Question regrading H264 info program

[Crankshaft]

I am trying to convert all my HD DVD movies to Blu Ray using the Glen Harrison guide posted in this forum but am having difficulty with movies encoded with H264. First problem I run into is when I extract the video and audio streams using EVO Demux, if I set the output of the video stream to AVC as indicated in the guide, H264 info cannot find the stream. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Not aware of a "Glen Harrison guide" posted here in the Doom9 Forums.

Please provide a link...

[Crankshaft]

My mistake....this is the link I was referring to: http://www.glenharrison.com/bluray/. I thought it originally came from this forum.

[rack04]

Extact the raw streams using eac3to instead of EVO Demux. eac3to will remove pulldowns and write the framerate in the raw stream.

[Crankshaft]

Isn't eac3to used to convert audio streams only? I did not think it had the capability to extract raw video streams.

[rack04]

Isn't eac3to used to convert audio streams only? I did not think it had the capability to extract raw video streams.

eac3to is very powerful

- can show information about audio, video, VOB/EVO/(M2)TS and MKV files
- can decode and encode various audio formats
- can remove dialog normalization from AC3, E-AC3, DTS and TrueHD tracks
- can extract AC3 stream from Blu-Ray TrueHD/AC3 tracks
- can extract TrueHD stream from Blu-Ray TrueHD/AC3 tracks
- can extract DTS core from DTS-HD tracks
- can remove DTS zero padding and repair outdated DTS-ES headers
- can apply positive or negative audio delays
- can reduce bitdepth of decoded audio data by using TPDF dithering
- can resample decoded audio data (using SSRC or r8brain)
- can apply/reverse PAL speedup on decoded audio data (SSRC/r8brain)
- can demux video / audio tracks of EVO/VOB/(M2)TS and MKV sources
- can list available titles of Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs
- can extract Blu-Ray and HD DVD chapter information and subtitles
- can mux MPEG2, VC-1 and h264 video tracks to Matroska
- can remove pulldown flags from MPEG2, VC-1 and h264 video tracks

[Crankshaft]

rack04, could you do me a huge favor and give me an example on how to extract and convert a video stream to AVC from a file. I would be most grateful... Many thanks.

[rack04]

rack04, could you do me a huge favor and give me an example on how to extract and convert a video stream to AVC from a file. I would be most grateful... Many thanks.

Basically you have to analyze the playlist for seemless branching and track ids.

This is a very good GUI that will help you.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141829

[Crankshaft]

I have used the HdBr Stream extractor that is included with eac3to, but the only video stream outputs that I can see are h264 or mkv. I would need to convert the h264 video stream into something Sonic Scenarist will accept, which in this case would be avc format.

[rack04]

I have used the HdBr Stream extractor that is included with eac3to, but the only video stream outputs that I can see are h264 or mkv. I would need to convert the h264 video stream into something Sonic Scenarist will accept, which in this case would be avc format.

h264 is AVC. I don't know anything about Sonic Scenarist so I can't be of much help. I use txMuxeR to build the AVCHD/Blu-ray structure.

[setarip_old]

@rack04

Hi!can demux video / audio tracks of EVO/VOB/(M2)TSDoesn't this require either prior decryption or "on-the-fly" decryption by "AnyDVD" or similar?

[Capsbackup]

You could use Clownbd with eac3to and have it convert to bluray if that is what you want. (http://www.clownbd.com/)

[setarip_old]

@Capsbackup

Doesn't your suggestion also require either prior decryption or "on-the-fly" decryption by "AnyDVD" or similar?

[Crankshaft]

I have just tried CapsBackup suggestion to use Clown BD to convert to BluRay but still having problems. Video conversion seems to work O.K., but the file size comes out too large to burn to a BD-R disk (comes out over 24 Gb in size). Have tried converting just the feature movie itself (EVO 1 and EVO 2 joined) but then the conversion comes out with no audio stream. Still trying various ways but am running out of ideas.

[rack04]

@rack04

Hi!Doesn't this require either prior decryption or "on-the-fly" decryption by "AnyDVD" or similar?

Sorry for the late reply but yes you are correct.

[Capsbackup]

@Capsbackup

Doesn't your suggestion also require either prior decryption or "on-the-fly" decryption by "AnyDVD" or similar?

Yes. From the Glen Harrison guide link posted:

Prerequisites
This Guide assumes you have already ripped the HD-DVD movie to your hard disk in .EVO format. Nowhere on this site contains links to any pirated software, nor does it contain serial numbers or gives any advice where to obtain such information.

[Crankshaft]

O.K. finally got a HD-DVD with h264 encoding converted to Blu Ray disc. What I did was of course, rip the movie to the hard drive, then using BD Stream extractor joined feature 1 and 2 EVO's to a single file. At the same time, using BD Stream extractor, extracted the audio stream and saved it as a Wavs (5.1) file. Next step was to convert the wavs files to DTS using Surcode and saved as a single DTS file. Next I used Clown BD to convert the joined EVO file to Blu Ray disc without any audio stream. Take the 0000.mts file out the BDMV file and mux it the DTS file you converted earlier with TsMuxer with output set to Blu Ray disk. Burn the BDMV and CERTIFICATE files with ImgBurn. Worked on my Panasonic BD-35 player and everything seemed to be in sync. Will try another conversion in the next couple of days.