DVDslideshowGUI - How do I make AVCHD disc?

[PeterDuke]

When I try to make an AVCHD disc with DVDslideshowGUI 0.9.3.6, the disc is unplayable in my Panasonic BD recorder (model DMR-BD500). I get a message "incompatible disc" when I try to play it. I am able to play discs made with most other software I have tried (eg PowerDirector, DVDMovieFactory, NeroVision, etc.)

Are there some settings I need to tweak? I know the bit rate should be less than 18000 kb/s for DVD medium.

Edit

I used MediInfo on the disc and it shows MPEG2 format, not AVC, and 23.976 fps not 25. I used 1080p 1920x1080x25 (16:9) project setting.

[zoobie]

the player usually has to have AVCHD on the front to support it

[PeterDuke]

My player does say AVCHD. As I said, I am able to play AVCHD discs made with other software. The problem is that the disc made with DVDslideshowGUI is not compatible. After first posting, I found out that DVDslideshowGUI is making MPEG2 files, not MPEG4 AVC as required by the spec. My question then is how do I make MPEG4 AVC files with DVDslideshowGUI? Is it currently possible? Also I noticed that although I selected a preset with 25 fps, it made a video at 23.976. This looks like a bug, but probably is not causing the failure. The MPEG2 coding certainly is.

Should I be posting this question in the DVDslideshowGUI thread, do you think? (Currently over 1000 posts!)

[Baldrick]

I think dvdslideshowgui only makes BLU-RAY video(mpeg2 is supported then) and not any avchd that is only avc/h264 video.

[PeterDuke]

You are right!

MediaInfo tells me that it is MPEG2. It has to be MPEG4 AVC (H.264). I could have sworn that I checked that..... (I have been testing so many slideshow programs lately. Sigh...)

Thanks anyway.

[tin2tin]

DSG can export as .avs script which a lot of converters can import. This way you can make whatever file you want. I haven't the possibillity to test Blu-Ray myself, so you'll have to search a converter yourself.

[PeterDuke]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Any chance that MPEG4 AVC (H.264) and AVCHD support will be included in DSG in the near future?

[tin2tin]

Nope, because it is very easy to export to avs and convert it to pretty much anything with one of the many ffmpeg GUIs.