MeGUI file indexer (no video track)

[donfrenchiano]

Does anyone know how megui determines which file indexer to choose. Most of the time it will choose DGAVCindex but occasionaly it will choose FFMSIndex and i believe one time it even chose regular dgindex. These have all been on blu rays btw. The reason i ask is because more than once it has chosen FFMSIndex and complained that it couldnt find a video track in the m2ts file. is there another way to get it to recognize it or am i unable to use megui for this. Avidemux loads and indexes it just fine. The latest blu ray to do this for me is inception. does it determine what indexer to use based on the video codec? Let me know if you need more info.

[Zathor]

does it determine what indexer to use based on the video codec?
Short: Yes
Long:
- DGIndexNV will be used if available and suitable
- DGAIndex will be used if suitable
- DGIndex will be used if suitable
- FFMS will be used in all other cases (but does not support e.g. interlaced VC-1)
If a wrong indexer has been chosen you can override it manually.

Let me know if you need more info. Please tell me the details of the clip where you get the video track not found message. Also please do not index the m2ts file directly. Instead use the HD Streams Extractor tool to create a MKV and then process this MKV file.

[donfrenchiano]

It comes up after a a while after indexing starts after it chooses ffms. demux all tracks is selected. I was just reading about dgindexnv but i dont know where to get a license for it. Why is it bad to index m2ts files directly?

[Zathor]

Why is it bad to index m2ts files directly?
FFMS: http://ffmpegsource.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/ffms2-avisynth.html

Decoding some M2TS files using Haali's splitter will cause massive blocking and other corruption issues. You can work around the issue either by remuxing the file to MKV (using GDSMux (make sure you untick "minimize output file size" in the Global settings tab) or eac3to)

M2TS, TS: Seeking seems to be off a few frames here and there

[donfrenchiano]

Thanks for the info. I'm going to try remuxing to mkv. Will this solve the no video track found or is that a sperate issue

[Zathor]

Thanks for the info. I'm going to try remuxing to mkv. Will this solve the no video track found or is that a sperate issue
Where do you get the "video track not found" message? Please post a screenshot or the log.

[donfrenchiano]

It was towards the end of indexing the m2ts file. i think there may be a problem with the source. I remuxed it to an mkv and indexed that and it crashed with an error but then i just did it again and it worked. Its encoding now So hopefully i wont have anymore problems with it. Thanks for all the help.

[mrbonesSTL]

I am also having this issue. I have ripped Inception to the m2ts format and when I do the file indexer it selects FFMSIndex every time. I have no way to change it, only thing I am able to do is remove audio streams but everything else is grayed out. Now after it does whatever it is it does, the video doesnt show in the preview...so wtf do i do?

[donfrenchiano]

I am also having this issue. I have ripped Inception to the m2ts format and when I do the file indexer it selects FFMSIndex every time. I have no way to change it, only thing I am able to do is remove audio streams but everything else is grayed out. Now after it does whatever it is it does, the video doesnt show in the preview...so wtf do i do?

Before you index try going to tools and opening the HD streams extractor, this will demux everything and put the m2ts file into an mkv container. once this is done index the mkv file. The reason it chooses ffmsindex is because the codec they used is probably VC-1, DGAvcindex can only index files with the AVC codec.

[hello_hello]

I am also having this issue. I have ripped Inception to the m2ts format and when I do the file indexer it selects FFMSIndex every time.

How are you ripping the disc? If you're decrypting it by having something like AnyDVD running in the background, I find it's much simpler (and quicker) to extract the streams directly from the disc than it is to rip the disc to your hard drive, than remux the m2ts file into an MKV. Might as well do it all in one step.

I just run AnyDVD in the background to do the decrypting, then use MeGUI's HD streams extractor to extract the video stream directly from the disc to MKV.

[mrbonesSTL]

Does anyone know how megui determines which file indexer to choose. Most of the time it will choose DGAVCindex but occasionaly it will choose FFMSIndex and i believe one time it even chose regular dgindex. These have all been on blu rays btw. The reason i ask is because more than once it has chosen FFMSIndex and complained that it couldnt find a video track in the m2ts file. is there another way to get it to recognize it or am i unable to use megui for this. Avidemux loads and indexes it just fine. The latest blu ray to do this for me is inception. does it determine what indexer to use based on the video codec? Let me know if you need more info.


I had this same issue with the same movie, Inception. Right now after I do the index through File Index, it forces me to either rip all audio tracks or none, everything else it grayed out and I have to use what it selects, I cannot override manually (or I don't know how to). Help please? Also any ideas why my blu-ray rips are ripping with commentary audio, not the movie audio (using AnyDVD HD).

[mrbonesSTL]

How are you ripping the disc? If you're decrypting it by having something like AnyDVD running in the background, I find it's much simpler (and quicker) to extract the streams directly from the disc than it is to rip the disc to your hard drive, than remux the m2ts file into an MKV. Might as well do it all in one step.

I just run AnyDVD in the background to do the decrypting, then use MeGUI's HD streams extractor to extract the video stream directly from the disc to MKV.


I want(ed) my movies ripped to avi (since PS3 won't play MKV) and I tried following these guides (I'm new to blu-ray rips/encoding). So as this method would work if I needed MKV rips, I'm still trying to get the AVI rips done properly.