BDtoAVCHD made BD25 conversion too large for BD25 media

[AUTOBOT]

Hello I am new here please bare with me...I have a .MKV video that is 13.2 GB but when I use BDtoAVCHD v.1.9.2 to convert to BD23 the file size ends up being 23.8 GB (25,588,735,768 bytes) which won't fit on a BD25 since it only has 22.5 GB usable space so it wont all fit on the disc, (using ImgBurn). The movie does play in my Blu-ray Player and makes it almost to end, so most of the movie is there, less the credits.
I can live with out the credits but does anyone know how to reduce the settings? (I tried the custom media settings to no avail).
Or is it just a glitch in the program?

[yoda313]

I can't say I've ever used the program but I'm wondering if you are using passthrough audio perhaps?

IF you keep the original audio that will eat up a lot of space. See whatever choices it has for reducing it (ie reencoding - don't worry audio encoding is loads faster than video reencoding, when done separately that is, but still won't add a huge amount of time to the conversion). Fyi ac3 at 640kpbs still sounds great even if its not lossless anymore.

[dannyboy48888]

try BDrebuilder

[AUTOBOT]

I can't say I've ever used the program but I'm wondering if you are using passthrough audio perhaps?

IF you keep the original audio that will eat up a lot of space. See whatever choices it has for reducing it (ie reencoding - don't worry audio encoding is loads faster than video reencoding, when done separately that is, but still won't add a huge amount of time to the conversion). Fyi ac3 at 640kpbs still sounds great even if its not lossless anymore.

I thought of that but have not tried it yet wanted to keep the DTS-HD 7.1 tracks I may give this a try too.
Thank you.

[AUTOBOT]

try BDrebuilder

OK got everything downloaded required to run this program will give it a try and report back in several hours.
thank you.

[yoda313]

I thought of that but have not tried it yet wanted to keep the DTS-HD 7.1 tracks I may give this a try too.
Thank you.

Than you'll have to lower the video bitrate to make it fit. You have to sacrifice something, either video quality or audio quality.

Or can you use dual layer brs? Than you can just do a straight copy as if it were a dual layer dvd to dual layer dvdr. Same concept anyway. Just rip and burn no transcoding.

[AUTOBOT]

I thought of that but have not tried it yet wanted to keep the DTS-HD 7.1 tracks I may give this a try too.
Thank you.

Than you'll have to lower the video bitrate to make it fit. You have to sacrifice something, either video quality or audio quality.

Or can you use dual layer brs? Than you can just do a straight copy as if it were a dual layer dvd to dual layer dvdr. Same concept anyway. Just rip and burn no transcoding.

Yep will probably have to sacrifice the audio track will see how bd rebuilder works it also has a custom target size setting as does BDtoAVCHD will know in a few hours if the BDrebuilder can make it fit.


I could use the dual layer BD50 but they are more expensive than the BD25-RE and If I mess it up it becomes a really expensive coaster and if I go for the BD50-RE whoa $$.


So a lot more trial and error still ahead thank you for your help.

[yoda313]

So a lot more trial and error still ahead thank you for your help.

Good luck.

I know its a bit different but have you considered just going the file route and using harddrives instead of br discs?

You can use ripbot264 and you can keep your original audio and just make it any size you want. Copy to a harddrive and playback. No fuss no muss.

And you can tailor it to your particular hardware player if it has certain quirks to it - ie number of reference frames, etc.

Something to think about. And a few tb harddrives would store a lot more than single layer br discs....

[wulf109]

Just a note,since your source is an mkv you'll need to use file-import in BDrebuilder. Since your burning on a BD25 try HighSpeed BD25 mode it's much faster than the 2-pass mode.

[AUTOBOT]

try BDrebuilder

Success great PQ and even kept the DTS 7.1 audio tracks and it fit on the BD25!
Thank you for recommending BDrebuilder this works beautifully.

[AUTOBOT]

Just a note,since your source is an mkv you'll need to use file-import in BDrebuilder. Since your burning on a BD25 try HighSpeed BD25 mode it's much faster than the 2-pass mode.

Will give it a try on the next rebuild, right now I am using the high quality setting and yeah it is slooow.
Thank you

[AUTOBOT]

So a lot more trial and error still ahead thank you for your help.

Good luck.

I know its a bit different but have you considered just going the file route and using harddrives instead of br discs?

You can use ripbot264 and you can keep your original audio and just make it any size you want. Copy to a harddrive and playback. No fuss no muss.

And you can tailor it to your particular hardware player if it has certain quirks to it - ie number of reference frames, etc.

Something to think about. And a few tb harddrives would store a lot more than single layer br discs....

I may look into this one too, I can already stream through my network to the media player in the living room but the hard drive started getting full so I decided to free up space and burn to disc.

Thank you