If MultiAVCHD is not supported, what is good tool to convert MKV to Bluray?

[Yanta]

I am having problems with MultiAVCHD. Some of the disks just won't play in my various BD players. Some wont convert. ALL titles crash when try to go forwards or backwards with chapter selection. I only burn one title per disk. Audio is very low volume for all of the disks created and the black bars are in some cases doubled, leaving a rather narrow band of video (More like 4.7:1 that 2.35:1).

I've tried Imtoo BD Creator, Xilisoft BD Creater and Leawo BD Creator which seem to just be the same program with different skins. I've tried AVCHDCoder, DVDFab, and AVS Video Converter.

There seems to be no single tool that will take an MKV file and create a Compliant Bluray disk with chapters, unmodified aspect ratios, that will play on a pioneer or LG bluray player either on a PC or on a unit connected to my TV.

So if MultiAVCHD is not supported any more and none of the above tools work (Some won't even load files), then what program is out there that will do the job?

thanks
Tanya

[jman98]

multiAVCHD produces discs that most BD players can play. I own a Momitsu BD player and it's one of the rare ones that can't play anything that multiAVCHD produces. You might post what your player is just in case someone has advice specific to it.

Rather than converting stuff all the time so your BD player can play it, why not just buy a streaming media player like a Western Digital or similar model and just skip the conversions altogether? Those players take up very little room.

It could be that there is something very unusual about your MKV files and if you could post the info from MediaInfo when you open a problematic one maybe someone could help you to understand why you are having problems with your conversions. Do note that if the resolution in your MKV is not exactly 1920x1080 or 1280x720 that this could be your real issue. BD discs that you create with those tools you mentioned usually need to be exactly 1920x1080 or 1280x720 or there are playback problems. There are ways in multiAVCHD to convert to those resolutions but I don't know how to do it. Maybe you can find a guide or someone else will answer. You won't need to convert resolutions with a streaming media player - another win for just buying a media player.

[mail2tom]

AVCHDCoder is very solid, but it does produce an AVCHD not a Bluray, which may be your problem. However, since it is a solid program and will convert a MKV to an M2TS, you can take that M2TS and run it through TSMUXER, select Bluray as the output and burn that with Imgburn. I've had no problems using that procedure, though it takes a little more time to get to the final disk. Rather than waste a BDR use a BD-RE as your first project and see if it works in your player. If you find that as a good solution for you support the author with a donation so that development continues and does die on the vine as MultiAVCHD did.

[Ai Haibara]

I don't know if it still holds true, but one of the difficulties about AVCHD used to be that each manufacturer wanted to implement their own version of it, so what one machine might accept may not be accepted by any other machine. Of course, as mail2tom hinted, not all machines recognize or play AVCHD. Are you sure any or all of the players you're trying to use accept AVCHD?

If any of the players has a USB port and can play videos from a flash drive, you can always experiment with different settings in MultiAVCHD and a short video, to see if anything will work.

[edDV]

I don't know if it still holds true, but one of the difficulties about AVCHD used to be that each manufacturer wanted to implement their own version of it, so what one machine might accept may not be accepted by any other machine. Of course, as mail2tom hinted, not all machines recognize or play AVCHD. Are you sure any or all of the players you're trying to use accept AVCHD?

If any of the players has a USB port and can play videos from a flash drive, you can always experiment with different settings in MultiAVCHD and a short video, to see if anything will work.

It seems like yanta in downloading mkv container files and attempting to make an "AVCHD disc" which is different than AVCHD camcorder format.



See "AVCHD as a distribution format" in Wikipedia.
Mpeg2 and VC-1 are also allowed formats. All must have an m2ts container.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD

[Yanta]

thanks all for your replies. Rather than reply to each I'll just reply once.

The mkv files are not files I downloaded. They could be anything, and I don't trust such sources. I am experiementing with my own personal Bluray disks - trying to learn as much as I can.

The MKV files were created using DVDFab 8.1.1.2. I tried two different methods to create the MKV files. One was a straight remux the other was a h.264 conversion. One of the titles I tried was I am Legend. The disk I have has the alternate ending and the original theatrical version. I did both conversions for both movies. None of the programs I have tried can detect the audio, including Multiavchd and tsmuxer.

Other than selecting the conversion profile in DBDFab, I dont touch anything else.

I realise I could simply copy the disk to another disk, but where's the fund in that, and it doesn't really teach me anything.

Perhaps I should have converted them to m2ts or ts instead of mkv? There seems to be a lot of bad press about mkv.

I have had a WDTV HD Live box for a while, and it works but it is dreadfully slow.

But the point of this exercise is about getting a good quality bluray from an mkv, with chapters (That I can move between without crashing the movie), with original AR, and that fits in the 23.5GiB that a SL BD-R disk can store.

I guess what I'll play with next will be compilations and menus, but I thought it best to start simple and work my way up.

Now this brings up another question. I tried one of the movies I just bought - Fast 5 - and MultiAVCHD actually produces a playable version, except changing chapters crashes it. And I could set the bit rate to fit it on a disk. But where in tsmuxer can I set the bitrate, coz the final image is too big go th BD-R disk.

thanks so much.
Tanya

[Yanta]

It could be that there is something very unusual about your MKV files and if you could post the info from MediaInfo when you open a problematic one maybe someone could help you to understand why you are having problems with your conversions.

I have exported the alternate ending and original theatrical versions of I am legend. No program detects the audio or can successfully transcode the file(s)

[edDV]

MKV is not supported by blu-ray players for an "AVCHD disc" or a formal blu-ray disc. The format is very specific. Some players will play an MKV from a USB2 stick or hard drive.

MultiAVCHD can change the container for compatibility but I've never tried it from an MKV, only ts, m2t or mpg.

Others may know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.m2ts
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=150716844974673
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Container_format