Hoping someone can assist me. I'm trying to combine several DVD files and a mp4 slideshow file into a playable BD and am having nothing but problems.
I have home movies transferred to DVDs and a 35mm slide show converted to a mp4 video.
In my tests so far, I've focused on the mp4 slide show that was created with a 2-part process of Linux utilities:
Resize all slides to a common 1920x1080
1. convert "$file" -resize 1920x1080 -background black -compose Copy -gravity center -extent 1920x1080 -quality 100 $file
Encode to slide show
2. mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=1920:h=1080:fps=1/10:type=jpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -ofps 30000/1001 -o output.mp4
This gives me a commonly playable mp4 with most tools. Now I am trying to encode this file to a BD compatible format and burn.
For this, I've tried several options including several ffmpeg tries, Handbrake to create a MPEG-4 AVC file that EasyBD will read. So far I've only been successful in converting to MPEG-2 that EasyBD will read and the resolution was horrible. Most times it gives Unknown Format error when attempting to provide 264AVC formats.
I've even tried DVDFab9, it seems to fail by only creating the menu structure and an empty STREAM directory and zero length file.
So I have the following tools at my disposal, both Windows 7 and Linux
fmpeg Linux v2.0.1
convert - the ImageMagick utility: Linux
mencoder 4.8.1 Linux
KDE K3B 2 on Linux (can write BD but I don't think it will create directory stucture).
Handbrake .9.9 Win
EasyBD Lite Windows
DVDFab9115 BluRay Creator Windows (registered)
The only 2 tools I've tried to actually create the BD directory structure is EasyBD and DVDFab.
I think the main problem is I'm not encoding the file type correctly and so EasyBD refuses to read it. Looking for Handbrake or ffmpeg options it will understand.
Once the MP4 file is done, then I'm hoping I can make small adjustments to the process for the ripped DVD files.
Thanks,
Brian
I have home movies transferred to DVDs and a 35mm slide show converted to a mp4 video.
In my tests so far, I've focused on the mp4 slide show that was created with a 2-part process of Linux utilities:
Resize all slides to a common 1920x1080
1. convert "$file" -resize 1920x1080 -background black -compose Copy -gravity center -extent 1920x1080 -quality 100 $file
Encode to slide show
2. mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=1920:h=1080:fps=1/10:type=jpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -ofps 30000/1001 -o output.mp4
This gives me a commonly playable mp4 with most tools. Now I am trying to encode this file to a BD compatible format and burn.
For this, I've tried several options including several ffmpeg tries, Handbrake to create a MPEG-4 AVC file that EasyBD will read. So far I've only been successful in converting to MPEG-2 that EasyBD will read and the resolution was horrible. Most times it gives Unknown Format error when attempting to provide 264AVC formats.
I've even tried DVDFab9, it seems to fail by only creating the menu structure and an empty STREAM directory and zero length file.
So I have the following tools at my disposal, both Windows 7 and Linux
fmpeg Linux v2.0.1
convert - the ImageMagick utility: Linux
mencoder 4.8.1 Linux
KDE K3B 2 on Linux (can write BD but I don't think it will create directory stucture).
Handbrake .9.9 Win
EasyBD Lite Windows
DVDFab9115 BluRay Creator Windows (registered)
The only 2 tools I've tried to actually create the BD directory structure is EasyBD and DVDFab.
I think the main problem is I'm not encoding the file type correctly and so EasyBD refuses to read it. Looking for Handbrake or ffmpeg options it will understand.
Once the MP4 file is done, then I'm hoping I can make small adjustments to the process for the ripped DVD files.
Thanks,
Brian