Beta Release of DVDtoMKV

[ChristianHJW]

Hi,

i have the pleasure to announce the beta release of

DVDtoMKV (http://corecodec.org/projects/dvdtomkv)

The program is opensource and was created by DVD, the author of DVDtoOGM. The sourcecode is released under a QPL license and hosted on corecodec.org (http://corecodec.org), the same opensource community where matroska is hosted on.

The program is a kind of all-in-one solution DVD ripper, but doesnt include the necessary tools to rip the DVD to the HDD, or to make the indexing ( you need DVD2AVI for that, but we have plans to skip the process in future releases ).

DVDtoMKV will use BeSweet for the audio converting process, and for the time being VirtualdubMod for the video encoding process into MKV. File muxing is then done with mkvmerge, to ensure the highest possible quality MKV files.

We apologize for the huge size of the installer, but mkvmerge requires some not-so-small libraries to work, and we decided to provide them in the installer for the users convenience.

The installer comes in two versions :

Normal Installer :

Will install DVDtoMKV including BeSweet, VirtualdubMod and mkvmerge. avisynth needs to installed on your machine so the app works properly. Get it here (http://dvdtomkv1.matroska.org/DVDtoMkv_0.10_beta_Installer.exe) or here (http://dvdtomkv2.matroska.org/DVDtoMkv_0.10_beta_Installer.exe)

Full Installer :

Will provide the matroska playback pack also, for complete n00bs ( thats why we dont post a link (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/DVDtoMkv_0.10_beta_Installer_DSF_AviSynth.exe) here ;) ).

EXE only

For those who already have all apps mentioned above, there is the EXE only version (http://dvdtomkv1.matroska.org).

Please test the app and report here how its working for you.

Thanks

Christian

[japouleripeur]

Originally posted by ChristianHJW
We apologize for the huge size of the installer, but mkvmerge requires some not-so-small libraries to work, and we decided to provide them in the installer for the users convenience.
Is it possible to get the prog only, as DVD has made for DVDtoOgm in a rar file? (I already use BeSweet, VDM, mkvmerge, etc...)
Thanx

[ChristianHJW]

Originally posted by japouleripeur
Is it possible to get the prog only, as DVD has made for DVDtoOgm in a rar file? (I already use BeSweet, VDM, mkvmerge, etc...)
Thanx

Yes, sorry, my bad :) ..... link for the 'EXE only' was added in the original thread above ;) ....

[japouleripeur]

Great:) :cool: Thanks a lot.

[Kurtnoise]

Hi !!

Great job...and thank you very much Matroska team for your job and tools :cool:

Just one question : Why not substitute avs2avi to VdubMOD ??? Just to encode, avs2avi is really perfect and very good, I think ;)

[The Belgain]

Sounds promising. Any chance of being able to interface with Nero AAC encoder? HE-AAC is really the best solution at the moment for low bitrate 5.1...

[filewalker]

First,

A big Thanks to DVD!:)
I think it's the right way to go to use MKVmerge for muxing.

Originally posted by The Belgain
Any chance of being able to interface with Nero AAC encoder? HE-AAC is really the best solution at the moment for low bitrate 5.1...
I would like to see AAC support, too... but the problem, I think is, that you still have to select manually the profiles in the Nero plugin after the first pass in BeSweet...this means that DVDtoMKV can't do it itself.

Cu filewalker

[The Belgain]

BeSweet was quite buggy when I tried it for Nero AAC encoding (always resampled to 44.1kHz, etc.). Using Foobar (along with the Nero encoder plugin for it) worked very well for me. Perharps it would be possible to frontend to Foobar for AAC encoding? The whole process is fully automated using Foobar, so it should maybe be possible?

Just a thought.

[The Belgain]

An option to set the process priority of VDubMod would be nice too, as the computer seems to become fairly unusable during encoding if the program's at "normal", and it's a pain to have to manually switch it to idle.

Other than that, nice work (on this proggy, and on Matroska in general - I've finally switched over (5.1 HE-AAC clinched it)).

[The Belgain]

Any news about the progress of this little app? It's looking very promising, but seems to have been somewhat abandoned of late....?

[ChristianHJW]

DVD is busy with exams for the time being, thats why there is not so much progress on it right now, but after some more testing and bugfixing we will link to it from our homepage, and i guess this will push its publicity significantly ;) ....

[The Belgain]

Any news on automated AAC encoding support by any chance?

[KpeX]

Originally posted by The Belgain
BeSweet was quite buggy when I tried it for Nero AAC encoding (always resampled to 44.1kHz, etc.). Using Foobar (along with the Nero encoder plugin for it) worked very well for me. Perharps it would be possible to frontend to Foobar for AAC encoding? The whole process is fully automated using Foobar, so it should maybe be possible?

Just a thought. This is not a bug, this is correctly resampling as the nero encoder requests, giving it the sample rate that the encoder expects and is tuned for.

[quazi]

I was already impressed with DVDtoOGM, and now MKV! Thank you!

However, I am with everyone else who is behind AAC support.

Another thing that I'd like to see is support for making anamorphic video. I have been getting excellent results by reducing the width of the video (to increase compressibility) then expanding it later at runtime, but there's not a 'before and after' aspect ratio setting -- one for encoding, one for playback.

An anamorphic 5.1 mkv is perfection! Please see what you can do. (I can't wait!)

BTW, why can't the queue hold more than 20 items?

(edited for clarity)

[mac1929]

I've already posted this on divx-digest, but I extend the info here.

DVD should check DVDToMkv's compatibility with Xvid 1.0. I've seen that he's using registry keys that no longer exist (all credits stuff f.e. has been removed). DVDToMkv does not store Xvid settings right, sometimes settings are lost. The problem is that DVDToMkv seems to be expecting a 0.9.x version registry structure. IMOO DVDToMkv should not care about compatibility with old versions of Xvid, as I suppose that no one uses them to encode.

I have another problem. I've created a mkv file but when opening it with WMP 6 or 9 a window pops up with a tile "VSFilter" and a text that reads "Wrong file version!". The file plays well but full length is broken, WMP shows 3:36:57 but the film is in fact 1:48:29 long. The time showed is exactly the rigth time duplicated. The file can be open with VDubMod without problem.

I'm using matroska pack 1.0.1 w/o ffdshow and Xvid 1.0 RC3 for encoding and playing.

And of course, my congratulations to DVD. His tool makes the process of encoding to mkv quite simple. That will be a huge help to matroska container, at least, I've started playing with matroska thanks to it.

Good luck with the exams, we´re also suffering them! (because of the waiting) ;)

[superdump]

What has happened to this project? I can't find it on corecodec or even on the google...

[scrat]

Hey!

DVD is still working on DVDtoMKV...


cu, scrat

[thoralf]

Does this app also handle subtitles? If not, I would like to add this feature to the wishlist :-)

With kind regards,
Thoralf.

[ProfDrMorph]

I just tried DVDtoMkv for the first time and must: great work, keep it up! :)

But as already mentioned: better XviD 1.0 support would be nice.

Also I had these minor problems:

- final file came out 8MB undersized. ( 692MB instead of 700MB; and no XviD wasn't saturated: average quantizer of about 3.6 for I/P-frames ) But I don't really mind that kind of problem because I may be caused by something else than DVDtoMkv and the difference is so small it can be neglected.

- the programm offers "German" as a language for your audio stream twice. One of those two options ( German[deu] ) doesn't seem to be correct as Media Player Classic doesn't recognize the language of this particular stream. Haven't tried the other option ( German[ger] ) yet, though. But I tried changing the language tag using VirtualDubMod ( which uses German[ger/de] o_O ) and afterwards MPC showed everything correctly.

- DVDtoMkv doesn't seem to recognize the delay of audio streams which were demuxed while ripping ( by DVD Decrypter ). You can still manually change the commandline and add the delay that way but auto-detection or at least nice "box" specifically for entering the delay manually would be nice. I prefer not demuxing the audio streams with DVD2AVI because if I demux the audio streams I want using DVD Decrypter I save harddisk space and speed up project file writing. ( demuxing while ripping the DVD doesn't cause a drop in copy speed )

- when using "Smart Crop All" there are still significant black borders. But maybe I just have a wrong understand of that button and need to use Auto Crop instead.


I think I'll switch from Gordian Knot to DVDtoMkv because it's exactly what I need and all the problems I have can be worked around ( that doesn't mean that I wouldn't appreciate fixes, hehe ). :)

[ChristianHJW]

Originally posted by ProfDrMorph - final file came out 8MB undersized. ( 692MB instead of 700MB; and no XviD wasn't saturated
I talked to DVD about this once, and it became obvious that he was using the same overhead code from DVDtoOGM for DVDtoMKV ;) ....

I think I'll switch from Gordian Knot to DVDtoMkv because it's exactly what I need and all the problems I have can be worked around ( that doesn't mean that I wouldn't appreciate fixes, hehe ). :)

Time for me to get active and mail DVD .. he was working on something completely new, sent us sone screenshots of the GUIs already, but now i havent heard from him since quite some time ....

[scrat]

Hey!

Take a look at this thread on flaskmpeg.info/board: http://flaskmpeg.info/board/thread.php?sid=&postid=48951 and you can see some screenshots of the new version...


cu, scrat

[ProfDrMorph]

The new version looks nice. But it seems like you can't select audio sources that have been demuxed while ripping. I hope the new version doesn't demux them itself out of the .vob before encoding as this means unnecessary waste of harddisk space and time.


btw:
I made a second rip with DVDtoMkv. This time using German[ger] and Auto-Crop. Now I don't need to resave the file using VDubMod to get MPC to correctly label all audio streams and the black borders are completly gone.

Still leaves these things for the new version to improve ( to make it the perfect DVD backup solution for me :) ):
- better XviD 1.0 support ( the lacking XviD 1.0 support doesn't really cause problems with the resulting file but still it would be nice if the front-end does everything correctly :) )
- correct frame overhead calculation ( though I can live with minor undersizing problems )
- better audio delay auto-detection ( can be worked around, too, but I'm a lazy guy :D )
- set thread priorities ( I can still do that using Task Manager if necessary but for the same reason I want better auto-detection for the delay of audio streams I would like to see this feature :) )

[sterlina]

Originally posted by ChristianHJW
i have the pleasure to announce the beta release of DVDtoMKV (http://corecodec.org/projects/dvdtomkv)
link says "Invalid Project"

DVDtoMKV it's an old (nearly one year) project, is it discontinued or still in developpement? any news?

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