Here's a stopgap measure that works as long as you don't need fancy menus.
1. Get a sony BWU-100A (or a panasonic BD burner). Other BD burners can work, but I only have the panasonic and sony burners. They come with the cyberlink software. ebay has a BIN for a good price on the BWU-100A, just search for it. Buy BD-RE disk(s) as you can erase them. Use BD-R only after you are completely satisfied on BD-RE.
2. The cyberlink sw doesn't, work, you still need to install it though.
3. Get the free upgrade for PowerDVD 6.6 for BD. You will need this for playback.
4. Buy PowerProducer 4.0 upgrade from the 3.x that ships with drive. This should be $40.
5. Go to cyberlink website and install the patch from january '07. PS3 playback does not work without patch. Samsung playback does.
6. Use VideoRedoPlus to split the HDV files you will have to physically split the files as separate titles if you want to use the Next-Chp navigation. You can try other programs. If you are dealing with streams other than HDV, you often have to clean up the timestamp and audio synch errors that are common on those files first.
7. Run PowerProducer. Insert the mpg files in the order you want them to appear. Make sure you don't go too much above 24000MB. Edit the playlist to insert chapter points (current FW on PS3 and samsung ignored this, but PC playback works with them). Save playlist setting. Save the project. Press burn. One to two hours later, your disk will pop out.
8. Insert disk in samsung or ps3 player and assuming you're experienced with the HDV camcorder, you can now watch better PQ than quite a few HD/BD titles.
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The above also works on the following type of mpeg2 files :
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2. 1920x1080i60
3. 1920x1080p25
4. 1920x1080p24
5. 1440x1080i60 (HDV 25Mbps)
6. 1440x1080i60 (bitrate reduced to 10-15Mbps).