Help with M2TS and ffdshow?

[insaneoctane]

I've got a set of files ripped from blu-ray and processed using tsmuxer for PS3 playback. For some reason, on one file of the SEVEN m2ts files in the STREAM folder, 6 of them will not playback with MPC with the error "cannot render the file", but one of the seven can. Here are the two mediainfo outputs for the files:

FILE that will NOT play:
General
ID : 1
Complete name : f:\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM\00000.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : BluRay Video
File size : 3.91 GiB
Duration : 22mn 1s
Overall bit rate : 25.4 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 35.5 Mbps
Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L3
Duration : 22mn 1s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Language : English
Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Duration : 22mn 1s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Channel(s) : 8 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R C, Middle: L R, Rear: L R, LFE
Video delay : -140ms
Text #1
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Text #2
ID : 4609 (0x1201)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS

File that WILL play:
General
ID : 1
Complete name : f:\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM\00006.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : BluRay Video
File size : 1.46 GiB
Duration : 13mn 4s
Overall bit rate : 16.0 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 35.5 Mbps
Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L3
Duration : 13mn 4s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Language : English
Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Duration : 13mn 4s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Channel(s) : 8 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R C, Middle: L R, Rear: L R, LFE
Video delay : -123ms
Text #1
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Duration : 12mn 58s
Video delay : 4s 42ms
Text #2
ID : 4609 (0x1201)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Duration : 12mn 58s
Video delay : 4s 0ms

Here's the directory of the STREAM folder:
00000 thru 00005 won't play....but 00006 will

Volume in drive F is SCRATCH500
Volume Serial Number is DC71-ED27
Directory of f:\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM
06/23/2010 09:54 PM <DIR> .
06/23/2010 09:54 PM <DIR> ..
06/23/2010 09:40 PM 4,193,753,088 00000.MTS
06/23/2010 09:42 PM 4,194,091,008 00001.MTS
06/23/2010 09:45 PM 4,193,482,752 00002.MTS
06/23/2010 09:47 PM 4,192,714,752 00003.MTS
06/23/2010 09:50 PM 4,193,458,176 00004.MTS
06/23/2010 09:52 PM 4,193,280,000 00005.MTS
06/23/2010 09:53 PM 1,566,984,192 00006.MTS
06/23/2010 09:54 PM 1,142,784 83001.MTS
06/23/2010 09:54 PM 73,728 93001.MTS
9 File(s) 26,728,980,480 bytes
2 Dir(s) 66,351,239,168 bytes free

The files WILL playback on PS3 (and VLC), but not MPC and so I can't run any avisynth scripts because the system can't render, but I can't figure out why and how the playable ones are different than the unplayable ....Can someone please help me figure out how to troubleshoot either what my system needs to render the file, or how to reprocess the files through tsmuxer so that they'll play?

[Ghitulescu]

tsmuxer is, guess what, a muxer, it doesn't change the video/audio. The limitation lies in the codec you use (VLC comes with all the codecs, MPC use the external ones).

[Capsbackup]

What has worked for me before is to demux the files that will not play, remux them into a MKV container, and then you should be able to play or reencode them.

[insaneoctane]

Originally Posted by Capsbackup

What has worked for me before is to demux the files that will not play, remux them into a MKV container, and then you should be able to play or reencode them.

Okay, thanks for that suggestion. I will have to try that (just out of curiosity, what app do you use to remux into MKV container?)

I'm hoping to find some tools to help troubleshoot WHAT my system needs to playback the m2ts file(s) in question. It seems very strange that the output from a blu-ray rip (which was only processed with tsmuxer) would NOT be playable on a fresh win 7 ultimate system with both Haali and ffdshow installed. The fact that I can play SOME of the m2ts files just really has me bothered as if I'm almost there. I tried using the graph program and gspot, but neither seems to be able to tell me much, they just can't do anything with the m2ts segments that won't play, so my troubleshooting options have ended (experts?).

[Capsbackup]

I have used MeGui to remux to MKV, but there are others as well... MakeMKV, mkvmerge, etc...
If you are just trying to play these files back on a PC, you can use PowerDVD or TMT3 and just open the .m2ts files with open media file mode.