BLURAY Rips--- EasyPlay on DISK...... Solution..?

SonsOfLiberty said:
I've always though in some instances to me anyway some 720p and 1080p sources looked/sounded the same, now I know I'm not crazy!
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It really has more to do with the 'quality' of the display unit, not the encoding or transmission. Being a very early adopter, neither of my displays do 1080P, and only one does 720P (they both do 1080i though). NONE of the LCD displays I see at the local stores come close to the quality of the 10 year old displays I own... But the ARE broadcast-grade displays.

I've d/l'ed several movies with both 720P and 1080P, and can't see any difference either. But it will have to wait until the next 'upgrade' go-around with a top-notch 1080P plasma (most probably a Panasonic, as it has the best reviews, now that Pioneer has dropped production of plasmas and sold the plant to Panasonic), and that puts it in the 2011 time frame (unless the economy collapses yet again).

The thing a lot of people forget about, is the audio. LOTS of x264 recodes have full-bitrate DTS (1.5+Mb/s) down-sampled from the HD audio (Dolby HD or DTS HD), and for most, it's almost overkill, as there is the option during recoding to do the audio at half-bitrate (768Kb/s) DTS, I've only seen one example of that. That's a LOT of bits, and one has to remember the audio is constant, not variable, like the video.

But until I get set up and do some 'real' testing, it's up in the air. And, a LOT of the Blu-Ray discs are pretty poor quality, if the 'high-end' magazines I read are correct. Again, the studios are following the same track with HD as they did with standard DVD's some 10 years ago... lots of poor quality mastering out there.
 
Just use tsmuxer to create a avchd disk. I am pretty sure that the PS3 can play the files if they are in that disk format. On 1080p releases you are not gonna fit them onto a DVD9 so you can just play them with external harddrive or a large thumbdrive
 
Anyone just want to enjoy the HD contents easily like playing DVD by putting the disc and playing with remote
should know something about mini-BD,BD-9,BD-25,and even the more advanced RBD whcih all you can call knockoRAB of blu-ray.
Most of these are discussed in Chinese but I think this
http://www.highdefforum.com/high-de...ay-high-definition-products-cbhd-players.html
is a good beginning.
Actually you can find many BD-9,BD-25,or RBD to download in some tackers esp. in Chinese just like there are many movies in AVCHD format available all over the internet.
 
This all gets into areas I brought up in another part of this board, and the basic conflict is... what should one do with the x264 files, whatever container they happen to be in (AVCHD, mkv, ts, you name it).

I broke down almost two months ago and bought a PCH (popcorn hour) box. One of the main reasons was, I was at my wits end a bit trying to get any of the PD (or shareware) display/movie programs to play all the types of files I was throwing at it; I might add that NONE of the commercial programs (from NERO to Cyberlink to ?) would play all of them either, without failing on one or the other. The PCH has a few failings, but has done a LOT better than me 'tinkering' around with all kinds of add-ons, fixes, etc,, to those programs (not to mention the hassles of the PC graphics boards, NVidia or ATI, I have BOTH).

File size, no matter what type container, is a 'problem'. If the file isn't specifically 'sized' to dvd5/dvd9 (or smaller), then you're stuck saving it either to multiple removable discs, or onto hard drives (you'll notice that lots of AVCHD stuff aimed at the PS3 market IS sized to those sizes).

As I'm sitting here trying to 'repair' a 'small' 2TB linux RAID1 array (don't know if I can 'recover' the discs, the array is grinding away at it though), saving things to HD is eventually problematic. Right now I'm trying to decide on either 'reclaiming' an older Athlon64 system that has a motherboard-based RAID5 system (limited to 6-SATA drives), or pony up for the unRAID box/system (bare sans-discs prices are around $1500).

Right now I'm leaning toward putting a x1/PCIexpress card to 'power' the boot drive on that Athlon64 system (luckily has several free PCIexpress slots, up to an x4), leaving all 6 SATA ports free for a 7.5TB array (with 1.5TB drives); that will be around $700+ to do.

Just since I got the PCH, I've filled up almost 3 1.5TB drives spread around my LAN. A couple things to keep your eye on, is what the resolution, audio (DTS is much preferred coming off the high resolution soundtracks of the BluRay discs), extra audio (dir. commentary and such), captioning, and most important, the bit rate.

Most movies have been done just about every which way one can think of, so you have a 'choice'. But just like recoding SD DVD's, it may be that doing it yourself may be the best option.
 
hotshot6473 said:
Just use tsmuxer to create a avchd disk. I am pretty sure that the PS3 can play the files if they are in that disk format. On 1080p releases you are not gonna fit them onto a DVD9 so you can just play them with external harddrive or a large thumbdrive
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If you wait 6 months or so, BD blank media should be cheap enough, I'm see BD player dropping below $150. This would be the way to go, if the PS3 reads them, do what he said above AVCHD disk, but burn it to BD-RE

I'm cheap, as long as it works, ok for me :)

So this would be my way if I had a set-top player (I think set-top BD players connect to external storage drives and can be played form them), but I would buy a drive ($136.99)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pioneer-BDR-203BK-SW-BDRW-black-bulk/dp/B001WAJ2VU

And buy some BD-RE's.
$8 for 2 http://www.amazon.co.uk/TDK-BD-RE-25GB-Blu-ray-Jewel/dp/B000J6HZMQ/ref=pd_sim_dbs_ce_2

or $3 for 1 http://www.amazon.co.uk/SONY-BD-RE-Blu-ray-25GB-rewritable/dp/B000F7JIYM/ref=pd_sim_dbs_ce_3

but only single layer @25GB

Still 1080p rips are well below that, well generally speaking they are.
 
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