First free Blu-ray encoder released
by: Bradley Wint on April 27th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
The VideoLan x264 team has finally developed a preliminary encoder which allows regular users like ourselves to encode Blu-ray format movies onto DVD9 or even DVD5 discs with quality, reasonably comparable to Blu-ray. They have been able to achieve this through a new high compression system developed for the library. Luckily, Blu-ray writable media is still so rare that any data encoded in Blu-Ray format will be recognized by almost all Blu-ray players. Playstation 3 units will not recognize it though and will treat the media as a normal DVD.
It should be noted that persons planning to encode in Blu-ray format need to use the UDF 2.5 filesystem setting in order for players to correctly recognize it. As a result, some older model DVD players may not recognize the disc at all.
The team is still working on a complete kit with additions includes the ability to combine the video and audio streams to create a Blu-ray file structure with the menus and chapters. They however mentioned that AC3 (Dolby Digital) format audio will be compatible with the encoder and that they have achieved the hardest part of the project.
In addition to Blu-ray support, x264 now has these features:
- Native variable-framerate ratecontrol, which makes sure your encodes get a correct target bitrate and proper limiting of maximum bitrate even if the duration of every frame is different and the “framerate” is completely unknown.
- Supports pulldown (telecine) in much the same fashion as it is handled in MPEG-2. The calling application can pass in flags representing how to display a frame, allowing easy transcoding from MPEG-2 sources with pulldown, such as broadcast television.
- Exports HRD timing information, which is critical for compliant transport stream muxing
You can download the encoder via Torrent here.
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HYDRA – April 28th, 2010 – 11:06 PM
FIRST !