Need help with a troublesome VC1 BD file

[saint-francis]

I can't for the life of me get this file to work properly. I'm trying to re encode it with x264. It is VC-1 BD source. I'm using Windows 7 x64. I have tried using directshowsource and manually making a graph with Haali media splitter + WMVideo Decoder DMO, And FFDShow (the latter would work in AVSP but crashes x264 immediately). I have also tried ffmpegsource and direct264. ffmpegsource hangs and crashes. Direct264 just crashes. I can play it fine in MPC HC.

Here is a sample (http://www.sendspace.com/file/vrkrgv).

Any ideas?

[Guest]

Works fine with DGVC1DecNV.

[saint-francis]

Yes, well, unfortunately I'm the owner of all ATI video cards. I made my last purchase before the new line of DG tools was out. I also unintelligent got a full cover water block to go with it (never do this unless you plain have money to burn) so I'm rather stuck with this card for the time being. That being said, are there any other ways to work with this file?

[setarip_old]

Hi!I'm trying to re encode it with x264. It is VC-1 BD source.
Have you tried any of the following?:

BluRay Rebuilder ("BD-RB")

AVCHDCoder

RipBot

[saint-francis]

I just tried AVCHDcoder and it didn't work. It didn't encode the video and then said that it was done. I couldn't find a log or anything like that with an error message. I'm not fond of these point and shoot tools. I want to use my own settings.

[setarip_old]

@saint-francis

I downloaded your sample which, at first, would not play under either PowerDVD or Windows Media Player.

I then loaded it into "tsMuxeR" and removed the subtitles and then saved as "BluRay". The .M2TS file created as part of the BluRay "package" played properly under both PowerDVD and Windows Media Player...

(I did this on a system running Vista 64)

[saint-francis]

I ran the entire .m2st through tsMuxeR and I have the same issues. I'm now assuming that it's an issue with the video stream and nothing but DGVC1decNV can decode it for avs but every player can play it. [shrug]

It's strange that I can play it with MPC HC decoding with software (ffmpeg) but can't use any of the decoders based on ffmpeg in avisynth.

UPDATE: A recent quick test reveals that MPC will crash when decoding the video with FFDShow. Probably not a good idea to continue trying to decode with that.

[setarip_old]

I ran the entire .m2st through tsMuxeR and I have the same issues.

But did you, as I stated, remove the PGS/subtitle streams before processing as BluRay?

[saint-francis]

But did you, as I stated, remove the PGS/subtitle streams before processing as BluRay?

Yeah. I actually removed everything.

[setarip_old]

Regardless of your lack of fondness, I did the following (Took about 10 minutes in total), under Vista 64:

1) Loaded your .M2TS (removed "_4") file into "tsMuxeR" v.1.10.6 (Including VC-1 videostream, all audiostreams, and all PGS/subtitle streams)
2) Saved as "BluRay" package (All files and folders)
3) Loaded BluRay package into "BD-Rebuilder" ("BD_RB" uses x264 for recoding)
4) Saved as "Movie-only" after selected all video and audio streams
5) The result is a perfectly functional BluRay "package" (All files and folders), including an H.264 videostream (No longer VC-1)
6) Loaded the .M2TS file from this latest BluRay "package" into "tsMuxeR" v.1.10.6 and deselected ALL streams except the H.264 videostream
7) Selected "Demux" - and extracted a lovely little 18Mb H.264 (Profile High@4.1) videostream of extremely high quality (no discernible difference vis-a-vis the original sample) - as compared to the original 30Mb VC-1 (Profile Advanced@3) videostream

If this doesn't work for you, perhaps the problem lies with Windows 7...