I read through all the pages of this thread and didn't see anyone report this, so....
I've got an LG BD390. ESB works like a charm, and it looks wonderful.
Thanks for the great job Ady :-)
There are some nice Star Wars HD DVD covers here (follow link below) that could be easily turned into covers for Ady's AVCHD titles. Only a couple of things need to be altered (1080p, commentary tracks, subtitles, delete special features column). Adding the Adywan HD logo someone created eariler on this thread could be cool, though personnally I quite like the use of the HD DVD logo as it a dead format and this is actually DVD so HD DVD kinda fits.... ish (lol)
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Wish I had the time and ability to edit these myself.
I don't have a blu-ray or hd-dvd player but I do have a big Samsung LCD TV that can play a lot of file formats (avi, mpg, mkv, ts, etc...) via USB. I downloaded the sample and extracted the .m2ts file but it didn't recognise it, but after renaming the extension to .ts it plays it.
However, the video is somewhat sped up and I don't get any sound. I still have to connect the TV to my receiver for full surround (have to buy another cable for that), so it might just be that it can't downsample the 5.1 to stereo, although that seems unlikely. The sped up video I can't explain. I noticed that all but your AVCHD version of ANH has 24p and the rest at 23.976p, could this be the problem?
I'd really like to watch this thing on my new HDTV, so hopefully you can help me with this.
EDIT: The sample plays fine on my PC, but VLC says that it has a frame rate of 48 whereas all my other HD videos have either 24 or 23.967. Could this be why it's sped up?
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You could try demuxing the ts with tsmuxer and mux into an mkv with mkvmerge. Remember to set the correct framerate etc. This has solved similar problems for me more than once.
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Lord Grievous said:
I noticed that all but your AVCHD version of ANH has 24p and the rest at 23.976p, could this be the problem?
EDIT: The sample plays fine on my PC, but VLC says that it has a frame rate of 48 whereas all my other HD videos have either 24 or 23.967. Could this be why it's sped up?
The frame-rate of all the AVCHDs shows up doubled in VLC. Don't ask me why. Tsmuxer gives the correct frame rate - check if you want - so that's not the problem.
23.976 fps is more compatible, so the only AVCHD you might expect problems with is indeed the 24 fps ANH:R. I don't know what to suggest. You could try converting the m2ts to an mkv, if your TV supports those (does it act like a media player?). I don't know how to do this as I have never done it this way before (most people want to go the other way), but I believe therer are ways to do this. You might try MakeMKV.
edit - I see Satanika beat me to suggesting making an mkv. :-)
I tried to convert to mkv with MakeMKV but it says the sample is too short (180s when it needs at least 120s) to do this. And I'm not downloading the full versions before I'm certain that they'll work.
Besides, my HDTV does play .ts files and when I renamed the .m2ts file to .ts my HDTV did play it. Maybe it simply speeds up the video because it's 24p instead of 23.967p, is there an easy way for me to convert the sample to 23.967p? Or could someone perhaps post a sample based on one of the 23.967p versions?
Also, the sample is from AotC, but Adywan's full version is listed as 23.967p, could someone confirm if the sample is indeed 24p?
I'm afraid that I'm not much of an A/V editor so my options seem pretty limited. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I've remuxed the sample with tsMuxeR and changed the framerate from 24p to 24000/1001 (=23.967p). I'll test it later because the family is watching the telly right now :)
One question though, when I remuxed the .m2ts file to .ts I had selected the video and both audio tracks, is this okay?
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I can confirm that the sample is 24 fps. You can only change the video that way in tsmuxer. You will need to re-encode the audio. See my instructions earlier in the thread (not far back).
In answer to your question, there's no problem keeping both audio tracks.
I really think you are on a hiding to nothing spending all this time on the sample. Just bite the bullet and download the whole AVCHD - V or I. You know AotC isn't out yet, right? :-)
The problem is that I don't have much HDD space left for now, I've ordered a new one to build an external HDD but the enclosure hasn't arrived yet, so downloading the big files will have to wait.
Plus, the only way for me to play those files on the telly is with a USB stick, but I only have a 4GB one. So I really want to be sure if it'll work :)
I'll try your suggestion of also remuxing the audio. though when I listen to my remuxed sample on PC, the sound seems alright, but I'll give it a try.
I'll let you know if this works, thanks for your suggestions.
EDIT: I didn't necessarily mean a sample of AotC, any movie would do :) But I'll first try with my remuxed sample later.
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Sigh, it still has the same problem. It plays fine on the PC and MediaInfo says the remuxed sample plays at 23.967p, but on my telly it's still sped up and no sound.
Adywan, if possible could you perhaps put up a sample of the AVCHD version of ESB, since it's 23.967p I can check if it still has this problem. If it plays fine that means that I did something wrong with remuxing the 24p sample.
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Thinking about it, I have had this problem with certain files too. I think it has to certain frame-rates at 1080p. I have a WD HD media player that doesn't like certain 1080p files that have 25 fps as a frame-rate, but is fine with 720p at whatever combination of frame-rate and resolution.
I still don't think what you did in tsmuxer is a proper conversion for the audio, so I wouldn't be surprised if you had a problem with the audio, even if you could hear it, if you see what I mean. I don't know what to suggest. I really don't think you'd have a problem with ESB if you downloaded it, but it's your decision.
Thinking about it, Adywan's 14 gb download of ESB was still on the newsgroup last time I looked. I downloaded it a little while ago. That is an mkv, so it might be worth your while downloading that. You wouldn't have to convert it or anything, so you could rule out the conversion to .ts as being a factor - although I don't think it is. It sounds like your best solution.
I had a similar problem with an .m2ts which I was able to fix with RipBot264, which demuxed it and created an .mkv.
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Well I don't have a usenet account and I'm not getting a subscription just to download a few files. Since my new HDD hasn't arrived yet I can't download big files for the moment because I have less than 10GB left :(
I'll try remuxing the audio again, see if that helps. The 14GB mkv you mention, is that also colour-corrected?
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Lord Grievous said:
I'll try remuxing the audio again, see if that helps. The 14GB mkv you mention, is that also colour-corrected?
You need to re-encode the audio not remux it. Remuxing it won't change anything. :-)
The 14 GB mkv is identical to the AVCHD. It just looks better - not greatly, but it looks better.
@Darth Editous, thank you for the comment, if it was meant for me, but the files I was talking about were already mkv files.
I should have quoted someone - it was for Lord Grievous who said:
Sigh, it still has the same problem. It plays fine on the PC and MediaInfo says the remuxed sample plays at 23.967p, but on my telly it's still sped up and no sound.
Remuxing to a .mkv without reencoding the audio should work in this case. For whatever reason there's something wrong with the container, or the TV's reading of it (I also have a Samsung TV and had this problem) which is causing the audio to go unplayed.
I didn't have to reencode either the audio or the video from my problematic .m2ts - I just had to put them both in a .mkv container and all was fixed.
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Darth Editous said:
Remuxing to a .mkv without reencoding the audio should work in this case.
I didn't have to reencode either the audio or the video from my problematic .m2ts - I just had to put them both in a .mkv container and all was fixed.
Wait a minute. I agree that re-encoding is not necessary if LG is simply changing containers, but if he has changed the frame rate from 24 to 23.976 fps, surely it is necessary. I had to do this when I re-encoded the AVCHD of EP.IV to make it work properly.
Wait a minute. I agree that re-encoding is not necessary if LG is simply changing containers, but if he has changed the frame rate from 24 to 23.976 fps, surely it is necessary.
I wasn't suggesting he change the frame rate - the Samsung (and VLC) is picking up the wrong framerate, somehow, from the .m2ts. I'm hoping RipBot will return the wrongly set 48fps .m2ts to a 24fps .mkv, the same way it reset my 47.952fps .m2ts to a 23.976fps .mkv.
Whether or not the TV will actually play a 24fps .mkv is another matter, but I'd think it would.
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Darth Editous said:
I wasn't suggesting he change the frame rate - the Samsung (and VLC) is picking up the wrong framerate, somehow, from the .m2ts.
I know you weren't, my friend, but LG already stated that he has done so in a previous post (near the top). :-) I was just pointing out that I think he would need to re-encode the audio if he has changed the fps. I think we have our wires crossed. :D
Well, I also have a .ts sample at 23.967 (which I got due to a donation) and it still has the same problem, no sound and sped up video. This comes straight from Adywan so I didn't change anything myself, and again, it plays fine on my PC but not on my HDTV.
I even tried changing container, from the original .ts to .mkv with GDSmux from the Haali Media Splitter, the resulting file plays fine in VLC but there's still something wrong when I play it on my HDTV. Now the video plays like it should but the audio is still missing. My TV can play other AC3 encoded files so it's not that it doesn't support it.
I really don't understand why it keeps having problems with either the video or audio (or both), because technically my HDTV supports all these filetypes and plays other such files without problem. I'll try this RipBot thing for now, but does this recode the video/audio too? I'd rather not have too much quality loss and just change container. But if it works then that's a step in the right direction. I'll let you know how this goes, thanks for the suggestions so far :)
EDIT: I managed to get them to work (both the 1080p@24fps sample, and the 720p@23.967fps sample) by converting them to .mkv with RipBot. Though the bitrate is a bit lower, I suppose it'll have to do untill we get a PS3 in a year or so.
It's gonna be hell to convert the full movies, my PC will probably have to do some serious crunching for a day or so :)
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Well, I'm glad you made some progress. You could always buy a WD HD Media player. It plays almost everything, but costs a fraction of what a PS3 does. I rarely burn AVCHDs to disc these days: I just watch them through the player.
Good luck. :-)
Is there a relatively easy way to play the ANH iso file on a PC? Do you have to extract the contents?
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You can mount the ISO with Virtual CloneDrive. You should then be able to play the disc with any decent media player.
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Choppy playback may be rectified by using a faster AVC decoder. CoreAVC is generally regarded to be the fastest, but it's not free. If you have a dual core (or higher) CPU, you might get acceptable results using the latest build of ffdshow with ffmpeg-mt enabled.
Or, if you have a video card with DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA), you could try using Media Player Classic Home Cinema - the GPU does the decoding relieving some of the load on the CPU.
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