We can't actually produce Blu-Rays

[Booshman]

Can you explain to me how to encode uncompressed avi to h264 with TMPGEnc? I only found this website http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/download.html and their last update is from 2008, doesn't look like this software has been updated recently. Am I looking at the wrong website?

I use TMPGEnc 4 Xpress. According to the website they have updated to "Master Works" now. I've been using this program for a long time without updating.

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html

I'm sure you could use another encoder, megui or something like that. There's lots of info in the "perfect BD compliant settings" thread.

https://fanrestore.com/thread-97.html?highlight=bluray

The trick with Encore is to get BD compatible video elsewhere, then use it to replace the crappy rencode Encore produces.

[Evit]

Lemme give it a shot...

[Evit]

I've never heard of adding the chapters within Premiere. I make blurays in Encore, and add the chapters there so I can link them to the menu buttons. I have also used TSmuxer to alter the chapters after it has been built. What program are you authoring in?

Edit: I re-read your post and see you mentioned Encore. I use Encore and have a work around to avoid using the crappy transcode of the video it creates. I do an encode with TMPGEnc with the settings I need for quality and BD compatibility. I load that into Encore and (once I have finished the menus, button links added chapters, etc) let it process the video when building my disc. When the disc is built I then replace the video stream with TSmuxer. Open the main m2ts file, replace the video stream and mux with the "bluray disk" setting. Replace the orignial m2ts file in your bluray structure with the new one, also replace the clpi file that has the corresponding file name to your m2ts. (without this the disc won't play)

You can also use this method to replcace subtitles and audio.

I have done the following:
- in Encore I made a simple structure (only film, audio tracks, 1 sub to test and random chapters that I added on the timeline) and exported it as Blu-Ray folder.
- With tsMuxer I opened the file called 00000.m2ts containing the video stream, two audio tracks and 1 subtitle track. I went on the window called "tracks" and removed the h264 video stream. Then from "input" files I selected "ADD" and added the proper h264 file (the one generated by x264.exe) to replace the previous one.
In the chapter section on tsMuxer I left them every 5 minutes, automatically assigned.
- I selected m2ts output to be saved in the same BR structure folder ("Stream"), to replace the pre-existing 00000.m2ts that Encore had generated.
- Pressed "start muxing".
- After being successifully muxed I went to play the m2ts file with VLC

No sound, no working subtitles and more importantly no chapters. Before this I had already tried a different ouput, "Blu-Ray folder" instead of "m2ts muxing", and replaced the clpi file of the BR folder newly generated by tsMuxer with the one found in the BR folder generated by Encore... no chapters even with this formula.

Since you successifully created 2 blu-rays with this method I must have made some mistake along the road or misunderstood some of your intructions. My steps are there, what did I do wrong? Can't you create a proper tutorial for the whole forum to benefit from?

[Booshman]

I've never heard of adding the chapters within Premiere. I make blurays in Encore, and add the chapters there so I can link them to the menu buttons. I have also used TSmuxer to alter the chapters after it has been built. What program are you authoring in?

Edit: I re-read your post and see you mentioned Encore. I use Encore and have a work around to avoid using the crappy transcode of the video it creates. I do an encode with TMPGEnc with the settings I need for quality and BD compatibility. I load that into Encore and (once I have finished the menus, button links added chapters, etc) let it process the video when building my disc. When the disc is built I then replace the video stream with TSmuxer. Open the main m2ts file, replace the video stream and mux with the "bluray disk" setting. Replace the orignial m2ts file in your bluray structure with the new one, also replace the clpi file that has the corresponding file name to your m2ts. (without this the disc won't play)

You can also use this method to replcace subtitles and audio.

I have done the following:
- in Encore I made a simple structure (only film, audio tracks, 1 sub to test and random chapters that I added on the timeline) and exported it as Blu-Ray folder.
- With tsMuxer I opened the file called 00000.m2ts containing the video stream, two audio tracks and 1 subtitle track. I went on the window called "tracks" and removed the h264 video stream. Then from "input" files I selected "ADD" and added the proper h264 file (the one generated by x264.exe) to replace the previous one.
In the chapter section on tsMuxer I left them every 5 minutes, automatically assigned.
- I selected m2ts output to be saved in the same BR structure folder ("Stream"), to replace the pre-existing 00000.m2ts that Encore had generated.
- Pressed "start muxing".
- After being successifully muxed I went to play the m2ts file with VLC

No sound, no working subtitles and more importantly no chapters. Before this I had already tried a different ouput, "Blu-Ray folder" instead of "m2ts muxing", and replaced the clpi file of the BR folder newly generated by tsMuxer with the one found in the BR folder generated by Encore... no chapters even with this formula.

Since you successifully created 2 blu-rays with this method I must have made some mistake along the road or misunderstood some of your intructions. My steps are there, what did I do wrong? Can't you create a proper tutorial for the whole forum to benefit from?

OK, I was going from memory and I have given you an incorrect step. You need to load the playlist file into TSmuxer, not the m2ts file itself. So if your m2ts is 00000.m2ts, load in 00000.mpls. Then do as you did before. Delete the video stream, add your new one and move it up to the top of the list where the old one was. Then you need to set the output to bluray disk. Once its done, replace the m2ts file and clpi that correspond to the movie.

This thread covers what I'm talking about, but it's used just for subtitle replacement: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=150511

[Evit]

for "blu ray disk" you mean "blu ray folder", right? (in newer version there is a "blu-ray folder" and a "blu-ray iso")
I'm testing it now, fingers crossed

[Booshman]

Yeah folder.

[Evit]

Right, so I replaced the files via tsmuxer, made a new blu ray folder with it, then took the m2ts and clpi file from the BR folder created by tsMuxer and replaced them in the blu ray folder that Encore had created (was I to do the opposite?). Chapters still don't appear.

[zoidberg]

This is probably a daft question but does the encore generated file work properly, giving you chapters/subs? Also are you just playing the m2ts file in VLC or are you opening it as a blu ray via open disc?

[Evit]

It's not daft at all. I'm wondering that too but it's not like Encore gives you many options. Chapters from the Encore-generated files don't appear when played back with VLC (I did not test these as an iso). Subtitles do work.
When I load the Encore-generated files on tsMuxer to replace the video stream, it does suggest custom chapters being present on these, so I'm supposing that they were indeed exported along with the encode done via Encore... in some way.
I tested the final remux both as iso and BR folder

[spoRv]

Tried with Media Player Classic (HT/BE)?