popBD - simple MKV/*TS/MPEG to AVCHD/BD tool - split to 2 (BD5/BD9) volumes supported

[turbojet]

Not all BD players like AUXDATA either so there really needs to be an option.
Every retail BD I've played on my computer works like it should, shouldn't we strive to match this when encoding?

[deank]

Yes, "BD", not AVCHD. And the time put in BD production is more than 3 minutes processin' someones MKV file, don't you agree.

And about AUXDATA... it is a standard... you asked me to remove the folder because of SAMSUNG players... Too many different versions of applying BD and AVCHD standard. AVCHD doesn't have such folder.

[turbojet]

Technically these are BD's it's outputting but I'm not going to discuss that again, to sum it up AVCHD uses an AVCHD folder in root, 8.3 naming, doesn't allow video bitrates above 15 MB\s and doesn't allow DTS.

I asked for an option to remove the folder, default is it keeps it. You are right AVCHD doesn't have that folder.

[deank]

I'll add those as options. I just find myself stranded between a lot of projects (@work) and I still try to find time for the pleasure-ones

[turbojet]

I understand, no rush.

[turbojet]

I've gotten this error on 2 different m2ts file inputs (both have h.264, multiple sups and original chapters) 1 has AC3 other has DTS.

(RT) Floating point division by zero - Line 23 (It's line 21 if original chapters is unchecked)

It seems to happen right after mediainfo. They both work ok in tsmuxer.

[deank]

You probably meant MKV not m2ts, right?

[deank]

Updated links to version 0.2.

Added ISO creation with imgburn and option to keep/remove AUXDATA.
The destination for .iso file is input mkv folder/drive.



You can download the exe only from the first post.

[deank]

I just added option for keeping/removing subtitles from MKV files as it seems sometimes tsmuxer has problems with such streams and gives error:

"52.7% complete
Can't convert source text to UTF-16. Invalid chars sequence. "

and then stops.

So, just download the .exe.

[deank]

Also (as requested) a drop-down with split sizes for DVD5/DVD9/BD25/No split/Custom split size is added.

[turbojet]

I meant m2ts but maybe it's not intended to input m2ts files?

Thanks for the new version.

[deank]

Right. It is for MKV ONLY.

[deank]

Version 0.3:

* Added support for MPEG/MPG/M2TS/MTS/TS files
* Support for external chapters
* Support for external audio tracks for mpeg/ts/m2ts

If using MPEG input, audio has to be AC3 (not MPEG1/2) as no conversion is supported for audio streams.
The same is for other video types - their audio streams have to be AC3/DTS/LPCM.

Almost all requests are now fulfilled.

[deank]

Exe update only:

you can now leave TARGET and TEMP fields empty. Input filename/path will be used for both.

movie-test.mkv:

Target will be: popBD_movie-test\

Temp will be: popBD_TEMP_movie-test\

[turbojet]

Thanks but must it be prefixed with popBD?

Also I see 'Keep MKV embeded SRT/SSA subtitles' but it keeps SUP from M2TS too from my tests. Wouldn't 'Keep embbeded SRT/SSA/SUP subtitles' make more sense?

[deank]

I'll remove popBD prefix.. and embedded SUP is never removed, so I'd rather have it this way, as its primary purpose is to avoid problems with utf8/16 subtitles in mkvs. Download the exe again.

[turbojet]

Oh I see, I understand now.

[Killerattacks]

OK, a question by a newbie here. I want to burn a 1080p .mkv file with .ssa soft-subtitles to DVD. To my knowledge the video needs to be reencoded, so that the soft-subs get hardcoded. Because AFAIK the ps3 doesn't accept any kind of softsubs for AVCHD-DVD, but as I already said my knowledge is limited.

So I checked the "Keep MKV embedded SRT/SSA" subtitles option thinking that reencoding the subtitles into the videostream would be the result. After the process finished (only remuxing something, no reencoding) I opened the resulting 00001.m2ts with VLC and MPC HC, but as I suspected there are no subtitles.

What did I wrong?

EDIT

OK, I have a guess. When I open the original .mkv with mediainfo the log shows:

Text
ID                               : 3
Format                           : ASS
Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info                    : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Language                         : English

So it's no.ssa, but .ass subtitle-stream. Doesn't change much for me as the user, because they are "just soft-subs" to me, but maybe they need to be handled in a different way by popBD? No idea.

[deank]

Subtitles are not hardcoded - they are in a separate stream in the m2ts file. You will see them once you play the DISC in your PS3 or when you play it with TMT or NeroSHowtime NOT VLC

Post back when you test it... just don't use regular players but your PS3 (with DVD disk or USB) or TotalMediaTheater or Nero Showtime or...


And SSA and ASS is one and the same: SubStation Alpha / Alpha SubStation.

[Killerattacks]

hey, you are right. That's really cool. But I have a little bit of trouble with that solution too. for example when the subtitle should be just "Text" it becomes "{/i1} Text {/0}" and other things like this. Or at another point the original subtitle is somewhat styled and has a different location and says "Text" but becomes unstyled and is at the default position (hey, that's fine with me) but all you can read is "{\fad(150".