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daggad · 10-06-2008, 03:50 PM

Bringing AVCHD to compliance with Blu-ray
If you have a newer Blu-ray player, then to make a playable backup of your video all you need to do is burn BDMV and AVCHDTN directories with all their content onto a DVD disk and pop the disk into your Blu-ray player. This approach may not work with some players like my Samsung BD-P1200, which accept disks that are created according to Blu-ray spec only.

Here is what I do to make a playable backup of my 4GB memory cards:

Copy BDMV directory off the camcorder onto a computer
Rename INDEX.BDM to index.bdmv
Rename MOVIEOBJ.BDM to MovieObject.bdmv
Change extensions of MPL files to mpls
Change extensions of CPI files to clpi
Change extensions of MTS files to m2ts

I was wary of renaming MTS clips into m2ts. I thought that playlist and info files referred to clip files, so if I rename clip files these links would have been broken. Nope. Clip information files and playlist files in fact refer to non-existing m2ts clips, not to MTS. You can verify this yourself if you have a binary viewer.

To fully bring AVCHD directory into compliance with Blu-ray, continue with the following:

Create BDJO, JAR and AUXDATA directories in the BDMV directory; keep them empty
Create BACKUP directory in the BDMV directory if it does not exist
Copy index.bdmv, MovieObject.bdmv files and PLAYLIST, CLIPINF, BDJO directories into BACKUP directory
Create CERTIFICATE directory in the same directory where you put BDMV directory
Create BACKUP directory in the CERTIFICATE directory; keep these directories empty

Any tool to burn a disk will do, it must be able to burn a DVD using UDF 2.50 file system. Nero Burning ROM can do this starting from version 7. You can also use free tools like ImgBurn.

10-06-2008, 03:50 PM	#9
daggad What is HD? Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 4	Bringing AVCHD to compliance with Blu-ray If you have a newer Blu-ray player, then to make a playable backup of your video all you need to do is burn BDMV and AVCHDTN directories with all their content onto a DVD disk and pop the disk into your Blu-ray player. This approach may not work with some players like my Samsung BD-P1200, which accept disks that are created according to Blu-ray spec only. Here is what I do to make a playable backup of my 4GB memory cards: Copy BDMV directory off the camcorder onto a computer Rename INDEX.BDM to index.bdmv Rename MOVIEOBJ.BDM to MovieObject.bdmv Change extensions of MPL files to mpls Change extensions of CPI files to clpi Change extensions of MTS files to m2ts I was wary of renaming MTS clips into m2ts. I thought that playlist and info files referred to clip files, so if I rename clip files these links would have been broken. Nope. Clip information files and playlist files in fact refer to non-existing m2ts clips, not to MTS. You can verify this yourself if you have a binary viewer. To fully bring AVCHD directory into compliance with Blu-ray, continue with the following: Create BDJO, JAR and AUXDATA directories in the BDMV directory; keep them empty Create BACKUP directory in the BDMV directory if it does not exist Copy index.bdmv, MovieObject.bdmv files and PLAYLIST, CLIPINF, BDJO directories into BACKUP directory Create CERTIFICATE directory in the same directory where you put BDMV directory Create BACKUP directory in the CERTIFICATE directory; keep these directories empty Any tool to burn a disk will do, it must be able to burn a DVD using UDF 2.50 file system. Nero Burning ROM can do this starting from version 7. You can also use free tools like ImgBurn.