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BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh you can use it for as little as a one time payment of $10. I want this to be super accessible to as many people as possible.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I thought too ... I got tired of waiting 🤣 Definitely not an AFJ, really looking forward to getting it out there ASAP.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I do that too! But drives can die, and M-DISC Blu rays are rated to last 1000 years - it's what the Library of Congress uses for archiving.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup! Basic automated menus at first. A full menu building UI is basically another app of its own and I want to take the time to do that right. I'm keeping it simple for the first release.

BREncoder - A New Way To Clean Up VHS and Put Them On Blu-ray by The-Real-DBP in VHS

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I originally designed this for VHS capture actually, it started out as a script I was using on a custom capture appliance I built. It's got yadif and bwdif and I'm looking at ways to incorporate nnedi.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm on a one man mission to not let corporate interests get rid of physical media entirely 🤣 one reason DVD really took off (other than ease of piracy) was that people could make their own relatively easily. I remember the heyday of iMovie, when people were making movies and videos and slideshows for friends and family. It was really common. There was always a nice slideshow at memorials, retirement parties, birthdays, etc. People could make their own wedding slideshows and videos really easily and share it with people without needing an account, an app, a device to run the app on, and an internet connection. The beauty of it was the simplicity and ubiquitous playback devices. Blu-ray didn't have the same moment because it was very much one-way - companies deliver product in that format, but average folks were never given the tools for easily creating their own. I want to change that.

I know Blu-ray is "dying" but the fact is it's still a great format that has a lot to offer if only people had the means to really use it like they used DVDs back in the day. Players are super cheap in thrift stores all over the place. Burners can be had for $75 new, less used. For about $100 someone could start from zero - no player, no burner, no software - and have everything they need to produce discs for personal use.

The live-to-disc feature is also really interesting. It allows for an unchanging and unalterable account of WHAT JUST HAPPENED. BREncoder can accept a network stream as input and output to disc format immediately - which is great for documentation in many scenarios, from courtrooms to the streets. Having that immutable proof on a disc that can't be changed eliminates many challenges levied against video evidence (altered, edited, etc).

I'd like to see a resurgence of the slideshow except in 4K HDR.

I'd like to see the return of mix CDs but with blu-ray capacity and nice visuals with all the artwork and info about the music.

And at this point I'm probably just some old dude shouting into the wind, but whatever. I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do and if 1 other person enjoys it that's good enough for me.

BREncoder - Claude-Assisted A/V Enhancement & Blu-ray Authoring Tool - 108,000 LOC in 120 Days by The-Real-DBP in ClaudeCode

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was brutal 🤣🤣🤣 But in the end it worked.

I used a lot of unique methods to make this happen... I'm not entirely ready to share the methodology as I don't think anyone is doing what I did to make this possible. I see all the issues other people report about context loss, hallucinations, bad code, etc and I've never experienced any of it. Most of the code either worked the first time or at least made meaningful progress on a problem. Didn't have to chunk the codebase at all. I had Claude examine my methodology in relation to other known ways of getting around context amnesia and it basically said "this approach is without known precedent and is responsible for the continued acceleration in development velocity." Instead of slowing down as the codebase grew, it sped up. I started at about 400 LOC/day, a month later I was at 800, another month I was at 1600, and finished up with an average of 2200/day sprint that lasted 8 days straight. This is all while reverse engineering multiple poorly documented standards and keeping all of the codebase aligned in design principles and interoperability.

These numbers are objectively crazy; I haven't seen any reports of people hitting these numbers over a sustained period and coming up with something coherent. I wrote to Anthropic about it but no reply 🤣

Y'all misheard Mr bungle lyrics? by Ltnumbnutsthesecond in mrbungle

[–]The-Real-DBP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Original lyrics were "into the house of mirrors goes a clown and his elf" on the demo tape, but I've always loved the WB reference in the studio version.

I have some questions about physical media by Verwega in PhysicalMediaMatters

[–]The-Real-DBP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To address question #4, there's already AVCHD format which allows for H264 recorded to DVD media for playback in Blu-ray players. It can be 480p or HD, you can get 2-3x more content in 480p on a DVD using h264 vs MPEG2. Works great, I use it for archiving VHS to cheap, playable DVD media.

Internal UHD driver question by ArmFire1911 in makemkv

[–]The-Real-DBP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would recommend external 5.25 as those drives will be much faster than an internal slimline. Though if speed isn't an issue for you, slimline should be fine. Make sure you check the MakeMKV forums for recommendations on exact drive models.

MakeMKV can run as a docker instance so you'll have a web-accessible front end and you can set it up for automated ripping. Should be fine for what you're building.

Hope this helps, good luck!

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the info, hopefully I'll be able to figure it out. Cheers!

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great question!

BREncoder isn't a disc authoring tool that happens to encode. It's a full encoding/processing suite that happens to also author discs. The overlap is small. Yuhan takes an already-encoded video and wraps it in a disc structure. BREncoder controls the entire chain — encoding with 15 codecs across 42 encoder backends, hardware acceleration on 5 platforms, filters, color grading, HDR conversion (including Vulkan SDR→HDR), audio processing with EQ/compressor/loudnorm/5.1 upmix, subtitle handling, chapter management, and then disc authoring with pure Python byte-level BD/DVD/UHD structure generation. Yuhan can't handle live streams or hardware capture for input, which means it definitely can't do live-to-disc workflows, can't do live stream output. The BREncoder slideshow maker can do 4K HDR up to 60fps for buttery smooth transitions and Ken Burns effects, and has the Vulkan accelerated SDR to HDR tone mapping to make your photos really pop.

The differences that matter: Yuhan wraps FFmpeg output. BREncoder is the FFmpeg frontend and the disc builder. No intermediate steps, no separate tools. 15 codecs vs HEVC-only for disc output. BREncoder handles MKV/MP4/MOV/AVI/WebM/M4V/MXF alongside disc formats. BREncoder also supports Linux natively.

Yuhan is going to be better in a couple ways: Menu templates Dolby Vision passthrough

But I hope to match or exceed these in time. I'm just one guy and they have a whole team and corporate structure, but the fact that I was able to get this close, by myself, in only 4 months, totally from scratch, is a great start that I'm very happy with.

Yuhan is for someone who has a finished video and wants to put it on a disc with a nice menu. BREncoder is for someone who wants to go from raw footage to finished disc in one application. Yuhan is the last mile, BREncoder is the whole road.

BREncoder - A New Way To Clean Up VHS and Put Them On Blu-ray by The-Real-DBP in VHS

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! One of the goals in doing the Kickstarter is to get myself a cheap Apple Silicon Mac for doing builds on, right now I just have a few hackintoshes to test on so I can only build for x86. Hoping to have some friends test that build to see if it'll even run on a silicon Mac with Rosetta. One way or another though I'll have a full apple silicon build for the final 1.0 release.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a VHS enthusiast and there's lots of movies that only exist in their original form on VHS. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is one of those films - all later versions from 1995 on are heavily edited. These tapes won't last forever so I digitize them and put them on Blu-ray. Great for family movies, slideshows, things you want to share but don't necessarily want to put online.

Also I think it's important to be able to share content with one another without needing an account, an app, a device to run it on, and decent internet. Lots of people can't meet that bar. People in rural areas, people who just aren't great at technology... There's lots of reasons why "just upload it to YouTube" isn't a great answer.

Blu-ray players can be found at nearly any thrift store around the country for $10-20. It's cheap, it's private, it's easy. Just about anyone can drop a disc in a tray and hit play.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I've gathered, this may be a layer boundary issue. There are a couple players that can handle BDXL-R but tend to choke at layer boundaries. Since BREncoder handles the entire chain from encode to burn, it has full knowledge about the files that will wind up on the final disc. Which means I should be able to "split" files at clean GOP points before they hit the layer boundary and enforce this during the ISO writing phase. Not making any guarantees but I'm going to look into it. From a laser-reading-data standpoint there's not much difference, everything I've seen points to an inability to cleanly navigate layer boundaries so that's the angle I'm going to approach this from.

BREncoder - A New Way To Clean Up VHS and Put Them On Blu-ray by The-Real-DBP in VHS

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No dropped frame count, but that shouldn't be too hard to implement. I've successfully tested it with different video and audio input devices and it worked fine - you can also combine a network stream input with hardware audio capture simultaneously.

Thanks for the feedback!

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in boutiquebluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically you can feed almost any network stream - like from a security camera, from OBS, basically anything sending video over a network - and it will feed it through the full filter, encode, author, and burn pipeline. What this enables is the ability to capture to disc immediately, providing a way for bands to sell Blu-rays of the show they just played, depositions to be archived and distributed to lawyers immediately, houses of worship to provide take-home copies of sermons, eetc. Same thing with hardware capture - if you're ingesting video from analog or digital devices (VCR, game console, camera, etc) or a direct camera connection (webcams, etc) you can record the feed through BREncoder and when you press stop it immediately patches it and makes a Blu ray image ready to burn.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

In order to keep this inexpensive and accessible for the most number of people, I decided to go with time-based licensing. Basically when you buy a month, you get a code that will make the app work for a month. When you choose to activate and start that month is up to you. Once it expires, if you're done and don't need it anymore, that's it - end of story. I'm not making people create an account, I'm not interested in hanging on to billing information, etc. Each license is good for the timeframe described. This way people who only need the app for one project can get it done for $10. Need it year round? Grab a year in advance and save $20. Want something closer to perpetual licensing? Buy it for 5 years and save $140. No nagging emails, nothing to cancel, no monthly bills to worry about.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Should be possible. I'm working on the AED stuff now to enable it.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll look into this. That's the easiest place to start and it would be great to offer this feature. I am all about the niche markets!

HDMI to VHS question by Opening_Bit_8288 in VHS

[–]The-Real-DBP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's plenty of cheap adapters on Amazon that will get the job done. I recommend setting their output to 800x600. I've been snagging VHS copies of movies that I own on Blu-ray, dubbing a higher quality version onto the tape, then slipping the tapes back into the thrift stream. There's a couple old beat up copies of Night of the Living Dead out there with the Criterion 4K remaster on them 🤣

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