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Elaine Benes

Joined: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 1416

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:59 am Post subject:

Mark_A_W wrote:

Stop using Powerdvd and play with MPC-HC.

The latest SVN build will play BD from disc, and you can use whatever renderer you want, so gamma works fine.

Mark: Would you please, please take some time to explain this a bit more ??

I'd LOVE a solution that allowed me to play from BD disc(or mounted .iso, same difference, right ?) that allowed me to choose my renderer, and apply gamma correction, and maybe a bit of sharpening the odd time.

I'm not a computer engineer, so I have to rely on much smarter guys to post guides that are simple and easy. If you can find the time do you think you could please post one ? Thanks.

PS, what's SVN ?

Zebu Fellenz

Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Posts: 2567

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:03 am Post subject:

Elaine Benes wrote:

PS, what's SVN ?

Subversion, I think Smile

Mark_A_W

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 3068
Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:06 am Post subject:

Elaine Benes wrote:

Mark_A_W wrote:

Stop using Powerdvd and play with MPC-HC.

The latest SVN build will play BD from disc, and you can use whatever renderer you want, so gamma works fine.

Here is the latest build, with an installer:

http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/view/576/1/

Try it out of the box, but you may need to disable in the internal DXVA decoders if it insists on using Hardware accel and therefor bypassing desktop gamma..

I have NFI what SVN means, but all the sourceforge stuff has "SVN builds".

benareeno

Joined: 22 Mar 2006
Posts: 1614
Location: ottawa, canada

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:50 am Post subject:

It only takes an hour to make an mkv? If so..I am on board with making them....I prefer playing them as well. Is there a guide somewhere for this?

Mark_A_W

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 3068
Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:03 am Post subject:

I've posted it a couple of times...try a search for eac3to.exe.

yonexsp

Joined: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 311

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:27 am Post subject:

benareeno wrote:

When you shrink your Blu-Rays...what format are then in? mkv?

BD Format

Mark_A_W

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 3068
Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:31 am Post subject:

yonexsp wrote:

benareeno wrote:

When you shrink your Blu-Rays...what format are then in? mkv?

BD Format

Why?

MKV is so much easier to play.

Mark_A_W

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 3068
Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:32 am Post subject:

benareeno wrote:

It only takes an hour to make an mkv? If so..I am on board with making them....I prefer playing them as well. Is there a guide somewhere for this?

1. Stick disc in drive

2. Run command prompt (from a prepared shortcut) to eac3to.exe

3. Type: eac3to d:\

Read the readout for the name of the m2ts file.

4. Type eac3to d:\bdmv\stream\0000x.m2ts (use up arrow to get it the text again).

Read the readout for the track listing.

5. Type eac3to d:\bdmv\stream\0000x.m2ts 1: moofie_chapters.txt 2: moofie_video.mkv 4: moofie_audio.flac.

Wait 45mins.

Mux the 3 tracks into one mkv file with MKVmerge.

yonexsp

Joined: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 311

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:13 am Post subject:

Mark_A_W wrote:

yonexsp wrote:

benareeno wrote:

When you shrink your Blu-Rays...what format are then in? mkv?

BD Format

Why?

MKV is so much easier to play.

Coz they play on standalone BD Players after using BD Rebuilder

Mark_A_W

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 3068
Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:17 am Post subject:

Fair 'nuff. Carnt argue wid dat.

nuttall_chris

Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 832
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:03 am Post subject:

Mark_A_W wrote:

benareeno wrote:

It only takes an hour to make an mkv? If so..I am on board with making them....I prefer playing them as well. Is there a guide somewhere for this?

How do you deal with seamless branch movies?
Also how do you deal with subtitles?

Chris.

Mark_A_W

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 3068
Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:49 am Post subject:

nuttall_chris wrote:

Mark_A_W wrote:

benareeno wrote:

It only takes an hour to make an mkv? If so..I am on board with making them....I prefer playing them as well. Is there a guide somewhere for this?

How do you deal with seamless branch movies?
Also how do you deal with subtitles?

Chris.

For seamless branching (rare):

eac3to k:\ -demux

This combines and then spits out all the streams. Then process them individually. Bit more fiddly, but not too bad.

Subtitles:

You can get eac3to to spit out the subtitles (-demux, or specifically 5: moofie_subtitle.sup (can't remember the exact extension offhand)).

Then you have to OCR them and convert to .srt format....painful.

By FAR the easiest is to google "apocalypto.srt" and download it (check the length) and then mux it in. Let someone else do the work Smile

Elaine Benes

Joined: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 1416

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:55 am Post subject:

Mark_A_W wrote:

Elaine Benes wrote:

Mark_A_W wrote:

Stop using Powerdvd and play with MPC-HC.

The latest SVN build will play BD from disc, and you can use whatever renderer you want, so gamma works fine.

Ok, downloaded it, mounted my HD DVD iso, now how do I tell it to play the HD DVD ? Or do you have to navigate to the .m2ts file ? If so, then you lose all the menu functionality usually found in HD discs ?

Mark_A_W

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 3068
Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:02 am Post subject:

It will only play a BD disc, it will not play a HD-DVD (I've asked for that). It will just play the main title. No menu. Which suits me just fine.

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