Is it possible to convert DVD's to Blu-ray disks in 1080p

[tlages]

I am a complete newbie to blu ray disks, but I was wondering, is it possible to burn your own blu ray movies based on a dvd disk that in 480p? Can you take the 480p source and burn it to a disk as a 1080p source similar to up scaling?

[kris26]

yes u can

but its very time consuming.i had quadcore q6600 pc with 4gb ram
it took 20hours to do 7.5gb disc
i tried using the same dvd disc and played in bluray and upconverted dvd player. but, iam very impressed with the quality of converted one(dvd 480p/i to bluray 1080p)

[tlages]

How do you do it then?

[kris26]

check the website doom9 there a lot off info there

[BLindsay]

i gotta ask though whats the point?

why not just put the DVD in the player and just let the player upscale it, hardly seems worth it to bother burning it......especially with the cost of blanks

[Dotpattern]

I'm not sure what the point would be since it won't be anywhere near "Blu-ray quality."

[kris26]

if u have mutliple home video(birthday,wedding,reception etc)
i did try playing dvd on sony bdps350 on my samsung lcd tv
and i try converted one
the quality is quite noticeable
p.s: if u have high quality video u can tell the difference
if its compressed,svc,vcd,vhs quality its not worth it
if u want to see the difference the camcorder that u use must be min quality of mini dv

[ckent22]

Originally Posted by tlages

I am a complete newbie to blu ray disks, but I was wondering, is it possible to burn your own blu ray movies based on a dvd disk that in 480p? Can you take the 480p source and burn it to a disk as a 1080p source similar to up scaling?

No, it won't be full 1080p -- you need a 1080p source for it to be in full 1080p as far as I know.

[Sammy]

If you have uncompressed video that you shot yourself and you want to watch it on your HDTV, you could get a video card with DVI or HDMI output and connect the computer directly to the HDTV. Of course you would need to have the computer pretty close to the HDTV. Another option is to transfer them to a laptop and use the laptops VGA port to connect to the HDTV? Burning them to Blu-ray seems to be a long process and even the fastest computer will be crunching ones and zeros for many hours to encode the disc.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by BLindsay

i gotta ask though whats the point?

why not just put the DVD in the player and just let the player upscale it, hardly seems worth it to bother burning it......especially with the cost of blanks

yeah really lol the video/audio has already been compressed to fit in 4.5gb dvd so putting 4.5gb of V/A would just seem like a waste to me there isn’t suddenly going to be 6 gb dedicated to the video and 5gb dedicated to the audio its going to be 4.5 or less depending on how you take it off the dvd... just upscale it.

[BLindsay]

Originally Posted by kris26

if u have mutliple home video(birthday,wedding,reception etc)
i did try playing dvd on sony bdps350 on my samsung lcd tv
and i try converted one
the quality is quite noticeable
p.s: if u have high quality video u can tell the difference
if its compressed,svc,vcd,vhs quality its not worth it
if u want to see the difference the camcorder that u use must be min quality of mini dv

yeah if it was your own home videos recorded with a nice camcorder, i thought the OP was taking commercial DVD's and trying to put them on blu-ray which is not useful

[zedd_117]

only in Canada:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2652

Sorry.

[kris26]

Originally Posted by BLindsay

yeah if it was your own home videos recorded with a nice camcorder, i thought the OP was taking commercial DVD's and trying to put them on blu-ray which is not useful

The commericla one's u can do it
i did 1.5gb uncompressed home video with 5.1 audio channel ittook 4 hours and end result is anywhere from 3.0gb to9gb depends on which format u use
mpeg is higher ouput/avc is lower output
commerical movie is anywhere from 4gb to 7 gb(i dunno if its legal or not-even thought u own the original dvd)

anywhere from 9gb to15gb its all depend on ur format u chose and number of frames in original file

[DVDave]

You're still upconverting 720p to 1080p so it's not truely native HD.

[BLindsay]

bottom line really is with a commercialy produced DVD there is no point in reburning it onto blu

if you have the original source file that was recorded from an HD camcorder then yea it might be worth it

[wallendo]

The only way this type of conversion would be useful would be if you are using some advanced upconversion process that is of significantly higher quality than your player or monitor is capable of doing, such as Super UpConversion (SUC). But even SUC leaves you with a 960p image which has to itself be rescaled to 720p or 1080p, so I'm not sure if there would be any noticeable difference in quality to most viewers.

[Ryu77]

Originally Posted by kris26

yes u can

but its very time consuming.i had quadcore q6600 pc with 4gb ram
it took 20hours to do 7.5gb disc
i tried using the same dvd disc and played in bluray and upconverted dvd player. but, iam very impressed with the quality of converted one(dvd 480p/i to bluray 1080p)

What?? 20 hours on a Q6600 to re-encode a 480p source to 1080p... That can't be true.

Even at slow motion search estimation & subpixel refinement, using a high number of reference/B-frames, and slower adaptive B-frame decisions etc., a 1080p to 1080p recode should only take about 12 - 16 hours max!!

When you are decoding a 480p source, this process should be much, much faster. Even when I convert a 1080p MPEG2 source (as opposed to an AVC source) captured from digital TV to AVC (I use x264), this speeds up the process to about 8 - 10 hours.

I still don't understand why you would want to do this with a 480p source. It makes no quality improvements over hardware upscaling. In fact some of the better stand alone Blu-ray players do a better job.

[kris26]

Originally Posted by Ryu77

What?? 20 hours on a Q6600 to re-encode a 480p source to 1080p... That can't be true.

Even at slow motion search estimation & subpixel refinement, using a high number of reference/B-frames, and slower adaptive B-frame decisions etc., a 1080p to 1080p recode should only take about 12 - 16 hours max!!

When you are decoding a 480p source, this process should be much, much faster. Even when I convert a 1080p MPEG2 source (as opposed to an AVC source) captured from digital TV to AVC (I use x264), this speeds up the process to about 8 - 10 hours.

I still don't understand why you would want to do this with a 480p source. It makes no quality improvements over hardware upscaling. In fact some of the better stand alone Blu-ray players do a better job.

I dunno why he wanna do 480p content
but home video's like mindv tapes

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by BLindsay

i gotta ask though whats the point?

why not just put the DVD in the player and just let the player upscale it, hardly seems worth it to bother burning it......especially with the cost of blanks

[kris26]

Originally Posted by Ryu77

What?? 20 hours on a Q6600 to re-encode a 480p source to 1080p... That can't be true.

Even at slow motion search estimation & subpixel refinement, using a high number of reference/B-frames, and slower adaptive B-frame decisions etc., a 1080p to 1080p recode should only take about 12 - 16 hours max!!

When you are decoding a 480p source, this process should be much, much faster. Even when I convert a 1080p MPEG2 source (as opposed to an AVC source) captured from digital TV to AVC (I use x264), this speeds up the process to about 8 - 10 hours.

I still don't understand why you would want to do this with a 480p source. It makes no quality improvements over hardware upscaling. In fact some of the better stand alone Blu-ray players do a better job.

I tried it .i thought its not worth it?