Problem converting blu-rays

[RumeredoTR]

Hi

ive a problem when i burn a converted 720p blu ray (with Imageburn) only half the movie seems to be on the disc now its not a converting problem because the whole movie is on my system and works fine this only seems to happen on some of the films tho as some work fine on my PS3. Has anyone heard of this problem and how i can solve this?

Thanks!

[Baldrick]

Please explain in details what you are doing. How you convert, what app, are you burning dvd-r? dual dvd-r? blu-ray? etc.

[RumeredoTR]

Hi

ok the converter program is called MKV to vob and its being burned to a dual layer with Imageburn and it is a 720p movie around 8gig i play them on my PS3. It only seems to burn half the movie but it says once finished it burned the whole 8gig yet when i play the movie only the half the movie is there.

Thanks.

[RumeredoTR]

any help

[Baldrick]

A mkv is not any blu-ray. Moving you to our video conversion forum.

Try instead use multiavchd and convert the mkv to an avchd and try on your ps3.

[guns1inger]

Imgburn can't burn half a file. It doesn't split content if more than one disc is required, just tells you that it is too big. You have to split it yourself.

Are you burning to a dual layer disc ?

If so, what brand ?

[RumeredoTR]

thanks all, ill try that proggy out Baldrick.

[RumeredoTR]

ok it works for my .mkv but wont recognize .avi is there something i need to set?

[guns1inger]

What sort of AVI ? Mediainfo Tree View if you don't know. The PS3 can play many sorts of AVI files straight from disc, so you can just burn a selection to a DVD as data and play them back.

In Multi-AVCHD, click on Add Files. When the dialogue opens, click on the drop down list next to the Filename field and select AVI form the list. You can now add your AVI files. In most cases these will have to be re-encoded to something Bluray compliant to be authored.

[RumeredoTR]

Ok i appreciate the replys. Now im having probs with any movie that has subtitles there is a black bar at the bottom if you disable subs the black bar is still visable is there a way of removing this? this is only a problem with widescreen movies.

Edit :

Ok any film that is widescreen has a black bar at the bottom so the image is at the top rather than the centre, also tryed tsmuxer and i ticked auto chapters every 5min but there is none when playing the movie

any help appreciated

[RumeredoTR]

any help folks pulling my hair out here

[guns1inger]

First thing to understand is that any movie with an aspect ratio wider than 1.778 : 1 (which is most movies made in the last 50 years) will have black bars top and bottom. This has nothing to do with subtitles, this is simple because the image is wider than your TV screen. This is just the same with DVDs. if you don't want the bars you have two choices. The first is to zoom your TV or player in to fill the screen, the second is to crop the sides off the image and blow it up before encoding.

From what I am reading, you aren't even making sure your files are actually compliant, just muxing them with TSmuxer and hoping they play. Bad move, especially when you have (apparently) very little understanding of what you are doing.

I suggest you use Multi-AVCHD or AVCHDCoder. These will ensure you produce a compliant AVCHD format, and that your video is encoded to a compliant resolution, with any black bars evenly distributed top and bottom. They will author your chapter points in the right place, and if you want, create chapter menus etc. Multi-AVCHD can also output formats that can be put on USB devices instead of being burned to disc.

I have done many files using these methods, and every one of them has been successful