Guys,
I'm really glad I was able to do this.
The 5.1 track of
Screamers is hands-down superior to the 2.0, high-resolution or not.
They use the extra channels to good effect, really making you feel you're in the middle of the crazy world onscreen.
And, yeah, the 1080 picture rocks!
So, after becoming a little more accustomed to tsMuxer, I found a way to streamline the process I used before.
It bothered me a little that there was so much creating output and feeding it back into the application.
Basically, I was processing the audio thru three generations and the video through two.
No matter how "clean", tsMuxer processing is, that many trips to the well has to have
some effect!
I now, have a way to do this in
one generation.
I'll outline what I did step-by-step here for anybody needing to know how to do something similar.....
To re-iterate, the goal was to overlay the 5.1 audio of the DVD onto the Blu-Ray movie and replace it's 2.0 audio.
The final result was to be a Blu-Ray disc.
I guess Step 0 was to make sure both the Blu-Ray and movie are the same length! One could have been a slightly different version and ofc sound overlay would then not be possible.
The play length of
Screamers on the DVD and Blu-Ray were within seconds of each other, so I was in luck.
Step 1 was to initiate tsMuxer and add in the DVD movie.
To do that, I had to add in .vob files found in the VIDEO_TS folder. Only the .vob's of the movie are needed.
I added in VTS_01_1.vob through VTS_01_5.vob.
VIDEO_TS.vob was a Columbia TriStar splash and VTS_01_0.vob was Menu templates.
In tsMuxer, you have to "add" the first .vob and "join" the rest.
Step 2, I added in the Blu-Ray movie.
To do that, I had to get the .m2ts file that contained the movie.
The .m2ts files of the Blu-Ray are in BDMV/STREAM.
Again luck was with me since this Blu-Ray had just one .m2ts file with the entire movie.
My understanding is if the movie had seamless-branching the movie would be spread among several .m2ts files.
There's a way to deal with that, but guess I'll have to take the Advanced class to know how (lol).
[EDIT: For tsMuxer and seamless-branching, see post #20 below]
It's pretty obvious that the movie is in 00002.m2ts.
I "add"-ed that file in tsMuxer.
So, now both the DVD and Blu-Ray movie versions are in tsMuxer.
Step 3, in the section of tsMuxer labelled "Tracks", I de-selected the Blu-Ray (DTS-HD 2.0) Audio track and all the DVD (AC3) Audio tracks except the 5.1.
I also de-selected the DVD (MPEG-2) Video track.
That's almost it!
If I let tsMuxer create output at this point it will have the Blu-Ray video and DVD audio, but they will more than likely be out of sync.
So I ran the app and created an .m2ts output file.
Step 4, in order to find out how much delay is needed to align the audio and video track, I played the .m2ts output file in VLC.
VLC has a control under the "Tool" tab called 'Track Synchronization".
It lets you move the audio track forward or backward in reference to the video track to find where they mesh.
When you find that point, there's a readout called "Audio Track Synchronization" that tells what the delay needed is in milliseconds.
Step 5, the final tsMuxer step.
Going back to tsMuxer and leaving it set up
exactly as before, same inputs, everything the same, I highlighted the 5.1 Audio track and typed in the audio delay under "General track options".
All adjustments are now done!
I changed the tsMuxer output to Blu-Ray .iso and let tsMuxer do it's muxing thing.
In one pass, this will create the results needed......
Playing the .iso shows the movie plays in 1080p with 5.1 sound.
It has chapters added every 5 minutes by tsMuxer and the Subtitles from the original Blu-Ray are available
All that's needed is to burn the .iso to disc in ImgBurn.
Hope this is helpful to anyone who needs it.
Props to
@fleika for pointing the way....
T