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Old 10th October 2009, 14:03   #3621  |  Link
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No - the best way is to leave it as is (original resolution). It will work EVEN without transcoding (but the size will be bigger) and it will take just few minutes to process the whole DVD without converting MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC.
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Old 10th October 2009, 14:12   #3622  |  Link
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Ah ok, that's good news, but thinking about the reason I was transcoding to mp4 was to reduce the size of the DVD without losing too much (if at all?) quality. If I'm going to transcode, would it make more sense to transcode to 720x576 ?
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Yes, it will be much better not to resize it - leave it to 720x576. PS3 will do the upscale much better and you can get a really good quality with lower bitrate. Give it a try with bitrate of 1500kbps and profile "turbo". In fact (at least my PS3) there will be no upscale but PS3 will output 576p signal to the TV and no internal upscaling is done.
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Old 10th October 2009, 14:30   #3624  |  Link
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Ok, will try that.

In the meantime my AVCHD with 1280x720 resize now has subtitles with build 707, good work !
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Old 10th October 2009, 15:05   #3625  |  Link
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So tried with 720x576/turbo and at the same bitrate (900kbps) the quality isn't as good in PowerDVD9 than the 1280x720 version, it's blockier. Will play them on my PS3 to see if it's different. Will use USB sticks as renaming on an HD is not very convenient and slower.
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It is blockier because PDVD upscales it and your monitor is probably at least 1280x768. Just give it a try in your PS3 - it will look just fine.
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Old 10th October 2009, 15:37   #3627  |  Link
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I don't know how your question is related to multiAVCHD. The simple answer is that you can't have both original menu and new subtitles.

And in the future, can you do something to have both of these ? I succeeded on having a fully functional menu and a new subtitle, but the bluray disk had only one big m2ts for the movie. I succeeded with something else, not multiavchd.
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There were some additional changes in Menu tab:



Trying to make room for the new options, you now have XMB separated from other menu styles, because there are a lot of options available only for XMB.

Also two new checkboxes are added for XMB: 'Do not trim title names' and 'Do not show title names'. The later is an addition to 'do not show title thumbnails' so you now can have XMB with title names only (no extended info and no thumbnails) - much like a scrollable classic menu with or without chapters.
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Old 10th October 2009, 16:50   #3629  |  Link
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Back after playing the AVCHDs in my PS3 and the 1280x720 is less blocky than the 720x576, maybe because my TV doesn't do a good job at upscaling and it doesn't show the resolution of the input, but you did say the PS3 didn't upsale AVCHDs.

Having said that the quality of the 1280x720 is not very good anyway, pretty far from the DVD, I suppose the 900kbps bitrate isn't good enough, will try the 1500kbps you suggested.
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Yes, Insane profile is not good for DVD/upscaling. Use either '1 pass' or '1 pass fast/turbo'... and with 1280x720 bitrate of 1500 is not good enough (it is ok for 720x576)... Use at least 3000-4000 for 1280x720.
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And in the future, can you do something to have both of these ? I succeeded on having a fully functional menu and a new subtitle, but the bluray disk had only one big m2ts for the movie. I succeeded with something else, not multiavchd.
What you accomplished is a rare case and it is not that easy to implement in a program. If you succeeded - then just try to follow the steps you took. It will work sometimes.
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Old 10th October 2009, 22:29   #3632  |  Link
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Build 707:

* [x] Use 64 bit version of x264 encoder option in Settings tab. It will be available if you have x264_64bit.exe in tools folder (it is included in the last full download).

* [x] Use drop shadow (THM) option in Menu tab - affects "Thumbnail menu"

* Fix for DVD subtitle processing when transcoding a DVD title with resize or framerate conversion options. Subtitles are now properly processed to match the new resolution/fps.

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The [x] option to use the 64 bit version of x264 is greyed out and I just downloaded the full package to be sure and it's still greyed out. I'm using windows 7 64 bit RTM. with a quad-core cpu.

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It will be available if you have x264_64bit.exe in tools folder. I don't know how it could be grayed out if you have the full download.
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Greyed out too here, but no x264_64bit.exe so I am downloading the whole package.
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Old 11th October 2009, 17:07   #3635  |  Link
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It will be available if you have x264_64bit.exe in tools folder. I don't know how it could be grayed out if you have the full download.
There are two x264.exe's in the folder...one's mx264 and the other is just x264, they are different sizes, so I'm assuming the larger (mx264) is the 64 bit version.
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You assume wrong. mx264.exe is 32bit and used for menu creation. Did you actually read my previous posts?
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You assume wrong. mx264.exe is 32bit and used for menu creation. Did you actually read my previous posts?
Sorry, wondered what the "m" was for .

Then that means the 64 bit isn't in the latest download listed on the multiAVCHD website link. That where I got the latest download link from.
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Works for me, any big impact expected with that new setting ?
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Old 11th October 2009, 23:23   #3639  |  Link
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Hi deank,
I hope you could help me with this one:
I am using a Panasonic SD-5 for a year now and for lack of processing power I never got to edit the footage. Just recently I got a new macbook pro and iMovie is fine for my AVCHD needs. Unfortunately, some of my archived files are naked .MTS files (without the original folder structure) - iMovie cannot identify those files. Enters multiAVCHD - After I searched all over the web I found your wonderful app and it seems to do the magic of authoring the files back to their original format.
THE PROBLEM is that everything looks stretched somehow, more than 16:9 (everybody look fat...). I tried checking the "keep 16:9 aspect ration" but no good.
Any suggestions?
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Sorry, wondered what the "m" was for .

Then that means the 64 bit isn't in the latest download listed on the multiAVCHD website link. That where I got the latest download link from.
It's there now...It's not in the link from your website or it wasn't...but the links from the first page of this thread has the correct link and now I have the option.
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