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

[Flanker-B]

I have a big problem.
Whenever I try to author a blu-ray from a mkv file that contains pgs subtitles the result has subtitles tracks but does not display them even if they are selected.
This happens on Arcsoft Total Media Theater, PowerDVD and my standalone Sony BDP-S280 blu ray player. It looks that keeping pgs subtitles doesn't work well.
SRT converted to pgs works fine.

[rendez2k]

Well this might be a stupid question but is multiavchd essentially dead, never to recieve anymore updates? I thought a while ago a new interface was being talked about but nothing seems to have come from that. Shame if it was a funding issue - i'd have been happy if the program was shareware in order to keep the updates coming.

[setarip_old]

@rendez2k

Hi! Well this might be a stupid question but is multiavchd essentially dead, never to recieve anymore updates? Have you tried emailing the author?

[rendez2k]

@rendez2k

Hi! Have you tried emailing the author?

No, good idea. Wasn't sure if Dean still came here although it looks like not for some months.

[DMagic1]

He seems to be too involved with his PS3 scene tool now.

[VideoFanatic]

What's his PS3 scene tool? What does it do?

[DMagic1]

MultiMAN

[azerty12342000]

Hello !

Is it possible to get menus in 720p instead of 1080p?
If yes, how to do it?

Thanks !

[Alarven]

Good evening friends, my English is not very good my apologies I aver express it my problem if I can help thank you very much beforehand.

Is the following:

1 - I am using multiAVCHD reauthoria as a Blu-ray to pass from PAL to NTSC, which happens at the end the image is blurry reauthoria as double may be happening in this case.

2 - I have all the codec in order explains Dean.

3 - I've done everything I deleted record cleaning the codec and I re-installed, I get errors of any kind at the facility, but the problem is the image I hope you can help me thank you very much.

[MrVideo]

1 - I am using multiAVCHD reauthoria as a Blu-ray to pass from PAL to NTSC, which happens at the end the image is blurry reauthoria as double may be happening in this case.

First off, in the digital world, PAL and NTSC do not exist. Those are specifications for the old analog video signals and broadcast transmissions.

In the digital world, they are better known as 576i25 and 480i29.97.

What is the source of your video, which might help with the problem.

Personally, if I need to convert 576i25 to 480i29.97 H,264, I do it outside of programs like this one, by using AVIsynth to do the video conversion. The output of the video conversion is then directly supplied to the x264 encoder.

Also, why are you converting the 576i25 video to 480i29.97? If you are recoding MPEG-2 video to H.264, it means that you will be playing the video on a HDTV monitor via a Blu-ray player. The odds are that the HDTV monitor will play 576i25 via the HDMI connection between the player and the monitor. IMHO, don't convert if it is not necessary!

[Alarven]

MrVideo a greeting Good night, thanks for answering, I mean again I have a blu-ray in 1080i format
MPEG-4 25fps NTSC and I pass it to 23,976 to get him to read my blu ray bd 360, but by making the image I get Boble, I have not worked with the codec avisynth show me how to configure it so that the image comes out perfect multiAVCHD .

I have Demutiplexao with tsMuxeR and I Endodan with MainConcept 2.2, but when I multiplex with tsMuxeR DTS-MA audio does not match the video.

I hope to excplicarme...

[Alarven]

This is the specification of the video:


General
ID: 0 (0x0)
Full name: J: \ BDMV \ STREAM \ 00005.m2ts
Format: BDAV
Format / Info: Blu-ray Video
File Size: 22.0 GIB
Duration: 1h 42min.
Bit rate mode: Variable
Total bit rate: 30.7 Mbps
Maximum bit rate: 48.0 Mbps

Video
ID: 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID: 1 (0x1)
Format: AVC
Format / Info: Advanced Video Codec
Format profile: High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC: Yes
Format settings, RefFrames: 4marcos
Codec ID: 27
Duration: 1h 42min.
Bit Rate Type: Variable
Bit rate: 26.3 Mbps
Maximum bit rate: 30.0 Mbps
Width: 1 920pixeles
Height: 1 080pixeles
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Standard: PAL
ColorSpace: YUV
ChromaSubsampling: 4:2:0
BitDepth / String: 8 bits
Scan type: Interlaced
Exploration Order: Upper Field First
Bits / (Pixel * Frame): 0.508
Track Size: 18.8 IPF (86%)
colour_primaries: BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
transfer_characteristics: BT.709-5, BT.1361
matrix_coefficients: BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Audio # 1
ID: 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID: 1 (0x1)
Format: DTS
Format / Info: Digital Theater Systems
Format profile: MA / Core
Muxing mode: Stream extension
Codec ID: 134
Duration: 1h 42min.
Bit Rate Type: Variable
Bit rate: 1 203Kbps / 152Kbps 1
Channel (s): 6canales
Channel positions: Front: LCR, Side: LR, LFE
Sampling rate: 48.0 KHz
BitDepth / String: 16 bits
Compression_Mode / String: / Lossy
Video delay: 480ms

Audio # 2
ID: 4353 (0x1101)
Menu ID: 1 (0x1)
Format: AC-3
Format / Info: Audio Coding 3
Format_Settings_ModeExtension: CM (complete main)
Codec ID: 129
Duration: 1h 42min.
Bitrate type: Constant
Bit rate: 384 Kbps
Channel (s): 6canales
Channel positions: Front: LCR, Side: LR, LFE
Sampling rate: 48.0 KHz
BitDepth / String: 16 bits
Video delay: 480ms
Track Size: 282MB (1%)

Audio # 3
ID: 4354 (0x1102)
Menu ID: 1 (0x1)
Format: DTS
Format / Info: Digital Theater Systems
Format profile: MA / Core
Muxing mode: Stream extension
Codec ID: 134
Duration: 1h 42min.
Bit Rate Type: Variable
Bit rate: 1 203Kbps / 152Kbps 1
Channel (s): 6canales
Channel positions: Front: LCR, Side: LR, LFE
Sampling rate: 48.0 KHz
BitDepth / String: 16 bits
Compression_Mode / String: / Lossy
Video delay: 480ms

Audio # 4
ID: 4355 (0x1103)
Menu ID: 1 (0x1)
Format: AC-3
Format / Info: Audio Coding 3
Format_Settings_ModeExtension: CM (complete main)
Codec ID: 129
Duration: 1h 42min.
Bitrate type: Constant
Bit rate: 384 Kbps
Channel (s): 6canales
Channel positions: Front: LCR, Side: LR, LFE
Sampling rate: 48.0 KHz
BitDepth / String: 16 bits
Video delay: 480ms
Track Size: 282MB (1%)

Text
ID: 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID: 1 (0x1)
Format: PGS
Codec ID: 144
Video Delay: 2sec.

[Alarven]

What I want is to do with multiAVCHD reauthoria changing the frame rate of 25fps 1080i to 1080p pal 23,976 and that the image is not blurred or double me.

I have 20 European films 25fps

I live in South America and my team is not multizone model is this


Thank you very much for helping me figure out how to render the Blu-ray, I really think that is a program multiAVCHD explendido too full and the quality is fabulous.

I have not seen another program as part of the Professionals and Sonic CineVision Scenarist it's hard to work with java language.

Thank you very much again

[MrVideo]

MrVideo a greeting Good night, thanks for answering, I mean again I have a blu-ray in 1080i format
MPEG-4 25fps NTSC and I pass it to 23,976 to get him to read my blu ray bd 360, but by making the image I get Boble, I have not worked with the codec avisynth show me how to configure it so that the image comes out perfect multiAVCHD

Forget the terms PAL and NTSC when talking about digital video, especially high-def video. The list you give in the followup posting that says that the 1080i25 video is PAL is an incorrect output by the author of the MediaInfo program.

I have no idea what "Boble" is.

mAVCHD is not the appropriate program to do standards conversion.

As I said previously, and will push the point this time around as well, especially since the source video is HD. The odds are extremely good that any Blu-ray/HDTV monitor combination will play the 1080i25 video without any problems. I play 1080i25 HD video all the time on my Blu-ray player/monitor and I live in 1080i29.97 land. HD is pretty much international, in that no matter where you live, your equipment will play any of the HD resolutions and frame rates. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONVERT!
Try playing the 1080i25 video on the Blu-ray player before attempting to waste your time trying fo convert.

Now, with all of that said, why in the world would you want to convert 1080i25 to 1080i23.976? That is not a natural conversion. 23.976 is really 24 fps film speed and 25 fps is not film speed. If the 25 fps 1080i video is of a film, odds are it was sped up 4% when transferring the film to 25 fps video. As such, the audio is sped up as well, sometimes it is pitch corrected and sometimes it is not. If you are trying to get a film back to 24 fps (23.976 for playback in U.S. Blu-ray players, even though 24 fps is legal for Blu-ray playback), you have to adjust the audio as well. That is a whole different set of tools, something I did once with the audio program I had to correct for a mistake by another and that was a pain-in-the-ass to get right.

AVISynth does not deal with audio correction and neither does mAVCHD (AFAIK).

Again, I STRONGLY urge you not to even attempt to do anything to the source. Use it as is.

[Alarven]

MrVideo thank you very much very well explained and clear my doubts.

[MrVideo]

What I want is to do with multiAVCHD reauthoria changing the frame rate of 25fps 1080i to 1080p pal 23,976 and that the image is not blurred or double me.

This posting was done before my response was posted.

Again, drop the use of PAL and NTSC. No such thing as PAL 23.976 or NTSC 23,976. They never even existed in the analog world. In the digital world, the description is via the resolution and frame rate only.

I live in South America and my team is not multizone model is this

I find it a little strange that the HDTV monitors where you live do not support 1080i25. While not impossible, just strange,

Thank you very much for helping me figure out how to render the Blu-ray, I really think that is a program multiAVCHD explendido too full and the quality is fabulous.

mAVCHD uses the same thrid party tools to deal with video that I use separately, with better control, than what mAVCHD allows.

I have not seen another program as part of the Professionals and Sonic CineVision Scenarist it's hard to work with java language.

Blu-ray authoring, even with Sonic Scenarist 5.x, can be done without the use of Java. The Blu-ray spec has simple authoring and the more sophisticated authoring using Java.

As I mentioned in the posting above, it isn't the video that is the problem, as it is extremely easy to get the 25 fps video to be changed to 23.976 video by simple slowing it down. H.264 video doesn't really contain frame rate intformation. You could take your original H.264 Blu-ray video and rewrap it as a MKV file, with the frame rate set to 23.976, without even touching the video. mAVCHD likes MKV files as imput.

The problem is the audio. You need a separate audio tool to slow down the audio and you have to know if the original audio was pitch corrected or not. I have no idea as to what to suggest you use. The audio program I have is no longer available.

BTW, you also need to know if the 25 fps video was sped up or had a single frame duplicated every 24 frames. If so, you could use AVISynth to drop every 25th frame, but recoding is done in that case, as you just can't pull a video frame out of a MPEG video stream.

As for what to use to determine if the video was sped up, or single frame duplicated, is to use a program like VideoReDo ($50 US), or VirtualDub along with an AVISynth script (free), to step through the video to see what it looks like.

After making me think about it, via these postings, the video is the easy part. It is the audio that could be a problem. Even if a frame was duplicated, the simple removal of a frame returns it to 24 fps, but you want 23.976 fps and that will introduce audio slippage.

Again, I have no idea what to use to correct the audio.

Sorry that you can't use the 1080i25 video as is. Your issue with playing the 1080i25 media isn't because of region coding, is it?

BTW, film transferred to 25fps, while 1080i, is really pseudo 1080p.

[Music Fan]

AVISynth does not deal with audio correction and neither does mAVCHD (AFAIK).
AviSynth does.
With the command "AssumeFPS", the sound stays synchronized with the video, but the pitch changes.
Vegas can change the audio duration keeping the original pitch, I don't know if avisynth can do that.

[MrVideo]

AviSynth does.
With the command "AssumeFPS", the sound stays synchronized with the video, but the pitch changes.

Very interesting. Thanks for the update. I never recode video with the audio still attached. I only work with the video elementary stream. The audio is remuxed with the new video when placed into a MKV wrapper.

In the case of the OP, if the video is sped up and the pitch not changed, it would return the pitch back to the original pitch. But, if they fixed the pitch then the pitch will be wrong after the slowdown.

[Music Fan]

I never recode video with the audio still attached. I only work with the video elementary stream.
You can open separately video and audio in Avisynth ;

video=avisource("M:\video.avi")
audio=WAVSource("M:\audio.wav")
audiodub(video,audio)

But in this case, I don't know how to also change the sound's duration, because each function for video has to be preceded by "video=video.".
Or maybe we simply have to put assumefps after the line "audiodub(video,audio)".

[MrVideo]

I have no need to have the audio go through AVISynth, as there is nothing to be done to the audio. It is only the video that needs to be dealt with, hence the working with the video ES file.

[setarip_old]

@Alarven

Hi! What I want is to do with multiAVCHD reauthoria changing the frame rate of 25fps 1080i to 1080p pal 23,976 and that the image is not blurred or double me.

I have 20 European films 25fps Perhaps the difficulty you've encountered is related to the source material you refer to - Are these "20 European films" purchased, commercial Blu-ray discs?

[TitanFan]

I’m a new user just starting to setup multiAVCHD, so I’ve installed: multiAVCHD, Avisnth, Haali Media Splitter and ffdshow. I used the Win7DSFilterTweaker to make sure my decoders are set to ffdshow, including VC-1. I ran the multiTEST tool and it fails to decode VC-1:

* Checking AviSynth presence...
* [OK] AVISYNTH (encoded 7783 bytes)

* Checking AVC/H.264 decoding...
* [OK] AVC/H.264 (encoded 52205 bytes)

* Checking MPEG-2 decoding...
* [OK] MPEG-2 (encoded 2762 bytes)

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

* All tests completed!
* 1 tests failed!

I really have no idea why it’s failing the VC-1 decode test. I’ve checked everything and re-installed. No luck. Any ideas for this poor newbie user?

[BZeeme]

Follow this setup procedure:

http://adubvideo.net/how-to/setup-proper-playback-chain-windows

[TitanFan]

Follow this setup procedure:

http://adubvideo.net/how-to/setup-proper-playback-chain-windows

Yes, that's exactly the document I followed, along with the Windows 7 decoder document as I'm using 64-bit Windows 7:

http://adubvideo.net/how-to/setup-proper-decoding-chain-windows-7

VC-1 just doesn't pass the test. I've just successfully authored an AVCHD disc using multiAVCHD, so this VC-1 decoding issue doesn't seem to be causing me a problem - at least not yet.

[bred3]

Hey guys new to the forum. I am having some difficulties creating some AVCHD movies for playback on a SDHC card on my BD60. I have tried 3 separate movies and each of them have had the same result. For some strange reason the movie will play fine until just after an hour and playback stops and goes back to the menu screen. It seems to stop about 3 minutes before the second clip in the BDMV/STREAM folder is supposed to play. Sometimes I am able to play the movie from the beginning and fast forward just past the point at which it stops and it will be okay but its very frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Music Fan]

It's maybe a m2ts size problem too big for your SD card (if it's in Fat32).
Is your file bigger than 4 GB ? If yes, you should tick "media split at 4000 MB" in the author tab.

[bred3]

thanks for the reply!

yes the SD card is in Fat32 and the m2ts split is set for 4000MB and enabled

[bred3]

and yes the file is larger than 4gb. Any other suggestions?

[Music Fan]

The split is enabled and the file is larger than 4 GB. I guess you're talking about the original file, not the one on your SD card which is well cut at 4000 MB by multiAVCHD, right ?
If yes, it's weird.
Did you choose the good output option for SD card ? There are several available choices ;
http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/multiAVCHD_output.jpg

[bred3]

yes sorry i was talking about the original file being larger than 4gb. I selected the "Panasonic Blu-ray players" as I have the BD60 Blu-ray player with the sdhc avchd playback capability.

That is weird I never noticed that "General output" "Volume split:" option before? I never changed that to "yes every 4000MiBs" but after transcoding I looked in the BDMV/STREAM folder and there was one file just under 4gb and another well under 4gb? I will try to enable this "Volume split" option and let you know what happens.

[bred3]

so now multiavchd is making 2 folders after transcoding... "AVCHD" and "AVCHD_VOLUME_SPLIT". The "AVCHD" folder is only 204kb and the "AVCHD_VOLUME_SPLIT" has 2 sub folders "VOL_001" and "VOL_002" both under 4gb. Do I simply put the "AVCHD_VOLUME_SPLIT" folder into the PRIVATE folder on my SDHC card? Or do I have to put the "AVCHD" folder as well as the "AVCHD_VOLUME_SPLIT" folder into the PRIVATE folder?

I also forgot to mention that yes I am using an 8gb sdhc card in fat32 :)

[Music Fan]

I never tried AVCHD on a SD card, but I guess that you have to put all folders on the card.
Normally, we chose AVCHD as name for the output folder (before to click start), and we have to copy this folder (which includes several sub-folders) on the support (I do that for a USB key).

[bred3]

I am aware of how the folder structure works with just the AVCHD folder but I still cant figure out the folder structure with the AVCHD_VOLUME_SPLIT folders...

[dror.sharon5]

Is there any news on TrueHD support?
I am still unable to create a Blu Ray from MKV with TrueHD sound.
multiAVCHD recognizes the tracks, doesn't give me any messege... But he keeps the "processing..." messege running forever under the "creating clip and playlist" process...
I am running Windows 7 64bit system. Under multiAVCHD I have checked the 64bit checkbox. No luck.
I don't want to downscale the audio to AC3 640 KBPS, as the TrueHD is much better.
Is there a way to fix this?

[Farscape1]

i was wondering if someone could tell me (or point to the proper forum post) how to remove (or make transparent) the dark grey menu bar while leaving the buttons w/descriptions?

also, how do you change the font of the smart line?

thanks.

[Farscape1]

Is there any news on TrueHD support?
I am still unable to create a Blu Ray from MKV with TrueHD sound.
multiAVCHD recognizes the tracks, doesn't give me any messege... But he keeps the "processing..." messege running forever under the "creating clip and playlist" process...
I am running Windows 7 64bit system. Under multiAVCHD I have checked the 64bit checkbox. No luck.
I don't want to downscale the audio to AC3 640 KBPS, as the TrueHD is much better.
Is there a way to fix this?

make sure that the .mkv contains the AC3 core audio as well as the TrueHD track. tsmuxer needs the core audio included in order to accept the TrueHD track. i would also open up the mkv in mkvmerge and remux it with header compression disabled.

if you are still having issues, then i suggest using eac3to to convert the truehd to flac and then from flac to DTS (Arcsoft TMT DTS decoder .dll(s) required). then use mkvmerge (remembering to disable header compression for each stream: video, audio and subs.

but i'm sure there are those with far more experience that will have better options for you.

[Looukas]

I have problem with subtitles offset. It's all right if Advanced processing is off, but when I turn it on, subtitles got moved downwards, just like I'd changed offset to lower number, except I don't do anything but ticking Advanced mode...

[apple2pomme]

Some .mkv files are already split into 4GB size files as .part1, .part2.

However when add them into multiAVCHD, it treats them as many titles. Is there a way to make it as a single title?

Thanks.

[setarip_old]

@apple2pomme

Hi!

1) Why did you initially save them as multiple parts rather than one file?

2) Use tsMuxer to "JOIN" (NOT "Add") the files - This requires that the formats of EVERYTHING in ALL parts are identical...

[ddwalker]

What format is the menu created by multiAVC? Is it DVD fomat or BD lite or BD full?
I don't understand the details of these format. But I know some media players only support BD lite menu, but not BD full menu navigation. I'd like to know before I get a media player to play these files.

[MrVideo]

What format is the menu created by multiAVC? Is it DVD fomat or BD lite or BD full?

Blu-ray format does not use DVD menu navigation.

What the Hell is Blu-ray lite and Blu-ray full? Never heard of that.

If a Blu-ray media player does not support BDMV and/or Java menus, then it is not compliant and should be discarded.

[ddwalker]

I'm talking about those media players that play through network sharing or attached usb hard drive, such as Popcorn Hours or WD TV. Many of those claim to be able to do some BD menu navigation (lite) but not full. That's why I want to find out which ones are compatible with multiAVC menu format. From your post, I guess multiAVC uses the "full" BD menu navigation?

Blu-ray format does not use DVD menu navigation.

What the Hell is Blu-ray lite and Blu-ray full? Never heard of that.

If a Blu-ray media player does not support BDMV and/or Java menus, then it is not compliant and should be discarded.

[MrVideo]

I'm talking about those media players that play through network sharing or attached usb hard drive, such as Popcorn Hours or WD TV. Many of those claim to be able to do some BD menu navigation (lite) but not full.

Ah, those media players. I know nothing about those.

\That's why I want to find out which ones are compatible with multiAVC menu format. From your post, I guess multiAVC uses the "full" BD menu navigation?

Like I said, never heard of "lite" or "full" Blu-ray menus. There is the Blu-ray menu structure called BDMV, which doesn't use Java and the menu structure that does support Java. mAVCHD doesn't use Java menu structures.

No such thing as "lite" or "full" when it comes to Blu-ray navigation.

[ddwalker]

MrVideo,
thanks for the reply. Just did a little bit more search and the phrase "Profile 1.0" came up. I think Profile 1.0 is another format that many media players support. Do you know if the multiAVCHD menu can be considered as "Profile 1.0"?

[MrVideo]

The profile has nothing to do with menus. It has to do with the features supported by the player. Profile 2.0 is where the player can go out to the internet to download files, extra goodies, pointed to by the programs on the disk. There are some other things as well. I'd have to go look them up.

mAVCHD is definitely profile 1.0 as far as the feature set it supports.

[jwmghf]

Hey guys:

I'm new to multiAVCHD. I have installed it along with ffDSHOW, AviSynth, and Haali media splitter. When I run the multiTEST I come up with a bunch of failures:

* Checking AviSynth presence...
* [OK] Avisynth (encoded 7784 bytes)

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

* Checking MPEG-2 decoding...
! [ERR] MPEG-2 FAILURE
* Checking VC-1 decoding...
! [ERR] VC-1 FAILURE

* All tests completed!
*2 tests failed!

I don't know how to attempt to fix it. I did try to use the guide that was discussed here a page or ( http://adubvideo.net/how-to/setup-pr...hain-windows-7 ) back but I am getting the same results. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

Thanks

[apple2pomme]

@apple2pomme

Hi!

1) Why did you initially save them as multiple parts rather than one file?

2) Use tsMuxer to "JOIN" (NOT "Add") the files - This requires that the formats of EVERYTHING in ALL parts are identical...

I used MKV2VOB before knowing multiAVCHD :)


By the way, another question: I used multiAVCHD with PS3 output format on a .mkv file that contains 2 audio tracks. However, the output made by multiAVCHD has only one audio track. When I used MKV2VOB on the same .mkv file, the output is the other ("default" English) audio track. MKV2VOB mux only one audio ("default" language in settings).

multiAVCHD says it can handle many audio tracks. How should I edit the settings to make the output to contain multi-audio track (and subtitles) for PS3? I guess it would be switchable like using PS3 to play a Bluray disk.

Thanks.

Apple

[The Rook]

Does anyone know how to properly adjust the bitrate of video clips to fit more content onto a disc? I've been able to successfully create AVCHD discs but when I tried to use the feature that automatically adjusts the bitrate to fit an extra video on the disc it was going to take forever to re-encode. 16 hours and only 0.08 mb of 664 mb of the first video clip. Thanks.

[Blert]

Running into a problem and wondered if anyone has any suggestions.

If I burn my compilation of clips as AVCHD Disc it plays flawlessly with menus etc, however if I try to burn the same compilation as a Blu-ray disc my standalone player does not play the menu, instead it just stops reading the bd-re disc before getting to the menu (it does recognise it as a Blu-ray disc however). I am using the same re-writeable disc so I don't think it's a media issue.
(if I use the welcome screen option it will show that, then stop before playing the main menu)

There are no error messages in the log, the only difference is the output I choose at the output screen.

Any ideas ? - am I missing pressing an option/button somewhere ?

[setarip_old]

@Blert

Hi!

What is the brand and model number of your standalone player?