Okay, HD-DVD proved to be fairly straightforward once I talked to enough people and got some help. I've got my entire collection ripped and compressed to a server and they play terrific! However HD-DVD is pretty much toast now and I'm not even finding any good sales.
So, I have purchased a 4x BluRay drive. I figured surely this wouldn't be SO much different, right? Well, not so much! I've made SOME progress after reading this thread. However the focus of that thread appears to be different, thus my posting here.
I have managed to identify the two files that made up my movie (The Patriot). I have joined them together with TSsplitter. I have remuxed the the result with TsRemux such that I have just one audio file and one video file - full resolution. These are in a .M2TS format. While XBMC will probably play that it's 32+Gigs and a bit "bulky". My HD-DVD weigh in at about 10-13Gigs which is more like it - I'm not looking to burn to media.
With an HD-DVD I'd split out the audio and video using eac3to, use the calculated frames in an AVIsynth script blah blah, compress the video with meGUI using x264, mux them back with MKVmerge, and call it a day. Unfortunately I cannot find (yet) anything nearly as helpful as eac3to for m2ts files although it looks like some audio conversion and channel flipping can be done with that tool - somehow.
So, how do I get to my end goal from here? I considered building a graph with Haali and FFMPEG with just the video and trying to compress it but I've not got the frames calculated for a script so I worry about synch. I also have no idea how to pull out the audio:bang: I'm stuck!
I'm NO pro at this but with help I've managed HD-DVD. Surely others are looking to do the same thing, has anyone come up with a work flow that consistently works? Surround sound, x264 compression, and reasonable file size with no noticable degradation in visual quality is what I'm after. Using PDVD isn't an option as Linux and XBMC is my target platform.
P.S. I know better than to buy anything FOX not to worry! A shame too, Independance Day would've rocked
So, I have purchased a 4x BluRay drive. I figured surely this wouldn't be SO much different, right? Well, not so much! I've made SOME progress after reading this thread. However the focus of that thread appears to be different, thus my posting here.
I have managed to identify the two files that made up my movie (The Patriot). I have joined them together with TSsplitter. I have remuxed the the result with TsRemux such that I have just one audio file and one video file - full resolution. These are in a .M2TS format. While XBMC will probably play that it's 32+Gigs and a bit "bulky". My HD-DVD weigh in at about 10-13Gigs which is more like it - I'm not looking to burn to media.
With an HD-DVD I'd split out the audio and video using eac3to, use the calculated frames in an AVIsynth script blah blah, compress the video with meGUI using x264, mux them back with MKVmerge, and call it a day. Unfortunately I cannot find (yet) anything nearly as helpful as eac3to for m2ts files although it looks like some audio conversion and channel flipping can be done with that tool - somehow.
So, how do I get to my end goal from here? I considered building a graph with Haali and FFMPEG with just the video and trying to compress it but I've not got the frames calculated for a script so I worry about synch. I also have no idea how to pull out the audio:bang: I'm stuck!
I'm NO pro at this but with help I've managed HD-DVD. Surely others are looking to do the same thing, has anyone come up with a work flow that consistently works? Surround sound, x264 compression, and reasonable file size with no noticable degradation in visual quality is what I'm after. Using PDVD isn't an option as Linux and XBMC is my target platform.
P.S. I know better than to buy anything FOX not to worry! A shame too, Independance Day would've rocked