x264 Demo Blu-ray: Preliminary Announcement

[deank]

It won't work with the original menus.

The headers have nothing to do with AVCHD... I don't know why so many people think that 0100 is AVCHD and 0200 is Blu-ray... I gave up on explaining it long time ago. In fact using 0100 for Blu-ray is much better for us users when homebrewing. The difference is in the extended data for all clpi/mpls and index files + the avchdtn folder + the inmux (no subpath) menu.

[asafb]

Hello,
This is great news for Blu-ray support. however, where is the actual toolkit? Is there a GUI for the x264 encoder where I can specify the bitrates? i.e. higher bitrates for blu-ray are supported than just 15mbps, thanks!
asaf

[Dark Shikari]

Hello,
This is great news for Blu-ray support. however, where is the actual toolkit? Is there a GUI for the x264 encoder where I can specify the bitrates? i.e. higher bitrates for blu-ray are supported than just 15mbps, thanks!
asafYou can go as high as 40000kbps max for Blu-ray encoding by specifying the bitrate and max bitrate accordingly.

[davidcw]

Now that's more like it... The AVCHD sample burned to DVD-R works perfectly on my Panasonic DMP-BD35 Blu-ray player :)

When I find my 8GB SD card, I'll try the AVCHD sample in my Blu-ray player and in my Panasonic TV...

Plays on the Panasonic DMP-BD30 also.:thanks:

[MrVideo]

Download it now! (http://x264.nl/x264_Demo_Blu-ray.torrent) And remember to seed!

I do not torrent. Where can this be found for downloading that isn't a torrent?

Thanks.

[BZeeme]

I do not torrent. Where can this be found for downloading that isn't a torrent?

Thanks.


Same here. Thank you

[mariush]

Well now... here's the iso rar'ed in 100 MB chunks:

http://rapidshare.com/files/381478743/x264.r00
http://rapidshare.com/files/381478736/x264.r01
http://rapidshare.com/files/381478730/x264.r02
http://rapidshare.com/files/381478737/x264.r03
http://rapidshare.com/files/381478974/x264.r04
http://rapidshare.com/files/381478962/x264.r05
http://rapidshare.com/files/381478972/x264.r06
http://rapidshare.com/files/381478989/x264.r07
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479062/x264.r08
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479066/x264.r09
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479059/x264.r10
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479024/x264.r11
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479201/x264.r12
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479200/x264.r13
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479199/x264.r14
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479241/x264.r15
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479409/x264.r16
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479411/x264.r17
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479404/x264.r18
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479414/x264.r19
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479427/x264.r20
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479421/x264.r21
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479400/x264.r22
http://rapidshare.com/files/381479446/x264.rar

MegaUpload.com links:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P3VSFFN8 x264.r00
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4TF69HFH x264.r01
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GDSB3IT6 x264.r02
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZMTPU8HE x264.r03
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FNJBAA7P x264.r04
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8ERZ1OS3 x264.r05
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W5FWOTIH x264.r06
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=10DB63FJ x264.r07
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XGS88P2F x264.r08
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ULSRSX9U x264.r09
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0PAPNT71 x264.r10
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0MFWNP9X x264.r11
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WM7OVLSX x264.r12
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q207GN8T x264.r13
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6HBE847S x264.r14
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VIAO3L74 x264.r15
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZTZ2VMCS x264.r16
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JKYO2BZ9 x264.r17
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AI9AV9OC x264.r18
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TM3YD11O x264.r19
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J4CXD3B1 x264.r20
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5I6W48ZJ x264.r21
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RZWEAG64 x264.r22
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W9F138JD x264.rar

Filefactory.com "playlist":

http://www.filefactory.com/f/f4998c2664e28dee/

MediaFire:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=437ae816991c299241446e35a78dc463258d9439bbedc1eca601da0f25e869f4


The following files are missing from the MediaFire "folder" : r06, r08, r09, r13, r15, r17, r19. Please get them from another location.

They were uploaded but had incorrect checksums. I re-uploaded them and again they had incorrect checksums so I just gave up (looks like the mediafire uploader screws up the files or it just recognizes them as previously uploaded files and uses the old ones)


Hope i don't get banned for posting rapidshare links ...

[ajp_anton]

I do not torrent.Why not?

[Atak_Snajpera]

@mariush
downloading from rapidshare is very painful! Only one file per download. Stupid queues, delays and so on. use www.mediafire.com next time.

[deank]

You can go as high as 40000kbps max for Blu-ray encoding by specifying the bitrate and max bitrate accordingly.

I am a bit confused about the max bitrate and the buffer size. Why in most examples the buffer value is lower than the max bitrate? Isn't it supposed to be the opposite or to have them equal?

I always use vb buffer value a bit higher than the max bitrate. Is it wrong?

[Dark Shikari]

I am a bit confused about the max bitrate and the buffer size. Why in most examples the buffer value is lower than the max bitrate? Isn't it supposed to be the opposite or to have them equal?

I always use vb buffer value a bit higher than the max bitrate. Is it wrong?They are unrelated. Blu-ray requires a specific buffer size; this has nothing to do with the bitrate.

[deank]

Is it the cpbsize of 30000000 bit that is the max buffer size?

[Dark Shikari]

Is it the cpbsize of 30000000 bit that is the max buffer size?Yes. The "b" stands for buffer.

[mariush]

@mariush
downloading from rapidshare is very painful! Only one file per download. Stupid queues, delays and so on. use www.mediafire.com next time.

I have uploaded first to Rapidshare because it was very easy for me to do so : I have a premium account and I can upload there with their upload tool several files at once and without speed limits - as the iso was on a dedicated server I own that comes with a gigabit port I uploaded all files in about 10 minutes at around 15-25 MB/s

Megaupload is slow, the speed was 150KB/s.
Filefactory was fast at around 5 MB/s for each file and uploaded 2-3 files at a time.
MediaFire was slow, at around 600 KB/s and one file at a time

I have uploaded the files on these three file hosters and the links are in my original message:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1395774#post1395774

[SeeMoreDigital]

I've noticed that this "Demo sample" was generated using a version of x264 the creates "slices" :)

Where may I find further information about the latest x264 encoding implementations?

[nurbs]

See the commit log of r1242. :)

commit 4d553edf178bf0ae01547731a48e1fb08c5cc1f4 r1242
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 31 06:36:41 2009 -0700

Multi-slice encoding support
Slicing support is available through three methods (which can be mixed):
--slices sets a number of slices per frame and ensures rectangular slices (required for Blu-ray). Overridden by either of the following options:
--slice-max-mbs sets a maximum number of macroblocks per slice.
--slice-max-size sets a maximum slice size, in bytes (includes NAL overhead).
Implement macroblock re-encoding support to allow highly accurate slice size limitation. Might be useful for other things in the future, too.

Also sliced threads were readded in r1364

commit e8b73a9a4db4dd703528a1eee247b84ac335e395 r1364
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Dec 7 00:49:41 2009 -0800

Bring back slice-based threading support
Enabled with --sliced-threads
Unlike normal threading, adds no encoding latency.
Less efficient than normal threading, both performance and compression-wise.
Useful for low-latency encoding environments where performance is still important, such as HD videoconferencing.
Add --tune zerolatency, which eliminates all x264 encoder-side latency (no delayed frames at all).
Some tweaks to VBV ratecontrol and lookahead (in addition to those required by sliced threading).
Commit sponsored by a media streaming company that wishes to remain anonymous.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Thanks nurbs :)

[MrVideo]

Why not?

I have a Solaris 10 server for my website, etc and do not have the bandwith to do torrent sharing. Not even sure that I can do torrent sharing. My Opera browser is set up to torrent (default as part of the browser software), but I just do not.

[MrVideo]

Well now... here's the iso rar'ed in 100 MB chunks:

Thanks. Downloading from Mediafire.

[MrVideo]

Well now... here's the iso rar'ed in 100 MB chunks:

The RAR files on Mediafire fails to correctly extract. I get a CRC error. The 7-up program was used to do the extraction.

Anyone have MD5 checksums on the individual RAR files?

Here is what I get:

md5 (x264.r00) = b8b6605adf708fa50cfdecd6e37691c3
md5 (x264.r01) = b327226b46f49dea9b0d1a54085d756b
md5 (x264.r02) = 87ae2318f2c6240f8a0cd3abf7effb7b
md5 (x264.r03) = fbeaa90736f703c3e0396e613e9767d6
md5 (x264.r04) = 36ed593e9d8625b202cb22bb73d14923
md5 (x264.r05) = a991910bb6676b3afa93b04da3f62d6d
md5 (x264.r06) = a74210702e44071184b72d4ac4d21d9c
md5 (x264.r07) = 2fbd9d6d64d04a515dc606d32afba4b8
md5 (x264.r08) = 7985da691749c4b955358570ff42ac20
md5 (x264.r09) = 2facbe144bd09de1b837c786e59cba1e
md5 (x264.r10) = cfdbdb37a84c89f8771a5e07b5809172
md5 (x264.r11) = 27f717f6c852e4e802d4b5daf5de6055
md5 (x264.r12) = bbcf55175c9d18b59935098ff92a48d1
md5 (x264.r13) = 7dc529db340a0e6776db951ed10c4be0
md5 (x264.r14) = 046d52a939742111763b24342c28d5ba
md5 (x264.r15) = 7d8af3c8e58ac327659a0af0f1c08cd1
md5 (x264.r16) = 7dc87834d8c47c02fea958acaf9bc4b4
md5 (x264.r17) = 70a19bdb0bfde7b498fb7c3f4edf5f8f
md5 (x264.r18) = 3a50117c21ea2837555bb3127c7ac38e
md5 (x264.r20) = f2a033a17f9af49a32a468826e18af0b
md5 (x264.r21) = 1e8a584da5c1940e50859309c6290e2e
md5 (x264.r22) = 957526674a756449265666fe487b33fd
md5 (x264.rar) = 9e63e7b32c94cf2e6046e68ba86a51d6

BTW, I'm assuming that x.264.rar is the lead file.

[JLOcioso]

The torrent link (http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/x264_demo/x264_Demo_Disc_AVCHD_BLURAY_COMPLIANT.torrent) isn't working :(

[Dark Shikari]

The torrent link (http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/x264_demo/x264_Demo_Disc_AVCHD_BLURAY_COMPLIANT.torrent) isn't working :(Good thing there's a mirror! (http://www.x264.nl/x264_Demo_Disc_AVCHD_BLURAY_COMPLIANT.torrent)

[JLOcioso]

Good thing there's a mirror! (http://www.x264.nl/x264_Demo_Disc_AVCHD_BLURAY_COMPLIANT.torrent)

¡Thanks!

[mariush]

The RAR files on Mediafire fails to correctly extract. I get a CRC error. The 7-up program was used to do the extraction.

Anyone have MD5 checksums on the individual RAR files?

Here is what I get:

md5 (x264.r00) = b8b6605adf708fa50cfdecd6e37691c3
md5 (x264.r01) = b327226b46f49dea9b0d1a54085d756b
md5 (x264.r02) = 87ae2318f2c6240f8a0cd3abf7effb7b
md5 (x264.r03) = fbeaa90736f703c3e0396e613e9767d6
md5 (x264.r04) = 36ed593e9d8625b202cb22bb73d14923
md5 (x264.r05) = a991910bb6676b3afa93b04da3f62d6d
md5 (x264.r06) = a74210702e44071184b72d4ac4d21d9c
md5 (x264.r07) = 2fbd9d6d64d04a515dc606d32afba4b8
md5 (x264.r08) = 7985da691749c4b955358570ff42ac20
md5 (x264.r09) = 2facbe144bd09de1b837c786e59cba1e
md5 (x264.r10) = cfdbdb37a84c89f8771a5e07b5809172
md5 (x264.r11) = 27f717f6c852e4e802d4b5daf5de6055
md5 (x264.r12) = bbcf55175c9d18b59935098ff92a48d1
md5 (x264.r13) = 7dc529db340a0e6776db951ed10c4be0
md5 (x264.r14) = 046d52a939742111763b24342c28d5ba
md5 (x264.r15) = 7d8af3c8e58ac327659a0af0f1c08cd1
md5 (x264.r16) = 7dc87834d8c47c02fea958acaf9bc4b4
md5 (x264.r17) = 70a19bdb0bfde7b498fb7c3f4edf5f8f
md5 (x264.r18) = 3a50117c21ea2837555bb3127c7ac38e
md5 (x264.r20) = f2a033a17f9af49a32a468826e18af0b
md5 (x264.r21) = 1e8a584da5c1940e50859309c6290e2e
md5 (x264.r22) = 957526674a756449265666fe487b33fd
md5 (x264.rar) = 9e63e7b32c94cf2e6046e68ba86a51d6

BTW, I'm assuming that x.264.rar is the lead file.

Here's the MD5 hashes for all files on my server (on the right):


Your Hash: Original Hash:

md5 (x264.r00) = b8b6605adf708fa50cfdecd6e37691c3 b8b6605adf708fa50cfdecd6e37691c3 *x264.r00
md5 (x264.r01) = b327226b46f49dea9b0d1a54085d756b b327226b46f49dea9b0d1a54085d756b *x264.r01
md5 (x264.r02) = 87ae2318f2c6240f8a0cd3abf7effb7b 87ae2318f2c6240f8a0cd3abf7effb7b *x264.r02
md5 (x264.r03) = fbeaa90736f703c3e0396e613e9767d6 fbeaa90736f703c3e0396e613e9767d6 *x264.r03
md5 (x264.r04) = 36ed593e9d8625b202cb22bb73d14923 36ed593e9d8625b202cb22bb73d14923 *x264.r04
md5 (x264.r05) = a991910bb6676b3afa93b04da3f62d6d a991910bb6676b3afa93b04da3f62d6d *x264.r05
md5 (x264.r06) = a74210702e44071184b72d4ac4d21d9c c6249ab6607a3e716d26fc2cd7bb04b4 *x264.r06 - BAD
md5 (x264.r07) = 2fbd9d6d64d04a515dc606d32afba4b8 2fbd9d6d64d04a515dc606d32afba4b8 *x264.r07
md5 (x264.r08) = 7985da691749c4b955358570ff42ac20 f0cd94fe9f4b0e0ee422cb215c0d0283 *x264.r08 - BAD
md5 (x264.r09) = 2facbe144bd09de1b837c786e59cba1e f79be363125124fc150a2e2936d96043 *x264.r09 - BAD
md5 (x264.r10) = cfdbdb37a84c89f8771a5e07b5809172 cfdbdb37a84c89f8771a5e07b5809172 *x264.r10
md5 (x264.r11) = 27f717f6c852e4e802d4b5daf5de6055 27f717f6c852e4e802d4b5daf5de6055 *x264.r11
md5 (x264.r12) = bbcf55175c9d18b59935098ff92a48d1 bbcf55175c9d18b59935098ff92a48d1 *x264.r12
md5 (x264.r13) = 7dc529db340a0e6776db951ed10c4be0 c36bd4890ebbad2a12b98c81df062310 *x264.r13 - BAD
md5 (x264.r14) = 046d52a939742111763b24342c28d5ba 046d52a939742111763b24342c28d5ba *x264.r14
md5 (x264.r15) = 7d8af3c8e58ac327659a0af0f1c08cd1 eb43254b217a0998a6c9d76a9eef702c *x264.r15 - BAD
md5 (x264.r16) = 7dc87834d8c47c02fea958acaf9bc4b4 7dc87834d8c47c02fea958acaf9bc4b4 *x264.r16
md5 (x264.r17) = 70a19bdb0bfde7b498fb7c3f4edf5f8f d7a3b0006e67d3d9036328e7993d05ff *x264.r17 - BAD
md5 (x264.r18) = 3a50117c21ea2837555bb3127c7ac38e 3a50117c21ea2837555bb3127c7ac38e *x264.r18
f6fe2e3f2eb05405733c57d67fabe272 *x264.r19
md5 (x264.r20) = f2a033a17f9af49a32a468826e18af0b f2a033a17f9af49a32a468826e18af0b *x264.r20
md5 (x264.r21) = 1e8a584da5c1940e50859309c6290e2e 1e8a584da5c1940e50859309c6290e2e *x264.r21
md5 (x264.r22) = 957526674a756449265666fe487b33fd 957526674a756449265666fe487b33fd *x264.r22
md5 (x264.rar) = 9e63e7b32c94cf2e6046e68ba86a51d6 9e63e7b32c94cf2e6046e68ba86a51d6 *x264.rar



You're missing r19. Try downloading the ones marked BAD again and if it's the same error, try getting it from filefactory/rapidshare and let me know so that i can reupload them on mediafire.

[deank]

Good thing there's a mirror! (http://www.x264.nl/x264_Demo_Disc_AVCHD_BLURAY_COMPLIANT.torrent)

Strange, because the server is running 24/7 and I can see ~200 people already completed it (with 15 more coming).

[MrVideo]

You're missing r19. Try downloading the ones marked BAD again and if it's the same error, try getting it from filefactory/rapidshare and let me know so that i can reupload them on mediafire.

I see why I missed 19. It isn't there. I wasn't paying attention to the numbers, I just went down the list, one by one.

I'm downloading #6 again and will see if the md5 is the same, or not.

[MrVideo]

OK, I got 19 from megaupload and #6 from rapidshare. The checksum of #06 now matches yours.

Now to go get the others, which will take a while.

[mariush]

Yeah... r19 was uploaded but not in that "folder". Anyway, it was also corrupted.

I reuploaded the files, downloaded them, checked the MD5 and they had the exact same bad checksum.

I suspect Mediafire checks the filename a maybe computes a hash for the first ~ 20 KB of the file. Therefore, because the error is not in the first 20 something KB, Mediafire detect previous corrupt upload as identical file and will probably reuse the original corrupt upload and no matter how many times I upload these files, unless I change the file name, you'd get the old corrupted files.

Megaupload has a similar "feature"...sometimes unless you rename the files it just won't upload a corrupt upload.

To save you the trouble.... Here's direct links for these files... but I'll delete them tomorrow or in a couple of days:

http://www.savedonthe.net/x264.r08
http://www.savedonthe.net/x264.r09
http://www.savedonthe.net/x264.r13
http://www.savedonthe.net/x264.r15
http://www.savedonthe.net/x264.r17
http://www.savedonthe.net/x264.r19


I'm really sorry about these problems. I would have hosted them directly but I don't have a lot of bandwidth.

[MrVideo]

To save you the trouble.... Here's direct links for these files...

Thanks for the offer, but I got them all downloaded, mostly from megaupload, as that let me do one right after the other.

The DVD is burning as I type this.

[MrVideo]

Anyone have the x264 command line options that were used to created the AVCHD demo disc? Since it is UDF 2.5, I can't look at the files on the DVD under XP.

I just played it with PowerDVDpro 8 and loved it. Excellent demo disc. I have to put it in my Sony Blu-ray player next.

[popper]

I have a Solaris 10 server for my website, etc and do not have the bandwith to do torrent sharing. Not even sure that I can do torrent sharing. My Opera browser is set up to torrent (default as part of the browser software), but I just do not.

"I have a Solaris 10 server for my website, etc and do not have the bandwith to do torrent sharing."

many people use 512Kbit/s home ISP supplied upload links all the time to share torrent files.

i dont understand, you run a server on a fast co-location site or from a far slower home ISP broadband upload link ? and dont have enough bandwidth to run a torrent client ?

i would have thought you could install and run on your solaris server, for instance
http://www.transmissionbt.com/download.php
or even run the older java Azureus_2.4.0.2_Solaris.tar.bz torrent client
http://learningsolaris.com/archives/2006/03/22/azureus-solaris-x86/
http://www.filestube.com/fac15de6960654fe03e9/details.html

if you are on a real co-location webside server or access to a shared remote VPS etc then you are exactly the type of person that can help share these files at the faster rate by running a torrent client on there directly.

[MrVideo]

i dont understand, you run a server on a fast co-location site or from a far slower home ISP broadband upload link ? and dont have enough bandwidth to run a torrent client?

Home/business DSL, with only 768k up and that is busy with files I'm constantly sending, but mostly serving my website. If I didn't have a website, then it wouldn't be much of a problem. But I do, so I need all of the available bandwidth for that.

[J_Darnley]

Anyone have the x264 command line options that were used to created the AVCHD demo disc? Since it is UDF 2.5, I can't look at the files on the DVD under XP.

Doesn't stop you from using: strings -4 file.iso | grep x264

[EDIT] No, but it looks like the stupid file format stops you from doing that. grep -A4 seems to get it all

[KngtRider]

I can't get any audio output from DeanK's avc-hd version of the bd test disc or the original 'blu-ray' structed version with powerdvd 9 ultra build 2528 and older / 10 trial on xp and vista via playback of the disc.

The images were burnt to DVD5 and these were used for testing since PDVD doesn't really like virtual drives for BD playback.

I even tried downgrading the to an older version of Realtek HD audio drivers just to be sure since I am using analog out with ALC889A codec which supports content protection and is supposed to be supported by PowerDVD


PDVD reports DTS-HD audio when the discs are played directly but does not give any specifics regarding the audio stream

From PDVD info box whn the discs are played


Primary audio attributes:
Audio coding mode: DTS
Sampling rate: 48kHz
Number of audio channels:






However :


If i manually open a .m2ts from either disc in PDVD, Audio playback WORKS and PDVD's OSD reports "DTS-HD Master AUdio 5.1 xxxKbps" although the settings->information windows does not show any specifics for the audio stream at all but I think thats to be expected since its directly reading the transport streams.

mplayerc-hc detects DTS-HD MA 6ch 48khz 1500 and plays back the audio on all titles.

Standard DTS audio from other sources also works fine in PDVD as expected.

[MrVideo]

Doesn't stop you from using: strings -4 file.iso | grep -A4 x264

I'll be damned, the cygwin installation doesn't have strings, the most generic of the Unix programs.

To top it off, the Solaris 10 strings doesn't like the filesize. Time to split it up into some smaller pieces.

[MrVideo]

I got it by splitting the iso and then using strings and piping through less. Solaris grep doesn't have -A4. I just went looking for the lines in question (grepping for "options" is better).

I ended up getting:

options: cabac=1 ref=6 deblock=1:-1:-1 analyse=0x3:0x133 me=umh subme=10 psy=1
psy_rd=1.00:0.15 psy_rd=1.00:0.15 mixed_ref=1 me_range=24 chroma_me=1 trellis=2
8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-3 threads=12
sliced_threads=0 slices=4 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3
b_pyramid=1 b_adapt=2 b_bias=0 direct=3 wpredb=1 wpredp=0 keyint=120 keyint_min=1
scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=60 rc=2pass mbtree=1 bitrate=12000 ratetol=1.0
qcomp=0.60 qpmin=10 qpmax=51 qpstep=4 cplxblur=20.0 qblur=0.5 vbv_maxrate=14745
vbv_bufsize=14745 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00 nal_hrd=vbr

[ChronoCross]

Just got the second AVCHD compliant version downloaded and it looks amazing and very well done. Great job!

[MrVideo]

Plays perfectly in my Sony BDP-S350.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Before I make the official announcement, I'd like at least some testing of it on actual Blu-ray players. To clarify. Is the emphasis more toward "hardware" Blu-ray player testing and compatibility?

[Lyris]

To clarify. Is the emphasis more toward "hardware" Blu-ray player compatibility?
As supposed to software BD players, you mean?

[MrVideo]

I thought that AVCHD wanted a level of 4.1. Notice that the options that I extracted to not have a level setting and the latest version of x264 (1570) is setting a default level of 5.0. Do I need to add "--level 4.1"?

EDIT: Nevermind. I've discovered that the --level option is not listed in the option list contained in the file. So, I've added the --level option to my script.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I thought that AVCHD wanted a level of 4.1. Notice that the options that I extracted to not have a level setting and the latest version of x264 (1570) is setting a default level of 5.0. Do I need to add "--level 4.1"?
AVCHD has level 4.0

[MrVideo]

AVCHD has level 4.0

Thanks, I'll change it.

[digitalvideo]

Hi All,

I'm just back.

I can make any updates to the disk if they need.

I make it with scenarist, dts HD encoder, ....

[MrVideo]

I can make any updates to the disk if they need.

Update what. I found nothing wrong with the excellent disc.

[Emulgator]

So if I may ask:

What I found (digitalvideo's SC.iso on BD-RE and my DVD-A.iso on BD-RE)
(from post #22 and #38 in this thread)
regarding REW not rewinding, but skipping to movie start:

Was it only on my Panny BD-50 ?

Could anybody repeat that skip?

A: Skip

REW @ -2x/-4x/-8x/-16x/-32x: skip to movie start,
FFWD @ +2x: smooth with accelerated audio,
+4x/+8x/+16x/+32x inconsistently stepping without audio.

Or does everybody feel safe about that?

B: Safe

REW= smooth with accelerated audio @ -2x,
equally stepping without audio @ -4x/-8x/-16x/-32x
and
FFWD= smooth with accelerated audio @ +2x,
equally stepping without audio @ +4x/+8x/+16x/+32x.

[psyote]

Although not produced by $$$ software it works with virtually all BD/AVCHD players. It is even possible to convert it in just 2 or 3 minutes and watch it with just a Panasonic Viera TV, using SDHC card (no BD player needed).


How can I convert the iso to play it from SDHC on a Panasonic TV?
Thanks.

[deank]

Sorry - I just saw your post...

Just drag BDMV folder to multiAVCHD, click START and select [TV/CAM] output. Depending on your TV you'll have to select either PAL or NTSC button.

...or better, drag&drop the three m2ts files and process them (not the BDMV folder).

Dean

[deank]

Here is a link to a torrent file with x264 Blu-ray DEMO disc, prepared for SDHC/SD/MMC/MS/USB playback.

It can be directly transferred to SDHC card to play in Panasonic Viera TV sets, Panasonic BDP players (using SDHC card) and Playstation 3. For PS3 you can use USB/MemoryStick, but then you'll have to copy the contents of PRIVATE folder (AVCHD) to the root of your USB stick/HDD or MS card. The same goes for Viera TV if you use USB stick.

Tested to work in Panasonic 50G20E model, PS3, Nero Showtime, Arcsoft TMT. The content uses NTSC framerates and should work with NTSC-region TV models, too.

Download torrent file (40KB) (1.8GB content). (http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/x264_SDHC_AVCHD_demo.torrent)

You'll need 2GB SDHC card (or bigger).

Sorry for the quality of the pictures, but you should see something similar when you stick your SDHC card in the TV:

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/x264_demo_Viera_01.JPG

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/x264_demo_Viera_02.JPG

Dean

[2themax]

While verifying a stream today encoded with build 1643, I got the following error:

Error ID : AVC0116
Target File : 00000.m2ts <MPEG-4 AVC PID=0x1011>
Target Field : uuid_iso_iec_11578
Section No : 9.15.3.1
Error Message : uuid_iso_iec_11578 shall be set to "17ee8c60-f84d-11d9-8cd6-0800200c9a66" But actually DC45E9BDE6D948B7962CD820D923EEEF. <AU#000001: SPN[4]>
Explanation : uuid_iso_iec_11578: This field shall be set to "17ee8c60-f84d-11d9-8cd6-0800200c9a66".
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[AVC0116] : 1 times.

This was generated using the Panasonic verifier. The stream is 1080p and was encoded using the parameters listed on the Creating professional Blu-Rays with x264 site.