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terje · 17-02-2008

This is maybe not directly Nero Linux related, but yet:

A 50GB Blu-ray disk has room for over 9 hours of high-definition (HD) video and about 23 hours of standard-definition (SD) video.
http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_capacity_video
Blu-ray players also is said to be capable to scale up SD Video to 1080i/p on a full HDTV (though the lossy MEPG2 copression may also uncover even more visible artifacts when objects or camcorder are moving)
http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_backwards_compatible

I guess "SD Video" format here is the same as DVD Video at high MPEG2 compression about 1:20 and 1-8 Mbps data rate.

My raw video footage is SD DV (DV25) at compression 1:5, which isn't a supported codec on Blu-ray as far as I know.

However, with so much storage capacity available on BD-R disks, I wonder what is really the highest quality SD Video format one can create, burn to and playback on BD-R disks? That is, the lowest possible (MPEG2) compression and highest data rate?

At last, will connections using phono, S-Video, RGB composit or HDMI between BD-player and HDTV make any quality difference for this SD Video playback?

17-02-2008	#1 (permalink)
terje New on Forum Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 12	Highest possible quality format for SD Video on BD <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> This is maybe not directly Nero Linux related, but yet: A 50GB Blu-ray disk has room for over 9 hours of high-definition (HD) video and about 23 hours of standard-definition (SD) video. http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_capacity_video Blu-ray players also is said to be capable to scale up SD Video to 1080i/p on a full HDTV (though the lossy MEPG2 copression may also uncover even more visible artifacts when objects or camcorder are moving) http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_backwards_compatible I guess "SD Video" format here is the same as DVD Video at high MPEG2 compression about 1:20 and 1-8 Mbps data rate. My raw video footage is SD DV (DV25) at compression 1:5, which isn't a supported codec on Blu-ray as far as I know. However, with so much storage capacity available on BD-R disks, I wonder what is really the highest quality SD Video format one can create, burn to and playback on BD-R disks? That is, the lowest possible (MPEG2) compression and highest data rate? At last, will connections using phono, S-Video, RGB composit or HDMI between BD-player and HDTV make any quality difference for this SD Video playback?