Help converting a HD-DVD rip into WMV9

[lionelblair]

Hi Guys

Have been eagerly counting down the 5 days until I could post as this is clearly the forum in the know!

Right so I have been successfully converting mkv files and blu-ray rips into WMV9 format using TMPGEnc Express 4.0 for a few months - no problems there. However I have had a HD-DVD rip sitting on the pc now for a month and I'm still unable to convert the damn thing! The two largest files from the rip have a .evo extension. These can't be loaded into TMPGEnc.

So from some advice I've been given elsewhere I used Evodemux to demux the evo files. This then left be with an mpv file, a bunch of mpa's all called stream00, stream01 etc, and sup files which I assume are subtitles. I then use TSmuxer to remux the files back together to create a .ts or .mt2s file. These can then be loaded into TMPGEnc no problems. However I add the mpv into TSmuxer fine but when trying to add the mpa (audio tracks) it says that the format is not recognised. TMPGEnc supports mpa and mpv however if I load the mpv straight into it it reports it as a 5+ hour video with some ridiculously small resolution, hence the need to remux into a ts I guess.

I've then acquired yr_eac3 to attempt to convert these mpa files into ac3 files but I haven't a clue how to use the program. So long and short of it is that I can create my WMV9 file but with no audio as nothing I attempt to load these mpa files into recognises them.

Any help greatly would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Mark

[setarip_old]

Hi!

It sounds like you may have fouled something up when you initially ripped your original HD-DVD (from the HD-DVD to your hard drive)...

[Koadic]

ok, first, your audio files only have the mpa extension because that was specified in evodemux. Your audio files could be dts, dts-hd, ac3, true-hd, or pcm. Open your evo file directly in tsMuxer and chose your video and audio tracks that way to create a new m2ts file. But if all you want is audio, load the evo into tsMuxer and demux your audio track that way and, for ease, try to choose an ac3 or true-hd track in your desired language, and demux just that file. If you find a true-hd track, there is a box you will have to tick that will allow you to downconvert it to ac3.

[lionelblair]

Hi guys

I used AnyDVD HD to rip the contents of the disc, it reported no errors but who knows maybe my audio is corrupted. Plus there are two large evo files and I'm only using the one as I'm sure the other is just special features.

Koadic I changed the extension for audio in evodemux to ac3 but they still aren't recognised. Tried just demuxing the audio as well and still no joy. Codecs won't be an issue will they?

Cheers

[Koadic]

Just changing the extension that gets put on the file wont necessarily help. Have you tried to demux with tsMuxer and not evodemux? tsMuxer will put the correct extension on your audio stream whatever it may be and we can go from there.

[lionelblair]

Hi Koadic

I didn't realise that tsMuxer could also demux. Right I've loaded my evo file into tsmuxer, Windows said that tsmuxer has stopped working, I closed the message then got this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2706643896_93de38ff40_o.jpg

Closed that message and tsmuxer stayed open and everything seemed to have loaded correctly into it:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2706589540_5c40a309ef_o.jpg

So there's 3 x 6 channel audio tracks and 1 x 2 channel. When it finished I got another tsmuxer has stopped working explorer message, closed that but this seems to indicate all has gone well:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3142/2705784097_90d95a2446_o.jpg

So tsmuxer hasn't just demuxed the evo file it has remuxed it back into an m2ts file. The resultant m2ts file when loaded into TMPGEnc just hangs for over 5 mins so I killed the process. Tried muxing into a ts file instead and it still hangs in TMPGEnc. I was hoping for tsmuxer to demux the files like you said Koadic but I'm only getting two files at the end of the process, the m2ts/ts and a META file. This must relate to the errors I'm getting with tsmuxer when originally loading the evo, maybe this is why I was told to use Evodemux?

EDIT: Ok if I leave TMPGEnc to it for about 10 minutes then it finally comes back with both video and audio streams loaded - result:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2706745724_2c6b8fd04b_o.jpg

I then have to wait another 5 mins in the cut/edit screen to actually view the video but I can see that it is the first half of the film and 1 hour 19 mins long. Clearly TMPGEnc is working overtime to read these files. So this means that my other large evo file is clearly the 2nd half of the film, we are now getting somewhere. Only prob I have now is the audio stream is being reported as 2 channel, this obviously isn't the case. So I can either bite the bullet and encode as it is with just stereo sound or I'm back to my original problem of needing to import the audio stream separately to get the 5.1! Aaaaarghhh!

P.S. Sorry for all of the screenshots, I'm a stickler for detail!

[Koadic]

Ok, do you have the most current version of tsMuxer? Because I see in the picture above that it says 1.2.6 and I have 1.8.4

Another thing you can do is load your evo file in evodemux (it should auto load part 2), and on the Video/Audio tab, select the 1080i video stream and the audio stream you want to keep and then hit the 'Rebuild' button to create a single evo with only the video and audio you want to keep. Then run that through the most current version of tsMuxer.

[lionelblair]

Koadic thanks again for all this help you're giving me mate.

I've just got tsmuxer 1.8.4 and yes I can see the demux option now. I've loaded both of my evo's into it, unchecked the 480/720p streams, and just clicked the demux. We'll see what happens! I'll see how my audio files come out after this, if I can use them I should be alright, if not then I'll try your suggestion in evodemux for the rebuild option.

By the way the tsmuxer has stopped responding errors have now stopped in this newer version but it still says some tracks were not recognised at the beginning.