spooker
18th April 2008, 21:12
This is my first time posting, so I apologize if I'm posting in the wrong forum, but I think the problem has more to do with how the .m2ts file is prepared than the encoding to x264 result.
The Problem:
I want to play my Blu-Ray copy of Ratatouille on my Apple TV so I rip with AnyDVD HD and merge the segments in the correct order using tsMuxer. Normally this is where I would drop the resulting .m2ts file into VisualHub ( I'm on a Mac ) and I end up with an x264 file in an MP4 container, playable on both the AppleTV and PS3. This has worked for all of my Blu-Ray movies ( except the titles using VC-1 because ffmpeg does a pretty bad job of decoding them, leaves blocky artifacts ). With Ratatouille, I can play .m2ts file in something like VLC, Mplayer, or on the PS3, but when I try to encode to x264, the playback is jumpy. The jumps are consistent in their spacing and persistent throughout the file. The only thing I can guess is that it has something to do with how I prepare the .m2ts file in tsMuxer.
Note:
I've tried using Toast 9 to convert the file, which will even encode from a VC-1 source, but it always screws up the keyframing and give big blocky artifacts regardless of how high the bitrate is ( and it takes waaay longer than ffmpegx or VisualHub ).
I've tried using something like MediaCoder, but it crapped out on me and I find anything involving avisynth scripts to be terrifying.
Any suggestions?
The Problem:
I want to play my Blu-Ray copy of Ratatouille on my Apple TV so I rip with AnyDVD HD and merge the segments in the correct order using tsMuxer. Normally this is where I would drop the resulting .m2ts file into VisualHub ( I'm on a Mac ) and I end up with an x264 file in an MP4 container, playable on both the AppleTV and PS3. This has worked for all of my Blu-Ray movies ( except the titles using VC-1 because ffmpeg does a pretty bad job of decoding them, leaves blocky artifacts ). With Ratatouille, I can play .m2ts file in something like VLC, Mplayer, or on the PS3, but when I try to encode to x264, the playback is jumpy. The jumps are consistent in their spacing and persistent throughout the file. The only thing I can guess is that it has something to do with how I prepare the .m2ts file in tsMuxer.
Note:
I've tried using Toast 9 to convert the file, which will even encode from a VC-1 source, but it always screws up the keyframing and give big blocky artifacts regardless of how high the bitrate is ( and it takes waaay longer than ffmpegx or VisualHub ).
I've tried using something like MediaCoder, but it crapped out on me and I find anything involving avisynth scripts to be terrifying.
Any suggestions?