DVD to Bluray

khartlaub wrote on 12/5/2014, 8:19 PM

How do you burn a 4gb .vob or any other .mpeg file onto Bluray without it increasing the file size? I am not sure if I am selecting the right encoding format but it seems to be increasing the normal size of 4gb to nearly 14gb. I do not want them to be in HD, just regular format that I ripped off the bluray (old home movies). Trying to put multiple ripped DVD home movies I had once converted from VHS on one 25gb blu ray disk.

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johnebaker wrote on 12/6/2014, 9:37 AM

You cannot burn DVD format to BD disc - you will get an error message and the program waits for the correct type of disc to be inserted into the player.

Depending on how long the individual movies are you can burn multile movies to DVD disc providing the total length / file size does not exceed 2 hrs / ~4.5GB (Single Layer disc) or 4 hours / ~9GB (Dual Layer disc - also requires your DVD drive to support DL discs).

See this tutorial to see how this is done.

HTH

John

emmrecs wrote on 12/7/2014, 9:14 AM

I think what you are trying to do is put multiple DVDs onto one BD disc? Is that correct? And in order to do that, you are attempting to re-encode the original DVD .vob files in order to make them compatible with the BD format?

If what I have written above is correct then I fear, as johneb has indicated, that you are on a hiding to nothing! The reasons for this are:

By re-encoding the vob files to be BD compatible, the file size will inevitably increase, considerably, as you have already found! (As John writes, a single-layer BD disk typically has a capacity of 25Gb, compared to a single-layer DVD of 4.9Gb. But, if the DVD is "full" with one movie, in DVD format, the BD disc, when the same movie is exported in BD format, will almost certainly also be "full".) Yes, a BD player can plays DVDs, but that is not what you seem to be wanting to do.
You could create a "Data BD" which would contain as many DVDs as the capacity of the BD would allow, simply by copying all the source files directly to the BD disc but I'm pretty sure that no BD player (as distinct from a computer BD drive) would be able to play the disc since it would lack the index files/menu the player would expect.

Thinking entirely theoretically, I wonder whether you could burn a series of DVD disc images to one BD? My suspicion is that this would not work because the disk would lack any overall menu, which a BD player would expect, in order to be able to locate each separate DVD's files in order to play them.

Jeff