MakeMKV - Blu-ray/DVD/Hd-dvd decryptor and remuxer

[tetsuo55]

Originally Posted by Mike Chen

It is not that simple. In short, VC-1 on HD-DVD is encoded differently from Blu-ray and would require a lot of VC-1 specfic code. Also there is no (still?) free EAC3 to AC3/LPCM transcoding library so writing an EAC3 converter just to support HD-DVDs is challenging. So that's why MakeMKV does not support VC-1 streams without encoded reordering information and E-AC3 streams. Unfortunately these are most common codecs on HD-DVDs.

eac3 decoding is already possible with open-source applications. You could simply mux the eac3 into the mkv directly.

Or do you mean that you have to re-order the eac3 stream to match the VC1?

[Revgen]

EAC3to uses FFMPEG/libaf and Aften (both open-sourece) to encode to ac3 if needed. Also, MKV's support EAC3. However, they don't support True-HD/MLP, but that's solved easily by encoding to FLAC, which is supported by MKV. FLAC files even tend to take up less space than the original True-HD files. EAC3to can even detect the delay in the audio file to match the video. Eac3to also removes pulldown from VC1 files, and does so in a similar way VC1Conv does. VC1Conv source code and program is here. http://www.w6rz.net/vc1conv.zip

Madshi does EAC3to for free, but he hasn't been able to update it for awhile since having to work more than usual. Unfortuanately, Madshi hasn't released the source code, so you can't really look at it. But it can be done.

[setarip_old]

@Mike Chen

Hi!

VC-1 on HD-DVD is encoded differently from Blu-ray and would require a lot of VC-1 specfic code.

As far as I know, the ONLY difference is that for HD-DVDs, you have to remove the pulldown.

Also there is no (still?) free EAC3 to AC3/LPCM transcoding library so writing an EAC3 converter just to support HD-DVDs is challenging.

As has been noted here by others, (freeware) "eac3to" is capable of performing these audio conversions.

Now that you'v been provided with this additional information, I would hope that you'd reconsider.

Your thoughts, please?

[Revgen]

^There are few other things besides removing the pulldown, but VC1conv does those things. The readme.txt file in the VC1conv.zip explains what they are. Once they are done, VC1 video from HD-DVD is Blu-Ray compatible.

I can stick with Eac3to for know as far as HD-DVD's go, but at some point, when Haali adds support for True-HD (which he says he plans on doing), then it's hard to say if eac3to will be updated.

[setarip_old]

@Mike Chen

As far as I know, "tsMuxeR" also properly handles VC-1 from HD-DVDs (.EVOs) so as to make it compatible with BluRay format...

[FredThompson]

I am not able to get MakeMKV to work with AVCHD ISO files. I can open the ISO, pick the parts to export, click the "Make MKV" button and...nothing is exported, just an error statement such as this:

MakeMKV v1.4.6 beta win(x86-release) started
Using direct disc access mode
AACS directory not present, assuming unencrypted disc
File 00000.mpls was added as title #0
Operation sucessfully completed
Saving 1 titles into directory C:/Working/Newsbin/Complete
Failed to save title 0 to file C:/Working/Newsbin/Complete/title00.mkv
0 titles saved, 1 failed

Are there dependencies? Is registration of MakeMKV required to extract? (There's no mention of this in the help nor a prompt of any sort in MakeMKV...oversight?)

[setarip_old]

@FredThompson

Hi!

Likely requires standard BluRay structure, not the slightly different AVCHD structure - After all, its stated purpose is to rip and convert BluRay discs/ISOs (as well as standard DVDs)...

[FredThompson]

Originally Posted by setarip_old

@FredThompson

Hi!

Likely requires standard BluRay structure, not the slightly different AVCHD structure - After all, its stated purpose is to rip and convert BluRay discs/ISOs (as well as standard DVDs)...

That's a good point. I found Nero's freeware InCD reader properly mounts AVCHD ISOs in Windows XP.

I was starting to wonder if the problem was lack of a BluRay drive in this particular computer. When they're $25...

[CybrFyre]

Has anyone gotten this to work under Fedora 11? For me, it pretty much immediately segfaults.

thanks.

[iSeries]

I've used MakeMKV to backup all my DVD's to HDD, thinking it was the ideal way to store them. However, now I have done this, say one of my original discs gets ruined and I need to burn another, how do I now remux the MKV file back into a DVD structure?

[goby]

Mike Chen! Makemkv works great, so far no problem from ver. 1.4.3 up to ver. 1.4.7, thx.

[Mike Chen]

Originally Posted by CybrFyre

Has anyone gotten this to work under Fedora 11? For me, it pretty much immediately segfaults.

thanks.

1.4.7 should work fine.

[GLUBSCH]

Congratulations, MakeMKV is HUGE (and not just in terms of potential). It works especially well together with HandBrake for later encoding.
Mike Chen, I´d LOVE to see an official repository for your great tool (just like the packman repo) and I´m sure many others would as well...

Thanks for providing such a great freeware! Please keep it that way.

[setarip_old]

@GLUBSCH

You should be aware that from as far back as December 2008, "Mike Chen" has indicated that this program will NOT remain as freeware:

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?...15&postcount=5

Some advanced Blu-ray and Hd-dvd functionality will not be free.

[GLUBSCH]

Thanks for telling. I´ve been talking to him and he says that he supports the idea, provided his email address via PM as well.
I already filed a request to the packman team. Next thing to get a hold of are the means of how the parts of makeMKV are exactly licensed.

Looking forward to another reply via PM from him now. Stay tuned.

[GLUBSCH]

Originally Posted by GLUBSCH

Looking forward to another reply via PM from him now. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: I´ve filed a thread for Establishing an *official* MakeMKV Repository. Feel free to contribute your opinions!

-glubsch

[tetsuo55]

Hi Again,

I found the cause of the memory leak i have, the cause also explains why the debug build dit not show anything
It was caused by a bug in my SATA driver. It caused windows to fully cache any file that goes through the "write cache" filling up my ram with the DVD.

MakeMKV now uses +/- 500MB of ram during conversion, does that sound normal?

[tetsuo55]

i have a dvd (already copied to hdd) that fails

Debug log started at Fri Nov 27 10:21:06 2009 , written by MakeMKV v1.4.8 beta win(x86-release)
001014:000000:0000 MakeMKV v1.4.8 beta win(x86-release) started
001013:000000:0000 Debug logging enabled, log will be saved as C:\Users/MakeMKV_log.txt
005042:000000:0000 The program can't find any usable optical drives.
003006:000000:0000 Opening files on harddrive at E:/Movies/Into the Blue 2 The Reef (2009)/VIDEO_TS/
003002:003011:0010 Calculated BUP offset does not match one in IFO header.
003028:000000:0000 Cell 21 was discarded (structure protection?)
003036:000000:0000 Title #0 was added (20 cell(s), 1:31:31)
003020:000000:0000 Title #1 has length of 1 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #2 has length of 8 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #3 has length of 8 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #4 has length of 8 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #5 has length of 9 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #6 has length of 14 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #7 has length of 14 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #8 has length of 62 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #9 has length of 64 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003036:000000:0000 Title #10 was added (2 cell(s), 0:11:42)
003036:000000:0000 Title #11 was added (2 cell(s), 0:06:42)
003020:000000:0000 Title #12 has length of 100 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #13 has length of 51 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003020:000000:0000 Title #14 has length of 64 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
005011:000000:0000 Operation sucessfully completed
005014:000000:0000 Saving 1 titles into directory E:/Movies
001012:000000:0020 FAILURE: Code 2042 at LJbrM4"SFk.%vA-s+:l:121262785
001012:000000:0020 FAILURE: Code 0 at "s|cN^*w:@A>5{esV7(~:121262164
001012:000000:0020 FAILURE: Code 31222 at "s|cN^*w:@A>5{esV7(~:213129639
001011:000000:0020 LIBMKV_TRACE: Exception: Error while reading input
005003:000000:0000 Failed to save title 0 to file E:/Movies/title00.mkv
005004:000000:0000 0 titles saved, 1 failed
005037:000000:0204 Copy complete. 0 titles saved, 1 failed.

[setarip_old]

@tetsuo55

Hi!

Try reducing the "Minimium filesize" to 2 seconds...

[tetsuo55]

Originally Posted by setarip_old

@tetsuo55

Hi!

Try reducing the "Minimium filesize" to 2 seconds...

i will try that