How to convert (this) 3D Blu-ray disc to monoscopic / 2D?

[pitoloko]

Hi. I have a 3D blu-ray disc that is unencrypted. My intention is to remux the content as a 2D movie without quality loss, or else perform a 2D BD-Rip in AVC/H.264 format (with "best" CRF quality settings, placebo preset)

However, I can't find the way to do that.

The blu-ray corresponds to this movie title: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540767

It contains a single playlist, two .m2ts files of a total of 2,30 GB which corresponds to the first eight minute length of the movie, and a single .ssif file of 21,4 GB.

The exact folder structure is as follows:

├───AACS
│   │   Content000.cer
│   │   ContentHash000.tbl
│   │   ContentRevocation.lst
│   │   CPSUnit00001.cci
│   │   mcmf.xml
│   │   MKB_RO.inf
│   │   MKB_RW.inf
│   │   Unit_Key_RO.inf
│   │
│   └───DUPLICATE
│           Content000.cer
│           ContentHash000.tbl
│           ContentRevocation.lst
│           CPSUnit00001.cci
│           mcmf.xml
│           MKB_RO.inf
│           MKB_RW.inf
│           Unit_Key_RO.inf
│
├───BDMV
│   │   index.bdmv
│   │   MovieObject.bdmv
│   │
│   ├───AUXDATA
│   ├───BACKUP
│   │   │   index.bdmv
│   │   │   MovieObject.bdmv
│   │   │
│   │   ├───BDJO
│   │   ├───CLIPINF
│   │   │       00000.clpi
│   │   │       00001.clpi
│   │   │
│   │   ├───JAR
│   │   └───PLAYLIST
│   │           00000.mpls
│   │
│   ├───BDJO
│   ├───CLIPINF
│   │       00000.clpi
│   │       00001.clpi
│   │
│   ├───JAR
│   ├───META
│   ├───PLAYLIST
│   │       00000.mpls
│   │
│   └───STREAM
│       │   00000.m2ts
│       │   00001.m2ts
│       │
│       └───SSIF
│               00000.ssif
│
└───CERTIFICATE
    │   id.bdmv
    │
    └───BACKUP
            id.bdmv

Please note that I'm not the first owner of the disc, so I don't know how it was unencrypted.

The 00000.mpls looks like this in an hexadecimal editor:



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What I've tried to remux or encode this Blu-ray disc:

tsMuxerGui: It only demuxes the first eight minute-length.

MakeMKV: It only demuxes the first eight minute-length.

StaxRip: It says "3D demuxing isn't supported" when loading the blu-ray folder.

Handbrake: It lets me start the encoding procedure, however it just encodes the first eight minute-length, then quits. Image previews of the movie are black after the few ones.

BD3D2MK3D: It only demuxes 2,30 GB. When trying the encoder batch-script it just encodes the first eight minute length.

Note that these programs properly recognizes the full movie length, in case of that matters.

What can I do to remux in 2D or to encode in 2D this Blu-ray disc?.

In order to ensure that the movie is not corrupted, I've tried the Stereoscopic Player from 3dtv.at website (https://www.3dtv.at/products/Player/Index_en.aspx), and I can play the movie entirely.

In the following thread I've read about a freeware program with name SSIFsucka: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/323749-How-to-play-convert-ssif-files#post2045690 - however, the official link (or what I think is the official link) is broken: https://photo-3d.groups.io/g/3dtv-archive/message/26314

[r0lZ]

Obviously, it's a bad disc. The SSIF file is a virtual file that is supposed to contain the two M2TS files interleaved together. For whatever reason, it seems that the SSIF is correct but the two M2TS have been truncated. This is theoretically not possible unless a serious problem (perhaps intentional) occurred to the disc.

I don't know if it is possible to split the SSIF to re-create the two M2TS, but you can try to open it with Mkvtoolnix and remux the first video stream and the audio and subtitles as a MKV. That may work if mkvtoolnix will not try to open the two M2TS instead of the SSIF. Normally, it's what it should do, but I'm not sure. Try it anyway.

Can I know what movie it is?

[pitoloko]

Can I know what movie it is?

Of course, in fact, I already stated it in the main post (see the IMDB url)

thank you for your help

In any case, it doesn’t matter anymore — I finally managed to solve it!

I asked ChatGPT for guidance to perform the remux procedure using tsMuxer CLI, just to try another thing... and in the end, this was the only solution that actually worked for me.

Step 1

Download tsMuxer command-line interface (CLI) from this link, and run the following command passing the full path to your .ssif file:

tsmuxer.exe "file.ssif"

It will show an output similar to this:

tsMuxeR version 2.7.0. github.com/justdan96/tsMuxer
Track ID: 4113
Stream type: H.264
Stream ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Stream info: Profile: High@4.1 Resolution: 1920:1080p Frame rate: 23.976
Stream lang:

Track ID: 4114
Stream type: MVC
Stream ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/MVC
Stream info: H.264/MVC Views: 2 Profile: High@4.1 Resolution: 1920:1080p Frame rate: 23.976 3d-pg-planes: 32
Stream lang:

Track ID: 4352
Stream type: AC3
Stream ID: A_AC3
Stream info: Bitrate: 384Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 5.1
Stream lang: rus

Step 2

Create a plain text file anywhere containing tsMuxer’s configuration based on the output shown above (if you have doubts, ask ChatGPT or other AI):

movie_2d.meta

MUXOPT --no-pcr-on-video-pid --new-audio-pes --vbr --vbv-len=500

V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC, "C:\Blu-ray Folder\BDMV\STREAM\SSIF\00000.ssif", track=4113
A_AC3, "C:\Blu-ray Folder\BDMV\STREAM\SSIF\00000.ssif", track=4352

Step 3

Finally, generate the 2D movie by using the following command, passing the full path to the plain text file and specifying an output file path for the resulting .m2ts file:

tsmuxer.exe "movie_2d.meta" "output_2D.m2ts"

I don't know whether the ripped Blu-Ray contents were "broken", honestly, I don't use much 3D BD disc to know the file structure and other things, but the decoded 2D movie with this methodology is in a perfect state.