The complete HD (Blu-ray/HD-DVD) back-up thread.

OK. Fine. I understand all that. So here's another probably stupid question. Will adding borders and re-encoding be quicker than re-encoding with borders AND resizing, as I have been? Currently it takes about 17 hours to do both the resize and re-encode.

 

Just adding borders will be slighty slighty slightly faster than adding borders and resizing. I must emphasize slightly because really its not that much more of a process to resize. If your encodes are taking too long you can lower settings (b frames, etc.) or get a faster processor. I ended up getting a Q6600 quad core because I got tired of waiting a full day (I also encode at fairly time consuming high settings.) The more cores the processor the better...the second pass of a 2 pass encode takes full advantage of every core (as in all cores run at 100% the whole time.) Out of curiosity are you adding borders than upscaling to 1920x1080? Or are you adding borders to a 1080p and downscaling to 1280x720?

 

Neither! I'm taking a 720p (which in actuality is 1280x544) MKV film and trying to create an AVCHD disc that I can play in my PS3. If I don't add borders TSMuxer generates a movie with a great big green bar at the bottom of it.

I don't want to resize it's just that I thought I had to make the image area 720 high, (which stretches the image) then add borders to squish the image back to it's original ratio.

Since posting I've started looking at 'multiAVCHD' which is supposed to be able to add borders on the fly. My initial test worked (in about 15mins) apart from the disc not being read by the PS3 as a proper AVCHD structured disc, but I think this is more me rushing headlong into it. I'll test it again, being more careful, and let you know the results. If it does work it'll be a darn site quicker than re-encoding all the time. : )

 

Umm....resizing it to 720 first and then adding borders back and resizing it back is not the correct process. You add the borders...that's it...no resizing. But yes I've heard of that program...never used it myself. Good luck. Let me know how it goes, I'm curious.

 

hey all,

can someone tell me how i can normalize the volume on a muxed ac-3 file using eac3to (latest stable version). i got it from a blu-ray. it originally had Dolby True HD AC-3 but i wanna get it down to AC-3. i muxed it to ac-3 in eac3to and the movie and when i mux them into a mkv using mkvmerge GUI (2.4.1) the volume is too low. i know it's not True HD AC-3 but the sound sounds too low and wimpy. see it's Tropic Thunder and I want somewhat decent sound. keep in mind tho that i plan to run this finished split set of mkv's on my XBOX360 Elite in time. i don't see a option in eac3to or mkvmerge to normalize the audio. anyone care to help me. thanks!

 

i just did some researching on Google and discovered that some people just mux the audio into FLAC. i'm familiar with FLAC and use it alot now with music but if i mux it into the mkv's will it be compatible when I run it on XBOX360?

 

Hey alcOre. Well, I did a test disc this morning and I got a PS3 compatible AVCHD disc with black borders (no green), DTS and selectable subs! All that in less than 30mins (including burning to a DL DVD)! I can't ask for much better than that

So, fingers crossed, that puts an end to my problems. Thanks for all your input over the last couple of days.

 

Hey BluRayLvr – I'm a complete noob (as my previous posts with testify) but have you tried AC3Filter! I've used it when messing around with GOTSent and it has a lot of functions that can edit AC3 files. Might be worth a try!

 

hey Torrs,

i think i have tried ac3filter before cause i have it on my hard drive. i forgot to try that program. thanks for the tip pal. i will try it soon.

 

Hi Guys , Complements on the guides and advice - I am new to Blu ray tools and have to admit it's getting a bit over my head.

Following the guide i got stuck at the Megui stage . it gave the error saying there was an audio file not detected even though the guide suggested this was a video only processing stage??

Also I have tried ripping just the movie file and the audio. if the format is ac3 audio it works fine. If however the audio is in hd format I have tried demuxing and then used easy3togui to downconvert to dts or ac3. had to use delaycut to clean up the file. problem is when all is remuxed i'm getting slight stutter when playing from my hard drive.

Any assistance appreciated.

 

Ryu or Odin


I'm curious too how your(Ryu profile) PQ stack up to BD-RB ? If yours is better than i will go with Megui....How can i tell.Thxs

 

Hello
im trying to encode avideo with meGui and im following every step on the 2008.10.14- Blu-ray Conversion Guide, but i keep getting the same error.. this is what appears on the log
"MeGUI Version: 0.2.6.1046
OS used: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
Framework used: 2.0
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Looking for job processor for job...

Processor found!



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Starting job job1 at 16:00:49

Starting preprocessing of job...

Preprocessing finished!

successfully started encoding

Processing ended at 16:00:50

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Log for job job1

Job commandline: "C:\Program Files\MeGUI\tools\x264\x264.exe" --pass 1 --bitrate 6831 --stats "C:\Program Files\MeGUI\logs\x264 logfile\Ryu77 x264 logfile" --keyint 24 --min-keyint 1 --bframes 3 --b-pyramid --direct auto --subme 1 --partitions none --qpmin 5 --ipratio 1.1 --pbratio 1.1 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --vbv-maxrate 38000 --qcomp 0.5 --me dia --threads auto --thread-input --progress --no-ssim --output NUL "F:\Wall-E\nseg.avs" --mvrange 511 --aud --nal-hrd --sar 1:1
avis [info]: 1280x720 @ 23.98 fps (769 frames)
x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 SSE3 Cache64
x264 [error]: ratecontrol_init: can't open stats file
x264 [error]: x264_encoder_open failed

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End of log for job1
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can someone tell me what im doing wrong?
thanks in advance

 

@ luis_afaz

You need to configure where the log file goes. From the main MeGUI screen hit the Config button. There you can specify the logfile destination.

 

it worked!
Thank YOU

 

when i burn blu ray to bd-5 or bd-9 would it be any difference if i use dvd burner or blu ray burner to do this? cuz somebody told me they use different laser...

 

Blu-ray burners use a blue laser with a tighter wavelength. Since you are burning to DVD then a DVD burner will do fine, use it and save the wear and tear on your BD burner.

 

Odin is correct in saying that Blu-ray utilises an ultraviolet laser. However, it may be important to know that for DVD backwards compatibility a red laser must also be inlcluded. So in actuality when you are burning a DVD with your BD drive, it is the red laser doing the work instead of the ultraviolet (blue) laser. With that said, I have found that the red lasers on regular DVD drives are of slightly higher quality. This can be tested by placing some high quality media in each drive and see what burn speeds are offered.

For example if I place a Verbatim 16x DVD-R in my LG Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo drive, I can select 2x, 4x, 8x or 16x. If I use my Pioneer DVD drive, I can select 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x or 20x. This indicates higher compatibility and should provide more accurate burns. I only ever burn at 4x speed anyway. With that said high quality single layer DVD's should give near 100% success with both drives but if using dual layer or lower quality media it may be better to use the drive with the better optics.

 

Hello all and thanks for the great thread with lots of useful information. I have run into a problem however. I have successfully encoded a 1080p video for play on the PS3. But I have a problem now, I am trying to do the same with a 720p video. I get as far to create the AviSynth Script, when I attempt to save the script, after I click save this is what MeGUI tells me -

The file (my source directory) cannot be opened.
Please make sure it's a valid AviSynth script and that Avisnyth is properly installed. You can check the validity of your script and Avisynth installation by opening the file in your favorite media player. If that works, try opening the video in VIrtualDub(Mod) as well. If the former works and the latter doesn't, install a YV12 codec. Error message for your reference: Can't read the video stream


I am completely lost, as I've searched for the YV12 codec and installed a codec pack that claims it's in there but it is still giving me this message. The file plays fine on my computer in Media Player Classic, but does not open in VirtualDub(Mod), just stays parsing forever. Can someone please help me as I am lost.

 

Ok, I got the encoding process started by simply creating my own script in notepad and make the file ending .avs

It accepted this script and when I hit start it began encoding. Now my question is, why can't I generate a script with the MeGUI program that will work? Nothing changed on my system from the first time I used the program to successfully generate a script and encode video. Also, using this custom made script file, will my encode be ok? Does it matter that I didn't use a script generated by the program?

 

i just wanna rip my blu ray movies to my pc and play them through my 360. how do i do it. i've ripped a couple movies using anydvd hd but now i am having trouble converting them to wmv. anyone with suggestions?