Burned my first Blu-ray HDTV movie... what software plays it?

[Electrox3d]

So, I used the prerelease ulead with blu-ray support to burn my hdtv captured content to a blu-ray disc.

thing is - ulead doesn't have a blu-ray player... where can i get software to play this disc??

[phloyd]

Hard to say...

Can you describe the software and the process for authoring?

If you are the only one here with that stuff, chances are you know more than we do about how things are done...

[Electrox3d]

Ulead MovieFactory 5 is generally the same as any other movie factory, but with the prerelease blu-ray support you can fill a 25GB movie disc. I think they pulled the module from the final release so they can up it to 50GB burning.

I had captured HD mpg's with FusionHDTV usb2.0 and Ulead took them no sweat. It didn't even have to transcode them; they were already in HD playback format.

The menu system was interesting. They only had one layout, a HD TV slightly to the right of the menu, showing a preview of what title you have selected. Very cool because you can have more titles per page because there is just text, when you hover over the text the TV shows a preview of that HD program.

That's pretty much the only thing different than burning a regular DVD.

The rendering of the menus during output took FOREVER!! I'm sure this was not optimized. For, 5 video clips, two menu pages, and only a 5 second preview of each menu item plus transitions (the menus have beautiful transitions into the movie, or from page to page) the rendering of this took 4 hours. 4HOURS!!!!

Anyway, the disc when it's done is full of files and folders. It's got to have at least 10 folders in it and hundreds of files. I'm sure there would have been more had I actually had enough HD content to fill the disc.

I'm still looking for playback software.

I've noticed everyone lies constantly about this. Nero has had press releases saying playback software is said to be in "Nero 6.6 with Showtime2" <-BS!! I have had Nero 6.6, Nero 7, Nero 7.0.8.2 and the latest Showtime2 and no where does the software/website/support ever say blu-ray playback and it doesn't work either.

I'm looking for ANYTHING now to play this thing.

[phloyd]

Sounds very interesting.

I am encouraged that the standard Transport Stream files were taken directly.

Can't help any with playback ideas... Samsung player will probably be the first out there. I am sure that if I software solution appears it will be all over the forum.

Thanks for sharing

Cheers!

[takezo]

Originally Posted by Electrox3d

So, I used the prerelease ulead with blu-ray support to burn my hdtv captured content to a blu-ray disc.

thing is - ulead doesn't have a blu-ray player... where can i get software to play this disc??

Your Blu-Ray Drive did not come with a playback software?

If not, I guess they feel at this moment, providing playback will enable hackors to reverse engineer it and create ripping tools. (I don't agree with the definition of a Hackor being somone who is good with computers, that's a lamer's definition. True hackors manipulate sofware for good or evil, crackors can be hackors, but they also can be total noobs with a serial key.)

Eventualy they will release software to playback Blu-Ray on PC, and striped down OEM versions of these software will eventually be bundled with BD drives.