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

[Karl Beem]

Then you can use:

[Sony Playstation 3]
[AVCHD relaxed]
[Blu-ray]

All three will work with TMT3. To play the structure with the menu you'll have to drag the BDMV folder to TMT3.

Dean

I still can't play a selection. My selections are displayed vertically, each one smaller than the last. I have no control over where they are displayed.

[drpaulng]

I still can't play a selection. My selections are displayed vertically, each one smaller than the last. I have no control over where they are displayed.

Do not use the mouse, use the keypad up-down-left-right keys.

[Capsbackup]

deank;
This new change for chapters is not working for me! :confused:
I import my playlist files created from BD-RB for a new compilation with my custom menu, and since the original did not have a chapter location at the end of the clip, in the past I would just edit and enter a chapter number less .250ms from the total time of the clip so that if I press chapter advance on the remote, I can go to the end of the title immediately rather than FF to the end of the title.
Now, when I try this, multiAVCHD crashes with this message:
"(RT) Part of Delimited text not found - Line 27034".
I have tried entering the same way BD-RB transfers and has them entered, (00:02:30.450) or tried ( 00:02:30:450), but both ways cause program to crash.
What is the correct way, or is it not possible anymore, to add this last chapter?

EDIT:
I can ultimately get it to work, by trying different values for the last chapter, but it seems very finicky and selective. :rolleyes:
It will crash the program if it doesn't like the time value I insert.
The value seems to need to be .300 to .400 less than the total time, but this is not consistent by any means!
Is there a problem or do I need to learn a new procedure? :p

[MrVideo]

Frame -> milliseconds conversion is fixed

Also, CHAPTER time code box and CHAPTER-THUMBNAIL time code box allow usage of HH:MM:SS:FR format.

Thank you kind sir. I know that it will be appreciated by those of us who work in full timecode. I was communicating with another user who will appreciate it as well.

Please note that the delimiter is : and not . (dot), so 00:01:02.03 will not be accepted (as you posted in your example).

Fully expected the colon delimiter. If someone does enter .03, will it go to the nearest appropriate time code location (.042 for 23.976)?

As a side note, I went digging for information about 23.976 drop frame time code and it does not exist. Will probably never exist. For those that are in television production where their 23.976 master will be converted to 720p or 1080i, there appears to be functions on some NLE systems that allow the user to find out what the realtime clock is after the selected segment is 2:3 pulldown converted to 720p and/or 1080i.

[Karl Beem]

Do not use the mouse, use the keypad up-down-left-right keys.

OK, is there anyplace in the guide where this stuff is mentioned?

Also You can create menus for each title - how do you get to them?

[Avisynth_challenged]

What player will you use?

How about the WD TV Live Plus 1080p Network Media Player (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=832)?

[deank]

deank;
This new change for chapters is not working for me! :confused:

Now, ..., multiAVCHD crashes with this message:
"(RT) Part of Delimited text not found - Line 27034".

I'll check it today.

[facognig]

I'm new to Multiavchd.
I have created on USB a avchd-video with a mkv HDvideo
I can see mts video in BDMV/STREAM
but avchd don't start autmatically pressing X on joystick
and i have no menu

[cwh060]

I'm new to Multiavchd.
I have created on USB a avchd-video with a mkv HDvideo


Make sure the root folder is "AVCHD" and nothing else for PS3 playback.

[MrVideo]

OK, is there anyplace in the guide where this stuff is mentioned?

There's a guide? That would be news to a lot of us.

[pepelugil]

Hi, lots of thanks for this great software, I’ve just started using multiAVCHD and it’s really nice, but I miss a “movie” style menu:

Taking XMB menu as the basis it would be nice that you could define a video in the compilation as the main movie and the rest of videos in compilation would be the bonus features.

The Main menu would be similar to XMB single-title menu but there should exist only one Main menu (bonus movies wouldn’t have Main menu), and Title List menu would be used to list the bonus videos (the main movie wouldn’t be shown here) and play them directly from here when selecting one of them without going to their Main menu.

I don’t know if this is possible to easy implement or if it’s just a crazy thought, but I think it would be nice.

[deank]

deank;
This new change for chapters is not working for me! :confused:
I import my playlist files created from BD-RB for a new compilation with my custom menu, :p

I couldn't replicate the problem, but I think I found what may causing it. Would you please try again and let me know if it works?

Dean

[Capsbackup]

I couldn't replicate the problem, but I think I found what may causing it. Would you please try again and let me know if it works?

Dean

It looks like all is well again! :D
I tried several different chapter adds, going as close as .250 from the total length of the title, and multiAVCHD accepts it. On the three different tests, no more problems.
Thanks Dean. :)

[deank]

:) Good. You can go as close as to the very end to add a chapter mark, but I'd suggest not, because chapter-thumb will not be extracted properly.

[Capsbackup]

:) Good. You can go as close as to the very end to add a chapter mark, but I'd suggest not, because chapter-thumb will not be extracted properly.

Good to know, but I am not one to push limits! :p

[defender]

ERROR:

= (RT) Application "C:\multiAVCHD\multiBOOT.exe" cannot be executed - Line 6

and my Bitdefender:
"Gen:Trojan.Heur.DP.dKW@aGGd2cc" :devil:

[deank]

You'll have to send it to your antivirus software supplier. There is no virus in any of the tools (package) of multiAVCHD.

[speedway76]

Greetings, Dean
At me a problem. Has decided to make a film consisting of the basic film and additional materials. In the menu has marked point: "Create name chapter".
After мукса the following problem turns out. By pressing point - the choice of episodes, occurs nothing. (There is no transition in the menu of a choice of episodes and in the menu tittle list)

At removal of a tick from point "Create name chapter" - all is normal, such problem is not present, all points, both options and a choice of episodes open

[deank]

Both are not connected. There is a small glitch sometimes (related to GPR registers) and TITLE-LIST menu won't launch.

To overcome the problem, enter CHAPTER menu, exit and TITLE-LIST will open.

[rd001]

ERROR:

= (RT) Application "C:\multiAVCHD\multiBOOT.exe" cannot be executed - Line 6

and my Bitdefender:
"Gen:Trojan.Heur.DP.dKW@aGGd2cc" :devil:

Have you tried scanning it at the VirusTotal (http://www.virustotal.com/) site?

It uses a farm of computers to virus-scan files you upload to it. It really helps reveal spurious false positives that you may get from AV programs for a file you have no other reason to suspect of being evil.

[Capsbackup]

Have you tried scanning it at the VirusTotal (http://www.virustotal.com/) site?

It uses a farm of computers to virus-scan files you upload to it. It really helps reveal spurious false positives that you may get from AV programs for a file you have no other reason to suspect of being evil.

I have McAfee installed, no detection here. It's been working perfectly fine! :cool:

[MrVideo]

I upgraded to the latest version.

When I loaded a new time code file, except for time 0, each and every frame value, when converted to decimal fraction was incorrect.

Here are the time code values for the 23.976 video. The first decimal column is what mAVCHD calculated and displays as the time in the thumbnail. The 2nd decimal is FF/23.976 and the 3rd decimal column is FF/24. What the thumbnail displays can be off by 001, i.e., the calculated 999 gets displayed as 998.

00:00:00:00 000 000 000
00:00:29:23 999 959 958
00:01:08:00 000 000 000
00:13:16:01 043 042 042
00:21:10:00 000 000 000
00:31:59:06 261 250 250
00:38:33:08 348 334 333
00:42:57:23 999 959 958
00:47:50:22 957 918 917
00:58:34:14 609 584 583
01:09:37:05 217 209 208
01:14:09:06 261 250 250
01:19:47:10 435 417 417
01:28:50:06 261 250 250
01:29:20:08 348 334 333
01:30:21:07 304 292 292
01:30:26:07 304 292 292

[MrVideo]

While checking all of the time codes (above post), when got to the last few of the video, the thumbnail started displaying gray. It was about the last two minutes.

I found the last location where there was a thumbnail of the video and the very next frame, and every frame after that, was gray.

[deank]

I got the gray frames, too... I don't know why, but I'll check it... And the timecodes...

[Jonaldinho]

Hi Dean, loving your programme. I've got an issue with a 3d playlist file, it's not recognising it's 3D. It's the UK version of Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. I successfully managed to encode the right View to a seperate file with this guide http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=155246&highlight=anaglyph I added the same playlist file to MultiAVCHD (00001.mpls) and it didn't say that it recognised it was 3D and in the transcode window Anaglyph 3D was greyed out.This is the log:

[09:49:14] multiAVCHD.dat version: [04010755]
[09:49:45] *** Scanning playlist (00001.mpls). Please wait...
[09:49:49] *** Playlist EXT format: BDMV 1.1
[09:49:49] *** Detected main-path : [ID#000 Dur: 00:45:44.032] [00:00:11.650]
[09:49:53] *** Detected media file: [00151.m2ts, 00:45:44.032] (11713 MiB)
[09:49:53] *** Playitem size exceeds split point of 4000 MiB (set in Author tab).
[09:49:53] *** Playlist marked for full processing mode. (split/join)
[09:49:53] *** Detected main-path : [ID#001 Dur: 00:44:09.355] [00:00:11.650]
[09:49:59] *** Detected media file: [00177.m2ts, 00:44:09.354] (11247 MiB)
[09:49:59] *** Playitem size exceeds split point of 4000 MiB (set in Author tab).
[09:49:59] *** Playlist marked for full processing mode. (split/join)
[09:49:59] *** Detected chapters #: 00:00:00.000;00:04:47.620;00:08:56.577;00:14:33.163;00:20:30.229;00:24:25.589;00:30:43.174;00:36:29.604;00:42:50.109;00:46:36.793;00:52:43.827;00:55:07.429;01:00:42.764;01:05:43.397;01:13:03.754;01:17:45.369
[09:49:59] *** Playlist duration : 01:29:53 (22961 MiB)

Also, if or when it can recognise it i'd like to try yellow/blue anaglyph (colorcode), do you think you would consider adding it as a 3D conversion option. Thanks for your time, keep up the great work!

[deank]

00001.mpls is not the 3D playlist. I can't remember, but I think the proper one was 151... I'd suggest to import the whole BDMV folder and let multiAVCHD find the correct 3D playlist.

[deank]

I got the gray frames, too... I don't know why, but I'll check it... And the timecodes...

I think it is fixed now. Update manually if not prompted.

[Jonaldinho]

00001.mpls is not the 3D playlist. I can't remember, but I think the proper one was 151... I'd suggest to import the whole BDMV folder and let multiAVCHD find the correct 3D playlist.

Tried that, it's found it :) it's 00150.mpls, thanks. I thought it was 00001.mpls because I imported that playlist into eac3to and it had a left and right view, and I demuxed them and encoded the right view with stereosource and it all worked fine. I don't understand how that worked now lol.

[deank]

@Jonaldinho: I just added yellow/blue to the list. If you can - give it a try and let me know if the colors are proper. I have no such glasses to test with.

Dean

[Jonaldinho]

That was unbeleivably quick! :eek: I will try it now and let you know asap. Thanks a lot!

ps you don't have to get really expensive glasses, the cardboard glasses aren't that expensive, I got 5 official colorcode glasses for £9.99 http://www.assistpoint.co.uk/colorcode_3d_glasses_with_arms.html

[deank]

I encoded the menu from Panasonic 3D Blu-ray Demo Disc with Yellow/Blue option and it seems okay. Let me know if your glasses work.

[setarip_old]

@deank

If you'd like to experiment further with stereoscopic 3D, as well as anaglyph, check out this thread by "Jeremy Duncan":

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1422344#post1422344

[Jonaldinho]

I encoded the menu from Panasonic 3D Blu-ray Demo Disc with Yellow/Blue option and it seems okay. Let me know if your glasses work.

Sorry it took me a while, i tried it with a short clip from Open Season. I also converted it with Pantarheon and made screenshots and they look exactly the same. I made some screenshots of Colorcode's normal encoding, special encoding, stereoscopic player full colour and stereoscopic player optimizied. I can really see the differences from the screenshots. Colrcode's normal and special encoding is the best on colour and the 3d effect. It really is good that it's so 3d and has full colour. Steroscopic player full colour is good with colour, not that good on 3D, stereoscopic player optimizied is just good on 3d but the colours aren't good. I will upload the screenshots tomorrow. It's good that you've got a yellow and blue option now. I don't know if it would be possible to get it looking like colorcodes because it's patented. Probably need a lot of tinkering.

[MrVideo]

I think it is fixed now. Update manually if not prompted.

The time code is fixed. The gray is sortof. I have a title that is 1:30:36.0 in length and one that is around 45 minutes in length. The 45 minute title has no issues with gray. But the long one is ok @ 1:29:10.703. One frame later, continuing on thru the end of the video, it is gray.

[setarip_old]

@deank


If you'd like to see how video output looks as stereoscopic output as well as any other 3D format you can think of, download the Stereoscopic Player 1.6.2 (Demo version plays 3 minutes):

http://www.3dtv.at/Downloads/Index_en.aspx

[MrVideo]

Project has two titles.

In the properties for the first title, I added the poster file and then selected custom menu and hit the more button ... crashed

The error dialog: (RT) Attempt to read uninitialized field (TOPMENUTITLE). Assign a value first. Line - 2452

[Jonaldinho]

@deank

http://comparescreenshots.slicx.com/comparison/71701

MultiAVCHD
http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/63/92/1379c76052336392.jpg
Pantarheon
http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/40/BB/7a0a87c80c5540bb.jpg
Stereoscopic Player Full Colour
http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/22/51/01c3cdf6b2a42251.jpg
Stereoscopic Player Optimized
http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/51/0A/197cade4e05a510a.jpg
Colorcode Normal Encoding
http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/04/99/285fcf482c090499.jpg
Colorcode Special Encoding
http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/4A/19/08a98df2b8914a19.jpg

I notice the colourcodes colour is a bit brighter, especially the anaglyph yellow and blue.

[deank]

@deank


If you'd like to see how video output looks as stereoscopic output as well as any other 3D format you can think of, download the Stereoscopic Player 1.6.2 (Demo version plays 3 minutes):

Thanks. I have this player. :)

Project has two titles.

In the properties for the first title, I added the poster file and then selected custom menu and hit the more button ... crashed

The error dialog: (RT) Attempt to read uninitialized field (TOPMENUTITLE). Assign a value first. Line - 2452

I'll take a look, but click [MORE] without changing to "custom". It will be changed automatically.

@deank
I notice the colourcodes colour is a bit brighter, especially the anaglyph yellow and blue.

I'll tweak a bit the output and will let you know later.

[MrVideo]

I'll take a look, but click [MORE] without changing to "custom". It will be changed automatically.

Default or custom. No matter, it crashes with that error.

It was fine until the last update.

[deank]

Latest update has nothing to do with it. I'm loading a file, setting a poster, clicking [MORE] then [OK] and it is all fine. No errors.

[deank]

@deank

I notice the colourcodes colour is a bit brighter, especially the anaglyph yellow and blue.

Would you update with multiUPDATE and post another screenshot if there is a difference?

[Jonaldinho]

I've only compared to Colorcode normal encoding this time but if you want other comparisons I will do them:

http://comparescreenshots.slicx.com/comparison/71752

MultiAVCHD Attempt 1
http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/8C/F9/e341f5252afa8cf9.jpg
MultiAVCHD Attempt 2
http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/02/24/024c5937f2940224.jpg
Colorcode Normal Encoding
http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/37/57/299e1578c3bb3757.jpg

I think the actual yellow and blue is closer now, maybe a tinchy bit too much colour, but I think the overall image is a bit too bright or has too much colour so doesn't make the yellow and blue stand out. If the overall image was somewhere in the middle of your 2 attempts in terms of brightness and colour (or maybe it has something to do with contrast?) ,and the yellow and blue had a tiny bit less colour as attempt 2 I think it would look very close. Good work though :) I'll keep testing as long as you like, don't take very long with such a short clip and I really want to beable to use the yellow and blue for 3D.

EDIT: Here's the left and right image before conversion if it helps.

Left: http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/D8/64/98751b67c017d864.jpg

Right: http://store.picbg.net/pubpic/4C/6C/83d24b5fd3284c6c.jpg

[deank]

I'm not sure if it is possible to achieve closer match with ColorCode... Try to update again and let me know.

You can pause the encoding if you wish and alter the settings in the avisynth script.

Dean

[Jonaldinho]

This is definitely the best now and much better than Pantarheon's. The yellow and blue is spot on and it does look more 3d. You can see a slight difference with colorcodes for the overall image but much closer, i'll let you make judgement http://comparescreenshots.slicx.com/comparison/71761 but if you think this is the best you can do it i'm happy with it and definitely use it over Pantarheon's. Thanks a lot! :) I'm off out right now but i'm still happy to do testing if you want when I get time later.

[deank]

When you can, please take a look at these images... Do they have the proper colors/depth:

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/3d/cc/CI-206432956830094707.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/3d/cc/CI-193982956830094707.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/3d/cc/CI-183604956830094707.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/3d/cc/CI-170218956830094707.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/3d/cc/CI-156472956830094707.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/3d/cc/CI-137982956830094707.jpg

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/3d/cc/CI-131199956830094707.jpg

Dean

[Capsbackup]

deank, just curious if there is a reason motion menus are limited to 32 seconds for Carousel and Slide, but can be longer for XMB?
I really like the look of the Carousel menu, it really can impersonate an original Blu-ray since you provided the new CM_bott.bmp. However, since most original menus are longer than 32 seconds, which is what my source is, I usually will have to cut the audio and reencode it to perform a fade out, and do the same with the video, using trim and fade in/out to create a new motion menu that is 32 seconds.
Though I can do this and it works fine, the no-limit of the XMB would be ideal for the other two options. :)

[deank]

It is a lot of work to make it the same for SLI/CAR and I was postponing it. I'll try to add the same functionality as XMB in these two styles, too (next week I hope).

Dean

[Capsbackup]

It is a lot of work to make it the same for SLI/CAR and I was postponing it. I'll try to add the same functionality as XMB in these two styles, too (next week I hope).

Dean

I thank you Dean! But it is not a priority by any means. :p
It will be ANOTHER great addition though!! :)
:thanks:

[MrVideo]

Latest update has nothing to do with it. I'm loading a file, setting a poster, clicking [MORE] then [OK] and it is all fine. No errors.

Then I don't understand, because before the upgrade it worked. I'll try a previous project and see what happens.

[MrVideo]

Latest update has nothing to do with it. I'm loading a file, setting a poster, clicking [MORE] then [OK] and it is all fine. No errors.

I had to start the project over. Something must have been wrong in the project file to cause the problems.

I still get the gray at the end of the long video. Plus, it is a transport stream and not a MKV file.

I'm trying to figure out the differences between the three menu types and not having any luck. The project has two videos. I go into the Author tab and select the first menu type and then go into the Menu tab and preview the menu. When I do that for the other two menu types, the previews are exactly the same.

I've seen the other menu styles, but I can't get that to happen anymore. When I was able to get it to happen, the first title would preview as the XMB style (at least I think it was the XMB style), then when I clicked on the >>> to see the next title, then it would display the other style that I had selected.

Very confusing and frustrating.