Thread: Help Burning Blu-Ray Discs

I'm a bit of a noob at burning Blu-Ray discs. I belong to several great trackers, and I am accumulating a lot of 1080p movies. Of course, most of them are in MKV format. I found a tutorial that I have been using to burn them to BD-R discs at: MKV to BD Guide

I have been able to burn many of them using tsMuxeR, HxD, and ImgBurn as indicated in the tutorial. Some of them, however, are coming out with weird pixilations and are clearly not burned correctly. The step in the tutorial about using HxD to change one of the numbers in the offset is confusing to me. I suspect that is where I'm making my mistake.

Anyway, I'm wondering if there is a better way to burn MKV files directly to Blu-Ray. Anyone else do it a better way?



Thanks for any help!

Depends on what you want, BD discs are expensive... You have two other choices IMO..
First - Buy a HD Media Player that connects to your HDTV ie... WDTV or Popcorn Hour, and keep all your movie files on a large hard drive.. No more burning discs.

The second choice is to use tsMuxeR to make AVCHDs on dual layer DVDs using this guide.
That way you can playback on bluray or PS3 player with the same high definition.

Hope this helps....

Personally, i would invest in a TB or 2TB external hard drive and like HD-Collector said, archive your movies. HDD space is cheap and you can delete or edit it all you want. Plus you don't have to worry about the discs getting scratched or whatever. Most users of HD sites use HDD to store their movies. Plus you can setup a local server in your home and link to your movies when you want to watch them instead of having to always pop in the disc.

Blank Blu-ray discs are still expensive and for the current times, HDD storing is the cheapest way to go. In 5 years it will be different.

Thank you both. I have several TB external storage, and I play most of the movies straight from the hard drive. But I would like to burn more of them so that they can be played elsewhere in the house on other TV's. I'm using TSMuxer and IMGBurn, but not all MKV files convert cleanly to 1080p or 720p. I keep making coasters. Thanks for the tips.

monarchs90, I was surfing around videohelp forums and how to guide and found this hope it helps or points you in the right direction... If you want to play on other tv's that means you have more than one blu-ray player, why not go with the AVCHD method, DVD DL discs are so much cheaper and have the pretty much the same quality... Here are some additional How to guides on VideoHelp.

Thanks for the help! I appreciate all of the ideas. I've been looking at the same guides. I understand how to get it to AVCHD, but I would like to keep it in Blu-Ray format if at all possible. I've been able to do it for many of the downloads, but for some reason there are some that are not ripped the same way.