How to convert (this) 3D Blu-ray disc to monoscopic / 2D?

[pitoloko]

Hi. I have a 3D blu-ray disc that is unencrypted. My intention is to remux the content as a 2D movie without quality loss, or else perform a 2D BD-Rip in AVC/H.264 format (with "best" CRF quality settings, placebo preset)

However, I can't find the way to do that.

The blu-ray corresponds to this movie title: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540767

It contains a single playlist, two .m2ts files of a total of 2,30 GB for which 00000.m2ts is 1,45 GB and corresponds to the first eight minute length of the movie, and 00001.m2ts is 858 MB and is unplayable for me; And a single .ssif file of 21,4 GB.

The exact folder structure is as follows:

├───AACS
│ │ Content000.cer
│ │ ContentHash000.tbl
│ │ ContentRevocation.lst
│ │ CPSUnit00001.cci
│ │ mcmf.xml
│ │ MKB_RO.inf
│ │ MKB_RW.inf
│ │ Unit_Key_RO.inf
│ │
│ └───DUPLICATE
│ Content000.cer
│ ContentHash000.tbl
│ ContentRevocation.lst
│ CPSUnit00001.cci
│ mcmf.xml
│ MKB_RO.inf
│ MKB_RW.inf
│ Unit_Key_RO.inf
│
├───BDMV
│ │ index.bdmv
│ │ MovieObject.bdmv
│ │
│ ├───AUXDATA
│ ├───BACKUP
│ │ │ index.bdmv
│ │ │ MovieObject.bdmv
│ │ │
│ │ ├───BDJO
│ │ ├───CLIPINF
│ │ │ 00000.clpi
│ │ │ 00001.clpi
│ │ │
│ │ ├───JAR
│ │ └───PLAYLIST
│ │ 00000.mpls
│ │
│ ├───BDJO
│ ├───CLIPINF
│ │ 00000.clpi
│ │ 00001.clpi
│ │
│ ├───JAR
│ ├───META
│ ├───PLAYLIST
│ │ 00000.mpls
│ │
│ └───STREAM
│ │ 00000.m2ts
│ │ 00001.m2ts
│ │
│ └───SSIF
│ 00000.ssif
│
└───CERTIFICATE
│ id.bdmv
│
└───BACKUP
id.bdmv

Please note that I'm not the first owner of the disc, so I don't know how it was unencrypted.

The 00000.mpls looks like this in an hexadecimal editor:

https://i.imgur.com/7pix0B2.png

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What I've tried to remux or encode this Blu-ray disc:

tsMuxerGui: It only demuxes the first eight minute-length.

MakeMKV: It only demuxes the first eight minute-length.

MKVToolnix: If I load the playlist file, it just remuxes the first eight minute-length in the outpuf mkv file. If I load the .ssif file, then MKVToolnix creates a mkv file of only 4 kilobytes...

StaxRip: Can't proceed, it shows an error message saying: "3D demuxing isn't supported" when loading the blu-ray folder.

Handbrake: It lets me start the encoding procedure, however it just encodes the first eight minute-length, then quits. Image previews of the movie are black after the few ones.

BD3D2MK3D: It only demuxes 2,30 GB. When trying the encoder batch-script it just encodes the first eight minute length.

Note that these programs properly displays the full real movie length in their user-interfaces. But at the moment of demuxing/remuxing or encoding, all these programs gets stuck with the first eight minute length of the movie, or in other words, they just seems to be working the 00000.m2ts file.

So what can I do to remux in 2D or to encode in 2D this Blu-ray disc?.

In order to ensure that the Blu-ray folder contents are not corrupted, I've tried the Stereoscopic Player from 3dtv.at website (https://www.3dtv.at/products/Player/Index_en.aspx), and I can play the movie entirely. So the disc is fine.

In the following thread I've read about a freeware program with name SSIFsucka: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/323749-How-to-play-convert-ssif-files#post2045690 which sounds like the only thing I need to convert the .ssif file - however, the official download link (or what I think is the official link) is broken: https://photo-3d.groups.io/g/3dtv-archive/message/26314

[ocean]

Hi pitoloko, try with tsMuxeR to load the *.ssif file 21,4 GB and see what appears in the dialog box.

If you see codecs, select only H264, audio and sub, and you have the 2D version.

[pitoloko]

Hi pitoloko, try with tsMuxeR to load the *.ssif file 21,4 GB and see what appears in the dialog box.

If you see codecs, select only H264, audio and sub, and you have the 2D version.

Hi, thanks for your help but tsMuxer GUI can't demux the .ssif file.

In any case, it doesn’t matter anymore — I finally managed to solve it!

I asked ChatGPT for guidance to perform the remux procedure using tsMuxer CLI, just to try another thing... and in the end, this was the only solution that actually worked for me.

Step 1

Download tsMuxer command-line interface (CLI) from this link (https://github.com/justdan96/tsMuxer/releases/tag/2.7.0), and run the following command passing the full path to your .ssif file:
tsmuxer.exe "file.ssif"

It will show an output similar to this:
tsMuxeR version 2.7.0. github.com/justdan96/tsMuxer
Track ID: 4113
Stream type: H.264
Stream ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Stream info: Profile: High@4.1 Resolution: 1920:1080p Frame rate: 23.976
Stream lang:

Track ID: 4114
Stream type: MVC
Stream ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/MVC
Stream info: H.264/MVC Views: 2 Profile: High@4.1 Resolution: 1920:1080p Frame rate: 23.976 3d-pg-planes: 32
Stream lang:

Track ID: 4352
Stream type: AC3
Stream ID: A_AC3
Stream info: Bitrate: 384Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 5.1
Stream lang: rus

Step 2

Create a plain text file anywhere containing tsMuxer’s configuration based on the output shown above (if you have doubts, ask ChatGPT or other AI):

movie_2d.meta
MUXOPT --no-pcr-on-video-pid --new-audio-pes --vbr --vbv-len=500

V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC, "C:\Blu-ray Folder\BDMV\STREAM\SSIF\00000.ssif", track=4113
A_AC3, "C:\Blu-ray Folder\BDMV\STREAM\SSIF\00000.ssif", track=4352

Step 3

Finally, generate the 2D movie by using the following command, passing the full path to the plain text file and specifying an output file path for the resulting .m2ts file:

tsmuxer.exe "movie_2d.meta" "output_2D.m2ts"

[ocean]

Excellent pitoloko, you worked on the CLI tsMuxeR and you got the *.m2ts container with the 2D movie.

[r0lZ]

I'm just wondering why the tsMuxer GUI was not able to do exactly the same thing. Normally, it should have generated automatically the same text file.

BTW, I have just replied to the same thread at VideoHelp (https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/419843-How-to-convert-%28this%29-3D-Blu-ray-disc-to-monoscopic-2D). If it's possible, I would appreciate if you could try my (possible) solution using mkvtoolnix. Thanks in advance.