Various Qs: SD compatibility, resolution, menu etc

[stenergut]

Hi.

I just completed my first attempt of compiling a blu-ray

I added 3 mkv video files.

Video: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 1920x1040 (1.846)
Duration: approx 2 hours.
Framerate: 23.976
Ref frames: 4
Output approx 17000MiB, (total 44000MiB)

Ok, I noted that the resolution was red. And MultiAVCHD reacted by stretching the image to fill the entire screen.

1. Question; how do I avoid that? Can't I just keep the original resolution? I had the same problem when using a 720x480 (4:3) H264 video file. I ended up with two stretched frames running side by side on my blu-ray player. So multiAVCHD is not compatible with anything else than 1080p or 720p?

2. Question; I wanna create a BD-disc with a season of old series episodes. So which program do I use for compiling a Blu-ray with SD material, if not AVCHD?

3. Question; How do I speed up the menu. I chose a XMB menu with no chapters menu. I only had 3 titles with specs. But when I toggle between titles, my BD-player has to read for 4 secs. Very slow. Can I somehow speed this up?

3. Question; I added automatic chapters. They work fine, except when I change chapter, it takes 3 seconds for the audio to kick in. Is there some way I can speed this up?

Thx in advance, regards.
Jens.

[rik1138]

Hi.

I just completed my first attempt of compiling a blu-ray

I added 3 mkv video files.

Video: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 1920x1040 (1.846)
Duration: approx 2 hours.
Framerate: 23.976
Ref frames: 4
Output approx 17000MiB, (total 44000MiB)

Ok, I noted that the resolution was red. And MultiAVCHD reacted by stretching the image to fill the entire screen.

1. Question; how do I avoid that? Can't I just keep the original resolution?

I can answer that one: 1080p video on Blu-ray is required to be 1920x1080. That is the only resolution you can use. You will have to re-encode the video and add black bars to the top and bottom to make it full 1920x1080 (or stretch the image up to 1080, which is what it seems like Multi did...).

Some players my allow the odd size if you can force it into a Blu-ray structure, but the spec says it has to be 1080 tall, one way or another...

[hello_hello]

1. Question; how do I avoid that? Can't I just keep the original resolution? I had the same problem when using a 720x480 (4:3) H264 video file. I ended up with two stretched frames running side by side on my blu-ray player. So multiAVCHD is not compatible with anything else than 1080p or 720p?

Bluray supports 720x480 anamorphic video, but I don't know anything about multiAVCHD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Video
According to this, there seems to be some additional requirements for 23.976 fps video (soft 3:2 pulldown and fake interlaced) http://www.x264bluray.com/home/480p-ntsc
I don't really understand them though as I've never authored a Bluray disc.

2. Question; I wanna create a BD-disc with a season of old series episodes. So which program do I use for compiling a Blu-ray with SD material, if not AVCHD?

What format is the original material in? I'd be inclined to stick to DVD unless there's a reason not to.

3. Question; How do I speed up the menu. I chose a XMB menu with no chapters menu. I only had 3 titles with specs. But when I toggle between titles, my BD-player has to read for 4 secs. Very slow. Can I somehow speed this up?

3. Question; I added automatic chapters. They work fine, except when I change chapter, it takes 3 seconds for the audio to kick in. Is there some way I can speed this up?

I don't have the answers, but I'd be seriously tempted to buy a Bluray player which plays video via USB in order to forgo messing about with all that unnecessary disc creation. You might still be able to pick up a model which hasn't been infected with Cinavia DRM. My Sony (S480) plays everything I throw at it. MKVs, AVIs, MP4s etc.... no need for converting. Unlike some players it also displays anamorphic MKVs correctly (Samsung players don't). Even most TVs have built in media players these days, although some can be a little "fussy" about the files they play. Using discs just seems so..... unnecessary.
Or if not a Bluray player, some other type of standalone media player. At least if you can afford it and creating Bluray discs is something you were planning on having to do regularly.
Hook your PC up to the TV and you'll never go back.

[Ghitulescu]

1. Question; how do I avoid that? Can't I just keep the original resolution? I had the same problem when using a 720x480 (4:3) H264 video file. I ended up with two stretched frames running side by side on my blu-ray player. So multiAVCHD is not compatible with anything else than 1080p or 720p?
Simply, obtain a legal version of that MKV. HDTV and Blu-rays and HD-camcorder files, are all blu-ray/AVCHD compatible (small details).
2. Question; I wanna create a BD-disc with a season of old series episodes. So which program do I use for compiling a Blu-ray with SD material, if not AVCHD?
I don't know which program do you use. MultiAVCHD works like a charm with DVD series, since the DVDs are fully BD compliant.
3. Question; How do I speed up the menu. I chose a XMB menu with no chapters menu. I only had 3 titles with specs. But when I toggle between titles, my BD-player has to read for 4 secs. Very slow. Can I somehow speed this up?
Get a faster player or a more expensive authoring software. I think you will be happy to wait 4 seconds than to buy the least expensive one ;)
3. Question; I added automatic chapters. They work fine, except when I change chapter, it takes 3 seconds for the audio to kick in. Is there some way I can speed this up?
You can import the original chapters from the DVD. It never happened to me, but I can speculate it's your TV redealing the HDCP.

[stenergut]

I'll return later today with the specs of the SD video I used, which resulted in distored stereo images. It was identified as rerence code 9 in MultiAVHCD and it came out all wrong.

[stenergut]

Hi, I wanna be able to burn SD 4:3 mkv material to a BD, because I can fit an entire season of 22 episodes on 1 disc.

I tried to author a disc and the result was two identical, distorted images on TV when playing off my BD player.

Here is the log:

[18:26:16] Processing 4 titles...
[18:26:16] Existing C:\Program Files (x86)\multiAVCHD\AVCHD\ cannot be used as destination folder!
[18:26:16] Output will be written to: C:\Program Files (x86)\multiAVCHD\AVCHD-20120216-182616
[18:26:16] Processing (D:\Download\Farscape\01. Premiere.mkv)...
[18:26:16] Detected frame reference count: 9 (max:5).
[18:26:16] Video is not AVCHD/BDMV compliant!
[18:26:16] Detected video: ID#1:V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC 720x496, fps=23.976, ref=9
[18:26:16] Detected display AR: 1:1.298
[18:26:16] Detected subtitles: ID#3:S_TEXT/UTF8 Language: eng
[18:26:16] Detected audio: ID#2:A_AC3 (48000Hz 6ch 448kbps) Language: eng
[18:26:16] Added audio: A_AC3, "D:\Download\Farscape\01. Premiere.mkv", track=2, lang=eng, timeshift=0ms
[18:26:16] Video height (496) not compliant (480/576/720/1080)! Final output may be distorted.
[18:26:16] Extracting SRT/SSA/VOBSUB subtitle tracks.
[18:26:16] Plase wait - it may take a while!
[18:26:23] Converting to SRT/PGS...
[18:26:23] Converting TEXT subtitles to PGS/SUP...
[18:26:23] [01. premiere.extr.003.eng.srt]
[18:26:28] *** Imported subpictures: 500/500 at offset 0x
[18:26:28] Conversion successful...
[18:26:28] Adding external subtitles (01. Premiere.extr.003.eng.srt) (eng)
[18:26:28] M2TS stream split set at 4000MiB...
[18:26:28] Creating clip and playlist info (tsMuxeR)...

tsMuxeR (Version 1.10.6) output:
===============================================================================
Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: High@3.1 Resolution: 720:496p Frame rate: 23.976
H.264 stream does not contain fps field. Muxing fps=23.976
H264 bitstream changed: insert nal unit delimiters
H264 bitstream changed: insert pict timing and buffering period SEI units
Decoding AC3 stream (track 2): Bitrate: 448Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 6
Decoding PGS stream (track 3): Resolution: 720:576 Frame rate: 23.976
B-pyramid level 1 detected. Shift DTS to 2 frames
H264 bitstream changed: insert SPS/PPS units
Processed 72157 video frames
Creation of Blu-ray playlist
Creation of Blu-ray stream info and seek index
Mux successful complete.
Muxing time: 6 sec
===============================================================================

How do I fix the picture output? Convert the input files first?

[Ghitulescu]

As I said, downloading movies is not the best way of having them on a Blu-ray. Try ripping your Farscape series from the DVDs, they will go on blu-ray at once. Of course, not 22 episodes per disc, but probably 12 or so.

[setarip_old]

How do I fix the picture output? Convert the input files first? Try using your purchased commercial DVDs as the source material...

[stenergut]

Thx, that will sure prove useful in addressing my technical difficulties. Not.

[Ghitulescu]

Thx, that will sure prove useful in addressing my technical difficulties. Not.

No, you're right, it won't address your technical problems.
But it will keep you out of prison.

[Guest]

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