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

[setarip_old]

@QUEENFAN

Hi!
-!!!subtitles may be incomplete! Seems self-explanatory.

How did you create the subtitles?

[TitanFan]

I'm using 4.1 Build 771 and can't seem to get my external chapter file to load. When I add the media files, it adds the chapter file and I see it referenced when I check the extended properties. For example:

movie.mkv
movie.chapters.txt
add media file movie.mkv, log says:
[21:58:26] Loading external chapter file: movie.chapters.txt

I check the extended properties for movie.mkv and movie.chapters.txt is listed in the chapters tab, but the chapters are not added. Here's the format of my chapter file:

CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
CHAPTER01NAME=Chapter 1
CHAPTER02=00:03:56.386
CHAPTER02NAME=Chapter 2
CHAPTER03=00:04:48.089
CHAPTER03NAME=Chapter 3
CHAPTER04=00:06:33.081
CHAPTER04NAME=Chapter 4

I tried the same files in version 3.0, and it add the chapter file without issue. Did something change in version 4.1, or is this some kind of bug? Can someone give me the format of a chapter file that they know works?

I created the chapter files using mkvextract like this:

mkvextract chapters movie.mkv -s > movie.chapters.txt

Any help would here would be appreciated.

[QUEENFAN]

@setarip_old

Thanks a lot for your quick reply.

I just ripped the DVD to my harddisk just keeping the episodes, audio-tracks and subtitles. Then I opened this folder with mAVCHD which shows me everything (video, both audio tracks and subtitles) in properties. Is there a step missing I have to do before using mAVCHD concerning subtitles?

[birdieb]

Hello,

I am trying to create a BluRay disk from some trailers I found on the internet.

The trailers are in MKV-Format but have eg a resolution of 1920x881 pixels.

Now II configure MultiAVCHD in a way that it should bring it to 1920x1080, in other words add the black bars at top and bottom.

The process starts and I don't see any errors in the log, but it never get's finished.
The MKV is about 160MB in size and after about 8 hours it show in the progress, that only 0,05 were processed.

Looking at taks manager I see that the "x264_64.exe" is more or less sleeping, CPU usage is at 0-2% CPU.
I also tried it with the 32bit option, same result. also went to another machine, same result.

CPU is i7 860, and 8GB RAM.

Edit: Windows 7 64Bit


What do I have to do so that x264 is "really" using my CPU?



Regards
Stefan

[birdieb]

Some more info...
about 2 hours after my last post the transcoding on the 32-bit variant finished.
Anyway the result is not really usable.
It infact added the black bars on top and bottom but the complete video was just grey.
The sound seem to have survived.
Also the size went down from 160MB to only 12MB (no wonder without video in it.

Any suggestions?

Regards
Stefan

[Music Fan]

In my opinion, authoring programs should be avoided for encoding tasks ; do it first with an encoder and use multiAVCHD only for authoring, especially when it crash for some reasons after encoding. In this case you lose your encodings even if they were finished.

[birdieb]

OK, fine with that, but what program can I use for that (free ware)?

Just add the black bars and especially do NO changes at all to the audio track.

[Capsbackup]

OK, fine with that, but what program can I use for that (free ware)?

Just add the black bars and especially do NO changes at all to the audio track.

MeGUI can do this.

[birdieb]

Hi,
Thanks, I downloaded it and play around now, but seems to me it is not really self explaining... :-(

Assuming I have a MKV file (Trailer of Dark Knight) with a resolution of 1920/881.
I want do have a file in the end with 1920/1080.
Audio should not be touched.

What options do I choose to accomplish this mission?

[Capsbackup]

Hi,
Thanks, I downloaded it and play around now, but seems to me it is not really self explaining... :-(

Assuming I have a MKV file (Trailer of Dark Knight) with a resolution of 1920/881.
I want do have a file in the end with 1920/1080.
Audio should not be touched.

What options do I choose to accomplish this mission?

I am not very good at aspect ratios... :( But you could try adding / experimenting with different avs scripts.
example:
addborders(0,96,0,96)
LanczosResize(1920,1080)

[jdobbs]

I am not very good at aspect ratios... :( But you could try adding / experimenting with different avs scripts.
example:
addborders(0,96,0,96)
LanczosResize(1920,1080) Just do:

AddBorders(0,99,0,100)

and skip the resize. A source that has a width of 1920 is 1:1.

[Capsbackup]

Good advice!! ( much better than mine :o )

[birdieb]

OK, I created a txt-file with tis line in it.
Now where in MeGUI do I use this?

I choose FILE-OPEN and select the file.
Then it either openes the "One Click Encoder" or "File Indexer"

in none of them I can enter such AVS Script
(or I'm too stupid/blind)

Do I need to install anything else but MeGUI for this?

[TitanFan]

I'm using 4.1 Build 771 and can't seem to get my external chapter file to load. When I add the media files, it adds the chapter file and I see it referenced when I check the extended properties. For example:

movie.mkv
movie.chapters.txt
add media file movie.mkv, log says:
[21:58:26] Loading external chapter file: movie.chapters.txt

I check the extended properties for movie.mkv and movie.chapters.txt is listed in the chapters tab, but the chapters are not added. Here's the format of my chapter file:

CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
CHAPTER01NAME=Chapter 1
CHAPTER02=00:03:56.386
CHAPTER02NAME=Chapter 2
CHAPTER03=00:04:48.089
CHAPTER03NAME=Chapter 3
CHAPTER04=00:06:33.081
CHAPTER04NAME=Chapter 4

I tried the same files in version 3.0, and it add the chapter file without issue. Did something change in version 4.1, or is this some kind of bug? Can someone give me the format of a chapter file that they know works?

I created the chapter files using mkvextract like this:

mkvextract chapters movie.mkv -s > movie.chapters.txt

Any help would here would be appreciated.

I found the problem. I was using windows powershell to extract chapters from all the files in a given directory, and the output redirection wrote binary characters interspersed throughout the chapter file.

So, this command doesn't work properly in windows powershell (it does work in the command prompt:

mkvextract chapters movie.mkv -s > movie.chapters.txt

I changed the command to:

mkvextract chapters movie.mkv -s --redirect-output movie.chapters.txt

And it works fine. Had to use a hex editor to see the binary characters. Very weird. Even stranger is that the chapter file with the binary characters worked in multiAVCHD 3.0.

[buffalofloyd]

Hello, been having some troubles using this program lately. I have several video files that have 5.1 DTS HD-MA audio and I'm trying to make a blu-ray out of them. I want to convert the audio to 5.1 AC3 but can seem to get it to happen.

In the Audio Conversion settings I have the option checked to convert HD audio to AC3 @ 640 but I end up with the file still being DTS HD-MA Audio. I also tried tried again checking the box for DTS to AC3 and still doesn't work, I also tried a combination of both those and still no luck. The only way I can get any of the audio to change at all is if I go into the file properties and under the audio tab if I click on the audio and select "core" I can get it to just output straight DTS audio, but this is not what I want. What am I missing here?

Also, I have a Windows 7 64bit OS and ffdshow 32 and 64 installed but cant get x264 64bit to work at all. Im not entirely sure what the benefits of using the 64bit x264 is but I would think I should be able to utilize it. As soon as I start the encode it just rolls through all my files as failed. Any ideas?

Thanks very much :confused:

[buffalofloyd]

Ok, I did get the x64 bit version of x264 to work by unintsalling everything, multiavchd, avisynth, haali media splitter, and ffdshow. I reinstalled everything in the order it's supposed to go, as recommended in an earlier post... http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1406716#post1406716

Avisynth_258
ffdshow_rev3054_20090804_clsid_x64 - This version is really old
ffdshow_rev3054_20090804_clsid
haali_MatroskaSplitter_11-01-2009
multiavchd v4.1 (build 771)

This process got my x64 bit version of x264 to work in multiavchd. The encode will complete.

After several re-installations of Windows I totally forgot multiavchd likes things installed in a particular order.

However it seems no matter what options I select in the 'audio conversion setting', eac3to just does not do what I ask it to. The only way I can change audio is taking the 'core only' out of the DTS stream in the file properties section. I have tried taking core out and also checking 'convert DTS to AC3' at the same time hoping to would extract core and convert to AC3 but no luck.

There are ways to get around this of course, but I don't recall hearing issues like this from other people, besides it's nice to use one program to do all this. I remember this working a while back but now I'm wondering if I'm dreaming. Do the eac3to options work for others?

[TrevorS]

OK, I'm a newcomer to MultiAVCHD and to preparing HD discs generally. I'm currently trying to build AVCHD files using MultiAVCHD, hopefully processing FLV files (H.264 & acc) directly, but currently I'm having to pre-convert them out of the FLV container.

Here's an example with a 40 min modestly HD FLV that I first try converting to DVD and although it hiccups on the first rendering pass, it recovers and finishes the job. I later do an exact repeat but with SVCHD as the target instead of DVD. I've transcribed many of the log lines to help show what's happening.

This particular file has the following properties according to MultiAVCHD:
Video: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Resolution 854x480p (1.779) FR 29.97
Duration: 0:40:07.905 Framerate: 29.870 Ref Frames: 3
Output 411Kbps / 191MiB
Language: und, acc 2ch, delay, 0ms (SD audio)

Programs settings are create TOP XMB menu, skip welcome, no menu images, no chapter menus, NTSC, Transcode media fit default 7950, Media m2ts split default at 4000, Stricter AVCHD folder format default YES, Audio conversion default eac3to.

Start!
Clear temporary files? YES!
Select SD-DVD:
No titles set for DVD processing! Process all for DVD? YES!
Select output size: DV5 VB=8000Kbps, final size 2540MIB. OK!

Log started for MultiAVCHD v4.1
Selected output mode: DVD player (DVD R/RW disc)

Processing one title...
Processing ("FullPathName")...
This title is marked for reencoding / uncropping ...

***Initiating Video Encoding

Original: 854x480
Crop: 0
Resize: 720x480
Uncrop: 720x480
Sharpen: 0
Bitrate: 8000 Kbps
Frame rate: 23.976 (29.970)
Profile: SD-DVD MPEG-2

Encoding: two pass content:
Speed: 4208.48 fps

First pass of two pass encoding failed!
Retrying with FFMS2!
Stand-by for indexing ...
Initiating Video Encoding

("Original" through "Profile" lines repeated as above)

Stand-by for indexing (ffms2) ...
Encoding two pass content
Speed: 25.85 fps
Transcoding successful!

Detected video: ID#0: V_MPEG2 720x480, fps=23.976
Display properties 854x480 (AR 1.78)
Detected audio: ID#2: A_AAC (44100 16bit 2ch 128kbps)
Attempting to convert A_AAC audio track #2
Encoding A_AAC to AC3...
Trying to encode audio with ffmpeg...
Audio encoded to AC3 successfully!
Added Audio: A_AC3...
Creating SD-DVD structure...
Extracting menu background video!
Encoding Motion DVD menu...
Motion DVD menu completed!
Applying pulldown...
Authoring DVD structure (muxman)...
SD DVD muxing completed!

SD DVD title saved:
Compilation contains 1 (HD)DVD title and no AVCHD(BD) titles!

Preparing menu pages...
Setting main menu for 0 titles...
Selected TV System: [NTSC]
Done!

OK, now I'm restarting the process except selecting AVCHD output instead of DVD!

Start!
Clear temporary files? YES!
Select AVCHD output:

Log started for MultiAVCHD v4.1
Selected output mode: AVCHD compatable player (DVD/BD-R disc)

Processing one title...
Strict AVCHD folder mode is enabled...
Processing ("FullPathName")...
Detected frame reference count 3
Detected video: ID#0: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC 854x480, fps=29.970, ref=3
Display properties: 853x480 (AR 1.78)
Detected audio: ID#2: A_AAC (44100 16bit 2ch 128kbps) Language: und
Attempting to convert A_AAC audio track #2...
Encoding A_AAC to AC3...
Trying to encode audio with ffmpeg...
Audio encoded to AC3 successfully!
Added Audio: A_AC3, "TempFullPathName"
M2TS stream split set to 4000Mib...
Creating clip and playlist info (tsMuxeR)...
Cannot detect file size: ("TempFullPathName")

tsMuxeR (version 1.10.6) output:
=============================================
Decoding H264 stream track 1:Profile baseline 0.1 Resolution 16:112p Frame rate 0.0683268
H.264 manual set fps not equal to stream fps: Change H.264 fps from 0.06883268 to 29.79
Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: Baseline@1.8 Resolution -534773760:1265436248p Frame rate 0.386787
Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: Baseline@0.1 Resolution 16:12p Frame rate 0.433171
=============================================

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, "FullPathName", insertSEI, contSPS, track=0, lang=eng, fps=29.97
A_AC3, "TempFullPathName", lang=und
=============================================

Important files missing (clpi/mpls/m2ts)...
Possible tsMuxeR failure to process your input (FullPathName)
M2TS (media) file count: 1
CLPI (clipinfo) file count: 0
MPLS (playlist) file count: 0

Skipping to next...

ERROR: Compilation does not contain any HD-DVD/AVCHD/Blu-ray titles!

Preparing menu pages...
Setting main menu for 0 titles...
Selected TV System: [NTSC]
Done!

Compilation summary:
Format AVCHD compatible player (DVD/BD-R disc)
=======================================
Output size: 0 Mib (0 Gib)
Warnings/errors for this compilation: 1

As you can see, it blew up pretty good. If I'm doing something wrong or overlooking something, I'd appreciate help identifying it.

I'm also having trouble with the other smaller FLV file I'm using as a learning case, but both DVD and AVCHD versions are failing. I'll retry that now, but I want to get this posted first.

[TrevorS]

OK, here's the smaller FLV file (H.264 & acc) I'm trying to convert via MultiAVCHD. Having trouble with both DVD and AVCHD output unless I preconvert to get rid of the FLV container.

This file has the following properties according to MultiAVCHD:
Video: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Resolution: 640x480p (1.333)
Duration 0:14:49.087: Framerate; 29.970 Ref frames: 3
Output 544Kbps / 100MiB
Language: und, acc 2ch, delay: 0ms (SD audio)

Programs settings are create TOP XMB menu, skip welcome, no menu images, no chapter menus, NTSC, Transcode media fit default 7950, Media m2ts split default 4000, Stricter AVCHD folder format default YES, Audio conversion default eac3to.

Start!
Clear temporary files? YES!
Select SD-DVD:
No titles set for DVD processing! Process all for DVD? YES!
Select output size: DV5 VB=8000Kbps, final size xxxxMIB. OK!

Log started for MultiAVCHD v4.1
Selected output mode: DVD player (DVD R/RW disc)

Processing one title...
Processing ("FullPathName")...
This title is marked for reencoding / uncropping ...

***Initiating Video Encoding

Original: 640x480
Crop: 0
Resize: 720x480
Uncrop: 720x480
Sharpen: 0
Bitrate: 8000 Kbps
Frame rate: 23.976 (29.970)
Profile: SD-DVD MPEG-2

Encoding: Two pass -- content:

The pass is now hung -- will continue forever as far as I can tell! Check CPU activity and it's stuck in the idle process, nothing is happening. I see HCenc.exe loaded and it's grabbed some 22K RAM, but it's not doing anything. With the other file it's using practically every clock cycle in sight.

OK, now I'm restarting the process except selecting AVCHD output instead of DVD!

Start!
Clear temporary files? YES!
Select AVCHD output:

Log started for MultiAVCHD v4.1
Selected output mode: AVCHD compatable player (DVD/BD-R disc)

Processing one title...
Strict AVCHD folder mode is enabled...
Processing ("FullPathName")...
Detected frame reference count 3
Detected video: ID#0: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC 640x480, fps=29.970, ref=3
Detected audio: ID#2: A_AAC (44100 16bit 2ch 128kbps) Language: und
Attempting to convert A_AAC audio track #2...
Encoding A_AAC to AC3...
Trying to encode audio with ffmpeg...
Audio encoded to AC3 successfully!
Added Audio: A_AC3, "TempFullPathName"
M2TS stream split set to 4000Mib...
Creating clip and playlist info (tsMuxeR)...
Cannot detect file size: ("TempFullPathName")

tsMuxeR (version 1.10.6) output:
=============================================
Decoding H264 stream track 1:Profile baseline 11.2 Resolution 2:6p Frame rate: not found
H.264 stream does not contain fps field: Muxing fps=29.79
Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: Baseline@0.1 Resolution: 14672:64i Frame rate not found
Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: Baseline@0.1 Resolution 48:16p Frame rate not found
=============================================

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, "FullPathName", insertSEI, contSPS, track=0, lang=eng, fps=29.97
A_AC3, "TempFullPathName", lang=und
=============================================
Important files missing (clpi/mpls/m2ts)...
Possible tsMuxeR failure to process your input (FullPathName)
M2TS (media) file count: 1
CLPI (clipinfo) file count: 0
MPLS (playlist) file count: 0

Skipping to next...

ERROR: Compilation does not contain any HD-DVD/AVCHD/Blu-ray titles!

Preparing menu pages...
Setting main menu for 0 titles...
Selected TV System: [NTSC]
Done!

Compilation summary:
Format AVCHD compatible player (DVD/BD-R disc)
=======================================
Output size: 0 Mib (0 Gib)
Warnings/errors for this compilation: 1

And so another blowup, same as before though a different file. This time I did notice an OS error message saying that tsMuxeR had failed. I didn't get that with the other file. Here's the error message:

tsMuxR.exe: tsMuxeR.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

I then had the opportunity to send a report to Microsoft -- I didn't. In case it's helpful, here is the "Error signature":

EventType:BEX P1:tsMuxeR.exe P2:0.0.0.0 P3:4a077b02
P4:tsMuxeR.exe P5:0.0.0.0 P6: 4a077b02 P7:0002b5aa
P8:c0000409 P9:00000000

It also says the following tech info files would be included with the report:
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER0726.dir\tsMuxeR.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER0726.dir\appcompat.txt

[buffalofloyd]

^^^^^ Hey man, I would help you if I knew the answer to your problem but it's very hard to get responses to problems with this software because I don't think it's really maintained anymore by the creator. It does work but I've had to do a lot of fiddling around to get the results I wanted. Some files I have never been able to get work and have just accepted it. I wish you luck. It's unfortunate this is the only freeware authoring software out there but for the most part it will work and does work well.

[buffalofloyd]

If anyone is interested, a few posts above I was having issues getting eac3to to downconvert audio and also having troubles getting my subtitles to show up after conversion.

I have solved this issue.

The files I were using were in MKV containers and had DTS-HD audio streams and PGS subtitles. After the conversion was done I looked in the BDMV>STREAM folder at the M2TS files and sure enough, the audio was unchanged but the PGS stream was there. When trying to play the file though I could not get the PGS subtitles to show up.... very confusing :confused::confused::confused:

What I had to do was demux the MKV files and remux them in M2TS containers. I loaded the remuxed M2TS files into multiAVCHD and then the audio finally converted to AC3@640kbps and the PGS subtitles showed up when played.

I have no idea why they would not work when inside of the MKV containers but they did when remuxed inside of M2TS containers.

So, just a friendly heads up if anyone is having similar issues like I was.

Cheers

[buffalofloyd]

tsMuxR.exe: tsMuxeR.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Just for the hell of it, check your files with mediainfo and see if any of the video or audio contains header stripping... that's been a known culprit in the past for me. You might want to remux with mkvmerge and remove that, then it might just work. Can't hurt.

[TrevorS]

^^^^^ Hey man, I would help you if I knew the answer to your problem but it's very hard to get responses to problems with this software because I don't think it's really maintained anymore by the creator. It does work but I've had to do a lot of fiddling around to get the results I wanted. Some files I have never been able to get work and have just accepted it. I wish you luck. It's unfortunate this is the only freeware authoring software out there but for the most part it will work and does work well.
Thanks for taking a look. I see you've made some suggestions and I'll have to give them a shot -- as I said, I'm new at this. FWIW -- I'm not having the above issues as long as I pre-convert the FLV files into X.264 using an older free copy of AVC5. I downloaded their trial AVC8, but in side to side 720p comparison, I see no improvement in video quality.

Before I try your suggestions, I do have another perhaps futile question, but still, one never knows. I'm trying to use MultiAVCHD to burn a 4:3 1080p file -- 1440x1080p. However, MultiAVCHD treats it as 1.78:1 despite it correctly reporting 1440x1080p in the properties. Result is my 4:3 gets generated as 16:9, not exactly what I had in mind and I can't fix it at the TV display, changing display modes either stretches it further, or crops the outer edges. Is there a trick to using a 1440x1080p source (like some way of appending borders to the sides), or is this just another feature?

[Angelsash]

Good day!
There was a poser, can anybody be able to help ...I go to the tab Autor and trying to tick Create top menu, but the menu is not intended as a reset is recorded in the log ...
[00:59:13] Initialising ...
[00:59:14] Checking for new version ...
[00:59:14] You have the latest build.
[00:59:14] [04/07/2012] build 771 (latest is: 771) - Few minor fixes (runtime / line 109 errors). Changed handling of some rare flavours of video in MP4 container.
[00:59:14] Consistency check finished!
[00:59:14] Initialization finished. multiAVCHD is ready!
[00:59:14] 4 years and 87 days since multiAVCHD was published.
[00:59:14] 516 people supported it with donations
[00:59:14] and you are the 553386 one to launch the program ...
[00:59:14] Support multiAVCHD to extend its features and keep it going!
[00:59:14] multiAVCHD.dat version: [04010767]
[00:59:26] Avisynth is not working properly! Menu will not available!
[00:59:26] Re / Install Avisynth 2.58, ffdshow, haali splitter.
[00:59:26] Download links: http://multiforum.deanbg.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17
[00:59:31] Avisynth is not working properly! Menu will not available!
[00:59:31] Re / Install Avisynth 2.58, ffdshow, haali splitter.
[00:59:31] Download links: http://multiforum.deanbg.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17

If you load the old configuration, the program crashes with the error ...

(RT) Stack overflow (PUSH)-Line 26409.

and the program loops with each cycle taking more memory ...
Who, that can advise?motherboard asus z9 pe-d8 ws, 2x xeon

[TrevorS]

I'm trying to use MultiAVCHD to burn a 4:3 1080p file -- 1440x1080p. However, MultiAVCHD treats it as 1.78:1 despite it correctly reporting 1440x1080p in the properties. Result is my 4:3 gets generated as 16:9, not exactly what I had in mind and I can't fix it at the TV display, changing display modes either stretches it further, or crops the outer edges. Is there a trick to using a 1440x1080p source (like some way of appending borders to the sides), or is this just another feature?
I'm trying a couple other authoring programs. AVSEditor6 doesn't support authoring 1080p to AVCHD and although MovieMaker does, and explicitly supports 1440x1080, I'm realizing I'm expecting something that simply isn't there. If I want to pillar box the HD 4:3 video within the 16:9 frame, I'm going to have to explicitly edit in the pillars using graphics. I'm thinking the MultiAVCHD output of my 1440x1080 stream is probably fine, just stretched by the TV for 16:9 display. I need to add pillars before final authoring. But what editors support pillar boxing a 4:3 HD video stream? Guess I need to open a new thread for that question.

Good day!
There was a poser, can anybody be able to help ...I go to the tab Autor and trying to tick Create top menu, but the menu is not intended as a reset is recorded in the log ...
[00:59:13] Initialising ...
<snip>
[00:59:26] Avisynth is not working properly! Menu will not available!
[00:59:26] Re / Install Avisynth 2.58, ffdshow, haali splitter.
[00:59:26] Download links: http://multiforum.deanbg.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17
[00:59:31] Avisynth is not working properly! Menu will not available!
[00:59:31] Re / Install Avisynth 2.58, ffdshow, haali splitter.
[00:59:31] Download links: http://multiforum.deanbg.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17

If you load the old configuration, the program crashes with the error ...

(RT) Stack overflow (PUSH)-Line 26409.

and the program loops with each cycle taking more memory ...
Who, that can advise?motherboard asus z9 pe-d8 ws, 2x xeon
I just started working with this program and so no expert. Did you manually install AviSynth (a quick search on Google)? I presume you've recognized it's not included in the MultiAVCHD package.

Did you set the temporary and output directories to drive partitions that have plenty of available space? Its default output is to its install directory and if left that way, it will consume a lot of disc space with AVCHD folders -- you'll need to clean them out.

[Angelsash]

I forgot to write that on the second PC, with the same settings, everything works fine.

[TrevorS]

I forgot to write that on the second PC, with the same settings, everything works fine.
To me, that suggests it's trying to use disc drive partitions that have insufficient space and it's causing trouble. Make sure your other PC resources are fine too -- C:, RAM, page file.

[nikknightt]

Has anybody figured out how to fix the issue with blank or blacked out title menu thumbnails when authoring SD material?
(dvd 720x480) Some titles have a thumbnail pic, Some do not.. And yes, I chose an area not the first frame..

It's blanked out in the preview under properties also..
Since it's mpeg2 video I'm dealing with I tried encoding the menu in mpeg2 but that didn't fix the problem..

[Music Fan]

I'm trying to use MultiAVCHD to burn a 4:3 1080p file -- 1440x1080p. However, MultiAVCHD treats it as 1.78:1 despite it correctly reporting 1440x1080p in the properties. Result is my 4:3 gets generated as 16:9, not exactly what I had in mind and I can't fix it at the TV display, changing display modes either stretches it further, or crops the outer edges. Is there a trick to using a 1440x1080p source (like some way of appending borders to the sides), or is this just another feature?
I'm not sure that 1440x1080 videos on AVCHD (or Blu-ray) can be read as 4/3. This resolution is part of the norm but is supposed to be anamorphic 16/9.
I guess it means that even if you put a 4/3 DAR in the video's header, it will be stretched in 16/9 by the player.
So if you don't want to re-encode your video to add lateral black bars (pillarbox), I believe the only solution to see it in 4/3 will be to use the 4/3 zoom on your screen to compensate the player's stretching.

edit : But you could maybe play this video as a file and not in an AVCHD structure.
My Sony BDP-S370 respects the PAR of MKV files and strectch 1440x1080 videos in 16/9 only if the DAR is 16/9, otherwise they are displayed in 4/3 and the player adds lateral black bars.
But the 24hz is converted to 60hz in this mode (while 24hz is supported with AVCHD structures, even on USB sticks).

[Andy Yen]

@Music Fan,

I had the same problem as yours, and I did the followings to fix the problem. Open your multiAVCHD project file (the one with the extension .mpf) with notepad, search for "UNCROP", then change the second "1440x1028" to "1920x1028". If you do it right, then after you load your project file, in the "Title transcoding page", "Resize" field should be "1440x1028" and "Uncrop to" field should be "1920x1028".

Cheers,

[Music Fan]

Thanks but I guess you are talking to TrevorS and that you mean 1080, not 1028, right ?

[Ghitulescu]

There are some issues here and it's not MultiAVCHD fault :)

1440:1080 is interpreted as 16:9 because this is what 1440:1080 normally is. MultiAVCHD assumes you have a HDV or (rarely) a SAT recording.

Because of the way 16:9 appeared, and because of the invasion of Chinese HD action sport camcorders, HD cellphones and stuff, resolutions like 1920:1440 or 1440:1080 or any other combination are not that rare, and they are indeed 4:3.

I assume it's one of these recordings. These are unfortunately not standard, and therefore must be correctly resized in order to be displayed on anything else than its original device and the PC. Resizing comes with reencoding. And reencoding usually comes with quality loss (whether one senses it or not is another story).

[Music Fan]

I also think that but Andy Yen seems to say that his trick could allow to display 1440.1080 in 4/3, not stretched in 16/9, unless I didn't understand well his message.

[mariner]

Pop up menu not working with SD material

I'm using multiAVCHD to combine multiple DVDs into a single Blu-ray disc and found out pop up menu does not work when disc is played in a stand alone player.

Also authored a test BD with two titles, using a 576/50i vob and 1080/24p m2ts, and again, pop up menu only appears with the HD title.

Is this a know issue? Any way to get around this?

[colinhunt]

Dropping 4 m2ts files from two BDs into a compilation, all with two LPCM audio tracks. Why on earth does multiAVCHD keep trying to convert LPCM tracks into AC3? I've gone through all settings and the program should be set up to *not* convert audio tracks. But it keeps on trying. Anyone know how to stop this from happening?

[TrevorS]

There are some issues here and it's not MultiAVCHD fault :)

1440:1080 is interpreted as 16:9 because this is what 1440:1080 normally is. MultiAVCHD assumes you have a HDV or (rarely) a SAT recording.

Because of the way 16:9 appeared, and because of the invasion of Chinese HD action sport camcorders, HD cellphones and stuff, resolutions like 1920:1440 or 1440:1080 or any other combination are not that rare, and they are indeed 4:3.

I assume it's one of these recordings. These are unfortunately not standard, and therefore must be correctly resized in order to be displayed on anything else than its original device and the PC. Resizing comes with reencoding. And reencoding usually comes with quality loss (whether one senses it or not is another story).
Turns out what I want can be accomplished via changing the cropping settings in the transcode window. I can choose to de-crop beyond the original 4:3 (presuming the source is sized greater than 720x480) resulting in the original AR being preserved via pillars on a 16:9 display. My exact goal.

Do have another issue though, is there a way to tell MultiAVCHD not to insert chapter markers at the beginning of each video segment, or is there a way to edit them out during authoring? If I can't eliminate them, then I need to combine the segments into one contiguous file prior to loading into MultiAVCHD. For that I need to find a clean slicer/splicer app that doesn't force re-rending unless necessary for format change. Found one supposedly free program for that, but turned out it was a 15 day "free" trial which expired before I even got round to trying it.


By the way. I found that by manually setting the transcode parameters for my problem FLV files, I could prevent the failures I was seeing. However, I ran into a stack pointer blow up after sequentially modifying transcode parameters for four consecutive video files -- looks like a bug.

I also tried preparing DVD VideoTS files using MultiAVCHD and again, all the DVD 4:3 video ended up stretched to 16:9. Is a command supposed to be sent to the display in case of 720x480 so it knows when to put up pillars (I see there's a check box for asserting 16:9, mines clear)? Is there a trick to this?

================================ LATER =============================
Downloaded a couple apps to try: FreeVideoJoiner and Lightworks.

[Andy Yen]

@Music Fan,

Sorry, my post was meant for TrevorS.
You were correct, it should be "1440x1080" to "1920x1080".
You were also correct that the trick allow to display 1440x1080 in 4:3 (without any cropping), not stretched in 16:9. Thanks.

Andy

[Music Fan]

the trick allow to display 1440x1080 in 4:3 (without any cropping), not stretched in 16:9.
Great, on which player did you test it ?

[Music Fan]

Do have another issue though, is there a way to tell MultiAVCHD not to insert chapter markers at the beginning of each video segment, or is there a way to edit them out during authoring?
BDEdit can probably do this.

[Andy Yen]

@Music Fan,

I tested it on Samsung EMC57C and Magnavox MBP5320. By the way, multiAVCHD's menu does not work with Magnavox BD player.


@TrevorS

In Media Properties pages, there is a chapter box in the upper right corner, click on the "edit" button, then you can add or delete chapter points.

Andy

[Andy Yen]

@Colinhunt

Have you resolved your LPCM audio issue? If you do, please post your finding in this forum. Thanks.

Andy

[TrevorS]

@TrevorS

In Media Properties pages, there is a chapter box in the upper right corner, click on the "edit" button, then you can add or delete chapter points.

Andy
Hmm ... sounds good, but the 00:00:00.000 marker doesn't delete. One can add additional chapters, but appears the start-of-chapter marker can't be replaced -- it stays put. Seems the solution is to pre-combine the segments so MultiAVCHD never sees the joins. Need a good freeware HD joiner program or equivalent (looks as though MultiAVCHD with m2ts file output works).

[Flanker-B]

A question about mkv internal audio and subtitle tracks:

When I add a mkv file that contains LPCM or TrueHD audio track and/or pgs subtitle track(s) to a multiavchd project the program always crashes.
Is there any chance of correcting that bug (so I don't have to demux audio and subtitles from mkv and add them manually)?

Even demuxed TrueHD track can sometimes cause multiavchd to crash sometimes, so I usually convert it to dts using eac3to.

[Music Fan]

Hmm ... sounds good, but the 00:00:00.000 marker doesn't delete. One can add additional chapters, but appears the start-of-chapter marker can't be replaced -- it stays put. Seems the solution is to pre-combine the segments so MultiAVCHD never sees the joins. Need a good freeware HD joiner program or equivalent (looks as though MultiAVCHD with m2ts file output works).

I wrote this ;
BDEdit can probably do this.

[colinhunt]

Have you resolved your LPCM audio issue?
No I haven't, unfortunately. I've tried every setting that might have something to do with it but nothing helps :/

[Chas Hart]

I'm having a problem with the welcome screen. The screen looks good in the priview before encoding. After making an AVCHD disc, the 800000.m2ts file is 1920 x 2160 and the frame rate is 11.889 fps (twice the hight and half the frame rate). This causes the disc to crash when playing back on a blu-ray player.

This problem started recently so I reenstalled the latest version and still the same thing.

BTW: The title menu is fine.

[QUEENFAN]

I want to create a new BD25 with two AVCHDs (films) and add another audio track to both AVCHD. I get an error when adding the audio file (dts). Does anybody know why this happens (not supported)?

Thanks a lot for your help.

[Music Fan]

Try to add this audio track with TSMuxer before opening the TS in multiAVCHD.

[Ghitulescu]

I want to create a new BD25 with two AVCHDs (films) and add another audio track to both AVCHD. I get an error when adding the audio file (dts). Does anybody know why this happens (not supported)?

Maybe because AVCHD does not officially support DTS?

[Music Fan]

That's not a problem for multiAVCHD which supports all blu-ray audio formats and put them on non standard AVCHD but which are played anyway by most standalone players.
That's the main purpose of multiAVCHD.

[QUEENFAN]

@Music Fan

Thanks for your quick reply. I encoded a BR with ripbot264 to AVCHD (with subtitles and chapters and one audio track because ripbot can't use two). When I remux the .ts file I loose the chapters and subtiltles I can't see anyway in multiAVCHD and if (I had this when encoding DVDs to BD with multiAVCHD) I have subtitles multiAVCHD deletes them. Until now I haven't got any clue how to keep subtiltes in multiAVCHD (Win 8 Pro x64).