x264 Now Supports Blu-ray Encoding

[admin]

According to a blog post by the developers of x264, a free H.264 encoder, x264 is now capable of producing fully Blu-ray compliant encodings, the first free encoder to be able to do this.

This also opens up the ability to create Blu-ray movies on DVDs, using free tools like BD Rebuilder, and in fact, on the x264 developer blog post, there is even a download to a free x264 produced Blu-ray DVD image, that you can burn onto DVD to Blu-ray.

The Criterion Collection sponsored the final compliance test to ensure x264 had full Blu-ray compliance.

With this latest development, expect more free and open source tools that will allow you to create your own Blu-ray movies in the future.

Links:

x264 Blog Post - http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=328
x264 - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/x264.html
BD Rebuilder - http://www.digital-digest.com/softwa...Rebuilder.html

[UncasMS]

even the previous versions of x264 worked like a charm inside BD REBUILDER for movie only or full movie backups on BD-9 or BD-R that i have tested over the last couple of month

maybe we should add a BD Rebuilder guide here, what do you think?

[admin]

A BD Rebuilder guide would be great!