smartLabs tsMuxeR: Transport Stream muxer

[Deckard2019]

I need to delete end credits from a movie to make it fit into a BD-R 25.
But there's a small scene at the end : MOVIE -> CREDITS -> SCENE.
What would be the best way to do this ?
Thank you.

[turbojet]

I haven't tried but maybe cut out movie with the streams you want, output to m2ts, cut credits with the same streams you want, output to m2ts, load movie m2ts and append credits m2ts.
I've appeneded multiple files before and all was ok except for subtitles in the parts after the first file didn't work.

[Butterfly666]

I have a complete bdmv and certificate of a movie with menu. It plays fine on pc but I want to play this with menu on a extern hd on the
ps3.
So first I make a new AVCHD with TSmuxer to split the m2ts and rename the stream with AVCHD-me. Then I copy all the files CLIPINFO, BDJO, BACKUP etc of the orginal movie to the maps that Tsmuxer made. I renamed CLIPINFO, BDJO, BACKUP also with avchd me but when playing I get no video.
Has anyone done this before to play AVCHD with menu?
Please help me out!

[G_M_C]

Google translation.
[...]
A_AC3 - DD (AC3) / DD (E-AC3) / True HD (True HD only tracks with AC3 core inside).
[...]

Has anyone allready tested the TrueHD capabillities ? The earliers version didn't work correctly.

Sorry to say that i have no current samples to test.

However i have allready made a DB9 with DTS-MA, and can confirm it works (it plays like it should on my Pana bd30 at least). But i had to tweak some settings to get it right, so I'll have to do some more testing to be shure on the "how to".

[rica]

Has anyone allready tested the TrueHD capabillities ? The earliers version didn't work correctly.

Sorry to say that i have no current samples to test.

However i have allready made a DB9 with DTS-MA, and can confirm it works (it plays like it should on my Pana bd30 at least). But i had to tweak some settings to get it right, so I'll have to do some more testing to be shure on the "how to".

The first question was the same for me and i gave it a go.
You still need a second pass with TSremux to get a working TrueHD BD.

[russellhq]

First off, great program! Has saved me a lot of bother.

Having a bit of trouble though. I get this error on some of the mkv files I've tried converting:

Matroska parse error: Read error at pos: 57546323

This mkv is h264 with AC3 audio. Is there any way I can scan the mkv to check if it has any errors and fix them? Or is this a problem with tsMuxeR?

[kaid]

I have a complete bdmv and certificate of a movie with menu. It plays fine on pc but I want to play this with menu on a extern hd on the
ps3.
So first I make a new AVCHD with TSmuxer to split the m2ts and rename the stream with AVCHD-me. Then I copy all the files CLIPINFO, BDJO, BACKUP etc of the orginal movie to the maps that Tsmuxer made. I renamed CLIPINFO, BDJO, BACKUP also with avchd me but when playing I get no video.
Has anyone done this before to play AVCHD with menu?
Please help me out!

This will most certainly not work. I do not know this program AVCHD me and what it does, but if you only replace .m2ts files it will not work, because .clpi files in CLIPINFO and .mpls files in PLAYLIST need to match the specs and length of the m2ts files exactly in order for the AVCHD to play, so you cannot use them with the m2ts' tsmuxer split.

Also, even if you get it to play, you will most likely get problems with the bitrate, since AVCHD only allows up to 16MBit streams, and BDs are usually a higher bitrate...

Try my script (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141173) if you want an AVCHD with menu, though in your case it's probably not the kind of menu you're after... ;-)

P.S: New version out. Hooray! Only Windows again - boo! Linux version still b0rked in BD muxing...

[kaid]

First off, great program! Has saved me a lot of bother.

Having a bit of trouble though. I get this error on some of the mkv files I've tried converting:



This mkv is h264 with AC3 audio. Is there any way I can scan the mkv to check if it has any errors and fix them? Or is this a problem with tsMuxeR?

Yeah, just use a hexeditor that can edit files of any size and go to the offset given (57546323 = 0x36E1653)..
I've found nice fat holes of zeroes right in the middle of some mkvs that both players and demuxers just quit upon reaching, beats me how these got there!

If yours is like this and the index is fine (=you can skip through it alright): don't delete those zeroes, or it will mess up your index! copypaste something over them from the rest of the mkv so that the byte length of the file remains unchanged. This will result in a few bad frames, but at least players and demuxers should be able to demux the whole stream!...

[SwissyJim]

dumb question...

in a blu ray with multiple m2tsfiles as opposed to one (forgetting Sarah Marshall) to strip out all the BS and have just the movie/soundtrack, how do you do this? Append each file into the list? there's over 100! I tried just one file and it only did that one file... how do you select ALL files?

[jofarmer]

dumb question...

in a blu ray with multiple m2tsfiles as opposed to one (forgetting Sarah Marshall) to strip out all the BS and have just the movie/soundtrack, how do you do this? Append each file into the list? there's over 100! I tried just one file and it only did that one file... how do you select ALL files?

What you want to do is find out, which parts and in which order make up the movie (Usually 1-5, but never 100 - thats loads of spicials, making-ofs and the like), then take the first one and append the others in the correct order..

[yonta]

Use BDInfo (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/BDInfo) or eac3to (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/eac3to)(just type 'eac3to' in the folder) to find out which playlist is the main movie.
And, load the playlist(.mpls) in tsMuxeR.

[SwissyJim]

thanks... BDinfo did it for me. found the playlist by time length, opened that list in TSmuxerGUI and it added all needed files (ver 1.8.8)

:thanks:

[Staz]

I am attempting to use tsmuxer to convert mkv to m2ts. It usually works great but recently came across a file that was giving me problems. It cannot detect the stream type of the audio track.

$ wine tsMuxeR.exe audio.ac3
SmartLabs tsMuxeR. Version 1.8.8(b) http://www.smlabs.net
Can't detect stream type

The following is a snippet from 'mkvinfo video.mkv':


| + Track number: 1
| + Track UID: 3195133940
| + Track type: audio
| + Enabled: 1
| + Default flag: 1
| + Forced flag: 0
| + Lacing flag: 1
| + MinCache: 0
| + Timecode scale: 1.000000
| + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
| + Codec ID: A_AC3
| + Codec decode all: 1
| + Default duration: 32.000ms (31.250 fps for a video track)
| + Language: und
| + Audio track
| + Sampling frequency: 48000.000000
| + Channels: 6


$ mediainfo audio.ac3
General
Complete name : audio.ac3
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
File size : 115 MiB
Duration : 42mn 2s
Overall bit rate : 384 Kbps

Audio
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz


VLC is able to play the extracted audio track just fine.

Has anyone got any ideas as to why the audio track is not being detected by tsmuxer?

Thanks!

[B4tm4n]

I am attempting to use tsmuxer to convert mkv to m2ts. It usually works great but recently came across a file that was giving me problems. It cannot detect the stream type of the audio track.

VLC is able to play the extracted audio track just fine.

Has anyone got any ideas as to why the audio track is not being detected by tsmuxer?

Thanks!


Use MKVtools to chop off the first second of the MKV file then try it again in tsMuxer, it should work.

[prophetizer]

this program works fantastic for remuxxing and streaming files on ps3 as i'm sure has been posted on this thread several times. for the first time i encountered something strange, it remuxxed the MKV no prob, plays on my PC no prob, only plays about 60seconds of the 40 minute file on my ps3 when i stream, any ideas?

[hedpe]

hi all, the documentation of this application for linux is a little bit poor :(
I read the google translation and attempted to do my best.

I have a m2ts and all I want to do is split it into 4gib parts. Nothing else.

can anyone provide some help? the --split-size doesn't want to work unless it is actually encoding.

[snakeDVD]

Hi!!

I have a problem! The conversion works GREAT but I want the get subtitles in the movir when I watch them on my PS3. How do I do that?

Would be very grateful for the help I can get!

Thanx!

[malgates]

Hi,

posted it already as a seperate topic but no answers.

I used RipBot264 to reencode my HDDVDs. But unfortunately it only supports 1 audiostream.

So I added a second ac3 stream (encoded it with eac3to) but neither PowerDVD nor my PS3 will recognise the second stream. But VLC will recognise and play it. I used the tsmuxer to add the stream.

did I do s.th. wrong? Maybe someone can help me.

regards

[rica]

Hi!!

I have a problem! The conversion works GREAT but I want the get subtitles in the movir when I watch them on my PS3. How do I do that?

Would be very grateful for the help I can get!

Thanx!

Did you select "subtitle on-off" on your PS3?

[G_M_C]

I've got the same idea;

Whem muxing thru tsMuxeR, you'll allways have to manually select the subtitles to display. Is it not possibe to mux it in a way that the first subtitle is allways swiched "ON" automatically, rather than having to switch it on myself ?

[prophetizer]

i notice sometimes when u remux an MKV to stream on PS3, that when it only plays like the first 30-60 seconds the PS3 is reporting that the video size is really small in comparison to what it really is on the PC. for instance, an MKV i remuxxed the other day, was 1.2GB on the PC, played fine on PC, but ps3 says it's only 11MB

[odin24]

Does tsMuxeR support chapter names (text and numerical values)?

EDIT: Nevermind, this doesn't work for the PS3.

[kaid]

Please, please, please, roman, listen to our pleads: The BD muxing in Linux DOES NOT WORK! It quits with "Can't create file /muxdir/BDMV/Stream/000001.m2ts" Since STREAM is in caps, it's obvious case sensitivity is the reason it won't work. It's just a simple change of strings, please fix it! I need this to work because I am planning to write a tutorial how to do make your own AVCHDs in Linux! ;-)

Edit: I was now able to work around the bug by creating the /Stream directory manually (see this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141803)), but output seems b0rked, the PS3 tells me "illegal disc format" when I try to play it... So it seems to be more than just case-sensitivity!

[kaid]

Hi!!

I have a problem! The conversion works GREAT but I want the get subtitles in the movir when I watch them on my PS3. How do I do that?

Would be very grateful for the help I can get!

Thanx!

You can't. Subtitles aren't supported in the XMB (let's just feel lucky we have AC3, and that's only due to the cameras actually recording in AC3! ;-). For subtitles you need to mux to BD/AVCHD (which also supports DTS and multiple audio, hello malgates!) which is played either from a FAT32 device or optical disc, and for this to work the video-size and FPS need to be within certain limits. e.g. video needs to be exactly 1280x720 or 1920x1080, and 25fps isn't supported...
So if your stuff is cropped, you're shit outta luck!

[kaid]

I've got the same idea;

Whem muxing thru tsMuxeR, you'll allways have to manually select the subtitles to display. Is it not possibe to mux it in a way that the first subtitle is allways swiched "ON" automatically, rather than having to switch it on myself ?

I'll just assume you're talking about AVCHD now! ;-)
Yes, this should be possible (with AVCHD!).. once we find out more about the clipinf and mpls files! ;-) I have the tsremux source here, let's see what I can gather from that...

[kaid]

hi all, the documentation of this application for linux is a little bit poor :(
I read the google translation and attempted to do my best.

I have a m2ts and all I want to do is split it into 4gib parts. Nothing else.

can anyone provide some help? the --split-size doesn't want to work unless it is actually encoding.

encoding? since when does tsmuxer have an avc encoder built in? Are you sure you're not talking about mkv2vob?
anyhow, split-size works for me, although i never tried this in the Linux-version... which has b0rked BD/AVCHD muxing anyway!

My 2 cents: don't bother with splitting for FAT32, it's just ugly. Keep it in one file and stream it via uPnP/DLNA! If you get a bigger internal HD for your PS3 you can also copy them over like this, just press Triangle in your uPnP-server! ;-)

It's about time Sony added NTFS support.. My guess is that the large majority of external drives meanwhile are NTFS formatted.. Oh, and ext3 and hfs would be cool, too! ;-D

[malgates]

Hi,

posted it already as a seperate topic but no answers.

I used RipBot264 to reencode my HDDVDs. But unfortunately it only supports 1 audiostream.

So I added a second ac3 stream (encoded it with eac3to) but neither PowerDVD nor my PS3 will recognise the second stream. But VLC will recognise and play it. I used the tsmuxer to add the stream.

did I do s.th. wrong? Maybe someone can help me.

regards

Has noone had this problem before?

[ixy]

Hi,

I try tsMuxeR to change my BluRays and put to them new subtitles. tsMuxeR do it great but...

when I put remuxed file back to BluRay structure and try make BD-RE backup everything is good (UDF 2.5) and I have two results:

1. Files whithout menus are playing great both on PowerDVD and PS3 (with new subtitles).

2. File with menus are playing great with PowerDVD (with new subtitles) but on PS3 I play all menus and untouched files but edited one has "black screen" result (I only can return to top menu).

Any ideas???

[kaid]

Has noone had this problem before?

I did answer your question above, please read more carefully! XMB = only one audiotrack

[kaid]

Hi,

2. File with menus are playing great with PowerDVD (with new subtitles) but on PS3 I play all menus and untouched files but edited one has "black screen" result (I only can return to top menu).

Any ideas???

Most likely you have encoded the menu with 25fps and you have a monitor which does not support that (like mine!)...

I have yet to figure out if this is true for any HDCP monitor or just mine, but I get a black screen in AVCHDs with anything that has 25 or 50 fps!
Works fine on my friend's beamer though, but he uses component output, so maybe that's why...

All these questions have been asked countless times before... The problem is that all the information about PS3 and H.264 replay is out there, it's just scattered all over the net! Someone needs to write a coherent FAQ and make a sticky. I would volunteer to do this if people think that's a good idea...

[Deckard2019]

Is there a way to set a default subtitle track to be displayed in the final created BluRay ?
With PS3 I must activate subtitle track manually each time. Thank you.

[shon3i]

I have a problem, but I'm not sure whether the SmartLabs TSMuxeR guilty or Elecard Buffer analyzer?

H264 Stream produced by x264 rev 999 raw h264

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9602/origfm5.jpghttp://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6407/reportozx1.jpg

H264 Stream after muxing with SmartLabs TSMuxeR also demuxed with TSMuxeR, but the same is with eac3to.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/10/demuxediv6.jpghttp://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1913/reportdmn3.jpg

Why?

[kaid]

Shameless plug: If you use Linux/MacOS X and want to mux AVCHD/BD (TsMuxer/Linux is broken for this!), see this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141855).

[B4tm4n]

Shameless plug: If you use Linux/MacOS X and want to mux AVCHD/BD (TsMuxer/Linux is broken for this!), see this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141855).

I use TsMuxer under OS X daily with no problems.
You just run it under wine (Crossover), I think it would work with Linux aswell.

[kaid]

I use TsMuxer under OS X daily with no problems.
You just run it under wine (Crossover), I think it would work with Linux aswell.

Yeah, in fucking emulation.. Who needs a Mac- or Linux-solution when we can emulate Windows, right? ;-) Hooray, people can just go on supporting Windows only and everyone's happy!

Sorry, but I don't roll that way... Prolly because I've been using Macs since before Intel...

[EPiPH0NE]

Hooray, people can just go on supporting Windows only and everyone's happy!



Yup, I'm a PC :D

[kaid]

Yup, I'm a PC :D

Hehe, yeah, I have to cover my eyes in shame when i see Apple's braindead stupid fucking ads, the ones that *only* get Maczealots jeering while the PC crowd (which is btw the official target group! 8) just feels offended and thinks "this is dumb!".. The one sentence I always think of when seeing these is "DON'T MENTION THE GAMES!", kinda like the English are told "Don't mention the war!" when they talk to Germans! ;-D

[binky]

I'm very impressed with the speed of tsMuxer when joining .mt2ts files. It takes 2 hrs 40 secs using Nero 8 to combine 30 files totaling 20 minutes of footage, while tsMuxer did this in 1 min 30 sec. Unfortunately it has a fatal flaw that will prevent me from using it. The audio and video become increasingly out of sync the longer the video runs. I tried using several versions of the tool including 1.8.8b with the same result. I also tried joining several different files with the same result. The .m2ts files are taken from a Canon Vixia HF100. Any ideas as to when this bug will get fixed?

Thanks

[G_M_C]

Yup, I'm a PC :D

Just a tip: I'd remove your signature if I were you; I refers to, or at least gives the idea of referring to, less-than-legal MKV downloads ;)

[EPiPH0NE]

Just a tip: I'd remove your signature if I were you; I refers to, or at least gives the idea of referring to, less-than-legal MKV downloads ;)

LOL.........These are NOT MKV DL's. Nor can they be DL'ed anywhere.......It's my life imitating my art :devil:

[G_M_C]

LOL.........These are NOT MKV DL's. Nor can they be DL'ed anywhere.......It's my life imitating my art :devil:

That might be, but i don't want this board to be "found by Paramount's army-or-lawyers". They dont care if it is true or not ....

[madshi]

I'm very impressed with the speed of tsMuxer when joining .mt2ts files. It takes 2 hrs 40 secs using Nero 8 to combine 30 files totaling 20 minutes of footage, while tsMuxer did this in 1 min 30 sec. Unfortunately it has a fatal flaw that will prevent me from using it. The audio and video become increasingly out of sync the longer the video runs. I tried using several versions of the tool including 1.8.8b with the same result. I also tried joining several different files with the same result. The .m2ts files are taken from a Canon Vixia HF100. Any ideas as to when this bug will get fixed?
Try using eac3to to demux the raw video and audio streams from the original m2ts files and then mux everything back to m2ts with tsMuxeR. That should probably get rid of the audio desync problems.

[GZZ]

anyone know the solution to this problem in TSMuxer. After creating a bluray structure I get this error:

Bitstream exception. It does not have to be! Plase contact the application support team for more information.

The other info in the log is the follwing:

SmartLabs tsMuxeR. Version 1.8.8(b) http://www.smlabs.net
Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: High@4.1 Resolution: 1920:1080p Frame rate: 25
Decoding DTS stream (track 2): Bitrate: 1536Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 6
H264 bitstream changed: insert pict timing and buffering period SEI units
Processed 192581 video frames
Creation of Blu-ray playlist
Creation of Blu-ray stream info and seek index

I have muxed lots of movies like this, but for some reason it give me this error.

I have tried playing the files in powerdvd 8, but it freeze when trying to open the files. the M2TS file plays fine in Media player classic. Any ideas on why it gives me this error ?

It only happen when the output is bluray, if I create a M2TS file from the above video/audio it dosent complain.

[The_Unknown]

Hello, I have some problems with TSMuxer 1.8.4:

I have several BDs here and want to backup them using AnyDVD HD and TSMuxer.
I ripped them all to my hard drive, which worked well. Then I loaded the movie playlist from the first BD into TSMuxer and unchecked all unwanted language audio streams. Then I remuxed it back to *.m2ts. Everything worked well.

But when I make an ISO out of that it won't work. I think it's because I deleted languages which were linked in the menu, which seems to be a problem.

Am I doing something wrong here ? Has someone of you guys ripped a Blu-Ray with menu and extras and deleted some languages and it worked well ?

Help would be really great.

[G_M_C]

anyone know the solution to this problem in TSMuxer. After creating a bluray structure I get this error:



The other info in the log is the follwing:



I have muxed lots of movies like this, but for some reason it give me this error.

I have tried playing the files in powerdvd 8, but it freeze when trying to open the files. the M2TS file plays fine in Media player classic. Any ideas on why it gives me this error ?

It only happen when the output is bluray, if I create a M2TS file from the above video/audio it dosent complain.

The last time this happened I had to cut of 2 secs off the end. Go to the tab split&cut and enter "-2" as cut at the end.

[GZZ]

The last time this happened I had to cut of 2 secs off the end. Go to the tab split&cut and enter "-2" as cut at the end.


I just tried that. But even if I cut off 500 sec I still get the error, properly a bug in my video file after encoding.

[kaid]

Hello, I have some problems with TSMuxer 1.8.4:

I have several BDs here and want to backup them using AnyDVD HD and TSMuxer.
I ripped them all to my hard drive, which worked well. Then I loaded the movie playlist from the first BD into TSMuxer and unchecked all unwanted language audio streams. Then I remuxed it back to *.m2ts. Everything worked well.

But when I make an ISO out of that it won't work. I think it's because I deleted languages which were linked in the menu, which seems to be a problem.

Am I doing something wrong here ? Has someone of you guys ripped a Blu-Ray with menu and extras and deleted some languages and it worked well ?


Seeing how TsMuxer totally does not accept any full BD structure I kinda wonder how you even went about doing that?
You do know that .m2ts just like that can't be burned as BD or AVCHD? And that simply replacing them in the original structure will never work? Neither will BD muxing and then also replacing .mpls and .clpi files, btw!..

[nwg]

Seeing how TsMuxer totally does not accept any full BD structure I kinda wonder how you even went about doing that?
You do know that .m2ts just like that can't be burned as BD or AVCHD? And that simply replacing them in the original structure will never work? Neither will BD muxing and then also replacing .mpls and .clpi files, btw!..

I don't think he did that.

It sounds like he has done what I hav done. Rip the whole BD to the HD then loaded a playlist into TSmuxer and stripped unwanted audio/subs to a new m2ts file. The result is a single m2ts file or a complete new BD file structure with just that single m2ts file.

[The_Unknown]

I don't think he did that.

It sounds like he has done what I hav done. Rip the whole BD to the HD then loaded a playlist into TSmuxer and stripped unwanted audio/subs to a new m2ts file. The result is a single m2ts file or a complete new BD file structure with just that single m2ts file.
This is exactly what I did. But it isn't possible to keep the menu and the extras. It's only possible to build a whole new BD structure with only the m2ts file. Only editing the main movie m2ts in my existing BD structure won't bring success :(

[GZZ]

The last time this happened I had to cut of 2 secs off the end. Go to the tab split&cut and enter "-2" as cut at the end.

Second try. I found out that if I split the output into 2 or 4 GB files when creating a Bluray structure using TSMuxer 1.8.8b dosent give me this error:
Bitstream exception. It does not have to be! Plase contact the application support team for more information.

and the movie plays fine in Powerdvd.

Anyone know the reason why splitting the bluray will result in a working bluray. Is this a bug in TSMuxer ?