Anydvd to get files
Eac3to and do this
Eac3to.exe 000xx.m2ts whatever.mkv
This will generate a master video file (whatever.mkv) and audio streams. If
you wish. You can recompress video your call
Then using megui, mux whatever.mkv with whatever.ac3 etc
Done. Store however you wish. Will now play via anything.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Brian Weeden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:31:36
To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containersin
hardware, woot
Side question here guys - what's the process you all use to get x264 HD
video from Blu Ray? I want to add my Blu Ray movies to my HTPC RAID array
as single-file MKVs. And of course I would much rather have them enocded
with MPEG-4 (preferably x264) as they will take up a lot less disk space.
All the guides I've seen for taking it from Blu-Ray .m2ts files to a x264
MKV seems to be overly complicated, involving like 6 different apps and
re-encoding of the audio as well as the video (not sure why we can't just
use the audio the way it is).
I just put an AMD 780G mobo in my HTPC and I want to take full advantage of
the sweet onboard video as best I can.
----
Brian
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've tried it, but if your someone who uses vista media center, etc just
> grab k-lite.
>
> Well, that and anydvdhd, eac3to to archive, and:
>
> Mytv (mytv.senseitweb.net)
>
> Mymovies (the mytv guys are quickly working on a true mcml app that is flat
> out awesome)
>
> MyNetflix - just so you can play netflix watch it now through your tv.
>
> :)
>
> And a few other choice apps. :)
> Sent via BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hayes Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:12:05
> To:<hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers
> in hardware, woot
>
>
>
> I suggest Media Player Classic - Home Cinema edition. It is a project that
> supports hardware DXVA internally with no external filters/codecs required
> at all. A new build is released every few days because it is constantly
> tweaked. You can switch outputs from overley, VMR7/9 (and renderless) plus a
> hack to use Vista's EVR in XP.
> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123537
>
> For the rare HD media you encounter out in the wild that wont play nice
> with MPC-HC, I fall back on WMP 11 and use the codecs in "The Codec"
> http://www.m5studio.pl/
>
> "The Codec" 8.2 build 8 is simply the best and ONLY codec pack you need for
> HD playback because it bundles the best software decoder ever, CoreAVC v1.7
> (which is commercial software somehow bundled free).
>
> CoreAVC w/ special new halaai splitter
> CoreAAC
> DivX
> Xvid
> AC3 filter
>
> I still have issues now and then, but I'm in a LOT better shape these days
> with MPC-HC and the alternative WMP11 w/ The Codec Pack, a year ago I was
> pulling my hair out with the musical chairs these bastard codec gremlins had
> me play.
>
> VLC is utter crap.
>
>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> > Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:32:07 -0700
> > Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in
> hardware, woot
> >
> > I myself use Simple Media Player or Media Player Classic. I also use
> FFDSHOW
> > Codex as well.
> >
> > Simple Media Player and Codex at http://smplayer.sf.net
> >
> > Media Player Classic can be found at
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
> >
> > FFDShow can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Tim "The Beave" Lider
> > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight
> > Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:25 AM
> > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> > Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in
> > hardware, woot
> >
> > I decided to give this a try with the same video. VLC does choke,
> > although I am only using less then 20 percent CPU when it chokes.
> >
> > How did you get PowerDVD 8 to play the mkv file? It won't play if for
> > me. I have the same codecs installed, and I have plenty of hardware
> > muscle to do this. PowerDVD ignores the file.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 06:49 AM 5/24/2008, you wrote:
> >>Just a little success story here, I sourced a cheap Dell for a client
> >>(seriously good deal IMO, £291 for a Vostro 400 w/ 2.4Ghz Allendale,
> >>3GB of ram, Terabyte of disk, wireless, Vista Home Premium, set of
> >>speakers with a sub, a wireless router, a surge protected plugboard.)
> >>and dropped a 3870 into it, as it's going to be used in a sort of
> >>media center'ish sort of way plugged into a 32" high def TV
> >>
> >>Installed the CCCP codec pack (unchecking use ffmpeg for x264),
> >>installed PowerDVD 8, turned on hardware acceleration within
> >>PowerDVD... fired up a 7GB/hr h264 video (It's the Top Gear Polar
> >>Special in 1080P), which historically completely slaughters machines,
> >>VLC on the 4Ghz Wolfdale sits at 67% cpu utilisation with it (which
> >>means a 2.4Ghz chip with 1/3rd the cache has no chance in hell of
> >>playing it smoothly)
> >>
> >>on the 2.4Ghz Allendale...
> >>
> >>13% cpu utilization
> >>
> >>THIRTEEN PERCENT, good grief, that's probably just the storm of
> >>interrupts from shuffling the data over the network and to the GPU, wow.
> >>
> >>the ease at which this was accomplished is making a Sempron or low end
> >>A64 X2 on a 780G (which has the same video decoder core of course)
> >>really really tempting for a media center box.... to replace the
> >>makeshift E6600/i680/7800GT box I've got performing those duties now
> >>(with CoreAVC on decoding duty, which is much faster for h264 decode
> >>than VLC just for the record.)
> >>
> >>
> >>I'm mainly amazed at how easy it was to get it to work :)
> >>
> >>So, yeah, groooooooovy :)
> >>
> >>-JB
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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