Has anybody actually tried this and succeeded? I have a Blu-Ray burner, so I messed around with it.. Rip the disc to HD, reencode the main movie file to a lower bitrate, remux the new video back into the original m2ts file, with all the soundtracks, subtitles intact and identical chapter points, and burn... But the result was a failure... Menus would load and work properly, but once I tried to play the movie, there'd just be a blank screen and the player (PS3) is just stuck there A straight BD-ROM25 to BD-RE25 rip+burn works flawlessly though, but most movies now are on dual layer discs... So, let's use this thread to share experiences and ideas? I'm thinking there's some kind of identifier embedded in the original movie m2ts file that tsMuxer does not reproduce, hence confusing the player?
once u rip the movie to hd all u need to do is use tsmuxer its kind of same application as remuxer but more effective and then burn it disc and play it it should work
There is already a thread for this topic, http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/639346 Your last point makes sense, that might be the problem. However, if you recode the movie to a lesser bitrate, add as many audio/sub streams as you want and leave out the menus this will work fine using tsMuxeR. I have done this myself. I also suggest only using one audio and one sub stream as this will preserve precious bitrate for the video stream... doing this you might not need to recode at all. Also if a recode is neccesary then recode to h264, by far the most efficient codec for Blu-Ray.
Oh I can handle that no problem... I'm just looking to instigate the next step, a complete blu-ray shrink including menus and extras
You could use Sonic Scenarist v4.2 (v4.2 I believe) and rework the entire structure. It's pretty extensive though, it's good for making a high quality studio quality BD disc with just the feature but too much work to make a shrunken replica.
