Matrox .264 assets in Encore CS5

[Jon Geddes]

You also need to take stream header data into account, which can add roughly 10% to the size of your encoded h264 or mpeg2 file. Encore does not re-encode anything, but adds lots of header data to the stream. You will see this after you build the project, then navigate into the STREAMS folder of the disc and locate your asset for the video. The size of the video stream after building is much larger than the original encoded asset before the build process. This is caused by the addition of header data.

You also need to take the Gibibyte to Gigabyte conversion into account. Windows displays files in Gibibytes (although it calls them GB, aka Gigabytes), and Encore displays how much space they take up in actual Gigabytes. Not sure what Gibibytes and Gigabytes are? Just look them up on wikipedia.

Bottom line, you need to trust what Encore says as to how much space it takes up on the disc. Don’t think because your files are nearly 22 GiB that they will fit on a 23.3 GiB disc once header data is added. By the way, 25 GB = 23.3 GiB

Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com

[Daniel Ludwig]

We´ve also figured out that matrox-encoded H264-files do not match H264-blu-ray-specification.

one of my europeen collegues had a really bad sony stream-verifier-report on files that has been encoded that way. these streams all failed the verification.

so please do not use matrox-encoded H264-files on BDs that will go to replication.

cheers

danny

[Jon Geddes]

Danny,

I know that was a problem with some of the original release drivers from matrox, but I heard that problem was resolved. How recently did you hear about this problem with Matrox h264 files, and were they using the latest matrox drivers?

Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com

[Daniel Ludwig]

Jon,
my collegue told me, that they used the latest driver with it – working with windows.

cheers

danny

[Jon Geddes]

Danny,

Thanks for the info on the non-compliance issues with Matrox encoded files… good to know.

Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com

[Volodymyr Kashuba]

Thank you Jon and Daniel with your suggestion on my discussion about Matrox .264 assets for Encore

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Volodymyr,

Have you tried bypassing MAX and simply using the Adobe H.264 for Blu-ray encoding preset? With CS5 using the CUDA acceleration now, it shouldn’t take a whole lot longer to just render the files that way and be safe. I think MAX is great for laptops and slower computers, but for a hot workstation, MAX doesn’t offer the speed advantage it did a year or two ago.

Jeff Pulera