multiAVCHD - author Blu-ray/AVCHD (Blu-ray players, camcoders, Viera TV) + (HD) DVD

[pio011]

You can safely delete avsinfo.exe from tools folder. multiAVCHD will default to the old preview style. Such problem means that there is something wrong with your directshow processing. Ouch! Maybe yes, but why all the sudden? I need to check on that...

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"Forever" is usually = 30 seconds. multiAVCHD kills most tasks if they take more than 30 seconds to complete, when expected to do their job in just 1-3 seconds. Ok, ok, maybe I was a tad exaggerating :p

By the way: If I re-install multiAVCHD (e.g. if I re-download the whole pack instead of using the mulitupdate, would it be wise to do a un-install first?

[deank]

multiAVCHD "install" package is basically un-zip process. It doesn't do anything but replace your multiAVCHD\*.* files (except for the .ini file). Uninstall/Install often makes no difference, unless there are new tools in the full-download package.

If you have troubles viewing 'previews' then re-install will not change anything. multiAVCHD depends on directshow to display previews and un/re-install changes nothing.

[Dolsen]

WWWOOOOOOWW! Great DeanK, you are the Man! ;) Thank you!
By the way: Since the "AVSInfo.exe"-Update it takes forever to open the title-properties? I have tried to un-/reinstall multiAVCHD with no success.

You can safely delete avsinfo.exe from tools folder. multiAVCHD will default to the old preview style. Such problem means that there is something wrong with your directshow processing.

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"Forever" is usually = 30 seconds. multiAVCHD kills most tasks if they take more than 30 seconds to complete, when expected to do their job in just 1-3 seconds.

Hi,

After I installed the version that added the new tool AVSinfo.exe, I got back my frustrating 30 second delays when opening properties or other parts where a frame from video is to be shown in the gui. I knew why and after I fixed it, I got back the quick respons again.

Here is the link to my post that talked about this 30 second delay and how to fix it. Tips if you have 30 second delays (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1373689&postcount=4400) In this post, where it talks about "mx264.exe", it also related to the new tool AVSinfo.exe.

Deank, please make som info somewhere so that users know how to avoid these 30seconds delays, if possible.

Bye,
Dolsen

[deank]

As I promised some time ago, I tested multiAVCHD with a clean Windows 7 (Ultimate) 32bit installation.

It took about 3 hours of fighting to make MOTION chapters work. Interestingly enough my Vista 32bit PC has only 2GB of RAM and the PC I installed Win7 had 3GB.

Still motion chapters failed each time with the same message: "Not enough memory folks!" (x264) or "GDI/Insufficient memory" (avisynth) or just no errors and no output.

I tried to increase the virtual memory to 4GB (System Properties / Advanced / Change) but it really didn't make any difference.

The latest build 756 got some changes about motion chapters and now multiAVCHD will not use directshow but ffms2.dll when parsing video for these video thumbnails.

It works in Win7.

Those of you who had troubles, please update to the latest build and give it a try, then post your comments here.

Dean

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I'm still puzzled why all worked on my Vista installation and not on other people's installations. I had less physical memory than the Win7 PC I installed, and I was currently running over 15 applications, including Azureus, Nod32, skype, photoshop, dreamweaver, 4 ms excel and 2 ms word documents, ~20 tabs in firefox, daemon tools, sony-ericsson suite, adobe acrobat, remote administrator, powerpoint and probably something else... x264 never gave up with "we ran out of memory, folks!" message... I have no explanation. Either my old ffdshow has something to do with it or the windows installation itself or the DELL Inspiron 1720 laptop hardware.

I just don't know.

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A side note from this 'experiment' is that transcoding of VC-1 WMV files doesn't even require ffdshow - just multiAVCHD and AviSynth. :)

[Laurent]

Quick question for Dean (or anyone knowing the answer): I will have to rebuild my AVCHD structure after changing chapter positions for several titles. Do I have to first delete AVCHDTN and HDAVCTN folders ? Or is multiAVCHD enough clever to understand that certain thumbs have to be recomputed (before rebuilding the chapter menus) when I change the chapter marks ?

[deank]

To change chapter positions you had to switch to title full-mode processing. multiAVCHD is 'clever' enough and will create new chapter images for these titles. You definitely don't need to delete HDAVCTN folder. AVCHDTN is always recreated, so it makes no difference.

[flaviometal]

The latest build 756 got some changes about motion chapters and now multiAVCHD will not use directshow but ffms2.dll when parsing video for these video thumbnails.

Dean, since the first "motion chapters" build, I never been able to make this option work on my Win7 64, but now with build 756, it works like a charm! Thanks!

[deank]

@flaviometal: I guess three hours well spent then! :)

[deank]

ffdshow and haali spliter installation steps: (steps to take if you have problems with transcoding or menu preparation!)

If you have ffdshow or avisynth or haali splitter - uninstall them and install supported versions (http://multiAVCHD.deanBG.com/downloads/) in following order:

1) Install Avisynth 2.58

2) Install ffdshow

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/steps/ffd-01.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/steps/ffd-02.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/steps/ffd-03.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/steps/ffd-04.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/steps/ffd-05.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/steps/ffd-06.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/steps/ffd-07.jpg

3) Install haali (Matroska / Матрешка) splitter

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/steps/ms-01.jpg

[Laurent]

To change chapter positions you had to switch to title full-mode processing. multiAVCHD is 'clever' enough and will create new chapter images for these titles. You definitely don't need to delete HDAVCTN folder. AVCHDTN is always recreated, so it makes no difference.

Ok, thank you Dean for the information.
Unfortunately, full mode processing means lots of time too :-(

[deank]

Two new options in the latest update (user request):

In MENU/Buttons/Labels tab:
[x] Show labels on main menu page only - With this option ON, PLAY/CHAPTERS/SETUP/TITLE_LIST labels will appear only on the main menu page, but not on chapters/setup pages.

In MENU/Extended tab:
Menu encoding quality: Normal/High/Very high (6200/8200/13500kbps).

Dean

[dvgeek]

ffdshow and haali spliter installation steps: (steps to take if you have problems with transcoding or menu preparation!)
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Thanks Dean !!!
:thanks:

[dvgeek]

I realize the randomize feature is unique and great, but is there any way we can turn it off? Both for BG video as well as the title thumbnail?

Even after checking the box not to use the feature on BG video, my BG video is randomized.

Thanks.

[Dolsen]

ffdshow and haali spliter installation steps: (steps to take if you have problems with transcoding or menu preparation!)

If you have ffdshow or avisynth or haali splitter - uninstall them and install supported versions (http://multiAVCHD.deanBG.com/downloads/) in following order:

1) Install Avisynth 2.58

2) Install ffdshow

3) Install haali (Matroska / Матрешка) splitter

Great work making this guide with pictures from the install progress. With this install progress the user will avoid the 30 seconds delay I was talking about, since you showed installing ffdshow without using the "whitelist" where a user can choose which programs will use ffdshow.

But perhaps add a comment next to the last screenshot of ffdshow install, informing that if the user enables the feature "use only ffdshow in these programs", they have to add "mx264.exe" and "avsinfo.exe" (and perhaps "x264.exe") from the tools folder of multiavchd, to avoid 30 second delay.

Bye,
Dolsen

[Laurent]

Dean, I have a big problem with the quality of thumbmails produced by multiAVCHD for chapter menus. Some are with a lot of macroblocks. Is it something that could be relative to my ffdshow configuration ? Codec for the titles is VC-1 and libavcodec is selected for this codec in ffdhow configuration (not wmv9).

Should the thumbmail be the picture displayed exactly at the chapter mark ? Because I have an example for which the thumbmail created for the last chapter is a picture located before the real chapter mark (less than one second before).

I have the feeling that the thumbmails are very dark compared to what I see when playing the title. Is it a wrong feeling ?

And to finish, I find the thumbs in chapter menu too much small. No way to have something bigger ?

[deank]

Here is a small tool for fast text subtitle conversion (microDVD SUB, SRT, SSA/ASS) to PGS/SUP/XML/PNG(BDM):

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Download link: 1.3MB standalone package (http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/goSUP/)

Download link: 125KB executable only (http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/goSUP.exe) (if you have multiAVCHD, just put it in multiAVCHD folder).

(since my servers are down, here is a mirror for the .exe (http://92.247.11.202/sub/new/goSUP.exe)only.)

As you can see, it is quite simple, but some people need just that. :)

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

XML+PNG are saved in a .rar archive in source file folder (just like easySUP does).
SUP is saved in source file folder.

Here is how the result may look:

With light shadow:
http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/gosup_01.jpg

Without shadow:
http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/gosup_02.jpg

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http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/gosup_03.jpg
http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/gosup_04.jpg
http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/gosup_05.jpg
http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/gosup_06.jpg

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It takes about 2-3 mins to process 500 subpictures in 1080p, about 1min for 720p (and 20-30secs for 480/576i).

No external filters/plugins are used in the avisynth script.

It supports, left/center/right alignment, bottom offset, font size/color/outline, shadow, blur, opacity... Breaks long lines in ssa/ass, converts {000}{000} microDVD sub and ssa/ass to srt before converting to png/xml/sup.

Requires only avisynth and java (for bdsup2sub).

goSUP supports multiple source files. You can drag&drop multiple text subtitles to the file-box and get them processed in batch.

Dean

[insaneoctane]

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.

First thing I did was run multi-tool, and its says everything is fine:
* Checking AviSynth presence...
* [OK] AVISYNTH (encoded 7782 bytes)

* Checking AVC/H.264 decoding...
* [OK] AVC/H.264 (encoded 56408 bytes)

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

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

* All tests completed!

Interesting since MAVCHD has had problems per my message last week. I think I'll first unintall and try the order you recommended, then I download the latest MAVCHD and see where I end up.

[insaneoctane]

ffdshow and haali spliter installation steps: (steps to take if you have problems with transcoding or menu preparation!)

2) Install ffdshow

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/steps/ffd-07.jpg



With out text here, mine looks same...what's the significance of this setting?

[deank]

Some installations have [x] Use ffdshow only in: option enabled. It causes 'hidden 30 seconds prompts' each time multiAVCHD (or one of its components) needs ffdshow for something.

[insaneoctane]

Dean, as of 3:20pm PST (-8 GMT), 6/10/2010, I think your site is down (http://multiavchd.deanbg.com)

[deank]

It is up now... I forgot to pay the internet bill :mad:

[dvgeek]

Dean - I've tried modifying the menu templates - looks like there's no way to disable the randomize function for menu BG video and motion titles.

Am I missing something?

Love your program, but in this instance looks like I'll have to manually create and assemble each element of the structure from different programs to achieve what I need.:(

[deank]

Hmm... Load your video file (not a project) and try again. I'll check the the randomize function later.

[mic]

Dean, I have a big problem with the quality of thumbmails produced by multiAVCHD for chapter menus. Some are with a lot of macroblocks. Is it something that could be relative to my ffdshow configuration ? Codec for the titles is VC-1 and libavcodec is selected for this codec in ffdhow configuration (not wmv9).

Should the thumbnail be the picture displayed exactly at the chapter mark ? Because I have an example for which the thumbnail created for the last chapter is a picture located before the real chapter mark (less than one second before).

I have the feeling that the thumbmails are very dark compared to what I see when playing the title. Is it a wrong feeling ?

And to finish, I find the thumbs in chapter menu too much small. No way to have something bigger ?

I can't comment on making the thumbs bigger, but here's what I've done last...

After preparing the disc layout in multiAVCHD there's a folder called HDAVCTN, & inside are all the images used. While I've used other apps for video snapshots & it worked out quite well, this last time I used VirtualDub -- may need AviSynth, & possibly dgavcdec or dgmpgdec. After opening the video file, if it behaves sluggishly, maybe try adding a resize filter, downsizing as needed, & display only the output pane [it helps in this case to reverse the pane displays]. Then I opened P/Shop [many other editors should work too], & created a new image the same size as the video in V/Dub. Then it's simply a matter of going to the chapter times in V/Dub, finding a good frame for the image [usually a short time after the chapter], copying the output frame to the clipboard, & pasting it into the new image in P/Shop.

Each time you paste a frame it shows up on a new layer, so when you're done copying & pasting you can crop &/or resize [to match the images in HDAVCTN], &/or adjust things like brightness/contrast, & so on -- ideally you only have to do this once for all the layers in the image rather than individually for each thumbnail. Once things are set as you want them, in P/shop "Save for web" or otherwise export jpgs - turning off the layers one at a time top to bottom, naming the files the same as the existing images.

Once your images are in place in that HDAVCTN folder, open the multiAVCHD project file that was saved with your rendered layout -- not the one you saved while creating the project. Then I change the color slightly for the rectangle around the chapter thumbnails, and render the project again... the main video is just moved to the new folder, so it doesn't take long at all, & all my images are used for the chapters. :cool:

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Almost forgot, regarding BD avc & vc1, I've seen some problems on this rig, mainly when in 7 ult, related *I think* to AviSynth conflicting with other video software I have installed, in particular Vegas 9... Not saying that's why you got the garbaged frames -- only that I've had this occur randomly in video on Vegas' timeline using AviSynth & VFAPI, & in other apps if Vegas is running, or has even been run & then shut down... no prob if I don't start Vegas after booting into 7. Don't know if you have any Sony apps or not, but wanted to point out the possibility of having some similar conflict on your system causing problems.

[deank]

Resolution and bit-depth of JPEG images in HDAVCTN folder can be anything you wish. multiAVCHD will resize the images anyway, so you may not bother and skip the 'resize' step. :) As long images are 16:9 you'll get what you need.

If you don't need special processing you can extract images with MPC, too - fast and easy.

Dean

[insaneoctane]

Ok, so I made good progress on my Win 7 Ultimate new install.
I unistalled the 3 pcs you recommended (ffdshow, haali, and avisynth) and re-installed in the order you recommended. Then I installed the latest MAVCHD and things are looking up. As an interesting side note, the multiTEST tool has ALWAYS showed success at rendering.
I'm still struggling with a few VC-1 files that seem to be causing me trouble and I'm reaching out here to see if someone can offer a suggestion on how to troubleshoot the problem. When I try to play them in MPC, I simply get the message "cannot render the file". My PS3 has played this AVCHD no problem. I've read a lot of stuff on the net, but they all want me to install codecs out the yin-yang and that is the LAST thing I want to do. As a matter of fact, I'd like to keep it as clean as it is now (ffdshow and haali!). Anyway the source of these AVCHD files is blu ray, so I don't know WHY they won't work. Here's the details: MPC won't play, MAVCHD can't render the preview (see snapshot below)...if I click on "preview", I DO GET THUMBNAILS (how is that!?). I attached ANOTHER VC-1 film that seems fine to prove the system can handle VC-1...I'd love some help if you'd be so kind...

Thanks again!

[deank]

The 'problem' is that multiAVCHD creates the thumbnails and motion bg/chapters AFTER a compilation is complete. It means that it will use M2TS files for source.

The major problem with most configurations is the inability to directshow-decode video inside m2ts container.

As I posted few days ago, transcoding of VC-1 WMV file on Win7 doesn't even need haali or ffdshow. But once multiAVCHD multiplexes it (tsmuxer) without transcoding into m2ts - things go down and no images (chapters/title-thumbs) can be extracted from the re-muxed file.

In short - for multiAVCHD to do its job, it needs your PC to be able to play M2TS files with various video-codecs.

[mic]

Ok, so I made good progress on my Win 7 Ultimate new install.
I unistalled the 3 pcs you recommended (ffdshow, haali, and avisynth) and re-installed in the order you recommended. Then I installed the latest MAVCHD and things are looking up. As an interesting side note, the multiTEST tool has ALWAYS showed success at rendering.
I'm still struggling with a few VC-1 files that seem to be causing me trouble and I'm reaching out here to see if someone can offer a suggestion on how to troubleshoot the problem. When I try to play them in MPC, I simply get the message "cannot render the file". My PS3 has played this AVCHD no problem. I've read a lot of stuff on the net, but they all want me to install codecs out the yin-yang and that is the LAST thing I want to do. As a matter of fact, I'd like to keep it as clean as it is now (ffdshow and haali!). Anyway the source of these AVCHD files is blu ray, so I don't know WHY they won't work. Here's the details: MPC won't play, MAVCHD can't render the preview (see snapshot below)...if I click on "preview", I DO GET THUMBNAILS (how is that!?). I attached ANOTHER VC-1 film that seems fine to prove the system can handle VC-1...I'd love some help if you'd be so kind...

Thanks again!

The 'problem' is that multiAVCHD creates the thumbnails and motion bg/chapters AFTER a compilation is complete. It means that it will use M2TS files for source.

The major problem with most configurations is the inability to directshow-decode video inside m2ts container.

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In short - for multiAVCHD to do its job, it needs your PC to be able to play M2TS files with various video-codecs.



If it helps at all troubleshooting etc...

When it comes to DS filters, Windows apps rely [I *think* among other things] on the filter's Merit [i.e. rank], when they assemble the chain [i.e. build a graph] of the filters needed to play whatever media. Potential prob # 1) not all filters are compatible, so there's often more than one attempt made at putting together such a chain. If you use one of the SysInternals or Nirsoft process monitoring tools or similar you'll often see those DS filters that were rejected are still active, & still potentially causing problems. [As in an earlier post, I can have problems if I just run Vegas once & shut it down.] You can change a filter's merit in something like graphstudio or filmerit, but it can take a bit of trial & error changing values for several rather than just one Direct Show filter or file to get things working. I've also run into filters, notably from Sonic, that were near impossible to control in this respect. And you can have problems with DS filters lying to Windows about their capabilities, so attempts are made to use them when/where they can't be used.

Problem 2) I've seen cases where graphics hardware drivers [in my case ATI] interfered -- regardless what they should/should not be capable of, I've sometimes found the only way to get whatever video working was to disable hardware accel in the card's controls [ATI's CCC], in wmplayer, in the registry for certain apps, &/or in PowerDVD -- this is in spite of the fact that any of those settings should be un-related & have absolutely no effect at all -- I wouldn't expect Wmplayer settings to be valid with non-wmv video not using wmplayer, but they sometimes were/are. For me, running ATI, results for a while depended on that month's Avivo [video processing] drivers -- I frequently had to avoid the current release. To fix these sorts of problems I had to resort to trial & error, which while a PITA, also more-or-less proved the driver software was involved.

Problem 3) file name extension associations can be all it takes for one sort of video or another to not work properly -- I've run into cases where a DS filter was provided by an app that refused to recognize file name extensions that weren't specifically entered into it's registry keys. Generally in my experience if that sort of thing's the case, renaming the file causes it to work when dragged & dropped onto whatever app or player.

Playing/rendering video in graphedit or graphstudio often tells you if your system can work with whatever format using Direct Show. The Microsoft file: vc1esparser.dll from one of their SDKs [avail on-line - Google/Bing], copied to whatever folder & registered with Windows often helps with VC1 specifically, but I still need ffdshow for VFW in V/dub etc. I've also found that BD VC1 handling can sometimes be so slow & trouble prone that using it via Direct Show is impractical, though bear in mind I'm still slowly getting to the root of a compatibility problem or 3 myself. In 7 don't forget to check out Windows default decoders & renderers too -- in XP .NET 3.5 I think adds the newer video renderer that can help in some situations.

[deank]

A quick note:

The latest update has some fixes for motion-chapter-thumbnails, especially when dealing with more than 1 title and when titles have different number of chapters.

If for some reason motion chapters cannot be extracted, multiAVCHD will fall back to static and will not error out.

Dean

[daberti]

A quick note:

The latest update has some fixes for motion-chapter-thumbnails, especially when dealing with more than 1 title and when titles have different number of chapters.

If for some reason motion chapters cannot be extracted, multiAVCHD will fall back to static and will not error out.

Dean

You restless mighty programmer :) :thanks:

[deank]

Just say it works already... Please! :)

If this 'fix' doesn't do the job I'd recommend users not to use motion-chapter-thumbs. :confused: I just don't know what else to do.

[Challes_gyn]

Can you help me, this compilation don't work.
The problem is ref frames = 9, but multiavchd show:
[00:32:07] Initialising...
[00:32:07] Checking for new version...
[00:32:10] You have the latest build.
[00:32:10] [08/06/2010] build 756 (latest is: 756) - Motion chapter-thumbnails improvement (Win7). M2TS join selection window.
[00:32:10] Consistency check finished!
[00:32:10] Initialization finished. multiAVCHD is ready!

[00:32:10] 1 year and 169 days since multiAVCHD was published.
[00:32:10] 319 people supported it with donations
[00:32:10] and you are the 1898255 one to launch the program...
[00:32:10] Support multiAVCHD to extend its features and keep it going!


[00:32:10] multiAVCHD.dat version: [04010755]

[00:33:24] Checking for available space and drive types (FAT32/NTFS)...
[00:33:30] Destination [E:]: NTFS, 51235.97 MiB (50.035 GiB) free space
[00:33:30] Temp folder [c:]: NTFS, 18160.37 MiB (17.735 GiB) free space

[00:33:30] Log started for multiAVCHD v4.1 (build 756)
[00:33:30] Selected output mode: Playstation 3 (USB/SDHC/MS)

[00:33:30] Processing one title...
[00:33:30] Existing E:\Filme_HD_recodificado\AVCHD\ cannot be used as destination folder!
[00:33:30] Output will be written to: E:\Filme_HD_recodificado\AVCHD-20100613-003330
[00:33:32] Processing (E:\Filmes HD\Thimisou.720p.mkv)...
[00:33:32] This title is marked for reencoding / uncropping...
[00:33:32] Encoding process may take 10 min to 10 hours, so be patient...

[00:33:32] *** Initiating video encoding:

[00:33:32] *** Original : 1280x720
[00:33:32] *** Crop : 0
[00:33:32] *** Resize : 1280x720 (No change)
[00:33:32] *** Uncrop to : 1280x720
[00:33:32] *** Sharpen : 0
[00:33:32] *** Bitrate : 8600 kbps
[00:33:32] *** Frame rate: Original (29.970)
[00:33:32] *** Level : 4
[00:33:32] *** B-frames : 3
[00:33:32] *** Ref-frames: 4
[00:33:32] *** GOP size : 60 (keyframe min. each 4 frames)
[00:33:32] *** Quality : One pass (turbo)
[00:33:32] *** SAR : 1:1
[00:33:32] *** DAR : 1280x720
[00:33:32] *** Profile : Blu-ray

[00:33:32] *** Encoding : One pass - content: [02:31:24]
[00:33:32] *** Encoding : x264 options: --preset veryfast -B 8600 -I 60 --level 4 -i 8 -b 3 -r 4 -m 2 --mvrange 511 -A p8x8,i8x8 --ipratio 1.1 --pbratio 1.1 --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 20000 --qcomp 0.5 --threads auto --thread-input --aud --nal-hrd vbr --sar 1:1 --b-pyramid strict --slices 0 --weightp 0 --rc-lookahead 60 -o "c:\multiAVCHD\_TEMP\multiTEMP-20100613\Thimisou.720p.[1280x720-29.970].264" "C:\multiAVCHD\tools\20100613-003332-uncrop-running.avs"
[07:04:04] *** Close to completion - closing preview...
[07:30:57] *** Speed : 10.87 fps (elapsed: 06:57:24 - Realtime x 0.36)

[07:30:57] *** Transcoding successful!

[07:31:05] Detected frame reference count: 3 (max:6).
[07:31:05] Detected video: ID#0:V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC 1280x720, fps=29.970, ref=3
[07:31:05] Detected audio: ID#2:A_DTS (48000Hz 24bit 6ch) Language: eng
[07:31:05] Added audio: A_DTS, "E:\Filmes HD\Thimisou.720p.mkv", track=2, lang=eng, timeshift=0ms
[07:31:05] M2TS stream split set at 4000MiB...
[07:31:05] Creating clip and playlist info (tsMuxeR)...

tsMuxeR (Version 1.10.6) output:
===============================================================================
Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: High@4.0 Resolution: 1280:720p Frame rate: 29.9701
H.264 manual setted fps not equal stream fps. Change H.264 fps from 29.9701 to 29.97
Decoding DTS stream (track 2): Bitrate: 1536Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 5.1
B-pyramid level 1 detected. Shift DTS to 2 frames
H264 bitstream changed: insert SPS/PPS units
===============================================================================

===============================================================================
tsMuxeR meta:
===============================================================================
MUXOPT --no-pcr-on-video-pid --new-audio-pes --blu-ray --vbr --custom-chapters=00:00:00.000 --split-size=4000MiB --vbv-len=500
V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC, "c:\multiAVCHD\_TEMP\multiTEMP-20100613\Thimisou.720p.[1280x720-29.970].264", insertSEI, contSPS, lang=eng, fps=29.970
A_DTS, "E:\Filmes HD\Thimisou.720p.mkv", track=2, lang=eng, timeshift=0ms
===============================================================================
[08:28:39] Important files missing (clpi/mpls/m2ts)...
[08:28:39] Possible tsMuxeR failure to process your input file (E:\Filmes HD\Thimisou.720p.mkv).
[08:28:39] M2TS (media) file count: 3
[08:28:39] CLPI (clipinfo) file count: 0
[08:28:39] MPLS (playlist) file count: 0

[08:28:39] Skipping to next...

[08:28:39] ERROR: Compilation does not contain any HD-DVD/AVCHD/Blu-ray titles!


[08:28:39] Preparing menu pages...
[08:28:39] Setting main menu for 0 titles...
[08:28:40] Selected TV system: [NTSC]
[08:28:43] Preparing AVCHDTN database...
[08:28:44] Database and index created!
[08:28:44] Done!

Compilation summary:
Format: Playstation 3 (USB/SDHC/MS)
Name : multiAVCHD
===============================================================================
===============================================================================
Output size : 2 MiB (0.001 GiB)

[08:28:44] Warnings/errors for this compilation: 1
[08:28:44] E:\Filme_HD_recodificado\AVCHD-20100613-003330 folder created (AVCHD/Blu-ray output)!
[08:28:45] Copy E:\Filme_HD_recodificado\AVCHD-20100613-003330 to root of USB stick/disk or MemoryStick card or to X:\PRIVATE\ of SDHC/SD/MMC card and rename to AVCHD!
[08:28:47] You may now remove temp folder (c:\multiAVCHD\_TEMP\multiTEMP-20100613\).

[08:28:47] multiAVCHD finished in 28516.375 seconds (07:55:16.375)!

[08:28:47] End of log.

[sreemv]

Hi Dean,

I understand you said multiAVCHD will not work for PS3 with BD-J authored titles, has this changed or is there a work around? - looking to convert recent bluray titles which appear to be all BD-J authored - would love to re-author these so they can be played untouched with full menus on the PS3.

Thanks again for all your work.

[deank]

BD-J discs don't work in PS3 only when using DVD discs or USB disks. There is no problem with BD25 and BD50. Use BD-Rebuilder to shrink your titles to BD25.

[Beatnut]

Hi dean, i think i have a problem, i converted a mkv to a dvd5 compliant video with 2 folders, audio ts and video ts, i transcoded it with the tools that are build in multiavchd, but i accidentally chose the commentary audiothrack, because i wanted to save space for a higher bitrate,

how do i remove the current audiotrack and replace it with the audio of the movie without encoding the video?

[deank]

hmm...

I think you can import VIDEO_TS folder... multiAVCHD will detect it as DVD.

Open [properties] and replace the audio track.

Click [alter detected properties] and mark the title as (HD)DVD compliant.

Then process it.

[mic]

hmm...

I think you can import VIDEO_TS folder... multiAVCHD will detect it as DVD...

**If** that doesn't work, PGCDemux will give you your separate tracks out of your existing DVD layout, & muxman will create a new DVD layout -- just substitute your *new* audio file for the existing one with the commentary. If you have menus that you want to preserve, VOBBlanker will let you replace your original VOB files with the ones you just created in muxman.

[Beatnut]

is it a problem that it is a DTS audio track?

and btw Mic and dean, option 1 didnt work

mic, Can you explain it a bit further?


how do i remove an audio track from a mkv

it is HD dts, how do i fix this, muxman doesnt support it

[deank]

Did you follow the directions in my previous post?

1) Load this VIDEO_TS folder which multiAVCHD created with the wrong audio
2) Click [properties]
3) Go to [AUDIO] tab and remove the track
4) Click [ADD] to add your proper audio-track. At this point you can even select your MKV. multiAVCHD will use the audio from it. OR you can use mkvextract and extract the DTS audio and then add it as a track.

alter detected properties to avoid transcoding and go on.

multiAVCHD will re-encode DTS audio to AC3, even if it is DTS HD... At least I think so.

//

About what you said about selecting the wrong track to save space/bitrate - have in mind that multiAVCHD will re-encode the audio to AC3 if the bitrate of the detected audio is higher than the value set in subtitles&audio tab for Non-hd audio to AC3 bitrate.

[pio011]

Hi Deank & everyone,

I didn't really follow the discussion about the problems with motion chapter, so forgive me if I'm asking something which has been solved already. But I thought that the problems were solved with the recent update of multiAVCHD - I was wrong...maybe. Last night I tried for the first time to author a BR-Disc with motion chapters. And it failed! Windows gave me an error message, that mx264.exe crashed and has to be closed.
My OS is Win 7 ultimate / 64bit.
I don't know if it helps, but here's a part of the logfile of multiAVCHD - I don't think it's necessary to show the whole log:


[21:24:30] Preparing menu pages...

[21:24:31] Encoding static XMB menu page [1/3] [Static title thumbnail].
[21:24:31] Extracting motion chapters for page #1...
[21:31:30] Encoding static XMB menu page [1/3]: Chapter page [1/1].
[22:27:46] Error encoding chapter menu page #1 for title #1!
[22:28:02] Failure to mux menu and to create playlist [00601.mpls]
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #1 -> Chapter #1
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #2 -> Chapter #2
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #3 -> Chapter #3
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #4 -> Chapter #4
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #5 -> Chapter #5
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #6 -> Chapter #6
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #7 -> Chapter #7
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #8 -> Chapter #8
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #9 -> Chapter #9
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #10 -> Chapter #10
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #11 -> Chapter #11
[22:28:02] *** User defined thumblink #12 -> Chapter #12
[22:28:02] Error encoding/muxing chapter menu page #1 for title #1!
[22:28:03] Encoding static XMB menu page [1/3]: Setup page (audio/subtitle).

[22:28:06] Encoding static XMB menu page [2/3] [Static title thumbnail].
[22:28:06] Extracting motion chapters for page #1...
[22:33:21] Encoding static XMB menu page [2/3]: Chapter page [1/1].
[22:35:26] Error encoding chapter menu page #1 for title #2!
[22:35:36] Failure to mux menu and to create playlist [00602.mpls]
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #1 -> Chapter #1
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #2 -> Chapter #2
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #3 -> Chapter #3
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #4 -> Chapter #4
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #5 -> Chapter #5
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #6 -> Chapter #6
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #7 -> Chapter #7
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #8 -> Chapter #8
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #9 -> Chapter #9
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #10 -> Chapter #10
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #11 -> Chapter #11
[22:35:36] *** User defined thumblink #12 -> Chapter #12
[22:35:36] Error encoding/muxing chapter menu page #1 for title #2!


So, any help would be great. Thanks in advance!

[deank]

Go to MENU/Extended and set MENU QUALITY to HIGH and try again.

or update...

or use MPEG-2 for menu encoding...

[pio011]

Thanks, I'll test that. But why would it help? :)

[deank]

Because it will use x264.exe and not mx264.exe.

Of course it may make no difference and get x264 crashed because of insufficient memory.

[pio011]

Because it will use x264.exe and not mx264.exe.

Of course it may make no difference and get x264 crashed because of insufficient memory.

Well, I thought 6GB Ram would be enough... :(

[deank]

Right, but neither avisynth or x264 can use more than 2gb.

[flaviometal]

Hi Deank & everyone,

I didn't really follow the discussion about the problems with motion chapter, so forgive me if I'm asking something which has been solved already. But I thought that the problems were solved with the recent update of multiAVCHD - I was wrong...maybe. Last night I tried for the first time to author a BR-Disc with motion chapters. And it failed! Windows gave me an error message, that mx264.exe crashed and has to be closed.
My OS is Win 7 ultimate / 64bit.
I don't know if it helps, but here's a part of the logfile of multiAVCHD - I don't think it's necessary to show the whole log:


Same error with me! The first update that included motion chapters doesn't worked for me. After some one or two updates, the motions problems seems to be solved. But nowwith recent update, that problem is back. Don't know what it is.

EDIT: Trying out with update, Dean! ;)

[deank]

If you mean the update from few mins ago.. it only changes the encoder version (older x264 build - mx264 in tools folder).

If you didn't notice there was an option for menu quality in MENU/Extended. Check what setting you have there.

I posted few days ago that I installed clean win7 with multiAVCHD, avisynth and ffdshow and had motion chapters work. I really don't know what else to do to help with this issue.

You can try to raise the virtual memory of your PC.

You can also try to launch task manager and observe memory usage during menu encoding. Mark the moment when if fails and post back.

I replaced directshow with ffms2 for these 12 videos for motion chapters and the overall memory load decreased to allow proper encoding.

[pio011]

Maybe it helps you, Deank:
I have tried to encode motion chapters / Quality=high. It did not work. But the was no error with the memory! The only error message I got was:
Error:"DEBUG: play 'c:\multiAVCHD\_TEMP\multiTEMP-20100616\20100616-213220-CM002-01.avs'".

If I press "Yes" it opens some kind of player-window and different windows seem to pop-up and close.
The Log says:
"[21:33:51] Preparing menu pages...

[21:33:51] Encoding static XMB menu page [1/3] [Static title thumbnail].
[21:33:52] Extracting motion chapters for page #1...
[21:40:39] Encoding static XMB menu page [1/3]: Chapter page [1/1].
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #1 -> Chapter #1
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #2 -> Chapter #2
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #3 -> Chapter #3
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #4 -> Chapter #4
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #5 -> Chapter #5
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #6 -> Chapter #6
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #7 -> Chapter #7
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #8 -> Chapter #8
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #9 -> Chapter #9
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #10 -> Chapter #10
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #11 -> Chapter #11
[21:40:54] *** User defined thumblink #12 -> Chapter #12
[21:40:55] Encoding static XMB menu page [1/3]: Setup page (audio/subtitle).

[21:40:58] Encoding static XMB menu page [2/3] [Static title thumbnail].
[21:40:59] Extracting motion chapters for page #1...
[21:46:22] Encoding static XMB menu page [2/3]: Chapter page [1/1].
[21:46:36] Error encoding chapter menu page #1 for title #2!
[22:07:26] Failure to mux menu and to create playlist [00602.mpls]
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #1 -> Chapter #1
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #2 -> Chapter #2
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #3 -> Chapter #3
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #4 -> Chapter #4
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #5 -> Chapter #5
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #6 -> Chapter #6
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #7 -> Chapter #7
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #8 -> Chapter #8
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #9 -> Chapter #9
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #10 -> Chapter #10
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #11 -> Chapter #11
[22:07:26] *** User defined thumblink #12 -> Chapter #12
[22:07:26] Error encoding/muxing chapter menu page #1 for title #2!
[22:07:27] Encoding static XMB menu page [2/3]: Setup page (audio/subtitle).

[22:07:29] Encoding static XMB menu page [3/3] [Static title thumbnail].
[22:07:30] Extracting motion chapters for page #1...
"

[SiC]

I seem to have some problems with Multiavchd 4.1, for some reason it wont detect the chapters of *.mkv files. When I use Multiavchd 3.0, I have no problems but when I try to load the same *.mkv file in 4.1, it doesn't detect the chapters. Is this a known issue? Or is there some setting I can change to correct this?

[mic]

Hi dean, i think i have a problem, i converted a mkv to a dvd5 compliant video with 2 folders, audio ts and video ts, i transcoded it with the tools that are build in multiavchd, but i accidentally chose the commentary audiothrack, because i wanted to save space for a higher bitrate,

how do i remove the current audiotrack and replace it with the audio of the movie without encoding the video?

is it a problem that it is a DTS audio track?
and btw Mic and dean, option 1 didnt work
mic, Can you explain it a bit further?
how do i remove an audio track from a mkv
it is HD dts, how do i fix this, muxman doesnt support it

With a DVD spec layout, using VIDEO_TS & [opt.] AUDIO_TS folders, you'll normally have AC3 audio & mpg2 video... regular DTS was possible, appeared on some retail DVDs, but I've never seen or played with DVD software that worked with or handled it, though software obviously exists. :p AFAIK [could be wrong] playback of HD DTS on/in a video DVD would really depend on your player -- I've never seen it on a DVD, but it possible some player **might** play it.

Re-encoding/transcoding HD DTS can be a PITA IMHO, so it might be easier assuming you've got a DVD spec layout, to pull the mpg2 video multiAVCHD encoded for you out of the DVD's VOB files using PGCDemux or similar, & then feeding that to multiAVCHD along with your HD DTS track. But **Only** if Dean's method didn't work.

RE: the VobBlanker method, which I wouldn't recommend as 1st choice, you open a DVD layout [on hdd or disc], select the title video you want to work with from the list in the upper window, select the PGC that you want to replace VOB files for in the lower window, click the replace button just to the right, & browse to the replacing DVD layout, selecting the VOB file set you want to use.

What that's good for is when you have a menu-based DVD layout, & want to add/replace a track, & can't do it any other way, for example your DVD authoring software won't take subs, or if you have problems importing the video your authoring app encoded. In those cases VobBlanker normally does a pretty fair job of just swapping out the VOB files for a new set containing whatever tracks you wish to use.