AVCHD on DVD/BD9
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rschildt, I had to actually do a decent amount of experimenting with the AVCHD format in the past, trying to get home High Def DVDs to play in my bluray player, a Magnavox. Although there is an AVCHD standard, I am not sure that the format is truly standardized regarding the necessary named folders and file extensions necessary to make a playable disc in any particular brand, so you may have to do a little mix and match experimenting to get the disc to play, but this is how I have been able to make AVCHD playable discs.
First, just so you don't waste too many of your DL discs, you may want to shrink a movie down to BD5 size for test discs. DVD-RW discs worked on my bluray player, so I didn't have to waste too many.
Some of the prior posts included important info. Johan's last post was particularly interesting to me, because the folders which he says he deletes to make playable discs on an LG are necessary for my Magnavox to play a disc.
First, although I am not certain it is necessary, I burn a CERTIFICATE folder on my discs at the root level with the BDMV folder. I am fairly sure it can just be empty, but on the one DL AVCHD I burned, I had a copy of the BACKUP folder in the CERTIFICATE folder.
I needed to have empty BDJO and JAR folders in the BDMV folder for the disc to play, although Johan discusses needing to delete them for a disc to play on his LG, so if his folder structure doesn't work you may want to experiment by adding them. Also, I did not delete the META and AUXDATA folders which he says he deleted. I also needed to change the filetypes of files in the CLIPINF folder to .cpi from .clpi and in the PLAYLIST to .mpl. Again, this is just additional info for experimenting if Johan's info doesn't produce a playable disc.
Also, although I can not remember if they were all necessary my BACKUP folder included copies of the CLIPINF, PLAYLIST, BDJO and JAR folders, as well as the index.bdmv and MovieObject.bdmv files.
Finally, regarding DL discs, I got a cakebox of memorex discs in addition to some others, and my laptop DVD burner would not burn to them, but other burners I had would, so the quality of the discs could be a factor in particular DVD burners.
By the way, although I will not get into it here, BD rips to hard drive would only play in PowerDVD 7 for me if I renamed some of the files and changed the file structure.
Hope this helps
