HD PVR to BluRay w/No Encoding help please

[TBoneit]

I've been playing around this past weekend trying to get my HD PVR caps that have been building up onto a Bluray with simple menu and no encoding needed. TMPGEnc Authoring works well rencode to MPEG2 so that's out. I did try the trial version but the quality hit ....... For some reason multiAVCHD was not working either. Either it or TSMuxer created a ISO that wouldn't play in the player when burned. AVCHDCoder wanted to encode. Any suggestions on something free to put two or three HD PBVR captures onto a BluRay disk with simple menu? BTW The OEM Pioneer 206 does burn nice and fast, Allows up to 10X on the Verbatim 4X BD-r blanks. Thanks Roger

[fritzi93]

I guess you mean the Hauppauge HD-PVR? Strange, I can author my caps to AVCHD with tsMuxer and they play, no problem on my Sony BDP-S360s. Have you tried the software that came with the HD-PVR?

[TBoneit]

Yup that is the device.

I believe I did not try the Arcsoft as I read soemwhere the bundled version would only do conversions to DVD. I have to check that.

I want to go to BluRay not AVCHD however. I did get multiAVCHD working by re-installing Avisynth.

I had to run the caps through VideReDo TV Suite 4 to trim and edit them. then they would add and work. Right now the Menu is unreadable. I believe that to be user error.

So they go in and do not get encoded, they play in my LG with chapters once I figured out how to chapter. Gotta work on the menu next. That print is so darn small. So I'm getting there. I'm using cheap BluRay media such as Memorex or Optical Quantum for testing and saving the Verbatim media for when I have it all figured out to perfection. Burn time isn't too bad at 10X

My normal HD PVR caps I can get 3 titles on a BluRay disc authored as BluRay or as a data disk so I'd prefer as a Video disk rather than data disk for titles and chapters.

[fritzi93]

Well, the suggestion to try the TME software was meant to test whether your caps aren't defective in some way, for lack of some other, more useful idea. It's not very good actually, and I don't use it normally, but have done so just enough to verify it does work.

I'm at a loss. Since you're doing Blu-ray, the normal pitfalls of AVCHD (in the sense of burning to DVD) don't apply. By rights, authoring your captures with tsMuxer should work on your player.

Could it be possible your LG is "finicky" and the discs you made will play on another player?

Anyway, good luck.

[festmaster]

I use multiAVCHD to author disk files with my HD PVR captures, but I use imgburn to create the .iso files from the AVCHD folder that multiAVCHD creates. It all works fairly quick so I know that no re-encoding is occurring.

[TBoneit]

I kind of have things sorted out with multiAVCHD and burning with Imgburn. Last night I worked with it some more and got a usable menu.

There was some problems with the HD PVR caps that running them through VideoReDo TVS4 cured either editing them or the quickstreamfix utility. I thought the new drivers were supposed to have fixed that, my bad.

I put three 1.5 hour movies into multiAVCHD, managed to get a decent readable menu. I thought It could do motion menus?

Navigation in that menu is slow in the LG BD650

It can play video off of the WD Live Hub and NAS drives over the network. However the Hub is a better media player due to speed with it.

File Playback FormatsMPEG1 SS, MPEG2 PS, MPEG2 TS, DivX/DivX HD, XVID, MKV, MP3, WMA, AC3, AAC

Now if I could just find a easy to use program that won't encode the files and let me create custom menus easily.....

Thanks for the help

[Arnold_Layne]

I think there's some kind of Bug with the menus in multiAVCHD. I have had problems with software and hardware players reading the menus created by that software. I have pretty much given up on creating menus and just make separate titles I can jump to with the remote.

A_L

[TBoneit]

So in your case you aren't doing menus?