Hi,
looking for some advice. Got hold of a 720p BluRay rip which I wanted to turn into a AVCHD disk. Followed the guide on here using TXMuxer et al and produced a disk on a dual layer DVD about 5gb in size.
Drilled down to check the m2ts video stream was there and decoded ok on the PC - no issues (I've added the UDF 2.5 driver to my Win XP setup). So then I tried playback on my Panny BD-35 player... plays fine, chapters et al except there's no video shown, only audio. Ran BDInfo and all seems ok. Shows the playlist and m2ts file @ about 1h35mins and also MPEG 4 Video stream with a 3.1 profile 23.976fps
Also Dolby Dig AC3 audio track @640k and presentation graphics marked as 'english'. Only thing of note was that 'language' was unset for the MPEG 4 stream (blank) and AC3 track language was labelled as 'undetermined' by BDInfo... not really sure what I've done wrong so if anyone has any ideas I'd welcome them. Even tho dual layer DVD media are reasonably priced i would rather not make a dozen 'coasters' before getting the settings correct.
1. The video stream itself is incompatible, er, encoded out of BD spec. Did you encode the video yourself, is is proper resolution... exactly 1280x720?
2. The Panny BD35 is extremely picky on what "AVCHD" content it will play. Here is a link for more information.
Glad I could help. The only way to make this work is to recode your video to proper resolution (add the black widescreen bars). It's an extremely time consuming process, that's if you have a loaded PC.
I'd discovered RipBot which I'm currently using to put back the bars and return the res back to 720 instead of 522..
sadly I've run out of dual layer dvdr to test it on. I am picking up some BDRE disks tomorrow which I assume I can author as AVCHD format so I guess i can test the resulting output with them till i get some more dual layer disks at the weekend. At least they can be re-written.. Still the cheaper option till BDR's come down a little in price.
thanks again. Your posts saved a lot a trawling around :-)
Man,
that is seriously cheap! Sadly I'm in the UK. But given the price of media here it may be worth importing. I'll do some more checking...
I bought 10 x BDR single layer riteks for about £35 so about £3.50 each and I've got a couple of 25GB BD-RE disks coming in the post soon as well at about £4 each. $20CAD is about £11 UK which is pretty good and being BDRE obviously its reusable.. certainly not seen BDRE 50GB here yet and certainly not at that price.
Hi,
just wanted to say thanks for all the assist. Finally got the recode done of my 720p d/loaded source and burned it to my BD-RE - works like a charm. Now attempting a larger 1080p source !
I guess the next experiments will be how much I can squeeze down a 720 or 1080 source to a single layer DVD without losing too much quality!
