I'm trying to capture video from my Canon HV20 and burn it to standard DVD's in Blu-Ray quality and play it on my Samsung BD-P1000. This is supported on the lasted upgrade of Pinnacle Studio 11.

I was able to create the disk, but its unplayable. The Samsung loads the disk but it just goes to the player menu and doesn't recognize the disk.

Anybody have any suggestions on how to do this? I don't want to buy a Blu-Ray burner due to the high costs of the media, and most of my projects are in the 25 minute range anyways, so 4.7GB disks are all I need.

Too bad HD-DVD lost. It was easy to convert the HV20 video to HD-DVD format on a standard DVD, and I could have menus too!

Thanks for any and all help! If there is another software product that can do this, please let me know.

Can you try playing the DVD on other Blu-ray players that support the recorded format ?

I think it's your player. As far as I know, the Samsung BDP-1000 wont play Blu-rays burned on blank DVD's. Take your disc to an electronics store and try it out on various Blu-ray players, see what works.

Search for your player name, here:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=815296

Thanks, I'll do that. Any idea how I can find out what players support this?


I think it's your player. As far as I know, the Samsung BDP-1000 wont play Blu-rays burned on blank DVD's. Take your disc to an electronics store and try it out on various Blu-ray players, see what works.

It's not just the player, although which one does matter. But also, BDMV won't play from std dvd media, without a trick. The trick is to put the .m2t inside a AVCHD wrapper, and make the player think it's playing an AVCHD disk. And with this trick, you won't have menus. Ulead won't stop you from authoring BDMV on std dvd media, but it won't playback that way.

And you can always just author it straight to AVCHD with Ulead, but it's going to re-encode your video, taking up time and adding a generational loss to the quality.

These hybrid disks are not always compatible with other players anyway as mentioned. Why not just continue authoring them to HD DVD for your personal use?

I would like to but it will make it difficult to share with others since BD is the new standard. Logging my HD-DVD player over to the in-laws place isn't all that convenient. And when my HD-DVD player breaks down, what will I do then?




These hybrid disks are not always compatible with other players anyway as mentioned. Why not just continue authoring them to HD DVD for your personal use?

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/Studio+Family/Studio+Plus+11+Support/Download+Area/Drivers+-+Updates/Studio+11_1_2+patch.htm?mode=documents&Display=1 says the program produces AVCHD disks. I'm not so sure your Samsung plays that format. We have had scattered reports of the newest Samsung both playing and not playing the AVCHD format, the Sharp doesn't, and some of the dual-format players might not. So most Blu-ray players will play AVCHD, but there are some exceptions.

Generally to get your player to play custom HD disks you would probably have to use BDMV on Blu-ray disks. The Ulead software can produce that format (or AVCHD) with basic menus, but BDMV is intended for a Blu-ray burner and BD-R that starts at around $10 or BD-RE for say $15. The only other possible solution I've read about is using software costing 5-digits that is reported to create BD9, which should be supported by all players.