PS3 playback not letterboxed!!!

[GIBURROWS]

I have backed up a Blu Ray and it all went fine using tsmuxer and imgburn, but when playing it back on my ps3 rather than have the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen (letterbox style) it just has one large one at the bottom and the picture is pushed to the top of the screen?

Any help on rectifying this please guys? Thanks in advance.

[guns1inger]

I have only seen this when non-compliant video resolution has been used. Check that the source resolution is either 1280 x 720 or 1920 x 1080. if you cropped the bars off the original source somehow when you backed it up, you have to put them back before running the file through TSMuxer. If you use Multi-AVCHD it will take care of this for you.

[thegeeman]

This is defintely down to non compliant frame size; either 1280 x 720 or 1920 x 1080 should be used. Easily fixed by running through Multiavchd.

[GIBURROWS]

The source being before or after I put it through tsmuxer?

My ps3 and tv and pc are all on HDMI so I don't think I can alter the source of them.

[GIBURROWS]

Thanks by the way guys.

Do I use that instead of imgburn or tsmuxer, I'm at work at the minute so can't give it the proper attention it deserves.

[thegeeman]

Mediainfo will tell you the source resolution. If not 1280 x 720 or 1920x1080 then you will undoubtedly keep having the same problem as you do at the moment. Use Multiavchd instead of Tsmuxer; it will ensure the output file is 'compliant' (i.e. no large black bar at the bottom) and also produce a blu-ray file structure which can then be burned with imgburn.

[GIBURROWS]

I will try that later on, but for now you guys are bloody legend's!

Thanks for the quick responses.

[GIBURROWS]

I used the program you suggested and I got nothing just a blank screen, it says it is what I have backed up (title is there) but nothing plays back, just a black screen?!?!?!?!

[thegeeman]

Try and post the mediainfo tree for file description. What media player are you using to playback the file on your pc? I tend to use Vlc. Also did you follow the guide for multiavchd? http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/tutorial.php

[GIBURROWS]

I'm trying to play it back on my PS3, I read the "how to" but it seems to concentrate more on putting your own menu's on it, I tried putting it through avchd and then the resulting files through imgburn but got a disk with no movie (it has the title and looks like blu ray but no film plays, just a black screen) I have also tried putting the mkv files through avchd and got the same result.

Sorry if I'm being thick but using tsmuxer got the movie on there just squeezed to the top, avchd hasn't got me nothing?

[guns1inger]

Open AVCHD and click Add File. Select your mkv file.
Click on the file name in the list (should be the only one) and the Properties page will open.
Click Transcode, and select 2-pass fast as the method. Set the bitrate to an appropriate number (use AVCHDCalculator to work it out)
Click OK and OK to get back to the main screen.
Click Start (no menus, just keep it simple for now) and let it do it's thing.

When it finishes, you can check that the video is OK by open the folder AVCHD created, then drilling down through the BDMV folder to the Streams folder and playing back the largest M2TS file you find there.

Burn the results to a DVD using Imburn by selecting the Open Folder button, then selecting the BDMV folder. Imgburn will work out the rest for you.

[GIBURROWS]

I got this when trying to do 'the ugly truth'




[19:29:23] *** Original : 1920x1080
[19:29:23] *** Crop : 0
[19:29:23] *** Resize : 1920x1080 (No change)
[19:29:23] *** Uncrop to : 1920x1080
[19:29:23] *** Sharpen : 0
[19:29:23] *** Bitrate : 10889 kbps
[19:29:23] *** Frame rate: Original (23.976)
[19:29:23] *** Level : 4
[19:29:23] *** Quality : Two pass (fast)
[19:29:23] *** SAR : 1:1
[19:29:23] *** DAR : 1920x1080
[19:29:23] *** Profile : Blu-ray
[19:29:23] *** Stand-by for indexing (ffms2)...
[19:29:23] *** Encoding : Pass one - content: [01:35:57]
[19:29:23] *** Encoding : x264 options: --bitrate 10889 --pass 1 --stats "c:\multiAVCHD\_TEMP\multiTEMP-20100528\x264-stats.txt" --keyint 48 --level 4 --min-keyint 8 --ref 3 --bframes 4 --weightb --subme 1 --mvrange 511 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i8x8 --ipratio 1.1 --pbratio 1.4 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --vbv-maxrate 24000 --qcomp 0.5 --merange 12 --threads auto --thread-input --trellis 0 --mvrange 511 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --sar 1:1 --b-pyramid strict --slices 0 --weightp 0 --rc-lookahead 48 --no-mbtree --output NUL "C:\multiAVCHD\tools\20100528-192923-uncrop-running.avs"
[19:29:23] *** Speed P1 : 4452575.23 fps (elapsed: 00:00:00)
[19:29:23] *** Encoding : Pass two
[19:29:23] *** Encoding : x264 options: --bitrate 10889 --pass 2 --stats "c:\multiAVCHD\_TEMP\multiTEMP-20100528\x264-stats.txt" --keyint 48 --level 4 --min-keyint 8 --ref 3 --bframes 4 --weightb --subme 2 --mvrange 511 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i8x8 --ipratio 1.1 --pbratio 1.4 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --vbv-maxrate 24000 --qcomp 0.5 --merange 12 --threads auto --thread-input --trellis 0 --mvrange 511 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --sar 1:1 --b-pyramid strict --slices 0 --weightp 0 --rc-lookahead 48 --no-mbtree --output "c:\multiAVCHD\_TEMP\multiTEMP-20100528\The Ugly Truth.[1920x1080-23.976].264" "C:\multiAVCHD\tools\20100528-192923-uncrop-running.avs"
[19:29:23] *** Speed P2 : 8626864.5 fps (elapsed: 00:00:00)
[19:29:23] *** Speed : 2936804.94 fps overall (elapsed: 00:00:00 - Realtime x 122489.36)
[19:29:23] *** Transcoding failed!
[19:29:23] *** Check ffdshow/avisynth/haali (reinstall)!
[19:29:23] *** DEBUG: Try to play [C:\multiAVCHD\tools\20100528-192923-uncrop-running.avs] in MPC or other player, which supports AviSynth scripts and report the error to the author!
　
[19:29:23] tsMuxeR failed to process [C:\Users\Burrows\Desktop\BLU RAYS\The Ugly Truth.m2ts]...
[19:29:23] No compatible folders/files processed...

[guns1inger]

Nake sure you have the right versions of FFDshow/Avisynth and Haali installed