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Tutorials a Safe Harbor blog MPEG-2 or H.264 for Blu-ray disc? 3 Posted by Jeff Pulera February 25, 2009 If you enjoy this post, please share it! When encoding video for Blu-ray disc, you can use MPEG-2 or H.264 encoding. MPEG-2 is used for DVD, but a much higher data rate is used for HD content on Blu-ray, so the image can be quite good. The benefit of H.264 is that at the lower data rates used to fit long programs on a disc, H.264 is more efficient than MPEG-2 and will produce a better quality. At higher data rates though, this advantage is less apparent. Considering that H.264 takes about 5x as long to encode as MPEG-2, you must decide whether the content is worth the extra hours of encoding time. If your workflow is such that you can do the encoding overnight, then H.264 becomes a more obvious choice, but when the production demands speed, MPEG-2 is quite suitable for most jobs. Either format is supported by all Blu-ray players per the official Blu-ray specification. 3 responses to "MPEG-2 or H.264 for Blu-ray disc?" Peter Manojlovic (pmano71@...) March 3, 2009 at 10:49pm Hey Jeff.... I ran across a well respected website that claims 1440x1080x59.94i, 50i (16:9) is for AVC / VC-1 only.. Would that mean that HDV material coldn't be compressed to MPEG2 for BluRay playback? Thanx... Love your site. Jeff Pulera (jeffp@...) March 24, 2009 at 11:19am Hi Peter, As both MPEG-2 and H.264 (AVC) are fully supported for Blu-ray authoring, I don't see why MPEG-2 would work for some HDV formats and not others. If you have a link for the website you referenced, I'd be interested in reading the article. Thanks Jeff Pulera Safe Harbor Peter Manojlovic (pmano71@...) March 25, 2009 at 5:28pm Yes Jeff... The website is a long standing one called VCDHelp. Leave a comment You can use select BBCode tags to format your thoughts including: [b], [i], [s], [u], [url], [quote] and [code].

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