Resuming a BD-Rebuilder job

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Hello!

First I like to thank for that nifty little tool and the very comfortable resume feature. Using it, I ran into some trouble.

As far as I understood the resume feature, BD-RB searches the working path for the BDREBUILDER.INF and has a look into the status REBUILD_COMPLETE. The rest of the file contains data of the BD clips that are already completed. Correct so far?

Now to my set: I was trying to rebuild a BD50 to BD25 and after many hours (x264 is soooooooo slow, only 9,9fps on a quad core CPU in the 2nd pass) it came to the extras on the BD, stopping at a certain 480i clip that caused problems.
So I aborted and started again and it asked me to resume. OK. Then it got stuck at the same frame of the clip, not going further. So I tried to cheat. I aborted and replaced the source clip with another one (renamed, of course) that went through formerly.Then I erased all temp files that belonged to that clip and also deleted the status lines related to that clip in the bdrebuilder.inf.
I resumed and it started to extract and encoded video, but at the end of audio encoding it got stuck again. Then I aborted once more.
After this it somehow couldn't resume anymore. It keeps asking me to delete the old files.

What can I do to avoid re-encoding from the very beginning and loosing another day? All files are there. The .inf hasn't changed. Why does BD-RB not seem to recognize the previous session anymore? Is there an entry missing in the .inf or .ini?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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...I tried to cheat. I aborted and replaced the source clip with another one (renamed, of course) that went through formerly.Then I erased all temp files that belonged to that clip and also deleted the status lines related to that clip in the bdrebuilder.inf.
I resumed and it started to extract and encoded video, but at the end of audio encoding it got stuck again. Then I aborted once more. After this it somehow couldn't resume anymore. It keeps asking me to delete the old files.
I just found this a.m. that changing the Source directory means you can't REBUILD, so BD-RB must check it on launch. But you say you WERE able to rebuild after replacing that file in the source?

OK, well here are a few ideas that may help you:

1. In the INF file, COMPLETED=XX tells RB the number of clips it has successfully converted thus far. Maybe if you "cheat" on IT and change the number to the clip past the bad one it will proceed to do "bad clip+1 to the end".

2. The REBUILD_COMPLETE if 1 says "I'm done" and if =0 says "I'm not done yet" so make sure that is 0

3. In the directory that has your WORKFILES, make sure there isn't a directory there with LABEL=WHATEVERYOURMOVIEIS. In other words, if there's a BD structure there already you need to get it out of there.

You might also try: shut down BD-RB, create another directory to copy all your files to e.g. WORKDIR2, change in BDREBUILDER.INI the WORKING_PATH= to the new WORKDIR2, make sure BDREBUILDER.INF in your work path is not COMPLETE=1, and try again.

The above is non-trivial but I can generally eventually get to RESUME without ERASING the Workfile directory...good luck!

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Hey, thanks.

Suggestion 1 and 3 seem to be worth a try. Number 2 has been, of course, checked already.

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Sadly, it all didn't help. So I had to restart the whole project, finding the BD-RB stuck again when coming home.
This BD I was rebuilding has 108 clips. On at least 5 of them the BD-RB got stuck, telling me something about Audio/PGS sizing issue. I succeeded to surpass these clips by aborting, then killing all related files in the WORKFILES folder and in BBDREBUILDER.INF, replacing the clisp by one that already was done and renamed them and resumed the project everytime. This was very annoying, but it went on at least.

The "unwanted" files were all MPEG-2, 480i and 29,97fps, as told by BD-RB.

When resuming, the tool gave the error about Audio and PGS size not matching or so and asked to continue. I chose "yes" and the audio encoder got stuck at 100%. Then I resumed again with erasing the work files once again before and then it worked.

Strange thing is that there are many clips of same type, but some of them went fine and some don't.