Planet Earth HD-DVD to m2ts

[ca197]

I am trying to convert my HD-DVD version of Planet Earth to something that I can use on my computer and eventually burn to Blu-Ray when I get a Drive. I have followed various guides but to no avail.

Basically I have "EvoDemuxed" the "AnyDVD" ripped HD-DVD to a vc1 and ac3 elementary stream. The files both play back fine in PowerDVD. I then used "TSmuxeR" to create an m2ts file of both the streams but the end result had choppy playback. As such I ran the VC1 through "Vc1conv" and then muxed agian. No luck still choppy. I tried just muxing the VC1 stream (vc1conv and normal) but this wouldn;t play back at all.

Vc1 stream:

General #0
Complete name : E:\PEVOB001.VC-1.stream.0.mpv
Format : VC-1
File size : 7.06 GiB

Video #0
Codec : VC-1
Codec profile : Advanced@3
Width : 1920 pixels
Height : 1080 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Interlaced

Repaired VC1:

General #0
Complete name : D:\PE_Coverted_24.vc1
Format : VC-1
File size : 7.06 GiB

Video #0
Codec : VC-1
Codec profile : Advanced@3
Width : 1920 pixels
Height : 1080 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 24.000 fps
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive

Ac3 stream:

General #0
Complete name : D:\HDDVDtempstore_c0.ac3
Format : AC3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
File size : 164 MiB
PlayTime : 51mn 10s
Bit rate : 448 Kbps

Audio #0
Codec : AC3
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Rear: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48 KHz

I think what's interesting is that both the video files playback fine outside of the TS or M2TS file. I thought it could be the audio but running it through Eac3to doesn;t help (results in the same file)

Any help would be greatfully received

Cheers

Chris

[QuadcoreHD]

Download the newest version of TSmuxer and check "Create Blu-Ray Disk" when muxing. Once the BDMV folder is created convert the entire folder to an .iso with Imgburn. Mount that image with Daemon tools (or equivalent virtual drive/mounting program and it will play back fine.

[ca197]

That worked a charm, Cheers mate much appreciated.

Question: Why does the M2TS file not play without the Blu-ray disk stuff around it?

Cheers Again

Chris

[QuadcoreHD]

Honestly I have no idea, and I've asked the exact same question in other threads and never really recieved an answer. I'm not saying thats a short-comming of doom9, I just think nobody really has a good answer at this point.

PS im hopping somebody sees this post, gets annoyed and finally answers the question : )