Authoring tools which import m2ts without transcoding

[lutinor]

Hi all,

What tool can import a m2ts blueray files with include h264/ac3/sub without transcoding ?

It will be nice to make a list,

Max.

[Ghitulescu]

As far as I noticed, people asking for 0 compression are quite rare ;) most people generally ask how to fit a BD50 into 400 or 700MB without any quality loss :p:p:p

And import into what?

[lutinor]

As far as I noticed, people asking for 0 compression are quite rare ;) most people generally ask how to fit a BD50 into 400 or 700MB without any quality loss :p:p:p

And import into what?

Read the title of this topic ^^

Authoring tool, tool which can make good menu :)

[laserfan]

The only (donation-ware) I know of is multiAVCHD. Makes nice menus but not easy to use. I've used-and-like Sony Vegas Pro's DVD Architect Pro (>$500) but it has some issues with x264 and interlaced output.

I have Ulead's MovieFactory 6+ and it makes some nice BD menus, but it does want to re-encode some things therefore I use tsMuxeR to make my m2ts, mpls, and clpis and then paste them-in to Ulead's BDMV (and menu) structure.

[Ghitulescu]

Read the title of this topic ^^

The title is equally "good" in defining what you want.

M2TS files can contain both SD and HD, hence the DVD authoring or the BD authoring. Transcoding refers to codec change, not to container change (the very same way MakeMKV does not [automatically] transcode a BD even if it forcibly repacks the M2TS into MKV).

If you think of BD, tsmuxer and multiavchd (which internally uses the same tsmuxer for muxing purposes) are the only freeware I know, although multiavchd can trans/recode the video and the audio if instructed to. There are also "freeware" on the net, mostly crippleware or spyware in disguise.

[lutinor]

The only (donation-ware) I know of is multiAVCHD. Makes nice menus but not easy to use. I've used-and-like Sony Vegas Pro's DVD Architect Pro (>$500) but it has some issues with x264 and interlaced output.

I have Ulead's MovieFactory 6+ and it makes some nice BD menus, but it does want to re-encode some things therefore I use tsMuxeR to make my m2ts, mpls, and clpis and then paste them-in to Ulead's BDMV (and menu) structure.
Wait...I'm not sure to understand. Basically you make a menu with the 'easy' software and after that you 'swap' m2ts and everything is fine? Don't you need to edit some files in the bd structure ?

[laserfan]

Wait...I'm not sure to understand. Basically you make a menu with the 'easy' software and after that you 'swap' m2ts and everything is fine? Don't you need to edit some files in the bd structure ?Actually I've learned the secret of specifying to tsMuxeR to output the files as 00001, 00002, 00003 etc. so I don't even have to edit them in any way any more i.e. to make a titleset for 00004

MUXOPT --no-pcr-on-video-pid --new-audio-pes --blu-ray --vbr --mplsOffset=4 --m2tsOffset=4 --custom-chapters=00:00:00.000 --vbv-len=500

[rik1138]

Swap out the 3 files he mentioned, that's all the 'editing' you need to do. There's a corresponding CLIP file (.clpi) for every .m2ts (it will have the exact same number in the file name- 00000.m2ts & 00000.clpi, etc), you need that. There's also a PlayList file (.mpls) that references the .m2ts file (this most likely has a different number file name), you'd need that. It stores the duration, chapter timings, etc... You can rename the PlayList file to anything you want, but if you rename the .m2ts (and the .clpi to match), you have to edit the PlayList file so it's pointing to the right .m2ts still... A simple hex-editor can do that nicely...

[Ghitulescu]

multiavchd has also a "reauthoring module", since v3 IIRC.