[Kevin O’brien]

Hi Max,
Thanks for the info, I’ll check out x264.
Also experimenting to see how high a data rate I can put MPEG2 on BD5.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin O’brien]

Hi Chris,
TSmuxer is a bit of a mystery. All the documentation is in russian, but it is free and does a good fast job of muxing without messing, which I don’t trust Toast to do. It will also create a BDMV folder with all the stuff required so that for people like me who don’t want a menu, it’s ready to burn in Toast.
Can’t author with menus or any extras.
I just don’t think on a BD5 I can get a data rate high enough to succeed with 720p/60frame material.
I’m still experimenting.
You can find TSmuxeR at https://www.videohelp.com/tools/tsMuxeR.
Like I say, I’d love to use MPEG Streamclip, but the convert to menus in it are all greyed out.
I see all kinds of posts from people claiming to have succeeded in making H264 AVCHD disks, but I think my 60fps content may preclude this.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin O’brien]

Hi Chris,
I have had near success by exporting from compressor Mpeg2 and ac3 files at avg data rate 15mbps/max 20mbps.
Then I muxed using the free Tsmuxer to avoid any chance for Toast to screw it up. I used Tsmuxer to make a BDMV folder as it muxed.
Then dragged the BDMV folder into Toast which immediately burned it to a disk image (for the test).
Mounting this image and playing it with Toast player it looked pretty good. Some smearing of motion.
I’ll try higher data rates and see if that helps. Since i’m 720p/60, the high frame rate needs as high a data rate as I can play. You probably are using 30 or even 24 frame sources, which don’t need as high data rate.
The trick is finding the highest data rate that does not stutter in playback.
Compressor’s MP2 might be a source of the slight stuttering on high motion parts.
Would love to try Streamclip to make MP2 file, but still can’t figure out why all convert options are grey no matter what I feed as a source.
The trick is finding the highest data rate that does not stutter in playback.
I’ll update if I find out more.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin O’brien]

Hi Walter,
Thanks for the input.
The player I am writing the disc for is a Sony S500 which can read AVCHD files.
So I thought H264 would be good.
It does seem complicated to get them in a wrapper that the machine will see.
I may give up and go MPEG2. Do you know the maximum safe MPEG2 data rate for aBlu-ray BD5 playing on a Blu-ray player?
I don’t have a Blu-ray player, and my client is 200 miles away, so I can’t easily test how data rates play.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin O’brien]

Hi Max,
Thanks for that hint.
Sounds like I won’t likely succeed in my H264 quest.
Is there somewhere I can read up on the requirement for the H264 file?
Or failing that, is there anywhere I can go for a bare bones no menu autoplay Blu-Ray from my 15 minute DVCPro File?
I’ll try theMPEG2, but my experience was if I got a data rate low enough to play from a BD5, the quality was not great.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin O’brien]

Hi Chris,
Thanks for the setting advice.
I’ll try this and report back whether it works on Toast 9, which is what I have.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin O’brien]

Hi Chris,
Thanks for the update. Glad you found some success.
I am making a BD5 which is a Blu-Ray disc burned on a regular DVD-R.
For that reason, I was hoping to stay with H264, which is more efficient to maximize quality at lower bit rates.
I may have to resort to MP2. How exactly did you set your Toast settings to keep it from re-encoding?
Was your audio good? What format was your audio?
Toast muxing seems to frequently mess up the audio.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin O’brien]

Hi Eric,
I’m on a mac trying to use Streamclip to mux.
Do you have any experience with Streamclip?
Plays my H264 fine with ac3 sound but all convert to options are greyed out.
Any thoughts?
I suppose I could use parallels to run the PC program to mux, but that would probably take a while.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin O’brien]

HI Bruce,
I have been having a similar problem with H264 that Toast turns to mush when it muxes.
Giving that up,I let it do an MPEG2 encode at 15-20 setting and although source was progressive and destination was 720p/60 it had obvious interlace artifacts. Don’t know how it managed this.
After much reading of blogs and testing my conclusion is that Toast can’t make a decent Blu-Ray disc to save it’s life.
I’m currently trying to get Streamclip to mux my H264 so I can make a Blu-ray without Toast re-encoding.
I’ll let you know if I succeed.
Blogs say the answer is Adobe Encore, but that’s expensive.
Sorry to have more problems than answers.
Maybe others can help.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin O’brien]

I had a similar experience, plugged in my 23″ Cinema display, then all options were available, even after I disconnected it… I could use the Digitial Desktop Cinema Preview on my laptop screen.
I wonder if anyone with FCP6 has had these issues.

Thanks,
Kevin