can't get anything using TSMuxer to play

[Yanta]

I used to use format factory, until the k-lite codecs were said to be a problem, I've used DVDFAB v5.x and V6.x and various other programs to create MKVs from my purchased Blurays and DVDs.

I am running out of disk space, and I want burn back my MKVs to Bluray, without all the previews and other rubbish that comes with the originals. So they are just the movies on the disk. In most cases I don't want menues because I only put one movie per disk, but in some cases the Original came with a theatrical version and a Extended version, such as with my terminator salvation DVD, so I would like to put both of them on one Bluray with a menu.

But regardless of what I do I can't get anything that uses txmuxer to work. VLC will play the movie, with warnings about "no suitable decoder", my PowerDVD 10 won't play it (I don't want to buy the latest version because it has too many problems), WIndows Media player won't play them and my Pioneer, LG and Sony BD players won't play the burnt disk.

I've tried AVCHDCoder, Multiavchd, and TSmuxer standalone.

I've tried using mkxtoolnix to remove the foreign language audio streams, get rid of compression, removed subtitles and a few other things I've seen on various forums about MKV problems, but nothing works.

I would really appreciate some help in getting a working disc so I can clean off my htpc and make room for some newer movies.

So, are there some tricks I don't know or some particular settings, or a better program that I can use to reencode to bluray? Preferrably something free, but if I have to buy something that works, I am not against doing that, as long as it works.:confused:

I also have lots of region 1 stuff that I bought off amazon which my BD players won't play (I'm in region 4). Such as Law & Order SVU, which I used handbrake to extract to hard disk. I would likewise like to put them all out to a disk.

I already have 14TB of storage, and can't add more unless I go for 3TB drives, which is another headache all on its own.

Thanks tanya

[Ghitulescu]

It appears that your format factory is one of the zillion all-in-one-converters the web is filled up.
Since you have the originals I suggest redo the whole ripping procedure with a real ripper, like AnyDVD of DVDfab (the latter has a free module). How to get rid of unwanted streams is format-dependent (DVD vs BD), but in essence, once the DVD/BD is "cleaned" of protections and unwanted stuff, you can use dvdshrink and multiavchd, respectively. Of buy any of those rippers and you'll have there the opportunity to customize your BD/DVD.

[Yanta]

Since you have the originals I suggest redo the whole ripping procedure with a real ripper, like AnyDVD or DVDfab (the latter has a free module). How to get rid of unwanted streams is format-dependent (DVD vs BD), but in essence, once the DVD/BD is "cleaned" of protections and unwanted stuff, you can use dvdshrink and multiavchd, respectively. Of buy any of those rippers and you'll have there the opportunity to customize your BD/DVD.

Thanks for your reply.

Many of the titles were ripped with DVDFab. even they will not convert back to blu-ray with tsmuxer.

I spent months ripping my originals. I was kinda hoping to avoid having to do it all over.

I thought perhaps something in the way I was ripping them is causing the problem, so when I rip them again, I'm going to keep having the same problems until I figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[Ghitulescu]

Many of the titles were ripped with DVDFab. even they will not convert back to blu-ray with tsmuxer.

That's a very strange issue. DVDfab is supposed to give you a copy of the BD, so that you won't have to use tsmuxer, unless you need to remux it (get rid of unwanted tracks).

And, if you don't know what you did, how can we ...?

[setarip_old]

@Yanta

Hi!

Going forward, you can accomplish your stated purpose by simply using ONLY MAKEMKV to DIRECTLY rip/decrypt your commercial Blu-ray discs and/or your commercial DVDs and convert them to MKVs with "one click" - No need to use AnyDVD, DVDFab or similar (or tsMuxeR, for that matter)...

[Yanta]

That's a very strange issue. DVDfab is supposed to give you a copy of the BD, so that you won't have to use tsmuxer, unless you need to remux it (get rid of unwanted tracks).

And, if you don't know what you did, how can we ...?

Indeed! I know what I did. But I figure that it was wrong. I backed them up to my HTPC as MKV using DVDFab. I used the DVD Ripper and BD Ripper functions, selected "to MKV", and used the mkv.h264.audiocopy profile. I changed no other parameters. That profile was used simply because it was the default.

The resulting MKVs played fine from the LG HR558, Pioneer, BDP51FD and from VLC, PowerDVD and so on.

But now that I want to back them back up to BD to free up space nothing I try will give me a working BD. The conversion works fine, they just won't play.

Going forward, I am now backing up directly to BD-R SL, AND ripping to MKV as well.