HD300 and HD-DVD

[DanITman]

Any reason that the HD300 can't play HD-DVD. Most HD-DVD's use the same codecs as Blu-Ray just in a different container. I have a bunch of HD-DVDs that I can't play on this thing.

[madpoet]

Dan, how would you expect to be playing them? I've ripped all mine to MKV and they work fine that way. Do you have them as ISOs? As much as I loved HD DVD, it's a dead format. I'd rather they spend the cycles on stuff that matters now and leave it up to us poor slobs who still own the technology to convert appropriately.

[stanger89]

Sage doesn't understand the HD DVD format. I converted mine all to BD format with a combination of eac3to and tsmuxer. ClownBD may be able to do it for you now though.

[etk29321]

One note on HD-DVDs is that their subtitle format differs from BD. You do need to get a program to convert the .sup files into BD format if you want to mux them into your mkv.
I never tried to see if sage would play E-AC3. I just include AC3 as the default track and add in a TrueHD track if avail.

[medwynd]

I'm actually in the process of converting my HD DVD collection and instead of manually converting my subtitles I download them from http://subscene.com/. It will save you a ton of time.

[amt]

So, what's the easiest way to convert from HD DVD to Blu-ray? I currently use MakeMKV to convert to MKV. Is there anything that can take the MKV and simply make it Blu-ray compatible (using Linux or Mac only). Thanks!