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mic

2nd June 2010, 00:07

I just tried to backup [re-author mode - no editing] my Avatar BD and got an error at "preparing menu" stage - now I am left with ~90GB in the destination AVCHD folder where as the source is only 45.4GB after nearly 10 hours of just splitting and re-mapping - anyone else run into this?

I honestly don't know if this *might* be related or apply or anything, but the DVD/BD set we bought apparently had a bad BD disc from the start -- it crashed PowerDVD & CinePlayer BD & when I tried to redo the movie to get something that would play, DGIndex, V/Dub, Vegas, & every other app I tried froze too. On my hdd there was 1 part of the file that was bad -- same place, several rips.

deank

2nd June 2010, 06:54

I just tried to backup [re-author mode - no editing] my Avatar BD and got an error at "preparing menu" stage - now I am left with ~90GB in the destination AVCHD folder where as the source is only 45.4GB after nearly 10 hours of just splitting and re-mapping - anyone else run into this?

1) There is no "preparing menu" stage in re-author mode.
2) multiAVCHD cannot handle multi-versions of a movie (branched titles). It is clearly stated in this post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1361598#post1361598).

In re-author mode features as PIP (Picture-in-Picture) are not supported (yet). Blu-ray titles, featuring alternate endings with branched playlists may or may not work as expected (either one branch will work or you will get huge oversize, having both/all versions in the final compilation). I don't have such titles to test with. TextST (subtitles) should work.

sreemv

2nd June 2010, 07:27

Thanks for the reply Dean!

1) There is no "preparing menu" stage in re-author mode.

Sorry but thats the last thing I see in the multiAVCHD.log file:

[09:19:29] Preparing menu pages...

[09:19:29] Encoding Title List menu page [1/16].
[09:19:58] Encoding Title List menu page [2/16].
[09:20:08] Encoding Title List menu page [3/16].
[09:20:19] Encoding Title List menu page [4/16].
[09:20:29] Encoding Title List menu page [5/16].
[09:20:39] Encoding Title List menu page [6/16].
[09:20:49] Encoding Title List menu page [7/16].
[09:20:59] Encoding Title List menu page [8/16].
[09:21:09] Encoding Title List menu page [9/16].
[09:21:19] Encoding Title List menu page [10/16].
[09:21:29] Encoding Title List menu page [11/16].
[09:21:40] Encoding Title List menu page [12/16].
[09:21:50] Encoding Title List menu page [13/16].
[09:22:00] Encoding Title List menu page [14/16].
[09:22:11] Encoding Title List menu page [15/16].
[09:22:21] Encoding Title List menu page [16/16].

I also see another file called "details.txt" which was filled with a bunch of "imdb" links.

2) multiAVCHD cannot handle multi-versions of a movie (branched titles). It is clearly stated in this post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1361598#post1361598).

My apologies, I missed that post but I didnt know this particular title falls into that category?

So, is there a work around to just get the main title?

Thanks again for all your work and in no way am I unappreciative of the great useful program of yours.

deank

2nd June 2010, 08:24

If you load the original BDMV folder you'll be prompted if you want to enter re-author mode. If you do there is no way that you'll get 'encoding title-list menu'.

Yes, you can get the main movie only if you remove all playlists from media tab, which you don't need.

1) Start multiAVCHD
2) Set "Do not implort BDMV/AVCHD/DVD playlists if shorter than" [3600] in AUTHOR tab
3) Drag&drop the BDMV folder and answer with "NO" at the prompt.
4) Open [properties] and remove playlists if needed.

Dean :)

insaneoctane

2nd June 2010, 15:24

its me again with windows 7 with the new installation problems trying to work through it and understand what is required to get a working copy of multi avchd on a new installed os.
so i've made progress but i'm not 100 percent fixed yet. i was able to start over and reinstall everything for the directions i read on the board and the biggest difference came for making sure in windows 7 to use the tweak tool that seems to give it a big difference by manually setting everything to use at ffshow now i have a different problem i was able to create a compilation and it was able to process through all of the titles until i got to the motion menu section and then within the first 3 titles i had a machine locked up with the error message the x 264 has quit responding. i noticed when it's creating that motion menus i get at least a dozen icons filling my tray i get 1 of haali and 1 of ffshow and it get some titles well give me the next 264 has stop working. any suggestions?

flaviometal

2nd June 2010, 17:39

Dean, some of my menus are acting in a strage way... in preview works ok, but after transcode, some buttons insists in not appear (see image). The first button it's normal, the second is missing half, and the third one, doesn't appear. Did you already notice that? It's the third or fourth movie this happens...

http://h.imagehost.org/0058/spidey.jpg

By the way, the button mappings are ok, and all working after transcode.

deank

2nd June 2010, 17:42

I'm aware of the problem, but I forgot to fix it. There are some hidden buttons which overlap with your buttons and that's why it happens. These hidden ones are on the right side, so if you had yours to the left it won't happen.

I'll fix it in the next build. Thanks for reminding me of it.

kempodragon

2nd June 2010, 19:35

Just wanted to post an update about my test clip. The conversion came out ok, but with an interesting twist. When the ball was thrown, it was like watching it under a strobe light. You could see it traveling almost 1 frame at at time, but leaving an after image as well. The players movement was normal with no jerkiness, just the ball had this strange effect. When I played the original on the camcorder, the strobe light effect was still there, but much smoother movement. I'll upload a segment sometime showing this, because it's really interesting to watch.

deank

3rd June 2010, 11:15

Build 755 (requires full-download (http://download.videohelp.com/deanbg/multiAVCHD_4.1.exe) | mirror (http://multiAVCHD.deanbg.com/download/))

* Classic title-list menu: font, size, color and outline set in MENU tab will be used for title names
* Title-list menus: different default background audio
* Main menu: fixed button overlapping (reported few posts up)
* Chapter/Title-list menus: fixed hidden buttons in IGS which cause troubles in some players not changing the active navigation page, causing wrong chapter jumps from chapter menu. Corel WinDVD 10 now doesn't crash when chapter/title-list menu is displayed (but may crash if main menu doesn't have all four buttons PLAY/SETUP/CHAPTERS/TITLE LIST) (to do).
* multiAVCHD.dat updated to [04010755]

Dean

Capsbackup

3rd June 2010, 15:17

Hi deank, I just tried the latest build 755 on a movie only backup created with BD-RB, that has a file size of 4.28GB. I use multiAVCHD to import this movies .mpls file and also add the original Blu-ray's menu .m2ts file, which is 46.5MB.
I notice after multiAVCHD completes, the new movie and menu is 4.35GB, and the newly created menu is 76.1MB.
In the past the reencoded menu had a smaller than the original file size. :confused:
For this particular backup, all is well. :) But is this normal for the reencoded menu to be larger than the original?

insaneoctane

3rd June 2010, 15:33

more info on my new windows 7 installation. on my fifth title the program crashed into the option to debug. i took the avs script file play back in mpc and give me an error that says "can not render file".now what has me most confused is that all the file references in the avs script are playable in mpc. so i'm not sure had trouble shoot this.Xits me again with windows 7 with the new installation problems trying to work through it and understand what is required to get a working copy of multi avchd on a new installed os.
so i've made progress but i'm not 100 percent fixed yet. i was able to start over and reinstall everything for the directions i read on the board and the biggest difference came for making sure in windows 7 to use the tweak tool that seems to give it a big difference by manually setting everything to use at ffshow now i have a different problem i was able to create a compilation and it was able to process through all of the titles until i got to the motion menu section and then within the first 3 titles i had a machine locked up with the error message the x 264 has quit responding. i noticed when it's creating that motion menus i get at least a dozen icons filling my tray i get 1 of haali and 1 of ffshow and it get some titles well give me the next 264 has stop working. any suggestions?

deank

3rd June 2010, 15:40

In the past the reencoded menu had a smaller than the original file size. :confused:
For this particular backup, all is well. :) But is this normal for the reencoded menu to be larger than the original?

The menu encoding uses different options for the last 4-6 builds to achieve better quality. You can try to disable the option in MENU/Advanced about menu-quality encoding.

deank

3rd June 2010, 15:42

Capsbackup

3rd June 2010, 15:46

The menu encoding uses different options for the last 4-6 builds to achieve better quality. You can try to disable the option in MENU/Advanced about menu-quality encoding.

I prefer the high quality menu look! :)
I will just prepare in advance my movie backup size to allow for the higher quality/larger menu size. :p
Thanks deank.

deank

3rd June 2010, 15:55

Well... 40-50MB is not that much if you think of it. Backups are never 100% the DVD/BD size and even 100MB is not that much.

The difference is 6200kbps for HQ menu and 4200kbps with regular-old-style menus. 2mbit difference + some extra parameters to x264, but the bitrate is what counts.

Obviously it will be different everytime you encode a BD menu, because sometimes it (the original) may be encoded with bitrate <4200kbps or >6200kbps and you'll end up with either smaller or larger re-encoded menu file. :)

Dean

pio011

3rd June 2010, 19:54

Hello Deank & all the others,

I am now a proud owner of a AVCHD 1080-Cam: Panasonic SD707. Which is indeed a great cam. And again, multiAVCHD helps me a lot to easily create a great looking Blu Ray of my homevideos. Since the camcorder records each scene as a single file, multiAVCHD has the option to join all the scenes to one title, which is absolutely great, because I don't want to end up with a BR Disc containing 120 seperate screnes. I cannot say it enough: mulitAVCHD is a great tool :)
But theres one little problem: after joining the files, the subs are gone! Of course, keeping the cam-subs (showing recording date and time) is for me absolutely necessary - it's a good feature when you watch the homevideo after some time and you just want to know, when the scene originally "happened" - you just have to press the "sub" button on your remote.
So Deank, is there a way to keep the original subs while joining the files? That would be so great!!

Thanks & greets!

PS: I was very amazed, that after joinging the files, there's automatically created an index with chapters for each scene! WOW!! Things can be so easy :)

deank

4th June 2010, 08:00

deank

4th June 2010, 12:13

Some improvements in the latest build (you'll need to use multiUPDATE.exe):

* Download (http://www.iol.ie/~schubert/AVSInfo.zip)this nice small (50kb) CLI tool from another doom9 user (Groucho2004) (link to the post) (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154870) and extract AVSInfo.exe in your multiAVCHD\tools folder. This may greatly improve the speed for all image processing/visualization in multiAVCHD. Until now x264 was used for executing avisynth scripts and sometimes caused 'x264 crashed' errors, but with avsinfo it shouldn't happen. Plus, it is much faster and doesn't need colorspace conversion at the end of each avs script. The tool is included in the full-download.

* Small fix: menu font color setting will be available even when [-] Create top menu is not selected (useful for title-list menu setting when no main top menu is created).

* Fixed: sometimes the crop zone when using zoom (%H) in [transcode] window will cause slight AR distortion. It is fixed now + some more zoom %s.

Dean

deank

4th June 2010, 15:27

I posted some time ago in BD-Rebuilder thread that I'll create a small tool to check user PC Directshow capabilities of decoding AVC/H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1, so here it is:

Download link (http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/multiTEST/) (3MB)

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/multiTEST.jpg

Contains:

.\multiTEST\multiTEST.exe
.\multiTEST\calclib.dll

.\multiTEST\testdata\test_AVS.JPG
.\multiTEST\testdata\test_H264.m2ts
.\multiTEST\testdata\test_MPEG2.m2ts
.\multiTEST\testdata\test_VC1.m2ts
.\multiTEST\testdata\x264.exe

insaneoctane

4th June 2010, 15:47

Try to uninstall avisynth, reboot and install it again (2.58). Until MPC is able to play the menu .avs - I really can't do anything.

//

"Cannot render file" means that either you have no directshow decoder available for the video or you have way to many filters loading and your OS simply can't handle it.

Thanks for the reply Dean. I will try this first chance I get. Unfortunately that won't be for 2 weeks as I'm headed out of town today. I also saw the multitest tool you added. Ill be sure to use that too. Thanks again and ill report back in a few weeks.

deank

4th June 2010, 15:58

Okay :) get back with the results... this small tool should report something like:

* Checking AviSynth presence...
* [OK] AVISYNTH (encoded 7782 bytes)

* Checking AVC/H.264 decoding...
* [OK] AVC/H.264 (encoded 56512 bytes)

* Checking MPEG-2 decoding...
* [OK] MPEG-2 (encoded 2761 bytes)

* Checking VC-1 decoding...
* [OK] VC-1 (encoded 2998 bytes)

* All tests completed!

if all is okay.

speedway76

4th June 2010, 16:42

Hi Dean
This is my result :-(((

* Checking AviSynth presence...
* [OK] AVISYNTH (encoded 7782 bytes)

* Checking AVC/H.264 decoding...
* [OK] AVC/H.264 (encoded 56512 bytes)

* Checking MPEG-2 decoding...
* [OK] MPEG-2 (encoded 2761 bytes)

* Checking VC-1 decoding...
* [ERR] VC-1 FAILURE

* All tests completed!
* 1 teast failed!

speedway76

4th June 2010, 16:44

What to me to do?

deank

4th June 2010, 17:40

Check the link and tutorial:

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/downloads/

Dean

speedway76

4th June 2010, 20:37

Dean.
Has made everything that is written in a management. Has established all components. Result the same:-(((. I do not know, what to me to do?
My OS is Windows 7 32 bit

Adub

5th June 2010, 03:02

Did you do what this guide says: http://adubvideo.net/how-to/setup-proper-decoding-chain-windows-7

speedway76

5th June 2010, 05:56

Yes. All has made, it is exact on points

speedway76

5th June 2010, 06:03

This is my new result :-((((

* Checking AviSynth presence...
* [OK] AVISYNTH (encoded 7782 bytes)

* Checking AVC/H.264 decoding...
* [ERR] AVC/H.264 FAILURE

* Checking MPEG-2 decoding...
* [OK] MPEG-2 (encoded 2761 bytes)

* Checking VC-1 decoding...
* [ERR] VC-1 FAILURE

* All tests completed!
* 2 teast failed!

lchiu7

5th June 2010, 07:34

I looked everywhere in the menus but couldn't see where I could set this.

I usually create my content for the program from rips of my own titles (HD-DVD -> AVCHD so I can play them on my Oppo). When I am muxing the content back to ts format, I usually tell tsmuxer to create chapter points every 5 or 10 minutes. But for some reason, when this content is imported into multiAVCHD, the chapter marks get lost.

I see there is an option to create 12 equal chapter points but shouldn't the program observe any existing chapter marks or am I missing something in the menus or options.

deank

5th June 2010, 08:56

You can't get chapters with tsMuxeR when using m2ts or ts muxing. Chapters are available only when you create Blu-ray or AVCHD disc with tsMuxeR (they are stored in mpls files).

If you do that (or import a mpls file) multiAVCHD will see the chapters. Chapters are also supported in MKV files or with external .txt/.chp files.

Laurent

5th June 2010, 10:42

Hi

I have a problem with chapter marks when converting HD-DVD to AVCHD. Chapter positions are not correct. I have reported the problem in the eac3to thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1405537#post1405537
As I explained, chapter jumps lead to positions before the real position, and the difference is bigger on the last chapters.

Could it be something wrong in multiAVCHD ?

deank

5th June 2010, 11:13

I don't know how you import chapters in multiAVCHD.

It uses time-based format and if you load chapters it will use them properly. If their values are not correct you will get incorrect output.

I would guess that the tool you use to extract chapters reports inaccurate values because of framerate conversion.

Laurent

5th June 2010, 12:14

I would guess that the tool you use to extract chapters reports inaccurate values because of framerate conversion.

If it was so obvious, I imagine someone before me would have already reported the problem ?

I hade done a fast computation, I don't think the problem could be a mistake between 29.970 and 23.976, but it could be between 23.976 and 24.000. Such mistake leads to 7 seconds after 2 hours.

mic

5th June 2010, 15:46

If it was so obvious, I imagine someone before me would have already reported the problem ?

I hade done a fast computation, I don't think the problem could be a mistake between 29.970 and 23.976, but it could be between 23.976 and 24.000. Such mistake leads to 7 seconds after 2 hours.

FWIW & IF it helps, I've found a lot of variance in the player, e.g. a stand-alone, Cineplayer BD, PowerDVD etc. In most cases I *know* where the chapters are, having set them myself, so they're not wrong. I've also seen no difference no matter what authoring app was used, including multiAVCHD, and, re-encoding/re-purposing the video/audio for DVD & BD, on the DVD versions the same chapt timings work flawlessly. As with DVDs, delaying the chapter point a bit -- i.e. not having the chapt occur exactly when the scene starts -- helps... maybe it would help in your case to just add a small amount to each of the chapt times, say 0.5 - 1 sec, maybe more? As Dean said, multiAVCHD & the tools it uses do not do anything other than use the times you set [unless of course you use the auto chapter timings every X number of minutes].

Whatever software you use, as far as fps conversions go, IF you're doing fps conversions [& if so why?], it can get tricky. I often work with the audio, so I'm always monitoring duration & sync, & I've found that timing results after changing video fps can vary from what you'd expect -- the audio in this case is my constant, I change the video, & compare the two so I can re-match the audio if needed. The only way to make 100% sure of chapter timing would be (is) to check your final video on some sort of timeline, whether it's in a player or in an editing app -- I've used Vegas for years, but have heard good things about the free Wax editor, the simpler editors that come with Nero &/or Roxio would be usable, &/or any app really where you can get the time when the the chapter scenes start. That said, (as above) I already do this because DVD chapters align with I frames [either you set them to the correct I frame or take your chances], & [usually] if I don't allow enough of a delay, the BD version with the same timings can show early depending on the player. I've seen this often enough with retail BD discs BTW.

Laurent

5th June 2010, 16:07

So, you think it could be a problem with the player, a PS3 in the current case ?
I will compare on the PS3 if there are differences between a Blu-Ray and an AVCHD done from this Blu-Ray.

deank

5th June 2010, 16:13

Chapter marks created by tsMuxeR (and multiAVCHD for that matter) do not use I/IDR frames the way it is done with DVD authoring.

Although, when doing complete re-encoding of the video multiAVCHD requests that x264 create IDR frames at each chapter mark, still some players don't land exactly where supposed to when skipping to a chapter/scene.

We discussed that a lot in tsmuxer thread some time ago.

I was thinking of creating a small tool (routine in multiAVCHD) to parse m2ts files and find the IDR frames and then to rewrite the mpls (playlist) files with the closest possible values, but it would take a lot of time (processing wise). It could've been much better if tsMuxeR had the option.

Laurent

5th June 2010, 16:57

So, you think it could be a problem with the player, a PS3 in the current case ?
I will compare on the PS3 if there are differences between a Blu-Ray and an AVCHD done from this Blu-Ray.

Ok, after checking, no problem with chapter marks for a Blu-Ray disc and the AVCHD created from this Blu-Ray. Marks are at the same locations and at the right position.
So PS3 is ok when jumping to chapters and eac3to + multiAVCHD is ok to create chapters when dealing with Blu-Ray discs.

That would mean the problem is only with HD-DVD discs and the problem is relative to chapter extractions from these discs.

pio011

6th June 2010, 10:09

I'll need to look into this, but for the moment you can do much better than joining these MTS files.

Just load the BDMV/AVCHD folder which contain these scenes (mts files) and click [merge playlists] button in MEDIA tab.

Then you'll get one title from merging all playlists with 100% the original video+audio+subtitles.

Thanks, Deank! Merging Playlists really seems to be an option. But for the moment I still have problems with it:

1. How can I choose the Playlists, which should be merged? Right now - I think - mulitACVHD merges all playlists into one big playlist and I end up with one title. Not so good, if you have filmed e.g. some different "happenings" which should be seperated into different titles. I could not figure out, when and why my camcorder chooses to create a new playlist. That's my problem!
2. That means I am into trouble, if one clip belongs to another playlist and if I want to put this scene to another playlist/title. Therefore it would be great, if you could "fix" the missing subtitles in the "joining"-funtion. I know, that if I use the joining option, I would also be ending up with one big title, because you can only choose the whole folder of mt2-files to be joined. To avoid that, I would copy the belonging mt2-files/scenes in seperate folders, to create different tiles.
So what is the conclusion of all this? Maybe you could fix the subtilte "bug" in the joining option and also implement to choose the mt2-files/Playlists, which you want to join/merge. I don't now, how much work this would be :)
3. I have tested the merging feature - great. But the resulting BR-Disc has not the pop-up menu, although I have checked the pop-up-option in the "author-tab". Using the "merging" feature, the pop-up menu works. Why?

Thanks again for your support!

deank

6th June 2010, 10:42

deank

6th June 2010, 10:59

Build 755(+):

* MPlayer/MEncoder updated to Sherpya-SVN-r31170-4.2.5 (May 10th, 2010) (in full download)
* Fixed: 6 channel audio in AVI/TRP/AVS was converted to stereo. It should work now (although DTS in AVI may not be decoded properly).
* Added: DEBUG prompt when error occurs during CHAPTER page encoding/muxing
* Added: files/titles with unsupported video codec will be auto-marked for transcoding (including all flash .flv and windows .wmv files)
* Fixed: date detection of camcoder recordings (m2ts) showed wrong day-of-month (always 19th). Should be okay now.

Dean

pio011

6th June 2010, 14:06

The pop-up menu has nothing to do with the merge/join function.

You can select which playlists to join by loading only those that you want.

1) Load 00000.MPL
2) Load 00010.MPL
3) Open [PROPERTIES]
4) Change [full-mode] to [fast-mode] for both playlists
5) Click [OK]

Then you can merge these two only.

Okay thanks for the info - i will test that. Are you going to check on the problem with the "lost" subtitles in the joining mode? :thanks:

deank

6th June 2010, 15:53

:) Nice... it works... You can update your multiAVCHD.

[17:23:52] 7 media files will be joined in one title! (C:\Users\Dean Kasabow\Desktop\SD_TEST\AVCHD_TG7VE_HQ_Test\BDMV\STREAM\)
[17:23:52] *** Pre-processing is required, please wait...

[17:23:52] tsdemux AVCHD/Blu-Ray HDMV Transport Stream demultiplexer
[17:23:52] Copyright (C) 2009 Anton Burdinuk (clark15b@gmail.com)
[17:23:52] http://code.google.com/p/tsdemux
[17:23:52] *** Compiling files...
[17:23:54] *** Pre-processing completed. Adding joined media...
[17:23:54] *** Subtitles detected (PGS/SUP)...
[17:23:57] *** Re-packing elementary streams [C:\calcit\templates\temp\_tsd\20100606-172352-293\camdump.m2ts]...
[17:24:00] *** Done!
[17:24:03] Detected Recording Date/Time: 2010/03/09 18:40:12 [C:\calcit\templates\temp\_tsd\20100606-172352-293\camdump.m2ts].

Even the recording date/time from the joined media is detected and added as title name :)

Subtitles from camcoder recording will be added to the joined title ONLY if you answer with "YES"/OK at the prompt to re-pack the joined media into M2TS container. M2TS will contain video+audio+subtitles and will get the recording date/time as title-name.

Something worth mentioning: Once you opt to merge all streams into a single file you get a .m2ts file with all scenes (for a particular day/week of shooting). You don't have to create a compilation out of it, but you can store it for later use. Have in mind that each subsequent launch of multiAVCHD may clear the contents of _tsd folder.

In the example above you can see that the file is stored under multiAVCHD's folder in .\templates\temp\_tsd\YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-***\camdump.m2ts. Move it to a safe location and name it properly. Doing this will allow you to create volumes for later re-use, without going through the join mode again.

An example would be to store each week (or day) recordings into a single file/title and use them whenever you wish. :p

Dean

//

Needless to say, multiAVCHD provides the easiest, fastest and complete way to transfer AVCHD HD camcoder recordings to SD DVD Video format in just few clicks (3).

1) Drag your camcoder STREAM folder and answer YES to join the files and then YES to repack into m2ts container
2) Click [START]
3) Click [SD-DVD] and select media-FIT option

You get a nice DVD Video disc to share with relatives and friends, using standard DVD players. You get the chapters and subtitles (recording information). :)

Music Fan

6th June 2010, 16:17

Does anybody know if the Sony BDP-370 has problems playing AVCHD or BD5/9 made with MultiAVCHD ?
Someone in this topic says that he had problems with AVCHD in strict mode on the 373 (nearly same than 370, different remote) ;
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1404052#post1404052
Another one says the 370 can't play BD5 with Java menues but he can play Movie-only backups made with BD-Rebuilder, which looks like the Strict mode of MultiAVCHD.
I'm bored of my Panasonic BD-35 and I wanna test animated and pop-up menues !

deank

6th June 2010, 16:50

I'm sure you won't have any troubles playing multiAVCHD authored discs (BD5/BD9/BD25) with this player (authored as AVCHD replaxed/strict or as Blu-ray).

BD-Rebuilder's "Movie-only" mode is similar to 'no-menu' output from multiAVCHD and to tsMuxeR's [x] AVCHD disc mode.

Important thing to mention is that these 3 applications output different authoring-wise structures. I won't comment on any other free application which claims to be able to produce AVCHD... there is no such app anyway.

tsMuxeR's so-called "AVCHD" output has almost nothing to do with AVCHD.
BD-Rebuilder's "Movie-only" output will be 100% AVCHD compliant may be in one of the next releases.
multiAVCHD "AVCHD" output is AVCHD what it should be.

Not being able to play BD-J disc backups burned to BD5/BD9 is not good, because most Blu-ray titles nowadays are java authored, but the same goes for Playstation3 and probably will affect more and more players.

Dean

pio011

6th June 2010, 18:14

:) Nice... it works... You can update your multiAVCHD.

That was fast, DeanK. Thanks again! I will test it soon! :)

Is it to much to ask for, to implement an option to actually choose the mts-files you want to join? Maybe something like a browser-window to open and not just to choose a whole folder of mts-files? :o

deank

6th June 2010, 20:35

May be a window when you drag the folder to select files with a video-preview box? :)

I guess in one of the next builds.

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/multiAVCHD_join_selection.jpg

It is almost ready anyway, so I guess it will be available in the next update tomorrow. ;)

Music Fan

7th June 2010, 09:32

I'm sure you won't have any troubles playing multiAVCHD authored discs (BD5/BD9/BD25) with this player (...)
Dean

Thanks for this clear answer !

deank

7th June 2010, 14:45

Quick update:

* Fixed: color/outline for classic-title list menu (worked in the preview but not in the final encoding)
* Removed: Prompt where user decides whether to get joined files into elementary streams or in one m2ts file. Defaults to one m2ts file now.
* Added: M2TS/MTS join selection window (in the screenshot above) when drag&drop folder with m2ts/mts files. User can re-arrange files, sort and remove files, drag&drop other m2ts/mts files (but not folders).

Needless to say, all files added must have the same properties (video and audio codec, framerate, scan type and stream count).

Dean

pio011

7th June 2010, 19:14