Blu RayTS files problem with decoding VC-1 (1 Viewer)

[misterfrog]

Hi, I've been ripping my Blu ray disks to TS files. I've managed to get the audio to play but am having problems with the video when it is VC-1 encoded. I have no problem with playback when the bluray video was h264 encoded. I'm using the PowerDVD codecs but also have problems with the ffdshow video codec. I've also, as per other posts, tried to rename the files to .mkv instead of .ts with no success.

Does anyone out there have some tips to get this working?

What I am doing is ripping my blu ray to hard disk with anydvd then demuxing to .ts files with TSmuxer. I'm not reencoding anything and I have the same problem regardless of what audio and video tracks I keep. I also have no problems playing back the Blu Ray disks (with vc-1 video) when I play them through powerdvd. I've also tried playing the .m2ts files through media portal and haven't been able to play those either.

 

[Dr Tone]

To be honest I've had real problems with m2ts and ts containers on windows. The best approach was to use an external player to play them like Total Media Theater but then you didn't have subtitle support.

The best approach IMO, is to get them to play in Windows Media player first. If you have success there then you are golden with mediaportal's internal player.

Now I'm using mkv containers 100% and have flawless playback including upconverting of SDs with ffdshow.

I suggest reasearching the following:

mkvtoolkit
eac3to
madflac
haali splitter
coreavc pro ($15 commercial software)
ffdshow

There's a steap learning curve but once you understand how to start repackaging your Blu-Rays, HD-DVDs and SD-DVDs in mkv containers, with AC3 or DTS audio when applicable and/or Flac for lossless, you'll be further ahead.
I went down the m2ts route for a bit and gave up after a while.

I know I didn't give you a direct answer to your problems but I hope it helps you in the long run anyway.

 

[misterfrog]

Thanks Dr. Tone.

I've tried the external players (tmt trial and powerdvd) but haven't liked the poor integration with the media portal interface. I made the decision that I would sacrifice subtitles (I prefer to have them) and have the movies fully integrated into mediaportal (I really like the navigation within mediaportal). I have looked into converting to mkv but the process seems to involve more work than I want to do. I'll look into playing VC-1 encoded TS files a little longer and if I find a solution I'll post it). Otherwise I will probably end up converting to mkv.

Thanks again.

tom

 

[hoborg]

Thanks Dr. Tone.

I've tried the external players (tmt trial and powerdvd) but haven't liked the poor integration with the media portal interface. I made the decision that I would sacrifice subtitles (I prefer to have them) and have the movies fully integrated into mediaportal (I really like the navigation within mediaportal). I have looked into converting to mkv but the process seems to involve more work than I want to do. I'll look into playing VC-1 encoded TS files a little longer and if I find a solution I'll post it). Otherwise I will probably end up converting to mkv.

Thanks again.

tom

If you have installed Haali media splitter, you can make it working by litle dirty trick, just reneme your TS files to MKV/MP4.
Should be working now.
If you want subtitles, you can try my SAF solution.
More info here: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...t-work-internal-tsreader-ax-45208/#post305001

 

[globaldonkey]

I had the same problem with .m2ts files from my HD camcorder, and used the trick to rename them to mkv's (thanks Hoborg). For some reason, MP always tries to run these files through the MPV codec.

Does anybody know how to put a .m2ts transport streams into a mkv container properly? I tried mkvmerge, but got rubbish (green screen with blocks) in the output.

 

[Dr Tone]

I had the same problem with .m2ts files from my HD camcorder, and used the trick to rename them to mkv's (thanks Hoborg). For some reason, MP always tries to run these files through the MPV codec.

Does anybody know how to put a .m2ts transport streams into a mkv container properly? I tried mkvmerge, but got rubbish (green screen with blocks) in the output.

Pull the streams out of the m2ts container with eac3to. Package them up again with mkvmerge. You can find mkvmerge in the mkvtoolkit.

 

[globaldonkey]

For anyone who uses m2ts files a bit (those with Sony HD camcorders might), here is a simple batch file that uses eac3to and mkvmerge to convert the m2ts files to mkv properly. It takes all the .m2ts files in the current directory, splits the streams, merges them back into an mkv, and then joins all those mkv's into one output .mkv file.

Just rename the txt file to .bat or .cmd to run it.

 

[deebo]

With .m2ts remuxing you are better off using a program called eac3to (forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966) and using the command

eac3to myBluRayMovie\ myMovie.mkv

this will remux the movie as is to a matroska container.