Help with converting MKV to a playable Blu-ray disk with Subtitles

[kaitlyn2501]

EDIT: SOLVED Post #3 For people with (RT) Invalid array index. Array is empty - Line 35926 Error read my EDIT in post #4

Ok I've been at this for days, I've been lurking on this site forever trying to find my answer. And when I think I found the answer it doesn't work.

I have .mkv episodes of anime that have .ass subtitles within the .mkv. I'm trying to convert the .mkv with the subtitles to a Blu-ray movie disc(BD-MV) that will be playable in most blu-ray players. It must be a proper BD-MV folder structure that the player will recognize as a regular blu-ray movie. Cause the player in question is old and I'm pretty sure it doesn't play data disks or usb sticks. I can't get the model number at the moment for reason's I don't want to get into.

Everything I tried does not play the subtitles. Even when I convert .ass to .srt.
I don't mind if they are soft coded subtitles or hard coded subtitles as long as the blu-ray player will recognize the soft coded subs.
With hard coded subs I don't want to add another encoding step from like: mkv > mkv+hardcode subs > .mt2s/BD-MV
I want to directly encode from: mkv > .mt2s/BD-MV+hardcode subs


If anyone can help with what would be the best way to go about this, I've tried these programs so far:
SubtitleCreator
ImTOO Blu-ray Creator 2
Avidemux
tsMuxerGUI
multiAVHD
Hybrid
dsrt
ripbot
handbreak

Imtoo blu-ray creator wouldn't recognize .ass files so I converted it to .srt. I added the subtitles in then encoded it to a BD-MV iso so I could test it on my computer without wasting a BD-R. So I mounted the iso with daemon tools and played the BD-MV iso with arcsoft total media theater 6 and ps3. The audio went out of sync half way through and no subtitles showed up in the submenu-subtitles.
I've tried various methods with other programs sometimes the player would show subtitles 1 - english activated under the submenu but nothing would show.

I am subscribed to this thread by email so I will maintain discussion, thank you.

Here is the media info for an episode:

Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 551 MiB
Duration : 24mn 13s
Overall bit rate : 3 180 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-09-01 02:11:14
Writing application : mkvmerge v6.3.0 ('You can't stop me!') built on Jun 28 2013 20:09:41
Writing library : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 24mn 13s
Nominal bit rate : 3 072 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.500 fps
Original frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.063
Writing library : x264 core 120 r2120 0c7dab9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:1:1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=0.40:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=8 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3072 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=6144 / vbv_bufsize=15360 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.60
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 24mn 13s
Channel count : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -83ms
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text
ID : 3
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Compression mode : Lossless
Default : Yes
Forced : No

[kaitlyn2501]

shameless bump, i still haven't been able to figure this out.

[videobruger]

Perhaps give multiAVCHD another shot. It'll give you a menu to select between your titles (episodes) as well as selecting subtitle. You can also choose to have the subtitles forced to be shown. I made this youtube video to show how.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb1DlXiXr3U

PS: I think you need to have Java installed in order to convert your .srt to PGS

[kaitlyn2501]

Thank you for taking the time to help.

I followed your video perfectly, when I click start and after it finishes I get an error: (RT) Invalid array index. Array is empty - Line 35926
Then I click "OK" and the program crashes.
I then check to see if it outputted the Blu-ray.
It made the file structure but it didn't make the .m2ts video file.

Everytime I try to use multiAVCHD with these mkv files I get that error.
So I tried it with .srt instead of .ass and got the same error.
I tried to convert my .mkv with Haali gdsmux.exe then compiled with multiAVCHD and still got the same error.


I searched google for that error and I couldn't find any solutions.
Does anyone know what's wrong your should I post in a bug/technical help forum?

EDIT: I followed these steps in post #5: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/336204-multiAVCHD-error?highlight=header
and they fixed my error!
I can play subtitles fine now and the blu-ray structure works with my players. The only thing that sucks is I have to mkvmerge all my episode which is a bit tedious to do one by one, but at least it works haha

thank you

[videobruger]

multiAVCHD is no longer developed so posting probably won't help.

Try using your assets from a very simple file structure like "c:\MyVideos" and output to something simelar like "c:\Output". I think I recall something similar using ..\Documents\... or perhaps ..\Desktop\.. Anyway one of those directories Windows try to rename to something completely different in my language. I recall it didn't make the m2ts file or it was empty.