tsMuxeR issue--please help

[mjperk]

I've been trying to use tsMuxeR to combine my .mkv movie files with .srt subs to play on the home theater system via BD. I start out by dropping the .mkv's and .srts into the interface, changing the level to 4.1 (if not there already), specifying the output path, and selecting the "Blu-ray disk" radio button. I then click start muxing. From there, I use ImgBurn to burn the resulting BDMC and CERTIFICATE folders onto a 25GB Blu-ray disk.

I've been having <50% success rate using this method. 90% of the time I have issues here's what happens. I get a "successful" burn, pop the Blu-Ray into the player, and all that I get is sound. No videos, no subs, nothing except sound. Most of the time it's just black. Occasionally, the Blu-Ray player interface background will stay up while the sound plays.

When I pop the disk back into my computer it reads it just fine. I can even play it from there, however if I look into the folder structure the file type it is M2TS. I suspect that this is the reason I'm not getting video but am not knowledgeable enough to be certain. I am, however, 100% sure that I'm selecting the "Blu-Ray" options vs. the "M2TS" radio in tsMuxeR.

Does anybody know what's going on or how I can fix it? When I select a Blu-Ray burn should it be producing M2TS files in the folder structure at all? I'd appreciate any info or tips.

[fritzi93]

Your MKVs (if you didn't make them yourself) may have been cropped. To make a Blu-Ray from MKV, the resolution must be Blu-Ray compliant. (See what is Blu-Ray, upper left).

Use MediaInfo to find the file attributes. When you find one that's not compliant, you have no choice but to add the black bars back by re-encoding. With uncropMKV, for example. Or use AVCHDCoder, which if memory serves, can take non-compliant MKVs and output BD/AVCHD structure.

Anyway, that's what comes to mind first, and would certainly cause your problem. And it's easy to check, so rule that in or out first.

Good luck.

[mjperk]

Thanks for that info! I'll give it a shot tomorrow first thing. Just to make sure I understand the process correctly, where in the process would I add the black bars? Is that before or after muxing? I'm assuming that's done before, to the original .mkv without the subs muxed in?