Movie length x2 BluRay

[smash]

Hello, I'm a newbie, but I did my diligence in Searching, no luck. BluRay disks play perfect, but having problems playing from the hard drive..

Tried AnyDVD HD on 3 DVDs. 1/3 is perfect when playing using PowerDVD from the hard drive. 2/3 films have terrible framerate - very slow, even though both movies were playing fine from the BluRay disks.

What's strange is that if you skip till the end of the movie, PowerDVD is showing time as 5 hours! A film itself if about 2 hours long, but somehow it's "stretched" to 5 hours! Second film, with the same problem is ~1hr40min, shows up as 2hr50min.

Very strange. I have the latest PowerDVD and I just got the latest drivers for my video card. BIOS is latest.

Do I need DirectX or some codec update? According to txMuxer, the codec I'm having troubles with is "VC-1". The one that's playing fine is H.264.

System: Core2 Duo, 2GB or RAM, nVidia 9800GT, WinXP

[HermosaBeach]

I use AnyDVD HD to rip to HD and then PowerDVD to watch. No problems. Perhaps its the additional steps you have added that are causing you grief ?

HermosaBeach

[smash]

Nope, no extra steps. AnyDVD HD and then Power DVD. Extra info is from trying to debug the problem..

I'll keep digging, but any help is greatly appreciated.

[Adbear]

I'd recommend log files, full system specs, are you making ISO's, mounting and playing as full discs? etc

[mike_r]

I've noticed the same problem on PowerDVD7, NeroShowTime7 & Arcsoft.

I've a very low spec PC (P4 3.4ghz + 2gb ram), but a high spec AGP graphic card (ASUS AH3650). I have mixed results, from fine to slow and jerky right through to the player crashing. I've tried all combinations possible, AVIVO (hardware acceleration) on-off etc playing .M2TS files with no good results. When you select 'information', then no stream info is displayed on screen - which makes me wonder...

However if you make a blu-ray structure (with TSMuxer), then everything play smooth and fine. The stream info is displayed correctly now. I'm no expert on the subject, but my first thought is that the 'clip info' made by TSMuxer allows all the players mentioned identify the streams correctly to use the AVIVO on the graphic card.

Hope this gives you a few pointers on what to try next.

[Adbear]

Originally Posted by FireWire2

mrr19121970.

Your CPU may not up to the task of decoding MKV (H.264). I highly recommend using High Definition Media Player such as: limHD-310s or M6500A
Get a HD media player such as limHD-310s, TVIX M6500A
These players can even
- Play M2TS files (ripped bluray files), AVI, TS, TP, TRP, MKV, MOV, WMV, ISO, VOB, MP4, ASF, MPG
- Decode DTS-HD MA to DTS-core - good for whom has the 5.1 sound
- 1080p via HDMI and lots more
- Networkable for streaming AV
- Consume less then 30W of power
- Hardware video encode engine built-in
You can get those in PC MALL, Meritline, DATOptic.com ... or other resellers

You don't have to spend 1000's of dollar to play 1080p

How is this helpful? If you use the PC for other things as well this is of no use whatsoever. And you don't need to spend 1000's of dollars to make a PC that will play Blu-ray's and can be used for gaming and work. I can make a great systems that will do all that for well under $1000 and I don't need to remux my Blu-rays into other files or lose the menu's or HD audio

[mike_r]

you quote from a post not in this thread ? not sure what it all means.

i don't need a powerful cpu, my gpu has hd h264 and vc-1 support and i can see content fine (just standalone M2TS don't seem to be able to use the HW acceleration). i don't sit and watch movies at my pc though, just to quickly see if my ripped content is OK before watching it on my TVIX M6500A.

Mike.

[Adbear]

They removed the guys post that I was quoting as he was spamming the site

[smash]

Back to the original topic then..

I tried playing a ripped m2ts on a different PC with PowerDVD 8 (latest). Same thing - 6 hour movie. SO, the problem is in AnyDVD ripping, I presume. tsMuxer doesn't seem to work for me - unplayable results.

Attaching a full AnyDVD log (maybe it will help).

[Adbear]

You could try ripping it without the 'remove annoying trailers' ticked.
Although I doubt it's the Anydvd ripping otherwise everyone else would be having the same problem. All Anydvd does is remove the encryption from the file. If you rip the whole disc to the harddrive as an ISO, then mount it in VCD and play it as a full disc rather than just the m2ts file does it play properly then?