authoring EVD and/or HVD on DVD/+-R

's NeoNeu HVD 2081 or some other one)?

From the little I've found online, it looks like HVD is likely to be the most straightforward to hack together with otherwise-naive apps normally used to build the files that will be burned to DVD. As far as I can tell, they just took DVDs as their starting point and added MP@HL 720p24, 720p60, 1080p24, 1080i60, and a few more as valid MPEG-2 profiles, moved the files from VIDEO_TS into HVD_TS, dropped all the patent-encumbered expensive-to-license DRM that consumers don't want anyway, and possibly grafted a few extensions onto the menu subsystem. The problem is, the few documents that (I think) have details are all 100% Chinese, so it looks like someone from China (or at least able to read Chinese) is going to have to write the first draft of any HVD or EVD-authoring guide :-)

HVD might never see a single Hollywood movie, but I think it has the potential to become wildly popular with home users as a way to burn and trade captured HDTV videos until HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray become affordable (I suspect EVD and HVD support will quickly become the norm among Chinese-made DVD players by next year, the same way xVCD support did... it doesn't cost much to add, and can quickly become pervasive in the US by virtue of 90% of DVD players coming from China anyway). Of course, we ALL know that lack of support for the standard by Hollywood guarantees that consumers won't have any interest in it

Update: more evidence that implies a HVD is basically a DVD whose MPEG-2 stream complies with MP@HL instead of MP@ML --

In the light of HVD, Tian Yujing said that its video and audio formats are the same with those of DVD and its file system structure is similar to that of the computer.

source: Insight/200407/21/t2..._1285100.shtml

Not conclusive by any means, but a good sign.

I don't remember where I read it, but apparently the one hardware divergence at the drive level is that HVD drives need to be double-speed (which means you can have about 16 Mbit/sec if you don't care about storing more than 30 minutes or so of video on a DVD.)

It's an old thread, but now i have an HVD 2081-Player here and could make some tests.

The Videos are encoded with TMPGEnc 2.5x in MPEG2, MP@HL, 960x720, 30 fps anamorphic.
But still nobody knows how to author such a disc.
A dirty trick is to merge (VOBMerge) a new Video with the header.mpg onto such a HVD, remove the movie files and burn the HVD_TS folder to a DVD (Nero UDF DVD-ROM, not UDF-ISO!).

That's all i can say now (and thanks to Tsunami who helped me a lot)

Hi,

does your disc realy works in the player?

Does anybody know where to find specs for EVD, HVD and FVD?

Are there any authoring tools available?

CU
Sven