DVD on Blu-ray for set-top player?

[flojo]

Could I re-author 3 DVD-9 discs into one DVD image and burn that to a 25GB Blu-ray on UDF 2.01 (or 2.5) and have a set-top Blu-ray player play it as a DVD? What really makes a DVD a DVD to a set-top player?

I know the answer is "Try It" but I don't have a set-top Blu-ray player anymore. I quickly perused the UDF 2.5 spec and didn't see a reason why not, at least not as far as the filesystem goes: https://dev.ecma-international.org/wp-c ... r_2023.pdf

[dcoke22]

If you're going to author a disc anyway, why not make it a proper blu-ray that just has 3 standard definition items to choose in the blu-ray menu? Then the set-top player will play it as a blu-ray that has SD content.

[Coopervid]

Could I re-author 3 DVD-9 discs into one DVD image and burn that to a 25GB Blu-ray on UDF 2.01 (or 2.5) and have a set-top Blu-ray player play it as a DVD? What really makes a DVD a DVD to a set-top player?

I know the answer is "Try It" but I don't have a set-top Blu-ray player anymore. I quickly perused the UDF 2.5 spec and didn't see a reason why not, at least not as far as the filesystem goes: https://dev.ecma-international.org/wp-c ... r_2023.pdf

Never done that and it escapes me why you would do that. I would try (if you only care for the main movies): 1) Rip all main movies to MKV. 2) Combine the 3 MKVs with MKVToolnix 3) Load the combined MKV in TSMuxer and mux to BluRay ISO 4) Burn with Imgburn.

With the whole DVD content it will be much more complicated and you will need an authoring software.

[flojo]

Oh OK, I didn't realize I could use below 720p for Blu-ray. Is there a free quick and dirty Blu-ray menu creator, template based? Combining them would be O.K. I guess, although seek past the previous movie to the next would be a little awkward.

I kind of know how to use Scenarist SD, and Scenarist BD claims to be able to import SD projects, but if I have to author I'd prefer something free (non-pirated at least).

[Coopervid]

Oh OK, I didn't realize I could use below 720p for Blu-ray. Is there a free quick and dirty Blu-ray menu creator, template based? Combining them would be O.K. I guess, although seek past the previous movie to the next would be a little awkward.

I kind of know how to use Scenarist SD, and Scenarist BD claims to be able to import SD projects, but if I have to author I'd prefer something free (non-pirated at least).

That's too much work in my opinion and a steep learning curve. But interesting if you have a lot of time.

And why do you want to do this massive work? Set-top Bluray players also play DVDs. So just make 3 copies- done.