AutoMKV 0.93a - (DVD/TS/AVI/AVS to X264/XviD/WVC1 into MKV/MP4/WMV) update 30/12/2007

[spotter]

hmm, getting back to audio. I regularly encounter audio that seemingly can't be encoded via soundout correctly (either nic or directshow). It encodes, but it seems to be encoding all silence. End up with a file of like 3-4MB (for over 100 minutes of audio).

If I do borrow a page from autogk, and do an azid to convert to the ac3 to wav, run normalize on the wav, and then use nero on the wav, I get a normal 60MB file that is fine.

any ideas? Any chance (in hell?) you could support an azid->normalize->nero method. Tried 2-Pass w/ its output to wav file, and it had the same issue.

[red5goahead]

hmm, getting back to audio. I regularly encounter audio that seemingly can't be encoded via soundout correctly (either nic or directshow). It encodes, but it seems to be encoding all silence. End up with a file of like 3-4MB (for over 100 minutes of audio).

If I do borrow a page from autogk, and do an azid to convert to the ac3 to wav, run normalize on the wav, and then use nero on the wav, I get a normal 60MB file that is fine.

any ideas? Any chance (in hell?) you could support an azid->normalize->nero method. Tried 2-Pass w/ its output to wav file, and it had the same issue.

I've a TS sat ripped file to test that problem. 40MB. really short.
Buzzqw are you interested about it ?
[MODE ITALIAN ON] fai un fischio se ti serve :) [MODE ITALIAN OFF]

[Glorioso]

I have some questions:
1 - MP4 cant handle AC3 audio?
2 - Can i use the same video without re-encode? (ex: i have a mkv h264 video and i want to pass it to a avi, can i do it without re-encode?)

[matrix40]

Hey im trying to install and use with windows vista and am having problems. When it tried to install the others dll they wont copy to system 32 folder. What should i do

[Atak_Snajpera]

Start Windows in safe-mode and try again (keep pressing F5 during boot)

[spotter]

@survivant001

@spotter
feel free to use autocrop/resize or manual crop :rolleyes:

BHH

hmm, well autocrop seems to only crop on the LEFT/RIGHT (is that true?) Not on the top/bottom of a 2.4:1 aspect ratio video (say Harry Potter 5)

For manual crop, would it be possible to add a live preview (ala gknot and others so one can see what one is doing?)

[buzzqw]

@spotter
even the wav file for 2 pass with nero is silenced?
other way is to use ffmpeg, with custom bat
look at custom.bat in \exe\besweet

autocrop: is autocrop.. in all dimension, up, down, left, right
also ... there is a preview button on advanced settings.. near manual crop

@red5goahead
tryed check "use projectX" ?
and yes.. a link can be interesting :)

BHH

[--PlayStation3--]

First, I'd like to thank you so much for your program because I finally got video working on my 360/PS3.

But...

There's no audio. The original .mkv had a 5.1 .dts audio file, but I've managed to convert that to a stereo .wav. I choose the .wav file as the Audio Track 1, but when I hit Start Encoding it tells me that the audio "wasn't processed right. Should I quit? Y/N"

The video file comes out perfect, but no audio... I've tried it multiple times.

Here are my settings:
http://i13.tinypic.com/6xgu3hf.png

Also, does this program support Quad core CPU's? Will it encode faster?

Thanks.

[maja_the_bee]

Hi, buzzqw!!
First of all, thank you for your wonderfull little app. called AutoMKV, it's fantastic!!
I have a question about resizing: i would like AutoMKV to determine the best width for me; but i don't want it to do any cropping. How do i do that?

:thanks:


Oh yes, and felice Anno Nuovo a Te!! :)

[buzzqw]

@--PlayStation3--

are you sure that wav file is ok ?

try playing it with media player, also launch virtualdub and drag&drop on it mkvmaudio.avs (on \temp folder)
you should get a message

you can also try this: launch automkv, load your sample mkv, and use the mkv as audio, then in advanced settings check "use ffmpegsource", and retry encoding

and yes, x264 and xvid (but much more x264) are fully multiprocessor encoder

@maja_the_bee
no, isn't possibile to do automatic resize BUT keeping black bar (and have little sense... imho)
happy new year! (anche a te!)

BHH

[red5goahead]

@red5goahead
tryed check "use projectX" ?
and yes.. a link can be interesting :)
BHH

With ProjextX it work. With delaycut sometimes the audio is not present , sometimes crash and create a huge file to fill hard disk (also I'll try to create a little file to test it).
You have pm for the test of no audio with delaycut and correct audio with projectx with the same file.

[buzzqw]

yea, thanks for the pm!

i know, delaycut can be sometimes picky.. but overall for mpeg2 stream (not ts) is affidable.

... i am looking for other solutions.. anyway :)

BHH

[red5goahead]

you'll have a new pm with the link for test of delaycut crash and looping. Is that case I ripped in mpg2 format.

[survivant001]

@--PlayStation3--

for the ps3 you can choose mp4 with AAC for the sound. Max file lenght is 4 gigs.

what you can do to pass that is this :

automkv : MKV + ac3

mkv2vob : -> vob. use can rename it xxx. m2t it will play on the PS3 without problem.

BUT don't forget to choose the profile PS3_41.xml the 5.1 level is not compatible with the ps3.

[delacroixp]

I'm based in PAL-land but have aquired a couple of NTSC DVD's... The Jungle Book (1967) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book_(1967_film)).
How do I convert back to the 24 fps FILM original ?


:):devil::D
Pascal

[buzzqw]

@delacroixp

if framerate is 29.97 you can select FILM to get down to 23.976

BHH

[survivant001]

@buzzqw is it possible to add a DRF analysis in a pre-process ?

explanations :)

I encoded a movie to 1 DVD, but the result was a movie of 3.3gigs. I reencode the movie with a higher bitrate and got the same result. I checked the output movie with aninaptic, and 80% of the movie was using QF10 and it's the smaller value in my command line .

so is it possible to add a pre-encoding process that will take x% of the movie and encode it. Check if the value hit the supposed movie size, if not do a DRF.. if the DRF hit the smaller value.. just use a smaler value in the command line do again a sample to get a adjusted bitrate.

all that in a option (checkbox. we don't have to use that each time.. but it could help when it needed)

what do you think ?

[eleazar]

@--PlayStation3--

for the ps3 you can choose mp4 with AAC for the sound. Max file lenght is 4 gigs.

Thanks for your help with the PS3 stuff in this thread :) Do you know what easiest way to split a file would be? I encoded a movie and it came out to 20.9gb, so i was hoping to split it into 4 or 5 parts, but i'm not sure if I can do that without re-encoding :(

[valnar]

I just started down the path of converting DVD's with AutoMKV and I'm having a problem achieving a perfect 1:1 PAR. I think I've tried every option in AutoMKV - anamorphic, resizing automatic, autocrop only, manual resize, checking and not checking ITU resize, keeping black borders, cutting black borders, you name it.

I use avinaptic to check.

Sometimes I get perfect 3:2 = 1.5 PAR if I don't cut anything, but most of the time it turns out close to 1:1, but not exact.

Here are some examples with the pertinent snippet from avinaptic

Width Resolution: Original
[ Relevant data ]

Resolution: 720 x 480
Width: multiple of 16
Height: multiple of 32
Average DRF: 20.187618
Standard deviation: 1.473556
Std. dev. weighted mean: 1.207550

[ Video track ]

Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Frame aspect ratio: 3:2 = 1.5
Pixel aspect ratio: 163:144 = 1.131944
Display aspect ratio: 163:96 = 1.697916
Framerate: 23.976024 fps
Stream size: 12,034,313 bytes
Play duration: 00:01:06 (66.024291 s)
Bitrate: 1458.167930 kbps
Qf: 0.175977

Width Resolution: Autocrop
[ Relevant data ]

Resolution: 720 x 320
Width: multiple of 16
Height: multiple of 32
Average DRF: 20.592545
Standard deviation: 1.515594
Std. dev. weighted mean: 1.244562

[ Video track ]

Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 720 x 320
Frame aspect ratio: 9:4 = 2.25
Pixel aspect ratio: 320:321 = 0.996884
Display aspect ratio: 240:107 = 2.242990
Framerate: 23.976024 fps
Stream size: 8,095,827 bytes
Play duration: 00:01:06 (66.024291 s)
Bitrate: 980.951326 kbps
Qf: 0.177577

Width Resolution: Automatic
[ Relevant data ]

Resolution: 720 x 480
Width: multiple of 16
Height: multiple of 32
Average DRF: 20.187618
Standard deviation: 1.473556
Std. dev. weighted mean: 1.207550

[ Video track ]

Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Frame aspect ratio: 3:2 = 1.5
Pixel aspect ratio: 215:144 = 1.493055
Display aspect ratio: 215:96 = 2.239583
Framerate: 23.976024 fps
Stream size: 12,034,313 bytes
Play duration: 00:01:06 (66.024291 s)
Bitrate: 1458.167930 kbps
Qf: 0.175977

Width Resolution: Manual resize 720x480, zero crop
[ Relevant data ]

Resolution: 704 x 304
Width: multiple of 32
Height: multiple of 16
Average DRF: 20.740998
Standard deviation: 1.506316
Std. dev. weighted mean: 1.234335

[ Video track ]

Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 704 x 304
Frame aspect ratio: 44:19 = 2.315789
Pixel aspect ratio: 152:157 = 0.968152
Display aspect ratio: 352:157 = 2.242038
Framerate: 23.976024 fps
Stream size: 8,894,363 bytes
Play duration: 00:01:06 (66.024291 s)
Bitrate: 1077.707958 kbps
Qf: 0.210028

If I do the same thing with megui, I can get a perfect 1:1 PAR without any effort. The Frame aspect ratio and Display aspect ratio also match, which is preferrable.
[ Relevant data ]

Resolution: 720 x 304
Width: multiple of 16
Height: multiple of 16
Average DRF: 21.730259
Standard deviation: 1.713869
Std. dev. weighted mean: 1.461049

[ Video track ]

Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 720 x 304
Frame aspect ratio: 45:19 = 2.368421 (~2.35:1)
Pixel aspect ratio: 1:1 = 1
Display aspect ratio: 45:19 = 2.368421 (~2.35:1)
Framerate: 23.976024 fps
Stream size: 8,279,680 bytes
Play duration: 00:01:06 (66.024289 s)
Bitrate: 1003.228364 kbps
Qf: 0.191168

Media Player Classic will play all these fine and they appear to be correct AR. Of course, MPC compensates for almost anything.

My ideal is to convert DVD's without a loss of resolution and without black bars, in perfect 1:1 PAR. So if it's a 16:9 anamorphic movie, unanamorphic it first, set PAR 1:1 and upscale resolution if necessary. As you can see from the megui sample, if it's a 1.78, 1.85 or 2.35 movie, the FAR/DAR will reflect that nice and clean.

Is this something achievable in AutoMKV?

-Robert

Edit: I looked briefly at the movie.avs and time.avs scripts that are doing the movie resizing and they seem to have a lot of automated math. I imagine that is causing the rounding errors. Can we simplify that? Or perhaps when the value is so close to a common value, assume it is and fix it? (ie. .96+ = 1.0 or 1.8444 = 1.85)

[survivant001]

I encoded a movie and it came out to 20.9gb, so i was hoping to split it into 4 or 5 parts, but i'm not sure if I can do that without re-encoding :(

it's a lot :)

in autoMKV you can split in file in the target size. I think it's something like "5 4000" not sure.

but there are tools to split files too.. look for them.

[zacoz]

@eleazar & survivant001

It's actually the other way around - chunk size first and then number of chunks. Check out the wiki here: http://automkv.a.wiki-site.com/index.php/Help:Contents#Step_4_-_Set_Disk_Settings

Of course that's only really useful when trying for a target size I believe when encoding which I'm gather you haven't done. Survivant001's advice to look for other tools to split without re-encoding may be more what you are looking for in this case anyway.

[ryc]

@ Buzzqw
As ever offer I modify the values of anime.lvl to operate well with deen Beta 1 (which is most used in Automkv, anime.lvl currently uses the parameters of the beta-2 deen), this use a soft temporary (and space) filtering FluxsmothST, resizing and then a space filtering deen("a2d"), finally filtered the high frequencies with DCTFilter. I tried fairly and in the anime good quality will not harm the details, in the low-quality eliminates noise without harming the details and the compressibility increases well, try and tell me.
When the source is very bad i also put in Advanced Profiles, Advanced AviSynth DGDecode_Debloc (cpu = 4)

@buzzqw AutoMKV 0.93a not remenber DGDecode_Debloc(cpu=4) in jobs, Although it appears in the ini of the job dont do it.
:)

This not work whith QMF_adaptative_lvl, Since apparently Trim the line of lvl at 150 characters

[ryc0203]

@ Buzzqw
As ever offer I modify the values of anime.lvl to operate well with deen Beta 1 (which is most used in Automkv, anime.lvl currently uses the parameters of the beta-2 deen), this use a soft temporary (and space) filtering FluxsmothST, resizing and then a space filtering deen("a2d"), finally filtered the high frequencies with DCTFilter. I tried fairly and in the anime good quality will not harm the details, in the low-quality eliminates noise without harming the details and the compressibility increases well, try and tell me.
When the source is very bad i also put in Advanced Profiles, Advanced AviSynth DGDecode_Debloc (cpu = 4)

@buzzqw AutoMKV 0.93a not remenber DGDecode_Debloc(cpu=4) in jobs, Although it appears in the ini of the job dont do it.
:)

This not work whith QMF_adaptative_lvl, Since apparently Trim the line of lvl at 150 characters

Sorry i Forbiden my password an create a new user, as you see i remenber my password now
:confused:

[ryc0203]

@buzzqw

I changed base.avs and I setmtmode (2.0) and setmemorymax (384) after # loadpluginstart, it work perfectly achieves 100 fps in a movie filtering with spresso, other filters are achieves a 55% increase in fps.

If is possible can you upgrade version of HybridFuPP to 0.98a which is compatible with mt2 and I love the resizing - filtering that his make

PD:
The Filters who I tested and work well with mt2 deen, FluxSmoothST, DCTFilter, Removegrain and Spresso
:)

The link for HybridFuPP 0.98a is http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1066769#post1066769

[ryc0203]

@Valnar
I am not an expert or even less, but I have a problem that may be related, when films are NTSC, at the stage of resmovie.avs when running xvidsingle it show 704x528, thats means PAL , but my source is NTSC (720x480) it upscaling height, I suppose it affects how it performs re dimensioning and prediction of adequate size.

:confused:

[valnar]

@Valnar
I am not an expert or even less, but I have a problem that may be related, when films are NTSC, at the stage of resmovie.avs when running xvidsingle it show 704x528, thats means PAL , but my source is NTSC (720x480) it upscaling height, I suppose it affects how it performs re dimensioning and prediction of adequate size.

:confused:

There are tons of posts and information on Doom9 about aspect ratio, and the math to convert PAL/NTSC DVD's can be a little daunting, which is why I rely on tools such as this or Megui to do the heavy lifting. If my post above was wrong, or if perhaps I'm just using the existing options in AutoMKV wrong, please let me know.

After I get that squared away, I have to figure out if anamorphic is worth it! :confused:

-Robert

[delacroixp]

There are tons of posts and information on Doom9 about aspect ratio, and the math to convert PAL/NTSC DVD's can be a little daunting, which is why I rely on tools such as this or Megui to do the heavy lifting. If my post above was wrong, or if perhaps I'm just using the existing options in AutoMKV wrong, please let me know.

After I get that squared away, I have to figure out if anamorphic is worth it! :confused:

-Robert
As a kid I used to practically live in the cinema (before TV in South Africa, 1975) and anamorphic movies have an almost magic allure.
The concept was brilliant and is still ever popular in certain HD video cameras (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDV) which use 1440x1080 anamorphic Mpeg2 (expandable to 1920x1080).
That said, H264 offers a clean slate and the opportunity to 'clean-up' Mpeg2 movies and re-code into an endless combination of resolution and framerate (with only minor limitations like MOD 2 cropping and MOD 16 w&h).

I also prefer the square-pixel strategy and while many encoders crop and up-size to to anamorphic format (720x576 PAL) or resize to 864x486... I have settled on 800xh for regular movies (after cropping) and 720xh for animations (with a combination of Q20 and Q22 depending on quality, age, extras or B&W). The odd NTSC DVD is resized accordingly and Inverse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine) Tele (http://neuron2.net/LVG/telecining2.html)cine (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtechold/avsivtc.html) applied where possible.
I have also found problems with "rounding errors" and since I manually encode the audio with BeSweet HEv2 profile, I simply enter the AR into MKVmerge GUI downto 4 decimal places (after I've done all the calcs).
Actually, I manually setup the d2v files for AutoMKV with DGIndex aswell... which has been a whole lot of fun but clearly you would prefer a slightly more automated, robust and precise encoding environment.

I hope you come right with your perfect 1:1 PAR (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1081829#post1081829) and perhaps OSS technology will allow us to integrate 5.1 surround and improved audio functionality into AutoMKV at some future point in time.


:):devil::D
Pascal

[survivant001]

@ryc0203 it's not directly related to automkv, but you seem good with filters, do you have a filter for movies and animes that use fft3dgpu0.8.2 ? I don't have the right settings and even worse.. when to use it.

[buzzqw]

i am working on 0.94 alpha
ITU/Anamorphic/Audio delay handling will be rewritten

i will need tester

stay tuned for a alpha

BHH

[vOjToL]

Hi buzzqw!
I've got some issues for you :).
1. Avs as a source- audio is not properly encoding, AutoMKV create mkvaudio.avs and trying processing fixed1.avs (not mkvaudio)which is incorrect.
23:26:09 Copied file I:\WinFast WorkArea\3.avs to I:\WinFast WorkArea\temp\fixed1.avs
23:26:09 Copied file NONE to I:\WinFast WorkArea\temp\fixed2.
23:26:09 Encoding I:\WinFast WorkArea\temp\fixed1.avs To Mp3 with 112 ABR Preset
23:26:23 Unable to encode Audio, trying with DirectShowSource!
23:26:23 Encoding I:\WinFast WorkArea\temp\fixed1.avs To Mp3 with 112 ABR Preset
23:26:38 Unable to encode Audio, even with DirectShowSource!, trying with FFmpeg!
23:26:39 Unable to encode Audio even with DirectShowSource and FFmpeg!
2.When I encoded audio to mp3(open mkvaudio with AvsP.exe and process it), and select as video avs, as audio my mp3, AutoMKV says:

23:44:15 Renamed file fixed1.mp3 to audio.mp3
23:44:15 Encoded 1' Audio Track: 18186352 bytes
23:44:19 Avi engage mode not corrected, switched to DirectShowSource
23:44:23 !!! WARNING - Trying with FFmpegSource

The result avi have a wrong size, bitrate is very big:

23:44:26 FIRST pass XviD: "H:\AutoMKV\exe\encoder\xvid_encraw.exe" -pass1 -bitrate 1321193

[ryc0203]

@ryc0203 it's not directly related to automkv, but you seem good with filters, do you have a filter for movies and animes that use fft3dgpu0.8.2 ? I don't have the right settings and even worse.. when to use it.

I am not good with the filters, it is only the old method of test and error, in relation to fft3dgpu for films can use Diego7_5_FFT3DGPU_King_Of_Queens.lvl, but you have to put in the folder filter of AutoMKV fft3dgpu.dll to anime better use Anime_Slow_Denoise. lvl I upload, because in my opinion deen is better to anime than fft3dgpu, in addition fft3dgpu is very slow.
:)

[Fartingbob]

Big fan of automkv for a while now, just 1 request if its possible.
Can you add a pause button on the encoding window (or main window i guess). I often find i start encoding a DVD and then want to do some gaming, but both end up going at a crawl because my CPU cant cope, even with automkv on lowest priority.

[buzzqw]

@ALL
it's an hard work anamorphic... but is quite done :)

here the "trimmed" script

last=movie.Crop(0,72,720,432)
fixed_aspect = 2.431041
out_width = 656
out_height = 272
SimpleResize(out_width,out_height)

at end the output script, encoding script and muxing script will be very similar to MeGui

the delay can be "fixed" by DelayCut or DelayAudio or Fixed in Muxing (as AutoGK)

HybridFuPP to 0.98a : try ... and report if working :)
resmovie.avs when running xvidsingle it show 704x528, : it's the script for checking autoresize.. isn't the final used script
Avs as a source- audio is not properly encoding, AutoMKV create mkvaudio.avs and trying processing fixed1.avs : fixed
When I encoded audio to mp3(open mkvaudio with AvsP.exe and process it), and select as video avs, as audio my mp3, AutoMKV says:: i will check about.. but is probably that some audio hack (support files) will be removed
This not work whith QMF_adaptative_lvl, Since apparently Trim the line of lvl at 150 characters: seem fixed...
Can you add a pause button on the encoding window: no, not possible

now go coding and testing

BHH

[ryc0203]

@buzzqw
@ALL
resmovie.avs when running xvidsingle it show 704x528, : it's the script for checking autoresize.. isn't the final used script
BHH

I did a test with 20-minute film in the half CD and the resulting size was 704x528 (the source is 720x480)
:confused:

can you include Anime_Slow_Denoise. lvl in AutoMKV, this use correctly Deen for anime (With parameters of beta 1 and not beta 2)

HybridFuPP to 0.98a : try ... and report if working
Testing...

This not work whith QMF_adaptative_lvl, Since apparently Trim the line of lvl at 150 characters: seem fixed...
:thanks:

[Nightshiver]

Hey buzzqw, is it possible to use more than one filter in AutoMKV? Like with the pulldown box, you can only use/pick 1 filter. It would be great to know how to use more than 1.

[jeffy]

Hey buzzqw, is it possible to use more than one filter in AutoMKV? Like with the pulldown box, you can only use/pick 1 filter. It would be great to know how to use more than 1.

join them eg. removegrain(mode=1).degrainmedian(mode=5)

[Nightshiver]

Where? on the "Advanced Profiles Editing" tab and on the "Add to line"?

[jeffy]

Where? on the "Advanced Profiles Editing" tab and on the "Add to line"?
No, I just write them directly on the line Filters.

[buzzqw]

@vOjToL

fixed use of DSS on ifo input
NOTE: the relative vob must be ONE big vob.. not segmented

first round of test is near finished.. if flu goes out i can even publish the first alpha of 0.94

next step is a better (if possible) "copy original" on NOT mpeg2 files

BHH

[valnar]

Buzz,
I noticed all my encodes (show in MPC) have the title listed as
Done with AutoMKV 0.93 http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=854221

Can that be changed?

Robert

[buzzqw]

yes, can be set to other string

in advanced settings write in "title" something (in muxing options)

BHH

[valnar]

yes, can be set to other string

in advanced settings write in "title" something (in muxing options)

BHH

Ah. duh! OK, thanks Buzz.

[Zow]

Strange: Since I installed the latest build, I haven't been able to rip a single Video_ts to mkv:-( It was also happening intermitently with the last build, but usually it worked on retry.

It seems to start O.K., but when I come back after the rip is finished, there is no mkv file.

Here are my logs. Any ideas?

[zacoz]

@Zow

Attachments can take a while to get approved, you're normally better off pasting them in your post inside CODE tags.

Are you talking about ripping VIDEO_TS.IFO / VIDEO_TS.VOB or just the VIDEO_TS directory generally? I didn't think AutoMKV ever worked on the former - think there's a few posts discussing that which I contributed to from memory (will try to find it).

Edit: Found post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1066313#post1066313)

[buzzqw]

@Zow

if you have a single VTS/PGC (a series of vob all belonging to same movie, without extras) you can point automkv to the first vob

BHH

[Zow]

Thanks!

It seems to be working now (it's at 12.%), after I selected the VTS_01_0.IFO file in the Video_TS folder.

When I tried selecting the VTS_01_1.VOB file, it didn't appear to be showing the correct audio stream, and it didn't show any available subtitles. Who knows, maybe my files are screwed up, but they shouldn't really be (ripped with DVDShrink.)

I was doing it wrong before, apparently:-) Two versions ago, I was just selecting the VIDEO_TS.IFO and it worked fine, but the last version was a bit pickier and it would not produce mkvs intermittently, and this current one just refuses to do them if I select the VIDEO_TS.IFO.

Anyway, it looks like it's smooth sailing again now. [Wrong. See below]

Thanks again.

[Zow]

It didn't work:-( After going through the motions, there is still no mkv file.

Here is the VTS_01_0.IFO log first:

[edit: no need for the long code any longer, see buzzqw response below]

[buzzqw]

06:52:31 Only Movie Size: 2661780480 bytes

the encoding is fine

the proble is the destination folder \\TERRA1\share\Movies\temp\

not supported, just map the share (like k: )

BHH

[Zow]

Thanks, buzzqw!

I'll try ripping it to the local drive.

But, this is a new change, or am I dreaming that I was able to rip a whole bunch of movies to the same location (NAS) in the previous builds?

P.S. It worked fine when I ripped to an attached USB drive, instead of to my NAS. BTW, it works perfectly when I select the VIDEO_TS.IFO file (as long there is only one sequence of VOBs, if more than one, it rips only the first sequence:-)

Thanks again.

[delacroixp]

P.S. It worked fine when I ripped to an attached USB drive, instead of to my NAS. BTW, it works perfectly when I select the VIDEO_TS.IFO file (as long there is only one sequence of VOBs, if more than one, it rips only the first sequence:-)

If you want total control of your wayward Vob's... consider loading them up directly into DGIndex (AutoMKV093\exe\DGIndex\DGIndex.exe).

As long as the VOBs have the same resolution/format... you can keep on adding... and then select the section ([...]) of your choice (nice for cutting out bits and pieces). I've loaded up multiple DVD's from the same series into a single MKV... perfect for your "all in one" strategy (hopefully MKV will be releasing tools for chapters and menus, later this month) !
Save project... and then load the d2v file into AutoMKV (and 1 or 2 audio tracks).

It's a little more complicated if you plan to include subtitles.


:):devil::D
Pascal