BD-R compatiblity with Blu-ray players

[shawnEshawn]

Okay this post is to clarify how one can successfully put video on a BD-R and have it play on a player, and also how it won't work. As far as I've been told a BD-R is compatible with Blu-ray players. It appears that there are two file formats that I can find to go on the BD-R which are BDAV and BDMV(as opposed to the VIDEO_TS which dvd's use). If anyone knows of other formats please report on them. The lower price authoring applications such as Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus, MyDVD 9 Studio Premier, & CyberLink PowerProducer 4 use the BDAV format while higher end software uses the BDMV. BDAV does not support menus while BDMV does as far as I know. The only programs I know of up to this point that does the BDMV is Roxio's DVDit Pro HD but I believe there are otheres.

With BDAV(via Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus) I have burned a BD-R and test it and as follows is the player compatibility I've found.

Plays On:
Samsung BP1200

Does Not Play On:
Panasonic DMP-BD10
Samsung BD-P1000
Sony BDP-S1
Pioneer BDP-HD1

Not Tested On:
PS3
LG BH100
Philips BDP9000
Sony BDP-S300

It appears to be highly uncompatible with players. If people could post on thier experience/knowledge with the BDMV file system and definite testing on particular players, BDAV compatibility with the untested players, what/which authoring software works, what firmware version is needed on particular players to play, so on and so forth to get HD video working on players through burned BD-R's and BD-RE's.

[phloyd]

DVDit Pro HD authored BDR's (BDMV) should play back on the Sony, Pioneer and Panasonic players.

With a software patch and firmware 1.6, it should also work with PS3.

BDAV should also work with PS3, though 1.6 may have changed that.

In any case, BDMV should have a better compatibility than BDAV moving forward.