PurpleMan
14th June 2009, 14:37
Hello.
A lot of people nowadays rip/encode BD50 to BD25. I started doing that recently myself, and found how much I miss a tool that was available for DVD's called VOBBlanker (by jsoto). The thing that strikes me the most odd is that blanking m2ts files that we don't really want (trailers, logos, etc) is not a difficult task for a skilled coder, and would prove very useful as a pre-processing step before feeding the disc to BD-Rebuilder. These are the steps required to build such a program:
1) using eac3to, read the BD structure and list all the m2ts files and their file sizes.
2) let the user select which m2ts's he would like to blank.
3) replace all the m2ts files that the user wants blanked with a pre-made 1 second long m2ts file (with no audio or subtitle streams).
4) edit the clipinf (.clpi) file to reflect the properties of the replaced file (currently doable manually using CLIPINF Editor).
5) edit playlist files that refer to the m2ts to adjust the playback length.
That's it. I'll admit that I lack the required skill to conjure something up myself, but I reckon that such a software with basic functionality would not be difficult to achieve.
Anybody up for the task?
Regards,
-purpleman
A lot of people nowadays rip/encode BD50 to BD25. I started doing that recently myself, and found how much I miss a tool that was available for DVD's called VOBBlanker (by jsoto). The thing that strikes me the most odd is that blanking m2ts files that we don't really want (trailers, logos, etc) is not a difficult task for a skilled coder, and would prove very useful as a pre-processing step before feeding the disc to BD-Rebuilder. These are the steps required to build such a program:
1) using eac3to, read the BD structure and list all the m2ts files and their file sizes.
2) let the user select which m2ts's he would like to blank.
3) replace all the m2ts files that the user wants blanked with a pre-made 1 second long m2ts file (with no audio or subtitle streams).
4) edit the clipinf (.clpi) file to reflect the properties of the replaced file (currently doable manually using CLIPINF Editor).
5) edit playlist files that refer to the m2ts to adjust the playback length.
That's it. I'll admit that I lack the required skill to conjure something up myself, but I reckon that such a software with basic functionality would not be difficult to achieve.
Anybody up for the task?
Regards,
-purpleman