citronleaf wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 1:42 pmdeadman wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:15 amI created the remux by opening the playlist on the bluray that plays the three episodes in a row
I figured it probably had something to do with combining multiple separate parts, like a "Play All" for a TV series... and some unwanted "padding" showing up before the video or audio or the last episode.
In that case episode 2 should've been out of sync, and episode 3 even more out of sync. I don't know why my method didn't work.
citronleaf wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 1:42 pmdeadman wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:15 amWhen I open the file 00010.mpls directly in my media player
OK, you've lost me there, but that is OK because I do not have the equipment to rip BluRays anyway, so I have not seen what is "under the hood" so to speak!
If you're curious about that: assuming you have a bluray disc in folder form somewhere on your hard drive, look inside the directory BDMV. The last two folders in there will be PLAYLIST and STREAM. STREAM contains all the .m2ts files - the actual video files. In detail view where you can see the sizes of each one, the main movie is pretty easy to pick out. It's the biggest file.
PLAYLIST consists of a bunch of .mpls files - playlists (go figure). They are tiny in size because all they do is tell a media player or other piece of software which video files from the STREAM folder to play. Some of them refer to only one file, others give a chain of files to be played in sequence. In this case the three episodes are 00017.m2ts, 00018.m2ts, 00019.m2ts ... and 00010.mpls is the playlist that lists them all in that order.
When you choose the extended version on the bluray menu that's the playlist your device is using. So opening that in my .mkv editor of choice, MKV Merge, should've allowed me to save the result as a single remux .mkv with no sync issues, since the disc doesn't have any.
But for some reason, the only approach that didn't give me a screwed up result was to make separate .mkv files of each of those three .m2ts files directly. Not using a playlist. Create a separate remux for each episode and then combine them into one file. Remux the result one last time to add the English subs and the Chapter marks from my previous failed remux to the combined file. It was a pain in the ass involving a whole bunch of steps but it worked. I have verified that there are no audio or subtitle sync problems with the new remux. You can go back to my previous post and download it now:
viewtopic.php?p=123766#p123766
If that was more information than you really wanted, I apologize.
