Encoding Blu-Ray .M2ts files to WMV

[QuadcoreHD]

Hey guys quick question. I've been sucessfully able to rip several blu-ray movies with Any DVD and encode the feature .m2ts files using TMPGEnc Xpress to WMVs (1080p .m2ts's to 720p WMVs). This has worked pretty well so far as I'm pretty much a clueless n00b and am not great with non-gui programs (hence I'm using TMPGEnc). My question is that while TMPGEnc accepts some feature .m2ts's with no problem (such as T2, Total Recall, and the Fifth Element) I have problems with other movies. Generally it seems that if the feature .m2ts plays normally using PowerDVD 7 from my harddrive once its ripped, the movie encodes fine. However, I'm having 3 separate issues with other movies (such as 300, Ice-Age, Harry Potter 2) that I'm hoping I can get some help with.

1. 300 does not play smoothly from my hard-drive, maybe at like 5-10fps, although sound is fine. When I try and imput thse in to TMPGEnc, audio and video dont work and i just get a green screen output.

2. For Ice Age and Speed, the feature .m2ts is in the wrong language, whether just played from my harddrive once ripped or when encoded to wmv with TMPGEnc. I've tried using Elecard Xmuxer to demux it and isolate the english audio track but it doesnt seem that an english track is even included in the .m2ts, only spanish, frech, or directory comentary or something like that.

3. Robobcop does not playback correctly once ripped. Flashes of green and pixelated images appear on the screen and its virtually unwatchable.

Ok, whew! I realize this is alot of info, but I'm really hoping someone can help. FYI I know that the "jerky" playback is not my machine as I'm running a quadcore with 4 gigs of ram and an GeForce 8800 GTX. I'd like to use the process I'm currently using of ripping with Any DVD HD and Ecoding the .m2ts features with TMPGenc as, like i said, I'm pretty much a noob and am not good with scripts and non-gui programs. Can anyone tell me why these issues are occuring and what i can do to correct them and continue encoding to WMV? Also, if anyone has any suggestions on a better way to do this (keeping in mind my newb status) it would be much appreaciated.

Thanks to all for any help!

PS. I've triend reading through this forum:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=129001&highlight=evo+divx

but i cant seem to find anything specifically addressing these issues.

[beameup]

2. For Ice Age and Speed, the feature .m2ts is in the wrong language, whether just played from my harddrive once ripped or when encoded to wmv with TMPGEnc. I've tried using Elecard Xmuxer to demux it and isolate the english audio track but it doesnt seem that an english track is even included in the .m2ts, only spanish, frech, or directory comentary or something like that.

I have experienced this with Spiderman3 as well. After using Elecard Xmuxer ... no english track comes out. I have not figured out why yet; however I have worked around the problem by using the 5.1 audio track from the dvd version of the film.

3. Robobcop does not playback correctly once ripped. Flashes of green and pixelated images appear on the screen and its virtually unwatchable.

I think it is likely BD+ Encryption ... I eperienced the same thing with Rise of the Silver Surfer and it was because it was BD+. You can check if this is the case from double clicking on the AnyDVD icon with the disk in.


I have a different challenge that you didn't mention and perhaps you have know the workaround. With every blu-ray disk I have converted to WMV using TMPGEnc, it gets a portion through the encoding and then a particual video frame freezes through the remainder of the sound. Upon further examination, TMPGEnc thinks the video clip is shorter than the video really is. I have worked around this, but running XMuxer on the video sequence following the frame freeze, then pasting togheter the encoding segments after the fact.

EDIT: I have found the source of my problem and can explain why some others are have not experienced this problem. I had been doing a demux, and taking the raw video and audio directly into TMPGEnc. I found that if I remux the video into a new .ts container and load that into TMPGEnc and then add back in the raw audio, that the video length reports and encodes correctly.

EDIT2 (New Findings): On occasion remuxing causes a problem where the video stutters. My current workaround is to go back to using the raw files and to concat serveral copies of the same raw video file to make a large source file (using copy /b myMovie.h264+myMovie.h264 myMovie_Extended.h264) and when loaded into TMPG as long as the video length is greater than or equal to the audio length then I can the movie / audio in one cut without any video stutters. NOTE: I use boilsoft video splitter at the end to trim off any remaining video where they movie may repeat due to making a larger source file out of multiple copies of the same file. This sounds kind of messing; but actually it works pretty welll and is an acceptable process unless someone knows why the container version of some movies will cause results that stutter.

[QuadcoreHD]

Thanks for the tip with the Ice Age issue (from question 2) that I was having. I will use that in the future. Unfortunately I have not experienced the issue you described with partial audio track encoding. I'm hoping someone has work-arounds for this and the other issues I described.