Weird .264 file and conversion issues

[agni451]

Okay, so I just got a Blu-ray drive, and I want to convert and compress some m2ts files.

So far, I've been using TsMuxerGUI to separate the audio and video, and then use VirtualDubMod to import the resulting vc1 video file to compress. Once that compression is done (take about 6 hours), I convert the .ac3 file to mp3 (high quality), and then mux the two files back together. That process has worked just fine for several videos.

However, I've run across one video that, when I demux it in TsMuxerGUI, I get a .dts audio file (which is fine) and a .264 file (which is not fine). The video file is literally called "video.264" and I can't import it into anything for conversion. VLC player can open the file, but I can't open it in virtual dub, even if I put the .264 file in a .ts container and I write an avisynth script (DirectShowSource("C:\Path\Video.ts",fps=29.976,co nvertfps=true)). I get the error "Avisynth open failure: DirectShowSource: Could not open as video or audio. No such interface supported."

I have all codecs and decoders installed (ffdshow, avisynth, Haali Media Splitter). All the programs I open it in say it can't detect a video stream.

How can I go about converting this .264 file into something than can be read, and then compressing everything into a smaller avi or mkv file? If I can somehow do this with the entire original .m2ts file intact, that would be fine too, but like I said, none of my programs can detect a video stream when I try.

Sorry for the long post, and thanks for any help.

[poisondeathray]

dgavcindex, index the raw video (.264) . Full instructions are included in the download package

AVCSource("video.dga")

You don't have to separate the audio & video, you can use DirectShowSource() directly on the .m2ts

[agni451]

Thanks for the reply, that worked great!

I now have a question about the .dts file. I can't seem to get it to convert to anything (ideally an mp3, but I'll take wav) without various programs having a problem with it (can't open, can't read, etc). I've tried in foobar2000, besweet and eac3to. Both foobar and besweet can't read the file, and eac3to seemed to convert properly, but the resulting ac3 couldn't be opened either. Any thoughts?

[poisondeathray]

not sure, can you post the eac3to log file ?

what happens if you convert to wav instead in eac3to ?