Friday, November 21, 2008

burning blu-ray discs on Linux

If I actually get a camera that can do 1080p, I'm going to have to have some means of distribution.
Update 2009/01/11
Gosh darnit, I DID get a new cam! Hooray!
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Blu ray seems the best bet. For testing, I'd opt to use the Blu ray rewriteable format, BD-RE.

From a few hours of research, these facts appear:
1) It IS possible to write blu ray data discs via the dvd+rw-tools. See Technical discussion and Burning links below
2) The burning of blu ray video discs to be played in consumer players may be possible in the dvd+rw-tools, but should be definetly possible in the Nero 3 product for Linux (around $25). This bears testing.

*** Update 2010/11/04 ***
Dark Shakiri has created the world's first free blu-ray encoder:
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/328

From the comments, I hear tell that it actually WORKS too!
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Final Thoughts
Prices are still high: $300-$400 for an internal burner and roughly $10 per disc. Testing these options out will be essential.

the mule

Update 2011/02/27
AVS HD 709 - Blu-ray & MP4 Calibration
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Update 2011/01/04
http://www.x264bluray.com/

Allowed Resolutions/Framerates
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Blu Ray US site
http://www.blu-raydisc.com/bluray_site.htm

Technical discussion of dvd+rw-tools methodology
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/

Burning BD-RE disks with dvd+rw-tools
http://forums.aliensoup.com/showthread.php?t=24180

Untested open source blu ray authoring tools *
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Blu-ray-video-authoring-tools-28112.shtml
* UDF generator, does not generate ISO9660 structures
Update 1/23/2009
Looks like these tools compile under 32-bit systems, but not 64-bit systems. A user (E Chalaron) got this to work under 32-bit Ubuntu Feisty. Thanks E!
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Nero 3 Linux product
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f104/blu-ray-burning-hw-support-236218/
http://www.burnworld.com/software/cdrburning/linux.htm
http://www.nero.com/enu/linux3.html?NeroSID=75c7543438b27626c11913f2ed0c329e


Recent prices
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f142/blu-ray-blank-media-player-recorder-prices-japan-254787/

Hardware
http://www.addonics.com/support/application_notes/app_hd.asp
LG BE06LU11 Blu-ray
LG GGW-H10N Blu-ray/HD-DVD
LG GBW-H10N Blu-ray
Panasonic SW-5582 Blu-ray

Playing BluRay/HDDVD under Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD

Other Options
Perhaps run HD DVD Fab under Wine
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=763837

Google, dammit
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=burn+blu+ray+video+in+linux

Other BluRay references
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blurayauthor/

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