I have anydvd HD and have ripped the movie to my hard drive. All i have are 25GB BD-R's. Is there a way to compress the movie to fit the 25gb disc and still retain the 1080p.
I have yet to receive my bluray burner but in my efforts to play full quality bluray movies on my PS3 on its hard drive as well as an external one, I was using tsmuxer to reduce the size as well as make the structure of the video bluray. If your fine with losing menus and special features this could work for you, depending on the length of the movie. Select the main m2ts file in tsmuxer,(if your interested in keeping HD audio and its TrueHD, you may need to convert the audio, tsmuxer definitely works with DTS HD though). In here you can remove all the extra audio streams you don't need, as well as sometimes i have even seen them have 2-3 video streams. I personally just keep the HD audio and the 1080p video. Then select bluray structure for the output and let it do its magic. You should then be able to burn the two folders it creates as a UDF 2.5 i think. This is how I have made AVCHD's in the past on dvd discs, I have not tried it yet but i'm pretty positive it should work the same for blurays. I have found i have been able to reduce some movies that were up to 38gb down to as small as 19gb doing this.
I will try it in the morning and let you know. Thanks for the info. If anyone else knows for sure please advise. I am using ImgBurn to write to BD-R. Thanks again.
I could not wait for Christmas. I got a LG Black 6X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 6X Blu-ray DVD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA Internal Blu-ray Burner 6X Blu-ray Disc Burner & HD DVD-ROM Drive Model GGW-H20LK - OEM from new egg for $229. It came with a BD-RW which allowed me to do some trial and error until I got it right. I found a 20 pack of 25GB BD-R on ebay for about $6 a piece. I can't wait for Batman next week. Thanks again.
