Compressor and AVCHD

You could attach a second drive, a DVD burner, which would allow you to select AVCHD as a choice. Also, you say that the video is unwatchable. On your Blu-ray player, or on your Mac?

Generally, your Mac won't be able to play Blu-ray compliant H.264 properly. So you can't use that to judge. Try playing it with Movist; I think that does better than VLC.

Are you saying that you are putting a video file on a disc, and trying to play that with your PS3? If it is compliant it should work. But you may need to change the file extension. Try .mts or .wmv. Yes, I know the wmv doesn't make sense but it works.

So your files themselves may be fine; but the Mac OS lags a bit in this area. If you have Toast, you may be able to build a BD without encoding a second time. That would be a good indicator of whether you encoded properly, and would also package the video so that the PS3 would be more likely to play it. If Toast tries reencoding, play with its settings and try changing the extension of your encoded files.

Jeremy

How are you muxing it in Compressor?

Are you using tsmuxer on Windows then?

And, let me get your workflow straight:
1. Start with some source video
2. Compress to H.264 for Blu-ray with Compressor
3. Compress audio to AC3 (yes??)
3. Mux with tsMuxer (I assume under Windows)
4. Build an AVCHD format disc with the other windows app

And when you put the disc in, it does NOT autoplay; you are forced to select the media file from the disc and that's when the PS3 says "incompatible formate".

Do I have that all correct?

In Compressor:
File format = H.264 for Blu-ray
Stream usage = AVCHD

Correct?

Also, do you have Toast?

I would suggest:

Your Windows apps are screwing it up somehow.

You should compress with Compressor, and put them into Toast. Make sure the DVD/BD-R button at the bottom is set to DVD. This will ensure it burns an actual AVCHD disc. It should NOT say "encoding" at any point. Toast should multiplex, then burn.

The disadvantage is that Toast does not recognize quicktime chapter markers. But it will put them in at intervals, and use its own (limited) menus.

Jeremy

I can't try tsMuxer because it won't run under 10.6. So I would suggest checking ALL your settings that you are using it to make AVCHD-compliant streams, not Blu-ray.

Just an FYI for everyone.

Tsmuxer can be run on SL now with this hacked version.
http://rs650.rapidshare.com/files/355705375/tsMuxeR1.10.6_VoxMac_UnofficialBuild.dmg

I downloaded it and it apparently works just fine.

This guy here explains what is wrong with it.
http://instantitunes.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/use-tsmuxer-on-snow-leopard/

As long as you don't need the Korean fonts you can get it to work on the SL side.
Hope this helps someone.
Chris

Is it possible that your "H.264 for Blu-ray" encode is at too high a bitrate? AVCHD is limited to the red laser limit of ~18 Mbs. In Toast, I encode to 14 avg. and 17 max, and the resulting disc plays fine. The stuttering you noted is what happens when the bitrate is too high for the red laser technology. Just a thought.