John,

Thank you so much for taking the time to help answer my question. The standalone Sony Blue ray player is a BDP-BX2 it has the latest firmware installed.  I picked H.264 the first time, under disk format.  Since I live in the USA and want the disc to be NTSC  I changed  the default encoder setting,  which was for PAL, to Blu ray 1920X 1080i NTSC.

The disk burned successfully, and I am able to play it on my blu ray computer cd-rom with no problem.  But when I try to play it on the Sony Blu ray, the player attempts to play, but stalls on a blank screen with no error message, and just the blue light burning above the center, I guess indicating that a blu ray disk is in the machine.

I understand that H.264 is a newer high def. format as oppsed to the older Mpeg2 am I correct?  Will the quality of the end product suffer using this setting as opposed to H.264.

When I select Mpeg2 as you suggested and look at the encoder setting it says user defined.  So I do not know what the video quality will be ( screen format 1080 X 720, etc..  There are different setting under encoder setting,  Do I need to set those also, or leave it user defined?

According to the Blu Ray manual the Sony machine should play H.264 but it does not .

I will wait till I hear back from you before attempting your suggestion.  And maybe you can tell me if I leave the Preset as user defined when I use the Mpeg2 setting you suggest.

Thank you agin for trying to help me.  I have burned many standard DVD's but this is my first exploration into burning a Blu ray disk.  Oh one last thing,  the blank discs I am using are Verbatim BD-R LTH type 6X 25 GB.

Vincent

Hi Vincent

Using the MPEG-2 option should not give any distinguishable difference in quality.  The reason you get the User Defined option is possibly because you have used this option before and changed a setting and  MEP has remembered this - select the HD standard you need from the dropdown.

I suspect the problem may be with the discs as the player behaviour suggest it cannot recognise them.

Have you tried a standard BD-R or BD-RE disc instead of the Verbatim LTH?

Also you can do a test by burning BD to a standard DVD-R or DVD-RW disc  providing the video is no longer than 20 - 30 mins.

For test burns I use rewriteable discs - saves money  )

John

John,

Thanks again for your knowledge on the subject.  I will try your suggestions and get back with you on it.  I am not sure why I purchased the LTH type, I bought them on Amazon, and I guess my lack of knowledge did not know what type to look for.

Vincent

John,

If you checked back here, here is an update of the burning a blue ray disk in MEP17 plus.  I ordered and received a RE blue ray doublelayer disk today.  Ouch, $17.00 for one  Verbatium.  But I am disk burning a test copy with V.264 format, and will test in player  later this evening.  It will be interesting to find out if the problem was with the newer LTH type BR discs.  I understand that is less expensive for the manufacturer to make these LTH and not every blue ray player manufacturer, has issued supporting firmware for the player to recognize and play them.  I will let you know how the BD-RE works.  Again thanks for your support and help.

Vincent

John,

Tryed to play the BD-RE DS disk I purchased and burned in MEP17 plus.  I get the same results as the other two BD-R type LTH.  The player accepts the disk, loads the disk, but displays a black screen and pressing the play button has no effect.  I looked at some other forums and it seems there are numerous problems with Sony Blu Ray players playing burned BD disks.  Something about firmware updates, but I have the most current updates for my machine.  Can I ask what type of blue ray player do you have? And what brand of BE media do you use?  I will keep looking for an answer, which will probably be related to the player rather than the burning software.

Vincent

Hi Vincent

The problem, is as you say, beginning to point to your BD player/ disc combination. 

My BD player is a Sony BDP-S570 and plays every disc I have used - Ritek, Ridisc, Maxell (DVD), Verbatim (DVD) and TDK (DVD) .

For both BD and DVD discs I now use Ritek or Ridisc full face printable BD-R and DVD-R - I find they play in almost any player and have very few failures.

For testing I use Verbatim DVD+RW for both DVD and BD movies - most of my movies in HD are 20 - 35 mins long and I can get them to fit on a 4.7Gb DVD disc - saves money also .

To check your player further - create a short HD movie, ie less than 30 mins long, use the same menu as before and burn as a BD but use a DVD disc instead of a BD disc.

John