Possible, alternative "container" for our releases

[jerryshadoe]

Agreed

[spoRv]

Only a week to think to the next crazy thing... I must hurry, though!

Back on topic: the BD playlist files, .mpls, are used for, yep, playlists, sorta m3u files. I wonder if they could be used for .mkv as well; but if it only works with .m2ts, it's still a path that could be followed...

No menus, OK, but at least (for the ones who cares to play it, and not the main movie directly) it's possible to add a video logo, a disclaimer, a trailer, at the beginning and/or at the end, or release a bonus disc with different quality sources (SD, HD, one or more tracks etc.)

Can't remember if EasyBD Lite allows to author a BD with playlists, nor if TSmuxeR can do the same; if so, how.

[Evit]

Speaking of Easy BD Lite... What the hell happened to it? I get an error page when I try download it. I contacted the webmaster via email, waiting for an answer.

[zoidberg]

It's still available from other download sites, just not necessarily the most recent build.

[Evit]

I generally don't trust other websites though. You never know if they add malaware

[jerryshadoe]

I'm sure there is a way to verify authenticity via checksums

[spoRv]

Lateral thinking... using a DVD menu to play HD contents... of course not standard, but still possible? (menu and contents on HD, and played by VLC or MPC)

[Valeyard]

That's basically what MKVs support, at least in theory. You can do what you want by creating a program to make the menu to mux into MKV. Or you can use the already available MP4menu program there's even a GUI for it. There's no guarantee of player compatibility with the menus though, and you lose the MKV features. You can also do it with PGMX which is a modification of the MKV standard, but requires payware to make the menus - and playback is only supported if people use the propriety player (although the files can be played as normal .mkv files if you rename the extension).

[spoRv]

I explored various options during the night...

MP4menu: would give a try
PGMX: nice idea, sadly it needs a special player available only for Windows, but, as you wrote, it should always be possible to read the mkv file with other players, with just one audio track
MKV menu: needs LAV or media splitter to work, so quite limited for the moment

I thought also that EVO could contain menu as well, but where to find an authoring program?

Experimented with html5 players (better pure, without flash fallback); can't figure out how to select different audio tracks...

VLC called by javascript: should still find the way to work with commands, and it's limited, too.

Blu-ray is the best option, but even the best software output BDMV folder, which is still not compatible with many hardware players, and have a lot of problems to let the menu work well with software player.

Another solution I thought about is an hardware BD recorder; this, in theory, should output a more compatible disc.

[FrankT]

Would BD players even support HTML5?