My Blu-Ray Movie Burning Experiences... - Page 27

I don't think XVI32 will work on really large files. On my old laptop (with only 256 MB of RAM), it usually fails to even open large files.

The more I think about this issue, the more I think it's futile (at least with a hex editor).

Ron

yah I tired a diffrent hex editor but I keep running out of swap space

going to try on my other computer and see if I can get it to work it has more space

A real and great thank to you for your short "user guide".
THis allowed me to do my first steps in blue ray professionnal authoring !

I tend to agree, unless you can find one that can 'edit in place' and will do a 'replace all' kind of function.

Something else to note is that once you change all of the time ratios (and fix the illegal flag) you will still need to change the pulldown flags to 'frames' and fix the buffer delays - these kinds of things would be very difficult with a hex editor.

If you don't do those things, it will simply do the same thing that it does now only at 24/30 the original speed...

I have done 2 replacement on a 1 gig file and it works perfectly with no problems.

so now I just have to figure out a way to do it to a 21 gig file.

That's encouraging. I have a small command window program that you can use to chop a big file into smaller chunks.

http://www.w6rz.net/clip.zip

The usage is:

clip

For example:

clip bits0001.mpv bitsclip0.mpv 0 1000000000

clip bits0001.mpv bitsclip1.mpv 1000000000 1000000000

clip bits0001.mpv bitsclip2.mpv 2000000000 1000000000

clip bits0001.mpv bitsclip3.mpv 3000000000 1000000000

and so on.

Then you can reassemble with copy /b bitsclip0.mpv+bitsclip1.mpv+bitsclip2.mpv+bitsclip3.mpv editedclips.mpv

Ron

dr1394 that is great only problem with that is if I cut it wrong I could cut it accross one of the headers and then can screw up the file.

Yes, but you could manually check the end of each file. Or you could check the reassembled file with h264_parse and grep.

http://www.w6rz.net/h264_parse.zip

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm

For example:

C:\\xfer>h264_parse bits0001.mpv | grep time_scale
time_scale: 48000
time_scale: 48000
time_scale: 48000
time_scale: 48000

C:\\xfer>h264_parse bits0001.mpv | grep num_units
num_units_in_tick: 1001
num_units_in_tick: 1001
num_units_in_tick: 1001
num_units_in_tick: 1001

C:\\xfer>h264_parse bits0001.mpv | grep pict_struct
pict_struct: 0
pict_struct: 0
pict_struct: 0
pict_struct: 0

C:\\xfer>h264_parse bits0001.mpv | grep gaps_in_frame
gaps_in_frame_num_value_allowed_flag: 0
gaps_in_frame_num_value_allowed_flag: 0
gaps_in_frame_num_value_allowed_flag: 0
gaps_in_frame_num_value_allowed_flag: 0

Since it's a huge file, save the output into a file.

C:\\xfer>h264_parse bits0001.mpv | grep time_scale > check_time_scale.txt

Ron

I found a good hex editor but I am still having problems with the audio delay.

beside the video portion in EVODemux it says +83ms

so I put an audio delay of 1:23 in scenarist but it still is off

also now there is pixelation in the video every little bit which something tells me hexediting the video screwed it up some how.

Some other news about BD subtitles: to create a BDN file format and to convert a subtitle file (like srt o sub format) I found EZConvert (http://www.eztitles.com/index.php?page=19).

This program it's able to convert a srt file and to create PNG 8 bit images and relative BDN file: it's perfect to work with Scenarist HDMV.

Only drawback: it's not free (I used a trial version).

Bye

83 ms is 2 frames at 24 fps.

Does anyone know of a method for burning a Blu-ray disk with multichannel uncompressed PCM audio? I have Sony Vegas Pro 8 and apparently it only supports stereo PCM, a big disappointment since it otherwise will burn a BDMV right off the timeline. Thanks.

After wasting more than one moth in tests on this, I discovered the ONLY way is to USE Sonic Scenarist BDA 4.3. The 4.2 edition won't allow you to add a multichannel PCM track, the wav 5.1 multichanel doesn't match the LPCM channel mapping required by scenarist, and even if you remap the wav to lpcm with eac3to having the correct channel mapping, scenarist 4.2 will give you a read error. The 4.3 version (for the cheap price of $60000) allows to load up to 8 separate mono wav files and so the problem is solved. I suggest you to forget Nero and DVDit pro because they re-encode the video streamand also Adobe Encore (really the worst one). Ulead HD power pack for movie factory is good (it does not re-encode streams) but cannot accept elementary streams, so you cannot give it a .m2v or .h264 or .vc-1 video file plus varoius separate audio tracks to make a multi audio track disc. So the best way (and the only one if you are a serius user) is Scenarist, or if you are so lucky Bluprint

It is my understanding that there are ways around the file size limit (which isn't an issue for me anyway). I checked DVDit Pro HD and it too appears limited to stereo PCM. 60 grand for Scenarist? Nope, that is more than my entire project budget! Blu-print meshes nicely with Vegas. Wonder how much that little "add-on" would cost

jdatpslp: I talked to Sony sales and Blu-print is $60,000. To evaluate it you need to use a hardware dongle that you ship back to them after the trial period is over or else they charge you the full price.

I contacted SONY too and requested the trial version of Blu Print with a 30 day Dongle.After the trail period you'll have to re-ship the software and dongle, but this is OK for me.Anyway they state you must have a D&B number http://www.dnb.com/us/ but I'm a private user, not a part of any company. So I cannot be eligile for trying such a software.

I believe that there is (or at least was) a number of bugs with Sox and multichannel WAVe files. For that reason, trying to do multichannel WAV with programs that use Sox for conversion is doomed to much sadness and failure. If you have a hex editor handy and can work out the problems by looking at the WAV specification, I believe it is possible to patch the Sox output so that it will work.

I just tried making a blu-ray BD-RE movie disc using Nero 8. When I tried to play the disc in my PS3, I get the following error:

This Video Cannot be played
(80029945)

What am I doing wrong? Is there a simple and cheap software that just works? Or, do I have to be an assembly language programmer to do this? Unbelievable...

Did you author and burn with Nero, or did you just burn with Nero?
If you only burned with Nero, what did you use to author movie disk?
What UDF version did you use when you burned with Nero?
What firmware do you have on your PS3?
Need more info.

I author BDMV with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6+ with HD pack, and then burn with Nero 7 to BD-RE. No problem with PS3.

I just open Nero Vision 8, make blu-ray disc (editable blu-ray disc) drag n drop the video into it... and select Burn. I bought PS3 about 1 year ago. I havent upgraded the PS3 firmware. I did get a warning message about the UDF not being compatible with XP.

So... what kid of somersaults do I need to do to make this work?

Basically I did what I was supposed to do... going by "it just works" school of thought.

I forgot to ask in my previous post, what kind of video are you trying to burn?
Is it .TS, .M2TS, .M2T, or something else? Does Nero re-encode the video?
What does PS3 says when disk is loading, BDMV or BDAV?


You better upgrade firmware because it may fix your playback problems.

Mpeg2 1080i. Nothing special. Nero re-encodes it just fine and burns without errors. I dont think it gets too far with the disk loading in the PS3... I just noticed the error message. This disc plays with stuttering on the PC using PowerDVD. I dont have trouble playing Blu-ray commercial discs with on the PC or the PS3.

Here is some clues for you.
I suspect that Nero re-encodes MPEG-2 into AVC and makes AVCHD disk which is not supported by early firmware on PS3. You need to upgrade your firmware.

Ill look into this and report back. I know that all the Blu-ray commercial discs Ive played on the PS3 have never given that error message before. The chances of ALL the discs not being AVC are pretty slim.

hey benes I got the video into scenarist, and that all worked great, but now there is some pixellation. I think it because of the hex edit,which is weird since I only changed the headers. don't know why that would affect the video in any way. and the audio for me is still off.

going to keep trying.

There's many reasons why the hex edit could affect the playback. You may want to verify the edited bitstream with the H.264 reference decoder.

http://www.w6rz.net/ldecod_patch.zip

Use the command line:

ldecod -i edited.mpv -o nul

This will decode the bitstream, but not output any YUV (because the YUV file would be gigantic for a full-length movie). If there are any bitstream syntax problems, ldecod will print an error and terminate. Be warned that ldecod is very slow, so it's an overnight run kind of thing (assuming no errors).

Ron

Is there any software out there that will allow you to create great Bluray menus (?possibly even 'pop-up' menus??)? I bought several over the summer but was looking at Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6+ & HD Pack but the support for good menus seems limited to only HD-DVD by that product's description.

Recommendations?

Where is this guide?

Here, page 26:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...5#post12369935

ok I was able to get the video with no glitches, I changed all the 81 E0 01 which is what caused the glitch, I only changed it on the first appearence.