I been trying to get a movie that I converted from .mkv to .m2ts burned to a blu ray. The movie is not full HD resolution, I followed this guide I found http://brothers_grim.webs.com/bd/index.html I have done everything 100% correct, when I check using BDedit everything matches up just as it says it should. Framerate 23.976 and a resolution of 1080p. I then burn it to a BD disc but getting that horrible green bar at the bottom still. The sound is amazing, DTS true HD but that damn green bar annoys me! I thought by doing this, it removes that bar and will be perfect. Any thoughts on what I can do? I really want something simple to remove that bar but keep video quality and not touch the sound.
That horrible green bar means your video isn't a complaint resolution. Compliant means exacly 1920x1080 (not 1920x818, etc), or 1280x720 (not 1270x528, etc). You need to recode your video to proper resloution by adding the black widescreen bars in. Even 1.85:1 ratios can still be copped to 1920x1040... but since you describe the green bar as huge I'm assuming your video is something like 2.35:1. If you are familiar with MeGUI/Avisynth or Ripbot264 you should try those. Or give this a shot, it was developed specifically to un-crop mkvs back to compliant resulution for BD/AVCHD structure. It's developer (deank @ Doom9) has developed quite a few handy video processing tools, he offers support for all of them. uncropMKV Link.
Thank you much for your help, that guide should explain that better. I clearly thought after following that guide that it would fix the problem. I am using Ripbot now to see how that works. I will also try the other program.
ripbot worked perfectly. Was very slow, took over 18 hours but worked and picture quality was good to. Thanx for the help
