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Does anyone know of a good FREE program (I'm hoping along the lines of DVD styler in terms of functionality) for making a Blu Ray ISO file? I'd like to convert an mkv file to an image I can burn. I've tried multiAVCHD which seemed good, but kept it crashing.
I've Googled this to the nth degree with little success. I'll keep looking, but if anyone has any tips I'd appreciate it a great deal.
The only authoring program I've been able to find that is worth a damn is Cyberlink PowerDirector. Not sure if that's what kind of functionality you're looking for, though.
Hollywood has spent a fortune making sure you BUY BluRays from them rather than make your own. They're particularly anal about it this time around given how DVDs turned out. So most HD users ignore BluRay altogether... why bother with an expensive (realtively) tiny disc that Hollywood goes batshit insane over if you try to make your own? Just buy a 1TB harddrive and ignore the damn thing! :cool:
You can even get external USB adapters that let you hot plug your 1TB drives so that you can switch them on the fly like floppies. :cool:
As to playback on your TV, most computers can handle that, or you can get a number of different settop boxes that will play HD from external USB drives. I use my OUYA to do that in my living room... those HD mkv files look awesome on a 40" HDTV. :D
I know DVD Architect Studio can write to BluRay discs. I think VideoPad can do that as well.
Those settop media players are the best, they just keep better and better as the years go by.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilly Willy
man I can't believe its been more then 10 years already since I watched my first divx movie on my modded xbox.
Now I'm watching 1080p mkv's from the couch on the 42" tv. http://www.sega-16.com/forum/images/icons/talking.gif
And you don't even need an external HDD, a lot of settop media players allow you to put an hdd inside.
From what I understand, it's only an American thing. In Japan, they've had Blu-Ray recorders like our VCRs for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilly Willy
The moment I got my first terabyte hdd I got rid of all my eh.. legit dvd backups.
Iso's work great in settop media players.
I guess I'm either a purist, a snob, or an idiot when I say I prefer actual BD copies as opposed to 1080p MKV (or HEVC or any other container) rips, but I can see your point in mounting ISOs onto a virtual drive for use. It saves wear and tear on the drive, keeps the originals from getting scratched and smudged and, with the proper equipment, are a 1:1 copy of the original. My problem comes in the software that doesn't decode at 24fps to a television; I rather like the film look that blu-rays can provide, and I sometimes find that missing when I mount an ISO and play it back through my television. Plus I don't really have a dedicated setup for such a thing, so I'm sure the cumbersomeness of the whole process adds to my overall frustration...Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
Having an external changer is nice because you can update the HDD on your computer with the latest minecraft vids and cat videos and whatnot, then watch them on the TV in the living room. :) My brother downloads at least a gig a day of minecraft vids and video game walk throughs and the like. And of course, all those abridged series are fun to watch. DBZ Abridged is MUCH better than DBZ. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
Mine is hooked up to the network, the internal HDD contains dvd iso's while I keep my gaming/movie/cat/funny vidz on my server.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chilly Willy
I can literally watch everything from anywhere in the house, its awesome.
We have an internal network, too, but it's easier for us to keep the videos on external drives than the network. Once I get gigabit network set up, that might change. I've got CAT6 cables everywhere, but the last time I bought routers, 1000s were too expensive, so we currently just have 100s.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
You don't need more then one router though, I just have one gigabit router and then a buncha hubs scattered around the house.
And a 100s always worked fine for my own streaming, unless you start streaming blu-rays of course.
I recommend buying Sony Blu-print. It's only a few thousand dollars I think.
True, and I could slowly update the hubs as I got more moolah. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
The last I saw, Japanese Blu-Ray recorders/DVRs were VERY restricted. You can only record things from broadcast TV (not cable). You can't copy movies. There are a limited number of times that you can burn a TV show to a disc before it is erased from the DVR. There might be restrictions on what devices you can play back on. I think originally you could only play the disc on the device it was recorded on, but that might have changed. I also heard that manufacturers pay fees to IP holders to allow all of this, which drives the cost of recorders up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades