Re: [gentoo-user] Creating Blue-ray video discs

[Dale]

Laurence Perkins wrote:
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> Laurence Perkins 
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> On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 07:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
>> Andrew Udvare wrote:
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>>> On Fri, May 29, 2020, 05:02 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com
>>> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> A few weeks ago, I ran up on a deal on a Blu-ray burner.  It's a LG and
>>>> smartctrl -i shows this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>>>> Vendor:               HL-DT-ST
>>>> Product:              BD-RE  WH16NS40
>>>> Revision:             1.04
>>>> Compliance:           SPC-3
>>>> >> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page
>>>> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more
>>>> '-T permissive' options.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I have some HD videos I want to burn to a Blu-ray disc in HD. 
>>>> I've used Devede and Devedeng to create DVDs for a while.  I prefer the
>>>> old Devede but the new ng version works well.  It doesn't however seem
>>>> to create Blu-ray discs.  I googled and found how to play some of them
>>>> at least that are commercially made.  I can't find however what
>>>> software
>>>> is used to create my own. 
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what software to use to create HD video Blu-ray
>>>> discs? 
>>>>
>>>
>>> You're referring to Blu-ray authoring like creating menus and making
>>> a video disc that works in a set-top player. There isn't any
>>> software for Linux I know of that does this, especially the menu
>>> part. The menu part can be in a simple format or it can be more
>>> advanced with BD-J.
>>>
>>> Studios use Scenarist
>>> BD https://www.scenarist.com/scenarist-bd-professional-blu-ray-disc-authoring/
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.scenarist.com_scenarist-2Dbd-2Dprofessional-2Dblu-2Dray-2Ddisc-2Dauthoring_&d=DwMDaQ&c=sJXHf1mumFHnbuqawQcOuA&r=MLC99WkEiyNGhxWZ52v4PVQ0MpIXOzl3Sdnj9liHsoY&m=7KzhgdyvQguAgsRtkWBlr7r0zIc1OY7g8XtBQeqhQgg&s=_FHRC6Ym3RznZj5OX4x3vfbM7CFO-_7MEgvpvyinzik&e=>
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>>> There's MultiAVCHD for free. Maybe it works with Wine?
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>> I tried wine once, it was a disaster.  I can't recall what little
>> program I was trying to run but it never did. It seems that what I
>> want to do isn't doable on Linux and requires software that has to be
>> purchased at that.  That's disappointing that Linux can't do this. 
>> Looks like I'll have to use my new Blu-ray burner for data backups. 
>> Bummer.  I really wanted to make that gardening video HD.  No wonder
>> people use their game boxes and buy media centers that have hard
>> drives in them and then stream things from the internet.  Basically,
>> other than storing data files, Blu-ray isn't worth much except for
>> commercially made media. 
>>
>> Well, even if I knew this before, I'm still glad to have the thing. 
>> It certainly holds more files than a DVD. 
>>
>> If anyone knows of a tool to do this, I'm all ears. 
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
>>
>> P. S.  Time to go to the doctor and get my weekly shots. 
>
> note that blu-ray r and re disks are only bit stable for about 5
> years. i recommend dvdisaster for upping the amount of ecc data to
> reduce your lossage.
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> doing some quick reading, it looks like you just need to get the right
> filesystem, filenames, and video codecs on the disk. it's different
> from dvd, but should be documented somewhere. i don't have time to go
> hunting for it right now, but if nothing else some examination of a
> blu-ray that plays correctly should show you what goes where.
>
> lmp
>
> p.s. apologies; shift key isn't working.


Well, I don't have a Blu-ray disc to look at but I'll google around and
see what I can find.  There has to be Linux user out there somewhere
that has documented doing this.  I don't know how many millions of us
there is but surely one has burned a disc that plays in a Blu-ray player. 

5 years.  I rotate at least once a year, sometimes twice.  Shouldn't be
a problem.  Plus, it's just a additional backup measure. 

Oh, for those who recall the hard drive thread and the PMR and SMR
discussion.  I found out my 6TB drive that is part of /home is a PMR
drive.  That's why I haven't noticed any issues when I thought it was a
SMR drive.  So, I only need to replace the 3TB drive with a larger 6 or
8TB drive.  Then I'll have either 12TBs or 14TBs of drive space for
/home.  I plan to use the removed 3TB and another drive that I think is
3TB as well as backup measures, kept outside the home of course.  Maybe
be building a NAS thingy at some point.  I want TV speakers first. 

Dale

:-)  :-)