Problems creating an AVCHD DVD without re-encoding

[John D]

Hi all,

I am new to MultiAVCHD and to creating AVCHD DVDs in general. All I really want to do is take my HD home movies, which I have compiled into M2T files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9.0, and put them onto AVCHD-format DVDs with simple menus and in particular without re-encoding the video that Premiere outputs.

Having done some investigation it looks as though a combination of MultiAVCHD, AviSynth, Ffdshow and Haali Media Splitter ought to enable me to do this. However, even though I believe I have carefully followed the instructions in http://adubvideo.net/how-to/setup-proper-playback-chain-windows and http://adubvideo.net/how-to/setup-proper-decoding-chain-windows-7, I am still not getting very far.

The problem: MultiAVCHD’s multiTEST program is returning “! [ERR] MPEG-2 FAILURE”

I am running 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1.

I wasn’t sure whether to install both the standard and 64-bit versions of ffdshow, so I installed both and used the tweaker to activate ffdshow for both the 32-bit and 64-bit configurations.

I also noticed that the ffdshow installations did not automatically tick the Avisynth boxes, so I did this manually.

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how I can resolve this MultiAVCHD issue? Or suggest a simpler way of creating an AVCHD-format DVD without re-encoding?

I choose the following options when exporting the edited video from Premiere: File Type: H.264 Blu-ray; Frame Size: 1920x1080; FPS: 25; Audio: Dolby digital, 192 kbps, 48 kHz. The original video is from a Panasonic HDC-SD700 Full HD camcorder using its 1080-50p mode (which I believe Premiere downrates to 1080-25p, although I am not sure how I can confirm this).

Many thanks,

John

[Capsbackup]

Check your ffdshow video decoder configuration. When Codecs is highlighted, you should have an entry of libmpeg2 for MPEG2. I think libavcodec is okay too.

[setarip_old]

@John D

Hi!

I believe you can simply use tsMuxer to accomplish your purpose by "dragging and dropping" your files on the main tsMuxer window and selecting the "AVCHD" tab at the BOTTOM of the window...

[John D]

Many thanks to both of you for the quick replies.

Re multiTEST, changing the MPEG2 setting to libavcodec sorted this out, so many thanks for that. It had been set to 'disabled' for some reason.

Re tsMuxer, I had trouble initially as it didn't like the M2T file that Premiere outputs, not even after renaming it to M2TS. But when I changed Premiere to output separate M4V and AC3 files tsMuxer was able to handle these. I used Nero Burning ROM to create an AVCHD DVD that plays back properly on our Sony BD player. So this was very encouraging (and your suggestion was very much appreciated) but I was also keen to have menus.

After a bit of playing around I have now managed to get MultiAVCHD to work with the Premiere output ... I had to rename the .M4V file to .264 but that seems to have done the job and I now have a working AVCHD DVD with menus :-)

[setarip_old]

Glad to hear that our suggestions worked for you ;>}