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Bd-25 discs and suggested max movie length.

juice4z0

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Short version i have the marvel origin's trilogy about finished. I know how to and have made BD's for the individual movies. But my question is could a BD handle 6-7 hours of video plus a menu and have decent quality.

They are in 1080p as of now. I imagine going to 720 saves space. On a smallville bd disc there are 6 episodes

That's about 4.5 hours at balls to the wall 1080p, menus and extra's.

So you HD people have any advice?
 

Aztek463

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Are the Smallville discs BD25s? Usually commercial releases are done on 50s. Anyways, for the sake of discussion, let's crunch some numbers, shall we?

I encoded Silent Hill: Homecoming's video at 18 mbps, with a running time of 1 hour, 21 minutes and 38 seconds. That works out to 4898 seconds, and a filesize of 7.35 GB in m2ts format. So! Let's call that 1.5 hours at 7.5 gigs for simplicity. 1.5 divides into 7 (4.6666666666666666...) times, which I will round to 4.7. Multiply that times 7.5 which gives you approximately 35.25 gb, not counting audio and menu. So, the short and long answers are no, not unless you encode at a lower rate, between 10-15 perhaps. Still nice looking, but not as high definition as the format is capable of.

My suggestions? Encode each one on its own disc and release it as a "set." That way you can get maximum quality for each one. :D

I suck at math, so my numbers might be a bit off, but treat the numbers as a ballpark.
 

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What he said. They don't necessarily have to fill the BD, but 6 hours of HD on s BD25 would not look good.
 
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