smartLabs tsMuxeR: Transport Stream muxer

[kaag]

Version 1.7.6(b) (http://www.smlabs.net/tsMuxer/tsMuxeR_1.7.6(b).zip)
- Ability to open Blu-ray playlist (MPLS) files added. Also, when MPLS file is opened, chapters list automatically imported.
When MPLS is processed, "Clean Break" for connection_condition=5 correctly processed. It is actually for large playlists (10 M2TS files and more).
- bug fixed: some H.264 streams in version 1.7.1/2/3 did not work in PS3. It is the same problem it was corrected in version 1.7.3. Fixed again.
- bug fixed: Issue with muxing PGS stream from several source files (i.e. append mode) fixed.

Thanks man, absolutely amazing work :)

[Glorioso]

Hope srt import will come in the next version!!!

[Warrex]

Even the DD+/AC3 track demuxed by eac3to has the same delay (I just tried it).

In this case it's actually an audio delay which means the video is starting before the audio, so in order to correct it, either the audio tack would need to be chopped off in the front or a delay would need to be added to the video track.

At this point, the only way I can correct this problem is with eac3to and "eyeballing" the delay. But what good is that really? More like a pain in the ass.

I've only seen one other movie that has things setup this way and it was an HD-DVD, and EVODemux reported the delay correctly.

Maybe you should give the newest version of eac3to a try (see changelog):
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1125176#post1125176

[Warrex]

Version 1.7.6(b) (http://www.smlabs.net/tsMuxer/tsMuxeR_1.7.6(b).zip)
- Ability to open Blu-ray playlist (MPLS) files added. Also, when MPLS file is opened, chapters list automatically imported.
When MPLS is processed, "Clean Break" for connection_condition=5 correctly processed. It is actually for large playlists (10 M2TS files and more).


KILLER FEATURE!!! :thanks:

Would be cool though if tsMuxer could use a more user friendly and informative naming scheme for demuxed files (e.g. "track Info" + Audio Delay). File names are getting really long with mpls referring to multiple source m2ts!

[Threedcoder]

Maybe you should give the newest version of eac3to a try (see changelog):
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1125176#post1125176

Good call. I thought I had the "latest" (as of like Friday night). LOL But it looks like madshi does a good job of posting updates to it.

Thanks for the link.

[yonta]

When MPLS is processed, "Clean Break" for connection_condition=5 correctly processed. It is actually for large playlists (10 M2TS files and more).


Does this mean support for seamless branching movies like Ratatouille?

[Mitchjs]

i just did Ratatouille, didnt watch it yet... but a quick look was fine

i removed all but, video, and eng ac3

everything is in sync

mitch

[Momber]

Hi roman76r!
Thanks for all your hard work on tsMuxeR!

I used 1.7.6(b) today to remux Terminator II (EUR) HD DVD to BluRay (kept VC-1 video and DTS-HD audio).
Unfortunately tsMuxeR introduced corruption into a perfectly good video stream (source is clean).
I tried it twice, once with "remove pulldown" and once without. The corruption was the same each time.

Here is an example:

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3471/snapshot20080414081227yv6.th.jpg (http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot20080414081227yv6.jpg)


The muxer also complained about a total of three "bad DTS-HD frames" which I find highly unlikely.

Regards
S.

[roman76r]

Momber
Can your send example of this movie? 50-100 Mb is enought.

[Lacix]

Hi roman76r,

I'm interested in the "Restore cropped video to full size" option in the General tab page.
Is it a feature developed in the near future ?
Is it possible to add black bars to cropped movies without fully reencoding them to become Blu-ray standard resolution ? (It is the main problem with the use of the AVCHD format.)

Great work.

[drmpeg]

The best I can get is 9500kbps to work on a video with 320kbps (cbr ac3) audio and 2200kbps max video. It generates 1.81Gb file from a ~400mb (vbr m2ts) source... any lower bitrate and it's vbv overlows all over. Perhaps bitrate has to be so high because I'm not setting vbv correctly?


tsmuxer asks for vbv in ms, how does one convert bits to millisecond?
The VBV in seconds would just be vbv size divided by peak bitrate. So a 9,781,248 bit VBV size divided by a 20 Mbps video rate would be about 1/2 second (500 milliseconds).

For Blu-ray, the vbv (or cpb) delay cannot be greater than 1 second.

Ron

[jefrey]

Hi Roman, great work with your new features in tsmuxer,:)
Is it possible to add a feture for using 2 videostreams,like theatrical end + alternative end of a movie,(16 blocks, i am legend like?)

warm regards jef

[wakebrder]

So, no one else is having problems with True-HD?

[roman76r]

lexor

The best I can get is 9500kbps to work on a video with 320kbps (cbr ac3) audio and 2200kbps max video. It generates 1.81Gb file from a ~400mb (vbr m2ts) source... any lower bitrate and it's vbv overlows all over. Perhaps bitrate has to be so high because I'm not setting vbv correctly?

You can use restricted VBR mode instead CBR mode. Setup max bitrate to required value, min bitrate to zerro. This is a mode same as CBR, but muxer does not insert NULL packets to stream.

[lexor]

lexor

You can use restricted VBR mode instead CBR mode. Setup max bitrate to required value, min bitrate to zerro. This is a mode same as CBR, but muxer does not insert NULL packets to stream.

Sweet that worked like a charm. Thanks.

[Majestic06]

What about the .srt support? Any News?

[B4tm4n]

For roman76r.
SkyHD (h264) files are playing with no video just Audio when remuxed with tsMuxer, with all default settings. This is version 1.7.6.
If I go back to version 1.6.3 and remux they play fine with both audio and video.
MKV remux and play fine with the latest version, its just the SkyHD h264 .ts files are not working.

Oh this is playback on a PS3.

Heres a sample of a file pre remux.
http://www.divshare.com/download/4253839-97b


Cheers.







Heres a link to the older version.
http://www.divshare.com/download/4253853-afc

[rendez2k]

I'm new to the software and indeed PS3s. I've tried creating a blue ray disc from an MKV and I get a large green area at the bottom of the screen (fine on PC). I believe its a pixel size issue? Is there any solution to this issue?

Also, whats the best format to output in if I want several movies on one blue ray disc on the PS3?

[arrgh]

Hi,
version 1.76 does not recognize subtitles in VOBs. I assume it's known, but still a pity.
I wanted to fuse 2 DVDs (part 1+2 with 2 audio and 2 subtitiles) to one single BluRay, to spare me the shuffling...
The audio streams are recognized, but not the subpictures.

So I demuxed them with VOBedit and transformed the sup-files (which were not directly readable by tsmuxer) with SUPread to BluRay-format. Those were recognized by tsmuxer. The muxing went ok until the mpls and clipinfo were generated. Here I got the error:

Creation of Blu-ray stream info and seek index.
Bitstream exception.
(Mux complete. Return code: -3)

There is no clipinfo-file generated and the mpls seems to be a little bit short considering, that I wanted to have every 5mins a chapter and the movie has over 3h.

The resulting m2ts-file is processable through TSRemuxer and results in a playable BluRay. But no subpictures are displayed although they are selectable in the menue of PowerDVD.

Regards.

PS: I should mention, that watching the resulting m2ts I realised, that besides of the not displayed subtitles, also the audio-delay during playback changes. While it is ok at the beginning it starts to grow toward the end...
So in prinziple it would be good, if tsmuxer could read directly all streams of a vob file.

[roman76r]

B4tm4n
I have download this file and remux it in versions 1.6.3 and 1.7.6. In both versions file correctly played on PS3.

[B4tm4n]

B4tm4n
I have download this file and remux it in versions 1.6.3 and 1.7.6. In both versions file correctly played on PS3.

I'm getting a blank screen with 1.7.6.
Well if you can't reproduce the error........
Thanks for looking at the sample anyway, I'm running tsMuxer via wine on a Mac maybe the problems with my set up.
Ah well its not a problem for me to use the older version if the newer one fails me.

Cheers again.

[Diodato]

I'm getting a blank screen with 1.7.6.
Well if you can't reproduce the error........
Thanks for looking at the sample anyway, I'm running tsMuxer via wine on a Mac maybe the problems with my set up.
Ah well its not a problem for me to use the older version if the newer one fails me.

Cheers again.Can also confirm that your first sample remuxed with 1.7.6(b) (actually just the picture timing is needed) playsback on a PS3 with v2.20 firmware. Streaming via Tversity v0.9.11.4 (no transcoding of course).

[mg7888]

I have created a BD-5 using the super tool TSMuxer (1.7.3).

Source: MKV x264 1280x528 AC3 5.1

Of course my BD-5 has the (in)famous green bar when played on PS3. M2TS plays in perfect letterbox.

Is a solution or a work around available?

[B4tm4n]

B4tm4n
I have download this file and remux it in versions 1.6.3 and 1.7.6. In both versions file correctly played on PS3.

Can also confirm that your first sample remuxed with 1.7.6(b) (actually just the picture timing is needed) playsback on a PS3 with v2.20 firmware. Streaming via Tversity v0.9.11.4 (no transcoding of course).

I'm getting a blank screen with 1.7.6.
Well if you can't reproduce the error........
Thanks for looking at the sample anyway, I'm running tsMuxer via wine on a Mac maybe the problems with my set up.
Ah well its not a problem for me to use the older version if the newer one fails me.

Cheers again.

Yup tested on a XP machine and it works, so its my Mac setup that was causing the hick up.

Seems the problem started since the .dlls were removed from the folder.

[dbknightx]

I'm curious if LPCM 7.1 is supposed to be supported or not? I've ripped my X-Men- The Last Stand Blu-Ray and am trying to make a .ts file that is compatible with the Popcorn Hour. I took the DTS-HD track (which is 6.1) and converted to WAV with eac3to (it converted to 7.1 I assume by making two copies of the rear channel). I then attempted to use the latest tsMuxer to combine this track, an AC3 track, plus the untouched h264 video stream into a single .ts. It makes it about 48% through the mux and then crashes.

Any clues? Am I trying something unsupported?

Thanks.

-Dave

[Lacix]

I'm new to the software and indeed PS3s. I've tried creating a blue ray disc from an MKV and I get a large green area at the bottom of the screen (fine on PC). I believe its a pixel size issue? Is there any solution to this issue?

Also, whats the best format to output in if I want several movies on one blue ray disc on the PS3?

It is a big issue with converting mkv files to Blu-ray format.
The video resolution in mkvs are mainly not in standard Blu-ray resolutions. (1280x720, 1920x1080)
You need to reencode the video to be able to put into a Blu-ray structure.
There is a forum about this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=135795

[VOLTES2222]

Hi!

Can I Use Tsmuxer To Shrink A Bd-50 To A Bd-25 Disk??

Many Thanks!!

[rendez2k]

It is a big issue with converting mkv files to Blu-ray format.
The video resolution in mkvs are mainly not in standard Blu-ray resolutions. (1280x720, 1920x1080)
You need to reencode the video to be able to put into a Blu-ray structure.
There is a forum about this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=135795

Many thanks for that. Is there a better output format from tsMuxeR that will work better on a PS3?

[Lacix]

Many thanks for that. Is there a better output format from tsMuxeR that will work better on a PS3?
There is the m2ts output. (but for that I would use mkv2vob instead, because it does everything automatically to make the video ps3 compatible.)
On the other side with .m2ts you can only have 1 audio stream (only Dolby Digital, no DTS) and no subtitle on PS3.

The other solution is to make .mp4 (GOTSent), but it only support AAC for audio (more streams). (audio conversion needed. PS3 doesn't support subtitles in .mp4)

[roman76r]

dbknights
I'm curious if LPCM 7.1 is supposed to be supported or not? I've ripped my X-Men- The Last Stand Blu-Ray and am trying to make a .ts file that is compatible with the Popcorn Hour. I took the DTS-HD track (which is 6.1) and converted to WAV with eac3to (it converted to 7.1 I assume by making two copies of the rear channel). I then attempted to use the latest tsMuxer to combine this track, an AC3 track, plus the untouched h264 video stream into a single .ts. It makes it about 48% through the mux and then crashes.

Any clues? Am I trying something unsupported?
LPCM 7.1 is supported. But I don't have any stream example with LPCM 7.1. Can you send me first 50-10Mb of your LPCM track?
Also, please make following test: try to mux file without LPCM track. How you mux LPCM track? As wave file? What size of this file? It is more 4Gb?

[dbknightx]

dbknights
LPCM 7.1 is supported. But I don't have any stream example with LPCM 7.1. Can you send me first 50-10Mb of your LPCM track?
Also, please make following test: try to mux file without LPCM track. How you mux LPCM track? As wave file? What size of this file? It is more 4Gb?
I tried muxing without the LPCM track and it worked fine.

Yes, the LPCM is stored as a WAV. It is larger than 4GB (and I understand that some programs have issues with large WAV files as the format uses a 32-bit value to store the length) but I've never had problems with other 5 or 6 GB WAV files in the past.

I'm happy to cut a chunk of the file and send it to you. Do you have an ftp site I can upload to? Also, is there a utility I can use to cut off a portion of the WAV file?

Thanks again. By the way, your program is AWESOME. It has helped me convert all my HD-DVDs and BluRays to .ts with minimal work on my part.

-Dave

[jagaskywalker]

Hi,

As far as I know you cannot play BD5 or BD9 on the PS3 (fw > 1.80). You can only play AVCHD (on DVD, memory stick or hard disk)

Tsremux generates AVCHD structure (from NERO ?) but, does tsmuxer generate an AVCHD structure or an BD one ?

I generated yesterday with tsmuxer a sample BD, splitting the input m2ts into two 1Gb m2ts files. I copied the resulting BD structure into a FAT32 hard disk, renaming all files to be 8.3 compliant (e.g. m2ts -> MTS), but it did not work in the PS3

When doing something similar with tsremux (except that in that case the output file was a single m2ts) it worked perfectly, identifying the hard disk as "AVCHD" and playing with subtitles etc (VC1 + ac3)

It would be very interesting to be capable of generating AVCHD disk structures, with files > 4 Gb (FAT32 limit) to be played on a hard disk on the PS3....

Any ideas ?

[B4tm4n]

As far as I know you cannot play BD5 or BD9 on the PS3 (fw > 1.80).


I think your wrong on that point.

[roman76r]

momber
I used 1.7.6(b) today to remux Terminator II (EUR) HD DVD to BluRay (kept VC-1 video and DTS-HD audio).
Unfortunately tsMuxeR introduced corruption into a perfectly good video stream (source is clean).
I tried it twice, once with "remove pulldown" and once without. The corruption was the same each time.
I have download your sample and mux it. Video is displayed fine in media player classic with WMVideo decoder. I think what difference VC-1 decoders started on your machine for EVO and TS containers. And second decoder can't decode this stream.

[Adub]

@VOLTES2222
No.

[tyee]

jagaskywalker

Are you saying that you can play VC1 encode on the PS3 from the XMB using an external USB HDD?

I thought the PS3 can only play an x264 file from the USB external HDD, like I do now!!

If this is true, then I will try tsRemux!

[duramaximus]

Hi,

As far as I know you cannot play BD5 or BD9 on the PS3 (fw > 1.80).

I just made a BD9 of I am legend and it played fine on my next door neighbors PS3.

tsMuxeR rocks!!!!!!!!!

[SamuriHL]

I have potentially a stupid question/possible request. Version 1.76 is absolutely brilliant in allowing us to read the mpls! KUDOS for that! However, on Enchanted there are m2ts' that belong to some special features mixed in with the main movie. (001xx=main movie, 004xx=special features). Is there any way we could be allowed to manually massage what's selected? Make some checkboxes around each m2ts file that's read out of the mpls? That way we could manually unselect the ones we don't want to keep. It's just a thought. Thanks!!

[spida_singh]

I have created a BD-5 using the super tool TSMuxer (1.7.3).

Source: MKV x264 1280x528 AC3 5.1

Of course my BD-5 has the (in)famous green bar when played on PS3. M2TS plays in perfect letterbox.

Is a solution or a work around available?

Make sure the resolution is correct, only 1280x720 or 1920x1080 allowed.

You need to use the addBorders avs script, see thread below.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=135795

[wakebrder]

Is anyone else having problems with HD audio?
(True-HD, DTS-HD, etc)

Backups muxed with these audio streams enabled will not play. If the same file is muxed without the audio (or just AC3), it plays just fine.

Any ideas?

[Momber]

roman76r

momber

I have download your sample and mux it. Video is displayed fine in media player classic with WMVideo decoder. I think what difference VC-1 decoders started on your machine for EVO and TS containers. And second decoder can't decode this stream.

I played the corrupted remux in both PowerDVD Ultra and MPC HT with its internal filter (both times with DXVA enabled). The problem was identical. Perhaps it's only visible with DXVA? As you know, the WMVideo Decoder DMO does not use DXVA.
Also, the first instance of corruption occurs after the 100 MB sample I sent you. Perhaps I should provide more material for you to test?

Regards
S.

[roman76r]

Momber
Also, the first instance of corruption occurs after the 100 MB sample I sent you.
Yes. Please, resend sample.

[Momber]

Momber

Yes. Please, resend sample.

Will do - in a couple of days. I'm not at home right now.

S.

[wakebrder]

@ roman76r-

DTS-HD audio will not work with Alien vs. Predator 2. Since this is the only English soundtrack for the movie, it creates a problem. I have tried muxing just the DTS-HD stream by itself and checking downconvert to DTS with no luck. If I try to demux, I get a return code -2.

On the movie "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead", DTS-HD worked flawlessly.:confused:

Roman76r, if you have an FTP I could upload a small clip of AVP2 as well an example of True-HD not working in a number of films. (Walk Hard, I Am Legend, etc.) Could you take a look?

Also, is there a way to generate a log file with tsMuxer? Or is there anything else I can post to help?

Thanks for the great program!

[amdxpdevil]

Reman76r the newest version of tsMuxeR 1.7.6b

when demux .ts remux with LPCM sound track that bigger than 4G, it will split into 2 files or .WAV. Can remux it back into one track. Is this a bug or ?

Thanks!

[jeppe]

There seems to be an issue with 384k 2.0 AC3 - I can't get tsmuxer to accept such tracks. Not from Matroska nor from raw ac3 files. Or is that just me?

[fbd]

There seems to be an issue with 384k 2.0 AC3 - I can't get tsmuxer to accept such tracks. Not from Matroska nor from raw ac3 files. Or is that just me?

+1

I have the same issue with 384k 2.0 AC3...

Franck

[jagaskywalker]

Hi,

Wrt my previous post (see below) I made a mistake. The files I copied to the hard disk were still with the four letter extension.

According to the AVCHD specification, the files on a built-in hard disk or a MS/SD card have to be named as 8.3 files. That means the streams are called .mts. The following changes are needed:
o index.bdmv -> INDEX.BDM
o MovieObject.bdmv -> MOVIEOBJ.BDM
o *.mpls -> *.MPL
o *.clpi -> *.CPI
o *.m2ts->*.MTS

(source http://forums.pinnaclesys.com/forums/permalink/150878/152962/ShowThread.aspx#152962)

You have to put the full BD disk structure within a AVCHD folder in the external USB hard disk root.

When doing this I WAS ABLE to play a VC1/ac3/subtitles AVCHD from the hard disk. It was created using tsmuxer, splitting the original "big" BD file on smaller chunks (FAT32 compatible).

I did not try with a full BD, but it should work w/o problems.

This is a great way of playing BDs in PS3 without the need of a BD burner. Of course you do not have menus, and I do not know whether all audio codecs are supported (we may start collecting what works and what doesn't)

It would be good if tsmuxer could create the structure directly with the 8.3 files (as an option for the BD creation).

Concerning whether the PS3 can play BD5 or BD9... I believe tsremux is not creating BDs but AVCHDs..... (like tsremux), and this is why it works... I have a BD9 DVD that I burnt with tsremux (early times of tsremux) that was working in PS3 (fw 1.8) identifying it as BDMV. With later versions it does not work.


Hi,

As far as I know you cannot play BD5 or BD9 on the PS3 (fw > 1.80). You can only play AVCHD (on DVD, memory stick or hard disk)

Tsremux generates AVCHD structure (from NERO ?) but, does tsmuxer generate an AVCHD structure or an BD one ?

I generated yesterday with tsmuxer a sample BD, splitting the input m2ts into two 1Gb m2ts files. I copied the resulting BD structure into a FAT32 hard disk, renaming all files to be 8.3 compliant (e.g. m2ts -> MTS), but it did not work in the PS3

When doing something similar with tsremux (except that in that case the output file was a single m2ts) it worked perfectly, identifying the hard disk as "AVCHD" and playing with subtitles etc (VC1 + ac3)

It would be very interesting to be capable of generating AVCHD disk structures, with files > 4 Gb (FAT32 limit) to be played on a hard disk on the PS3....

Any ideas ?

[jefrey]

@jaga, why change a running system? my bd5/bd9 works fine, all of them were created with tsmuxer ;)

[jagaskywalker]

I am not sure what you mean by "change a running system". I only suggest to add an additional option to save the files in 8.3 format, so we can copy them in an external FAT32 hard disk and play them with the PS3

tsmuxer works well.

My feeling is that it is producing AVCHD, instead of BD (but maybe I am wrong, I have no bluray burner so I do not know if when burnt on a BD disk it appears as BDMV in the PS3, or as AVCHD.....)

J