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Old 25th January 2008, 08:34   #2941  |  Link
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eac3to v2.17 released

http://madshi.net/eac3to.zip

Also, does anybody have the USA HD DVD of Phantom of the Opera? I really would like to have that tested cause it didn't work with v2.14, but should work now with v2.15-17.
Madshi,

I do own the US version of Phantom. I have the next several days off. Will re-rip it and try to convert to mkv. I'll get back to you soon.
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Old 25th January 2008, 10:50   #2942  |  Link
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Madshi, what's that error?
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E:\2.17>eac3to 300.thd D:\300.dts
TrueHD/AC3, 5.1 channels, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
Extracting TrueHD stream...
Removing dialog normalization...
Writing WAVs...
Creating/writing file "d:\300.L.wav"...
Creating/writing file "d:\300.C.wav"...
Creating/writing file "d:\300.SL.wav"...
Creating/writing file "d:\300.R.wav"...
Creating/writing file "d:\300.LFE.wav"...
Creating/writing file "d:\300.SR.wav"...
[libav] Lossless check failed - expected 0, calculated 69
Found Surcode DTS Encoder version 1.0.21.0.
Surcode encoding successfully started. Please wait...
Closing Surcode...
eac3to processing took 15 minutes, 11 seconds.
Surcode encoding took 22 minutes, 44 seconds.
Done.
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Old 25th January 2008, 11:05   #2943  |  Link
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I'm having trouble converting 300's TrueHD track to AC3. I've tried with 2.14, updated to 2.17, and same results. The track has very faint noise, and nothing else. I've converted TrueHD from multiple other titles without issue.

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

V:\Encoder\Movie>"V:\Encoder\HD-DVD Tools\EAC3toGUI\eac3to.exe" "V:\Encoder\Movi
e\300 TrueHD.EVO" "V:\Encoder\Movie\300 TrueHD.ac3" -640 -24
EVO, 1 audio track, 1:56:33
1: TrueHD, 5.1 channels, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB, 2628056ms
Extracting audio track number 1...
Removing dialog normalization...
Applying RAW/PCM delay...
Encoding AC3...
Creating/writing file "V:\Encoder\Movie\300 TrueHD.ac3"...
[libav] End of stream indicated
eac3to processing took exactly 5 minutes.
Done.

V:\Encoder\Movie>
Any thoughts? Filesize also seems too low, 363,000ish KB.

Edit: For the heck of it, I re-rebuilt the audio file out of my EVOs, same problem.
I'm having the same problem on 300 (Blu-ray).

Code:
eac3to 300.thd 300.ac3
This should extract ac3 from TrueHD, right? Extracted ac3 has really low sound level (usually my receiver volume is set at -40dB, with this ac3 I have to tweak it atleast to -20dB).
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:01   #2944  |  Link
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I think it's a bad rip to begin with. Playing the evo directly with WMVideo Decoder DMO results in total green garbage all over the place. The same if playing the .vc1 file after demuxing it with graphedt or eac3to 2.14. The ffdshow decoder plays it clean up to certain scenes and then you get "rainbow" garbage for a few seconds or more and then back okay.

In both cases of .evo and .vc1, the Sonic 4.3 video decoder plays everything just fine and clean.

After I demuxed the vc1 stream to a .vc1 file with 2.16 and 2.17, both now play like ffdshow (in WMVideo decoder dmo), i.e., all the green garbage is gone, however, where ffdshow plays rainbow-like images, you get blocky garbe at about the same place.
This is really an interesting sample. For whatever reason I cannot reproduce the strange gap reports. My latest eac3to version (work in progress) doesn't complain about any gaps/overlaps with your version at all. Can you please retry with just the sample? Does your eac3to version really complain with the sample? If so, then please retry with eac3to v2.18.

What is most interesting is that (as you say) a Sonic graph plays the sample just fine. But the MS VC-1 decoder seems to be have trouble with the sample. I'm not sure where the problem comes from. It could be a bad rip or a mastering error which for whatever strange reason Sonic can handle but the MS VC-1 decoder cannot. It could also be a bug in the MS VC-1 decoder. We will not be able to know either way until someone tries to rerip the disk cleanly. Anybody?
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:03   #2945  |  Link
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I'm having the same problem on 300 (Blu-ray).

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eac3to 300.thd 300.ac3
This should extract ac3 from TrueHD, right? Extracted ac3 has really low sound level (usually my receiver volume is set at -40dB, with this ac3 I have to tweak it atleast to -20dB).
The same? The other member's problem was the noisy output file. You are talking about lower volume (though judging from volume setting in your receiver isn't the perfect way to identify the problem, if any).
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:08   #2946  |  Link
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Well runtime is 00:01:53.880 which is correct.

Do you want a small sample, or you have a mpeg2 evo?
I think a sample would help.

I do have a MPEG2 480i60 sample and also a MPEG2 480p24 sample. The 480i60 sample plays very smoothly both in its original VOB form and also in the remuxed MKV. The 480p24 sample is stuttering a lot for me, but both as EVO and as MKV. So a sample would be helpful.

Which EVO splitter are you using that gives you smooth playback?

Code:
Error renaming MKV file.
MKV file was successfully created, but the timecodes were not rewritten.
I've tried and cannot reproduce this problem at all, except if I abort timestamp rewriting and don't delete the "trailer.old.mkv" file. In that case exactly the problem you reported occurs. Please make sure that there's no file named "trailer.old.mkv" and then retry. It should work just fine then.
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:10   #2947  |  Link
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because imho libavcodec still has the best picture quality (even if its only a tiny bit better, but still)
Compared to the MS VC-1 decoder!? I'm having a hard time believing that. I mean the MS VC-1 decoder was tested by MS against the reference decoder and it should give out practically perfect images. I don't see how any decoder could top that (except in CPU usage, of course).

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and it also allows me to apply real time sharpening, which I need to display all that 1080p stuff on my 720p resolution, otherwise everything mostly looks a bit blurred due to that downsizing.
Can't you use the MS VC-1 decoder and then still use ffdshow for sharpening?

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btw. another thing, I experienced two mpeg2 1080i sources now, in which the remuxing with gdsmux resulted in little video stuttering of ~0.5 seconds every few seconds in the movie (this was also the case when I put that file in mkvmerge afterwards, didnt change). but when I demuxed it with xport and then remuxed audio and video with mkvmerge, then it was fine. since then im a bit skeptical what haali and mpeg2 muxing is concerned :S
Well, eac3to will sooner or later replace Haali's splitter with my own for MPEG2 content, too. Maybe that will take care of the problem. We'll have to wait and see...
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:11   #2948  |  Link
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I am pretty sure that my copy of 12 Monkeys and Transformers are sub-standard presses. I have noticed from personal experience and from comments made on another forum (AVS) that the quality of the HD DVDs (the disc itself) can vary.

For example you have had no problem with 12 Monkeys and Madshi/Nautilus7 have not had a problem with Transformers and I have not had a problem with Riddick or Knocked Up.
I'm not fully sure about that. I cannot really imagine that a bad disc is causing this. But in the end I'm not really sure...
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:12   #2949  |  Link
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You seemed interested in the gaps and overlaps generated from evos. I currently have three titles that show this, all three of the Matrix trilogy. I just ran it through eac3to 2.17 using the -stripPulldown and without it. Command line is on top.
Thanks!

Could you please retry with v2.18? I think those gap/overlap complaints should be solved in that version.
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:12   #2950  |  Link
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I do own the US version of Phantom. I have the next several days off. Will re-rip it and try to convert to mkv. I'll get back to you soon.
Great - looking forward to your report!
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:14   #2951  |  Link
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Madshi, what's that error?
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[libav] Lossless check failed - expected 0, calculated 69
Looks like a bug in the libav TrueHD decoder. Could you provide me with a little sample which reproduces this bug?

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I'm having the same problem on 300 (Blu-ray).

Code:
eac3to 300.thd 300.ac3
This should extract ac3 from TrueHD, right? Extracted ac3 has really low sound level (usually my receiver volume is set at -40dB, with this ac3 I have to tweak it atleast to -20dB).
How are you transporting the AC3 to your receiver? Via SPDIF? As AC3 bitstream or decoded as PCM? I've been told that some cheaper receivers cannot fully handle 640kbps AC3 streams. DVDs are limited to 448kbps. Please try decoding the AC3 stream on your PC. Does it sound ok there?
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:17   #2952  |  Link
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eac3to v2.18 released

http://madshi.net/eac3to.zip

Code:
* fixed bug which stopped eac3to v2.15-17 from working on some PCs
* fixed h264 bitstream parsing bug (Sum of all Fears)
* fps value is added to MKV header now
* relaxed VC-1 gap detection once more
* TrueHD decoding to stdout fixed (always output as 24 bit now)
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Old 25th January 2008, 13:41   #2953  |  Link
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Never mind Now all is ok.

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Old 25th January 2008, 13:55   #2954  |  Link
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I think a sample would help.
If i cut the evo with a hex editor, eac3to (haali media splitter) doesn't accept it. So i will upload the evo as it is (~70 MB). EDIT: Sample is up here!

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Which EVO splitter are you using that gives you smooth playback?
I really couldn't find that info. But i can give you the decoder's (sonic) video in pin info:

Code:
CLSID: {D7D50E8D-DD72-43C2-8587-A0C197D837D2}
Filter: Sonic Cinemaster® Video Decoder 4.3.0

- Connected to:

CLSID: {1365BE7A-C86A-473C-9A41-C0A6E82C9FA3}
Filter: C:\Tools\Trailer.EVO
Pin: Video

- Connection media type:

Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (16:9) 29.97fps 9800Kbps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE: 
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_MPEG2_VIDEO {E06D8026-DB46-11CF-B4D1-00805F6CBBEA}
formattype: FORMAT_MPEG2_VIDEO {E06D80E3-DB46-11CF-B4D1-00805F6CBBEA}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 1
cbFormat: 282

VIDEOINFOHEADER:
rcSource: (0,0)-(0,0)
rcTarget: (0,0)-(0,0)
dwBitRate: 9800000
dwBitErrorRate: 0
AvgTimePerFrame: 333666

VIDEOINFOHEADER2:
dwInterlaceFlags: 0x00000000
dwCopyProtectFlags: 0x00000000
dwPictAspectRatioX: 16
dwPictAspectRatioY: 9
dwControlFlags: 0x00000000
dwReserved2: 0x00000000

MPEG2VIDEOINFO:
dwStartTimeCode: 0
cbSequenceHeader: 150
dwProfile: 0x00000004
dwLevel: 0x00000008
dwFlags: 0x00000000

BITMAPINFOHEADER:
biSize: 40
biWidth: 720
biHeight: 480
biPlanes: 0
biBitCount: 0
biCompression: 0
biSizeImage: 0
biXPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biClrUsed: 0
biClrImportant: 0

pbFormat:
0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0020: 40 89 95 00 00 00 00 00 62 17 05 00 00 00 00 00 @‰•.....b.......
0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 ................
0040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 d0 02 00 00 ........(...Π...
0050: e0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ΰ...............
0060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0070: 00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 ....–...........
0080: 00 00 00 00|00 00 01 b3 2d 01 e0 34 17 ed 23 82 .......³-.ΰ4.ν#‚
0090: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 ................
00a0: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 12 12 12 10 ................
00b0: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 12 12 12 14 12 12 12 12 ................
00c0: 12 14 14 14 14 14 18 18 18 18 1c 1c 1e 22 22 2b .............""+
00d0: 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 ................
00e0: 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 ................
00f0: 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 ................
0100: 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 ................
0110: 00 00 01 b5 14 82 00 01 00 00                   ...µ.‚....
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Error renaming MKV file.
MKV file was successfully created, but the timecodes were not rewritten.
I've tried and cannot reproduce this problem at all, except if I abort timestamp rewriting and don't delete the "trailer.old.mkv" file. In that case exactly the problem you reported occurs. Please make sure that there's no file named "trailer.old.mkv" and then retry. It should work just fine then.
Nevermind about this. I found out. It's haali media splitter shell extension which tries to access the file to show its info in the explorer (yes i had the folder where the file was saved opened all the time )

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eac3to v2.18 released

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* fixed bug which stopped eac3to v2.15-17 from working on some PCs
Thanks for new version.

Is this the bug that the eac3to -test was not working? What was wrong?

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Old 25th January 2008, 14:28   #2955  |  Link
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Can't you use the MS VC-1 decoder and then still use ffdshow for sharpening?
you can only choose between libavcoded or wmv9 for VC-1 decoding in ffdshow, so I guess its not the same as the VC-1 decoder does.
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I believe madshi was thinking of using ffdshow as image processor after the MS VC-1 decoder.

EDIT: It should be easy to do it if you enable ffdshow for raw video from the codecs settings.

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a friend of mine has problems with remuxing lucky number slevin, all newer eac3to versions (2.15-2.18) crash for him. since he cant post here yet, im posting the bugreport for him:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qkea81

just taking a guess, maybe its because of this: 2: h264/AVC, 1080p13500 ?
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btw. I asked in the ffdshow thread to add VC-1 libavcodec support for your muxes, but they'd rather see you implementing ffdshow support on your end :S
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Nevermind about this. I found out. It's haali media splitter shell extension which tries to access the file to show its info in the explorer (yes i had the folder where the file was saved open all the time )
Ah well, I'm always disabling this shell extension because it drove me nuts.

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Is this the bug that the eac3to -test was not working? What was wrong?
A bug in some internal hooking code.
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a friend of mine has problems with remuxing lucky number slevin, all newer eac3to versions (2.15-2.18) crash for him. since he cant post here yet, im posting the bugreport for him:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qkea81

just taking a guess, maybe its because of this: 2: h264/AVC, 1080p13500 ?
Yeah, that 1080p13500 looks very fishy to me. The crash occurs in a thread created by the Haali Media Splitter. I guess that the Haali Media Splitter was confused by that framerate, too. Maybe a bad rip? Ask your friend to rerip. If the problem doesn't go away then, I'd be happy about a sample. A small one (30MB) should suffice in this case.
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