How to backup BD where there is no "core" M2TS

[JimmyBarnes]

Every other BD I have converted to H264 so far has had a single M2TS which contained just the main movie.

But Iron Man 2 does not, it seems clearly distributed over a number of M2TS files, the largest of which is about 4GB.

I guess one could convert each M2TS and join them, but there's no guarantee they join neatly, do not overlap etc. e.g. end-credits appear in the 9th largest M2TS

Presumably there is some key to linking them in the correct order etc.

TIA

[simps]

eac3to 00001.m2ts+00002.m2ts+00003.m2ts -demux

[nurbs]

What simps suggested works, but it would probably be easier to select the playlist you want with eac3to than entering all the filenames manually. "eac3to C:\IronMen2" would list the playlists in the specified directory and you can select it with "eac3to C:\IronMen2 1)" for instance if you want the content of the first playlist. There are plenty of GUIs for eac3to that support that too if you are uncomfortable with CLI.

[simps]

nurbs, thats cool.
So, once I get the playlist, should the command be "eac3to C:\IronMen2 1)" as you said, or should it be "eac3to C:\IronMen2 1) -demux" ?

[bigotti5]

"eac3to C:\IronMen2 1) -demux"

[JimmyBarnes]

"eac3to C:\IronMen2 1) -demux"

Wow, what Guru created eac3to, it is truly amazing..!

[Trahald]

Its a great program, does way more than you would expect from it. I just figured out I can encode the audio to aac without even demuxing (I had been doing the extra step for a while now) Its excellent. Kudos to madshi.

[nurbs]

Yes, it's worth mentioning that if you are doing audio conversions and the movie is in multiple .m2ts files it is better to let eac3to do the conversion or at least create an intermediate wav so you can be sure gaps and overlaps are taken care of. Example: eac3to "C:\IronMan2" 1) 1:"C:\IronMan2\chapters.txt" 2:"C:\IronMan2\video.h264" 3:"C:\IronMan2\audio1.wav" 4:"C:\IronMan2\audio2.aac" -down2 -normalize -quality=0.40
In the example a chapter text file and H.264 video are extracted. One audio track is decoded to wav and the second is downmixed to stereo (DPLII), normalized and encoded with NeroAAC at quality 0.40. One could also mux the video directly to mkv by changing the file extension in the command line.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Yes, eac3to is probably my personal favorite CLI application :) Extremely useful!!

I always mux the video straight to MKV. Easy to peek with MPC-HC or load with DSS2 that way !

Derek