Introduction

I know what your thinking...HD-DVDs dead so why would anyone want to convert them to Blu-Ray? The studios have all moved over to the blu camp so any HD-DVD exclusives will eventually make their way onto the format sooner or later right?
Plus, isn't a Blu-Ray burner really expensive, not to mention the blank discs are $20 a pop.

Let me just clarify a few things before we start.

1. You may ALREADY have a Blu-Ray burner

2. If you actually bothered to read the guide you'd noticed to can burn to regular DVDs instead

3. Perhaps you only have a Blu-Ray set-top player and can't wait for your fav HD-DVD exclusives to come out on the format

4. Maybe you sold your HD-DVD player on ebay when you first heard about Warner dumping the HD-DVD format and figured you'd get as much money back as you could, leaving some of your HD-DVD movies redundant

5. Optical Discs are so last year, you may want to stream HD movies across your network and figured this guide could help

No matter what the reason, for us it was the technical challenge. We did the unthinkable and successfully converted from one format to the other. No loss in quality and no hours of re-encoding.
You may have read other guides on the Internet and seen youtube videos but this is the first guide which actually WORKS and addressess ALL issues with the conversion.
Believe it or not, but we all thought it was kinda fun. We don't pirate, we don't sell our work nor do we profit from its use. The knowledge here is yours for free :-)

Prerequisites

This Guide assumes you have already ripped the HD-DVD movie to your hard disk in .EVO format. Nowhere on this site contains links to any pirated software, nor does it contain serial numbers or gives any advice where to obtain such information.
If you want the software, support the authors and buy it.

Step 1 - Finding out the codec

Software Required for this step - EVODemux (Download Freeware)

You should have a folder on your hard disk called "HDDVD_TS" this contains all the original files from your HD-DVD disc.
You need to sort the files into size order and look for the two largest .EVO files. These two files contain the actual movie.

Load up EVODemux and open the first large .EVO file. EVODemux automatically scans both files and presents you with its findings.

In the main window you need to check to see if your HD-DVD has been encoded using the H.264 (AVC) or VC-1 codec.

Step 2