First off I am using VMS10 and the included DVDA5. I shot my niece's wedding which spanned 2 days with my Canon Vixia HFS 10 at 1920x1080i at 24Mbs. I rendered Saturday and Sunday separately since I am making both standard DVD and blue ray disc and both days will not fit on one DVD. Even if it does, I would rather render them separately anyway since I plan to use those files separately instead of having 2.5 hours of one large file.
VMS 10 now renders the 1920x1080i clips perfectly. I have been leaving it on over night to do AVCHD rendering. Since I want to use those files separately, I rendered each one using Sony AVC(.m2ts) at 1920x1080-60i.
Saturday.m2ts is one hour and Sunday.m2ts is 1.5 hours.
I want them and me to be able to play those .m2ts files in their computer also. I found out that in order to play those .m2ts files that are rendered by VMS10 with Windows Media Player, I need to run the files thru tsMuxeR or else the sound will be out of sync and the video will not be smooth. After I ran it thru tsMuxeR, it was smooth as a baby's bottom. I can skip forward and backward and Windows Media Player has no problem playing it. BTW, VLC Media Player has problem playing the unmuxed file also. At first, I thought this was a problem with VMS10 rendering a .m2ts files that is not watchable. But I found out today that there is nothing wrong with the original unmuxed file. More on this later.
So now I have four files:
Saturday.m2ts
Saturdaytsmuxered.m2ts
Sunday.m2ts
Sundaytsmuxered.m2ts
I played around and create some "AVCHD" disc without menu using tsMuxer and inputting the tsmuxered file. It plays perfectly on the computer and on the PS3.
I am now waiting for my LG blue ray burner so I figured I will prepare the blue ray .iso files now using DVDA5.
I got a little bit of surprise. I added Saturdaytsmuxered.m2ts and Sundaytsmuxered.m2ts. I double clicked on the files to open it and set the thumbnail image. I can set the thumbnail fine for Saturdaytsmuxered.m2ts but it crashes every time I tried to open and set the thumbnail for Sundaytsmuxered.m2ts.
I then ran Sunday.m2ts file thru tsMuxeR one more time thinking maybe there was something wrong when I ran it the first time. I reinsert that remuxed file and got the same problem. DVDA5 crash when I tried to insert thumbnail.
Having isolate the problem, I reauthored the blue ray image this time using Saturdaytsmuxered.m2ts and Sunday.m2ts. It went fine without a hitch. The original audio in the rendered .m2ts files were AC3 encoded so DVDA5 convert them to LPCM during the .iso preparation.
I mounted the finished blue ray image and examine the .m2ts files inside the STREAM folder. They are now slightly larger than the original .m2ts files and the bit rate is now 18Mbs where the original rendered file was around 16Mbs. The .m2ts files inside the STREAM folder now has the audio in LPCM format as expected.
Now the moment of truth. Will VLC Media Player play them correctly. It did, no out of sync problem that I expected since one of the file has not been tsMuxered.
So the conclusion is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the VMS rendered .m2ts file even though Windows Media Player has a problem handling it. Run it thru tsMuxer if you want to fix the Windows Media Player problem BUT save the original file if you want to use it in a blue ray disc.
VMS 10 now renders the 1920x1080i clips perfectly. I have been leaving it on over night to do AVCHD rendering. Since I want to use those files separately, I rendered each one using Sony AVC(.m2ts) at 1920x1080-60i.
Saturday.m2ts is one hour and Sunday.m2ts is 1.5 hours.
I want them and me to be able to play those .m2ts files in their computer also. I found out that in order to play those .m2ts files that are rendered by VMS10 with Windows Media Player, I need to run the files thru tsMuxeR or else the sound will be out of sync and the video will not be smooth. After I ran it thru tsMuxeR, it was smooth as a baby's bottom. I can skip forward and backward and Windows Media Player has no problem playing it. BTW, VLC Media Player has problem playing the unmuxed file also. At first, I thought this was a problem with VMS10 rendering a .m2ts files that is not watchable. But I found out today that there is nothing wrong with the original unmuxed file. More on this later.
So now I have four files:
Saturday.m2ts
Saturdaytsmuxered.m2ts
Sunday.m2ts
Sundaytsmuxered.m2ts
I played around and create some "AVCHD" disc without menu using tsMuxer and inputting the tsmuxered file. It plays perfectly on the computer and on the PS3.
I am now waiting for my LG blue ray burner so I figured I will prepare the blue ray .iso files now using DVDA5.
I got a little bit of surprise. I added Saturdaytsmuxered.m2ts and Sundaytsmuxered.m2ts. I double clicked on the files to open it and set the thumbnail image. I can set the thumbnail fine for Saturdaytsmuxered.m2ts but it crashes every time I tried to open and set the thumbnail for Sundaytsmuxered.m2ts.
I then ran Sunday.m2ts file thru tsMuxeR one more time thinking maybe there was something wrong when I ran it the first time. I reinsert that remuxed file and got the same problem. DVDA5 crash when I tried to insert thumbnail.
Having isolate the problem, I reauthored the blue ray image this time using Saturdaytsmuxered.m2ts and Sunday.m2ts. It went fine without a hitch. The original audio in the rendered .m2ts files were AC3 encoded so DVDA5 convert them to LPCM during the .iso preparation.
I mounted the finished blue ray image and examine the .m2ts files inside the STREAM folder. They are now slightly larger than the original .m2ts files and the bit rate is now 18Mbs where the original rendered file was around 16Mbs. The .m2ts files inside the STREAM folder now has the audio in LPCM format as expected.
Now the moment of truth. Will VLC Media Player play them correctly. It did, no out of sync problem that I expected since one of the file has not been tsMuxered.
So the conclusion is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the VMS rendered .m2ts file even though Windows Media Player has a problem handling it. Run it thru tsMuxer if you want to fix the Windows Media Player problem BUT save the original file if you want to use it in a blue ray disc.