WMV (WVC1) to .TS

[teknix1]

Hi, I've got a question for you all.

I'm currently reading about the new HD formats and all the supported codecs and one thing that I realized is that Microsoft has an implementation of VC1 (or WVC1) and Blu-ray drives are compliant with VC1. My question is this; is it possible to convert (without recoding) a wmv to something compatible with Blu-ray drives? For example; take a wmv, extract the elementary stream to .vc1 and remux it into a .TS (or .PS, .M2TS) and then author a Blu-ray disc?

Thanks
Nic

[Midzuki]

Use ASF2VC1 for extracting the WVC1 stream from the ASF container,
then use Tsmuxer for wrapping it in a BluRay-compliant file structure.


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[teknix1]

Thanks for the reply.

So I guess by this comment this means the two VC1 implementations are the same.

I gave this method a go, seems to work fine, amazing.

One thing I can't seem to get to work though is loading the ts (If I create that using tsmuxer instead of a Blu-ray disc) in VideoReDo Plus. All I keep getting is "Cannot find PAT packet in program stream".

I understand that a VC1 elementary stream lacks metadata that would be useful when rebuilding a ts file. Is there a tool that could help me with rebuilding the missing info in the PAT header? I tried ProjectX but no luck. It can't seem to find the video stream (Or maybe I'm doing something wrong).

Thanks again!
Nic

[Midzuki]

I gave this method a go, seems to work fine, amazing.

Glad to hear that.

One thing I can't seem to get to work though is loading the ts (If I create that using tsmuxer instead of a Blu-ray disc) in VideoReDo Plus. All I keep getting is "Cannot find PAT packet in program stream".

I presume VideoReDo supports only MPEG-video in transport streams





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[teknix1]

Again you are right Midzuki, thanks for all the help.

I just did a quick search on VideoReDo and that's exactly the problem. I've got a lot to learn. Is this the same deal with ProjectX?

Nic

[PuzZLeR]

Alas, some of the finest applications, such as VideoReDo, only support MPEG. We await the day when such will be readily available for future formats such as HD, or WMV/VC-1 or H.264, etc. Of course, this was the case with only MPEG-2 only a few years ago...

[teknix1]

Well in this case, let's hope 2009 will be the year!