I just need a replacement application, or patch for dvdauthor > that would support the HD enhanced DVD. Anybody know of any? Or > have the specs for the HV ifo and bup file? It seems to me an mpeg2 > program stream can simply be renamed to EOB. > >
there's n no OSS tool to author HD-DVD and Bluray content, but dvdauthor works just fine even with non-standard resolutions: I've just made a 1024x768 dvd image that plays just fine in software players. A cheap test on an hd-dvd player is worth a test, IMO _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
