I searched for this question to no avail. Completely new to burning bd and need to know if this can affect playback on a stand alone (bdp-s500) TIA
excellent thanks for your reply. I'm able to get small mkv (episode) conversions to play fine but all my movies seem to only play about 1 frame for 5 seconds, audio works fine. I use TSmuxer and Imgburn. Am trying to rule out as many variables as possible, thanks again
Not clean frames either it get's all blocky with wrong colors all over the place during the fade. I'm able to use TSmuxer 1.8.4 (b) to encode a single m2ts stream as a blu ray and it plays fine. My problem is when I take a standard mkv movie file (smallest I've tried is 4.5 gig) and use the same create to blu ray option. I have been using cccp for a long time now, I installed FFdshow following a guide and Haali(not sure if this contains codecs) as well. I hope these codecs are adequate, maybe I need to clean them all out and start fresh. I find it odd that I can convert smaller episode mkvs without this problem. I tried h264info last night and demuxed an m2ts stream into it's two parts. I was hoping to shrink it a few gigs smaller by setting a low bit rate but the resulting file was nearly the same size. I've read that tsmuxer does not always change the profile to 4.1 and was going to try to run my original sample through that program hoping this was my problem. Many things I'd like to be able to do with mkv's and I have a lot to learn still. I am working my way through the doom9 TSmuxer thread and have read many many others but it's tough to absorb at times. Much obliged for yer help.
Your problem is probably the files themselves. Most of the mkv downloads are encoded for PC playback, not standalone BD players. If you recode them with a proper profile using MegUI/AviSynth I'm sure this will fix your issues. Here's a good thread that can help, as of right now you have pretty much all of the tools needed for recoding. Just get the latest AviSynth, and the latest version of MeGUI. When you install MeGUI, when prompted to import the x264 profiles make sure you select them all. Once you get that far I can help more. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/639346 You can continue this conversation here or in the other thread if you wish.
