SOLVED: Make Importer to recognize BDM as BDMV (8.3 filename problem) (1 Viewer)

[JACOB B]

I can neither make Mov pic play my AVCHD movies using external player nor using MP internal player.

CAN YOU (DEV) MAKE MOVING PICTURES RECOGNIZE AVCHD FOLDER STRUCTURE (BDM extension on index and movieobjext) AS MOVIE IN IMPORTER, AS WELL AS SEND TO EXTERNAL PLAYER WHEN SELECTED IN GUI??

I have ripped my BLU-RAYs to AVCHD folder and file structure, with the main feature split in 4 Gb .mts chunks in order to have FAT32 compatability (OPPO-83 playback from USB harddrive - will not play .mts/.m2ts files unless in AVCHS folder structure!!)).
I want the same back-ups to be playable in MP as well as on my Oppo-83 (used for DTS-MA and Dolby Tru-HD playback analogue out, since I don't have HDMI capable receiver).

I have Moving Pic set up with TMT3 as external player, but Mov Pic doesn't send the AVCHD ripped movie to TMT3
It doesn't rexcognize it is Blu ray...
It imports movie as .mts files, but those files are not send to TMT3 for playback... Instead, I get the error message attached.
It will send a Blu-Ray DISC to the external player just fine.

The playlist extension is .mpl (blu-ray is normally .mpls). Index and movie object is BDM (blu-ray is BDMV)

See attached screenshot for folder/file structure

Any help appriciated
Jacob

EDIT:
I tried renaming the index and movieobject files to BDMV. That made the AVCHD movie structure be recognized in mov pic (the AVCHD folder would show up in importer, instead of the mts files), but it would not play It froze at the point where it should launch TMT3.
If trying to playback the renamed folders/files indirectly in TMT3, it said "cannot pay this disc".
HOWEVER, if I added a copy of the index file, renamed to BDMV, the it would play it in TMT3 AND import in mov pic -but still not play it in mov pic

UPDATE: I found out the reason - CLOWN_BD renames the file extensions to the 8.3 filename format. So basically, I need Mov Pic importer to recognize a Blu-ray folder structure with 8.3 filenames...(as described above)

 

[JACOB B]

SOLVED IT!
Obviously, the importer was doing a fine job - it was my ripper that was causing the problems...

I was using CLOWN_BD (great little program) to back up my Blu-rays so they could be used with the great moving pictures & MP front end as well as on my OPPO-83 stand alone player (I use two 1.5 Tb USB HDD - using a backup program to keep them synchronized everytime I rip a new movie. Not as smart as streaming from my music & DVD server, but the OPPO cannot playback streamed .m2ts )

It turns out that by selecting "BATCH" on step 3 (last step) in CLOWN_BD, a BATCH file is created which can then be modified before running the rip. I simply deleted the lines renaming all files til comply with the 8.3 filename standard. Takes 30 seconds longer than before...Long file names is supported by my OPPO-83 (or is it my external HDD that takes care of it - I don't know).

The reason the manual renaming of .mpl and bdm extensions didn't work was that CLOWN_BD had also renamed movieobject.bdmv to MOVIEOBJ.BDM. I didn't catch the missing ect in object - therefore TMT3 would not playback the (not) fixed files.

So now, my rips are in a AVCHD topfolder, but with blu-ray file and folder structure underneath. The main movie is split in multiple 4 Gb .m2ts files (FAT32...), all reflected in the playlist (.mpls) for seamless playback in TMT3 plugin.

I was able to modify the CLOWN-BD batch file to re-rename my ripped movies, so all is well now