RipBot264 v1.18.3 - Simple and easy to use GUI -> IPOD . PSP . CONSOLES . BLURAY

[pacaveli211]

yeah, I never watch movies in anything other than the original track either
might be a nice feature to add for those who want to add multiple tracks though (the multiple track could even be for something else, like commentary)

[mmmmdonut]

For any Anime lovers, how are you all doing your subtitles? For instance all my Funimation BD's each contain two sup files. One is usually the opening/closing audio track for the music and the other is the feature.

My output container is mp4 so I just embed the main feature subtitle track but was curious if there is a way to build both subtitle tracks onto the output video.

Hope that makes sense. Thanks.

[rc71]

RipBot264 is amazing! Does anyone know if there is a way to get it to demux the audio later in the process? So it doesn't do it right when you select a file. It would make encoding multiple files so much easier as you wouldn't have to wait for each file to demux before you start encoding. Thanks.

[rc71]

Hello all,

I just tried this pretty cool program but I was shocked to find out that Ripbot264 can not include more than one audio track in an MKV file.

For all people outside of english speaking countries this feature is absolutely essential!

Are there any plans to include support for multi audio MKVs in the future?
I'm guessing it's to keep ripbot as simple as possible. Less things to go wrong. But you can use mkvmerge, which is included in the ripbot package, to add multiple tracks and it takes just a few seconds.

[samtroy]

@rc71

I see, but since it is possible to include "all subtitles" with Ripbot264, why isn't it possible to include *all* audiotracks as well??

This just doesn't make sense to me. And besides: It would be very, very useful to a lot of people.

Well.. maybe in a future version...

[klopsknoedel]

So you also have to encode all of them. The you also have to have the option set Standard-Flags for 1 Audio-Track.

A force-tag for Subtitles would be great so i don't have to build them into the movie itself.

[pacaveli211]

just because you include an audio track doesn't mean you have to encode it
also the stuff you guys want can be done via remuxing with mkvmerge. I know that's an extra step but that's what you'll need to do until ripbot can do the operations (if they get added)
It would be very, very useful to a lot of people.
it would surely be useful to some people. but just because you think it's the most important thing ever doesn't mean everyone needs it.
I'd never use it

[jandor]

Converting DTS to AC3... with quality, quick and easy.
For anyone who needs include dual audio... though the RipBot also converts.

Use my version... Here (http://goo.gl/pqVMR)

Just follow the two steps below:

1. Rename your DTS file to INPUT.dts audio and drag it for inside of the DTS2AC3 folder.

2. Run one of the "DTS2AC3.bat":
DTS2AC3-384kbit
DTS2AC3-448kbit
DTS2AC3-640kbit

The AC3 audio will be created and saved as you chose in the same folder, but with the name OUTPUT.ac3.

[8ternity]

HI Jandor,

Ripbot doesnt calculate the conversion to fit under the DVD5 and DVD9 AVCHD format. Either if you convert it to .AC3, you need to calculate it manually.

I does like that (convert DTS to AC3 with EAC3toGUI that i copy into tools folder, and calculate manually:

Ex:
4475 - (ac3 size track 2) = ex. 4183, set 4175.
This example is for Multi AC3 Only, or audio I is DTS converted with ripbot.

For Multi DTS; ex:
8125 - (dts audio track #2) = ex. 7293mb, set it to 7175 (take out 100mb for conversion space, containers, etc.) and make an estimate to under 25mb range (ex. 4025mb, 4050mb, 4075mb).

In that way, i remux the output conversion with ripbot, add the second audio track, remux everything in AVCHD and everything fit under the DVD5/9 format with dual language.

That's the only one way i've found to add an second language.

If you had a more easy or faster way to do it, im open!:p

[8ternity]

The problem is me because I always prefer original soundtrack + subtitles. I never liked hong kong movies with english soundtrack...


I understand but for a people like me that my primary language is something different that english (me is french) i prefer to listen first in my favorites language, and after listen in english. It's help to more understand after if i listen first in french. Also, my wife listen up in english, me in french. It's usefull to add the second language. Same for people how is primary language is French, Spanish, Portuguese.

Many people request that features. If you can took suggestions and on future think that it can be possible if many poeple is interested, we can wait the time you need to do it, sure we can wait.

Personnally, more than two years i've read over your thread and about 10 peoples ask that feature. I'Ve test HDConvertToX software that they are suppose to do it, but i experiencing many bugs so i prefer your software much stable and easy to use. I not like it, I LOVE IT! lol

[jandor]

@8ternity

Use 2-pass RipBot and control the size of the file containing an audio stream,
in ways that make room for the "remux" of the second audio.
Just need to know the size of the second audio stream.
I never liked 2-pass, but it is the way to enjoy the encoding of RipBot.

Really, RipBot264 and AVStoDVD, are my favorites.

[LigH]

@ jandor:

Your DTS2AC3 uses Aften as AC3 encoder. Because Aften has no really complex psycho-acoustic model yet, its efficiency is rather limited. High bitrates are recommended to preserve quality (with the limitation that "DVD Video" only supports AC3 up to 448 kbps; but current at-least-slightly Blu-ray compatible allround players and A/V Receivers should handle 640 kbps AC3).

[jandor]

Hi, @LigH

I see no difference to Aften conversion of the DTS2AC3 compared to other converters.
It may be strange, but I encode DVD-9 with AC3 640 kbps.
Which the best encoder AC3? Which of them does better quality print? I already know the eac3to.

Thanks!

[klopsknoedel]

eac3to also use the libAften.dll

[LigH]

I don't know any really free AC3 encoder with any halfway complex psycho-acoustic model (similar to e.g. the one the LAME MP3 encoder uses). All the more complex AC3 encoders I know are commercial. So regarding freeware, Aften is still the best we have. And I did not say it is bad; it just could be better, and you may hear the limits when the bitrate gets sparse - like only 384 kbps for 5.1 audio, or even less.

640 kbps is not part of the DVD Video specs; there may be DVD authoring tools which reject such streams, there may be DVD players which contain AC3 decoders which are limited to at most 448 kbps.

[rc71]

@ Atak_Snajpera

Are there any plans to add multiple file additions to the queue? It would be amazing to grab an entire season of rips all at once.

[pacaveli211]

just to clear things up here
DVD9 and BD9 are 2 somewhat different things/references (BD9 is AVCHD on a DVD9)
it appears BD9s are being discussed, so dvd restrictions have no relevance

[legend63]

hello, I can not make the crop, if we make 720, the file that comes out and 'always 1280X720.
Attached input parameters screen
Many thanks in advance.

http://t3.pixhost.org/thumbs/1336/8831373_cattura.png (http://www.pixhost.org/show/1336/8831373_cattura.png)

[pacaveli211]

what AR is the movie legend? (I've seen your screen shot, just wanting to confirm)
and which movie is it?

[soneca]

hello, I can not make the crop, if we make 720, the file that comes out and 'always 1280X720.
Attached input parameters screen
Many thanks in advance.

1http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p305/soneca1/1-2.jpg 2http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p305/soneca1/2-1.jpg

[dbone1026]

I just suddenly started error messages when trying to run mkvs through ripbot. After the stream is demuxed two error messages follow:

"avs2avi.exe" has stopped working
"test.exe" has stopped working

I tested a few mkvs and it appears h264 mkvs get processed fine but when I try to add a VC-1 mkv to Ripbot this is when I get the errors.

However, about a week ago I ran several VC-1 mkvs through Ripbot without an issue, and I have never had an issue in the past. I can think of anything I have done to my PC in the last week or so that would have screwed things up.

Any ideas?

[legend63]

what AR is the movie legend? (I've seen your screen shot, just wanting to confirm)
and which movie is it?
AR ? :confused:
the movie is united 93 ...

[legend63]

1
Thanks , i will try this....
edit: yes work!!
many thanks.

[Atak_Snajpera]

windows xp or windows 7?

[dbone1026]

windows xp or windows 7?

If this is towards me Windows 7 x64. The mkvs are my VC-1 Blu-rays. I used MakeMKV to extract the individual episodes (TV Show Blu-ray) and then use Ripbot to process the individual mkvs. I have never had an issue in teh past doing it this way. I tried extracting the VC-1 track from the mkv and adding it to Ripbot as well, and get the same errors.

[rc71]

If it's to me, either. At this point Ripbot is my killer app so I'd change my OS to make sure it would work. Currently though I have my i7 running XP 32bit.

[pacaveli211]

i7 running XP 32bit
lol....top end hardware....10 yr old OS
that makes sense

[pacaveli211]

dbone1026
what's your VC-1 decoder set to in FFDShow?

[dbone1026]

dbone1026
what's your VC-1 decoder set to in FFDShow?

Without knowing it you solved my problem. I went into my start program and ffdshow was no longer showing. I went into my Program Files (x86) and my ffdshow folder was there but it looks like something was missing. I just installed the latest ffdshow and now I am back in business. No clue what could have happened, the only thing I can think of that I have installed is the HDHomeRun Cable Card software. Very strange, big thanks :thanks:

[8ternity]

@8ternity

Use 2-pass RipBot and control the size of the file containing an audio stream,
in ways that make room for the "remux" of the second audio.
Just need to know the size of the second audio stream.
I never liked 2-pass, but it is the way to enjoy the encoding of RipBot.

Really, RipBot264 and AVStoDVD, are my favorites.

It's what i've done right now. That the way i found to use multiple layers track. Just need to calculate everything before starting the conversion.

[pacaveli211]

Without knowing it you solved my problem.

it was my plan all along!
glad you got it fixed =)

[patch1]

Does RipBot264 still have to be run with administrator privileges or can it now run properly with normal user privileges?

[pacaveli211]

Does RipBot264 still have to be run with administrator privileges or can it now run properly with normal user privileges?

well a crazy person, one without any personal restraint might just simply try it. but I appreciate your self control and reservations in not doing so. you never know what might happen.

personally I've never run ripbot as admin. do you mean that or just with an acct that has admin rights?

[patch1]

do you mean that or just with an acct that has admin rights?
Yes I would like to run RipBot in an account with user not administrator rights. The name of the account was not my concern. Last time I tried it this was not possible.

[benjyv]

got it

[rc71]

lol....top end hardware....10 yr old OS
that makes sense

The purpose of my PC is to run programs not to have the most bloated and newest OS.

[pacaveli211]

The purpose of my PC is to run programs not to have the most bloated and newest OS.

yeah, silly things like x64 support and security are a total waste of time. you should totally stay with your old OS cuz it uses a few MB less of ram (which is a moot point when comparing to x64).

[zachysat]

Hi to all

could someone please tell me if there is a way to increase the bit rate when encoding as a AVCHD.

thank you

zachysat

[klopsknoedel]

CQ: limit the value (minimum is 0)
2-Pass: Increase the filesize

May you also need to change the profiles located in the RipBot234 - directory

[mrpitman]

I have a question that no one has ever answered. I am running Windows 7 x64, and Ripbot 1.16.5, and all the latest codecs and Java 32, an 64 bit installed. I am noticing after a new complete install of my OS (fresh). When I choose to make a AVCHD and choose the option of 2-Pass. When it does it's first pass everything is smooth with ffdshow and haali splitter, but when it starts to go to the 2nd pass two more of the ffdshow and haali splitter icons appear on the task bar near the clock in which it causes glitches in the final rip of the movie. But, if I'm there at the PC when it fixing to start the 2nd pass and wave my mouse over the two new icons (remember there are 4 of them as the 2nd pass starts), they go away and everything the final rip is good. But, I'm not always around when it starts to go to the 2nd pass. So what is causing this and how do I resolve it? All suggestions would be appreciated. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the codecs, but a no fix. I also made a folder in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot, and right clicked on Ripbot icon and chose to pin to start button. To keep desktop clean of icons. PLEASE HELP!!!!!! Should I install a codec and reboot, and then install the next, reboot, and install the last then reboot? The video will freeze and audio keeps going. I'm burning my AVCHD onto $ony DVD+R's and DVDR+DL's. I also on buring with 4x with IMGBurn.

[hoju3508]

I get the same behavior but I don't get glitches.

[rc71]

I'm sure the icon thing is just a symptom of something else, but if you think it's the cause, you can disable the show icon option. I disabled them because they kept littering my systray as they weren't going away.

[rc71]

I have a bunch of files that were encoded with Nero simple profile and LC AAC. Almost always the audio is out of sync. I've seen this problem with AC3 -> AAC, but even when I leave the audio alone, xcopy, it's still out of sync. The original files play fine.
Any suggestions?

[klopsknoedel]

if you change the FPS from for example 23,967 FPS to 25 FPS and you copy the audio-track you'll loose sync.

[pacaveli211]

mrpitman
ffdshow icons always show in the system tray and stay there till you move your mouse over them
this is not what your issue is. you have something else going on.
are you installing codec packs?

[pacaveli211]

rc71
what's your source FPS?

[shanndogg]

I recently noticed some pixelation/blockiness in some Ripbot files produced from Bluray Discs. They did not occur on every rip, but only some. After inspecting a number of my rips I noticed it only seems to be happening from VC-1 Blurays.

For the record I am converting to 720p MKV's with a CRF of 20. I used auto crop with custom size (1280 x XXX)- everything else is left at the default 4.0 profile settings.

Doing a google search, I found this thread that explains the exact problem I am seeing and has photo examples: How to avoid this kind of blocks? (https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21603)

I did a test with Handbrake and the resulting file produced the same type of blocks as Ripbot. According to the Handbrake thread it could be a decoding problem caused by a bug in libav? I am not totally tech savy on this, but could this be the same case with Ripbot? Reading through the threads here it seems Ripbot uses FFDshow which uses wmv9 for VC-1, not libav? - So, I don't know why I would see the same result with both programs.

Obviously, I am not prolific in the technicalities of these programs and I am hoping someone can shed some light- most importantly a fix- for this picture degradation I am experiencing.

[rc71]

rc71
what's your source FPS?

The original was a dvd, I don't recall, but I'm assuming 29.97.

I've seen nero change 29.97 to 23.97 without problems in the output.

The mp4 is 29.97 and so is the output mkv.

I've tried muxing the original audio track with the new video but I'm having the same problem, even though the new video file is the same time (length) as the old
Very strange since most files don't have any issues.

-------------------------

I just noticed that the nero files are encoded with audio at a VARIABLE bitrate. crap. That seems to be a common thread.

[rc71]

rc71
what's your source FPS?

The problem comes up even without encoding if I put the MP4 in an MKV container using MKVmerge.

Anyone have any ideas?:thanks:

[pacaveli211]

shanndogg: what happens if you encode at 18 instead of 20?
do you have the latest ffdshow?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/
are you running Win7 or WinXP

The problem comes up even without encoding if I put the MP4 in an MKV container using MKVmerge.
did you specify fps in mkvmerge? if not it assumes 25fps
I'm convinced you somehow have a framerate issue

[mrpitman]

mrpitman
ffdshow icons always show in the system tray and stay there till you move your mouse over them
this is not what your issue is. you have something else going on.
are you installing codec packs?

No, I haven't installed any other codecs. It's almost like ffdshow and haali are fightinh one another. First, I thought was the PS3 Media Server (PMS), as it to installs the same codecs are Ripbot, but this time after a fresh install I didn't install the PMS again.

[meshaun]

After I set the settings and start, Initializing ... Please wait for more than 8 hours?
How come?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Disable audio normalization and see if this helps

[klopsknoedel]

May this workaround works for you:

1. Deinstall ffdshow, Haali Media Splitter, AviSynth and !!all other codecpacks!!
2. Reboot
3. install AviSynth from here. (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57023)
4. install Haali Media Splitter from here (http://haali.su/mkv/)
5. a) install ffdshow tryouts x86 from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/generic%20builds/)
5. b) install ffdshow tryouts x64 from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/64-bit%20builds/) (if you have a 64-bit machine)
6. reboot
7. try again

[meshaun]

@klopsknoedel:
I did exactly as you said.
It passed the Please Wait.

I'll post about the result.
Thanks

And, how to use the Megui options like: Sharpen, and color tweaks?

[klopsknoedel]

klick on "Properties" next to the Video-Encoding-Modes.

[meshaun]

Thanks..
And I would like to make DXVA compatible videos.


P.S.-You made me love Ripbot264. Thanks a lot klopsknoedel..

[klopsknoedel]

you're welcome. this programm is one of my favourites!!!
but i miss some features:

- copy Video-Stream to just rip the main-movie of a BD (just like DVDShrink)
- add multiple Audio-Streams (to have german and english language for example)

[meshaun]

yeah, I saw the author was online.
WHy not request those features?
and also some new profiles like DXVA / and etc.

[Atak_Snajpera]

and also some new profiles like DXVA / and etc.
and who said that default 4.0 HD profile in not compatible with DVXA????

[shanndogg]

shanndogg: what happens if you encode at 18 instead of 20?
do you have the latest ffdshow?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/
are you running Win7 or WinXP


Thanks for the reply pacaveli211, I have tried 18 and 20- both produce the blockiness.

I am using ffdshow rev3974 which appears to be more recent than the one in the link you provided (3914). I got 3974 from videohelp.com I believe. I recently upgraded to 3974, I will have to check and compare older encodes to see if they exhibit the same blocks as the recent ones- I am not sure if all of the ones I saw the problem on where from 3974. This could be a solution.

I am running Win7 32bit.

[shanndogg]

^ Errr, but wait a second, Handbrake doesn't even use ffdshow so I don't know if that is the problem. I am assuming the problem occurs from the same source for both programs? But, if a different version of ffdshow fixes the problem I am having with Ripbot that would be a great easy fix.

[rc71]

I found a strange suggestion to some of my sync problems. Some suggested manually putting in the info using mkv merge. Naming the tracks and putting in the fourcc code.

The weird thing is that worked for an mp4 in a mkv container. Everything is in sync.

No luck with reEcoding that mkv though.

Ripbot seems to have problem with some AC3 - >AAC issues. The channels to map properly. Nero encodes them properly, but trying to reencode that file still causes sync errors.

The sync problem also happens about half way through at a chapter point. And it's all of a sudden so I can't just do and audio delay for the whole file. (Removing chapters
doesn't help.)


Please. Anyone? I've recoded dozens of shows with nero recode and they are all oversized to get full quality. Getting this working would save me hundreds of gigs of space.
:thanks::thanks::thanks:

[meshaun]

Hi again,
It was good for 2 encodes
and since the 3rd encode, "Please wait.. Initializing" again for hours

Please help, isn't there a permanent fix for this?

[meshaun]

I did again uninstalled all the programs and then installed them again, here it works fine again,
I wonder what's with the Uninstalling and Installing thing

Please, anyone, a permanent fix?

[mrpitman]

May this workaround works for you:

1. Deinstall ffdshow, Haali Media Splitter, AviSynth and !!all other codecpacks!!
2. Reboot
3. install AviSynth from here. (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57023)
4. install Haali Media Splitter from here (http://haali.su/mkv/)
5. a) install ffdshow tryouts x86 from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/generic%20builds/)
5. b) install ffdshow tryouts x64 from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/64-bit%20builds/) (if you have a 64-bit machine)
6. reboot
7. try again

This is the sites I got my codecs from, but I didn't install the 64bit one. Maybe I just need the 64bit ffdshow since I don't have in installed, and I'm running a 64bit system. Thanks for your reply and I'll let you know if it works.

[pacaveli211]

you're welcome. this programm is one of my favourites!!!
but i miss some features:

- copy Video-Stream to just rip the main-movie of a BD (just like DVDShrink)

uhhh.....it's called tsmuxer dude

[klopsknoedel]

uhhh.....it's called tsmuxer dude
really :eek:

That's the way i do it know but it would be nice to do that inside RipBot264.
It's just a feature-request and not a must-have!!

[shanndogg]

Tried ffdshow 3914 and get the same blocks/pixelation. I am surprised no one else has the problem- or at least notices it. I guess VC1 is a problem for the decoding and/or encoding?

[pacaveli211]

shanndogg what's your source
are you encoding from a bluray?
is the vc-1 in an MKV?
I've never noticed any issues with my vc1 encodes, and I'm pretty anal about stuff being perfect

[shanndogg]

shanndogg what's your source
are you encoding from a bluray?
is the vc-1 in an MKV?
I've never noticed any issues with my vc1 encodes, and I'm pretty anal about stuff being perfect

I am encoding from a VC-1 Bluray to MKV. For some reason the mpeg4 AVC blurays don't seem to have as noticeable of a problem (there is still some blockiness in dark areas, but no where near as much as from VC1 blurays). I use the 4.0 profile @ cq 20 and encode at 720p instead of 1080. Should I change anything else, or do you feel those settings should not produce the blocks I am seeing?

[7ekno]

I guess VC1 is a problem for the decoding and/or encoding?

It's your decoder setup, am betting you haven't bypassed MediaFoundation ...

Follow steps 1 to 7 from here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1318934#post1318934

7ek

[pacaveli211]

It's your decoder setup, am betting you haven't bypassed MediaFoundation ...

Follow steps 1 to 7 from here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1318934#post1318934

7ek

what good is doing all that other than the fact that it suggests to install some dumb codec pack that'll probably mess things up?

shanndogg - you should make sure ffdshow vc-1 is set to wmv9 and not anything else
I thought I had you check that already - but it was someone else I'd said that to.
prob not the issue since it does it with other software which doesn't use FFDShow....but just in case

[shanndogg]

shanndogg - you should make sure ffdshow vc-1 is set to wmv9 and not anything else
I thought I had you check that already - but it was someone else I'd said that to.
prob not the issue since it does it with other software which doesn't use FFDShow....but just in case

Yes, ffdshow has VC-1 decoder listed as wmv9.

[eliw]

Hello,
Once ripbot demuxes your MT2S into Audio Video and subs... instead of reencoding the streams then muxing them into MKV can it not simply let me remux (without any encoding done) the streams that I need to MKV - same way as say MKVmerge does.

All I need is strip whats not needed like foreign languages and foreign subs and keep what I need.

This would be amazing and quite simple to do I would have thought - basically in the encoder settings you would have an option to leave all the settings the same as the original resulting in just a quick remux job...

I am hoping that this is already possible (in Ripbot) and someone would just tell me how stupid I am for not seeing it - please don;t tell me to go back to the old archai ways of demuxing manually with eac3to then remuxing again manually with mkvmerge .. I wanna do batch queues !!! :)

[pacaveli211]

please don;t tell me to go back to the old archai ways of demuxing manually with eac3to then remuxing again manually with mkvmerge .. I wanna do batch queues !!! :)
eac3to is archaic?
btw, it seems you can have eac3to automatically mux to MKV for you, rather than using mkvmerge

[7ekno]

what good is doing all that

Cause the guy is clueless and just setting FFDShow to WMV9 is not enough, on Windows 7 you need to tell MediaFoundation not to decode VC-1 (or it will by default, not matter what is installed or what DirectShow options are) ...

So the very least he needs to ensure wmv9 is set and run the preferred filter tweak that disables MediaFoundation ...

My VC-1 decodes were once badly macroblocking and the above link step-by-step actually fixed the problem when the collective brain trust here couldn't ;)

7ek

[puplone]

A noob question:
How can I add an additional audio profile of 48 kbps in the drop down list of RipBot since I can find the lowest value 64 kbps?
Its crazy to edit 'job#_EncodeAudio.cmd' for every single job and change the value to 49152.

Any idea? Thanx.

[Atak_Snajpera]

A noob question:
How can I add an additional audio profile of 48 kbps in the drop down list of RipBot since I can find the lowest value 64 kbps?
Its crazy to edit 'job#_EncodeAudio.cmd' for every single job and change the value to 49152.

Any idea? Thanx.

How many MB do you save by using 48kbps versus 64kbps?

64kbps - 48kbps = 16kbps
16kbps / 8 = 2KB/s

7200s (120min movie) * 2KB/s = 14MB !!!

I see no reason to go below 64kbps.

[klopsknoedel]

Hi Atak,

i've got some display-issues with *.sub - Subtitles within an MKV while playing it on a Blu-Ray-Player (LG BD550).
Even if I add this MKV in tsmuxer to mux to an AVCHD tsmuxer can't read these subtitle-tracks.

If I exchange these *.sub-files with the original *.sup everything works fine. Whithin the Player AND tsmuxer.

[pacaveli211]

so....why are you changing them to .sub?
.sub are dvd files aren't they?

[klopsknoedel]

@pacaveli211
did you asked me?

I don't change them to *.sub ... RipBot does this while adding *.sup - files to the job.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I don't change them to *.sub ... RipBot does this while adding *.sup - files to the job.
There is an option in ripbot264.ini to disable that conversion

BTW. Do converted subtitles work in MPC-HC?

[klopsknoedel]

Yes. Perfectly. Even in VLC and PowerDVD9.

[shanndogg]

My VC-1 decodes were once badly macroblocking and the above link step-by-step actually fixed the problem when the collective brain trust here couldn't ;)

7ek

Thanks for the help, haven't tried the suggested K-lite/mediafoundation tweak yet, but there has been a strange development in my situation:

Normally, I do the encode with Ripbot and quickly scan through it using WMP12 to make sure it came out OK. In WMP12, I get the major macro-blocking. I downloaded VLC media player to see if there was a difference and there is.

WMP12 would show the blocking/pixelation always in the same spots and scenes. This macro-blocking in the specific areas is gone when playing back in VLC, BUT the overall quality is worse as the blocking/distortion will seem like it is starting to fade in- then all of a sudden it will snap off and the picture will look normal. Then after a time it will repeat the process of the distortion starting to appear, then disappears. The level of distortion varies.

Any thoughts on my situation now, or have any of you experienced this and were able to fix it?

[7ekno]

WMP12 using MediaFoundation decoding, VLC has internals ...

Check with DXVA turned off as well (there was a DXVA bug that could cause macroblocking in certain versions) ...

If the decode is the same with and without DXVA in VLC, then it's in the encode, in which case you will have to bypass MediaFoundation for the decode process before the encode :P

7ek

[pacaveli211]

play the file with something better
I've had times where VLC will do weird things like that - when it's not the file itself, just VLC's codecs
try playing it with MPC and see what it looks like. you may not even have an issue with your encodes after all

[klopsknoedel]

I also recommend MPC-HC. Can be downloaded over here (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/). Very lightweight and powerfull with the ability to use external decoders like the ffdshow ones.

If you have problems with H.264 in MPC-HC go to "Properties -> Internal Filters" and uncheck the H264/AVC and VC1 filter to force external decoding by ffdshow (or others you've selected using Win7DSFilterTweaker).

[shanndogg]

WMP12 using MediaFoundation decoding, VLC has internals ...

Check with DXVA turned off as well (there was a DXVA bug that could cause macroblocking in certain versions) ...

If the decode is the same with and without DXVA in VLC, then it's in the encode, in which case you will have to bypass MediaFoundation for the decode process before the encode :P

7ek

Tried with VLC GPU acceleration on and off (believe this is the DXVA setting) and it gave me the same appearing/disappearing blocky result. I followed the 7 steps you previously linked using the K-lite mega codec pack and Win7DSFilter Tweak and did another encode with Ripbot. Same results.

play the file with something better
I've had times where VLC will do weird things like that - when it's not the file itself, just VLC's codecs
try playing it with MPC and see what it looks like. you may not even have an issue with your encodes after all

Downloaded MPC-HC and it provides the same type of problems I was having with WMP12. Tried playing the encodes pre and post the k-lite/media foundation tweak method- all have same results.

I also recommend MPC-HC. Can be downloaded over here (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/). Very lightweight and powerfull with the ability to use external decoders like the ffdshow ones.

If you have problems with H.264 in MPC-HC go to "Properties -> Internal Filters" and uncheck the H264/AVC and VC1 filter to force external decoding by ffdshow (or others you've selected using Win7DSFilterTweaker).

Tried playing the files with H264/AVC and VC1 checked and unchecked- no change.

I also downloaded a version of the encode so I could compare it to the one I did directly from disc and it too had the same picture problems. Thus, it would seem that my encode(s) are fine. So, I either have some type of playback problem on my computer or some discs can't be encoded that well. Since I found that link in the Handbrake forums posted by someone else, at least I know I'm not the only one with this problem- it would obviously just be better if there was a solution.

One other thing I wanted to mention is that I usually watch my encodes via Boxee Box on a 46" LCD and rarely notice any of the blocks/pixelation that I do on certain files when playing them on my computer (the blocks may not even be there when playing back via Boxee as I can't see them and they are pretty obvious on the computer). Not sure why that would be, but having the blocks on the computer doesn't really make sense as it is. Thanks for all the help!

[klopsknoedel]

@shanndog:
May this workaround works for you:

1. Deinstall ffdshow, Haali Media Splitter, AviSynth and !!all other codecpacks AND ALL PLAYERS like VLC and MPC-HC!!
2. Reboot
3. install AviSynth from here. (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57023)
4. install Haali Media Splitter from here (http://haali.su/mkv/)
5. a) install ffdshow tryouts x86 from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/generic%20builds/)
5. b) install ffdshow tryouts x64 from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/64-bit%20builds/) (if you have a 64-bit machine)
6. reboot
7. Reinstall MPC-HC
8. try again

NEVER INSTALL ANY CODEC-PACK AGAIN!!!
You also need to check if you have the latest graphiccard-drivers installed and you're running DirectX9c. Even if you're on Windows 7. You can download it here (http://www.filehippo.com/download_directx/).

P.S. What is the playing-length of the video, which size has the encode and on what resolution do you encode?

[pacaveli211]

shanndog
maybe you could slice out a few minutes of the movie (where this blocking occurs) and a couple of us could try playing it, see what it does on our PCs

[shanndogg]

@shanndog:


NEVER INSTALL ANY CODEC-PACK AGAIN!!!
You also need to check if you have the latest graphiccard-drivers installed and you're running DirectX9c. Even if you're on Windows 7. You can download it here (http://www.filehippo.com/download_directx/).

P.S. What is the playing-length of the video, which size has the encode and on what resolution do you encode?

I have an 8800GTX and am running the latest driver 280.26. I also have DirectX9c installed.

The playing length of the video I have been testing most is 1 hour 45 minutes and I encode it to 720p (from 1080p bluray source) and the file comes out to 2.41 GB. This is done at CRF 20.

shanndog
maybe you could slice out a few minutes of the movie (where this blocking occurs) and a couple of us could try playing it, see what it does on our PCs

Trying to do that now- can't find a program to edit out a part of the mkv- tried AVIdemux but it keeps crashing. Will probably just encode a chapter that has severe blocks, but it will probably have to be with Handbrake.

[rc71]

Is someone out there who can test a file for me? I've tried it on 3 machines and MeGUI encodes it no prob, but takes 30 min. Ripbot does it in 7 with the same awesome video quality, but the AUDIO again is fucked up.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2YLKML76 is the file. It's bloated and I'm REencoding it into 175mb file. (Young Justice EP1)

Settings would be 2pass to 175mb. HD 4.0 and AAC HE 64k.

Thanks.

[Atak_Snajpera]

but the AUDIO again is fucked up.
Can you be more specific?

[klopsknoedel]

Hi ... I've tried it and seems Ok to me.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xqbpnz9v4p53z

RipBot needed 19 minutes on a Core2Extreme QX9650.

That's the MediaInfo of the whole encoded file:
General
Unique ID : 173131047205646994231178822616476437739 (0x823FD3A9ED9A3B24ABA876F9275E4CEB)
Complete name : D:\Eigene Dateien\Desktop\encoded.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 175 MiB
Duration : 22mn 40s
Overall bit rate : 1 081 Kbps
Movie name : encoded
Encoded date : UTC 2011-09-17 09:54:33
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.6.0 ('Still Crazy After All These Years') built on Mar 10 2011 02:50:32
Writing library : libebml v1.2.0 + libmatroska v1.1.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=4, N=28
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 22mn 40s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Nominal bit rate : 1 015 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.046
Writing library : x264 core 114 r1924 08d04a4
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1015 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : HE-AAC / LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 22mn 40s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz / 24.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Language : English

[Atak_Snajpera]

Confirmed!

[benjyv]

@rc71

- In Ripbot encoding takes also 30 minutes ( 7 min PASS1 and 23 minutes PASS2 )
- Why did you choose just AAC HE 64K in stead of " copy stream " ???

However, Ripbot works perfectly , here it is ( btw , same resolution ) :

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wqkf4dqp14aneg9/Young%20Justice%20S01E01%20Independence%20Day%20Part%201%20720p%20WEB-DL%20AVC%20AAC-SLOMO.mkv

Maybe you have some issue regarding softs , drivers or settings.... Try a registry cleaning and an antivirus cleaning , too ;-) or maybe a re-install :D


Ha ha ha
@klopsknoedel

I've got it !!!

He wanna us to encode it...he is lazy :D :)

[rc71]

@atak SYNC issue.

Well that's good news at least. It must be something on my systems that I'm installing everytime.

Appreciate the help. At least I know there is a fix since it's my system.

Any ideas why MeGUI which, uses NeroAAC, encodes the audio fine, but not with Ripbot? I suspect the extraction. When had channel mix ups, Left is rear, right is sub,etc, the problem starts at the extractor, mp4box.

@benjyv
I checked out your file. Does look like it came out fine. Appreciate the time.

As for the time... I'm lucky enough to own a i7 2600. :)

[rc71]

I've removed everything and just installed the latest AVIsynth, Hali and FFShow. Still have the sync issues. The only thing left is NERO. I'd hate to uninstall that. Anyone else who got to work have Nero on their system?????

Keeping in mind that most files I encode are fine. It's just some AAC and most AC3 files that give me issues.

[pacaveli211]

I have nero - my encode came out fine
as for my competitive stats: it took 12mins53secs (2pass mode as specified)

[Hobbe]

Any plans to use qaac or qtaacencoder (quicktime aac encoder) instead of nero?

[klopsknoedel]

Hi,

I think I got lost in the last two or three posts...
How is it possible to use NeroAAC or QtAAC (doesn't matter, just an other encoder as enc_aacplus) for encoding in RipBot?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Can your iphone or ipad play this sample?
http://www.mediafire.com/?1akz3a7xzbfkxbh

[benjyv]

Nice sample !!
Have you joined all those fragments ???? Few of them are of very high resolution ( flying ducks )

[Hobbe]

Yeah.. nice sample... works on ipad 2 and iphone 4.

[klopsknoedel]

F****** brilliant... what are your settings? I wished only one commercial Blu-Ray would have these fantastic quality!!!

[shanndogg]

shanndog
maybe you could slice out a few minutes of the movie (where this blocking occurs) and a couple of us could try playing it, see what it does on our PCs

Here is a link to a sample file I have been talking about that has massive blockiness:
http://www.mediafire.com/?01ekii73a0226q9

Please fast forward to 6:10 and you can see the blocks in the shadows and particularly at the shot of the bed on both the left and right sides. Also, in the last shot of the guy in the hat you can see the blocks on the left hand side in the black area (particularly at the top) and the right side in the blue area.

Let me know how it plays back for you. Thanks!

[Atak_Snajpera]

General
Unique ID : 43294437635405724385507939182402684961 (0x2092349439C1C31BFE1378D58D814821)
Complete name : C:\Users\Mama\Desktop\AB Chap10 Test.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 120 MiB
Duration : 6mn 58s
Overall bit rate : 2 399 Kbps
Writing application : HandBrake 0.9.5
Writing library : libmkv 0.6.4.1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 6mn 58s
Bit rate : 1 711 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 688 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.081
Stream size : 85.4 MiB (71%)
Writing library : x264 core 112
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=20.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=3 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 6mn 58s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 31.9 MiB (27%)
Language : English



Don't you think that average bitrate of 1711 kbps might be to low to achieve good quality?!

http://i.imgur.com/mR4uQ.png

[mrpitman]

May this workaround works for you:

1. Deinstall ffdshow, Haali Media Splitter, AviSynth and !!all other codecpacks!!
2. Reboot
3. install AviSynth from here. (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57023)
4. install Haali Media Splitter from here (http://haali.su/mkv/)
5. a) install ffdshow tryouts x86 from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/generic%20builds/)
5. b) install ffdshow tryouts x64 from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/64-bit%20builds/) (if you have a 64-bit machine)
6. reboot
7. try again


Okay, I tried this install again. Uninstalled everything, and installed everything, rebooted. And I'm still having the same issue with the audio keeps going and the video freezing. So what else could the problem be. I don't ever install any other codecs packs either. I have VLC media player installed, Nero 10 Platinum HD installed as well. I have a malware(Malwarebytes), and Eset BE installed and have no viruses, nor malware installed. So why am I having this issue. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I can do a 2 pass in little than hour. I am outputting to a AVCHD. I have a Phenom II AMD 6 core processor mobo. ALl help would be greatful as I keep having to throw away wasted media. I also have AnyDVD HD 6860 running as well.

[benjyv]

@mrpitman

What about DirectX ???

Have you installed it ??

[mrpitman]

@mrpitman

What about DirectX ???

Have you installed it ??


Shouldn't that be included in the install of Windows 7 automatically?

[benjyv]

Try this one !!!

http://www.filestube.com/d/directx+jun2010+redist+exe

[mrpitman]

Try this one !!!

http://www.filestube.com/d/directx+jun2010+redist+exe

I already d/l'ed it from M$, and installed it, and now I'm trying to use ripbot for make avchd and I'll let you know after a about an hour if that worked or not the issue.

[benjyv]

OK budy , waiting for good news ;-)

[shanndogg]

Don't you think that average bitrate of 1711 kbps might be to low to achieve good quality?!


Yes, at first. However, when I was reading up on what to encode at from guides, forums, etc. the general consensus was that a CRF of 22-20 was recommended for HD sources and 20-18 for DVD. I prefer quality over file size so I went with 20 for HD sources and 18 for DVD.

I was amazed to see most of the 1080p sources coming out at about 2.5gb 720p files and thought that was really small. I was concerned when the average bitrates showed more in the 2500 kpbs range when I read that for 720p you usually want around 6000 kpbs (or 8000 kpbs for 1080p). When I played the 720p files done at crf 20 they looked great. I was amazed and a true believer in how good 264 is so I thought that even though the bitrate seemed low, it didn't matter as the picture looked so good.

Aside from all that, the problem I am referring to in the sample is present whether I encode at crf 20, 18, or 2 pass at 6144 kpbs. In addition, this excessive blockiness only seems to occur from VC1 sources. Could it be that some sources (this one in particular) requires a much higher kpbs in order to remove the blocks?

I am very interested to hear your take on my understanding of what crf should be used vs overall bitrate and, more importantly, were you able to reproduce the blockiness I am referring to when playing back the sample.

[mrpitman]

OK budy , waiting for good news ;-)

That didn't work. It still hangs for a little bit, but not as long as it did before. I never had these problem till I upgraded to 1.16.4, and converted to a x64 bit processor. This is frustrating.

[klopsknoedel]

You said you haven't installed a Codec Pack at all but VLC includes a Codec-Pack!
Please try MPC-HC from here (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/) and disable H.264 and VC.1 insite MPC-HC to force external encoders (Preferences -> Internal Filters).
Let us know if you still have these problems.

[mrpitman]

You said you haven't installed a Codec Pack at all but VLC includes a Codec-Pack!
Please try MPC-HC from here (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/) and disable H.264 and VC.1 insite MPC-HC to force external encoders (Preferences -> Internal Filters).
Let us know if you still have these problems.


I'm not trying to watch my avchd on my desktop. I am watching these on my $ony standalone bluray player. So why do I need to install another media player? I don't watch movies on my desktop. I need this issue resolved so I can enjoy my AVCHD on my HTS.

[klopsknoedel]

Haven't known that.

[benjyv]

@mrpitman

- Have you pushed the .exe button for installing DirectX ???
- What NET Framework version do you have installed on your OS ???

[mrpitman]

@mrpitman

- Have you pushed the .exe button for installing DirectX ???
- What NET Framework version do you have installed on your OS ???

Yes, Directx 11, and .NetFrameWork is v4 with Servicepacks

[mrpitman]

If you mean installed yes, and push is a term I only heard during linux

[pacaveli211]

You said you haven't installed a Codec Pack at all but VLC includes a Codec-Pack!
Please try MPC-HC from here (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/) and disable H.264 and VC.1 insite MPC-HC to force external encoders (Preferences -> Internal Filters).
Let us know if you still have these problems.
uhhh, someone correct me if I'm wrong...but there's a significant difference between VLC and a codec pack. VLC uses internal / it's own codecs. it doesn't register them globally on your machine, VLC just uses them. i.e. installing VLC is NOT installing a codec pack.

Here is a link to a sample file I have been talking about that has massive blockiness:
http://www.mediafire.com/?01ekii73a0226q9

Please fast forward to 6:10 and you can see the blocks in the shadows and particularly at the shot of the bed on both the left and right sides. Also, in the last shot of the guy in the hat you can see the blocks on the left hand side in the black area (particularly at the top) and the right side in the blue area.

Let me know how it plays back for you. Thanks!

http://littleimg.com/public/view/full/6735
like this? =\
it looks like compression to me
maybe when I have time I'll go look at my bd25 encode of this and see if I see the same thing

[mrpitman]

C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\avs2yuv\pipebuf.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs" - : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --pass 1 --bitrate 4551 --stats "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.stats" --fps 24000/1001 --force-cfr --min-keyint 24 --keyint 240 --frames 199824 --sar 1:1 --level 4.0 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --filter 0,0 --ref 3 --bframes 3 --b-adapt 1 --b-pyramid none --subme 7 --aq-mode 1 --trellis 1 --partitions all --me umh --stdin y4m --output "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" - : 2

y4m [info]: 1280x720p 1:1 @ 10000000/417083 fps (cfr)

x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1

x264 [warning]: VBV bitrate (25000) > level limit (20000)

x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast FastShuffle SSEMisalign LZCNT

x264 [info]: profile Main, level 4.0
C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs: 1280x720, 10000000/417083 fps, 199824 frames

x264 [info]: frame I:1946 Avg QP:15.85 size:115593

x264 [info]: frame P:102275 Avg QP:18.75 size: 35955

x264 [info]: frame B:95603 Avg QP:21.13 size: 8323

x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 21.1% 41.0% 13.4% 24.6%

x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 35.6% 0.0% 64.4%

x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 23.7% 0.0% 0.0% P16..4: 61.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:14.8%

x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 2.9% 0.0% 0.0% B16..8: 28.4% 0.0% 0.0% direct:11.8% skip:56.9% L0:30.0% L1:45.1% BI:24.9%

x264 [info]: final ratefactor: 18.38

x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 47.9% 53.6% 18.7% inter: 25.9% 20.4% 1.3%

x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 37% 26% 26% 11%

x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 18% 21% 19% 4% 10% 6% 7% 6% 9%

x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 54% 24% 19% 3%

x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:4.2% UV:1.2%

x264 [info]: kb/s:4509.44



encoded 199824 frames, 63.45 fps, 4509.44 kb/s


C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\avs2yuv\pipebuf.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs" - : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --pass 2 --bitrate 4551 --stats "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.stats" --fps 24000/1001 --force-cfr --min-keyint 24 --keyint 240 --frames 199824 --sar 1:1 --level 4.0 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --filter 0,0 --ref 3 --bframes 3 --b-adapt 1 --b-pyramid none --subme 7 --aq-mode 1 --trellis 1 --partitions all --me umh --stdin y4m --output "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" - : 2

y4m [info]: 1280x720p 1:1 @ 10000000/417083 fps (cfr)

x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1

x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast FastShuffle SSEMisalign LZCNT

x264 [info]: profile High, level 4.0
C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs: 1280x720, 10000000/417083 fps, 199824 frames

x264 [info]: frame I:1946 Avg QP:17.41 size: 99923

x264 [info]: frame P:102275 Avg QP:19.11 size: 36101

x264 [info]: frame B:95603 Avg QP:22.11 size: 8918

x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 21.1% 41.0% 13.4% 24.6%

x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 15.4% 67.6% 16.9%

x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 3.6% 11.8% 1.6% P16..4: 44.9% 17.8% 4.9% 0.6% 0.7% skip:14.1%

x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 0.3% 0.7% 0.1% B16..8: 42.5% 6.3% 1.4% direct: 3.6% skip:45.1% L0:38.3% L1:49.9% BI:11.8%

x264 [info]: 8x8 transform intra:68.9% inter:66.2%

x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 65.6% 70.2% 35.0% inter: 28.6% 30.1% 2.2%

x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 41% 24% 7% 28%

x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 16% 15% 25% 6% 8% 8% 8% 7% 8%

x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 17% 19% 18% 6% 10% 9% 9% 7% 7%

x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 54% 22% 18% 5%

x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:4.7% UV:1.2%

x264 [info]: ref P L0: 65.2% 15.3% 12.6% 6.6% 0.2%

x264 [info]: ref B L0: 90.1% 9.9%

x264 [info]: kb/s:4549.17



encoded 199824 frames, 29.16 fps, 4549.17 kb/s


C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\tsmuxer\tsmuxer.exe" "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\tsmuxer.meta" "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD"

SmartLabs tsMuxeR. Version 1.10.6 http://www.smlabs.net

Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: High@4.0 Resolution: 1280:720p Frame rate: 23.976

H.264 stream does not contain fps field. Muxing fps=23.976

Decoding DTS stream (track 2): Bitrate: 1536Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 5.1

Processed 199825 video frames

Creation of AVCHD playlist

Creation of AVCHD stream info and seek index

Muxing time: 1 min 45 sec


C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\CERTIFICATE\BACKUP"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\CERTIFICATE"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\BDMV\AUXDATA"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\BDMV\BDJO"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\BDMV\JAR"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\BDMV\META"
-------------------------

Elapsed Time: 02h:48m:52s


Can no one figure it out my issue through this log I have provided?

[shanndogg]

like this? =\
it looks like compression to me
maybe when I have time I'll go look at my bd25 encode of this and see if I see the same thing

Thanks, I would be interested to hear what your bd25 looks like compared to the sample file.

Especially, since I found this thread (http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/338855-how-does-Ripbot264-think) on Videohelp that seems to discuss the exact problem I brought up starting at post #7. From the thread and my own experience, it seems like the problem is one of two things: either there is some type of decode and/or encode problem with VC1 sources, or it's working as intended and your monitor black levels need to be at a certain setting. I would lean towards the former as non-VC1 sources seem to come out ok.

[pacaveli211]

Thanks, I would be interested to hear what your bd25 looks like compared to the sample file.

Especially, since I found this thread (http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/338855-how-does-Ripbot264-think) on Videohelp that seems to discuss the exact problem I brought up starting at post #7. From the thread and my own experience, it seems like the problem is one of two things: either there is some type of decode and/or encode problem with VC1 sources, or it's working as intended and your monitor black levels need to be at a certain setting. I would lean towards the former as non-VC1 sources seem to come out ok.

not the exact same frame, but close enough
http://littleimg.com/public/view/full/6739

[Zorro70]

C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\avs2yuv\pipebuf.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs" - : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --pass 1 --bitrate 4551 --stats "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.stats" --fps 24000/1001 --force-cfr --min-keyint 24 --keyint 240 --frames 199824 --sar 1:1 --level 4.0 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --filter 0,0 --ref 3 --bframes 3 --b-adapt 1 --b-pyramid none --subme 7 --aq-mode 1 --trellis 1 --partitions all --me umh --stdin y4m --output "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" - : 2

y4m [info]: 1280x720p 1:1 @ 10000000/417083 fps (cfr)

x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1

x264 [warning]: VBV bitrate (25000) > level limit (20000)

x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast FastShuffle SSEMisalign LZCNT

x264 [info]: profile Main, level 4.0
C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs: 1280x720, 10000000/417083 fps, 199824 frames

x264 [info]: frame I:1946 Avg QP:15.85 size:115593

x264 [info]: frame P:102275 Avg QP:18.75 size: 35955

x264 [info]: frame B:95603 Avg QP:21.13 size: 8323

x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 21.1% 41.0% 13.4% 24.6%

x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 35.6% 0.0% 64.4%

x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 23.7% 0.0% 0.0% P16..4: 61.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:14.8%

x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 2.9% 0.0% 0.0% B16..8: 28.4% 0.0% 0.0% direct:11.8% skip:56.9% L0:30.0% L1:45.1% BI:24.9%

x264 [info]: final ratefactor: 18.38

x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 47.9% 53.6% 18.7% inter: 25.9% 20.4% 1.3%

x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 37% 26% 26% 11%

x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 18% 21% 19% 4% 10% 6% 7% 6% 9%

x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 54% 24% 19% 3%

x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:4.2% UV:1.2%

x264 [info]: kb/s:4509.44



encoded 199824 frames, 63.45 fps, 4509.44 kb/s


C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\avs2yuv\pipebuf.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs" - : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --pass 2 --bitrate 4551 --stats "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.stats" --fps 24000/1001 --force-cfr --min-keyint 24 --keyint 240 --frames 199824 --sar 1:1 --level 4.0 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --filter 0,0 --ref 3 --bframes 3 --b-adapt 1 --b-pyramid none --subme 7 --aq-mode 1 --trellis 1 --partitions all --me umh --stdin y4m --output "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" - : 2

y4m [info]: 1280x720p 1:1 @ 10000000/417083 fps (cfr)

x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1

x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast FastShuffle SSEMisalign LZCNT

x264 [info]: profile High, level 4.0
C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs: 1280x720, 10000000/417083 fps, 199824 frames

x264 [info]: frame I:1946 Avg QP:17.41 size: 99923

x264 [info]: frame P:102275 Avg QP:19.11 size: 36101

x264 [info]: frame B:95603 Avg QP:22.11 size: 8918

x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 21.1% 41.0% 13.4% 24.6%

x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 15.4% 67.6% 16.9%

x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 3.6% 11.8% 1.6% P16..4: 44.9% 17.8% 4.9% 0.6% 0.7% skip:14.1%

x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 0.3% 0.7% 0.1% B16..8: 42.5% 6.3% 1.4% direct: 3.6% skip:45.1% L0:38.3% L1:49.9% BI:11.8%

x264 [info]: 8x8 transform intra:68.9% inter:66.2%

x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 65.6% 70.2% 35.0% inter: 28.6% 30.1% 2.2%

x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 41% 24% 7% 28%

x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 16% 15% 25% 6% 8% 8% 8% 7% 8%

x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 17% 19% 18% 6% 10% 9% 9% 7% 7%

x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 54% 22% 18% 5%

x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:4.7% UV:1.2%

x264 [info]: ref P L0: 65.2% 15.3% 12.6% 6.6% 0.2%

x264 [info]: ref B L0: 90.1% 9.9%

x264 [info]: kb/s:4549.17



encoded 199824 frames, 29.16 fps, 4549.17 kb/s


C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot\tools\tsmuxer\tsmuxer.exe" "C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\tsmuxer.meta" "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD"

SmartLabs tsMuxeR. Version 1.10.6 http://www.smlabs.net

Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: High@4.0 Resolution: 1280:720p Frame rate: 23.976

H.264 stream does not contain fps field. Muxing fps=23.976

Decoding DTS stream (track 2): Bitrate: 1536Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 5.1

Processed 199825 video frames

Creation of AVCHD playlist

Creation of AVCHD stream info and seek index

Muxing time: 1 min 45 sec


C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\CERTIFICATE\BACKUP"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\CERTIFICATE"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\BDMV\AUXDATA"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\BDMV\BDJO"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\BDMV\JAR"



C:\>rd "C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\The Tree of Life 2011 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi.AVCHD\BDMV\META"
-------------------------

Elapsed Time: 02h:48m:52s


Can no one figure it out my issue through this log I have provided?

--stdin y4m

[mrpitman]

huh? what does your reply stand for?

[pacaveli211]

huh? what does your reply stand for?

http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/X264_Settings

[mrpitman]

http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/X264_Settings


So what is this suppose to help me? I'm just trying to figure out why it's pausing (video), and audio keeps going, audio and video out of sync (periodic pausing). That site is just jibberish to me and don't understand any of it.

[Atak_Snajpera]

try this -> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1524459#post1524459

[benjyv]

Hey Atak ,

Can you tell us where do we find parameters like that one shown above ( keyint 24 ) ????
Reading this site I saw that are much more such "extra" parameters .... I'm interested in them . Are these new parameters made by you or we can find them on a list or smth like that ??
Default Ripbot has few parameters ; where do we find the other ones ???

Thanks for replay !!

PS : I've already tried few times to put some extra parameteres within code box but most of them gave errors....It must be sort of special syntax ....
If you agree I can send to you those few extra parameters I need , to show me their syntax for Ripbot .

[Atak_Snajpera]

x264.exe --longhelp

[mrpitman]

I've never had to modify proggie,till since you came out with version 1.16.5, and me running a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

[mrpitman]

I found out today that it doesn't hiccup in the PS3, but only in my $ony standalone bluray player? Why is this?

[benjyv]

I found out today that it doesn't hiccup in the PS3, but only in my $ony standalone bluray player ?

throw it !!!

http://anony.ws/di-8AR4.jpg

[rc71]

YIPPPY. I found a solution, work around, to my audio sync issues. There is this program called Reclock that deals with the PAL 25fps issue, but it does other FPS's and it keeps things at the correct fps. Well Reclock makes x264, avs2avi and Bepipe stay at the proper fps. Success. In sync file.

@Atak So with this info, what do you think I have a bad .Net install, driver, ripbot, or what? I uninstalled everything and reinstalled only the required ripbot software + MPC and I still had sync issues. Any guesses?

[Fartingbob]

Hi, quick question. Is there any way to get Ripbot to send the computer to sleep rather than shutdown when finished jobs? Its not a major issue but i like my PC to sleep when not in use, but i have to get it to shutdown every time i leave a batch running if i know im going to be out or busy when the queue is finished.

[pacaveli211]

Hi, quick question. Is there any way to get Ripbot to send the computer to sleep rather than shutdown when finished jobs? Its not a major issue but i like my PC to sleep when not in use, but i have to get it to shutdown every time i leave a batch running if i know im going to be out or busy when the queue is finished.

shoot, if only windows had its own option to put the PC to sleep after it's been idle for a while

[Fartingbob]

shoot, if only windows had its own option to put the PC to sleep after it's been idle for a while
Sorry but i dont always want my PC to sleep when its idle, sometimes i do though and that is why i asked this question. If ripbot has the ability to turn off the PC when it is finished, surely adding sleep, lock, hibernate functions is possible, and wont hurt it.

[benjyv]

Ups , who's fartin' here ???:p

[microhunt]

Is it possible with Ripbot to have completely lossless conversion. Like could you use a custom CQ level of below 18?. I am currently using a program called Bytecopy which offers 100% lossless conversion. I do not care at all about file size as some movies could could be between 20gb - 35gb. Is there any custom settings I could use as I think the user interface on Ripbot264 is amazing! However I want completely Lossless conversion

[klopsknoedel]

That's what I love to see too.
Copy the Video and Audio - Source to merge them in an mkv-file.

For now I have to do it this way:

1. Demux the Main-Movie: adding the *.pls (use RipBot to find the correct main-movie-one) to tsmuxer
2. Get the chapters out of tsmuxer and copy/paste them into a .txt-file
3. convert the chapters with "TxtToChap (http://www.gurgle.be/java/txt2chap/txt2chap.html)"
4. load the converted chapter-file in mkvmerge -> Chapter Editor -> load
5. save the chapters for use in mkv: mkvmerge -> Chapter Editor -> save
6. add the saved chapter-xml in mkvmerge -> Global -> Chapter-File
7. Add your source-files in mkvmerge as usual
8. set language for audio- and sup-file
9. set forced-flag to the sup-stream if needed

RipBot allready have the ability to do all those anoying steps automatically, The only things which has to be added is "Copy Video-Stream" and the abillity to force subtitles. And that's it.

[rc71]

Sorry but i dont always want my PC to sleep when its idle, sometimes i do though and that is why i asked this question. If ripbot has the ability to turn off the PC when it is finished, surely adding sleep, lock, hibernate functions is possible, and wont hurt it.

Dude that's built into windows. It's best to learn about the sleep settings on your PC than adding another piece of software to do what Windows already does.

All you have to is set the idle time. When the programs are idle for the set time, your machine will go to sleep. That goes for HD.

I know Ripbot is done because my PC is asleep.

[AMED]

Is it possible with Ripbot to have completely lossless conversion. Like could you use a custom CQ level of below 18?. I am currently using a program called Bytecopy which offers 100% lossless conversion. I do not care at all about file size as some movies could could be between 20gb - 35gb. Is there any custom settings I could use as I think the user interface on Ripbot264 is amazing! However I want completely Lossless conversionIf you're ripping Blurays or DVDs then use makeMKV (http://makemkv.com/), it will losslessly copy the video and audio streams you want in to a MKV container.

[klopsknoedel]

If you're ripping Blurays or DVDs then use makeMKV (http://makemkv.com/), it will losslessly copy the video and audio streams you want in to a MKV container.

... including chapters? Because that's what I'm after. Everything else i can do with mkvmerge 5 Final

[AMED]

... including chapters? Because that's what I'm after. Everything else i can do with mkvmerge 5 FinalAccording to the MakeMKV frontpage Reads DVD and Blu-ray discs
Reads Blu-ray discs protected with latest versions of AACS and BD+
Preserves all video and audio tracks, including HD audio
Preserves chapters information
Preserves all meta-information (track language, audio type)
Fast conversion - converts as fast as your drive can read data.
No additional software is required for conversion or decryption.
Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
Functionality to open DVD discs is free and will always stay free.
All features (including Blu-ray decryption and processing) are free during BETA.

[muhadi]

Hi, how to make the video brighter? My new player is too dark a picture show when I need to convert videos to add brightness with help of filters that can be done?

[hoju3508]

This is a nice little GUI that uses eac3to to demux into MKV:

Another EAC3to GUI Plus (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154126)

[benjyv]

Hi, how to make the video brighter?

try to clean the screen !!

http://anony.ws/di-C3KA.jpg

[LigH]

@ benjyv:

Not funny. Try to be helpful instead of sarcastic. Please.
__

@ muhadi:

Not as simple as it seems. Some users prefer technically correct conversions via ITU-R matrices, PC/TV scale (coring), etc.; if you don't care too much about that, you may want to compare the AviSynth functions Levels(gamma) and Tweak(contrast, brightness).

But I can't help you about how to use them in RipBot264.

[pacaveli211]

@ benjyv:

Not funny. Try to be helpful instead of sarcastic. Please.

benjyv's a tool, but you're in the wrong place (the internet) if you can't handle some sarcasm

Hi, how to make the video brighter? My new player is too dark a picture show when I need to convert videos to add brightness with help of filters that can be done?
turn the brightness up on your tv / monitor, simple fix
some, more advanced players, will also allow on the fly adjustments. VLC, for example, has some video filtering such as brightness/contrast/sharpness, etc

[rc71]

--- Question ---


Hello everyone. I was wondering if anyone had a ideas on how to do something. I need to DENOISE something, but the ripbot denoise is it's a bit too strong for this file. Is there another way to do a denoise so that I can control the settings a little more?? Maybe some encoder settings like deblocking or something? Thanks

[rc71]

Hi, how to make the video brighter? My new player is too dark a picture show when I need to convert videos to add brightness with help of filters that can be done?

If you select properties on the main Ripbot screen, it will open up some choices. The third screen has COLORs. Choose TWEAK and there you'll see settings for contrast and hue and brightness.
Good Luck.

[b66pak]

@Atak_Snajpera please consider updating dtsdecoderdll.dll...read here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1529965#post1529965) (13 posts)...
_

[rc71]

@Atak_Snajpera please consider updating dtsdecoderdll.dll...read here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1529965#post1529965) (13 posts)...
_

While I have had the same issues, the recommendation you have given doesn't seem to be necessary as the version that is recommend is 1.1.0.0 from 2008 which is what ripbot seem to be currently using.

"... And yes - there is a problem. The 1.1.0.0 version of the Arcsoft DTS decoder applies the wrong channel matrix for any 7.1 content (you heard it here first ;-). The 1.1.0.8 is fine regarding any channel layout BUT isn't able to decode 6.1 streams at all. So there you have it - no version works for everything.."

[7ekno]

"... And yes - there is a problem. The 1.1.0.0 version of the Arcsoft DTS decoder applies the wrong channel matrix for any 7.1 content (you heard it here first ;-). The 1.1.0.8 is fine regarding any channel layout BUT isn't able to decode 6.1 streams at all. So there you have it - no version works for everything.."

Keep reading the next page ;)

There are TWO versions of 1.1.0.0, one dated 21-Apr-2008 and one dated 25-Apr-2008 ...

The 21-Apr-2008 version swaps the 7.1 channels, the 25-Apr-2008 version doesn't (ripbot264 is using the 21-Apr-2008 version and hence the channel swap) :P

7ek

[Atak_Snajpera]

The 21-Apr-2008 version swaps the 7.1 channels, the 25-Apr-2008 version doesn't (ripbot264 is using the 21-Apr-2008 version and hence the channel swap) :P
Can somebody send me that correct version ?

[god_md5]

can next ver change to use lav splitter, not use haali medoa spiltter??
lav splitter is support well than haali now

[Atak_Snajpera]

eac3to requires Haali media splitter

[Zorro70]

--- Question ---


Hello everyone. I was wondering if anyone had a ideas on how to do something. I need to DENOISE something, but the ripbot denoise is it's a bit too strong for this file. Is there another way to do a denoise so that I can control the settings a little more?? Maybe some encoder settings like deblocking or something? Thanks




use ffdshow/ blur and NR/gradual denoise

its on the left pane of ffdshow, try when choosing to preview script in ripbot, video must be playing


or use 0,0 deblock and above so up to +3,+3

[rc71]

Thanks I look into the FFdshow. Hadn't thought of that. I always think of that as post.

[rc71]

Keep reading the next page ;)

There are TWO versions of 1.1.0.0, one dated 21-Apr-2008 and one dated 25-Apr-2008 ...

The 21-Apr-2008 version swaps the 7.1 channels, the 25-Apr-2008 version doesn't (ripbot264 is using the 21-Apr-2008 version and hence the channel swap) :P

7ek

That's good to know. You would think with all the freaken numbers they could have 1.1.1.0 of something. Anyway, I haven't found is 25apr08 one. If you have it, throw it up on mediafire (no timers, no captcha) so we can all share. For now it's just vaporware.

Couldn't Wait ----
_________________________________________

This file was a pain in the ass to get. So here is the dtsdecoderdll.dll 25/04/2008 04:50 v1.1.0.0. If there is a 10:50 am file then well... .s@#$@#$9oi@$#&(*@ #$

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmijotv9tkmkec1

[rc71]

Almost all the files in the Arcsoft folder have updated versions. I don't know how the interact or what is better or worse, but if you do, here you go.

http://www.mediafire.com/?antbsovth1mxa8c

Please don't just drop them into your ripbot folder and then start complaining about this and that going crazy. I've PM'd Atak so I'm sure he'll update what needs to be updated in do time.

Remember, If it isn't broke, don't fix it.

[NiteShdw]

I have a BluRay disc with a small scratch on it, so I ripped it using ddrescue on Linux to create an image of the original disc. ddrescue reports that there was about 2MB of data on the BluRay that were unreadable. I'd like to still rip and convert the movie, ignoring the few errors on the disc (I'll live with missing video).

However, when I try to rip with RipBot, it still fails due to errors in the bitstream:


[s07] The source file seems to be damaged (sync byte missing). <WARNING>
[s07] The SUP reader received unknown data. <ERROR>
[a03] [0:16:45] The source file seems to be damaged (discontinuity). <WARNING>
[a03] The ArcSoft DTS Decoder reported an error while decoding. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 5044699136. <ERROR>


Is there anyway to have it ignore the errors? If not RipBot, is there some other ripping method I should try that might be less sensitive to the errors in the original bitstream?

[7ekno]

Is there anyway to have it ignore the errors? If not RipBot, is there some other ripping method I should try that might be less sensitive to the errors in the original bitstream?

Avisynth with either FFMS2 or DGDec (cause they are frame accurate), use the trim() command to skip around the damaged part, feed the AVS file into Ripbot264 ...

Audio may glitch, but can use the same trim() trick for that ...

Tek

[microhunt]

Hi Atak,

Would you consider putting a setting under MKV for complete lossless conversion of Blu-rays for people who don't care about file size? The only program I have found to do this is Byte Copy by Pavtube. However Ripbot264 is superior in many other ways so I was hoping that in the next build you might consider a completely lossless setting.

[dbone1026]

Hi Atak,

Would you consider putting a setting under MKV for complete lossless conversion of Blu-rays for people who don't care about file size? The only program I have found to do this is Byte Copy by Pavtube. However Ripbot264 is superior in many other ways so I was hoping that in the next build you might consider a completely lossless setting.

MakeMKV, Another EAC3To GUI, BluRip, etc.... all make lossless mkvs

[flebber]

MakeMKV, Another EAC3To GUI, BluRip, etc.... all make lossless mkvs

Makemkv seems defunct hasn't been updated in over 3 years. Another EAC3ToGui I had never heard of but lists as one of its requirements as AnyDVD-HD.

probably easier just to rip the files and use mkvmerge to get your loseless files.

[iSeries]

MakeMKV is updated very frequently and is good software. www.makemkv.com.

For any other tool, be it RipBot, BluRip etc, these will require that the disc already be decrypted by eg AnyDVD.

[flebber]

MakeMKV is updated very frequently and is good software. www.makemkv.com.

For any other tool, be it RipBot, BluRip etc, these will require that the disc already be decrypted by eg AnyDVD.

Not criticising the quality of Makemkv but its last release 1.6.15 was march 2010 http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1054

[AMED]

Sorry Flebber, you are incorrect v1.6.15 was released on September 24th, 2011

change log from softpedia

http://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/MakeMKV-Changelog-117330.html

[flebber]

they announced it on makemkv forum march 2010 http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1054

[AMED]

He is editing a locked thread so the original post date doesn't change.

Where is setarip_old when you need him ;)

[dbone1026]

they announced it on makemkv forum march 2010 http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1054

The beta builds are what is used, and as already pointed up this was updated less then a montha go. Not outdated by any means...

[kypec]

I wonder when is mike (MakeMKV forum admin) going to post updated beta key - the current one expires on 31 Oct 2011 which is only few days away...

[AMED]

A few days means 1 or 2 days not 11 days?

he usually posts the new key a few days before it expires or a few days after is expires.

[kypec]

A few days means 1 or 2 days not 11 days?
"A few" is a relative term (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070601113123AA1pdsA) and I used it in context of how many days the current beta key was valid. :sly:

[pacaveli211]

A few days means 1 or 2 days not 11 days

"a few" STARTS at 3 (one is single, 2 is a couple)
and as kypec said...it can vary.

[AMED]

I must have forgotten to put a smiley after that comment ;)

[FarQueue]

Atak, are you planning on releasing an update soon? I'm about to convert a lot of DVDs and thought I'd wait to see if a new version is coming before I start.

[benjyv]

@FarQueue

If you want a new version of Ripbot , make a list of updates you need and put them here , because Atak has too much updates on his list and don't know which one to be chosen :(

[davidsama]

Atak_Snajpera RipBot v1.16.5 refuses to encode using x264 v2106 64 bit 10 bit version and 32 bit 10 bit version. I then removed the 2106 codec(s) and replaced it with 2085 64 bit 10 bit version and it encoded using that version with no problems. Why will RipBot not encode using 2106?

[Atak_Snajpera]

What does log say?

[davidsama]

Here is the log file. http://www.multiupload.com/NLDFTSG5R0

[Atak_Snajpera]

Show me also job1.avs

[davidsama]

http://www.mediafire.com/?4zdz5agdym48k8z job1.avs

[Atak_Snajpera]

it looks like bug in rb264. you have to tell me step by step what you did. this will help me to reproduce this bug.

[Atak_Snajpera]

New application added to my collection

x264 FHD Benchmark v1.0.0 (64bit) - Download (http://www.mediafire.com/?mcic8cupimcy4fm)
(Note: Requires Windows 64 bit)
http://i.imgur.com/lq6Bi.gif

[soneca]

Cool, tested here.;)

Intel Core i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.43GHz ( 16C / 32T )

x264 0.119.2106kMod 07efeb4
(libswscale 2.1.0)
(libavformat 53.17.0)
(ffmpegsource 2.16.2.1)
built by Komisar on Oct 23 2011, gcc: 4.4.7 20110720 (prerelease) (x86_64.generic.Komisar)
configuration: --bit-depth=8 --chroma-format=all
x264 license: GPL version 2 or later
libswscale/libavformat/ffmpegsource license: GPL version 2 or later

ffms [info]: 1920x1080p 1:1 @ 50/1 fps (vfr)

x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1

x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.2

x264 [info]: profile High, level 4.2

x264 [info]: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 fade_compensate=0.00 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=18 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=23.0000 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00

x264 [info]: started at Mon Oct 24 14:14:07 2011

x264 [info]: frame I:10 Avg QP:25.24 size:293385

x264 [info]: frame P:1242 Avg QP:28.44 size: 90346

x264 [info]: frame B:1248 Avg QP:31.32 size: 19904

x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 8.7% 66.6% 23.2% 1.6%

x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 3.6% 76.6% 19.8%

x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 0.1% 4.7% 0.8% P16..4: 38.2% 25.5% 16.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:14.7%

x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% B16..8: 48.1% 6.2% 1.9% direct: 4.2% skip:39.1% L0:36.0% L1:49.9% BI:14.1%

x264 [info]: 8x8 transform intra:83.2% inter:58.4%

x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 90.8% 82.8% 56.8% inter: 30.4% 19.6% 4.0%

x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 17% 37% 10% 35%

x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 11% 25% 16% 5% 7% 6% 12% 6% 12%

x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 15% 21% 13% 7% 8% 7% 11% 7% 11%

x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 52% 26% 15% 7%

x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:1.0% UV:0.1%

x264 [info]: ref P L0: 70.4% 21.8% 5.9% 2.0% 0.0%

x264 [info]: ref B L0: 90.8% 7.8% 1.4%

x264 [info]: ref B L1: 95.7% 4.3%

x264 [info]: kb/s:22397.57



encoded 2500 frames, 25.83 fps, 22397.57 kb/s


x264 [info]: ended at Mon Oct 24 14:15:44 2011

x264 [info]: encoding duration 0:01:37

Verification Code: 19583A5F65565D1134606356115A28113441461149112A2921113111241F252438396B111911222734112011242345111A2C6923272511211F22222A1F232221275C3E605511212856575653252CFB565F54605556551123262121115763525E56641D1123261F2924115761641D112323242A281F2628115C532064

[hoju3508]

Disappointed that i7 980 had a slight edge http://images.zaazu.com/img/Sad-sad-lonely-unhappy-smiley-emoticon-001036-medium.gif.

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2007/x264benchmark.jpg

Intel Core i7-2600K CPU @ 3.4GHz ( 8C / 16T )

x264 0.119.2106kMod 07efeb4
(libswscale 2.1.0)
(libavformat 53.17.0)
(ffmpegsource 2.16.2.1)
built by Komisar on Oct 23 2011, gcc: 4.4.7 20110720 (prerelease) (x86_64.generic.Komisar)
configuration: --bit-depth=8 --chroma-format=all
x264 license: GPL version 2 or later
libswscale/libavformat/ffmpegsource license: GPL version 2 or later

ffms [info]: 1920x1080p 1:1 @ 50/1 fps (vfr)

x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1

x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.2 AVX

x264 [info]: profile High, level 4.2

x264 [info]: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 fade_compensate=0.00 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=12 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=23.0000 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00

x264 [info]: started at Mon Oct 24 14:37:34 2011

x264 [info]: frame I:10 Avg QP:25.24 size:293382

x264 [info]: frame P:1242 Avg QP:28.43 size: 90351

x264 [info]: frame B:1248 Avg QP:31.32 size: 19907

x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 8.7% 66.6% 23.2% 1.6%

x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 3.6% 76.6% 19.8%

x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 0.1% 4.7% 0.8% P16..4: 38.2% 25.5% 16.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:14.7%

x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% B16..8: 48.1% 6.2% 1.9% direct: 4.2% skip:39.1% L0:36.0% L1:49.9% BI:14.1%

x264 [info]: 8x8 transform intra:83.2% inter:58.4%

x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 90.8% 82.8% 56.9% inter: 30.4% 19.6% 4.0%

x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 17% 37% 10% 36%

x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 11% 25% 16% 5% 7% 6% 12% 6% 12%

x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 15% 21% 13% 7% 8% 7% 11% 7% 11%

x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 52% 26% 15% 7%

x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:1.0% UV:0.1%

x264 [info]: ref P L0: 70.4% 21.8% 5.9% 2.0% 0.0%

x264 [info]: ref B L0: 90.8% 7.8% 1.4%

x264 [info]: ref B L1: 95.6% 4.4%

x264 [info]: kb/s:22399.00



encoded 2500 frames, 23.36 fps, 22399.00 kb/s


x264 [info]: ended at Mon Oct 24 14:39:21 2011

x264 [info]: encoding duration 0:01:47

Verification Code: 1920113A5F65565D1134606356115A281E232721213C11344146113111241F2538396B1119112934112011222745111A2C6923272511211F22222A1F232221275C3E605511212856575653252CFB565F54605556551123262121115763525E56641D1123241F2427115761641D112323242A2A1F2121115C532064

[soneca]

This difference is really low, especially when dealing with the cost of each processor.

[Zorro70]

and one has 8 cores, which is always better for encoding

[LigH]

What a pity -- no 64-bit Windows here.

[microhunt]

Atak, are you planning on releasing an update soon? I'm about to convert a lot of Blurays and thought I'd wait to see if a new version is coming before I start. Will you be putting in a complete lossless setting similar to Bytecopy.

[Zorro70]

Is there any way to get ripbot to use 100% processor on the first pass without quality loss

im using intel 2600k and it uses 30% first pass on max quality avchd encodes


quality is my goal, if it diminishes quality it doesn't matter



looking forward to the next ripbot update, new x264 builds will make encoding faster for me anyway, is there one on the way mate!!!


will be donating this week ;-)

[LigH]

Try to understand which reasons could exist why the CPU is used with obviously less than 100%: Usually because the CPU has so little efforts that it mostly waits for hardware (reading from disk, accessing RAM, writing to disk).

You could try to disable the "Turbo mode" for the first pass, that could help you wasting more electricity; but you may not gain visible quality.

[pacaveli211]

here Zorro70, this will help:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227744

[Zorro70]

my pc
Intel i7 2600k 3.4ghz running at 4.6ghz sandy bridge
Asus p8p67 EVO motherboard
G.skill 8GB ddr3 2133mhz ram+ ram cooler
thermalright venomous x rt cpu coolerx 2 akasa viper fans/heatsink
Coolermaster HAFX case
XFX 850W Black Edition Modular PSU
2 x OCZ 240GB Vertex 3 in RAID0



its certainly not a disk thing lol

i can do 1gb/s read and write


it has nothing to do with the disks or hardware, it just doesnt utilise all 8 threads 100%


second pass uses all 100% of cpu


its no big deal just means first pass is as long as second pass, just annoying, especially as i encode for a HD site so am encoding 24/7 365

[ahmad2008]

hi
i have a question about the audio profile

why is the audio bit rate limited to 64 , 96 and 128 kbps ????

it would be great if the whole options are included i mean from 32 to 320 kbps

giving the user more audio bit rate options is what missing from this great wonderful software

[Atak_Snajpera]

because it does not make sense. for instenance have you ever seen stereo ac3 encoded at 384,448,640 kbps. higher bitrate is only useful for streams with more channels.

[ahmad2008]

i was not talking about ac3 but about the 2 channels.

i meant more audio bit rate options for the 2 channels from 32 to 320 kbps just like mp3

[Atak_Snajpera]

why? because you like placebo effect? aac 128kps gives better quality than mp3 192kbps.

[ahmad2008]

More freedom of choice for the bit rate from 32 to 320kbps is so much better than to be limited to only 3 choices (64,96,128 ) for all your videos encoding even if aac 128kps gives better quality than mp3 192kbps.

[FarQueue]

Ability to use multiple audio tracks would be a handy new feature.

[rc71]

Ability to use multiple audio tracks would be a handy new feature.


I'm guessing it's to keep ripbot as simple as possible. Less things to go wrong. But you can use mkvmerge, which is included in the ripbot package, to add multiple tracks and it takes just a few seconds.

[rc71]

More freedom of choice for the bit rate from 32 to 320kbps is so much better than to be limited to only 3 choices (64,96,128 ) for all your videos encoding even if aac 128kps gives better quality than mp3 192kbps.

I see your point a little, but if you really need something that big, why are you bothering with ripbot? The point is to make things smaller.
If you need 320k MP3's, maybe Ripbot might not be right for you.

If you are a 64k MP3 Pro person, this is the game for you.

Ultimately, you can manually go in to the jobs queue and change the number to whatever you want. Just open up the .bat file and go at it.

[rc71]

Is there any way to get ripbot to use 100% processor on the first pass without quality loss

im using intel 2600k and it uses 30% first pass on max quality avchd encodes


quality is my goal, if it diminishes quality it doesn't matter


;-)

First, 'I want quality, but if quality drops, that doesn't matter.' Huh?

Anyway, if you use CQ mode with NO filters, you get 100%. If you touch it in anyway, you get 30%. That tells me it's not a System issue, but a program issue. It seems that the x264 encoder doesn't like to use external filters or settings.

[pacaveli211]

CQ mode is actually encoding. First pass, by default, is a fast pass, not an actual encode.

[Zorro70]

First, 'I want quality, but if quality drops, that doesn't matter.' Huh?

Anyway, if you use CQ mode with NO filters, you get 100%. If you touch it in anyway, you get 30%. That tells me it's not a System issue, but a program issue. It seems that the x264 encoder doesn't like to use external filters or settings.

you misread what i said

i said i want quality, but if quality drops, then it doesnt matter.

you took that to mean i dont care if quality drops.


what i meant was if it affects quality it doesnt matter il just leave it as it is

[soneca]

and one has 8 cores, which is always better for encoding

Never noticed any difference, despite having made several times that work with processors with 4 and 6 cores.:confused:

[ahmad2008]

i hope that i expressed my thought well

all what i wanted is the whole list of the 2 channels audio bit rates from 32 to 320kbps and not to be limited only to (64,96,128) even if no one going to use 320kbps

i hope i find it in the next release

[DIEGO7-5]

Ability to use multiple audio tracks would be a handy new feature.

I totally agree. At least one more language.

Keep up the good work Atak!

[chainring]

i hope that i expressed my thought well

all what i wanted is the whole list of the 2 channels audio bit rates from 32 to 320kbps and not to be limited only to (64,96,128) even if no one going to use 320kbps

i hope i find it in the next releaseI can understand WHY you would want the full list of available bitrates, but it's not going to happen in RipBot. This program is about total simplicity and introducing too many tweaks/bithead options will not stop if something like this request is allowed.

Seriously, if you can do some ABX tests and show that you really need more than 128K on two channel content, that might convince Atak to add more, but until that time it's not gonna happen. Check out the tests of music (much more difficult than effects in movies) at hydrogenaudio.org and tell me you need more than 128K. Maybe, just maybe adding 160 to placate those wanting more, but it's not necessary.

[rc71]

I just have say I love this program. I have some STE WEB-DL's that are 1.5gb and I'm reEcoding them and they are coming out at 500-550mb and check this out, THEY ARE BETTER QUALITY THAN THE ORIGINALs.
Seriously. With a little tweaking of the colors, contrast, and the denoising, they look better at 1/3rd the size. Oh, and I'm correcting the FPS which was at a sqeaky 25fps to 23.976FPS. ALL with Ripbot.
:):):):);););):):)


:thanks::thanks::thanks::thanks::thanks::thanks::thanks:

[LigH]

@ Zorro70:

Always unterstand that the encoder can only encode as fast as it receives the uncompressed video it shall process.

What exactly is your source? (MediaInfo analysis please.) Which decoder do you use to decode it for x264, if it is compressed?

If the source is compressed, the bottleneck might be the decoder running in one thread only, or the filtering, before the final video arrives in the encoder.

If the source is completely uncompressed, the bottleneck might be the harddisk, but you will know how many GB per minute you stored.
__

THEY ARE BETTER QUALITY THAN THE ORIGINALs.

It may look better, but can't be better. That is the difference between "subjective quality" (how annoying the flaws appear) and "objective quality" (any difference is a loss, no matter if it looks more convenient).

[rc71]

While I understand what you are trying to say about something being recompressed being better, "It may look better, but can't be better." since this is video and it's subjective quality is visual, if it looks better than it is better. :)

[rc71]

@ Zorro70:


If the source is compressed, the bottleneck might be the decoder running in one thread only, or the filtering, before the final video arrives in the encoder.



I'll have to investigate that. Sounds like a promising lead. As for the other suggestions, remember that CPU usage only drops when you change the profile away from CQ. Either with filters or by making it two pass. Since with CQ/no filters vs. CQ/filter CPU usage drops from 98% to 30%, that doesn't suggest it's a system bottleneck.

Also at least for me, I'm using the 32bit version. This might different for 64bit.

There is a new version of x264.exe that was released last week. You could try it. Didn't seem to do much for me. CPU usage has increased from a bit more with No increase or real change in FPS.

[LigH]

1) If you believe it looks much better, enjoy. But don't try to measure anything with "quality metrics" – they will call any kind of difference a "quality loss". ;)

2) x264 will probably be the most efficient link in the encoding chain, spreading its efforts across all available CPU cores. If it can't use all of them all the time, then it must have to wait for something else before...

[rc71]

Update. The New x264 file does do better with different settings. I'm using custom settings and NO filters, but I'm rocking 98% CPU so it's better than before.

[LigH]

Gosh, cool down. Your red makes me nervous. ;)

And without facts, your statement is vapor.

[dbart]

my PC config:

CPU C2Q Q8300(2,5 GHz) @ 3 GHz with passive cooler
RAM 6 GB
Nvidia GT430 - passive
Win7 x64

job.avs:
#MT


#VideoSource

#video=DirectShowSource("I:\Účastníci zájezdu.edit.ts",audio=false).ConvertToYV12()
LoadPlugin("c:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264\Tools\DGDecNV\DGDecodeNV.dll")
video=DGSource("Účastníci zájezdu.edit.dgi",deinterlace=1,use_top_field=true,crop_t=24,crop_b=24)

#Deinterlace
#LoadCplugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264\Tools\AviSynth plugins\Yadif\Yadif.dll")
#video=yadif(video,mode=0,order=1)

#Decimate



#Crop
#video=Crop(video,0,24,-0,-24)


#Resize



#Colors



#Denoise




#Subtitles



#AudioSource
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264\tools\AviSynth plugins\NicAudio\NicAudio.dll")
audio=NicMPG123Source("I:\Účastníci zájezdu.track_4021.mp2")
audio=ResampleAudio(audio,48000)
#DownMix



#Delay
audio=DelayAudio(audio,0)


#Tempo



#Normalize
audio=Normalize(audio,1)


#AudioDub
audio=ConvertAudioTo16bit(audio)
AudioDub(video,audio)

#Triming



#AVSameLength
Trim(0,175403)


#ColorSpace


my encoding profile:
--level 4.1 --vbv-bufsize 50000 --vbv-maxrate 50000 --filter 0,0 --ref 4 --bframes 9 --b-adapt 2 --b-pyramid none --subme 9 --aq-mode 1 --trellis 2 --partitions all --me umh

CQ 24

Video source is H.264/MP2 1080i .ts dvb-s recording, encoding framerate is ~3fps, CPU ~60%

when testing speed of decoding DGDecNV with AVSMeter.exe, i get ~70 fps decoding speed with this jobs.avs(audio normalization is switch off)

so, now please advice someone who knows, where is the botleneck :D

thanks

dbart

[kypec]

@dbart: check your CPU temperatures and frequency during encoding... I had similar problem with my i7-920, originally there was only a standard boxed cooler mounted and it didn't provide enough cooling effect. Once the encoding process started and all cores were fully loaded the temperatures raised to max and CPU throttled its frequency drastically to prevent over-heating. When I replaced that lame CPU cooler with better one all problems disappeared.

[dbart]

@dbart: check your CPU temperatures and frequency during encoding... I had similar problem with my i7-920, originally there was only a standard boxed cooler mounted and it didn't provide enough cooling effect. Once the encoding process started and all cores were fully loaded the temperatures raised to max and CPU throttled its frequency drastically to prevent over-heating. When I replaced that lame CPU cooler with better one all problems disappeared.

temp oscilate 60-64°C according HWMonitor by CPUID, when encoding

my CPU cooler: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/10-mammoth-cpu-coolers,1053-12.html

i think, that overheating is not the problem, but will try add some fan

[modlinsky]

Hi Atak,
Is it possible to add these features to your nice app:
1) Copy the video stream (mkv & mp4), if it's already in avc;
2) Copy the audio stream (if in dolby ac3) to mp4 container.

Thanks.

[crackinhedz]

Unfortunately the Haali Muxer cannot handle this source file. <ERROR>
It doesn't contain enough seek/recovery points. <ERROR>
The "-seekToIFrames" option may work around that.
However, using this option may result in artifacts when seeking.I have been getting this error with a recent file Im using, was wondering if anyone knows a work around?

it says I can try "-seektoIframes" but not sure how I go about doing that??

Thanks in advance!

(I tried EAC3TO GUI but its very confusing)

[dbart]

temp oscilate 60-64°C according HWMonitor by CPUID, when encoding

my CPU cooler: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/10-mammoth-cpu-coolers,1053-12.html

i think, that overheating is not the problem, but will try add some fan

I build a "wind-tunnel" on CPU passive to PSU fan (from hard-paper picnic tray :) ), temperature fall down to 55-60°C during encoding, CPU freq. still 3GHz and frame rate still 3 fps (and now running also fft3dgpu), CPU load ~ 60 %, x264 x64 CQ24

has "audio-mixing" in avisynth script something with that ?

on next encode i will try split audio and video encoding

[microhunt]

Hi Atak,

Looks good so far, a very talented person as usual!

[Noisrevid]

Can someone explain to me why just using Film Denoising in Ripbot saves a lot of space by using less bitrate when everything is equal? It seems like the Film - Denoise causes a lot of gradient problems in dark scenes.. it can be a little annoying but it's nothing major.. The space savings at the end of a decode almost make it seem worth it.

[pacaveli211]

Can someone explain to me why just using Film Denoising in Ripbot saves a lot of space by using less bitrate when everything is equal? It seems like the Film - Denoise causes a lot of gradient problems in dark scenes.. it can be a little annoying but it's nothing major.. The space savings at the end of a decode almost make it seem worth it.

I'm not fully sure what you're saying / asking here...but:
when running anything through ripbot you are encoding it (not decoding). anything that has been run through will be, technically, less superior in quality. there is no 'equal' setting.
and, obviously, if the bitrate is lower, so is the quality (and size)

[klopsknoedel]

@pacaveli211 that was not the question

@Noisrevid
Of course denoised encodings have a much smaller size than those without.
The reason is that the encoder is looking at the grainy/noisy source-material and treats these noise/grain as wanted details. So the encoder needs a very high bitrate to prevent those "details" from being muddy.
If you denoise it befor you send it to the encoder you will have much more clean areas on which the encoder can use a lot smaller bitrate. So the encoded movie has a smaller file-size.

For Example:
I've encoded an old movie with a lot of grain in it with CQ 22 and i had an overall bitrate of 14 Mb/s -> a huge file-size.

Then i've encoded an anime which usually have clean colored areas. On that I could set the CQ to !14! and the overall bitrate was around 8 Mb/s -> smaller file-size.

I hope this answered your question.

[Noisrevid]

@pacaveli211 that was not the question

@Noisrevid
Of course denoised encodings have a much smaller size than those without.
The reason is that the encoder is looking at the grainy/noisy source-material and treats these noise/grain as wanted details. So the encoder needs a very high bitrate to prevent those "details" from being muddy.
If you denoise it befor you send it to the encoder you will have much more clean areas on which the encoder can use a lot smaller bitrate. So the encoded movie has a smaller file-size.

For Example:
I've encoded an old movie with a lot of grain in it with CQ 22 and i had an overall bitrate of 14 Mb/s -> a huge file-size.

Then i've encoded an anime which usually have clean colored areas. On that I could set the CQ to !14! and the overall bitrate was around 8 Mb/s -> smaller file-size.

I hope this answered your question.

Yes that does answer my question thank you!

[Noisrevid]

My next area of issue is this..

I want to conform my Blu-Ray collection to 720p MKV files.

The problem is that the settings I use for one movie can output to a reasonable 3gb when i'm done.. and then another Blu Ray rip comes out to 7gb. I want to keep my movies around the same quality and reasonably close together in size. I'm not sure what the common practices is here.. I don't have a powerful enough machine to keep testing my encodes with different CRF values until I get the desired file size. I need a method that conforms my videos to a within reasonable sizes without any huge quality loss.

I understand that x264 is seeing scenes in movies that require more bitrate than others.. and action, high paced movies versus a drama is going to net a higher sized file at the end.

When i've downloaded movies, I see some people 2 passing their 1080p flicks to 8gb (or whatever size fits on a dual layer dvd).

For 720p, for what I want, should I just 2 pass every single movie to 4.7gb (for single layer dvd archiving purposes). For most movies, there will be more than enough bitrate allocated for ANY movie..

Leaving a CRF of 18 for every movie gives me extremely way off results depending on the source material.. I can't seem to find any happy medium or process that gives me end result file sizes within 25% of each other.

Thoughts? Help? Thanks!

[Guest]

When i've downloaded movies You cannot discuss that stuff here, per rule 6.

@all

No help on this post, please.

[Noisrevid]

You cannot discuss that stuff here, per rule 6.

@all

No help on this post, please.

You're ridiculous - i'm not discussing downloading movies - i'm asking a legit question. You're going to tell everybody to not help me when you obviously didn't even read my post?

Way to be a typical mod.

[rc71]

Instead of attacking someone, maybe next time you should think of a cleaver way to ask your question that doesn't violate the rules. Happened to me so I know. Besides, your question has a simple answer. Try asking it again and I'm sure someone will give you an answer.

[Noisrevid]

Instead of attacking someone, maybe next time you should think of a cleaver way to ask your question that doesn't violate the rules. Happened to me so I know. Besides, your question has a simple answer. Try asking it again and I'm sure someone will give you an answer.

Violate the rules. Referencing illegally downloaded movies is a violation. I didn't do that, you guys don't even know what i've downloaded or where i've downloaded because it's irrevelant. Most of my post is talking about backing up my personally owned Blu-Rays.

You're just another person who can't read.

Apparently you and your moderator friends want to police keywords in posts instead of actually reading and helping. I'll figure it out myself, thanks anyways.

[Guest]

@Noisrevid

If you want to contest a moderator's decision, you may follow the documented process. Please refer to the last paragraph here:

http://forum.doom9.org/sanctions.htm

Thank you.

[Guest]

Discussion of rules interpretation in the forums is not allowed per forum rule 17. Such posts have been deleted.

[benjyv]

As I told you many times , smth strange happens with Ripbot from time to time....
For instance : when I try to encode a .ts file , after I changed extention into m2ts , Ripbot continue to give errors....and that because I changed in tools the "264" files from 01.04 with 01.11 and that generates errors...
It seems that last versions do not accept to be updated and also do not accept some modifications within encoding parameters....
I trying to make some tests and I'll tell you results...as soon as possible....

Take care !! ;-)

[pacaveli211]

I've had issues swapping .ts and .m2ts extensions as well
so....I stopped doing it

[DaddyWaddy]

I have installed RipBot and AVisynth, ffdshow, haali media splitter and .Net Framework, but am unable to get very far with RipBot. My son has had great success with this program, and I am hoping to, as well.

I open RibBot and try to point it to a file on a movie DVD. That is as far as I can get before getting the following error messages:

Decoding Error
Evaluate: System Exception - Access Violation (c:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\getinfo.avs, line2)

Error
Too many pictures per GOP (>=500). BGIndex will terminate. [OK]

I have uninstalled and installed all of the above programs, but it makes no difference. I have searched this forum for help before posting this query, but could not locate anything applicable. My apologies if I missed something.

Thanks for your interest and advice!

[LigH]

"Too many pictures per GOP" - on a (legacy) DVD-Video? That sounds like RipBot is unable to decode the video correctly. Possibly because it is CSS-encrypted on the DVD?

Despite the suggesting name, RipBot is not responsible for "ripping from optical disc to harddisk", especially not for the decoding of encrypted video.

[benjyv]

I've had issues swapping .ts and .m2ts extensions as well
so....I stopped doing it

Stopping encoding such stuff is not a solution:(
We must fight for discovering the secret and for working well as other kinda files....
I'm doing lot of tests , but for the moment NO good results:(...still that bloody "out of sinc" between sound and image. I know how to solve it - by additional maneuvers , by handling additional softs, even this is not a convenient solution...
Ripbot MUST do it itself , without external help ;-)

[Atak_Snajpera]

Why don't you upload 50 MB sample to www.mediafire.com ???

[pacaveli211]

I never said I stopped encoding anything. I just stopped renaming between .m2ts and .ts
it's not a necessity

[LigH]

Filename extensions should not cause a different file handling per se, anyway: They may be a hint which content you may expect, but they can always be wrong, so a content analysis is the only certain way to identify the required steps. In this case, *.ts vs. *.m2ts may give a hint about 188 vs. 192 byte Transport Stream format (without or with timestamps), but doesn't need to. It is just a Windows specific habit to use them to assign applications, and therefore give them an indirect meaning at all.
__

How many people e.g. renamed *.mkv to *.avi to enable playback out of a file manager, instead of additionally registering the *.mkv extension with a player; that is no solution, that is hardly a workaround... but you have to know that file extension registrations can and should be edited in Windows to assign "default applications" to open files with a specific extension.

That makes the experience with a specific OS. Before I knew that file types in MacOS 8/9 were handled via FourCCs in metadata, I was surprised that renaming extensions had no effect at all...

[benjyv]

@Atak

Here is :

http://www.mediafire.com/?3uog629l3201ypw

[vlewis85]

I have a folder full of MKVs that I want to convert to iPad format. All the MKVs have the same properties: 1080p AVC (High@L4.0) video & 640 Kbps AC-3 audio.
All I want to do is change each file from (High@L4.0) to (Main@L3.1) & from AC-3 to 128 Kbps AAC (LC) ... Also changing from MKV to MP4.

I know how to do all of this in Ripbot, my question is: Can I apply these settings to multiple files in the same folder without having to load each one into RipBot individually?

[benjyv]

Can I apply these settings to multiple files in the same folder without having to load each one into RipBot individually?

Well , Ripbot is not yet like Bayer aspirin: to go directly and look for painful place ...
Put all those files personally , with your own hands and do not be so lazy !!

Good luck !

[vlewis85]

Put all those files personally , with your own hands and do not be so lazy !!

I've created all 200+ files myself, and i'm looking for a faster way to re-encode all of them. If anyone knows a way it would be a huge help. I think the problem lies in the fact that each MKV would need to be demuxed before the video can be re-encoded.

[sneaker_ger]

Try HandBrake.

Otherwise, if all files are exactly the same, it should be very easy to write a batch of your own, if you have basic knowledge of batch and x264. If you use a patched x264 you could even circumvent spending any time on remuxing the video.
I could help writing a simple batch for you, but we better not do it inside this thread as it would be off topic, then.

[oreons]

I have a folder full of MKVs that I want to convert to iPad format. All the MKVs have the same properties: 1080p AVC (High@L4.0) video & 640 Kbps AC-3 audio.
All I want to do is change each file from (High@L4.0) to (Main@L3.1) & from AC-3 to 128 Kbps AAC (LC) ... Also changing from MKV to MP4.


You can try MkvToMp4 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=163050).This program makes mp4 compatible with iPad. But 1080p will not sync via iTunes with iPad1, only iPad2.

[hoju3508]

When a SUP file is large (>100 MB), I get a 'Memory Error' when loading it in RipBot. Here's a sample (http://www.4shared.com/file/LRjA2RqV/Elf__2003__track3_eng.html) from Elf (2003) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319343/).

[benjyv]

@hoju3508

Have you checked that "large SUP file" with SupRip.exe , for errors?

Why don't you upload 50 MB sample to ww...

Just sending you that sample..above..still waiting a result!

[hoju3508]

@benjyv, yeah it loads fine with SupRip.

[ziimen]

Hi... simple question, how do I fix aspect ratio of the original 16:9 material to 4:3, after cropping it. In this particular case I am cropping a 1920:1080 frame to a 1440:1080 frame.

If I just crop and encode (mkv) then it still shows stretched and MPC reports it as 16:9 AR in the properties. I also tried re-muxing it via mkv-toolnix and setting the AR there but it doesn't fix things.

I don't want to resize the video using 4:3 profiles (although I tried that too, using custom resize that matches my targetted frame hoping that resize would just pass it through) but the end result was still being reported as 16:9.

Obviously I can fix the picture aspect on the TV and/or the player but that's beside the point.

Thanks! I've used RipBot for quite a while now and it really is good.

[Atak_Snajpera]

for that particular case you will have to manually edit jobx_EncodeVideoPass1.cmd and jobx_EncodeVideoPass2.cmd.

Change --sar x:x to --sar 1:1

1440x1080 in AVCHD camcorders / HDV / HD-TV is always 16:9.

[ziimen]

Yes, that worked exactly as expected. Perfect. Thank you. I am not sure though why 4:3 framed video would show up as 16:9 in avchd material.

Either way, would you consider adding "--sar" parameter to the GUI?

[Atak_Snajpera]

sar is calculated automatically.

[ziimen]

I see. Too bad it cannot be overridden. Thanks Atak!

[DB4Ever123]

I have problem ;/

http://iv.pl/images/56633110167623911625.png

I have use windows server 2008 r2

and i dont have codeck pack and i make reinstal AviSynth , Haali Media Spliter , ffdshow

now i have installed :
ffdshow_rev3984_20110922_clsid
Avisynth_258
MatroskaSplitter

said in ffdshow_rev3984 to decode VC-1, but still have the same problem

I have this problem only with VC-1, any idea?

[Atak_Snajpera]

answer to your question is in first post

[DB4Ever123]

I can`t install windows media player 11 on windows server 2008 an alternative to WMP11?

[klopsknoedel]

I can`t install windows media player 11 on windows server 2008 an alternative to WMP11?

Sure you can. At first you need to install the needed feature first.
Got to Server manager -> features -> add features and select "Desktop experience" and "windows audio experience".

[DB4Ever123]

Sure you can. At first you need to install the needed feature first.
Got to Server manager -> features -> add features and select "Desktop experience" and "windows audio experience".

but i have windows server 2008 r2 web PL and I do not see anything similar to these options. Can you make screenshot?

[klopsknoedel]

I don't have Windows Server at all but with a simple google - search you'll find a lot of workarounds.

Have you tried the windows server 2008 - version of media player 11?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/windows-media-player

two more hints:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserver2008appcompatabilityandcertification/thread/68c46117-9342-41ee-ba57-8246d6f84e96

http://forums.techarena.in/media-player/1124099.htm

[rc71]

I've created all 200+ files myself, and i'm looking for a faster way to re-encode all of them. If anyone knows a way it would be a huge help. I think the problem lies in the fact that each MKV would need to be demuxed before the video can be re-encoded.

200? I was on your side until that. You do know you can add files whilst it's encoding right? Start one encode and just add as you wish.
BTW, I have over 18,000 files that I'm in the process of encoding. :sly:

[rc71]

Hi... simple question, how do I fix aspect ratio of the original 16:9 material to 4:3, after cropping it. In this particular case I am cropping a 1920:1080 frame to a 1440:1080 frame.


Thanks! I've used RipBot for quite a while now and it really is good.

Simple answer. Use mkvedit. It's in the ripbot folder in the tools subfolder. With mkvedit you have two choices. You can recompile the file with your specs, takes a few seconds, or just edit the header info to display what you want. That's why I love MKV's. The header editor is in the FILE toolbar. I use those features all the time to fix AR.

[3408]

Atak,

Are you done developing ripbot?

And yes for the flamers in the forum, I have donated before so dont ask!:rolleyes:

[Atak_Snajpera]

Who has more than one pc at home connected to local (home) network ?

send me priv message with details.

[igorgladunyak]

Atak_Snajpera

Can you add more encoding settings to RipBot264

[rc71]

Atak_Snajpera

Can you add more encoding settings to RipBot264

I see you went to a lot of trouble to ask your question. Unfortunately for you, the answer is probably no. If fact, there might be fewer options. The point of ripbot is to make it as simple as possible.

[rc71]

Atak,

Are you done developing ripbot?

And yes for the flamers in the forum, I have donated before so dont ask!:rolleyes:

Of course he is not done. Stay tuned.

[igorgladunyak]

I see you went to a lot of trouble to ask your question. Unfortunately for you, the answer is probably no. If fact, there might be fewer options. The point of ripbot is to make it as simple as possible.
How you gonna make good quality movie if there will be fewer options?

[AMED]

How you gonna make good quality movie if there will be fewer options?So youre implying that it doesn't make good quality movies to begin with?

That's a little harsh.

[igorgladunyak]

guys I mean that RipBot264 has not enough encoding setting.
Some of the settings are the default and can not be changed

[fantasmanegro]

of course you can... with any text editor you can edit profiles, and using the ripbot gui you can modify the x264 Command Line...

if you see it has fewer options try megui or staxrip...

[igorgladunyak]

of course you can... with any text editor you can edit profiles, and using the ripbot gui you can modify the x264 Command Line...

if you see it has fewer options try megui or staxrip...

staxrip for the XviD
I use megui
why author does not want improve RipBot264
ripbot became more popular than megui

[fantasmanegro]

i guess because he wants to keep it as simple as possible, just the necessary for a good encoding... and both guis are popular by the way

[igorgladunyak]

i guess because he wants to keep it as simple as possible, just the necessary for a good encoding... and both guis are popular by the way
you are wrong megui has more encoding setting that's why megui is more popular than RipBot264

[AMED]

Who cares whats more popular?

Use what GUI you like and thank the kind Devs that put in their time for free to make these great programs.

[Atak_Snajpera]

you are wrong megui has more encoding setting that's why megui is more popular than RipBot264

you better compare number of views in my thread vs megui. also ripbot264 is younger than megui.

[igorgladunyak]

you better compare number of views in my thread vs megui. also ripbot264 is younger than megui.
I like your program and I know that ripbot264 is younger than megui but you shoud improve ripbot264. I have a lot of suggestion what should be improved.

[fantasmanegro]

maybe you're right but there are others gui that maybe fit what you want, i would only ask to add batch encoding with something like pickup profile... but ripbot is one of the best guis that i use... and as i said before you can not only edit the x264 command line but also the avs script, besides it requires more than basic knowing of avisynth

[rc71]

I like it. I just want it to be different. Kind of like this thing that already exist and is really popular. LOL!!!! What. Then just use that one.

You can probably check my posts, I've been bugging for changes and fixes, but remember what you are asking. Tweaks! Not redesigns. Atak has made it clear he will not use the NeroAAC encoder, but I need it as I have a sync problem. So I use MEGui when I need to. How useful would it be to start berating Ripbot?

Bottom line if you are a hardcore encoder, you don't need ripbot and you can be on your way. If you aren't, then you probably should show some respect.

[flebber]

I like it. I just want it to be different. Kind of like this thing that already exist and is really popular. LOL!!!! What. Then just use that one.

You can probably check my posts, I've been bugging for changes and fixes, but remember what you are asking. Tweaks! Not redesigns. Atak has made it clear he will not use the NeroAAC encoder, but I need it as I have a sync problem. So I use MEGui when I need to. How useful would it be to start berating Ripbot?

Bottom line if you are a hardcore encoder, you don't need ripbot and you can be on your way. If you aren't, then you probably should show some respect.

nobody would be worried about nero if we could get better support for vorbis. Vorbis with aotuv sound is brilliant.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Recommended_Ogg_Vorbis#Windows_binaries

[rc71]

nobody would be worried about nero if we could get better support for vorbis. Vorbis with aotuv sound is brilliant.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Recommended_Ogg_Vorbis#Windows_binaries



I'm just going off what Atak said. He said he would not use NeroAAC since it's a commercial product. Or something like that. I wasn't the first to ask for NeroAAC. Personally I've never seen anything encoded with Ogg, but it's in ripbot so someone must use it.

[flebber]

I'm just going off what Atak said. He said he would not use NeroAAC since it's a commercial product. Or something like that. I wasn't the first to ask for NeroAAC. Personally I've never seen anything encoded with Ogg, but it's in ripbot so someone must use it.

Well I never used ogg vorbis until recently. Especially the builds with aotuv have really good sound quality and compression. Saves being tied into Nero. Also noticed from late last year a lot of manufacturers have started including support for vorbis and releasing firmware upgrades to support it.

[3408]

Of course he is not done. Stay tuned. Please Elaborate?:cool:

[frencher]

Hi,

Ripbot264 is perfect for me I have just a small suggestion to make:
- Increase the bitrate AAC 2.0 up to 256 Kbps & AAC 5.1 to 640 Kbps (for audiophiles)
- No encoding codecs (FFDShow -> MPlayer or other) ;)

In any case I find Ripbot264 Great with every encouragement Atak_Snajpera thank you

PS: Free software need not be criticized, only improvements are suggested !!!

[pacaveli211]

Spoilers: audiophiles don't use/keep only the audio cores...

[frencher]

Spoilers: audiophiles don't use/keep only the audio cores...

The Core audio = DTS and AC3 not HD audio sorry :scared:

[Atak_Snajpera]

audiophiles don't use lossy codecs

[frencher]

Excuse me, I wanted to talk about RipBot264 .Mp4 format ;)

[rc71]

Please Elaborate?:cool:

Sorry. That's the whole stay tuned part.

[3408]

Sorry. That's the whole stay tuned part.

Last update 1.16.5 (April 01, 2011) it's only been 8 months since the last update that's all.........

[igorgladunyak]

Atak_Snajpera
I have suggestion to add:
- M.E Range 4-64 (me_range) in encoding setting
- In audio profile AAC 5.1 384 kbps, 448 kbps, 640 kbps
- Ability to add two audio tracks

[jouchan]

hi all

i have error when i open ripbot:


http://i.lulzimg.com/22cd39ab65.jpg


and then, ripbot not respon when i add a file (.avi and .mkv)


http://i.lulzimg.com/7c41b4305f.jpg


iam using windows 2008, RDP..
anybody help me?

[Atak_Snajpera]

run as administrator

[HknDkmn]

Hi, How to Use MTMode ?

I have a i7 2600k cpu / 8 gb ram
Normal rip (not mtmode) = %32 CPU

I wrote a script:
SetMTMode(thrads=8)
Speed : % 35 CPU

Please, help me :)

[LigH]

Using multi-threading in AviSynth is not really trivial (with some bad luck it may even crash instead of speedup, or corrupt the video content). And it isn't a guaranteed speed boost either. If the script filtering is not the slowest part of the processing, multi-threading the script won't give you any remarkable boost. Then it's like a spoiler on a city car trying to equalize a pulled handbrake – wrong tuning target.

[MatLz]

setmtmode(5,x)
sourcefilter()
setmtmode(2,x)
filters()

As I am on a core2, I use x=2.
For you, dunno if it should be cores number or threads number.

[jouchan]

run as administrator

ok, its mean impossible to run as user..right?:scared:

[benjyv]

Since I've checked OSD option in ffdshow config.,Frame Number and Frame Type appears on every Ripbot encode, on left upper corner.

Why?

I can give up to that checking, but it's necessary in getting some comparison screens...

So , what's to do?

[LigH]

If you use DirectShowSource, and ffdshow is used as video decoder filters, it renders all the post processing filters for DirectShowSource which you also use in video playback.

Try to use an AviSynth native source plugin instead of DirectShowSource to avoid ffdshow being used in conversions.

[dbart]

Hi, How to Use MTMode ?

I have a i7 2600k cpu / 8 gb ram
Normal rip (not mtmode) = %32 CPU

I wrote a script:
SetMTMode(thrads=8)
Speed : % 35 CPU

Please, help me :)

I´m asking too ...

my CPU utilization is about 65-70 % when encoding 1080 material, when encoding SD material, utilization is close to 100 %

I´m converting my collection of DVDs to H264/AAC/MP4 with denoising(if needed) / (optionaly deinterlace) and resize to 1080

using intel Q8300@3GHz/6GB RAM/win7 x64 ultimate, GT430, RipBot,DGDecNV,FFT3DGPU

encoding fps with 1920x1080 is ~ 3, with 1440x1080 is ~4 -4.3

im doing resizing and deinterlacing with DGDecode ( for old movies, its enough )

I´m asking experienced users to help us speeding up our encoding process, It will be more useful, than waiting for new version of RipBot.

Thank you all and Thank you Atak for your work

:)

[Atak_Snajpera]

For DVD sources you can try this

#MT
SetMTMode(5,0)

#VideoSource
LoadPlugin("...\Tools\dgindex\DGDecode.dll")
video=MPEG2Source("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.d2v")
SetMTMode(2)
#Deinterlace
...


if you use GPU denoising you must set back MT mode to 5!
GPU denosing does not work well with multiple instances.
#MT
SetMTMode(5,0)

#VideoSource
LoadPlugin("...\Tools\dgindex\DGDecode.dll")
video=MPEG2Source("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.d2v")
SetMTMode(2)
#Deinterlace
...

SetMTMode(5)
#Denoise
LoadPlugin("...\Tools\AviSynth plugins\fft3dgpu\fft3dgpu.dll")
LoadPlugin("...\Tools\AviSynth plugins\gradfun2db\gradfun2db.dll")
video=FFT3DGPU(video,sigma=1.25).gradfun2db


First example will give you the highest cpu usage and encoding speed.

If you are more obsessed with cpu utilization than speed :

FastFirstPassin2passMode=0

[dbart]

thanks

i will try tommorow ( today evening i will visit theatre)

so avisynth MT

last question for now: 32 or 64 bit version of avisynth ?

ps. i´m not obssesed by CPU using, but i´m not happy, when there is a potential to speed up things. When there will be no space to speed up and fps will be still ~3 i will be happy (until i switch to powerfull HW ;) )

[Atak_Snajpera]

32 bit

[benjyv]

Try to use an AviSynth native source plugin instead of DirectShowSource..

Gimme,pls an exemple of such AvS native source plugin or a link where to find it!

Thanks!

[LigH]

Depends on the source format, your hardware, your wallet ... FFmpegSource, DGDecNV, DGAVCDecDI, DGMPGDec ...

[benjyv]

FFmpegSource ,of course....

[HknDkmn]

How can x264 Stats output ?

Like :
x264 Stats
[NoImage] x264 [info]: frame I:1502 Avg QP:15.72 size:201914
[NoImage] x264 [info]: frame P:33801 Avg QP:18.13 size:107387
[NoImage] x264 [info]: frame B:121569 Avg QP:19.67 size: 50330

Thanks

[benjyv]

@HknDkmn

Check the .log file!

[Paxmilitaris]

Hi
Thanks for the app, but why does the portable version ask me to install avisynth and ffdshow or some such programs?
Doesn't that kind of defeit the purpose of having a portable app?

[fantasmanegro]

portable?.... ripbot264 has no installer "officially"... and as the thread's title says... it is a GUI... so it needs avisynth and ffdshow to work

[rc71]

Remember the beauty of the i5 and i7 is that the multicore processing is hardware process. There fore they use multicore processing on none mulithreaded apps. That being said, you have 4 cores that is really 2 x 2. So software can use 4 cores/software or just hardware 2 cores/hardware.

[igorgladunyak]

RipBot264 support OS Linux?

[dbart]

lets continue talk about speeding-up things

using MT don´t bring expected effect, but it was expected (with using GPU filtering) :)

I tried to move CPU freq for another 500 MHz (from 2,5 to 3,0 to 3,5 GHz) and there is not problem with CPU, wprime runs without problems (but there are problems with memories DDR2-800 running on 952, i must start "overclock" also them).

other thing that help (little bit) was change process priority from normal to high, (x264-x64, avs2yuv, pipebuf) - maybe tip for future ripbot versions

what is the purpose of two last programs? i dont see them in for example in 64-bit version of x264 HD benchmark.

[hoju3508]

RipBot264 support OS Linux?

Nope.

[juramirez]

RipBot264 support OS Linux?

No, but I've had great success running it in a VM in Parallels Desktop for Mac OSX, so I suppose you could probably manage to get it running in a Virtual Box VM off Linux.

[shagratt71]

Ive been using the latest version of Ripbot for about a week now to encode all my original StarTrek TNG episodes. The profile Ive been using is High 4.0 HD Interlaced as my sources are MPEG's interlaced. Because I'm fairly new to encoding with Ripbot I would also like to know how I go about updating the x264 encoder?, is it just a case of going into the Tools folder and swapping out the x264 for latest one?.

I'd also like to give a personal thanks to the developer Atak Snajpera. I will be making a donation in due course as this program is one of the best out there.

Merry Xmas

[pacaveli211]

the interlaced profile is to output interlaced video

x264 exes can be swapped out

[shagratt71]

the interlaced profile is to output interlaced video

x264 exes can be swapped out

Thanks for your reply Paceveli. Im abit shocked to say the least!, All this time I thought that the HD interlaced profile was deinterlacing and encoding it to progressive scan type!. Heres me thinking that the deinterlacer was excellent!lol. :eek: .

Ok because I'm very new to all this I will need some advice on how to handle the source I have. Like I said its MPEG Interlaced, however its only partially interlaced TFF. heres the MediaInfo:

General
Complete name : E:\Videos\To Be Converted\Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete 1st Season\12 The Big Goodbye.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 1.41 GiB
Duration : 43mn 37s
Overall bit rate : 4 620 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Duration : 43mn 37s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 304 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 8 584 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.415
Stream size : 1.31 GiB (93%)

Ideally I would like to convert to progressive, however I've not had any problems with the encodes that I now know to be MBAFF...

[shagratt71]

On MeWiki - x264 settings the following is stated under the tff section:

"Enable interlaced encoding and specify the top field is first. x264's interlaced encoding uses MBAFF, and is inherently less efficient than progressive encoding. For that reason, you should only encode interlaced if you intend to display the video on an interlaced display (or can't deinterlace the video before sending it to x264)."

My question is how is it less efficient exactly?.

[Atak_Snajpera]

in pal eveything is simpler. in your case you dont have to do any deinterlacing because both fields belong to the same frame so you should not see any horizontal lines. just use hd progressive profile

[shagratt71]

in pal eveything is simpler. in your case you dont have to do any deinterlacing because both fields belong to the same frame so you should not see any horizontal lines. just use hd progressive profile

Hi Atak, Im in the process of encoding using just the progressive profile, I'll let you know how it goes :thanks:

[vrpatilisl]

can it rip dvds.

[shagratt71]

in pal eveything is simpler. in your case you dont have to do any deinterlacing because both fields belong to the same frame so you should not see any horizontal lines. just use hd progressive profile

Hi Atak, Ok I tried encoding with just the hd Progressive profile. Unfortunately I'm getting alot of combing during moving scense. Would it be just better to use interlaced?

[Atak_Snajpera]

send 50 mb sample of source to www.mediafire.com. use dgsplit

[shagratt71]

send 50 mb sample of source to www.mediafire.com. use dgsplit

Hi Atak, Sorry for the delay. Ive uploaded the file to Megaupload as I cant seem to upload to Mediafire. Heres the link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=41GGC4BX

:thanks:

[benjyv]

@shagratt71

Try to use these settings:

http://thumbnails60.imagebam.com/16515/f93878165145400.jpg (http://www.imagebam.com/image/f93878165145400) http://thumbnails39.imagebam.com/16515/0a20d8165145403.jpg (http://www.imagebam.com/image/0a20d8165145403) http://thumbnails27.imagebam.com/16515/07b44d165145409.jpg (http://www.imagebam.com/image/07b44d165145409)

[DoTheDoom]

Hello everyone, Just had a question. I had some HDD failure and had to reinstall everything. Now i am having trouble with ripbot when demuxing a blu-ray. i get a message saying cant open audio track when trying to encode to FLAC. I have uninstalled and reinstalled AviSynth, fdd, and Haali. and redownloaded Ripbot.

Just looking for any help. Im thinking maybe its just a settings error. I will post full error when demuxing is finished.

thanks everyone.

*Update*

DirectShowSource: couldn't open file D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\audio_English.dtsma.flac:
The source filter for this file could not be loaded.
(D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\getinfo.avs, line 4)

GETINFO.AVS
video=DirectShowSource("D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\video.mkv",audio=false).ConvertToYV12()
LoadPlugin("D:\RipBot264\tools\AviSynth plugins\NicAudio\NicAudio.dll")
audio=DirectShowSource("D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\audio_English.dtsma.flac",video=false)
AudioDub(video,audio)
WriteFile("D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\info.txt","Framecount")
WriteFile("D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\info.txt","Framerate")
WriteFile("D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\info.txt","AudioRate")
WriteFile("D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\info.txt","AudioChannels")
WriteFile("D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\info.txt","AudioLength")
WriteFile("D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\info.txt","Width")
WriteFile("D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job2\info.txt","Height ")
Trim(0,-1)

[benjyv]

@DoTheDoom

IMHO the problem is line 4 in log file...
So, AudioDub(video,audio) should be deleted, or modified...

[shagratt71]

@shagratt71

Try to use these settings:

http://thumbnails60.imagebam.com/16515/f93878165145400.jpg (http://www.imagebam.com/image/f93878165145400) http://thumbnails39.imagebam.com/16515/0a20d8165145403.jpg (http://www.imagebam.com/image/0a20d8165145403) http://thumbnails27.imagebam.com/16515/07b44d165145409.jpg (http://www.imagebam.com/image/07b44d165145409)

Hi Benjyv, Thanks for your reply. I very rarely use two pass encoding as I prefer Constant Quality.

Sadly encoding StarTrek TNG to progressive is not going to be as simple as picking a standard tff deinterlacer... This series is notorious for telecined content mixed with interlaced content within the same frame.

I just did a quick Google "startrek tng interlaced" and I got lots of hits on people having problems.

[benjyv]

This series is notorious for telecined content mixed with interlaced content within the same frame.

Well, in this case you must use a proof method....Have you tried QTGMC ? or others ?

[shagratt71]

Can QTGMC be used within Ripbot?

[nosnoop]

I tried converting rmvb video to mp4 or mkv, and i ran into video/audio sync problem.
What I found was that the converted video ran too fast.

The original video is a 25fps rmvb at 46min 11s in length (69275 frames).
Everything set at default except correcting the aspect ratio by resize it from 720x480 to 852x480.

In the converted video, the video programming would end at 45min 5s; interestingly, from 45min 6s onwards, the last 66 seconds of the video was repeated.
So the total length of the video remains at 46min 11s with the same 69275 frames. But obviously, all the video/audio are getting more and more off sync as it plays.

I had no problems in other conversion such as blu-ray to MKV etc. It's the first time I tried with RMVB video.

Any pointers would be most appreciated.


Mediainfo of original video:

General
Complete name : H:\HDownload\Drama\VideoCH07.rmvb
Format : RealMedia
File size : 196 MiB
Duration : 46mn 10s
Overall bit rate : 579 Kbps

Video
ID : 1
Format : RealVideo 4
Codec ID : RV40
Codec ID/Info : Based on AVC (H.264), Real Player 9
Duration : 46mn 10s
Bit rate : 515 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 3:2
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : NTSC
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.060
Stream size : 170 MiB (87%)

Audio
ID : 0
Format : Cooker
Codec ID : cook
Codec ID/Info : Based on G.722.1, Real Player 6
Duration : 46mn 11s
Bit rate : 64.1 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 21.2 MiB (11%)

======================
Medianinfo of converted MP4 video
General
Complete name : H:\HDownload\Drama\VideoCH07.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 313 MiB
Duration : 46mn 11s
Overall bit rate : 948 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-12-17 10:13:53
Tagged date : UTC 2011-12-17 10:13:53

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Format settings, GOP : N=1
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 46mn 11s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 816 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Width : 852 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.080
Stream size : 270 MiB (86%)
Title : VideoCH07
Writing library : x264 core 114 r1924 08d04a4
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 /
cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 /
b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 /
qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2011-12-17 10:13:53
Tagged date : UTC 2011-12-17 10:14:00

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 46mn 11s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 136 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 42.4 MiB (14%)
Title : Ä

==============================
info.txt:
69275
25.000000
48000
2
133031393
852
480
==================
getinfo.avs:

#MT
#VideoSource
video=DirectShowSource("H:\HDownload\Drama\VideoCH07.rmvb",audio=false).ConvertToYV12()
#Deinterlace
#Decimate
#Crop
#Resize
video=Spline36Resize(video,852,480).Sharpen(0.2)
#Colors
#Denoise
#Subtitles
#AudioSource
LoadPlugin("H:\Program Files\Ripbot264\tools\AviSynth plugins\NicAudio\NicAudio.dll")
audio=RaWavSource("H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio.wav",1)
audio=ResampleAudio(audio,48000)
#DownMix
#Delay
audio=DelayAudio(audio,0)
#Tempo
#Normalize
#AudioDub
audio=ConvertAudioTo16bit(audio)
AudioDub(video,audio)
#Triming
#AVSameLength
#ColorSpace
WriteFile("H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Framecount")
WriteFile("H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Framerate")
WriteFile("H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioRate")
WriteFile("H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioChannels")
WriteFile("H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioLength")
WriteFile("H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Width")
WriteFile("H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Height ")
Trim(0,-1)
======================


job1_EncodeVideoPass1.cmd
"H:\Program Files\Ripbot264\tools\avs2yuv\pipebuf.exe" "H:\Program Files\Ripbot264\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs" - : "H:\Program Files\Ripbot264\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe"
--crf 22 --stats "H:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.stats" --fps 25 --force-cfr --min-keyint 25 --keyint 250 --frames 69275 --sar 1:1 --level 4.0 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000
--filter 0,0 --ref 3 --bframes 3 --b-adapt 1 --b-pyramid none --subme 7 --aq-mode 1 --trellis 1 --partitions all --me umh --stdin y4m --output "H:\temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" - : 2

[ArieS1204]

Question for you all,
I'm backing up my Blurays and add the HD audio track with MKVMerge afterwards.
So is there any way to just grab the video from RipBot by skipping the demuxing of the audio?
Can I modify the ini for that?
Thanks!

[Atak_Snajpera]

@nosnoop
try this
http://i.imgur.com/n3F0R.png

[marius27]

Hello

Every time I'm encoding to mp4 file for PSP profile, with added subtitle (srt file), ripbot will not output the result and will generate an error. This is the last part of the log file:



AVC-H264 import - frame size 720 x 480 at 25.000 FPS

AVC Import results: 43366 samples - Slices: 296 I 20882 P 22188 B - 43638 SEI - 271 IDR

AAC import - sample rate 48000 - MPEG-4 audio - 2 channels

Timed Text (SRT) import - text track 720 x 480, font Tahoma (size 18)

WARNING: corrupted SRT frame 0 after frame 0
Invalid UTF data (line 67)

Error importing C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\AD1_VTS_01_1.srt:lang=und:font=Tahoma: Corrupted Data in file/stream
-------------------------

Elapsed Time: 00h:39m:57s



I checked the line 67 in the srt file; everything looks ok there. What could be wrong ?

Thanks for reply.

[Atak_Snajpera]

character might be invisible in line 67. i would remove whole line and then manually wrote it again. btw are you sure that psp supports embended subtitles?

[ArieS1204]

What about my question Atak? :(

[nosnoop]

@nosnoop
try this

Hi Atak, thanks for your reply.

I tried adding convertfps=true as instructed.
The video/audio is now in sync; but the new problem is that the video now looks like stop motion movie with stuttering similar to a 12fps or 15fps video instead of 25fps. I tried putting in fps=25, but it did not help.

I wonder why the convertfps is dropping so many frames.
Anything else I missed? TIA!

[CommonMortal]

Stupid question, but i am trying to do the following:

- Use presets (like slow).
- Use tune film and merange 24.
- Downmix to AC3 stereo.

Maybe i am dumb but i can't find these settings. Is there some way to see them?

Thank you.

[flebber]

Stupid question, but i am trying to do the following:

- Use presets (like slow).
- Use tune film and merange 24.
- Downmix to AC3 stereo.

Maybe i am dumb but i can't find these settings. Is there some way to see them?

Thank you.

For audio use the box with ... same for video. Use the Properties button next to CQ 22 to adjust for source.

[CommonMortal]

For audio use the box with ... same for video. Use the Properties button next to CQ 22 to adjust for source.

Thanks, but in the audio options, there is only AC3 384kbps (and above), which shouldn't be stereo... There is only AAC 192kbps, which is stereo, but i don't want AAC, i want AC3.

Also in the properties button next to CQ22, i don't see anywhere an option to set merange to 24 (nor preset slow).

[rc71]

Question for you all,
I'm backing up my Blurays and add the HD audio track with MKVMerge afterwards.
So is there any way to just grab the video from RipBot by skipping the demuxing of the audio?
Can I modify the ini for that?
Thanks!

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say? "Grab the video from Ripbot"?

If you just want the video, use MKVmerge to extract. If you don't want to encode the Audio, set the Audio to No Audio.

[rc71]

i don't see anywhere an option to set merange to 24 (nor preset slow).

Look a little harder. The number is literally in a drop down box.

[vrpatilisl]

can anybody provide links to all software required in Ripbot. I am too lazy.

[benjyv]

... I am too lazy.

I'm lazy, too...try another place!

but:

http://i44.tinypic.com/zvzy9t.jpg


just in case..

[soneca]

can anybody provide links to all software required in Ripbot. I am too lazy.

Avisynth 2.58 (http://www.videohelp.com/download/Avisynth_258.exe), Haali Media Splitter (http://www.videohelp.com/download/MatroskaSplitter03032011.exe), ffdshow (http://www.videohelp.com/download/ffdshow_rev4174_20111219_clsid.exe) and WMP 11 (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/windows-media-player) for XP users.

[ArieS1204]

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say? "Grab the video from Ripbot"?

If you just want the video, use MKVmerge to extract. If you don't want to encode the Audio, set the Audio to No Audio.
I still want to make the file smaller so I want to encode the video with Ripbot.
The only time I can set the audio to No Audio is after Ripbot demuxes the audio.
I would like No Audio as the default, can I do that?

I tried: Audio=0 in the .ini but no luck.

[shagratt71]

Hi, I seem to be getting a slight jerky motion during panning scenes after encoding, could someone tell me what x264 settings might help control this? - Many thanks

[igorgladunyak]

Is it possible to use own filters for denoising in ripbot264?

[shagratt71]

Is it possible to use own filters for denoising in ripbot264?

I would also like to know the answer to this question along with using QTGMC filter within RipBot...??

[Zorro70]

use ffdshow blur & NR (noise reduction)

try gradual denoise, works a treat

[7ekno]

Is it possible to use own filters for denoising in ripbot264?

Ripbot264 accepts any AVS script as input, so yes, you can use any Avisynth filter ...

Just means you have to write the AVS script (and if you want to preview it use something like AvsPmod) ...

Tek

[igorgladunyak]

I tried to use DeGrainMedian filter
http://s2.share.te.ua/b389279/hcu4fec.png

but when I pressed Preview Script
http://s2.share.te.ua/b389281/21.png

[Atak_Snajpera]

are you trying to load something what does not exist? next two lines will also give an error message.

[igorgladunyak]

Now everything working, it should be like this

http://s2.share.te.ua/b389453/222.png
http://s2.share.te.ua/b389455/123.png

[carlmart]

Please forgive my question, if it's already a known issue.

I just installed RipBot264, and when I run it claims to need having Ffdshow 32 bit installed. AFAIK it is installed (I just checked my directory), so why is it not seeing it?

How should I proceed?

[flebber]

Please forgive my question, if it's already a known issue.

I just installed RipBot264, and when I run it claims to need having Ffdshow 32 bit installed. AFAIK it is installed (I just checked my directory), so why is it not seeing it?

How should I proceed?

Your ffdhsow version will be too old.

[klopsknoedel]

Get latest ffdshow 32-bit from here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/generic%20builds/).

[Hobbe]

Does anyone have a small guide how I can use the InterFrame script inside ripbot? I want encode my 25fps video to 50 fps...
I have downloaded and put the files under RipBot264v1.16.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\InterFrame\

[benjyv]

@Hobbe

Is very easy to CUT frames but it is impossible put in place or to increase frames after their cutting http://tracker.hdclub.com.ua/pic/smilies/wink.gif

Anyway try this:

http://www.spirton.com/interframe/

and

http://www.spirton.com/convert-videos-to-60fps/

I didn't try it , but I presume it is smth forced or faked...

[Hobbe]

@benjyv

Thats the avisynth script i'm trying to use. I paste this line in ripbot: InterFrame(FlowPath="C:\Bin\RipBot264v1.16.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\InterFrame")
All Interframe dll's are in that folder... When I try to preview the script it just say: Script error: there is no function named "Interframe"

[Busero360]

Muchas Gracias por este maravilloso programa, llevo 2 años utilizándolo y es de lo mejor que he encontrado, aunque lo normal es hacer lo contrario yo necesito pasar un video de 1920x1080-25p a 1920x1080-50i, sin que este ultimo no sea un falso entrelazado, necesito vuestra ayuda, gracias.

[Atak_Snajpera]

no hablo espanol amigo.

[Zenophobe]

Muchas Gracias por este maravilloso programa, llevo 2 años utilizándolo y es de lo mejor que he encontrado, aunque lo normal es hacer lo contrario yo necesito pasar un video de 1920x1080-25p a 1920x1080-50i, sin que este ultimo no sea un falso entrelazado, necesito vuestra ayuda, gracias.

Thank you very much for this wonderful program, I've been using it 2 years and is the best I've found, although it is normal or I need to do a video pass-25p 1920x1080 to 1920x1080-50i, but the latter is not a fake interlace I need your help, thanks.

[Zenophobe]

eac3to v3.24
command line: "C:\Users\Zenophobe\Downloads\RipBot264v1.16.5\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "F:\" 1) 2: "D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv" -seekToIFrames 3: "D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.thd.w64" -down16 1: "D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt" -progressnumbers -log="D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\demuxlog.txt"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 1 audio track, 1:20:38, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 13 chapters
2: h264/AVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: TrueHD/AC3, English, 7.1 channels, 48kHz
(embedded: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz)
Creating file "D:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt"...
[v02] Extracting video track number 2...
[v02] Muxing video to Matroska...
[a03] Extracting audio track number 3...
[a03] Extracting TrueHD stream...
[a03] Decoding with libav/ffmpeg...
[a03] Remapping channels...
[a03] Reducing depth from 24 to 16 bits...
[a03] Writing W64...
[a03] The libav decoder reported error -1 while decoding. <ERROR>

i don't know where to begin.. I've re-installed 3 times now...

I have an 120GB SSD as my OS drive and some programs.. the ripbot264 is running off of this drive as well as all add-ons are installed on this drive.. I have a 500GB second HDD that i store larger files and programs on.. Is this an issue?

PC Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Intel i7-980 OC 4.26GHz
nVidia GTX 580 3GB
24GB DDR3 1600MHZ Ram
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
500GB RAID 0 HDD
CoolerMaster HAF-X Case
EVGA Classified 3 MB
ABS 1050 PSU

[soneca]

Atak,
Thank you once again!
Bugs related to distributed encoding have been fixed?
So far I can not test here.

[frencher]

Hi Atak and good work,

Ripbot264 v1.17.0 request ffdshow 32 rev4200 and last available version is rev3984_20110922_clsid.exe (http://www.ffdshow.info/files) (4.6 MB)

Thank's ;)

[soneca]

Latest revision of ffdshow (http://www.xvidvideo.ru/component/docman/doc_download/7983-ffdshow-tryouts-project-svn-4216-x86-icl12.html).

[mdchaser]

I'm really excited about the distributed encoding capabilities of this new version, what a great idea! I've been trying to get it working with no luck. I've watched the tutorial and edited the INI properly but ripbot won't start the client portion when I click start. It loads the server when run but encodes the blu-ray as usual in its own window. I am on a domain so I've shared the temp folder (D:\Temp\RipBot264temp in my case) but don't have the security option to check under network settings as in the video. Any help would be appreciated!

Here is my ini:

[settings]
// TEMP=uses System temp ; C , D ... uses specific partition
StoreTempFilesin=D
KeepJobsQueue=1
---------------------
DefaultProfile=[HIGH 4.0] HD . Progressive
DefaultEncodingMode=CQ
DefaultModeValue=18
---------------------
//Directory must exists!!! D:\movies\ is correct but D:\movies is incorrect!
DefaultOutputPath=D:\DVD\
---------------------
// allowed values are mp4 , mkv , bluray , mkv-divxhd
DefaultContainer=mp4
---------------------
// in GiB (1GiB=1024 MiB) , 0 = no splitting
SplitM2TS=0
---------------------
FastFirstPassin2passMode=1
---------------------
//AnyDVD DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray decryptor will be automatically activated with RipBot264
ExecuteAnyDVD=0
---------------------
//Blu-ray subtitles will be converted to SUB/IDX format for .mkv container. Smaller size and better compatibility with some players.
ConvertSUPtoSUB=1
---------------------
x264LowPriority=1
---------------------
// it will use 64bit version of x264 on 64bit Windows. up to 10% faster encoding speed.
Usex264x64=1
---------------------
// Only for DVD / HD-DVD / BD sources!
UseDistributedEncoding=1

[mdchaser]

Ok, got a little further. It now starts the encoding client and connects to both the localhost and a remote server I have set up. Unfortunately both of them flip back and forth between encoding and idle. The status flips back and forth between Starting... and Queue (about twice a second). If I open the server it flashes Encoding Terminated... over and over...

[Lighto]

Distributed encoding looks awesome but I don't think I should bother trying it with my 2600k desktop with my c2d laptop, doubt the speed difference will be significant.
Pretty excited about the batch feature, it's what everyone has been waiting for.

Shall try it out when I have the time. :)

[soneca]

"shutdown when finished" not working and locks the gui.

[bigggt]

Thanks for the new version

Ok, got a little further. It now starts the encoding client and connects to both the localhost and a remote server I have set up. Unfortunately both of them flip back and forth between encoding and idle. The status flips back and forth between Starting... and Queue (about twice a second). If I open the server it flashes Encoding Terminated... over and over...

I wanted to try out the Distributed Encoding but am having the same issues above

[zombiefreak]

Got an application error running batch mode doing some AVI to MP4 conversions.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5946045/Untitled.png

I set it to do all the pre-processing then encode. Doing so, there's no log file.

[Balthazar2k4]

I am starting to feel a bit mentally handicapped this morning with the Distributed Encode feature. Do I need to have anything running on the other machines? I have managed to get the server and client windows to show an encode in progress on the localhost, but when I try to connect to one of my other two computers it just keeps telling me they are offline. I have checked the network settings on these machines and they are completely open. It seems like there needs to be something running on the other end. Honestly, I have no idea exactly how this works so I am guessing. Anyone successfully get this running that can give me some pointers? I have already watched the tutorial numerous times and yet I just can't get my other computers to start encoding.

Thanks in advance.

[Wishbringer]

@Balthazar2k4:
You have to run EncodingServer on the other machines too!
Because I have RipBot264 installed on all machines I don't know if you need all codecs etc. too.

@Atak_Snajpera:
Thanks for this wonderfull new feature!!!
But I have some questions too:
x264farm had the ability to find out I-Frames and split encodes there.
Because 1st pass had fixed split of movieparts (without overhead of around 240 frames to find I-Frames between) and 2nd pass splitted encodes at the same point, so I don't think Ripbot264 has same ability. Am I wrong? Do you plan to implement it?
What does other machines need? For example, if I use your Denoise-function (based on GPU-Avisynth-Plugin) do I need a capable graphiccard in each machine? or is it only used on first machine?
Because I have some Servers with VMware ESXi and Windows VMs (which doesn't support these GPU-features)

[Balthazar2k4]

@Balthazar2k4:
You have to run EncodingServer on the other machines too!
Because I have RipBot264 installed on all machines I don't know if you need all codecs etc. too.

Thanks Wishbringer! I thought that was most likely the issue, but the tutorial video I guess just assumed that. Works like a charm now!

[deekey777]

http://www.abload.de/img/ripgcy3n.png
("The system cannot find ...")
Win7 x64 (uptodate).
1.17.0.

[jandor]

@Atak_Snajpera, I never tire of praising the RipBot. Thank you.

@soneca, you're sure.
Indeed, when the "Shutdown when finished" is selected it is blocking the GUI.
To unlock just by using the Ctrl+Alt+Del.

My System: Windows 7 64bit

Messages:
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5755/1horzoj.jpg

[Wishbringer]

So, first tests are done:
Encoded an episode of 24 minutes with two machines, worked fine.
Then added two further machines and encoded another episode.
Only the first two machines in the list started encoding, the other two stayed idle:
0-14399 frames: first machine
14400-36000 frames: 2nd machine
I expected at least three machines working:
0-14399: first
14400-28799: second
28800-36000: third

Will start another encode of a 4 hours movie, maybe then all machines get a job.
btw, when changing client-list, the new machines encode too. So it's not a problem of the new machines. Only the first two in the list starts jobs here.

Edit:
When disconnecting one of the first two machines, then encode starts at third machine. So it seems there are only two parallel encodes atm.

[Atak_Snajpera]

@wishbringer
client always splits movie into 10 min chunks. for obvious reasons last part must be longer. (we don't want have last chunk to be 1 frame long)

@SONECA
already fixed . i will send you new build tomorrow.

[bigggt]

any ideas on the localhost switching between encoding and idle

[Wishbringer]

@wishbringer
client always splits movie into 10 min chunks. for obvious reasons last part must be longer. (we don't want have last chunk to be 1 frame long)

Ok, worked with longer movies, have now around 40 jobs in the Clientqueue. It was the 24 minutes episode that made only two machines to run.

A solution to avoid your scenario would be:
to take length of movie (in frames),
divide by 14400,
round up the result (never below the count of the machines),
divide frames of movie by this result to get a new job length (in frames)
and add modula (frames of movie - new job length * count of jobs) to last part.

[slalom]

Been watching the video about Distributed Encoding and I have a problem. On the client, the local host stays IDLE while RipBot264 is encoding.
Frames and status remain blank.
Of course I can't connect another client. What did I miss?

[flebber]

With the new version I keep receiving a 'floating point' error. I have tried to different sources but receive the same error both times. On WinXP SP3 32 bit.

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af10/Sayth_Renshaw/ripboterror.png

[Atak_Snajpera]

can you try on vista or 7?

[flebber]

can you try on vista or 7?

Yeah I have a win7 i3 laptop.

[soneca]

@SONECA
already fixed . i will send you new build tomorrow.

Thank you.
And there is already another version of mkvtoolnix.:eek:

[flebber]

can you try on vista or 7?

Ripbot worked perfect on windows 7 64 bit.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Ripbot worked perfect on windows 7 64 bit.

maybe it is a sign to forget about xp. it is 2012 and last sp was released almost 4 years ago. windows xp itself is 10 years old. i have no access to xp so i can not do anything with that.

[slalom]

Been watching the video about Distributed Encoding and I have a problem. On the client, the local host stays IDLE while RipBot264 is encoding.
Frames and status remain blank.
Of course I can't connect another client. What did I miss?
Somehow, I got it to work today, thanks!

[rsotome]

Well at first, everything was working fine with the Encoding Client, but now, at the end of every encode, I get this error:

http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/9034/ripbot264encodingclient.png

After hitting OK, RipBot264 muxes the file just fine & moves on to the next. Wouldn't be so bad, but sitting & watching an encode is beyond boring, please help.

[Atak_Snajpera]

when does this happen exactly? after 'combing chunks' stage or before? it would be very helpful if you could record a video using camstudio or fraps. upload video to www.mediafire.com

[8ternity]

Hi Atak,

Version 1.17.0; bug reported.

DTS-MA audio is not imported with ripbot264 version 1.17.0, but imported with 1.15.0.

French DTS-HDMA core 5.1 1509Kbps

here media info:

General
Unique ID : 235759731393557201397954653672449231562 (0xB15DAC31F2D3EA2FB1B06A2D9C8FCACA)
Complete name : Taxi.2.x264.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 5.01 GiB
Duration : 1h 28mn
Overall bit rate : 8 108 Kbps
Movie name : 的士速递2.2000 by 游龙公子
Encoded date : UTC 2011-09-22 00:49:44
Writing application : mkvmerge v3.2.0 ('Beginnings') 编译于 Feb 12 2010 16:46:17
Writing library : libebml v0.7.9 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 11 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate : 6 602 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 546 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 24.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.394
Stream size : 3.98 GiB (79%)
Title : Taxi.2.2000
Writing library : x264 core 116 r2074+610 09ac020
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=11 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / fade_compensate=0.00 / psy_rd=1.05:0.10 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=1 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / fgo=0 / bframes=6 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=6602 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.70 / qpmin=3 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=40000 / vbv_bufsize=30000 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=2:1.00
Language : French
Default : Yes
Forced : Yes

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 955 MiB (19%)
Title : French DTS-HDMA core 5.1 1509Kbps
Language : French
Default : Yes
Forced : Yes



Using ffdsnow 4207 rev. of clsid.

Thanks.

[igorgladunyak]

Demuxing Error

http://s2.share.te.ua/b392307/e5cjxoj6gz.png
eac3to v3.24
command line: "C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "E:\2\Malchishnik.2.Iz.Vegasa.v.Bangkok.2011.x264.Blu-Ray(1080p)\" 1) 2: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv" -seekToIFrames 3: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.dtsma.w64" -down16 14: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\14_subtitles_English_1080.sup" 15: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\15_subtitles_French_1080.sup" 16: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\16_subtitles_German_1080.sup" 17: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\17_subtitles_Spanish_1080.sup" 18: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\18_subtitles_Dutch_1080.sup" 19: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\19_subtitles_Chinese_1080.sup" 20: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\20_subtitles_Korean_1080.sup" 21: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\21_subtitles_Chinese_1080.sup" 22: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\22_subtitles_Croatian_1080.sup" 23: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\23_subtitles_Czech_1080.sup" 24: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\24_subtitles_Danish_1080.sup" 25: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\25_subtitles_Finnish_1080.sup" 26: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\26_subtitles_Modern Greek_1080.sup" 27: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\27_subtitles_Hebrew_1080.sup" 28: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\28_subtitles_Hungarian_1080.sup" 29: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\29_subtitles_Icelandic_1080.sup" 30: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\30_subtitles_Norwegian_1080.sup" 31: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\31_subtitles_Polish_1080.sup" 32: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\32_subtitles_Portuguese_1080.sup" 33: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\33_subtitles_Romanian_1080.sup" 34: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\34_subtitles_Russian_1080.sup" 35: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\35_subtitles_Slovenian_1080.sup" 36: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\36_subtitles_Swedish_1080.sup" 37: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\37_subtitles_Turkish_1080.sup" 38: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\38_subtitles_French_1080.sup" 39: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\39_subtitles_German_1080.sup" 40: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\40_subtitles_Spanish_1080.sup" 41: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\41_subtitles_Czech_1080.sup" 42: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\42_subtitles_Hungarian_1080.sup" 43: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\43_subtitles_Russian_1080.sup" 44: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\44_subtitles_Turkish_1080.sup" 1: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt" -progressnumbers -log="C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\demuxlog.txt"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 11 audio tracks, 31 subtitle tracks, 1:41:49, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 12 chapters
2: h264/AVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: DTS Master Audio, English, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 48kHz
(core: DTS, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 1509kbps, 48kHz)
4: AC3, English, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
5: AC3, French, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
6: AC3, German, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
7: AC3, Spanish, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
8: AC3, Czech, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
9: AC3, Hungarian, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
10: AC3, Polish, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
11: AC3, Russian, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
12: AC3 Surround, Turkish, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
13: AC3, Ukrainian, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
14: Subtitle (PGS), English
15: Subtitle (PGS), French
16: Subtitle (PGS), German
17: Subtitle (PGS), Spanish
18: Subtitle (PGS), Dutch
19: Subtitle (PGS), Chinese
20: Subtitle (PGS), Korean
21: Subtitle (PGS), Chinese
22: Subtitle (PGS), Croatian
23: Subtitle (PGS), Czech
24: Subtitle (PGS), Danish
25: Subtitle (PGS), Finnish
26: Subtitle (PGS), Modern Greek
27: Subtitle (PGS), Hebrew
28: Subtitle (PGS), Hungarian
29: Subtitle (PGS), Icelandic
30: Subtitle (PGS), Norwegian
31: Subtitle (PGS), Polish
32: Subtitle (PGS), Portuguese
33: Subtitle (PGS), Romanian
34: Subtitle (PGS), Russian
35: Subtitle (PGS), Slovenian
36: Subtitle (PGS), Swedish
37: Subtitle (PGS), Turkish
38: Subtitle (PGS), French
39: Subtitle (PGS), German
40: Subtitle (PGS), Spanish
41: Subtitle (PGS), Czech
42: Subtitle (PGS), Hungarian
43: Subtitle (PGS), Russian
44: Subtitle (PGS), Turkish
Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt"...
[v02] Extracting video track number 2...
[s14] Extracting subtitle track number 14...
[a03] Extracting audio track number 3...
[a03] Decoding with ArcSoft DTS Decoder...
[s15] Extracting subtitle track number 15...
[s16] Extracting subtitle track number 16...
[s18] Extracting subtitle track number 18...
[s23] Extracting subtitle track number 23...
[s21] Extracting subtitle track number 21...
[s17] Extracting subtitle track number 17...
[v02] Muxing video to Matroska...
[a03] Reducing depth from 24 to 16 bits...
[a03] Writing W64...
[s24] Extracting subtitle track number 24...
[s25] Extracting subtitle track number 25...
[s26] Extracting subtitle track number 26...
[s20] Extracting subtitle track number 20...
[s22] Extracting subtitle track number 22...
[s27] Extracting subtitle track number 27...
[s19] Extracting subtitle track number 19...
[s29] Extracting subtitle track number 29...
[s31] Extracting subtitle track number 31...
[s33] Extracting subtitle track number 33...
[s30] Extracting subtitle track number 30...
[s32] Extracting subtitle track number 32...
[s38] Extracting subtitle track number 38...
[s36] Extracting subtitle track number 36...
[s34] Extracting subtitle track number 34...
[s28] Extracting subtitle track number 28...
[s44] Extracting subtitle track number 44...
[s40] Extracting subtitle track number 40...
[s37] Extracting subtitle track number 37...
[s41] Extracting subtitle track number 41...
[s43] Extracting subtitle track number 43...
[s39] Extracting subtitle track number 39...
[s42] Extracting subtitle track number 42...
[s35] Extracting subtitle track number 35...
[a03] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.dtsma.w64"...
[s16] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\16_subtitles_German_1080.sup"...
[s14] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\14_subtitles_English_1080.sup"...
[s19] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\19_subtitles_Chinese_1080.sup"...
[s32] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\32_subtitles_Portuguese_1080.sup"...
[s29] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\29_subtitles_Icelandic_1080.sup"...
[s37] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\37_subtitles_Turkish_1080.sup"...
[s26] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\26_subtitles_Modern Greek_1080.sup"...
[s17] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\17_subtitles_Spanish_1080.sup"...
[s30] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\30_subtitles_Norwegian_1080.sup"...
[s22] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\22_subtitles_Croatian_1080.sup"...
[s24] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\24_subtitles_Danish_1080.sup"...
[s33] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\33_subtitles_Romanian_1080.sup"...
[s36] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\36_subtitles_Swedish_1080.sup"...
[s34] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\34_subtitles_Russian_1080.sup"...
[s18] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\18_subtitles_Dutch_1080.sup"...
[s28] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\28_subtitles_Hungarian_1080.sup"...
[s15] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\15_subtitles_French_1080.sup"...
[s31] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\31_subtitles_Polish_1080.sup"...
[s20] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\20_subtitles_Korean_1080.sup"...
[s23] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\23_subtitles_Czech_1080.sup"...
[s27] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\27_subtitles_Hebrew_1080.sup"...
[s35] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\35_subtitles_Slovenian_1080.sup"...
[s25] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\25_subtitles_Finnish_1080.sup"...
[s21] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\21_subtitles_Chinese_1080.sup"...
[a03] Writing the destination file failed. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 23842521088. <ERROR>
What to do?

[rsotome]

when does this happen exactly? after 'combing chunks' stage or before? it would be very helpful if you could record a video using camstudio or fraps. upload video to www.mediafire.com

I happens before combing chunks, just after the 2 machines finish encoding.

I would send you a video cap, but I gave up & just encoded the remaining videos separately, then deleted the sources.

But I will video cap the next time it happens.

[rsotome]

And now, I'm trying to encode a DVD, and I get the "encoding and idle" repeated every couple of seconds on the secondary machine, is there a work around?

[rc71]

And now, I'm trying to encode a DVD, and I get the "encoding and idle" repeated every couple of seconds on the secondary machine, is there a work around?

Ive seen this problem. The issue is the location of the Temp folder that you are sharing out. It has to be on the machine you are running Ripbot.exe from. After that check your share permissions.

[rc71]

Ok, got a little further. It now starts the encoding client and connects to both the localhost and a remote server I have set up. Unfortunately both of them flip back and forth between encoding and idle. The status flips back and forth between Starting... and Queue (about twice a second). If I open the server it flashes Encoding Terminated... over and over...

I've seen this problem. The issue is the location of the Temp folder that you are sharing out. It has to be on the machine you are running Ripbot.exe from. After that check your share permissions.

[rc71]

@Balthazar2k4:
You have to run EncodingServer on the other machines too!
Because I have RipBot264 installed on all machines I don't know if you need all codecs etc. too.



Ripbot is self contained and will copy over what it needs.

[rc71]

With the new version I keep receiving a 'floating point' error. I have tried to different sources but receive the same error both times. On WinXP SP3 32 bit.

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af10/Sayth_Renshaw/ripboterror.png

I get this problem only with certain(random) files. It's rare, but I just ignore those and don't encode them. I've encoded about 800 files with the new version and got this error about 4 or 5 times. If you have this every time, there must be something on your machine that ripbot doesn't like. (Personally suspect some codec.) Sorry, I don't have any more useful info.

[rc71]

maybe it is a sign to forget about xp. it is 2012 and last sp was released almost 4 years ago. windows xp itself is 10 years old. i have no access to xp so i can not do anything with that.

The last SP might have been 4 years ago, but the last update was two days ago and Microsoft has agreed to fully support XP for two more years because of it popularity.

If you have a old XP install, there are likely to be more issues with everything than with a newer install of almost any OS.

Most people think their NEW computer or their NEW OS has solved their problem, but a lot of times it is just a fresh install has removed the crap that was slowing/crashing the PC.

***At the end of 2011, "OVER half of the PC's had Windows 7 or Vista." That means the rest have XP or such. (Minus Linux boxes.) ***

[rsotome]

Ive seen this problem. The issue is the location of the Temp folder that you are sharing out. It has to be on the machine you are running Ripbot.exe from. After that check your share permissions.

I wish it were that easy, but all other encodes so far have worked just fine. I'm going to try remuxing the DVD into a bluray container & see if that fixes it.

[Trayman]

Trying to encode Kill Bill Vol1 from Bluray to mkv 2pass using distrubuted encoding. On the second pass on the last chunk it stops claiming that the second pass has more frames than the first pass 15288 vs 15287. I tried a cq20 encode and it ran perfectly. Any suggestions to solve this problem ?

Will try a single machine encode to see if that works.

Cheers Trayman

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Trayman
Can you try again with Usex264x64=0

Re-create job after that change!

[Trayman]

Ok will try that and let you know how it goes.

It's on it's way now indexing...
First pass finished...
Second pass started ETA 57 minutes...
x264_X86 has crashed 2 times already once during the first pass and once during the second on the Vista machine.

Update on the problem.
Using x264x64=0 the problem still exists. I changed the setting on both machines.


The movie has 159288 frames and the last chunk ends on 159288 so one frame is left out in the avs chunk creation it seems.
As for the lost episode i'm trying now has 61968 frames and the last chunk ends at 61967.
So i believe it will generate the same error.

No it didn't. stupid me it counts from 0 and not 1... so the previuos thought is invalid.

Will try direct from the bluray instead of the files on harddrive.

//Trayman

[Atak_Snajpera]

@igorgladunyak
buy larger hdd maybe

@rc71
when you get that error could you show me info.txt from that job

[fantasmanegro]

does anybody knows how to set ripbot with high profile for android tablet with honeycomb 3.2? or tutorial/guide?

[dbart]

Thanks Atak for new version. I was obsessed with CPU utilization :) and now is everything OK. CPU is on ~100 % and encoding speed increase for me to ~200 %, but i also tune my CPU/RAM from 3,0 GHz to final stable 3,3 GHz, from nominal 2,5. In fps from 3,xx to 6,yy fps with 1080p content.

[mrpitman]

When are you gonna implement something into Ripbot that takes modifies the Cinavia Protection and PS3 or $ony standalone Bluray players. I am using AnyDVDHD and it doesn't work in resolving the issue.

[bbyers70]

All references inside the CHUNKS folder (avs & cmd files) refer to \\TRIWEST and not the actual machine name. TRIWEST is the name of my domain. How do I go about getting this corrected to my computer name which happens to be IT21229.


Example from CombineAllChunks.cmd

copy /b "\\TRIWEST\Ripbot264temp\job1\Chunks\1.264" + "\\TRIWEST\Ripbot264temp\job1\Chunks\2.264" + "\\TRIWEST\Ripbot264temp\job1\Chunks\3.264" + "\\TRIWEST\Ripbot264temp\job1\Chunks\4.264" + "\\TRIWEST\Ripbot264temp\job1\Chunks\5.264" + "\\TRIWEST\Ripbot264temp\job1\Chunks\6.264" + "\\TRIWEST\Ripbot264temp\job1\Chunks\7.264" + "\\TRIWEST\Ripbot264temp\job1\Chunks\8.264" "\\TRIWEST\Ripbot264temp\video.264"

[igorgladunyak]

@igorgladunyak
buy larger hdd maybe


In 1.16.5 version everything works perfect. Why it doesn't work in 1.17.0 version?

[rc71]

I wish it were that easy, but all other encodes so far have worked just fine. I'm going to try remuxing the DVD into a bluray container & see if that fixes it.

Seriously. I went through the same thing with Atak. The instructions didn't make it clear to me where everything was supposed to be and what was supposed to be run where.
When I changed the location of the temp/ripbot temp folder it started to to work. The problem was the way ripbot wants to use the share. ie. If you make temp folder and share it out, you might be looking at temp/temp/ripbot temp, but you put something slightly diff in the .ini file. Once I got the shares lined up, poof, it was off.

I had a video that I sent Atak of the problem, but my sent files folder is empty her at Doom9.

[rc71]

@rc71
when you get that error could you show me info.txt from that job


Sure. NP. But like I said it's rare. It usually happens when I'm encoding some trash old file that's been cut/reEcoded/resized/etc.

It's never happened on a new properly encoded file and I'm over 1000 files encoded so far.:D

[rc71]

In 1.16.5 version everything works perfect. Why it doesn't work in 1.17.0 version?

That's not a very useful comment. If you want some help, there are several people who will try to help you out, but write a real question.

[itsano]

I just upgraded to version 1.17.0 and I really like the Batch mode. I'm just wondering why it doesn't show MTS as a supported format in batch mode but it does in the usual one file-at-a-time mode?

Thanks

[rc71]

I don't know if it's a bug or it's supposed to work this way. The Keep Jobs In Queue feature; It's all or nothing. That is to say, if you clear the check box, ALL jobs disappear including UNprocessed jobs. (When you close/reopen) I expected that if the box was cleared, that jobs would disappear as they were processed, that way you could see only jobs to be processed, or at least when you close/reopen ripbot, only to be processed jobs would remain.

[rc71]

I just upgraded to version 1.17.0 and I really like the Batch mode. I'm just wondering why it doesn't show MTS as a supported format in batch mode but it does in the usual one file-at-a-time mode?

Thanks

I assume you are talking about the AVCHD option.
Do you really have that many files you want to convert to AVCHD that you need that as an option?

Regardless, if you hit the edit button on any job, you can easily select AVCHD.

[Wishbringer]

Managed to run 3 clients with Win7 64bit and distributed encoding.
When adding a Win2008R2 Server as 4th client, i get this "idle repeat" problem.
I Win2008R2 clients window it says, it can't load avisynth gpu plugin.
Win2008R2 Server has newest drivers (Radeon 6450) and newest DirectX installed, so it should work.
Maybe a security issue with Win2008R2, not able to run dlls from shares?!

[Atak_Snajpera]

@bbyers70
I hope this will fix your problem

Beta update for 1.17.0

http://www.mediafire.com/?99r11pkwdpcqrsc

Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name

[itsano]

I assume you are talking about the AVCHD option.
Do you really have that many files you want to convert to AVCHD that you need that as an option?

Regardless, if you hit the edit button on any job, you can easily select AVCHD.

The *.MTS files are coming from my video camera so yes, there can be quite a few at a time. I simply changed the extension to *.TS and I was then able to add them all at once as a batch.

@Atak_Snajpera: Could you add the *.MTS format to the batch please?

Thank you!

[Trayman]

Some suggestions that at least I would like implemented.

1. Encoding settings/profiles. Lets say i want my movie dvds to be encoded to mkv with the CQ20 settings but my Tv-series dvds to be encoded to mkv with the 2pass settings and an output size 700Mb. Same goes with Bluray movies i want mkv 2pass with the output size of 4480Mb and 720p but my bluray tv episodes i want mkv 2pass with the output size of 1024Mb 720p. So the ability to create these "settings" in an ini like file would be awesome.

2. Subtitle support on dvds just like on blurays.

3. Default subtitle language to be used if available and if they should be forced or selectable.

4. Que managment in the Distributed Encoding Client for debugging purposes. If you have a problem with a certain chunk you don't want to wait several hours to see if the problem is solved. If it's the last part it takes a while to get there.

5. Support for the swedish letters åäö in the output file. Maybe there is a workaround to this that i haven't found without editing the command files.

6. Support for more than one audio track.


Please at least consider some of these suggestions that i think would improve this already awesome app :)

Cheers Trayman

[davidsama]

Atak_Snajpera Ripbot 1.17.0 does not delete the temp folder when i press remove anymore. 1.16.5 did that with no problems. Also 1.17.0 will not shutdown the pc when i put a check mark in the shutdown when finished anymore and 1.17.0 also locks up when i encode a 24 minute anime using 10 bit x264

[Trayman]

The problem with Kill Bill Vol1 on 2pass distributed encoding still there there eventhough i demuxed the movie directly from the bluray instead of copying the entire disc to my harddrive.

This is what the encoding server reports
http://tray2.se/error/ripbot264error.png




Cheers Trayman

[soneca]

Atak_Snajpera Ripbot 1.17.0 does not delete the temp folder when i press remove anymore. 1.16.5 did that with no problems. Also 1.17.0 will not shutdown the pc when i put a check mark in the shutdown when finished anymore and 1.17.0 also locks up when i encode a 24 minute anime using 10 bit x264

Here the temporary folders are usually deleted and shutdown has already been resolved in the latest beta version.

Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name

[gav1577]

Ok i managed to get Distributed Encoding sort of working to the point, where it tries to connect to my other computer in the homegroup, that's as far as i get. The Encoding Client will connect to localhost but wont connect to my server. Any ideas anyone?
Here is a video capture of the problem http://www.mediafire.com/?yvtnq3bq26q6e7o

[davidsama]

I just tried the beta version that Atak_Snajpera posted in post #10427 and it still did not delete the temp folder when i pressed remove

[rc71]

I just tried the beta version that Atak_Snajpera posted in post #10427 and it still did not delete the temp folder when i pressed remove

It deletes them when you close/reopen ripbot. Is that what's not working for you?

[rc71]

Does anyone know of a switch or hack that can increase the volume during encoding? I see the normalize at 200%, but if I'm not mistaken that makes louds, less loud and the quiets, not so quiet and that's not what I need. I just need it louder. Please no need for jokes about playing with the volume output or turning up the speakers. :P

[rc71]

Managed to run 3 clients with Win7 64bit and distributed encoding.
When adding a Win2008R2 Server as 4th client, i get this "idle repeat" problem.
I Win2008R2 clients window it says, it can't load avisynth gpu plugin.
Win2008R2 Server has newest drivers (Radeon 6450) and newest DirectX installed, so it should work.
Maybe a security issue with Win2008R2, not able to run dlls from shares?!

Either try the new client or read the solution a few posts back. It has to do with the share path with the new client attempts to resolve.

As for your avisynth plug in, You are using win2008. I assuming you are using it because it's different, so maybe there is your problem. Different means you get the headache. Good luck. Sorry for no useful advice on that.

[davidsama]

When i press remove with the 1.17.0 beta it deletes everything but the jobs.list inside the temp folder and when i close ripbot the temp folder and jobs.list is still there and i have to manually delete the temp folder. 1.16.5 removed everything including the temp folder

[bbyers70]

@bbyers70
I hope this will fix your problem

Beta update for 1.17.0

http://www.mediafire.com/?99r11pkwdpcqrsc

Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name


"Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name" Confirmed fixed.

[igorgladunyak]

That's not a very useful comment. If you want some help, there are several people who will try to help you out, but write a real question.
My question is:
Why in the 1.17.0 version I get Demuxing Error in the old 1.16.5 version Demuxing works fine.

Demuxing Error

http://s2.share.te.ua/b392307/e5cjxoj6gz.png

[hoju3508]

@igorgladunyak, are you using the same source? Would you paste the demux.log file as well?

[igorgladunyak]

@igorgladunyak, are you using the same source? Would you paste the demux.log file as well?
I used the same source
demux.log
eac3to v3.24
command line: "C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "E:\2\Malchishnik.2.Iz.Vegasa.v.Bangkok.2011.x264.Blu-Ray(1080p)\" 1) 2: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv" -seekToIFrames 3: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.dtsma.w64" -down16 14: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\14_subtitles_English_1080.sup" 15: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\15_subtitles_French_1080.sup" 16: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\16_subtitles_German_1080.sup" 17: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\17_subtitles_Spanish_1080.sup" 18: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\18_subtitles_Dutch_1080.sup" 19: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\19_subtitles_Chinese_1080.sup" 20: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\20_subtitles_Korean_1080.sup" 21: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\21_subtitles_Chinese_1080.sup" 22: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\22_subtitles_Croatian_1080.sup" 23: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\23_subtitles_Czech_1080.sup" 24: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\24_subtitles_Danish_1080.sup" 25: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\25_subtitles_Finnish_1080.sup" 26: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\26_subtitles_Modern Greek_1080.sup" 27: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\27_subtitles_Hebrew_1080.sup" 28: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\28_subtitles_Hungarian_1080.sup" 29: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\29_subtitles_Icelandic_1080.sup" 30: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\30_subtitles_Norwegian_1080.sup" 31: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\31_subtitles_Polish_1080.sup" 32: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\32_subtitles_Portuguese_1080.sup" 33: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\33_subtitles_Romanian_1080.sup" 34: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\34_subtitles_Russian_1080.sup" 35: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\35_subtitles_Slovenian_1080.sup" 36: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\36_subtitles_Swedish_1080.sup" 37: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\37_subtitles_Turkish_1080.sup" 38: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\38_subtitles_French_1080.sup" 39: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\39_subtitles_German_1080.sup" 40: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\40_subtitles_Spanish_1080.sup" 41: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\41_subtitles_Czech_1080.sup" 42: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\42_subtitles_Hungarian_1080.sup" 43: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\43_subtitles_Russian_1080.sup" 44: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\44_subtitles_Turkish_1080.sup" 1: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt" -progressnumbers -log="C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\demuxlog.txt"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 11 audio tracks, 31 subtitle tracks, 1:41:49, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 12 chapters
2: h264/AVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: DTS Master Audio, English, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 48kHz
(core: DTS, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 1509kbps, 48kHz)
4: AC3, English, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
5: AC3, French, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
6: AC3, German, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
7: AC3, Spanish, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
8: AC3, Czech, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
9: AC3, Hungarian, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
10: AC3, Polish, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
11: AC3, Russian, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
12: AC3 Surround, Turkish, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
13: AC3, Ukrainian, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
14: Subtitle (PGS), English
15: Subtitle (PGS), French
16: Subtitle (PGS), German
17: Subtitle (PGS), Spanish
18: Subtitle (PGS), Dutch
19: Subtitle (PGS), Chinese
20: Subtitle (PGS), Korean
21: Subtitle (PGS), Chinese
22: Subtitle (PGS), Croatian
23: Subtitle (PGS), Czech
24: Subtitle (PGS), Danish
25: Subtitle (PGS), Finnish
26: Subtitle (PGS), Modern Greek
27: Subtitle (PGS), Hebrew
28: Subtitle (PGS), Hungarian
29: Subtitle (PGS), Icelandic
30: Subtitle (PGS), Norwegian
31: Subtitle (PGS), Polish
32: Subtitle (PGS), Portuguese
33: Subtitle (PGS), Romanian
34: Subtitle (PGS), Russian
35: Subtitle (PGS), Slovenian
36: Subtitle (PGS), Swedish
37: Subtitle (PGS), Turkish
38: Subtitle (PGS), French
39: Subtitle (PGS), German
40: Subtitle (PGS), Spanish
41: Subtitle (PGS), Czech
42: Subtitle (PGS), Hungarian
43: Subtitle (PGS), Russian
44: Subtitle (PGS), Turkish
Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt"...
[v02] Extracting video track number 2...
[s14] Extracting subtitle track number 14...
[a03] Extracting audio track number 3...
[a03] Decoding with ArcSoft DTS Decoder...
[s15] Extracting subtitle track number 15...
[s16] Extracting subtitle track number 16...
[s18] Extracting subtitle track number 18...
[s23] Extracting subtitle track number 23...
[s21] Extracting subtitle track number 21...
[s17] Extracting subtitle track number 17...
[v02] Muxing video to Matroska...
[a03] Reducing depth from 24 to 16 bits...
[a03] Writing W64...
[s24] Extracting subtitle track number 24...
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[s26] Extracting subtitle track number 26...
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[s35] Extracting subtitle track number 35...
[a03] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.dtsma.w64"...
[s16] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\16_subtitles_German_1080.sup"...
[s14] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\14_subtitles_English_1080.sup"...
[s19] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\19_subtitles_Chinese_1080.sup"...
[s32] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\32_subtitles_Portuguese_1080.sup"...
[s29] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\29_subtitles_Icelandic_1080.sup"...
[s37] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\37_subtitles_Turkish_1080.sup"...
[s26] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\26_subtitles_Modern Greek_1080.sup"...
[s17] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\17_subtitles_Spanish_1080.sup"...
[s30] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\30_subtitles_Norwegian_1080.sup"...
[s22] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\22_subtitles_Croatian_1080.sup"...
[s24] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\24_subtitles_Danish_1080.sup"...
[s33] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\33_subtitles_Romanian_1080.sup"...
[s36] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\36_subtitles_Swedish_1080.sup"...
[s34] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\34_subtitles_Russian_1080.sup"...
[s18] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\18_subtitles_Dutch_1080.sup"...
[s28] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\28_subtitles_Hungarian_1080.sup"...
[s15] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\15_subtitles_French_1080.sup"...
[s31] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\31_subtitles_Polish_1080.sup"...
[s20] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\20_subtitles_Korean_1080.sup"...
[s23] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\23_subtitles_Czech_1080.sup"...
[s27] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\27_subtitles_Hebrew_1080.sup"...
[s35] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\35_subtitles_Slovenian_1080.sup"...
[s25] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\25_subtitles_Finnish_1080.sup"...
[s21] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\21_subtitles_Chinese_1080.sup"...
[a03] Writing the destination file failed. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 23842521088. <ERROR>

[Trayman]

@igorgladunyak

What source are you using ?

Cheers Trayman

[igorgladunyak]

@igorgladunyak

What source are you using ?

Cheers Trayman

The Hangover Part II (2011) Blu-ray CEE 1080p AVC DD5.1

[Trayman]

How much free space does your C: have ?

[igorgladunyak]

How much free space does your C: have ?
20 gb

[Trayman]

Try changing the temp drive to one with more space available in the ripbot264.ini.

[settings]
// TEMP=uses System temp ; C , D ... uses specific partition
StoreTempFilesin=G

[igorgladunyak]

Try changing the temp drive to one with more space available in the ripbot264.ini.
thanks buddy it helped:thanks:

[Trayman]

@Atak The Kill Bill Vol 1 issue I've been having. I think i found what the problem is. The last frame is empty and i found this in the log

error: FFVideoSource: Insanity detected: decoder returned an empty frame occurred while reading frame 15287


Since I done this encode in "local mode" with the previous release of ripbot264 without a glitch. It ought to be something with the creation of the .avs and .cmd files for second pass. They don't catch the error and remove the last frame.

This is the last entry in the 11.stats file

in:15286 out:15286 type:P dur:2 cpbdur:2 q:16.57 tex:0 mv:0 misc:384 imb:0 pmb:0 smb:3600 d:- ref:0 ;

Since it should go from 144000 to 159287 which makes 15288 frames it only goes from 144000 to 159286 which makes 15287 frames.

I changed the 11.avs file and the 11.cmd files to one less frame and it seems to be running fine.

Will update you on the issue tomorrow when the encode is finished.

*Update* It ran perfectly after changing the number of frames in 11.avs and in 11.cmd. *Update*

Cheers Tray2

[Trayman]

@igorgladunyak you're welcome :)

Cheers Trayman

[jandor]

@Atak_Snajpera

Look, I do not know if this has to do with something that has already been reported here.
The version of MKVToolnix 5.2.0 in the subfolder Tools differs for this mkvtoolnix-unicode-5.2.0.7z (http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/.dirindex.php?sort=date&order=desc)
I noticed that this latest version is more stable. Especially in regard to MKVExtract.

Turns out I tried to update the YAMB (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1495596&postcount=9535),
and MKVExtractGUI-2 did not work with the version 5.2.0 of MKVextract which is inside the RipBot264.
Only with the version of the Website, which has the same reference, but is different in KB.

Recalling that the MKVExtractGUI-2 did not work with MKVToolnix 5.2.1 as well.

If this does not interfere with anything, then please disregard. I'm just trying to help.
Now I'm using in the RipbBot the same MKVToolnix 5.2.0 of the bunkus.org

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8713/1horzf.jpg

[omegaman7]

I've used this program in the past, and like some of the features it has. Namely subtitle abilities. I'd like to use it again, but a newer(Beta-Generic) version of FFDSHOW is apparently required to use it (4200+). BD rebuilder is currently using 3882. So clearly I'm gonna have to hope, that the new version does not hinder BD rebuilder in some way. Because I see no way of bypassing the version requirement for Ripbot264? Or I can simply spend a lot of time installing and reinstalling different versions of FFDSHOW.

I'm gonna run 4206 and see what happens :)

[rc71]

Try changing the temp drive to one with more space available in the ripbot264.ini.

Kind of Atak said about getting a bigger HD.

:sly:

[rc71]

I've used this program in the past, and like some of the features it has. Namely subtitle abilities. I'd like to use it again, but a newer(Beta-Generic) version of FFDSHOW is apparently required to use it (4200+). BD rebuilder is currently using 3882. So clearly I'm gonna have to hope, that the new version does not hinder BD rebuilder in some way. Because I see no way of bypassing the version requirement for Ripbot264? Or I can simply spend a lot of time installing and reinstalling different versions of FFDSHOW.

I'm gonna run 4206 and see what happens :)

Dude you made me laugh.

So this was like a prayer or something? Sounds like you might enjoy twitter. :D :D

[KiwiKid]

Actually I'm interested in the outcome. I use both RipBot and BD-RB and at the moment I'm forced to choose one or the other because of ffdshow.
Please keep us posted :thanks:

[soneca]

Use both, work very well with the latest versions of ffdshow.

[juramirez]

haali.su appears to be down... anybody know of a reliable mirror?

[omegaman7]

Yes, it was a prayer :p LOL! Nah, I just needed some words from experienced people in the thread. I believe I got my answer. I'll be encoding with BD rebuilder tonight though. I don't expect any problems ;)

[slalom]

@bbyers70
I hope this will fix your problem

Beta update for 1.17.0

http://www.mediafire.com/?99r11pkwdpcqrsc

Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name

Problem with this update. My servers go from idle to encoding on a loop. Before this update they started normally.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Ok i managed to get Distributed Encoding sort of working to the point, where it tries to connect to my other computer in the homegroup, that's as far as i get. The Encoding Client will connect to localhost but wont connect to my server. Any ideas anyone?
Here is a video capture of the problem http://www.mediafire.com/?yvtnq3bq26q6e7o
Is EncodingServer.exe running in 192.168.0.6 PC?
Have you disabled or added exception to firewall in 192.168.0.6 PC

[gav1577]

Ha Ha i got it to work stupid me didn't have the encoding server running on 192.168.0.6 :rolleyes: Thanks Atak :D

[hoju3508]

haali.su appears to be down... anybody know of a reliable mirror?

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Haali-Media-Splitter

[omegaman7]

There don't appear to be any problems with using the 4206 FFDSHOW with bd-rebuilder. Didn't think there would be. But with such long encodes, I worry about even the smallest change ;)

[MooGliSH]

Is there any reason why Copy Stream has been removed for TrueHD/DTS:MA?

At the moment i'm forced to use MakeMKV to create a Remux, then Ripbot to encode the video, and then MKVMerge to put the new video into the existing file with the untouched audio streams.

[slalom]

Is there any reason why Copy Stream has been removed for TrueHD/DTS:MA?

At the moment i'm forced to use MakeMKV to create a Remux, then Ripbot to encode the video, and then MKVMerge to put the new video into the existing file with the untouched audio streams.
I would want that too :thanks:

[flebber]

I get this problem only with certain(random) files. It's rare, but I just ignore those and don't encode them. I've encoded about 800 files with the new version and got this error about 4 or 5 times. If you have this every time, there must be something on your machine that ripbot doesn't like. (Personally suspect some codec.) Sorry, I don't have any more useful info.

I actually have managed to resolve this issue. It's not ripbot. I changed ffdshow from clsid 4206 to version clsid rev 4225 http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/SVN%20builds%20by%20clsid/generic%20builds/and the same files that created that error before no longer do.

[jandor]

You can also track the latest version of the ffdshow here: http://xhmikosr.1f0.de/index.php?folder=ZmZkc2hvdw==

Use the link: ... icl12.exe

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Trayman

Please test it again with kill bill in 32 bit and 64 bit mode.
http://www.mediafire.com/?4fi84mk5rba80pw

Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file

[Trayman]

@Atak 64bit worked and 32bit worked. Great job m8 :)

//Trayman

[fmagreed2]

I hit add, select a file, and get an error. Bottom of the window says please wait, gathering info. Rip bot doesn't create any log.

Exception EFOpenError in module Ripbot264.exe at 00023522. Cannot open file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\test.log". The system cannot find the file specified.

job1 folder contains:
audio.wav
AVIExtract.cmd
getAVSerror.cmd
getinfo.avs
info.txt
job1.avs

Win 7 x64

Also tried uninstalling/reinstalling ffdshow, haali, and avisynth - no change.

[BLKMGK]

Okay, trying hard to get this to work and have watched the YouTube vid a dozen times - no luck!

Encoding server is running on two machines. Encoding client is running on the same machine as RipBot (beta version). Client is connected to Localhost but not yet to second machine (this doesn't seem to matter). RipBot is using the F:\temp\RipBot264temp for it's temp files and I see a Job1 being created there. This folder is shared to "everyone" R/W and password protection has been turned off <shiver>. The output folder is f:\Ripbot which isn't shared. When I first ran RipBot I got a dialog about the firewall which I accepted - firewall for local machines is turned off anyway.

Each time I launch RipBot I see the job I've created (as expected) but when I kick it off it waits a few seconds and then begins to encode in standalone mode :( When I attempt to Abort RipBot hangs and I must kill the window. What have I done wrong that it's not chunking the video and distributing it? I see nothing being created in the log directory unfortunately :(

Thoughts?

RipBot.ini is here -> http://pastebin.com/SiwAEPbG

[Atak_Snajpera]

record video using camstudio or fraps . show me everythng step by step.

[juramirez]

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Haali-Media-Splitter

Thanks. =)

[gav1577]

Okay, trying hard to get this to work and have watched the YouTube vid a dozen times - no luck!

Encoding server is running on two machines. Encoding client is running on the same machine as RipBot (beta version). Client is connected to Localhost but not yet to second machine (this doesn't seem to matter). RipBot is using the F:\temp\RipBot264temp for it's temp files and I see a Job1 being created there. This folder is shared to "everyone" R/W and password protection has been turned off <shiver>. The output folder is f:\Ripbot which isn't shared. When I first ran RipBot I got a dialog about the firewall which I accepted - firewall for local machines is turned off anyway.

Each time I launch RipBot I see the job I've created (as expected) but when I kick it off it waits a few seconds and then begins to encode in standalone mode :( When I attempt to Abort RipBot hangs and I must kill the window. What have I done wrong that it's not chunking the video and distributing it? I see nothing being created in the log directory unfortunately :(

Thoughts?

RipBot.ini is here -> http://pastebin.com/SiwAEPbG

What file are you trying to load? if its an mkv it wont work with distributed encoding. I tried an mkv and was left scratching my head for a while until i realized, i would need to remux it to an m2ts file, so the file could be indexed first.

[fmagreed2]

Not really anything to record.
1) Open RipBot
2) Click Add
3) Select file
--I've tried a ton of different files. .avi mjpg, .avi huffy, .mp4 h.264 none of them work.
4) Open the file
5) Bottom says it demuxes audio - appears to work, since working sound file appears in temp folder.
6) Bottom switches to "Please Wait... Gathering information...", video and audio fields fill.
7) Error pops up immediately.
8) Hit OK.
9) Wait for like 5 minutes to see if anything happens - nothing. A 37 second mjpg in .avi shouldn't take that long to analyze.

And that's it.

[BLKMGK]

What file are you trying to load? if its an mkv it wont work with distributed encoding. I tried an mkv and was left scratching my head for a while until i realized, i would need to remux it to an m2ts file, so the file could be indexed first.

Ah ha, okay that's the problem - Argh! I wondered if the format might be the issue :( This is going to be way less useful than I'd hoped but I'll try it on some other files and see how it works.

Thanks!

Edit: Hrm, I can go right from BD media though and skip the step I've been doing to pull the video onto my HD. Assuming I can get the profile where I want it this just might work. I do wish the portion where I choose the stream I want etc. was a little more like the eac3to front-end meGUI uses where I'm presented with .mpls to choose from though since the default stream RipBot chooses and analyzes isn't always correct for me and I have to wait through another analyze cycle. Fingers crossed that this time it works though!

Question: How does RipBot handle Forced Subtitles? I see the option to include specific subs but it's not clear how I can obtain JUST the forced subs that aren't burned in... Alright I may see the answer to this - some of the .CMD files have commands being send to BDsup2Sub and appear to retain the FORCED subs - sweet!

[Atak_Snajpera]

i don't understand why you are so surpried. it clearly says dvd/hddvd/bd sources only! (STRUCTURE)

[BLKMGK]

i don't understand why you are so surpried. it clearly says dvd/hddvd/bd sources only! (STRUCTURE)

Well, I may just give up for the night. I put in a BD that I've been working with but which didn't have the first file as being the one I wanted (Toy Story 3). This is an example of a BD "structure" yes? I pointed RipBot at the drive, drilled down to the Stream folder, selected the first M2tS file of the set I wanted, waited while RipBot analyzed the wrong playlist, selected the right one - waited again. Selected the subtitles I wanted and told it I wanted FLAC audio. Mind you the title of this dialog says Blu-Ray structure so I was pretty sure I was getting there!

When that was done "analyzing" and I clicked okay I was at the New Job dialog and it was ripping apart the streams - "Demuxing Selected Streams". I could see a video.mkv file being created and when it hit 100% it went back to 0% and started building the .flac audio file. This all took quite awhile but when done I added a poster to the job, adjusted the CRF and input my desired profile. At last I was ready!

At the main window I could see my job sitting there and I hit the Start button. Nothing occurred in my Encoding Server nor my Encoding Client. Instead RipBot informed me it was Muxing and a few minutes later said it was done :scared:

I looked in the output folder and found a less than 1Gig file that contains sound and a short bit of video. I still had all of the intermediate files to include an 18gig .MKV file that the program built when it was "analyzing".

Looking at the logs (http://pastebin.com/1ZYYrX1Q) it looks like it tried to mux in a video file from one of the previous attempts where it ran standalone and had to be terminated when Abort wouldn't work. That file is now gone. Multiple attempts to get this to run properly by editing the existing job fail and the log file ends telling me it cannot find a .264 file to work with.

I've spent about 3hours on this now and watched the tutorial multiple times. That tutorial video works with .VOB files and leaves me with no clue as to how to work with a BD disk but I'm all ears, especially if there's a way to do this without waiting ages for various background eac3to jobs to run. How is anyone else doing this?

Surely I'm missing something but heck if I know what. I'd like to be able to insert a BD disk into a drive, select the main movie I want to encode, keep forced subs, maybe compress DTS to FLAC keeping 5.1, and fire it off against two different machines. However I see no attempt to Chunk anything and RipBot simply creates a .MKV which I think we've pretty well established cannot be spread across multiple machines.

P.S. Tried this on a BD rip folder sitting on my drive and got the similar results. As soon as I leave the "Blu-Ray structure" dialog it begins Demuxing and creating a video.mkv file. Upon starting the job it encodes my DTS to AC3(?!), and finishes in seconds. the log (http://pastebin.com/SVbfDgh5) again says it cannot find a video.264 file:confused: where and what creates this .264 file? It seemed to be created fine when I was attempting to encode MKV files previously.

[jandor]

@BLKMGK

Pardon, did you really want to say this? Or can I have understood badly?
As mentioned by you in the penultimate paragraph...
"I'd like to be able to insert a BD disk into a drive,..."

First you must do the decrypt of the BD disk by copying it for the HDD using AnyDVD HD or DVDFab, or both.
You must do this to remove all protections.
From the HDD, the RipBot takes care of the encoding.

[Atak_Snajpera]

anydvd hd and dvdfab can decrypt on fly. you are wasting time if copy first whole disc to hdd.

[jandor]

@Atak

When I mentioned the "HD", I meant HDD. It was an expression error, sorry.
I've made ​​the correction of "HD" to HDD.
This really interfered in the meaning of my answer, as well as his.

[omegaman7]

Yes, they decrypt on the fly. Which is quite handy most the time. But there have been discs in the past, that were so plagued with protection schemes, they could not be done on the fly. Which is one of the reasons ripping to disk is a function.

[BLKMGK]

anydvd hd and dvdfab can decrypt on fly. you are wasting time if copy first whole disc to hdd.

Correct, this is exactly how I generally work with BD - I don't first rip them unless the formatting of the streams is such that I cannot easily figure out which is which... fingers crossed that one day BD Menu support will be available on software I'm willing to run :)

Anyway, thoughts as to why my trying to pull directly from a BD didn't correctly parse to multiple machines?

[jandor]

I find much more safe when I send to the HDD.

[BLKMGK]

When you work from the HDD and have to do multiple iterations to try and find the right stream or you want to pull multiple versions\create a multi-path MKV then yes working from the HDD can speed things. you go through just one painful copy and then it's done - Toy Story 3 and Source Code would be two examples of this IMO. However generally I'm just pulling off one obvious video stream to a MKV, reencoding it, then putting that result and the audio(s) into a MKV container with chapters and maybe forced subs, sometimes director's soundtrack. In that case it's much faster to not copy the entire BD - having done this a few hundred times I've got it down. What I'd like to do is try to see if I can speed up encoding, I use pretty high quality and would like to try and get more than the 16-22FPS I get now. Spreading this load to another machine that's idle would be helpful if it's possible, I've just yet to figure it out for BDs, has anyone?

Omega - I've yet to find a disk that AnyDVD-HD won't properly decrypt if the Slysoft folks have seen it. New releases often lag a little but I'm okay with that since it can take awhile for those to hit the used market anyway so I seldom have them the first day anyway. Can you give any examples? I'd be interested to see if I've seen them already. Forced subs and goofy language streams are what get me most often, same with the streams that have "extras" like one of the X-Men movies I bought when it first came out. After waiting forever to encode I found it was certainly NOT the movie version I wanted :P

[omegaman7]

I'm afraid I don't recall the titles I had to rip to disk. They were DVD's though. Dvd shrink had trouble working with the disk, unless it were ripped via anydvd first. I don't use dvd shrink exactly though. I use it for viewing purposes only. (also note that I backup full discs, not just the main movie).
I just got into the habit of ripping straight to the disk. Since I have 13+ terabytes of hard drive space, I don't need to worry about it :p

Sorry I couldn't be more help :(

[Chudz]

I have a problem with subtitles. I want to rip a bluray movie to a MP4 container with subtitles.

I load my bluray into RipBot264 and in the job1 folder it has the sup files. I thought it would of converted them to sub files? in the ini file it has the following section:

---------------------
//Blu-ray subtitles will be converted to SUB/IDX format for .mkv container. Smaller size and better compatibility with some players.
ConvertSUPtoSUB=1
---------------------

I have also tried to download some SRT subs from a 1080p rip and they always turn out to be really smaller on the final encode take a look at the screenshot below:

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1658/subtitles.jpg

[Atak_Snajpera]

read again note above that option. if subtitles are too small so use better player. mpc-hc with internal filters enabled.

[Chudz]

Thanks, so basically its my player? (I am using MPC-HC. They look fine when I load them externally) Or is it RipBot264? Or is it the MP4 container?

[Atak_Snajpera]

player

[Balthazar2k4]

So I have been barreling through encodes with the distributed encode feature and finally sat down to watch my first movie and noticed some problems. Basically the movie has either stuttering or pixellation at almost every 10 minute mark (14400 frame break point). The movies were all encoded at CQ and I have noticed issues with some, but not all of the movies I have done thus far. This is clearly a problem for me using the distributed model if these are my results. Has anyone else noticed this? I am trying an updated client and app that Atak posted previously to see if that fixes the issues.

UPDATE: Tried the latest RipBot264.exe end EncodingClient.exe posted by Atak and the problem still exists. My test movie encode had pixellation at the very first 10 minute segment point. I guess it is back to one machine encoding for now. Cool idea, but needs the kinks worked out.

[Chudz]

I just watched the tutorial video and it look awesome! I haven't tried it yet I will try it with my next encode to see if it works for me :)

[jandor]

@Balthazar2k4

Never had this problem pixellation.
For those videos with a lot of action, or with many sudden movements, change to CQ=18 so you can avoid the pixellation in any encoding.
Romance, drama, etc.. can use CQ = 20 and even 22.

[Balthazar2k4]

@Balthazar2k4

Never had this problem pixellation.
For those videos with a lot of action, or with many sudden movements, switch to CQ=18 so you can avoid the pixellation in any encoding.
Romance, drama, etc.. can use CQ = 20 and even 22.

Thanks Jandor. The pixellation or stuttering I am referring to is not a direct result of the encode itself. I am using the new Distributed Encode feature to split the encode between my 980x and 2500k. The problems arrive at the split points (which are every 14400 frames). When the "chunks" are reassembled the transitions are not always fluid and there were clearly issues with the encoding of the final frame in the 1st segment or the first frame of the 2nd segment and so forth. It appears to be a problem in the split itself and I am not really sure how that can be remedied. I have gone back to VidCoder for now.

Thanks.

[jandor]

@Balthazar2k4

I understand, this is also one of the reasons for the pixellation.
I also can not say more because I still could not test this new process.

[Atak_Snajpera]

balthazar can you send short sample where pixelation occurs? most likely ffms2 has still some bugs. does pixelation occur for specific source (MPEG2 , VC1 , AVC). alternatively i could try to use dss2() instead of ffvideosource()

[ShogoXT]

I already miss the old profile interface you had before. The old bars and drop down boxes with labels made it easy for a noob like me to google what each of those settings did so I could make own profile setting.

Good thing I did have them made before so I just put them into the new version. Should still work right? Same old commands?

[rsotome]

Yup, would most certainly agree, I do miss the old way of creating profiles.

Any chance on finding a way to merge the old & new method of creating profiles?

[mkvuser]

I have the latest RipBot and find it useful for converting mkvs that will not play on my TV that plays MKV from USB - I guess it's just a bit too fussy with some settings.

Anyway, it works perfectly except for one file where it reports Exception EConverter

[flebber]

I have the latest RipBot and find it useful for converting mkvs that will not play on my TV that plays MKV from USB - I guess it's just a bit too fussy with some settings.

Anyway, it works perfectly except for one file where it reports Exception EConverter

Any information on said file? Maybe it contains petrakian verse or french drama?

PS Welcome to the forum

[Balthazar2k4]

balthazar can you send short sample where pixelation occurs? most likely ffms2 has still some bugs. does pixelation occur for specific source (MPEG2 , VC1 , AVC). alternatively i could try to use dss2() instead of ffvideosource()

Atak, I will try and get something to you in a couple days as I will be out of town until Thursday evening. I will need to encode a new test subject and then clip out the problem. As for source, well, I am not sure if there is some correlation or not. I have tried both VC-1 and AVC with equal effect.

[mkvuser]

I have the latest RipBot and find it useful for converting mkvs that will not play on my TV that plays MKV from USB - I guess the TV just a bit too fussy with some MKV settings.

Anyway, it works perfectly except for one file where I get Exception EConvertError in module RipBot264.exe at 000093E2, "is not a valid floating point value. Previous versions did not report this error and simply hung gathering information.

The file seems to be normal and plays correctly apart from the TV with built-in mkv player.

The frame size maybe causing the problem as it is 1802x1080. The correct aspect ratio in this case 1.75:1, so it probably should be 1890x1080.

First though, I need to open the file in RipBot264.

Any help would be appreciated.

[flebber]

I have the latest RipBot and find it useful for converting mkvs that will not play on my TV that plays MKV from USB - I guess the TV just a bit too fussy with some MKV settings.

Anyway, it works perfectly except for one file where I get Exception EConvertError in module RipBot264.exe at 000093E2, "is not a valid floating point value. Previous versions did not report this error and simply hung gathering information.

The file seems to be normal and plays correctly apart from the TV with built-in mkv player.

The frame size maybe causing the problem as it is 1802x1080. The correct aspect ratio in this case 1.75:1, so it probably should be 1890x1080.

First though, I need to open the file in RipBot264.

Any help would be appreciated.

So are you on Windows XP? What version of ffdshow did you install? Should be a version higher than 4225 on XP.

[mkvuser]

Any information on said file? Maybe it contains petrakian verse or french drama?

PS Welcome to the forum

Is there anything weird here:

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 16 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 27mn
Bit rate : 5 170 Kbps
Width : 1 802 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.669
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.111
Stream size : 3.09 GiB (71%)
Writing library : x264 core 112 r1834 a51816a
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=48 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=9 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=4 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=2pass / mbtree=0 / bitrate=5170 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=2 / qpmax=41 / qpstep=2 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

[Atak_Snajpera]

why did you encoded your file at such bizzare resolution????

[mkvuser]

why did you encoded your file at such bizzare resolution????

It's not my encode. According to imdb it should be 1.75:1 or 1890x1080.

Could the problem be the odd width/height ratio?

[Atak_Snajpera]

where did you get that file?

[igorgladunyak]

Atak_Snajpera

Shutdown when finished doesn't work

[soneca]

This has been fixed.
Already tested with this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1549792#post1549792) version?

[james2432]

Do we have to use CQ for distributed encoding or can we use 2 pass encoding as well? I'm trying to get distribution going but when I connect to the second computer; it keeps saying Encoding Started... and then like 5 seconds later it says Encoding Terminated... Doesn't seem to want to send the data over to the second computer


*EDIT*
Okay for people having issues where encoding goes from Encoding to Idle:
1. Both computers MUST BE IN THE SAME HOMEGROUP(for some reason it doesn't work if it's not)
2. Check that both O/Ses run the same Bit version (i.e. if one of your computers is 32bit and your hosting server is 64bit, you will have to force the 64 bit server to use the 32bit version of x264)

[Atak_Snajpera]

1. did you use updatd files from soneca's post? what happens if you share ripbot264temp folder with Guest (READ/WRITE) instead of EVERYONE?

[james2432]

Yes I tried the update, no I did not try Guest, but I did have everyone read/write
also when I tried 2-pass encoding on sequence 5 it said invalid first frame (empty) and kept looping and the sequence before that only processed 1 out of 14400 frames, so far CQ is working

[Atak_Snajpera]

Basically ripbot264temp folder MUST be accessible for all computers . You can manually check if you can see content of ripbot264temp folder via explorer.

[Atak_Snajpera]

also when I tried 2-pass encoding on sequence 5 it said invalid first frame (empty) and kept looping and the sequence before that only processed 1 out of 14400 frames, so far CQ is working
can you try with this updated EncodingClient.exe
http://www.mediafire.com/?4znoczfey7m7b63

[Goldman]

im getting this in some cases:

eac3to v3.24
command line: "...\RipBot264v1.17.0\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "X:\..." 1) 2: "X:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv" -seekToIFrames 4: "X:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_German.thd.w64" -down16 1: "X:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt" -progressnumbers -log="X:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\demuxlog.txt"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 8 audio tracks, 29 subtitle tracks, 1:37:59, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 16 chapters
2: h264/AVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: TrueHD/AC3, English, 5.1 channels, 48kHz
(embedded: AC3, 5.1 channels, 448kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -29dB)
4: TrueHD/AC3, German, 5.1 channels, 48kHz
(embedded: AC3, 5.1 channels, 448kbps, 48kHz)


Creating file "X:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt"...
[a04] Extracting audio track number 4...
[a04] Extracting TrueHD stream...
[a04] Decoding with libav/ffmpeg...
[a04] Reducing depth from 24 to 16 bits...
[a04] Writing W64...
[v02] Extracting video track number 2...
[v02] Muxing video to Matroska...
[a04] Creating file "X:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_German.thd.w64"...
[v02] [1:18:56] The source file seems to be damaged (sync byte missing). <WARNING>
[v02] [1:18:56] The source file seems to be damaged (discontinuity). <WARNING>
[a04] [1:18:55] The source file seems to be damaged (sync byte missing). <WARNING>
[a04] [1:18:55] The source file seems to be damaged (discontinuity). <WARNING>
[a04] This track is not clean (2). <WARNING>
[a04] [1:18:56] The source file seems to be damaged (sync byte missing). <WARNING>
[v02] [1:18:57] The source file seems to be damaged (sync byte missing). <WARNING>
[a04] [1:18:56] The source file seems to be damaged (discontinuity). <WARNING>
[a04] The libav decoder reported error -1 while decoding. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 21596471296. <ERROR>

Is the Source realy damaged or is it a bug of Ripbot ?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Try with CORE

[Balthazar2k4]

I am curious, has anyone actually looked at their encodes thoroughly after using distributed encoding? I didn't and only realized after doing numerous movies that they each had glitches in different 10 minutes spots. I find it hard to believe that I am the only person with the problem, but then again nothing would surprise me.

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Balthazar2k4
if you have time try again with this
http://www.mediafire.com/?4znoczfey7m7b63

[gav1577]

@Balthazar2k4
if you have time try again with this
http://www.mediafire.com/?4znoczfey7m7b63

I can confirm this too every 10 mins, im going to test the new encoding client and report back

[Balthazar2k4]

@Balthazar2k4
if you have time try again with this
http://www.mediafire.com/?4znoczfey7m7b63

Thanks Atak. I will try it tonight and let you know.

[Balthazar2k4]

I can confirm this too every 10 mins, im going to test the new encoding client and report back

Thank you for confirming that I am not completely crazy. Hopefully Atak's update fixes the problem...

[hoju3508]

Is the Source realy damaged or is it a bug of Ripbot ?

It's a bad rip.

[james2432]

can you try with this updated EncodingClient.exe
http://www.mediafire.com/?4znoczfey7m7b63

confirming this fixed the issue with the 2 pass encoding

also if a client/server disconnects before entirely processing the video does that chunk get re-encoded?

[Atak_Snajpera]

partially encoded chunk is useless.

[Zorro70]

i just tried encoding an mkv file to an avchd with ripbot.

i forgot to change resolution to 1920x1080 from 1920x800, and ripbot told me, but then it totally kicked me out of ripbot and i had to add the file all over again.

i couldnt just go back and change resolution , all information was gone


this didnt happen in last ripbot???


it didnt save the info in ripbot temp :-(


no big deal, but anoyying

[Balthazar2k4]

@Balthazar2k4
if you have time try again with this
http://www.mediafire.com/?4znoczfey7m7b63

Atak, I just did an encode and the results look very positive. The movie is over 2 hours and I checked each 10 minute segment and all were seamless. I will do another one and report the results. So far, so good. Thanks!

Update: The second movie I tested has some pixelated corruption at the 2nd ten minute break. I have encoded the same movie without the distributed encoding option and the corruption does not exist.

[gav1577]

Atak, I just did an encode and the results look very positive. The movie is over 2 hours and I checked each 10 minute segment and all were seamless. I will do another one and report the results. So far, so good. Thanks!

Update: The second movie I tested has some pixelated corruption at the 2nd ten minute break. I have encoded the same movie without the distributed encoding option and the corruption does not exist.

Unfortunately the issue is still there for me at the 10min mark, its slightly better now in some scenes but still quite bad in others obviously its where the chunks are joined.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Last hope :(
update FFmpegSource
http://ffmpegsource.googlecode.com/files/ffms2-r624.7z

Extract all files to Tools\AviSynth plugins\ffms

BTW Can you confirm that corruption happens for all codecs (MPEG2, VC1 , AVC)

For now I can confirm image corruption for VC-1.
for AVC seems to be ok. I tested first 10 min of AVATAR with very small chunks (30s)

[Balthazar2k4]

Last hope :(
update FFmpegSource
http://ffmpegsource.googlecode.com/files/ffms2-r624.7z

Extract all files to Tools\AviSynth plugins\ffms

BTW Can you confirm that corruption happens for all codecs (MPEG2, VC1 , AVC)

For now I can confirm image corruption for VC-1.
for AVC seems to be ok. I tested first 10 min of AVATAR with very small chunks (30s)

Atak, I can confirm that it does happen with AVC. I did Despicable Me last night and it corrupted the 20 minute mark.

[Atak_Snajpera]

How about MPEG2?

[Balthazar2k4]

How about MPEG2?

Haven't tried it. I will drop the new FFMpegSource in and try some more testing today.

[gav1577]

:(Last hope
update FFmpegSource
http://ffmpegsource.googlecode.com/files/ffms2-r624.7z

Extract all files to Tools\AviSynth plugins\ffms

BTW Can you confirm that corruption happens for all codecs (MPEG2, VC1 , AVC)

For now I can confirm image corruption for VC-1.
for AVC seems to be ok. I tested first 10 min of AVATAR with very small chunks (30s)

Confirmed with VC1. I haven't tried MPEG2 OR AVC yet, im going try VC1 again with the new ffmpegsource first.
EDIT: Tried the new ffmpegsource with no luck still getting glitches with VC1 :(

[Atak_Snajpera]

try with avc and mpeg2

[gav1577]

Will try MPEG2
Edit: MPEG2 works fine no glitches ;)

[gav1577]

Just run into problem with distributed encoding, one chunk in the list says starting but does not!

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/6560/capturennp.png

[visionviper]

I just wanted to say I have also experienced the "Access Violation" error.

Full text:
Exception EAccessViolation in module EncodingServer.exe at 00001E55
Access violation at address 00401E55 in module 'EncodingServer.exe'. Write of address 4BA757FF

Is there any additional information you want?

[ShogoXT]

I take it back about the old UI. After looking at the x264 settings page on the MEGUI wiki I can see the benefits of those x264 presets compared to my own. Been doing alot of reading on it and am now testing to compare the results with my own profile.

For starters im trying placebo + film setting for my SG Atlantis blu ray stuff. The source is very grainy but I want to get rid of it. Just to be sure Grain Tune is for PRESERVING grain right? I should just continue using Film Tune and your Denoise setting under properties right?

Im trying really hard to be efficient with it and try to squeeze as much quality out of just a 2 pass 1024 bitrate setting while keeping 720p. You guys think im wasting my time trying to get quality out of that low of bitrate?

[ZionDK]

I'm getting this error when trying to encode a h264 ts-file.

DirectShowSource: RenderFile, the filter graph manager won't talk to me
(C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\getinfo.avs, line 2)

This is the getinfo.avs
(empty line)
video=DirectShowSource("Path\01-13_13-51-19_TNT7HD_Commercial programming (02) (02).ts",audio=false).ConvertToYV12()
LoadPlugin("Path\RipBot264v1.17.0\tools\AviSynth plugins\NicAudio\NicAudio.dll")
audio=NicMPG123Source("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\2_audio_Danish.mp2")
AudioDub(video,audio)
WriteFile("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Framecount")
WriteFile("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Framerate")
WriteFile("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioRate")
WriteFile("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioChannels")
WriteFile("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioLength")
WriteFile("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Width")
WriteFile("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Height ")
Trim(0,-1)

When I try to play it in MPC, there's only sound. VLC plays it perfectly.

Any idea of what could be wrong?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Reinstall ffdshow and haali media splitter
http://www.xvidvideo.ru/ffdshow-tryouts-project-x86-x64/ffdshow-tryouts-project-svn-4256-x86-x64.html
https://customers.corecodec.com/downloads/3/CoreCodec-Download-Files

[ZionDK]

No luck. Should ffdshow be default decoder of files?

[Atak_Snajpera]

can you upload 50 mb sample to www.mediafire.com . For spliting use DGSplit

[ZionDK]

Thanks for helping!

Here's the sample: http://www.mediafire.com/?176tinseyw07cqi

[Atak_Snajpera]

works on my machine

[ZionDK]

I uninstalled all codecs, and re-installed what RipBot needed. Now there's no problems. Thanks!

[nekrosoft13]

having two different issues.

problem 1

happens with this file.
Format : MPEG-TS
File size : 3.61 GiB
Duration : 1h 28mn
Overall bit rate : 5 856 Kbps

Video
ID : 6601 (0x19C9)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=8, N=24
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate : 5 179 Kbps
Width : 1 440 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : MBAFF
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.133
Stream size : 3.19 GiB (88%)
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Audio
ID : 6602 (0x19CA)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Codec ID : 3
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 243 MiB (7%)
Language : English

Text
ID : 6605 (0x19CD)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : DVB Subtitle
Codec ID : 6
Duration : 1h 28mn
Delay relative to video : 2s 697ms
Language : English

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/1007/capturewau.jpg

problem 2
file specs
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 1.00 GiB
Duration : 44mn 0s
Overall bit rate : 3 255 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-08-01 03:41:04
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.8.0 ('I Got The...') built on Jun 13 2011 20:36:23
Writing library : libebml v1.2.0 + libmatroska v1.1.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 44mn 0s
Bit rate : 2 806 Kbps
Width : 1 278 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.102
Stream size : 883 MiB (86%)
Writing library : x264 core 116 r2037 f8ebd4a
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=16 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=300 / keyint_min=30 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=20.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 44mn 0s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 121 MiB (12%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No

http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/5174/capture1yb.jpg

[Atak_Snajpera]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1551766#post1551766

[nekrosoft13]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1551766#post1551766

that didn't help, its only one file that has that error. all other ts files work fine.

when i mux that .ts into .mkv it works fine.

[pacaveli211]

that didn't help, its only one file that has that error. all other ts files work fine.

when i mux that .ts into .mkv it works fine.

then it sounds like you don't really have much of an issue at all other than a couple of your downloaded files just having some problems. prob not something you should be bothering atak with, especially if you can solve it with a simple remux

[Atak_Snajpera]

Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file
Changed: Encoding Client will first analyze video.mkv and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position. This fixes corruption at the begining of the chunk (at least on my test files ;)


http://www.mediafire.com/?bd9qegd59g976md

TODO: Fix "Starting...' issue

[gav1577]

Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file
Changed: Encoding Client will first analyze video.mkv and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position. This fixes corruption at the begining of the chunk (at least on my test files ;)


http://www.mediafire.com/?bd9qegd59g976md

TODO: Fix "Starting...' issue
Thanks Atak nice work :D will test shortly!

[Balthazar2k4]

Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file
Changed: Encoding Client will first analyze video.mkv and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position. This fixes corruption at the begining of the chunk (at least on my test files ;)


http://www.mediafire.com/?bd9qegd59g976md

TODO: Fix "Starting...' issue

Out of curiosity, does this help with the corruption issues at 10 minutes marks we were seeing with distributed encoding? I have been meaning to get back to testing, but life always gets in the way.

[gav1577]

Out of curiosity, does this help with the corruption issues at 10 minutes marks we were seeing with distributed encoding?

Yes it does :) at least in my tests, VC1 now works fine i never had a problem with MPEG2 or AVC. Good work atak!!

[Balthazar2k4]

Yes it does :) at least in my tests, VC1 now works fine i never had a problem with MPEG2 or AVC. Good work atak!!

Hmm, interesting, I had many problems with AVC. I am trying it now with a test piece. I think the I-Frame idea is going to be the solution and "Bravo!" Atak for the solution. I hope it works as I would like to get some extra speed on the "Very Slow" preset :D

Update: First test was good on "Superfast". Run it through on "Very Slow" now.

Update: Superfast was 80fps with distributed encoding and Very Slow is 20fps. Just my 980x alone on Very Slow is 12.5fps. The 2500k is getting 8.5fps. I really hope this works!

Update: Well, two encodes down (both AVC) and all seems good. Need to dig up some MPEG-2 and VC1 discs to test.

[nekrosoft13]

then it sounds like you don't really have much of an issue at all other than a couple of your downloaded files just having some problems. prob not something you should be bothering atak with, especially if you can solve it with a simple remux

this issue

http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/5174/capture1yb.jpg

can't be solved with remux, remux is not even possible

[Wishbringer]

Changed: Encoding Client will first analyze video.mkv and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position. This fixes corruption at the begining of the chunk (at least on my test files ;)


@Atak_Snajpera:
...
x264farm had the ability to find out I-Frames and split encodes there.
Because 1st pass had fixed split of movieparts (without overhead of around 240 frames to find I-Frames between) and 2nd pass splitted encodes at the same point, so I don't think Ripbot264 has same ability. Am I wrong? Do you plan to implement it?

Thanks

Only minor issue: This behavior trusts I-Frame settings of source material. x264 theoretically could choose other I-Frames in unsplitted encode.
Same with bitratesettings in 2-pass while splitting. At moment each chunk get same bitrate, regardless of content.
In unsplitted encode bitrate is distributed over whole movie, now bitrate is only distributed over chunk.
Shouldn't have big effect, except in movies with changing content: Maybe "2001" with lots of black screens

[Atak_Snajpera]

Only minor issue: This behavior trusts I-Frame settings of source material. x264 theoretically could choose other I-Frames in unsplitted encode.
Same with bitratesettings in 2-pass while splitting. At moment each chunk get same bitrate, regardless of content.
In unsplitted encode bitrate is distributed over whole movie, now bitrate is only distributed over chunk.
Shouldn't have big effect, except in movies with changing content: Maybe "2001" with lots of black screens

That's why i didn't use smaller chunks. For CQ mode I could have used even 1 min chunk but for 2-pass that would be a disaster ;) 10 min seems to be optimal for both modes.
Also I think that x264farm works differently. I suppose that main computer does decoding for all servers.

[Balthazar2k4]

Atak, any chance that distributed encoding could be made to work with MKV? I have my entire collection ripped to MKV (300+ BDs) using MakeMKV and it would be nice to utilize distributed encoding without having to re-rip. If I have to rip my entire collection over it might actually be faster to just use my main machine to run the encodes. Not complaining, just curious if it might even be an option in the future. Thanks!

[Atak_Snajpera]

I could do that.

[Balthazar2k4]

I could do that.

I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for considering it. Keep up the great work!

[igorgladunyak]

I know this is off-topic but what program should I use to encode DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3319 kbps
to DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps

[Balthazar2k4]

I know this is off-topic but what program should I use to encode DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3319 kbps
to DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps

Use eac3to to strip the legacy DTS track out of the MA track. Look here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Eac3to/How_to_Use

[igorgladunyak]

Use eac3to to strip the legacy DTS track out of the MA track. Look here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Eac3to/How_to_Use

I got error Surcode DTS Encoder doesn't seem to be installed. <ERROR>

[Balthazar2k4]

I got error

You shouldn't need Surcode to strip out the core track. Are you using the "-core" switch? You don't want to re-encode, just use the core track only.

Should look something like this:

eac3to input.dtshd output.dts -core

[slalom]

Atak, any chance that distributed encoding could be made to work with MKV? I have my entire collection ripped to MKV (300+ BDs) using MakeMKV and it would be nice to utilize distributed encoding without having to re-rip. If I have to rip my entire collection over it might actually be faster to just use my main machine to run the encodes. Not complaining, just curious if it might even be an option in the future. Thanks!
Yes, Please do that!

I know this is off-topic but what program should I use to encode DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3319 kbps
to DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps
I use tsMuxer. Add your mkv, check only the audio track, check "downconvert DTS-MA to DTS" on track options, and on the output check the Demux button.

Do the demuxing and add the new audio track to RipBot264. You might need to pick the correct language on the audio track before you start.

[Balthazar2k4]

I use tsMuxer. Add your mkv, check only the audio track, check "downconvert DTS-MA to DTS" on track options, and on the output check the Demux button.

Do the demuxing and add the new audio track to RipBot264. You might need to pick the correct language on the audio track before you start.

Also another great option Slalom. I always forget about tsMuxer, but that will work just as well and has a GUI to boot.

[igorgladunyak]

Balthazar2k4
slalom
Thanks
Now how to encode from
DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps to DTS 968 kbps or DTS 768 kbps

[slalom]

I still can't understand how eac3to works, since It's not a program to run

[Balthazar2k4]

Balthazar2k4
slalom
Thanks
Now how to encode from
DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps to DTS 968 kbps or DTS 768 kbps

If you want to drop the DTS to a lower bitrate then you will need Surcode as that will be required for transcoding. My suggestion is that if you want lower bitrate DTS, just switch to 640kbps AC3. It is virtually impossible to tell the difference. In fact, you can do a straight transcode from DTS-HD MA to AC3 in a single step with eac3to.

[Balthazar2k4]

I still can't understand how eac3to works, since It's not a program to run

It is actually a very simple program to run. If you are on Windows (which you would need to be to get it to run), pop open a command line window and check out the wiki guide I linked at the top of the page for instructions. It is an extremely versatile, powerful program and the basis for many encoding GUIs. Look here for even more info: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966

[igorgladunyak]

If you want to drop the DTS to a lower bitrate then you will need Surcode as that will be required for transcoding. Thank you
My suggestion is that if you want lower bitrate DTS, just switch to 640kbps AC3. It is virtually impossible to tell the difference. In fact, you can do a straight transcode from DTS-HD MA to AC3 in a single step with eac3to.
You mean there is no difference between DTS 768 kbps and AC3 5.1 640 kbps

[Atak_Snajpera]

wrong!!! there is no difference between ac3 640kbps and dts 1536kbps. ac3 is more advanced that overrated dts. the best at the moment is aac. 320kbps is enough for transparent quality.

[Balthazar2k4]

wrong!!! there is no difference between ac3 640kbps and dts 1536kbps. ac3 is more advanced that overrated dts. the best at the moment is aac. 320kbps is enough for transparent quality.

Thank you Atak. That is what I was driving at. The only issue I have with multichannel AAC is it's overall compatibility with products. That's why I stick with AC3.

[igorgladunyak]

I think to see the difference you must have a good audio system.
Atak_Snajpera
Do you think 320 kbps is enough for the AAC codec?

[Balthazar2k4]

I think to see the difference you must have a good audio system.
Atak_Snajpera
Do you think 320 kbps is enough for the AAC codec?

I have a modest system and I hear no difference between DTS and AC3. I DO hear a difference between the lossless codecs (DTS-HD MA, TrueHD) and lossy (DTS, AC3).

For reference, I am running all Emotiva amps with Martin Logan ELS speakers.

[Atak_Snajpera]

aac stands for advanced audio codec . 128kbps 2.0 and 320 5.1 are both transparent.

[igorgladunyak]

And one more question if I encode audio track AC3 5.1 384/448/640 kbps in AAC 320 kbps quality is lost?

[omegaman7]

When compressing, data is always lost. However, the human perception factor should be negligible eh?

[Balthazar2k4]

And one more question if I encode audio track AC3 5.1 384/448/640 kbps in AAC 320 kbps quality is lost?

I wouldn't recommend lossy to lossy unless you absolutely need to save some space. Personally, I would just stick with the AC3 unless you need the AAC compatibility.

[Balthazar2k4]

When compressing, data is always lost. However, the human perception factor should be negligible eh?

I think you mean with lossy compression data is always lost. Obviously with lossless the data is intact.

[igorgladunyak]

If quality is lost there is no sense encode to save 100 or 200 MB space.

[Balthazar2k4]

If quality is lost there is no sense encode to save 100 or 200 MB space.

Well, as Omegaman7 pointed out, you may not be able to perceive the loss. As I previously stated, unless you absolutely need to recompress, I would avoid it.

[omegaman7]

Well, when compressing/converting, data is always lost. But you're right. In a lossless conversion scheme, the audio data is technically intact ;)

[Atak_Snajpera]

you should always encode from lossless! ac3 / dts to aac is like convering jpeg to another newer lossy format jpeg xr

[Balthazar2k4]

you should always encode from lossless! ac3 / dts to aac is like convering jpeg to another newer lossy format jpeg xr

Agreed. I only convert to AC3/AAC from lossless sources. The only way to guarantee the best possible sound within the codec limitations.

[igorgladunyak]

When I encode movie my CPU shows 100% usage and every 10 min PC freezes. Processor Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.16GHz

[Atak_Snajpera]

this is normal.

[igorgladunyak]

Atak_Snajpera
and computer fan runs non-stop

I tried MeGUI uses processor on 95-96% why RipBot264 on 100%?

[Atak_Snajpera]

why not???!!!!!! you should be happy like baby that x264 can use all cores at 100%. would you be more happy if encoder was using 50%. you and your problems...

[igorgladunyak]

If I buy more powerful processor encoding speed increases?

[Atak_Snajpera]

no it will decrease...

[Balthazar2k4]

If I buy more powerful processor encoding speed increases?

I think that is a pretty obvious answer. To put it in perspective, my i7-980x is running at 4ghz and can churn through BluRay rips about 50% faster than my i5-2500k at 4.8ghz. The more threads you can throw at x264 the better. I would say something like an i7-2600k or i7-3820 would be the sweet spot for performance per dollar.

[igorgladunyak]

Balthazar2k4
I encoded Captain America: The First Avenger with these encoding settings around 20 hour
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=0.80:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=2705 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

[Balthazar2k4]

Balthazar2k4
I encoded Captain America: The First Avenger with these encoding settings around 20 hour

I assume that is a 720p encode. I did the "Very Slow" preset which is nearly the same parameters in 4 hours on my 980x. With distributed encoding (using my 2500k in tandem), it took about 2.5 hours.

[igorgladunyak]

Balthazar2k4
:thanks:

[TheThreemagi]

That's why i didn't use smaller chunks. For CQ mode I could have used even 1 min chunk but for 2-pass that would be a disaster ;) 10 min seems to be optimal for both modes.

Is there a way to add this as an option between each mode? On longer movies, the 10 minutes isn't that bad, but on shorter tv shows it seems like I don't get much benefit out of this because of the larger chunk sizes.

My computers vary greatly in power, 8-Core FX, 2 quad Phenoms and a quad Phenom II. I use CQ and would love to have smaller 1 minute chunk sizes.

Also, if I have more than one file in my queue why doesn't it chunk all of the files at once? This way when encode 1 is finished the other computers aren't just idle.

I understand distributed is new, and I really do love it, but I'm just curious about those situations.

Thanks!

[Atak_Snajpera]

ok. in next update you will get 1 min chunks for cq.

[Ryushin]

ok. in next update you will get 1 min chunks for cq.

Do you think there is an overhead of having each client pull just one minute of data would slow things down?

[Atak_Snajpera]

i will check that using my two pcs (Q6600@3GHz and Q8200@2.8GHz) . keep in mind that smaller chunk means more work for servers (less idle time)

[picman1]

Hi, I am trying the latest version to copy the video as is but to include the forced subs as in Avatar BD but no luck. I select the main movie, only include chapters no audio for now, select subs to build in picture, the subs get converted and gathering information comes up. Then I select copy stream from profiles, select AVCHD for container output. When I start the process it goes into muxing for 24 mins and it's complete. Movie looks great but no subs. What am I doing wrong? I don't want to encode the movie as it streams natively to my PS3. Thank you for any suggestions.

[LigH]

I think to see the difference you must have a good audio system.

Not only a good audio system, but also an audience room specifically designed not to disturb the audio too much.

Any average furnished living room hardly meets the requirements for a room where you can separate AC3 from dts in bitrates usual for DVDs. All the furniture has its own resonances.

HD audio is mainly advertizing, not usually additional value. Especially because HD audio is subsequently wrecked by audio watermarks.

[Trayman]

Believe I found a litlle bug in the encoding client. If the connection times out for some reason the connect button stays disabled. In my case it was the first run of the latest encoding client and it wasn't allowed in the firewall. So the connction timed out. The connect button should be enabled after the connection timed out so you can reconnect after fixing the problem with the connection. Had to enter the ip in server 3 to be able to start the encode on the second machine.

//Trayman

[Atak_Snajpera]

Added: MKV can also be used in Distributed Encoding Mode.
Changed: 1 min chunks for CQ mode instead of 10 min
Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file
Fixed: corruption at the begining of the chunk. (Encoding Client will first analyze video and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position.)


http://www.mediafire.com/?73w6p5vo6347ctt

[Ronski]

Nice, now you've added MKV I'll have to give distributed encoding a go, any one got it working on WH Server 2011?

Any chance of adding option to sleep after encoding finishes please?

[Balthazar2k4]

Added: MKV can also be used in Distributed Encoding Mode.
Changed: 1 min chunks for CQ mode instead of 10 min
Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file
Fixed: corruption at the begining of the chunk. (Encoding Client will first analyze video and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position.)


Fantastic news Atak! Thank you for adding the MKV support. That will help me greatly. Where can I find this version? Is it on the main page or is it still unreleased?

I am also interested to see if the chunking change is a plus or minus for CQ. Seems to me that creating 120 chunks as opposed to 12 is opening up a greater chance of error, but we will see. Any chance the chunking time could be an INI change?

[Atak_Snajpera]

I found some bug (MKV in distributed encoding hangs for some files) .

Seems to me that creating 120 chunks as opposed to 12 is opening up a greater chance of error, but we will see.
It shouldn't be problem because chunks are splited at keyframes.

[Balthazar2k4]

I found some bug (MKV in distributed encoding hangs for some files) .


It shouldn't be problem because chunks are splited at keyframes.

Thanks for the update Atak. I would be happy to test the changes for you if you need it.

Also, I don't know if you know this, but there is a regression bug in x264 with trellis=2 and subme >=8 that can cause corruption. You may want to update the package with r2146.

Edit: Nevermind, I see that it is packaged with r2120. Should be fine.

[Atak_Snajpera]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1552664#post1552664

[gav1577]

Added: MKV can also be used in Distributed Encoding Mode.
Changed: 1 min chunks for CQ mode instead of 10 min
Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file
Fixed: corruption at the begining of the chunk. (Encoding Client will first analyze video and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position.)


http://www.mediafire.com/?73w6p5vo6347ctt

Thanks for the update Atak :)

[Balthazar2k4]

Added: MKV can also be used in Distributed Encoding Mode.
Changed: 1 min chunks for CQ mode instead of 10 min
Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file
Fixed: corruption at the begining of the chunk. (Encoding Client will first analyze video and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position.)


http://www.mediafire.com/?73w6p5vo6347ctt

Fantastic! Thanks Atak!

[Balthazar2k4]

On MKV distributed encodes is the "New Job" windows supposed to hang and say "Not Responding" for a few minutes before starting the Demux? Should I just consider that normal?

[gav1577]

On MKV distributed encodes is the "New Job" windows supposed to hang and say "Not Responding" for a few minutes before starting the Demux? Should I just consider that normal?

Yes its normal its scanning the file for frame data

[Balthazar2k4]

Yes its normal its scanning the file for frame data

I sort of figured as much, but I never had it do that before for so long. Also, I am getting more "Starting..." chunk hang-ups than I was getting before. I am sure it has to do with the fact there are so many more chunks in CQ mode now. Simply increases the odds of a hang-up.

[Ryushin]

I was ripping Leaving Las Vegas Blu-ray tonight with the new software running 1 minute chunks. Something very odd occurred with the final video. Occasionally, there are parts of the movie that have 1 or two frames from other parts of the movie put into it. Almost like it was not re-assembled correctly. I'm going to re-encode it again to see if the same thing happens.

Edit: I encoded Willy Wonka blu-ray and about every minute (or so), there is corruption for a frame or two.

[Balthazar2k4]

I was ripping Leaving Las Vegas Blu-ray tonight with the new software running 1 minute chunks. Something very odd occurred with the final video. Occasionally, there are parts of the movie that have 1 or two frames from other parts of the movie put into it. Almost like it was not re-assembled correctly. I'm going to re-encode it again to see if the same thing happens.

Edit: I encoded Willy Wonka blu-ray and about every minute (or so), there is corruption for a frame or two.

Strange, I have only encoded a couple BD MKVs and so far, so good. I had problems with earlier versions (prior to the I-Frame split change). Are both of those movies VC-1?

[Ryushin]

Strange, I have only encoded a couple BD MKVs and so far, so good. I had problems with earlier versions (prior to the I-Frame split change). Are both of those movies VC-1?

Willy Wonka is VC1 while Leaving Las Vegas is AVC. I'm going to have to start watching more of what I've been encoding to see if there are any more problems.

[rc71]

Question.

Does anyone know what "Couldn't open input file in HIDE mode! Existing" means and possibly how to correct the issue? Thanks

Is it a size/space issue?

[picman1]

It looks like I have to encode subtitles (build into picture) to get the forced subtitles can anyone suggest what the best configuration would be to get the closest quality to the original video would be for BD. I want to encode the subtitles for Avatar and keep the quality as close as original, space is not an issue. Thanks

[Balthazar2k4]

It looks like I have to encode subtitles (build into picture) to get the forced subtitles can anyone suggest what the best configuration would be to get the closest quality to the original video would be for BD. I want to encode the subtitles for Avatar and keep the quality as close as original, space is not an issue. Thanks

I use the "Very Slow" preset with the "Film" tune. I also use CQ 17.

[Balthazar2k4]

Definitely having more problems with "Starting..." hang-ups after the CQ split change. Had an encode hang overnight when it stalled on a chunk. Basically turned what should have been a 2-3 hour encode into almost 8 hours.

[Trayman]

@rc71 I had the same problem with some of my dvds. It's dgindex that generates that error. It has something to do with invalid characters in the filenames.
I used ifoedit to remove some streams and made a new ifo file. After that it ran smoothly. Don't know what it reacted to only that my tinkering solved the problem. Will take a look again at my copy of A Clockwork Orange to see if i can isolate the error.

//Trayman

[Ryushin]

For now I've rolled back to the release on the 16th. There seems to be fewer problems with that version, at least for the encodes that I've been doing. I'll check out Leaving Las Vegas and Willy Wonka after those encodes are done and report back.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Attempt to fix 'Starting...' issue and corrupted frames
http://www.mediafire.com/?m1k8rkkk3g54092

For testing purposes please use superfast profile and lower resolution (720p)

[Balthazar2k4]

Attempt to fix 'Starting...' issue and corrupted frames
http://www.mediafire.com/?m1k8rkkk3g54092

For testing purposes please use superfast profile and lower resolution (720p)

Thanks Atak. I am busy in a 7+ hour encode and will give it a try afterwards.

[gav1577]

Attempt to fix 'Starting...' issue and corrupted frames
http://www.mediafire.com/?m1k8rkkk3g54092

For testing purposes please use superfast profile and lower resolution (720p)

Thanks Going to test now.

Edit: Just did a 1h 39mn VC1 encode, all 99 chunks encoded fine and the were no signs of any glitches :)

[own3mall]

Is there a way to keep the audio compressed? It's so loud after using RipBot. No matter which output I choose, wav or flac, there are parts of the movie that are too loud (the action) and there are parts in the movie that are too soft (the dialog).

Also, does anyone know why I'm getting demux issues ever since the release of these newer versions of RipBot? It's failing in the demux due to an error encountered in EAC3TO. Let me see if I can generate a log. The logs I had were lost when I tried this newest version.

Here's what I get:


eac3to v3.24
command line: "G:\MISC\Video Tools\RipBot\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "[Removed]" 1) 2: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv" -seekToIFrames 3: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.dtsma.flac" -down16 1: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt" -progressnumbers -log="C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\demuxlog.txt"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 2 audio tracks, 3 subtitle tracks, 2:59:25, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 53 chapters
2: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: DTS Master Audio, English, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 48kHz
(core: DTS-ES, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 1509kbps, 48kHz)
4: AC3 EX, Spanish, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
5: Subtitle (PGS), English
6: Subtitle (PGS), Spanish
7: Subtitle (PGS), Spanish
Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt"...
[v02] Extracting video track number 2...
[v02] Muxing video to Matroska...
[a03] Extracting audio track number 3...
[a03] Decoding with ArcSoft DTS Decoder...
[a03] Reducing depth from 24 to 16 bits...
[a03] Encoding FLAC with libFlac...
[a03] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.dtsma.flac"...
[a03] Writing the destination file failed. <ERROR>
[a03] One of the FLAC encoder's callbacks returned a fatal error. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 11779702784. <ERROR>

[rc71]

Is there a way to keep the audio compressed? It's so loud after using RipBot. [/code]

That's funny. I asked the opposite question I find that after recoding, the volume isn't as loud as before. No one had any ideas on how to boost the volume.

[rc71]

@rc71 I had the same problem with some of my dvds. It's dgindex that generates that error. It has something to do with invalid characters in the filenames.
I used ifoedit to remove some streams and made a new ifo file. After that it ran smoothly. Don't know what it reacted to only that my tinkering solved the problem.
//Trayman

thanks. i think you are right. When I looked at the temp folder there were tons of files when the decoded DVD only had a handful I think it's getting confused with alternate track and commentary and trying to remake entire DVDs out of each version. The temp folder was definitely bigger the original DVD.

[own3mall]

Perhaps this is why:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1196185/blu-ray-action-too-loud-dialogue-too-quiet

[Wishbringer]

Maybe you have set some options in "FFDshow Audio Settings"
FFDShow for example defaults to 2.0 Sound by installation and downsamples DTS 7.1 to Flac conversion, so you get 2.0 as result, even if you want 5.1 AC3 as result.
Just go to FFDshow audio decoder settings and disable any modification.

[Trayman]

@rc71 I think I have isolated the problem with the "Couldn't open input file in HIDE mode! Existing" error on some movies. The Exorcist is one of the movies I have that gives this error.

When the CombineVOBs.cmd is ran and it should be one large vob file it instead makes two vob files and the VOBgetinfo is missing the filename to get the info from.

It looks like this:
"F:\-=01 RipBot264 DVD-Settings=-\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" -log="G:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job2\vobinfo.txt"

Instead of like this:
"F:\-=01 RipBot264 DVD-Settings=-\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "G:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\VTS_01_1_001.VOB" -log="G:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\vobinfo.txt"

The input file is missing in the command.

I don't now why PgcDemux generates more than one file.
The inner workings of RipBot264 is unknown to me but I think that without vobinfo.txt it can't demux the files the way it supposed to or maybe the filename/names are missing there too somehow.

Maybe Atak can shed some light on this issue. I will try another movie that doesn't work to see if it also generates multiple vobs from pgc demux.


//Trayman

[Balthazar2k4]

Update on the latest Distributed Encoding release. I did a test with Dances With Wolves and at nearly 4 hours with subtitles, I thought that would be a good acid test. Unfortunately, it did not pass the test. I found a few splits that were corrupt with pixellated frames.

[Atak_Snajpera]

can you test with long mpeg2 and vc1 movie?

[chunkylover67]

I was wondering if you could implement a sorting feature where you can change the encoding job order by adding a 'sort by length', 'sort by size' etc kind of feature. It'd be like a priority where the smallest sized files or the shortest length files get encoded first while the bigger files are left for later?

[Trayman]

@rc71 I think found the cause to our problem. The two movies I've been having the problem with have more than one VOB ID and therefore are combined to more than one VOB with PgcDemux. Both are by the way released by WB in 2001 The Exorcist Directors Cut and Clockwork Orange. The main movie is split over 4 VOB ids. The first probobly being the menu. The second and the third being the main movie and the fourth being something else (Haven't checked).

Since PgcDemux generates two combined VOBS instead of one like it should RipBot264 isn't able to create the files like it should. Maybe this will be addressed in future releases of RipBot264 but until then this is what i did.

1. Download VIDChanger from http://download.videohelp.com/jsoto/dvdtools.htm
2. Choose your troublesome ifo.
3. Choose your Output folder and hit PROCESS!
4. Wait for it to finish.
5. Use RipBot264 on the modified VOB files.
6. Wait for RipBot264 to finish.

You can check the original VOBs with PgcDemuxer to see if the movie has more than one VOB id and if it has the solution above should make it work fine.
This worked on Clockwork Orange will now check The Exorcist.

If this works on both my movies and rc71's maybe VIDChanger should be implemented into the processing of the VOBs before the combine of the VOBs.
Will let you know how it goes with it.
Both movies worked flawlessly during the add process.
The converted file contained no unwanted parts just like it should.

Went through my movies and found four more movies released by WB

Deep Blue Sea 1999 More than one VOB id
The Green Mile 2000 More than one VOB id
Outbreak 1998 One VOB id Works!
Copycat 1999 One VOB id

DVD release years not Movie release years :)
Will check theese to see if the have the same structure as Clockwork and Exorcist.

Will let you know how it goes.

//Trayman

[JimmyK814]

I've been a user of RipBot264 for years and have not a single complaint. The only thing I haven't been able to solve is how to encode E-AC3 from TrueHD or DTSMA to preserve 7.1 channels and keep the file sizes small. That's a discussion for another day...

My latest problem is trying to get the distributed encoding to work. I was very excited to see this as an option to get around the typical 2 hour 720p encodes.

While I know it's overkill to have a home domain, I have for many many years and it serves me well. I have Windows 7 desktops and recently changed to a Windows 2008 r2 server, up from Win2k3.

I've tried for the better part of a week to get the client/server model to work with no luck. I always get the ENCODING/IDLE "dance" at start-up. I think the automatic discovery of the RipBot264temp is my biggest problem. Whenever I share the folder, it is shared as \\COMPUTERNAME\RipBot264temp on whichever workstation I choose. Whenever the programs tries to access the folder it is looking for \\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp.

I've tried many hacks to try to allow it to find the share correctly, even creating folders on the server and trying to make \\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp a valid path. I have yet to get into DFS pointers which may work. I know this was designed with HomeGroups in mind, and I'm guessing the HomeGroup and Domain are picked up in the same fashion and that is why his happens, but I wondered if it would be possible for a configuration option where perhaps you could say the share is located on the same IP address as Server X.

I'm not sure that I completely understand if each workstation is supposed to have it's own share, or if one is shared by all workstations.

Is there any way to make this work without a HomeGroup? I would be more than willing to help out with any beta testing and give a donation.

Any help is much appreciated! Maybe I'm just being stupid about this... :cool:

Jim

[Atak_Snajpera]

see post 10622. it has updated ripbot264.exe and encodingclient.exe

[JimmyK814]

I updated the ripbot264.exe and encodingclient.exe from 10622. I deleted the jobs I had saved and created a new job. My ini file has StoreTempFilesin=C. I shared the RipBot264temp and verified it is accessible. When I start a job it still seems to be pointing at a domain path if I monitor the thread for EncodingServer.exe. I posted a log below, renaming my computer running RipBot264 to COMPUTER, the server hosting the domain to SERVER, and the domain name to DOMAIN. I am only using the localhost server for this test.

2:55:56.3984713 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 Thread Create SUCCESS Thread ID: 5620
2:55:56.3986054 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 TCP Send COMPUTER.domain.local:62985 -> COMPUTER.domain.local:1001 SUCCESS Length: 18, startime: 2426610, endtime: 2426610, seqnum: 0, connid: 0
2:55:56.3987072 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 TCP TCPCopy COMPUTER.domain.local:62985 -> COMPUTER.domain.local:1001 SUCCESS Length: 43, seqnum: 0, connid: 0
2:55:56.3987234 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 TCP Receive COMPUTER.domain.local:62985 -> COMPUTER.domain.local:1001 SUCCESS Length: 43, seqnum: 0, connid: 0
2:55:56.3988219 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4055528 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4055844 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4057437 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4124411 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4124715 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4125453 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CreateFile \\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\2.cmd NO SUCH FILE Desired Access: Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a
2:55:56.4126128 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4192560 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4192858 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4194223 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4261402 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4261706 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4263163 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4329201 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4329493 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4330198 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CreateFile \\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\2.cmd.exe NO SUCH FILE Desired Access: Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a
2:55:56.4330833 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4400337 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4401349 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4412944 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4483132 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4484445 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4487379 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CreateFile \\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\ NO SUCH FILE Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a
2:55:56.4489842 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4559374 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4560500 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4566090 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4585681 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 TCP Receive COMPUTER.domain.local:1000 -> COMPUTER.domain.local:62984 SUCCESS Length: 18, seqnum: 0, connid: 0
2:55:56.4589987 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 TCP Send COMPUTER.domain.local:1000 -> COMPUTER.domain.local:62984 SUCCESS Length: 43, startime: 2426610, endtime: 2426610, seqnum: 0, connid: 0
2:55:56.4636133 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4637380 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4640385 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CreateFile \\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\ NO SUCH FILE Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a
2:55:56.4642936 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ NO SUCH FILE Control: FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS
2:55:56.4713491 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 FileSystemControl \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS Control: FSCTL_NETWORK_DELETE_CONNECTION
2:55:56.4714606 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CloseFile \\SERVER\IPC$ SUCCESS
2:55:56.4731878 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 Thread Exit SUCCESS Thread ID: 5620, User Time: 0.0000000, Kernel Time: 0.0156001

The source content is on the local computer. The temp folder is on the local computer. The output location for the final .MKV is on SERVER.

EncodingServer.exe is still from 1/1/2012 but the other two EncodingClient.exe and RipBot264.exe are from 1/20/2012.

I hope this helps.

[Trayman]

Ok back to the drawing board. It seems that PgcDemux ignores the lack of the "b" option in the command line and splits by VOB Id anyway.
So removing it while combining the vobs still generates one file per VOB Id. The same result occurs when using the Gui and the "One file per VID" is unchecked. Will take a look at the source code for PgcDemux and see if it can be updated to work like it should.

In the meantime VIDChanger will have to do.

//Trayman

[jandor]

@Trayman,

I always try to separate the main movie (DVD), and so I had never any problem with the PGCDemux.
For me it works perfectly.

[Trayman]

@jandor I think you missunderstod me. The main movie is choosen but it has several VOB Ids. I'm not talking about the filenames (VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB and so on). I'm talking about the inner structure of the VOBs. In the case of "The Exorcist" the main movie is contained in seven VOBs VTS_01_1.VOB - VTS_01_7.VOB. Inside those VOBs it has three PGC (#01 The main movie (02:06:44.23), #02 The menu ? (00:00:12.20) and #03 Something else (00:01:51.14)). PGC #01 is clearly the movie so no problem there. The problem is that PGC #01 has two different VOB Ids (VOB Id = VID) and
VID 01 (01)--> 00:00:12.20 clearly PGC #02,
VID 02 (02)--> 00:52:02.04 The first 52 minutes of the movie that generates the first VOB outputed by PgcDemux,
VID 03 (03)--> 01:14:42.19 The remaiuning 75 minutes of the movie that generates the second VOB outputed by PgcDemux
VID 04 (04)--> 00:01:51.14 clearly PGC #03

VID 02 and 03 should be VID 02 (02)--> 02:06:44.23 The entire movie length.

There is an option in PgcDemux to create one file per VID this is by default turned off. Which should generate one cutom VOB but it doesn't. It still creates one per VID regardless if "One file per VID" is checked or not or if the "b" option is supplied through the commandline or not. This is clearly a bug in Pgcdemux which in turn makes RipBot264 not function properly.

But running it through VIDChanger makes one VID 01 (01)--> 02:08:49.07 of th prvious four VIDs and PgcDemux generates one VOB like it should.

//Trayman

[ese232]

http://imageshack.us/f/10/ver1165.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/f/10/ver1165.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/535/ver117.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/f/535/ver117.jpg/
hi,
the same computer, same video.
What can I do?

[Trayman]

@ese232 What source do you have Bluray, DVD or Downloaded ?

//Trayman

[ese232]

@ese232 What source do you have Bluray, DVD or Downloaded ?

//Trayman

downloaded but i think HDTV record.

[Trayman]

Then we are not allowed to help you according to the forum rules. Sorry!

//Trayman

[stasi]

http://imageshack.us/f/10/ver1165.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/f/10/ver1165.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/535/ver117.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/f/535/ver117.jpg/
hi,
the same computer, same video.
What can I do?

I had the same error on earlier versions of Ripbot. Try to delete the locale folder under tools\mkvtoolnix. And try a shorter input filename.

[Chudz]

Hey I just re-encoded a Bluray Remux and something weird happened. It seems to have not re-encoded just repackaged it or something.

I am using default settings with RipBot264 "CQ: 22" etc only thing I change is the crop to get rip of black borders and denoise FILM.

The file size at the end of the encode was 16.5gb :S Here is the MediaInfo for the source:

General
Unique ID : 219575428819153978712911125335292378048 (0xA530B078AE5D83A8B03807E8C255FBC0)
Complete name : C:\Users\Chudz\Downloads\Aliens Special Edition 1986 Blu-ray CEE Remux 1080p AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1-ALeSiO.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 33.1 GiB
Duration : 2h 34mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 30.7 Mbps
Movie name : Aliens Special Edition 1986 Blu-ray CEE Remux 1080p AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1-ALeSiO
Encoded date : UTC 2011-07-16 07:58:39
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.9.1 ('Ich will') built on Jul 11 2011 23:53:15
Writing library : libebml v1.2.1 + libmatroska v1.1.1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@0.0
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 34mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 28.2 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 36.6 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.568
Stream size : 30.4 GiB (92%)
Title : Aliens Special Edition 1986 Blu-ray CEE 1080p AVC
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2h 34mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 852 Kbps / 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Title : DTS-HD MA 5.1
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text #1
ID : 3
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Title : SDH
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text #2
ID : 4
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Title : CEE
Language : Russian
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #3
ID : 5
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Title : Kinomania
Language : Russian
Default : No
Forced : No

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01
00:02:06.751 : en:Chapter 02
00:05:15.731 : en:Chapter 03
00:08:34.346 : en:Chapter 04
00:10:52.109 : en:Chapter 05
00:15:13.620 : en:Chapter 06
00:17:25.001 : en:Chapter 07
00:20:54.126 : en:Chapter 08
00:25:02.500 : en:Chapter 09
00:25:57.471 : en:Chapter 10
00:30:03.718 : en:Chapter 11
00:32:53.887 : en:Chapter 12
00:35:56.862 : en:Chapter 13
00:38:03.530 : en:Chapter 14
00:45:40.070 : en:Chapter 15
00:52:28.519 : en:Chapter 16
00:54:48.076 : en:Chapter 17
00:56:09.114 : en:Chapter 18
01:00:11.106 : en:Chapter 19
01:04:47.507 : en:Chapter 20
01:10:10.997 : en:Chapter 21
01:12:51.992 : en:Chapter 22
01:16:22.868 : en:Chapter 23
01:21:22.252 : en:Chapter 24
01:23:17.199 : en:Chapter 25
01:26:21.134 : en:Chapter 26
01:31:22.059 : en:Chapter 27
01:34:37.421 : en:Chapter 28
01:37:25.255 : en:Chapter 29
01:38:40.706 : en:Chapter 30
01:41:23.243 : en:Chapter 31
01:45:03.462 : en:Chapter 32
01:47:15.552 : en:Chapter 33
01:51:41.402 : en:Chapter 34
01:52:58.604 : en:Chapter 35
02:02:10.363 : en:Chapter 36
02:05:54.046 : en:Chapter 37
02:07:41.987 : en:Chapter 38
02:13:15.528 : en:Chapter 39
02:17:29.615 : en:Chapter 40
02:22:24.701 : en:Chapter 41
02:23:16.711 : en:Chapter 42
02:30:16.005 : en:Chapter 43
02:31:36.461 : en:Chapter 44

And the MediaInfo for the Encoded file:

General
Complete name : F:\Movies\Aliens Special Edition.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format_Commercial_IfAny : XDCAM EX 25
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 16.4 GiB
Duration : 2h 34mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 15.2 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-01-22 10:27:32
Tagged date : UTC 2012-01-22 10:27:32
Cover : Yes

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format_Commercial_IfAny : XDCAM EX 25
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 2h 34mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 14.9 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.300
Stream size : 16.1 GiB (98%)
Title : Aliens Special Edition
Writing library : x264 core 120 r2120 0c7dab9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2012-01-22 10:27:32
Tagged date : UTC 2012-01-22 10:44:10

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 2h 34mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 331 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 354 MiB (2%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2012-01-22 10:43:30
Tagged date : UTC 2012-01-22 10:44:10

Menu
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 01
00:02:06.751 : Chapter 02
00:05:15.731 : Chapter 03
00:08:34.346 : Chapter 04
00:10:52.109 : Chapter 05
00:15:13.620 : Chapter 06
00:17:25.001 : Chapter 07
00:20:54.126 : Chapter 08
00:25:02.500 : Chapter 09
00:25:57.471 : Chapter 10
00:30:03.718 : Chapter 11
00:32:53.887 : Chapter 12
00:35:56.862 : Chapter 13
00:38:03.530 : Chapter 14
00:45:40.070 : Chapter 15
00:52:28.519 : Chapter 16
00:54:48.076 : Chapter 17
00:56:09.114 : Chapter 18
01:00:11.106 : Chapter 19
01:04:47.507 : Chapter 20
01:10:10.997 : Chapter 21
01:12:51.992 : Chapter 22
01:16:22.868 : Chapter 23
01:21:22.252 : Chapter 24
01:23:17.199 : Chapter 25
01:26:21.134 : Chapter 26
01:31:22.059 : Chapter 27
01:34:37.421 : Chapter 28
01:37:25.255 : Chapter 29
01:38:40.706 : Chapter 30
01:41:23.243 : Chapter 31
01:45:03.462 : Chapter 32
01:47:15.552 : Chapter 33
01:51:41.402 : Chapter 34
01:52:58.604 : Chapter 35
02:02:10.363 : Chapter 36

It took 10 Hours as well apparently I left it on when I went to bed.

[jandor]

@Trayman

I understand you now.
Also I never caught a movie like that.
Perhaps you must use the VobBlanker: http://download.videohelp.com/jsoto/vobblanker.htm
Or ReJig (IFO Mode): http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ReJig

[james2432]

I tried ripping bluray subtitles from a bluray. It ripped the .sup file but when I looked in the .mkv the subtitles were not merged into it.
I manually had to rip the sup file to srt and mux it in with SupRip and mkvmerge from the .sup file that was created by ripbot

[Ronski]

Jimmy,I'll be interested to hear how you get on , I don't use home group either and have a Windows home server 2011, which is on 24/7 so old like to make use of it for distributed encoding overnight.

I've been a user of RipBot264 for years and have not a single complaint. The only thing I haven't been able to solve is how to encode E-AC3 from TrueHD or DTSMA to preserve 7.1 channels and keep the file sizes small. That's a discussion for another day...

My latest problem is trying to get the distributed encoding to work. I was very excited to see this as an option to get around the typical 2 hour 720p encodes.

While I know it's overkill to have a home domain, I have for many many years and it serves me well. I have Windows 7 desktops and recently changed to a Windows 2008 r2 server, up from Win2k3.

I've tried for the better part of a week to get the client/server model to work with no luck. I always get the ENCODING/IDLE "dance" at start-up. I think the automatic discovery of the RipBot264temp is my biggest problem. Whenever I share the folder, it is shared as \\COMPUTERNAME\RipBot264temp on whichever workstation I choose. Whenever the programs tries to access the folder it is looking for \\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp.

I've tried many hacks to try to allow it to find the share correctly, even creating folders on the server and trying to make \\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp a valid path. I have yet to get into DFS pointers which may work. I know this was designed with HomeGroups in mind, and I'm guessing the HomeGroup and Domain are picked up in the same fashion and that is why his happens, but I wondered if it would be possible for a configuration option where perhaps you could say the share is located on the same IP address as Server X.

I'm not sure that I completely understand if each workstation is supposed to have it's own share, or if one is shared by all workstations.

Is there any way to make this work without a HomeGroup? I would be more than willing to help out with any beta testing and give a donation.

Any help is much appreciated! Maybe I'm just being stupid about this... :cool:

Jim

[iSeries]

Hi Atak,

Is there any chance you could add some 2.0 AC3 options for MKV (or even just 2.0 192kbps)? I realise that bitrate for bitrate AAC is superior, however my blu ray player only supports AC3 or DTS within MKV files.

[Ronski]

Hi Atak, could you add the option to sleep when finished encoding, or even just the option to run a BAT file will suffice please?

Can't use the Sleep when idle option in W7, as MS can't seem to work out that 4 cores running at 100% is not idle, and it just goes to sleep whilst encoding, so i have to disable sleep when using Ripbot.

[squezer]

Hi, Atak,

thx for you work at first.
Please, why is ripbot v1.17 auto-renaming my Sony camcorder´s files from "anything.m2ts" to just "video.mkv" ?
Before it worked as expected from test1.m2ts to test1.mkv, test2.m2ts to test2.mkv etc...
I have usually 16 files from one recorded miniDVD, its boring to rename them back manualy.
Could you fix it for me, please?

[JimmyK814]

Jimmy,I'll be interested to hear how you get on , I don't use home group either and have a Windows home server 2011, which is on 24/7 so old like to make use of it for distributed encoding overnight.

I'm excited to get it working. I imagine there are higher priorities right now, especially if it's working for non-domain people just fine. I'm quite grateful for the wonderful piece of software. I don't mind being patient and waiting for a while. :D

[hoju3508]

@Chudz, it did re-encode your source.

Writing library : x264 core 120 r2120 0c7dab9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

[hoju3508]

@james2432, that's correct. RipBot demuxes the audio, subtitles and video out into individual files for re-encoding. You can use mkvmerge to combine them again into a mkv container if that's what you want.

BTW, MPC-HC plays mkv with .sup files without any problems. I'm not sure about media players like Dune or Popcorn Hour.

[soneca]

The Dune HD plays perfectly subtitles(.sup) embedded in the mkv created with RipBot.

[Ryushin]

I'm using the latest update from January 20th, to encode both Last Man Standing and Last Boy Scout:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Last-Boy-Scout--and-Last-Man-Standing-Blu-ray/10754/#Review

Both use the VC-1 encodes. Both have pix-elated corruption every minute or so. I'm rolling back to 1.16.5 to encode these.

Is there any information I can provide to help solve the issue with this?

[Balthazar2k4]

I'm using the latest update from January 20th, to encode both Last Man Standing and Last Boy Scout:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Last-Boy-Scout--and-Last-Man-Standing-Blu-ray/10754/#Review

Both use the VC-1 encodes. Both have pix-elated corruption every minute or so. I'm rolling back to 1.16.5 to encode these.

Is there any information I can provide to help solve the issue with this?

Thanks Ryushin for testing that. I have been meaning to try it for days now, but just been too busy.

[Atak_Snajpera]

can you upload 10 min sample (video.mkv from temp folder) to www.mediafire.com. zip file into smaller chunks because mediafire may reeject one huge file.

[Ryushin]

can you upload 10 min sample (video.mkv from temp folder) to www.mediafire.com. zip file into smaller chunks because mediafire may reeject one huge file.

Six and a half hours later.... (my poor dsl line)
http://depositfiles.com/files/qzln88dk6

I did not realize that depositfiles.com download was so awful. I won't use them again. Let me know if you want to download it directly from my server. It only has a 896kb uplink though.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I told you to use www.mediafire.com... Download speed is limited to 100 KB/s so I will get your file in 5h ;)

[Ryushin]

I told you to use www.mediafire.com... Download speed is limited to 100 KB/s so I will get your file in 5h ;)

Yea, I know. I just didn't want to chop it up into 8 pieces and upload them one at a time. I thought I was doing something good by finding a site that allow 2GB files. I thought wrong. :o

[QUEENFAN]

Hello,

which profile would you prefer for encoding DVD-series like "Dexter" to mkv?

In the past I used [MAIN 4.0] HD but I can't hardly see any difference in the resulting files compared to [MAIN 3.0] SD, both with CQ 20 which produces smaller mkv's.

Any suggestions?

[duramaximus]

Can anyone tell me how to encode a movie in 5.1 surround MP4 and be able to play on my XBOX360?

The only way I can get it to play is in Stereo 2 channel and not 5.1 :(

[Atak_Snajpera]

Ask M$ ...

[squezer]

Please,

same input filename, different output filename v1.16.5 vs 1.17...
http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/2457/ripbot264.png

Any suggestions?

[Ryushin]

I'm a bit confused why the distributed part is not working right now. I'm running the latest code from the 20th. I just finished four encodes using 16.5 to finish up the VC-1 encodes.

I'm starting encoding the entire blu-ray series of Lost. 36 blu-ray discs (yea me :( )
According to Blu-ray.com, it's encoded in 1080i AVC.

The queue was completely empty. I just put the first disc in the queue. Queued up the four episodes. Told it to start, but it's encoding only by itself and not through the distributed tool. I've tried stopping and starting it a few times to no avail. So I'm at a bit of a loss. It was working a couple of days ago. Any ideas?

Edit: It started working again. Cue Twilight Zone Theme

[gav1577]

Atak would it be possible to use DirectShowSource / ffdshow with distributed encoding? There are somethings i prefer to use ffdshow for.

[duramaximus]

Ask M$ ...

What would be your suggestion to encode a bluray to a format under 4GB and keeping 5.1 surround so I can play it on my xbox360?

Thanks

[Ryushin]

The "Starting..." problem is still occurring as of the January 20th code. Is there anything I can provide when this happens to help?

[Ryushin]

What would be your suggestion to encode a bluray to a format under 4GB and keeping 5.1 surround so I can play it on my xbox360?

Thanks

The xbox360 does not support 5.1 sound using h.264. Only WMV files are supported with 5.1 sound. If you want to use h.264, it's stereo only with the 360. There are lots of threads on the Internet that spell this out.

My suggestion is to buy a Western Digital Live Media Hub and watch anything you like at that point. The 360 is not a very good media playback device.

[duramaximus]

The xbox360 does not support 5.1 sound using h.264. Only WMV files are supported with 5.1 sound. If you want to use h.264, it's stereo only with the 360. There are lots of threads on the Internet that spell this out.

My suggestion is to buy a Western Digital Live Media Hub and watch anything you like at that point. The 360 is not a very good media playback device.

Thanks

[gav1577]

The "Starting..." problem is still occurring as of the January 20th code. Is there anything I can provide when this happens to help?

I found that this problem can be caused if a profile cmd is not correct. Not saying its your problem but worth checking if you have added anything to your cmd.

[Ryushin]

I found that this problem can be caused if a profile cmd is not correct. Not saying its your problem but worth checking if you have added anything to your cmd.

Have not changed anything in the profile cmd. In fact, I never new you could. I'll take a look at it. I could learn more about what Ripbot264 is doing.

[Atak_Snajpera]

by the way I encoded your 10 min sample without any corruption...

UPDATE: I got corrupted frames with denoising filter enabled but without everything is fine!

@squezer
change extension from .m2ts to .mts

[Ryushin]

by the way I encoded your 10 min sample without any corruption...

UPDATE: I got corrupted frames with denoising filter enabled but without everything is fine!

@squezer
change extension from .m2ts to .mts

Yea, I've been using the denoising filter a lot lately. Some of my blu-ray sources are just awful. The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy was shot in 16mm.

[squezer]

@squezer
change extension from .m2ts to .mts

OK, the filename stays that way, but subtitles (timecode from camcorder) are lost...
Subtitles are not extracted from *.mts file to jobX folder.

[Atak_Snajpera]

can you upload 50 mb sample to www.mediafire.com

[squezer]

can you upload 50 mb sample to www.mediafire.com

i recorded 2 shots for you, to get a better idea:
http://www.mediafire.com/?bw6yzhfa2k7xx1m

[Hobbe]

Atak: Is it possible to bypass the java check? ... I don't have Java installed on all my machines and I don't use Sup2Sub...

[Atak_Snajpera]

no...

[Ryushin]

I've been getting RipBot264 Encoding Client has stopped working error. Results of the error:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: EncodingClient.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 2a425e19
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17725
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ec49b8f
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0002dede
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: e8ad
Additional Information 2: e8adce1c2b9e7be834b4063ac3c53863
Additional Information 3: e8ad
Additional Information 4: e8adce1c2b9e7be834b4063ac3c53863


Is there any other source of information I can provide to help troubleshoot this?

[pacaveli211]

you can try this: http://www.ehow.com/how_6109933_stop-error-ntdll-dll.html

[guest]

I am a huge fan of Ripbot, and recently updated to 1.17.0.

2 questions:-

Can't for the life of me figure out how, and what is really the use for the distributed encoding...........:o

And also, checking the shutdown box, no longer works for me, I had it checked after I had installed 1.17.0, which should have turned the pc off approx 1 am, but to my annoyance, it was still idling along at 7 am, so it had be on unnecessarily, for 6 hours, it had finished all the encodes, but didn't turn off :(

Might have to go back to 1.16.5...no problems with that version.

Cheers

[Ronski]

There was a bugfix update that cured this problem, there may be another bugfix update newer than the one below, have a look back over the last few pages.

I'd like a sleep option, others have also asked, but we get no feed back at all!

PS Distrubuted encoding allows you to make use of multiple computers on your home network, therefore decreasing encoding time. As to the how, the video guide is only half the instructions, you need to have the encoding server running on the other PC.

Added: MKV can also be used in Distributed Encoding Mode.
Changed: 1 min chunks for CQ mode instead of 10 min
Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file
Fixed: corruption at the begining of the chunk. (Encoding Client will first analyze video and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position.)


http://www.mediafire.com/?73w6p5vo6347ctt

[JimmyK814]

Jimmy,I'll be interested to hear how you get on , I don't use home group either and have a Windows home server 2011, which is on 24/7 so old like to make use of it for distributed encoding overnight.

Still no luck. I've been trying to get this to work non-stop a little each day. Even though there is mention in one of the fix releases of the domain name changed to computer name, my version of the encodingserver.exe insists on using the domain name instead of the computer name. I've verified and re-verified I have the fixed version of the encodingclient.exe and the RipBot executable. I've also recreated a job from scratch with the new versions.

I've been trying to point the call for the domain to a share on the server hosting the domain with some "trickery" but it won't work.

I feel like I'm 99% there, but this one glitch is preventing me from having any fun with this! :confused:

[rc71]

I just want to publicly thank ATAK for the new version. I will hit my 4,000th encode in a day or so. I could NEVER have done it without the batch mode and the 25fps -> 23.976 correction. BTW, I'm having much FEWER sync problems with new audio codec.

[Ryushin]

I could not figure out how to do batch encodes for the ripped blu-rays I have on the hard drive. I'm doing the 123 episodes of the Lost TV Series right now. It would be nice to have RipBot batch convert every video on the disk that is greater then a certain time, with certain settings. Like CQ, Subtitles, Denoise, etc. As it is, I'm adding each episode one at a time.

[guest]

There was a bugfix update that cured this problem, there may be another bugfix update newer than the one below, have a look back over the last few pages.

I'd like a sleep option, others have also asked, but we get no feed back at all!

PS Distrubuted encoding allows you to make use of multiple computers on your home network, therefore decreasing encoding time. As to the how, the video guide is only half the instructions, you need to have the encoding server running on the other PC.



Hi Ronski,

Thanks heaps for the "bugfix" link :)

I'll have to try and figure out how the encoding server thing works.

Cheers

[HouseCat]

Im trying to rip a 720p 50fps episode of top gear to be played back on my ipad2.
The problem is when its finished the ripped video doesnt playback correctly. the video plays back too fast and the audio is out of sync.On both media player classic and the ipad2 itself.
I tried both single and 2 pass on ipad present.

[stasi]

Hi Atak,

when I add a job, select as output filename "testöäü.mkv", the name of the file is "test÷õ³.mkv". BTW, I´m using german Windows.

My job1_MuxFiles.cmd:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264\tools\mkvtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "D:\testöäü.mkv" --compression 0:none --title "testöäü" --default-duration 0:25fps "D:\temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" --compression 0:none --language 0:ger --aac-is-sbr 0:1 "D:\temp\RipBot264temp\audio.aac"

The problem is, the job1_MuxFiles.cmd is saved in ANSI, but should be saved in DOS Codepage. I edited the job1_MuxFiles.cmd with EDIT from MS-DOS, saved, doubleclick and voilà, the filename is testöäü.mkv.

[Ryushin]

Another Error:

Exception EInvalidPointer in module EncodingClient.exe at 00002B04.
Invalid pointer operation.

This occurred right when the job had finished and it had combined the pieces together. After clicking the Okay for the Error, it then starting Muxing.

[Alfeuss]

I tried searching the thread to no avail so I'll ask it here. Is any one else getting corrupt aac file when ripbot264 demuxes? I added like 44 files using batch mode, and I checked each job folder, and all the aac files would not play.......well I thought I would check and the same thing happens when extracting the aac via YAMB. The source file plays fine. Any gurus out there have any idea whats up? TIA

[rc71]

I tried searching the thread to no avail so I'll ask it here. Is any one else getting corrupt aac file when ripbot264 demuxes? I added like 44 files using batch mode, and I checked each job folder, and all the aac files would not play.......well I thought I would check and the same thing happens when extracting the aac via YAMB. The source file plays fine. Any gurus out there have any idea whats up? TIA

I'm assuming you've done the standard update FFshow stuff? If you haven't that may solve your problem. That being said, what are you converting them from? In the past I've had horrific problems with AC3 -> AAC, which apparently isn't that uncommon. When that happens I have to break down and get out MeGUI. That tool using NeroAAC which I find usually solves my sound issues. Usually. Ironically, check out my post that follows...

[rc71]

I have a small sound problem. I have 12 files with dual audio. About half have no problem, but the other half have NO sound when encoded. Just for kicks I've tried both tracks and no sound. The file that is produced says there is a sound file, but there is no sound. Even in the preview there is no sound. But the original source files all read the same. One track is AC3 6 ch and the other is AC3 2 ch, but again no sound in the encoded file. Needless to say the originals seem fine. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Atak_Snajpera]

are you encoding from .ts?

[Alfeuss]

I have a small sound problem. I have 12 files with dual audio. About half have no problem, but the other half have NO sound when encoded. Just for kicks I've tried both tracks and no sound. The file that is produced says there is a sound file, but there is no sound. Even in the preview there is no sound. But the original source files all read the same. One track is AC3 6 ch and the other is AC3 2 ch, but again no sound in the encoded file. Needless to say the originals seem fine. Does anyone have any suggestions?

This is very similar to my problem. I'am trying to recode for android. source is mp4 avc/aac 6 ch. yes i have lastest ffdshow.
The no audio, in my case, comes from when ripbot264 demuxs the source. If you check the working directory and try to play the demuxed file there is no sound. ripbot264 encodes this 'blank' file ending up with a video file with no sound yet it does contain an audio track.

[Ryushin]

by the way I encoded your 10 min sample without any corruption...

UPDATE: I got corrupted frames with denoising filter enabled but without everything is fine!

@squezer
change extension from .m2ts to .mts

I'm about to start doing Battlestar Galactica from blu-ray. Seasons 1 and 3 are VC-1 and 2 and 4 are AVC. I'll start with seasons 2 and 4 until you have figured out what is causing denoising to cause VC-1 encoding corruption.

Thanks again. The new distributed encoding is an incredible feature of ripbot264 and I really appreciate it.

[vrpatilisl]

hi nice
application a full installer version is well appreciated.

[Atak_Snajpera]

This is very similar to my problem. I'am trying to recode for android. source is mp4 avc/aac 6 ch. yes i have lastest ffdshow.
The no audio, in my case, comes from when ripbot264 demuxs the source. If you check the working directory and try to play the demuxed file there is no sound. ripbot264 encodes this 'blank' file ending up with a video file with no sound yet it does contain an audio track.
send me sample (source) to www.mediafire.com . 50 mb will be enough.

Added: MKV can also be used in Distributed Encoding Mode.
Changed: 1 min chunks for CQ mode instead of 10 min
Fixed: not working 'Shutdown when Finished'
Fixed: error message in batch mode. Broken video file will be automatically discarded
Fixed: EncodingClient was using Domain-Name instead of Computer-Name
Fixed: Incorrect number of frames between passes in Distributed Encoding. Now number of frames in last chunk will be limited according to stat file
Fixed: corruption at the begining of the chunk. (Encoding Client will first analyze video and then prepare chunks according to I-Frame (key frame) position.)
Fixed: EncodingClient will now try to restart chunks which did not start for some reason
Fixed: error message (Invalid Pointer ... ) in EncodingClient should not longer appear when application is being terminated


http://www.mediafire.com/?ebjhtutnl5k27b0

[Alfeuss]

Well not being able to play the demuxed file was the fault of media player HC. However I was still getting bad aac files, just not the one in the job folder. It happens when you select normalize. Here is the log file for when the error occurs.
It's working great as long as I dont try to normalize the audio.

Here's the source test file I was using just in case.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ypd1ng4p76mgs1b



C:\>"M:\someone\My Videos\Apps\RipBot264\tools\bepipe\bepipe.exe" --script "import(^C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs^)" | "M:\someone\My Videos\Apps\RipBot264\Tools\fhgaacenc\fhgaacenc.exe" --profile lc --cbr 128 --adts --ignorelength - "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\audio.aac"

***************************************

BePipe by dimzon

***************************************

Script used:

# BEGIN

import("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs")

# END





Scanning for Audio Stream...

Found Audio Stream

Channels=2, BitsPerSample=16, SampleRate=48000Hz

Writing Header...

Writing Data...

0%ERROR: AVIStreamRead returned error.




C:\>"M:\someone\My Videos\Apps\RipBot264\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs" -o - | "M:\someone\My Videos\Apps\RipBot264\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --crf 26 --stats "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.stats" --fps 24000/1001 --force-cfr --min-keyint 24 --keyint 240 --frames 722 --sar 1:1 --profile baseline --level 3.0 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 1500 --vbv-maxrate 2500 --no-cabac --filter 0,0 --ref 3 --bframes 0 --b-adapt 0 --no-weightb --weightp 0 --b-pyramid none --subme 7 --aq-mode 1 --trellis 0 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,p4x4 --no-8x8dct --me umh --stdin y4m --output "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" -

y4m [info]: 160x90p 1:1 @ 10000000/417083 fps (cfr)

x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1

x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.1 Cache64

x264 [info]: profile Constrained Baseline, level 3.0
C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs: 160x90, 10000000/417083 fps, 722 frames


x264 [info]: frame I:5 Avg QP:27.02 size: 2688

x264 [info]: frame P:717 Avg QP:30.61 size: 465

x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 16.3% 0.0% 83.7%

x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 0.3% 0.0% 2.0% P16..4: 33.0% 21.9% 3.1% 0.1% 2.3% skip:37.2%

x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 81.0% 89.7% 81.2% inter: 21.5% 16.0% 7.7%

x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 2% 80% 2% 17%

x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 8% 29% 15% 6% 8% 6% 11% 5% 11%

x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 50% 30% 9% 11%

x264 [info]: ref P L0: 82.6% 9.5% 8.0%

x264 [info]: kb/s:92.09



encoded 722 frames, 61.18 fps, 92.09 kb/s


C:\>"M:\someone\My Videos\Apps\RipBot264\tools\mp4box\mp4box.exe" -tmp "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp" -add "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264":name="Boundin (2003) BDrip 1080p_002" -fps 23.976 -add "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\audio.aac":lang=eng -mpeg4 -new "d:\Boundin (2003) BDrip 1080p_002.mp4"

AVC-H264 import - frame size 160 x 90 at 23.976 FPS

AVC Import results: 722 samples - Slices: 5 I 717 P 0 B - 728 SEI - 5 IDR

AAC import - sample rate 48000 - MPEG-4 audio - 2 channels


Saving d:\Boundin (2003) BDrip 1080p_002.mp4: 0.500 secs Interleaving

-------------------------

Elapsed Time: 00h:00m:17s

[illestdomer2005]

Anyone having any trouble ripping "Midnight in Paris"...? It has Cinavia and 3 channel audio; I remember Vicky Christina Barcelona being a problem with 3 channel audio a year or so ago but hadn't run into a problem again until now.

I try to run the conversion, and it just sits on "Please Wait..." forever.

[Atak_Snajpera]

disable audio normalization

[iSeries]

Hi,

I've set the .ini file so RipBot uses the G: drive for temp files. I added a bunch of jobs for an encoding-fest while I'm away for the day tomorrow and then switched my computer off. When I turned my computer back on a bit later today and started Ripbot up all the jobs have gone from the queue. All 22 of the temporary folders are still on the G: drive, how can I get RipBot to see them again?

[rc71]

This is very similar to my problem. I'am trying to recode for android. source is mp4 avc/aac 6 ch. yes i have lastest ffdshow.
The no audio, in my case, comes from when ripbot264 demuxs the source. If you check the working directory and try to play the demuxed file there is no sound. ripbot264 encodes this 'blank' file ending up with a video file with no sound yet it does contain an audio track.

Checking, and you are correct. I have the same problem. The demuxed audio file is blank. I'm going to try and mess with the container and see if 'kicking it' makes it go.

[topcat888]

Can I just ask does RipBot make use of all cores, I can't see any reference to how many cores to use and at what priory..?

Thanks

[Ryushin]

I am using the latest release as of February 3. I'm receiving corruption almost every minute. It's odd, sometimes I'm getting corruption every minute, other times, it might be clean for a minute before occurring again. This occurred while encoding Cold Mountain which is AVC:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Cold-Mountain-Blu-ray/33169/

But this corruption does not seem to have occurred with Lost which is also AVC.

Here is the link for the first 90 seconds of Cold Mountain. You can see the corruption at 1:00. I am using denoising on both Could Mountain and Lost:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3xoxqhhe848d3w9

I will upload the first 3 minutes and 30 seconds of the video.mkv source as well. I'll edit this post when it's uploaded as well.

I noticed something when using ffmpeg to cut out the piece of the video.mkv file. I'm receiving an error under linux:
[matroska @ 0x97db240] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 83 >= 42
Under the latest nightly build of ffmpeg for windows I'm receiving a different error:
[matroska @ 00000000045BB010] pts < dts in stream 0
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument

Finding this ticket:
http://www.avcodec.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/960
At the bottom it says:
As you've already noticed, the timestamps in this stream are not valid. The duplicate timestamps happen many, many times in this file. The file is broken.

So I'm going to cut the 3:30 seconds from the original m2ts source and upload it.

edit: Here is the 3:30 seconds of Cold Mountain from the m2ts file. I used mediafire.com this time :) and dgsplit (anyone know if dgsplit is compatible with unix split?)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?crmd352937dibk8
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?shb3bou8dkzx1b8
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ryjayf9hr9fdjqx

[Atak_Snajpera]

Do you still get corruption without denoising filter?

[iSeries]

Hi,

I've set the .ini file so RipBot uses the G: drive for temp files. I added a bunch of jobs for an encoding-fest while I'm away for the day tomorrow and then switched my computer off. When I turned my computer back on a bit later today and started Ripbot up all the jobs have gone from the queue. All 22 of the temporary folders are still on the G: drive, how can I get RipBot to see them again?

Hi Atak, are you able to advise on this issue? I notice that the jobs.list file is empty?

EDIT: figured out how to modify the jobs.list file to add the jobs back in.

[Ryushin]

Do you still get corruption without denoising filter?

I took the exact same job, just removed denoising, and the problem is still there.

I'm leaning towards there being a demuxing problem since the video.mkv file shows errors with ffmpeg.

I'm still trying to get the original source uploaded. I'll update my original post once it's done.

edit:
I guess the best test would be to take the same job and open it under 16.5 to see what happens.

edit2: Re-encoded using 16.5 and everything looks fine. Perhaps the issue lies when splitting the source? I have no idea at this point? Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide.

[rc71]

Can I just ask does RipBot make use of all cores, I can't see any reference to how many cores to use and at what priory..?

Thanks

Seriously? You had to post to ask that question? Crtl Alt Delete? Check your processor usage. I'll let it be a surprise.

[rc71]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfeuss View Post
This is very similar to my problem. I'am trying to recode for android. source is mp4 avc/aac 6 ch. yes i have lastest ffdshow.
The no audio, in my case, comes from when ripbot264 demuxs the source. If you check the working directory and try to play the demuxed file there is no sound. ripbot264 encodes this 'blank' file ending up with a video file with no sound yet it does contain an audio track.
Checking, and you are correct. I have the same problem. The demuxed audio file is blank. I'm going to try and mess with the container and see if 'kicking it' makes it go.

That did it. I used mkvmerge to remove everything except the video and the ONE English track. Ripbot encoded it fine. I'm not sure what happened, but does seem to be an AC3 -> AAC issue. Checking the sound fine that is extracted, there was some audio in it. Almost sounded like the LFE channel, but that is all. There has been channel mapping problems before with AC3 so this might be a version of it.

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Ryushin

RipBot264 update 2012-02-06
http://www.mediafire.com/?sstx4su73sj76r7

[Madmate]

Thank you for great piece of software!!!
It works great. I use it all the time. But I encountered 1 file that produces error when gathering information, after demuxing.

With 1.17 it produces error:

Exception EConvertError in module RipBot264.exe at 000093E2, " is not a valid floating point value

With 1.16 & 15 it just hangs at gathering information.
I tested file in other programs, and it seems OK.

Here is 8Mb fragment of file that produces same error:

http://www.mediafire.com/?i9mubcbssi4a7sz

I read some other reports with this error and I noticed that you suggested to use Win7 instead WinXP, but that is not option for me (have only 500Mb RAM).

Thanks for your work and help!!

[igorgladunyak]

When I choose GROP I got message Warning! Width must be mod 4
What does this mean?
http://s2.share.te.ua/b400999/iguxz85c2g.png

[iSeries]

Hi,

Not sure if its possible (although I'm sure it could be), qpfile support for AVCHD output would be awesome. At the moment I'm creating a qpfile with Shon3i's ChapterGen tool, placing it in the RipBot job** folder and manually adding the --qpfile switch to the encoding command. Would be great if RipBot could do this automatically for AVCHD output.

[jdoering]

While trying to convert a DVD; I'm hitting the generic "Couldn't open input file in HIDE mode!" error from dgindex. Like earlier posters have noted this is occurring because the command line argument for the input file is missing. However; while some other posts talk about DVDs where PgcDemux is generating multiple vobs during the combine stage - in this case only one very small vob is created. Based on a manual run of PgcDemux is appears that this occurs because Ripbot264 is not passing the "-pgc" argument so it defaults to 1. In the case of this movie there are four PGCs. The first three are trivial lengths while 4 represents the actual movie.

Is Ripbot264 expected to detect the correct PGC (perhaps by looking for the longest one) in this scenario or is the omission of "-pgc" deliberate and something else is going wrong? (In this particular case I worked around the issue manually by using PgcDemux directly to create a new single vob and then processing that with RipBot264).

BTW I'm using version 1.17.0.

Thanks,
Jeff

[flebber]

When I choose GROP I got message Warning! Width must be mod 4
What does this mean?
http://s2.share.te.ua/b400999/iguxz85c2g.png

if the width is divisble by 4. So

702 / 4 = 175.5 so its not mod 4
but
704 / 4 = 176 with no remainder so it would be sweet.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Thank you for great piece of software!!!
It works great. I use it all the time. But I encountered 1 file that produces error when gathering information, after demuxing.

With 1.17 it produces error:

Exception EConvertError in module RipBot264.exe at 000093E2, " is not a valid floating point value

With 1.16 & 15 it just hangs at gathering information.
I tested file in other programs, and it seems OK.

Here is 8Mb fragment of file that produces same error:

http://www.mediafire.com/?i9mubcbssi4a7sz

I read some other reports with this error and I noticed that you suggested to use Win7 instead WinXP, but that is not option for me (have only 500Mb RAM).

Thanks for your work and help!!

here is reason :
http://i.imgur.com/MD7cG.png

this file has incorrect resolution
Width : 694 pixels
Height : 386 pixels

[N1ghtjar]

Quick question if you please

I want to keep the TrueHD as a sound source, the only 2 options available (I dont want core) is wave or FLAC, both change this to PCM in ripbot.

Am I doing something wrong or is that the only options available?

[slalom]

Nothing is wrong, use the "no audio" option, and then remux the old file with the new video using mkvmerge.
I hope Atak will add the direct stream option soon

[N1ghtjar]

Thats good to know, I love the program. I build all my AVCHD's with it, maybe Blu-rays in the future.
I would like to see some additions with ripbot in the future, wether any of them will ever appear depends on Atak of course.

1. A pause button
2. Ability to have more than one audio stream
3. Lossless streams (DTS-HD & TrueHD)
4. Being able to merge m2ts files & create chapters (Im working on South Park at the mo and its a nightmare)

Thoughts and feedback would be interesting

[Madmate]

here is reason :
http://i.imgur.com/MD7cG.png

this file has incorrect resolution
Width : 694 pixels
Height : 386 pixels

Thank you!!! I was so confused why only this file doesn't work.

So, I would have to re-encode this file in correct resolution to import in Ripbot264 or there is some workaround?
Can I somehow import file in Ripbot264 without "gathering information" and then resize or crop with Properties button?

Thanks!

[iSeries]

Additions I'd like to see:

1. DTS-MA and TrueHD support for bluray output
2. Ability to have more than one audio stream
3. x264 qpfile support for accurate chapter seeking
4. 2.0 AC3 audio option for MKV

All four can be worked around but would be good if RipBot could do this natively to save a lot of time. I think however if Atak was interested in these, especially 1, 2 and 4, they would have been added by now. 1 and 2 have been requested almost weekly by different people :)

RipBot is a great tool that Atak has done a great job with, but with these additions RipBot would be the complete tool for me.

[iSeries]

Whats the recommended avisynth version for the latest RipBot? 2.5.8 stable or the latest 2.6.0 Alpha?

Is there a particular release of Haali that is preferred / recommended?

Also is the below update the one we should be using?

@Ryushin

RipBot264 update 2012-02-06
http://www.mediafire.com/?sstx4su73sj76r7

[rc71]

Thats good to know, I love the program. I build all my AVCHD's with it, maybe Blu-rays in the future.
I would like to see some additions with ripbot in the future, wether any of them will ever appear depends on Atak of course.

1. A pause button
2. Ability to have more than one audio stream
3. Lossless streams (DTS-HD & TrueHD)
4. Being able to merge m2ts files & create chapters (Im working on South Park at the mo and its a nightmare)

Thoughts and feedback would be interesting

You DON'T need a pause button. I play Civ5 while encoding. It just drops down to 1 fps. No problems with the game and no problems with ripbot so, why do you need a pause button? I know the instinct is stop the encode, but low priority works just fine.
As for chapters, I've never had a problem transferring chapters to my encoded file. If you are asking for ripbot to create chapters... the point of ripbot is it's simple elegance.

The request for streaming audio/video might make it in because that doesn't change ripbot. It simply removes a feature when you don't need it.

[N1ghtjar]

I would just like Ripbot to be the only program I need to use. Its such a wonderful piece of software.

tsMuxer can join m2ts files but if too many are added you get OOS issues so currently (as with South Park) I have to take 14 m2ts files, run them through tsMuxer, join them with a script I found online (Thanks to Atom) to stop the OOS issues, put them back into tsMuxer and create an m2ts with it changing chapters at the end of each episode, a lot of watching for when each episode ends and creating custom chapters there. You can see where im going.

A choice of a 2nd audio stream so if I wanted to add a second language or directors commentry it would be just another drop down box without having to calculate the amount of space left.

Lossless stream abilty is self explanatory, not overly need yet but in future for BD25s I would want to use ripbot.

[Ryushin]

@Ryushin

RipBot264 update 2012-02-06
http://www.mediafire.com/?sstx4su73sj76r7

I have not tried re-encoding cold mountain yet. I'll be able to do that today or tomorrow. I am encoding the Season 2 of Downton Abbey and I got a new error during the encoding process:

Application Error:
Exception EInvalidPointer in module EncodingClient.exe at 00002B04. Invalid pointer operation. After clicking the okay button on the error, it started the muxing process.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I wonder why I don't get that error at all ?

[fantasmanegro]

you can ask for screen recording and system properties like processor type (AMD, INTEL), overclock or not overclock, OS info, errrrr..... software installed, etc... network config... maybe you need not a sample but full movie to check i guess ...

[Ryushin]

I wonder why I don't get that error at all ?

I wonder if it's the software I have installed. I installed the software AviSynth , Haali Media Spliter , ffdshow that you provided links for a few weeks ago. Is there a particular version that I should test with.

A few other minor bugs that I thought I would bring your attention to.

If I use a VPN on the master machine, the EncodingClient won't be able to connect to the other machines on the local network with the IP address (not the name). I can still ping them though. One time when I was on the VPN and started the client, it showed a local IP of the VPN's network and not the local one specified in the ini file.. I "think" even if I specified 127.0.0.1 as the IP of the local machine, it still showing the LAN IP in the EncodingClient. If I make sure I'm not connected to the VPN during the start of the EncodingClient's distributed encoding, I can then connect to the VPN and encoding will continue happening as expected until it starts the next job.

The other minor bug comes when you edit the file result location of a job that was already in the queue. The second time you edit it, it shows the job folder and not the location of what it was originally set to.

The third minor bug comes from after you just submitted a job, and you click on to edit it, it selects a different job to edit. If you I click on the last job again, it then selects the last job.

edit:
I was also looking at the Donation link on the first post, and I for the life of me can't find the United States listed and make it show English. Do you have a different donation link, such as through Google Wallet (checkout) that I can use?

[Atak_Snajpera]

does anybody know how to create paypal donate link in english?

[73ChargerFan]

I keep reading about Paypal screwing over projects with "donate" buttons because donate is a US legal term indicating the recipient is an IRS sanctioned and authorized non-profit charitable organization. Paypal is a necessary evil, and they are definitely evil.

Edit - mp3tag.de accepts donations via Paypal. Ask Florian.

[soneca]

I was reading the guide to create the donation link where there are options for country and language and Poland comes with two options for links > Polish and English.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Donate link now redirects to US version instead of PL

[slalom]

I had an error on a last night's encoding
"Error: Simple chapter parser: 'CHAPTER27NAME=Robert Inspects the Border' is not a CHAPTERxx=... line."
The PC auto-shutted down and I found the message today. Obviously it's a chapter issue, but I lost the video that was produced, so I'll have to do it again today.

Can you make it to keep also the temporary video file, until the job is completed with no errors?
Then delete the temp file or leave it there for the user to find and work around the problem

Thanks in advance

@N1ghtjar
DTSHD-MA can be copy streamed

[fantasmanegro]

keep jobs queue?....

[iSeries]

@N1ghtjar
DTSHD-MA can be copy streamed

Only if the source is MKV. From a blu ray structure source, it cannot.

[slalom]

keep jobs queue?....
I always keep them, you never know.

[thezfunk]

I followed the video tutorial to the letter (or is it picture?) for distributed encoding and when I try it Ripbot will still only locally encode. Are there more detailed instructions somewhere?

[Alfeuss]

I had an error on a last night's encoding
"Error: Simple chapter parser: 'CHAPTER27NAME=Robert Inspects the Border' is not a CHAPTERxx=... line."
The PC auto-shutted down and I found the message today. Obviously it's a chapter issue, but I lost the video that was produced, so I'll have to do it again today.

Can you make it to keep also the temporary video file, until the job is completed with no errors?
Then delete the temp file or leave it there for the user to find and work around the problem

Thanks in advance

@N1ghtjar
DTSHD-MA can be copy streamed

@fantasmanegro Keep Jobs in queue only keeps the "Job" in the queue not the finished "work" it has done. That gets muxed to the location you specify.

I too have had to re-encode jobs because of an error. weather it be an error with subs or chapters. On these the only solution is to not use the sub/chapter, or try to fix the prob, and have it as the only thing in the queue. that way if it does error, you still have the finished 264 and aac in the temp dir. otherwise the next job will del/over write the work it has done. Hope this helps.

[emun]

Hi,

After an update from version 1.16.4 to latest 1.17 version i have an odd problem with mkv files. Sound is not available. If i open an avi or mp4 or ts file it is showing sound.
I checked the mkv files with mkvtool and there are sound tracks available. I am running win7 64bit with latest avisynth,ffdshow and haali 32 bit versions.
I also have deinstalled the programms and installed them again but problem still excist. :confused:

[Atak_Snajpera]

Remove national characters from file name and path

[cryphog]

Hey Atak, thanks for creating such a great program! I want to know if you use a certain build of x264 or do you just use the one thats available on x264.nl? Thanks

[Atak_Snajpera]

regular from x264.nl

[emun]

Remove national characters from file name and path

I already did but no go. Still no sound available.

Example log file of mkvinfo in job1 dir shows:
Bestand 'C:\Video\nieuw\Ronal Barbaren.mkv': houderr: Matroska [duration:5358812000000]
Spoor ID 0: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) [language:eng display_dimensions:1920x808 default_track:1 forced_track:0 packetizer:mpeg4_p10_video default_duration:41708332]
Spoor ID 1: audio (A_DTS) [language:dan default_track:1 forced_track:0 default_duration:10666666 audio_sampling_frequency:48000 audio_channels:6]
Spoor ID 2: audio (A_AC3) [language:eng default_track:0 forced_track:0 default_duration:32000000 audio_sampling_frequency:48000 audio_channels:6]
Spoor ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) [language:dut default_track:1 forced_track:0]
Hoofstukken: 12 ingangen

[N1ghtjar]

I have stuck with 1.16.5 and im not having any issues, if its not broken then why change (outside of some series updates that would favor me)

[Atak_Snajpera]

@emun
I forgot to delete locale folder from mkvtoolnix :(
Just remove this folder
...\RipBot264\Tools\mkvtoolnix\locale

[emun]

@emun
I forgot to delete locale folder from mkvtoolnix :(
Just remove this folder
...\RipBot264\Tools\mkvtoolnix\locale

You are the greatest :D

Its demuxing sound now, whoooo. I love this program so much.

thanx.

[iSeries]

Hi,

Would it be possible to add (maybe as an .ini setting) an option to default to a chosen language for when the audio track is 'undetermined'?

[Ryushin]

I just encoded Drive using the code from the Feb 6th:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Drive-Blu-ray/29818/#Review
Which is encoded AVC. I'm not using any denoising and the I'm seeing corrupted frames every 60 seconds. I've attached a 10:15 segment from the original m2ts file. Let me know when you download it and I'll remove the link from dropbox.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1579232/drive_video_10min.mkv

[Atak_Snajpera]

I've downloaded your file. New ripbot update will be uploaded tomorrow.

[d62ks821]

Added: BATCH MODE

In BATCH MODE I have to search for *.m2ts files with *.*, else they do not show up in the add dialog. Otherwise, processing work fine on m2ts files.

Also, BATCH MODE does not demux subtitle streams for *.m2ts files. Did I miss something here? Appears the only way to get subs demux'd is to not use BATCH MODE. Would really be nice if this was not the case.

Thanks.

[meshaun]

There is a new x264 update. Is there a new update coming up? and also, I would like to use 320Kbps AAC audio. How to do it?

[Atak_Snajpera]

why not 640 kbps?

[meshaun]

640Kbps in AAC is great. but takes double space as 320Kbps :) I saw one of your posts saying that 320Kbps in AAC is very close to 448 AC3. So, if there a way to get AAC 320kbps, it will be great. and also, I tried the program but it was like stuck as Gathering Information in the file selection. I waiting for about 15 minutes, but still no.

[Atak_Snajpera]

and your problem is?

[Atak_Snajpera]

RipBot264_update_2012-02-12
http://www.mediafire.com/?de8dkhknpxmor0u

[N1ghtjar]

What does the update incorporate?

[AmDD]

Ive only been using ripbot for about a week (used autogk to convert to avi before) so take my suggestions as you will.

I just recently got the distributed encoding working, thus far all seems well. Something you may want to add if this is a feature you plan on keeping (I hope you do) is the ability to stop a client. What I mean by that is have a "stop" button on the client software that will allow the computer to first finish the chunk it is working on and then not get assigned to another one, allowing the computer to be shutdown or whatever while the other systems finish the encode.

I also noticed that while testing it with wifi the computer would say "starting..." for awhile and sometimes switch to "encoding" but it would not actually encode anything before going idle. I assume that wireless just does not offer enough bandwidth to support encoding. Makes sense I just wanted to test it. The problem I found was the chunks would never recover from "Starting" and no other computer would pick them up. Could you put some kind of timer on the process? Say if the encoding does not start after X seconds assign it to another available computer? Or even have a button to manually do the same thing?

Is there a limit of 4 computer? Is it possible to add more?

Very nice work! Im excited to see where this program can go! Thank you very much!!

[Ryushin]

RipBot264_update_2012-02-12
http://www.mediafire.com/?de8dkhknpxmor0u

Drive encoded perfectly. Thank you. I'm attempting a VC-1 encoded with denoise. Battlestar Galactica Season 1 is VC-1 and is VERY grainy. I'll let you know the results.

Sent something your way as well. Your work on this is very much appreciated.

[Atak_Snajpera]

i'm 100% SURE that you will end up with corrupted frames

@AMDD
have you updated ripbot ?

[AmDD]

@AMDD
have you updated ripbot ?

I have on one machine, but not on the ones I have setup for distributing. I am going to assume by that comment that I probably should? :o

EDIT: Had some problems getting it running after I updated everything. It would not encode at all, just said job finished as soon as I clicked start. I think its working ok right now, however.

I dont see anything different as of yet, anything I should be looking for?

[Ryushin]

i'm 100% SURE that you will end up with corrupted frames


Yep, still corrupted frames. I'll have to use 1.16.5 for Season 1 and 3. Is there any logs or such that I can send you to help with the VC-1 denoise problem?

[73ChargerFan]

Not sure if this'll help, but I have an idea for denoising on distributed encodes.
Each job after the first could include those frames, plus a few extra frames before it (e.g. 0:00:10.000-0:00:11.000 becomes 0:00:09.800-0:00:11.000) so the denoising has something to work on, then discard those extra frames when the job is done.

Thanks atak as always.

[Zorro70]

Atak

After encoding, and adding more than one subtitle, when using mediainfo to get the information, only the last subtitle added actually shows up in mediainfo.


i really need this to show all of them as i upload my encodes on certain sites ;) and must show all info in the NFO


ive tried everything

[hoju3508]

Multi subs work fine, and it shows up correctly in Mediainfo. Are your files MKV, AVCHD or MP4?

[Zorro70]

avchd, and i found a solution.

instead of using mediainfo on the stream video file, you use it on the full folder and it shows them up.:rolleyes:


It seems if you install the same medianfo version as included in ripbot it works fine, if you update it, it stops working properly.


no big deal, thanks atak and above poster

[juGGaKNot]

The batch is great ( asked for it 2 years ago :) ) but i always separate video and audio.

It would be great if i could select 10 video files in batch mode and then 10 windows apear, like the add window.

[#1 STUNNA]

n00b question here! What exactly does the "5.1" checkbox do in the Blu-Ray Structure Window. My goal is to convert the the audio to 6 channel discrete AAC, do I need to check that box in order to accomplish that?

[73ChargerFan]

I'm uploading two spreadsheets (xls & ods) that will calculate the timecodes corresponding to frame numbers.

The reason, is that I converted a PAL movie on dvd to NTSC .mkv, and Ripbot264 did a great job with the frame rate conversion 25->23.967 for video and audio, but didn't scale the timecodes in the chapters.txt file.

To Use:
Let Ripbot do its thing. While video is being encoded, and before muxing begins, find the temp directory, go into the job directory and open up the celltimes.txt file. Copy the list of frames to the first column in the spreadsheet, and the last column will be a text field with the timecode.

Unfortunately, then it is cut/paste time because I can't create a new chapters.txt file using Excel.

Hope this helps.

[rc71]

Hi,

Would it be possible to add (maybe as an .ini setting) an option to default to a chosen language for when the audio track is 'undetermined'?

yes please.

[rc71]

640Kbps in AAC is great. but takes double space as 320Kbps :) I saw one of your posts saying that 320Kbps in AAC is very close to 448 AC3. So, if there a way to get AAC 320kbps, it will be great. and also, I tried the program but it was like stuck as Gathering Information in the file selection. I waiting for about 15 minutes, but still no.

dude, sarcasm. AAC is super efficient. 320 is overkill. search this thread for AAC.

[iSeries]

I'm uploading two spreadsheets (xls & ods) that will calculate the timecodes corresponding to frame numbers.

The reason, is that I converted a PAL movie on dvd to NTSC .mkv, and Ripbot264 did a great job with the frame rate conversion 25->23.967 for video and audio, but didn't scale the timecodes in the chapters.txt file.

To Use:
Let Ripbot do its thing. While video is being encoded, and before muxing begins, find the temp directory, go into the job directory and open up the celltimes.txt file. Copy the list of frames to the first column in the spreadsheet, and the last column will be a text field with the timecode.

Unfortunately, then it is cut/paste time because I can't create a new chapters.txt file using Excel.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

Doesn't Shon3i's incredibly useful ChapterGen do this automatically? Input the chapters.txt file from the RipBot temp directory, and then you can specify the original frame rate and change the output frame rate to whatever you like. ChapterGen will automatically change the timecodes of the chapter file. Then just save as an ogg chapter file overwriting the chapters.txt in the RipBot temp directory.

[#1 STUNNA]

A feature I'd like to see added is the ability to re-encode a certain chunk when doing DE. I've had avs2yuv.exe crash on me a couple times during a DE and it never finishes the chunk that it crashed on. So I have to restart the whole process because avs2yuv failed on one of the PCs. I'd like to be able to do it manually by either right clicking on the chunk and choose re-encode and that put's it back in the queue to be redone or for Ripbot to know that avs2yuv crashed during encode and to automatically add that failed chunk back to the queue to be redone.

[Ryushin]

Not sure if this'll help, but I have an idea for denoising on distributed encodes.
Each job after the first could include those frames, plus a few extra frames before it (e.g. 0:00:10.000-0:00:11.000 becomes 0:00:09.800-0:00:11.000) so the denoising has something to work on, then discard those extra frames when the job is done.


Actually, that is a great idea. Maybe transfer the frames along with the previous i-frame would make it easiest.

[#1 STUNNA]

I'm using the latest version 02/12 and I'm having an issue where the job#_MuxFiles.cmd isn't running or not working properly when doing a Distributed Encode. It seems to finish but there's no movie at the specified location when it's done. I had to run the MuxFiles.cmd manually and once I did it worked. I've had to do this for the last two encodes I did. The video.264 and audio.acc files are there they just aren't being muxed though Ripbot says they are.

[Blackwalker]

i have a problem.

If i remember, in some previous version, sorry but i dont remember if was the v1.16.1 or no,
when i select the ".m2ts" file of the main movie with "forced subtitles"
(i mean the "forced sub" inside the video track")
i see it extracted in the temp directory.

Now i try with a m2ts movie and then i check the "mkv" video file in
the temp directory and the forced subtitles are still there!!

Is this normal or i'm doing something wrong?
need some help, thx :thanks:

[rcrh]

I'm having some problems encoding a bunch of OTA HDTV broadcasts. The originals are 720p 59.940fps and I'm trying to encode them to 720p 23.976. But, when I do this a get a lot of duplicate frames and the resulting playback is very stuttery. However, I've played around with another encoder and have been able to get good results (almost no duplicate frames) by encoding to a variable frame count of 29.97 fps.

So, I'd like to know if ripbot264 can do this. Variable Frame rate & frame rate of 29.97fps.

Thanks in advance.

[cburbs]

Does ripbot support HDAudio - I tried a test file and selected the core file and all but it still was only the DTS file and not the DTS_HD file?

[soneca]

The RipBot264 does not support HD audio tracks.

[cburbs]

Ok then I am confused as these posts say it does -
http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides/blu-ray-rip/254-dts-hd-how-to-rip-it

Will it eventually?

[soneca]

Ok then I am confused as these posts say it does -
http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides/blu...-how-to-rip-it

The site says:"Ripbot264 supports getting the Core stream. Just select Core when you import the Blu-ray and then copy stream in order to get the original Core audio. You can also demux the whole stream to Wave and then use Aften to convert to AC3."

Will it eventually?

I think the Atak is not intended to support hd audio tracks.

[iSeries]

You can of course manually demux the HD audio track, rename it to the same as in the RipBot temp directory and replace it, thereby 'tricking' RipBot. Obviously this won't work well if you have targetted a specific output size.

[rc71]

Need a little help.
When i manually crop something, I get this blurry bar at the bottom. It seems to be connected to specific crop sizes, but I have some video that needs proper cropping. Anyone have a solution?

[Blackwalker]

i have a problem.

If i remember, in some previous version, sorry but i dont remember if was the v1.16.1 or no,
when i select the ".m2ts" file of the main movie with "forced subtitles"
(i mean the "forced sub" inside the video track")
i see it extracted in the temp directory.

Now i try with a m2ts movie and then i check the "mkv" video file in
the temp directory and the forced subtitles are still there!!

Is this normal or i'm doing something wrong?
need some help, thx :thanks:

someone?

[BiomedAlchemist]

While trying to convert a DVD; I'm hitting the generic "Couldn't open input file in HIDE mode!" error from dgindex. Like earlier posters have noted this is occurring because the command line argument for the input file is missing. However; while some other posts talk about DVDs where PgcDemux is generating multiple vobs during the combine stage - in this case only one very small vob is created. Based on a manual run of PgcDemux is appears that this occurs because Ripbot264 is not passing the "-pgc" argument so it defaults to 1. In the case of this movie there are four PGCs. The first three are trivial lengths while 4 represents the actual movie.

Is Ripbot264 expected to detect the correct PGC (perhaps by looking for the longest one) in this scenario or is the omission of "-pgc" deliberate and something else is going wrong? (In this particular case I worked around the issue manually by using PgcDemux directly to create a new single vob and then processing that with RipBot264).

BTW I'm using version 1.17.0.

Thanks,
Jeff

Whew, my 5-day wait is finally over!

I think I'm having the same problem that Jeff reported (and since that step fails, a d2v file isn't generated so the add job function fails). Is this something RipBot264 will eventually address? It seems to occur on the VOBs where 1.16.X would have simply produced an MP4/MKV with the audio out of sync.

I've been using RipBot since 2009, and this is really the first problem I've had with the software itself. Usually, I find the issues are between the keyboard and chair, and I'm not completely ruling that out in this case. ;)

Is there anything I can try beyond Jeff's "create a new single VOB file" to regain that functionality? I would like to see the new function where RipBot attempts to correct audio synchronization issues by pre-processing, but it seems like the DVDs where I encountered this issue in past versions will not load at all in the 1.17.X releases. I've noticed no problems at all on Blu Ray conversion, though.

Love the software, but I seem to have hit a brick wall on DVD conversion!

-BMA

Edit: Just to clarify, this started at initial release of version 1.17, but I'm using the 02-12-2012 patch.

[Ryushin]

I seem to have found a problem with burned in subtitles and the new distributed encoding. I encoded all six episodes of Dragon Tattoo Extended edition with Burned in English subtitles. It seems, that sometimes during the movie, the burned in subtitles are either missing or corrupted. This only seems to happen 2-3 times during the movie but it did not happen at the same spots. But I did not have a single episode that this did not occur. Encoding with 1.16.5 allowed the movies to encode with burned in subtitles correctly.

[rc71]

@BiomedAlchemist You are probably running out of HD space. Working with VOBs sometimes they get reconstruced with every version of the disc. ie If the disc has like director com and ext version, but they are just add ons the dvd, ripbot recreates every version. so instead of a 7gb dvd, you can end up with 21gb and you may run out of space.

Anyway I solved mine by changing the temp directory.

[iSeries]

@BiomedAlchemist You are probably running out of HD space. Working with VOBs sometimes they get reconstruced with every version of the disc. ie If the disc has like director com and ext version, but they are just add ons the dvd, ripbot recreates every version. so instead of a 7gb dvd, you can end up with 21gb and you may run out of space.

Anyway I solved mine by changing the temp directory.

I've been getting "Couldn't open input file in HIDE mode!" with some DVDs too. It's not a space issue (for me anyway). Remuxing (not re-encoding) with DVD Shrink sorts it, dont know why but it works.

[BiomedAlchemist]

@BiomedAlchemist You are probably running out of HD space. Working with VOBs sometimes they get reconstruced with every version of the disc. ie If the disc has like director com and ext version, but they are just add ons the dvd, ripbot recreates every version. so instead of a 7gb dvd, you can end up with 21gb and you may run out of space.

Anyway I solved mine by changing the temp directory.

Thanks for responding, rc71! Unfortunately, I don't think that's the case for me. Drive C has 124 GB of free space and Drive D (where the temp directory is located) has 238 GB of free space.

-BMA

Edit: @ iSeries: I'll try your method this afternoon and see if I have better luck. Thanks for your input!

[Trayman]

@BiomedAlchemist, Try running the dvd through VidChanger made by the same author at PgcDemux. Your dvd probobly has more than one cell id for the main movie. I haven't had the time to find a better work around than that yet.

Cheers Trayman

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Ryushin
is there any particular reason why you burn in subtitles instead of muxing ?

[BiomedAlchemist]

I've been getting "Couldn't open input file in HIDE mode!" with some DVDs too. It's not a space issue (for me anyway). Remuxing (not re-encoding) with DVD Shrink sorts it, dont know why but it works.

@iSeries: Your recommendation is working quite well so far. Using DVD Shrink, I open the disc, analyze, then use the Re-Author section.

I will attempt Trayman's method next to see if that works as well. At the very least, it will help me understand the problem and also document a solution for future readers. :)

Thanks for your help!

[AmDD]

So it seems my audio is off on some of my .mkvs. Forgive me if this is a simple fix or something "everyone knows". Ive only been encoding to .mkv for about 2 weeks and know very little about the whole process.

Some of my files are fine while others are a little off for the whole movie. Others still get more and more behind as the movie progresses. Using AutoGK to encode to avi I never had this problem. What can I do to correct this? And to prevent it in the future? Is it a ripbot issue or a an issue with the way I used it?

[Ryushin]

@Ryushin
is there any particular reason why you burn in subtitles instead of muxing ?

I don't understand Swedish and I would always need the subtitles (same goes for all the Japanese and Chinese movies that I have). I also have media players that don't support the muxed sub/srt subtitles in the mkv/mp4 file. I always add the subtitles for every English movie to be muxed into the MKV file as well.

At least for me, if it's not in English, I always burn them in.

[glen8]

Hi all,

I've been using ripbot for over a year and think it's fantastic (still running 1.16.2 as it works great for me).

Well, everything was fine until I recently purchased Breaking Dawn Part 1 and J Edgar BluRays. Both of these have major picture break-ups. Some scenes are fine, but then others go all weird.
Just wondering if this is some kind of new copy protection? or if I finally need to update (which I dont really want to do).

Thanks

[Atak_Snajpera]

Hi all,

I've been using ripbot for over a year and think it's fantastic (still running 1.16.2 as it works great for me).

Well, everything was fine until I recently purchased Breaking Dawn Part 1 and J Edgar BluRays. Both of these have major picture break-ups. Some scenes are fine, but then others go all weird.
Just wondering if this is some kind of new copy protection? or if I finally need to update (which I dont really want to do).

Thanks

You do realize that 1.16.2 was released on 2010-07-25 (1.5 year ago)?
x264 version in that package is r1683 but now we have r2164. Other tools are also very outdated!

I really don't understand your fear from upgrading to latest version 1.17.0 + patch from 2012-02-12 ? I guarantee that your pc won't explode because of new better version.

I suspect that your BD decrypter is also veryyyyy outdated.

@Ryushin
if you want to use denoising in DE mode with VC-1 sources

select ANIME preset and then change
video=FFT3DGPU(video,sigma=5).hqdn3d.gradfun2db
with
video=hqdn3d(video,2).gradfun2db

You can adjust strength according to your needs. 1.5 means weaker denoising and 2.5 means stronger denoising.

[glen8]

You do realize that 1.16.2 was released on 2010-07-25 (1.5 year ago)?
x264 version in that package is r1683 but now we have r2164. Other tools are also very outdated!

I really don't understand your fear from upgrading to latest version 1.17.0 + patch from 2012-02-12 ? I guarantee that your pc won't explode because of new better version.

I suspect that your BD decrypter is also veryyyyy outdated.

I think it's because it's worked so well up until now, I saw no reason to upgrade.

My decrypter is the latest and the original m2ts works fine. It's only after ripbot has encoded the movie I get issues.

Do you know why? J Edgar must be different from the others

[Atak_Snajpera]

Do you know why? J Edgar must be different from the others
We are still not on the same page...

[glen8]

We are still not on the same page...

ok, so you are saying it's because the software applications I'm using are too old. My question is still valid then.

J Edgar must be different to warranty using new versions?

I suppose after 1.5 years these versions have served me well, but are a bit long in the tooth. I'll get all the latest versions.

FFDShow till need to be 32bit version or are we working with 64bit now? any preference of flavor on an i7 2700k machine?

Thanks!

[soneca]

ffdshow must be the 32bit version.

[glen8]

Grrrrrr!!!

Well don't want to say I told you so but....

Decided yesterday to do a fresh install of my OS (needed doing for a while anyway) so I could install all the latest versions of ripbot, .net, java, ffdshow, matroska splitter, avisynth etc etc etc

No difference :mad:

J Edgar still has issues :scared: To make matters worse (after a year and a half of happy 16.2 usage) I've encoded over 1,000 blurays and only had one very small niggle with the first 5 seconds of Erin Brockervich. You'd think at least that would have been resolved. Nope :D Not that I'm really fussed, I can live with that.

I'm kicking myself though as I never saved my old installation files so I have lost 16.2 and the other oldies. Hopefully I have a DVD-R somewhere with them on.

Has anyone got J Edgar to work yet?

Thanks!!

[shanndogg]

When you have a 7.1 audio file (DTS-MA or Dolby TrueHD) an extra "5.1" check box comes up in the audio section under the "Select streams" section. If I do not check that box, does the full 7.1 HD audio get converted to wave and then aften AC3 640kbps and does this result in 5.1 or 7.1 audio? I assume if I do check the 5.1 box, it will down mix the 7.1 to 5.1 and then go to wave, then AC3?

For some reason I remember doing a 7.1 audio file in the past with the 5.1 box unchecked and it resulted in 5.1 anyway. Does not checking the box simply mix those two extra channels into the final 5.1 AC3 640kbps, and if the box is checked it just leaves out the extra 2 channels and goes from 5.1 to wave to 5.1 AC3 640kbps?

What is the recommended method here?

[bbyers70]

Is there anyway to have "Inverse Telecine" and "Restore to 23.976" used during Batch Mode?

[mmmmdonut]

I seem to have found a problem with burned in subtitles and the new distributed encoding. I encoded all six episodes of Dragon Tattoo Extended edition with Burned in English subtitles. It seems, that sometimes during the movie, the burned in subtitles are either missing or corrupted. This only seems to happen 2-3 times during the movie but it did not happen at the same spots. But I did not have a single episode that this did not occur. Encoding with 1.16.5 allowed the movies to encode with burned in subtitles correctly.

The problem is eac3to. If you check time stamps on the sup files they will all start with a -. Use tsmuxer to extract the sup file. You will then have to apply a delay. All three of these movies have same issue and delay will be right under 10ms.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=145277&page=41

[Blackwalker]

thx all for the answer.....bha!

[Ajax_Undone]

http://www.mediafire.com/?87p1812d5e35a3g New installer :-)

[Ryushin]

The problem is eac3to. If you check time stamps on the sup files they will all start with a -. Use tsmuxer to extract the sup file. You will then have to apply a delay. All three of these movies have same issue and delay will be right under 10ms.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=145277&page=41

Interesting. I never new that the original release had problems. I don't "think" that the Extended Edition released on December 6th, 2012 has the same issues with the subtitles. If it did, the subtitles would not work correctly using 1.16.5. I'm "leaning" towards the subtitle issue takes place on the exact frame/i-frame split for the 1 minutes chucks. Only a guess and I don't have any evidence to support this.

[shanndogg]

After some testing I see that if "Flac" is selected you can copy the stream for all 8 channels of a 7.1 source. If you check the 5.1 downmix box, it will obviously let you copy the stream of the now 5.1 audio.

But, if you select "Wave" you cannot copy stream, and best case you will convert to Aften 5.1 AC3 640. So, I am still trying to confirm if you have a 7.1 audio source and have "wave" selected to end up with Aften 5.1 AC3 what does not checking the 5.1 downmix box do with the extra two channels? Should the downmix box be checked in this case? Does it even matter if you check it or not under this circumstance?

[Ookamichi]

Hey can anyone please make an Optimized preset for the PS Vita Device just AS there is one for the psp?

[squezer]

Hi, Atak!

What is the workaround for corrupted frames by denoising process?

I tried m2ts, ts files with denoise = corrupted frames.
I changed fft3dgpu filter to original fft3dfilter = corrupted frames the same way. It looks like small white or black patches or black/white short lines in a picture.
So, it is not the fft3d filter itselfs, but...?

My Sony camera output is a somehow grainy, so it is a problem for me. Without denosing is ripbot264 unusable. :-(

[Atak_Snajpera]

new version will use HQDN3d with 3 presets (GENTLE,MEDIUM,STRONG) instead of fft3dgpu. My tests show that this denoiser does not create corrupted frames at all (even in DE mode with VC-1 sources!) It runs on CPU only but it is still very fast. also see this post http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1559570#post1559570

@Ookamichi
some unofficial websites say that PS VITA supports even AVC HIGH PROFILE so try with default level 4.0 profile. However you will still have to figure out whether resolution above 960x544 is supported by device or not.

[Chudz]

I have a problem I am trying to encode a bluray and when I press start it automatically finishes straight away.

The only codec I have installed is latest version of FFDSHOW and Haali Media Splitter and version 2.5.8 of AviSynth.

Here is my error log:

C:\>"C:\Users\Chudz\Desktop\RipBot264\tools\bepipe\bepipe.exe" --script "import(^C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs^)" | "C:\Users\Chudz\Desktop\RipBot264\Tools\fhgaacenc\fhgaacenc.exe" --profile lc --cbr 320 --adts --ignorelength - "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\audio.aac"

***************************************

BePipe by dimzon

***************************************

Script used:

# BEGIN

import("C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs")

# END





Scanning for Audio Stream...

ERROR: Can't find audio stream!


C:\>"C:\Users\Chudz\Desktop\RipBot264\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs" -o - | "C:\Users\Chudz\Desktop\RipBot264\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --crf 22 --stats "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.stats" --fps 24000/1001 --force-cfr --min-keyint 24 --keyint 240 --frames 150409 --sar 1:1 --level 4.0 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --b-pyramid none --stdin y4m --output "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" -

error: LoadPlugin: unable to load "C:\Users\Chudz\Desktop\RipBot264\Tools\AviSynth plugins\fft3dgpu\fft3dgpu.dll"

(C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs, line 29)

x264 [error]: could not open input file `-'


C:\>"C:\Users\Chudz\Desktop\RipBot264\tools\mp4box\mp4box.exe" -tmp "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp" -add "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264":name="Tower Heist" -fps 23.976 -add "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\audio.aac":lang=eng -mpeg4 -itags cover="C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\poster.jpg" -new "F:\Movies\Tower Heist.mp4"

Cannot find H264 start code

Error importing C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264:name=Tower Heist: BitStream Not Compliant
-------------------------

Elapsed Time: 00h:00m:09s

[Atak_Snajpera]

disable denoisng or install latest Directx 9.0c and graphic drivers!

[Chudz]

Thanks, and sorry I bet you get that one alot xD great app been using it awhile! Got new PC so forgot to install DirectX 9.0c

[Ryushin]

new version will use HQDN3d with 3 presets (GENTLE,MEDIUM,STRONG) instead of fft3dgpu. My tests show that this denoiser does not create corrupted frames at all (even in DE mode with VC-1 sources!) It runs on CPU only but it is still very fast. also see this post http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1559570#post1559570


Will we also be able to modify the script section to fine tune our denoising. I regularly change the sigma factor manually anywhere from light denoising .5 to fairly heavy 3.5 for films. From what I read hqdn3d will offer even better denoising which I hope prevents some banding that I've been seeing. The four values I see that you can put in should keep me tinkering for quite a while. Time to read up and fully understand what each value can do.

Edit: Boy, I totally missed your reply on that link you sent. I'll start experimenting with it now.

[Atak_Snajpera]

banding is caused by 8bit x264 encoder. 10bit version from x264.nl eliminates that issue. however 10 bit video is not supported by most of devices. you will have to always use your pc.

regarding hqdn3d for me only first value is important (spatial luma) rest i have always zerorized

[Ryushin]

banding is caused by 8bit x264 encoder. 10bit version from x264.nl eliminates that issue. however 10 bit video is not supported by most of devices. you will have to always use your pc.

regarding hqdn3d for me only first value is important (spatial luma) rest i have always zerorized

Yea, I've read quite a lot about using 10bit instead of 8bit. It's a shame that this was not put into the blu-ray spec as I don't know if it ever will be set up to decode in hardware. Everything that I've read shows that 10bit is superior in every way compared to 8bit, except for the amount of processing power to decode it. It's a shame really. So I'm forced to stick with 8bit, but I'm always looking for some kind of magic bullet to prevent some of the banding.

[MaistroX]

Hi!


Have a few questions I´d like to see if I can be helped with! :)


1a. Is there a possibility to ge a 3D BD to a working 3D.mkv that would work an a 3D-TV like Samsung?

1b. If, so HOW do one go about to do so?

2. Could the tools be implemented in RipBot to make a final *.mkv and/or *.mp4? ;)

Thx, for the best tool out there!!!!!


....

A side Q!
Is there a tool to edit 3DBD.iso´s to extract and add thing, and it´s still usefull, as change soundlanguages and textlanguages?

[Shrekage]

I started playing around with the distributed encoding and have some questions.

1. Distributed encoding window size is too tall for vertical screen size of 600 (800x600 on my remote desktop app for my tablet, and 1024x600 for my netbook) would be handy to have it all fit on the screen at that lower resolution. The blue bar with the statistics is cut off...
2. Why is there a 4 machine limit to distributed encoding? I have many more at my disposal... maybe the window could be redesigned with a grid style control with an add client button or similar function to enable more encoding servers...

[kempodragon]

I'm trying to convert my camcorder files for uploading to Vimeo and am having trouble maintaining audio. The video is 60 fps progressive and Vimeo only accepts up to 30 fps. I had no problems converting my 1080 interlaced video, but when I tried to convert to 30 fps, the audio was stretched and the time showed double the original length. Using search terms 59.94 fps to 29.97 fps didn't come up with any threads, but I'm positive I've seen a discussion on this problem. Can someone point me in the right direction? Also, it would be a BIG help if Ripbot could read the playlists. Currently I have to create one big file before I can have Ripbot encode it. Using an avs file caused Ripbot to run out of memory on the second pass and I'm not sure what to set for max memory.

[Atak_Snajpera]

in script after .converttoyv12 add .selectevery(2).asumefps(29.97)

[Slitheen]

Ripbot, even the latest version, still doesn't like the Classic Star Trek episodes Bluray. Season 1 set worked ok but seasons 2 & 3 get demuxing error when it reaches 100%. I have to use Handbrake for these blu-ray.

[kalleiskogen]

Ok, I'm having huge issues. Easy H264 works fine for me. But when i try to use ripbot, this appears: "DirectShowSource: RenderFile, the filter graph manager won't talk to me
(C:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\ge*tinfo.avs, line 2)"

I've tried this fix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-552T0KLDc

And it works sometimes, but the sound doesn't come with the file.
I've re-installed ripbot/avisynth and ffdshow and all that.
I'm importing/expoerting from different partitions and harddrive's but no improvement!

Can anyone help me with this problem?

Best regards, kalleiskogen.

(P.S, on a side note, when i try to export with .mkv, it start the process, when the above fix works, but no file appears afterwards. Fix for this?)

[frencher]

Hi kalleiskogen,

Remuxe your video in mkv with mkvmergegui (mmg.exe) and open your video with your Ripbot264 v1.16.5 ;)

[kempodragon]

Thanks for the tip. I'll run it through tonight.

[glen8]

Ripbot, even the latest version, still doesn't like the Classic Star Trek episodes Bluray. Season 1 set worked ok but seasons 2 & 3 get demuxing error when it reaches 100%. I have to use Handbrake for these blu-ray.

I'm just about to start work on these (tomorrow in fact). Running 16.2 so I'll let you know how I get on.

Fringe was a tricky one, I made my own scripts in the end for those (IIRC, season 3 was ok but it was 1 and 2 which had issues). You'd think they'd all be the same.

The ONLY bluray which has so far defeated me is J Edgar

[glen8]

Hi!


Have a few questions I´d like to see if I can be helped with! :)


1a. Is there a possibility to ge a 3D BD to a working 3D.mkv that would work an a 3D-TV like Samsung?

1b. If, so HOW do one go about to do so?

2. Could the tools be implemented in RipBot to make a final *.mkv and/or *.mp4? ;)

Thx, for the best tool out there!!!!!


....

A side Q!
Is there a tool to edit 3DBD.iso´s to extract and add thing, and it´s still usefull, as change soundlanguages and textlanguages?

Yes is the simple answer, however to go a good job takes around 8 hours. I've created my own program which sits alongside ripbot when I encode 3D. Just a simple one click scripting process, nothing amazing.

RipBot would go through the normal process of demuxing, read in the number of frames and build an uncompressed video file from the deltas. Then you would have to build a totally new movie using the original 2D video from the demux and the newly created one from the deltas. The result would be both movies sitting side by side each other. Once all that is finished you would encode in the normal way. Personally I encode with a res of 1920x1080 and 8GB file size. Looks really good to me and I'm happy with it. Took me longer to get the script working on forced subtitles than anything else. To be honest, a few times I very nearly gave up. Got there in the end though.

When you consider a 2 pass encode of a 2D movie takes 1hr 45mins approx, 8 hours for a 3D is a big difference. Worth it though :D

[Ryushin]

Ripbot, even the latest version, still doesn't like the Classic Star Trek episodes Bluray. Season 1 set worked ok but seasons 2 & 3 get demuxing error when it reaches 100%. I have to use Handbrake for these blu-ray.

Yea, I had the same problem with my original series star trek as well. I have not tried it again with the latest version though.

[Ryushin]

Yes is the simple answer, however to go a good job takes around 8 hours. I've created my own program which sits alongside ripbot when I encode 3D. Just a simple one click scripting process, nothing amazing.

RipBot would go through the normal process of demuxing, read in the number of frames and build an uncompressed video file from the deltas. Then you would have to build a totally new movie using the original 2D video from the demux and the newly created one from the deltas. The result would be both movies sitting side by side each other. Once all that is finished you would encode in the normal way. Personally I encode with a res of 1920x1080 and 8GB file size. Looks really good to me and I'm happy with it. Took me longer to get the script working on forced subtitles than anything else. To be honest, a few times I very nearly gave up. Got there in the end though.

When you consider a 2 pass encode of a 2D movie takes 1hr 45mins approx, 8 hours for a 3D is a big difference. Worth it though :D

Is there any way we can get this script and a little bit of the instructions on how to use it. I have not been happy with any of the software that makes side by side encodings yet. RipBot264 is the only software that I have that can handle subtitles correctly. I still want to convert my Avatar 3D disk and I can't if I want it to have the forced subtitles.

[Browser404]

I've been using RipBot264 v1.16.5 for some time and just updated to v1.17.0, in the hope it might have better AAC encoding since its always resulted in muted and dull audio making it a poor choice for lower bitrate 5.1 audio since the lowest AC3 5.1 is 384k, though unfortunately it sounds equally dull comparing the two versions results.

That aside I did notice a difference in the encoder settings dialogue box, unless I'm missing something almost all of the settings available there have been removed and if one wants to do any tweaking now they're given a large text document to edit.

While probably no one tweaked every one of those settings to their preference, the way it is now is anything but simple, which is something that's been touted from the start.

Fewer features doesn't mean simpler, infact as in this case fewer features can mean ridiculously and unnecessarily complicated. Even trying to change something as simple as R-frames etc is now as complicated as it could possible be. It is anything but simple now.

While avoiding RipBot for low bitrate 5.1 audio is one thing and rarely needed, if the encoder settings are are the way things are going then all I can say it's been nice and appreciated, though I'll personally be going back alternatives and looking for something new that does actually keep it simple and user friendly to change settings.

[glen8]

Guys, Star Trek Season 2 working fine here. No problems at all :confused:

Demuxed fine without any errors

[Atak_Snajpera]

i'm shocked that simple --ref x added to text field is to complicated for you! another thing .you are trying to compress ac3 384kbps which is very low for ac3 (quality is already destroyed) ac3 needs 640kps to be transparent. fhg aac will give you the best quality from uncompressed source or from lossless compression (DTS-MA/TRUE-HD/FLAC)

converting strongly compressed jpeg image to another newer format like jpeg-xr also won't improve quality

[MaistroX]

Hi!

Thx for your answer!

Would it be possible to share your "my own program which sits alongside ripbot" so one can try ? :)

As I allways encode in 10000kb/s set to a 2pass, I´m used to having to wait between 6-20h´s depending on the movie i "rip", but the result is amazing!!!

So u mean that in the end it will end up playable on a ex. Samsung 3DTV so it works like the original, but encoded?

Regards MaistroX



Would Yes is the simple answer, however to go a good job takes around 8 hours. I've created my own program which sits alongside ripbot when I encode 3D. Just a simple one click scripting process, nothing amazing.

RipBot would go through the normal process of demuxing, read in the number of frames and build an uncompressed video file from the deltas. Then you would have to build a totally new movie using the original 2D video from the demux and the newly created one from the deltas. The result would be both movies sitting side by side each other. Once all that is finished you would encode in the normal way. Personally I encode with a res of 1920x1080 and 8GB file size. Looks really good to me and I'm happy with it. Took me longer to get the script working on forced subtitles than anything else. To be honest, a few times I very nearly gave up. Got there in the end though.

When you consider a 2 pass encode of a 2D movie takes 1hr 45mins approx, 8 hours for a 3D is a big difference. Worth it though :D

[jamesj84]

Slitheen and others with problems with star trek.
WHen ever ripbot gives me an error with any file simply use MakeMKV which will give you the DVD/BD as a like for like in a MKV container. Usually takes a minute MAX.
Then load the MKV file into ripbot to compress with your usual settings.

And to Atak_Snajpera - Any options in further release for more then one audio streams in MKV. 2 would be very very NICE!!

[chunkylover67]

I have an issue with Ripbot264 where it doesn't shutdown when encoding jobs are finished. I checked the box that enables the option but my computer remains on. Is there something I'm missing here?

[glen8]

Hi!

Thx for your answer!

Would it be possible to share your "my own program which sits alongside ripbot" so one can try ? :)

As I allways encode in 10000kb/s set to a 2pass, I´m used to having to wait between 6-20h´s depending on the movie i "rip", but the result is amazing!!!

So u mean that in the end it will end up playable on a ex. Samsung 3DTV so it works like the original, but encoded?

Regards MaistroX



Would

Yes, although my program is hard coded with certain paths set to where my files are. I'll write it all up at the weekend, but yes you can view in your samsung TV.

[MaistroX]

Yeeeh, sounds great, I´ll be waiting to try it out! :)

Yes, although my program is hard coded with certain paths set to where my files are. I'll write it all up at the weekend, but yes you can view in your samsung TV.

[glen8]

Guys,

I have looked at the differences between season 1 and 2/3 of Star Trek. The reason you can't get ripbot to demux is due to the subtitles.

You will have to manually demux leaving out the subs. Certain movies are the same (might be because the subs contain images....who cares anyway, leave them out and it will be ok)

[kempodragon]

It took me awhile to finally get it right. For some reason, AssumeFPS doesn't like slowing down the framerate. Manually adding AssumeFPS, not using the check box option, solved the audio stretch problem, since using it adds a TemporalAudio call. However, preview still showed the time doubled, no matter what. Using the SelectEven() function solved the problem, and movement seems to be fluid enough. I'd love to send the original footage so you can test it yourself and work on adding reading playlists, but the folder is 12 Gigs in size, and my upload speed maxes out at 70 KB's/s :(

[Atak_Snajpera]

You don't have to send anything because you did exactly what I told you. SelectEvery(2) or SelectEven functions reduce number of frames by half. Now in order to have the same duration with original you must also reduce video speed by half AssumeFPS(29.97).

[glen8]

any plans for a linux port?

[Atak_Snajpera]

0% Chances.

[b@nned]

does anyone know or where I can find the max settings I can apply in ripbot for an iphone 4?

[Xdar]

I search the best ripbot encoder settings for YouTube.

BUT!

I have uncompressed (avidemo) game footage recorded @ 500fps 1280x720 resolution. My goal is to reach the best quality in 360p mode of YouTube (YouTube reconverts all my uploaded videos with about 600-800 kbit/s @ 360p).

I ran alot of tests and this is the best I could achive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0XUohouGA

The problem is, I took me over 30 minutes to render this 40 seconds clip (mostly because I max'd all the settings out).
And I really couldn't find any explanation for the settings on google. For e.g. does using the deblocking function make any sense? What about the buffer size? YouTube recommends a bitrate of 30-50 Mbit/s for the best result (source: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/static.py?hl=de&topic=1728573&guide=1728585&page=guide.cs).

Basically the filesize doesn't matter for me. I just want the "perfect" quality settings, so that there are no blocks in 360p.

I'd really appreciate if someone could provide me with some tips or even a ripbot profile. Thanks.

Some examples of the outstanding Quality I want to achive (be sure to watch in 360p).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhpWQrZQMxg (no blocks, great quality, even if its a very dark video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rn57KE3JEI (not alot of motion, but the footage is recorded with a pvr which is limited to a bitrate of 13.5 Mbit/s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDa90Np2xtM (he told me that hes using xvid. I tried that with the highest settings, didn't get that quality.)

I asked them about their settings, but they did not answer or told me their settings are secret.

[Atak_Snajpera]

you do realize that youtube is manly responsible for low quality? even if you used 100mbps with placebo preset result will be the same as you would use 25mbps with medium preset. youtube will always re-encode your video using it's own settings and bitrate.

[Xdar]

you do realize that youtube is manly responsible for low quality? even if you used 100mbps with placebo preset result will be the same as you would use 25mbps with medium preset. youtube will always re-encode your video using it's own settings and bitrate.

Yeah I know that YouTube's encoder is bad and obviously I can't change this fact. It's just weird when other people get great 360p quality while I stuck with my blocky 360p videos, so I thought maybe I do something wrong.

w/e, thanks for the answer.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Yeah I know that YouTube's encoder is bad and obviously I can't change this fact. It's just weird when other people get great 360p quality while I stuck with my blocky 360p videos, so I thought maybe I do something wrong.

w/e, thanks for the answer.

maybe your video contains to many details and it is to dynamic for youtube's limited bitrate?

[Slitheen]

Slitheen and others with problems with star trek.
WHen ever ripbot gives me an error with any file simply use MakeMKV which will give you the DVD/BD as a like for like in a MKV container. Usually takes a minute MAX.
Then load the MKV file into ripbot to compress with your usual settings.



Thanks, that's what I did in the end. Ended up being a faster way to rip & load up the episodes anyway! only 4 episodes to go and I will have all 79 done and dusted.

Also, a quick question about the new version of ripbot. I see that there are drop down presets for speed of x264. I usually use default but will I notice much quality drop if I use 'fast' setting instead. I wouldn't go any more than that.

[glen8]

Star Trek will work fine through ripbot if you select .FLAC rather than .WAVE

[Slitheen]

Thanks for letting me know about that glen8. If I ever do them again I'll remember that.

[Xdar]

maybe your video contains to many details and it is to dynamic for youtube's limited bitrate?

Yeah I had that Idea with the details too. Do you know an FX that blurs out the details or atleast smooths em out?

[Atak_Snajpera]

you may try denoising filter.

[Vilmalith]

In ripbot is there a way to do a batch encode that just copies the video but changes the audio from multi channel AAC to AC3?

[Atak_Snajpera]

no...

[jamesj84]

Will ripbot ever let you add more then one audio track............

[Atak_Snajpera]

too much work,too little time, too little motivation (i don't need that)

[g0th1ckn1ght]

Atak
First of all thank you for this wonderful app.

Now i am a complete noob (i don't understand half the things you guys say in this forum), but i am backing up all my Blu-Rays and trying to do it with Ripbot.

I have the latest version and when i click on add, point it to my BR folder, which was created when i ripped the BR to my HDD, it starts demuxing. When it gets to 92% i get a demuxing error which says the following:

eac3to v3.24
command line: "C:\Users\Gothicknight\Desktop\Ripbot\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "E:\BDRips\!BR\MainMovie\BATMAN FOREVER\" 1) 2: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv" -seekToIFrames 3: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.ac3" 6: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\6_subtitles_English_1080.sup" 1: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt" -progressnumbers -log="C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\demuxlog.txt"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 3 audio tracks, 2 subtitle tracks, 2:01:35, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 39 chapters
2: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: AC3, English, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
4: TrueHD/AC3, English, 5.1 channels, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
(embedded: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB)
5: AC3 Surround, English, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48kHz, dialnorm: -27dB
6: Subtitle (PGS), English
7: Subtitle (PGS), English
Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt"...
[s06] Extracting subtitle track number 6...
[a03] Extracting audio track number 3...
[a03] Removing AC3 dialog normalization...
[v02] Extracting video track number 2...
[v02] Muxing video to Matroska...
[a03] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.ac3"...
[s06] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\6_subtitles_English_1080.sup"...
[a03] Writing the destination file failed. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 22939697152. <ERROR>

I had a look at the test doc that gets generated and it says the following:

DirectShowSource: couldn't open file C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv:
The system cannot find the file specified.
(C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\getinfo.avs, line 2)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again

[Wishbringer]

Atak
[a03] Extracting audio track number 3...
[a03] Removing AC3 dialog normalization...
[a03] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.ac3"...
[a03] Writing the destination file failed. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 22939697152. <ERROR>

So it seems there are some problems while demuxing source...
it couldn't ac3 write while demuxing, so it's aborting demux and so you don't even have video.mkv

It didn't say problem while reading, it said writing failed!
So maybe your c: drive has some problems? Full? Maybe SSD?
Didn't seem to be an ac3 normalization error, look at file position, it did some normalization and encoding till that position.
If full, just edit ini to change temp folder to D: or E: (where your Rips are)

[g0th1ckn1ght]

Thank you so very much for both the help and speaking in a language I understand lol.

I will give that a try now.

Thanks again

[g0th1ckn1ght]

Could someone please explain to me, in plain english (not very knowledgeable with this kind of thing lol) what the difference is between the HD. Progressive and HD. Film profiles please.

I am converting my BR's to .mkv using Level 4.0 (still not sure if i shoudl be using that one or 4.1)

Thanks for the help and sorry for my noobness

[JimmyK814]

I've been trying for the better part of a month to get the distributed encoding working while on a domain (not using a homegroup setup.)

I have the latest versions of everything posted on this forum, but my encodingserver.exe is older and I could not find an update since the initial install.

When I try to start an encode, I get the Starting.. Idle... Starting.. Idle endless loop.

Behind the scenes EncodingServer.exe is still inserting the domain name rather than the computer name at the beginning of the path.

2:55:56.4125453 PM EncodingServer.exe 5336 CreateFile \\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\2.cmd NO SUCH FILE Desired Access: Read Attributes, Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a

I was hoping that someone may have figured this out by now, or perhaps I am doing something to cause it.

Are there still issues with the chunks being joined together causing corruption?

Thanks for any help! :thanks:

[Atak_Snajpera]

what is your windows version? XP , VISTA , 7 ...


Are there still issues with the chunks being joined together causing corruption?
it has been fixed with latest update.

[jett2]

it has been fixed with latest update.

Sorry to tell: but not in my case either! The jobfile is done right (\\DOMAIN\RipBot264temp is written as \\Machinename\RipBot264temp)
Using Win7(64) on 4 Machines. Folder RipBot264Temp shared for everyone with "change"-rights (I even tried to share it on all machines)
All working fine in "single" mode, but in distributed mode they are switching between "idle" and "enconding". Even the "master" ist doing so!

But at any rate: a BIG BIG thank you for the program. It is doing a good job for a long time now.

* Wishlist: option to encode multiple audio tracks....

[Atak_Snajpera]

How does your network look like then? Mine works as simple WORKGROUP. So I can open shared folder via \\Computer_Name\RipBot264 path in explorer.

[Balthazar2k4]

* Wishlist: option to encode multiple audio tracks....

Without a doubt the final feature I would like to see as well. Reason being, when creating files for my AppleTV it is necessary to have both an AC3 and AAC track to maintain compatibility with other iOS devices. I presently encode with RipBot to a MKV file and then use MKVtoMP4 to create the dual audio tracks into an M4V container. While not a huge inconvenience, it would be nice to use RipBot for everything.

Atak keep up the great work. I will admit I stopped using the distributed encoding feature when I kept running into errors during the combine process, but with the (hopefully) new AppleTV being announced today with 1080p capability I may need the distributed capability to speed up the process. I guess I will give it another look.

[soneca]

Atak,

In this blu-ray, Ripbot not give me the option in AC3 5.0 regardless of the setting to create an AVCHD disc.

Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 26997 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: German / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 4248 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p305/soneca1/Forum/ripbot2-2.jpg

The libaften.dll used by eac3to encode only if the channel configuration is 2.0 or 5.1.
Is there another way to do RipBot, make that conversion (5.0) using the aften.exe?

[Atak_Snajpera]

send me sample.

[Shrekage]

I have been encoding on a domain with distributed encoding just fine... I found the following tips may help you...

1. the encoding machine must share the temp folder and have "everyone" with read/write access
2. test that you can access the encoding controller's share with each machine before client PC's connect. (also verify write access)
3. make sure encoding server is getting through the firewall using the right configuration (Domain, not home or public, etc...) this will be dependant on which OS as Win7 has more configurable firewall than does XP...

I only wish I could use more than 4 encoding clients...

[soneca]

Ok, sent.

[kempodragon]

Wishlist: Open .mpl files and avchd folders like multiAVCHD so I can encode my camcorder files without having to merge them all. This would make it perfect. :D

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Shrekage
what pcs do you have? more pcs may require 1gbps lan.

[MaistroX]

Wishlist:

1. The same options as now, exept also have The ability to keep DTS-HD/TrueHD and also keep more then one Audio track.

2. Be able to encode 3D BD's with SBS output to one *.mkv file + be able to choose how many subtitles to keep and not set to burnedin/forced for SBS.

Thoose to would rock many ppl's world! ;)

Thx for a SuperB tool!

Regards MaistroX

[Shrekage]

my lan is all gigabit ethernet... server has 2x1gig lan adapters teamed together with over 30TB space... I have 10 family members with varying power computers I can use + some of my lab systems that I use at work can be borrwed for temporary use. right now, I am using the 4 most powerful I have which are, the server, a core i7, and 2 core i5's. (the server has 2 quad-core xeon procs in it) getting about 45fps while all machines are encoding... at this rate still gonna take weeks to transcode all of my files...

it would be nice to have a configurable amount of encoding servers maybe a default to 4 but allow more if soneone has the infrastructure to handle it...

BTW... I like the program makes it pretty easy to do the transcoding in fewer steps than I have found before...

Thanks

[Ryushin]

my lan is all gigabit ethernet... server has 2x1gig lan adapters teamed together with over 30TB space... I have 10 family members with varying power computers I can use + some of my lab systems that I use at work can be borrwed for temporary use. right now, I am using the 4 most powerful I have which are, the server, a core i7, and 2 core i5's. (the server has 2 quad-core xeon procs in it) getting about 45fps while all machines are encoding... at this rate still gonna take weeks to transcode all of my files...


I have hundreds of blu-rays and dvds. It took me over four months with six computers running 24x7 to do my first rips. I was only doing 720p for my blu-ray rips, and have since slowly been re-doing the blu-rays in 1080p. I only have 8 TB on my network and I'm starting to run out of space. It takes a long time to do it in the beginning, but it is so worth it when it's done. User Serviio for my DLNA server to provide the movies to everyone in the house.

[Atak_Snajpera]

shrekage
45fps only. with default profile i get about 20 fps. (Q6600@3Ghz and Q8200@2.8Ghz)

[shanndogg]

I was only doing 720p for my blu-ray rips, and have since slowly been re-doing the blu-rays in 1080p.

Out of curiosity, is there a specific reason you are re-doing them in 1080p? You noticed a visual quality difference, got more storage space, etc?

[jett2]

How does your network look like then? Mine works as simple WORKGROUP. So I can open shared folder via \\Computer_Name\RipBot264 path in explorer.

That's exactly what mine looks like...
I can start the files under \\Computer_Name\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\1.cmd etc manually without problems, but the master changes between "Queue" and x.x.x.x-> Starting... and the slaves change between "ENCODING" and "IDLE" without any progress (even not the localhost).
Alle the tools get copied properly to the shared folder.
No log is written.

I tried 2pass and CQ without effort. :scared:

Is there some sort of "debug switch"?

[Shrekage]

shrekage
45fps only. with default profile i get about 20 fps. (Q6600@3Ghz and Q8200@2.8Ghz)

to be fair... the server is running 5 VM's along side of the encoding so it's not used at it's full potential... and I and using a little higher QC of 18 instead of 22 because I have a couple of really picky family members who could tell... :(

another note... I have seen the encoding server crash 1 time, and the encoding client crash 1 time... is there logs I could send you to debug? the encoding client just crashed on me so I just restarted the job that caused it to see if it is related to bad video or whether it's something else...

[JimmyK814]

How does your network look like then? Mine works as simple WORKGROUP. So I can open shared folder via \\Computer_Name\RipBot264 path in explorer.

I can access my shares with \\ComputerName\RipBot264temp and \\ComputerName\RipBot (the installed folder) from anywhere on my network, read/write.

Even the 1st localhost computer will not work and alternates with the Encoding... Idle...

I'm not 100% sure the domain is the issue, but the file monitor clearly shows EncodingServer.exe trying to use \\Domain\RipBot264temp.

I haven't given up on it, but it is certainly frustrating :confused:

[jett2]

I'm not 100% sure the domain is the issue,

Due to the fact, that we share exact the same problem, I would be interested in a few things: (in brackets my settings)
* what OS (XP, Vista, W7; 32/64) are using? [W7; 1x 32 & 3x 64]
* Firewall on/off? [Domain:off; other:on]
* If W7/Vista: UAC on or off? [on]
* Do you run RipBot "as Administrator"? [yes]
* VirusScan or anything else [McAfee - deactivation already tried]

[Atak_Snajpera]

JimmyK814
are you running ripbot264.exe from other pc via network?

shrekage
post screenshot if something crashes.

[JimmyK814]

Due to the fact, that we share exact the same problem, I would be interested in a few things: (in brackets my settings)
* what OS (XP, Vista, W7; 32/64) are using? [W7; 1x 32 & 3x 64]
* Firewall on/off? [Domain:off; other:on]
* If W7/Vista: UAC on or off? [on]
* Do you run RipBot "as Administrator"? [yes]
* VirusScan or anything else [McAfee - deactivation already tried]

Win7x64, no firewall All:off, UAC off, account with Admin rights, but not built in Administrator account, ESET Antivirus(tried with it off just for the heck of it)

[JimmyK814]

JimmyK814
are you running ripbot264.exe from other pc via network?


No, I shared the install folder just to move files between computers, whenever you post updates. Since then, I ran your new install program RipBot264-v1.17.0-Setup.exe on each of the computers I am trying. The dates for RipBot264 and EncodingClient matched the dates in the RipBot264_update_2012-02-12.7z file, but I thought it would be a nice refresh of everything.

I attached a short log from last night from a file monitor which seems to represent one loop of the Encoding... Idle..

Thanks for the quick reply, by the way, and for a great app! App is the cool word now :D

[Ryushin]

Out of curiosity, is there a specific reason you are re-doing them in 1080p? You noticed a visual quality difference, got more storage space, etc?

I originally did 720p as a compromise to quality versus size so I can use the same files on mobile devices as dlna streaming to TV's. Mobile devices mostly can only do stereo sound and that is what I encoded the movies in along with Basline 3.0 profile instead of HP 4.0.

After testing the movie "9" at 1080p HP4.0 5.1 sound, the quality difference was apparent enough that I wanted all my files in this manner. So I started re-encoding all my blu-rays again for 1080p, High Profile 4.0, and 5.1 channel sound.

I also made qHD (960x540) base 3.0 stereo versions for all my mobile devices. 2-pass 1000bit for wide screen and and 2-pass 1200bit for 16x9. Quality comes out to be quite good for the file size, which is about 1GB per 2 hour movie.

[MattLx70]

I downloaded the latest release and yet I don't see a 4.1 profile. Can anyone help with what I may have done wrong?

I have 4.0 i and p. But no 4.1

Thanks,
Matt

[Atak_Snajpera]

why do you need lv4.1???

[MattLx70]

why do you need lv4.1???

I have no justification and just thought it was the best. I want a really HQ file as will be doing some post processing.

Bear in mind i know little to nothing about how this works.

I can use 4.0 and set bitrate to 24k but I thought if I did that with a 4.1 profile, it will allow max bitrate to go beyond 25k. I guess I thought if a scene was complex the max bitrate is a ceiling defining how far above 24k the bitrate can go for certain parts of movie.

[Atak_Snajpera]

don't forget that x264 encoder is very efficient. even 25mbps is more than enough for 1080p60fps.

btw lv5.1 is the best ;)

[MattLx70]

Cool.

So I didn't do something wrong and the 4.1 profile should not be available after a standard install?

Can you provide the 4.1 profile string so I can create one?

Or are you suggesting to avoid it?

Thanks again for your help.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Cool.

So I didn't do something wrong and the 4.1 profile should not be available after a standard install?

Can you provide the 4.1 profile string so I can create one?

Or are you suggesting to avoid it?

Thanks again for your help.

use gui. it does not require ultra skills.

[MattLx70]

use gui. it does not require ultra skills.

I'm sorry - I don't understand. Do you mean the RipBot GUI enables me to increase the max bitrate? Or is there more to create a 4.1 profile? I used a string I found in a thread and it didn't work. RipBot encoded the audio and then completed without handling the video.

So I was hoping to find an expert here that can just paste the text in a reply.

[Wishbringer]

If you have a "x264 settings string" you want to insert:
Go into Ripbot folder, select profiles folder, copy one of the existent test files, rename one, open it and insert string. save...
So you can manually alter any encoding profile you want.

Example for my own "[High 4.0] AVCHD" profile
--profile high --preset veryslow --tune film --slices 4 --level 4.0 --keyint 48 --min-keyint 2 --aq-mode 2 --aud --b-pyramid strict --nal-hrd vbr --open-gop --bluray-compat --vbv-bufsize 14500 --vbv-maxrate 15000 --direct auto
<- is only an example, not subject of discuss.
So you can easily change Level from 4.0 to 4.1.
But as Atak said, there is no reason to do so...

[slalom]

my lan is all gigabit ethernet... server has 2x1gig lan adapters teamed together with over 30TB space... I have 10 family members with varying power computers I can use + some of my lab systems that I use at work can be borrwed for temporary use. right now, I am using the 4 most powerful I have which are, the server, a core i7, and 2 core i5's. (the server has 2 quad-core xeon procs in it) getting about 45fps while all machines are encoding... at this rate still gonna take weeks to transcode all of my files...

it would be nice to have a configurable amount of encoding servers maybe a default to 4 but allow more if soneone has the infrastructure to handle it...
You can always encode different filees on different machines, it's the same thing.
That's what I do, cause I hate encodings gone bad!

[MattLx70]

If you have a "x264 settings string" you want to insert:
Go into Ripbot folder, select profiles folder, copy one of the existent test files, rename one, open it and insert string. save...
So you can manually alter any encoding profile you want.

Example for my own "[High 4.0] AVCHD" profile

<- is only an example, not subject of discuss.
So you can easily change Level from 4.0 to 4.1.
But as Atak said, there is no reason to do so...

So that's the proper 4.1 Profile? I'm confused with the max bit rate being 15000.

Maybe I'm asking for something that doesn't exist? I thought perhaps there was a proper/best 4.1 profile to support a max bit rate above 25k.

[jerky33]

Is there any trick to seeing the Encoding Server window when viewing a remote machine that is being used for Distributed Encoding when RDP'd to said machine.
I am able to see it only if the app is launched and the I open the window locally at the remote PC, from the physical keyboard and mouse, and then RDP to that machine, however if I have to close and re-open the server app, I am then no longer able to see the window again unless I login to the machine locally again and re-open the window.
Note: I've tried all the Task Manager tricks for bringing that window into focus cascading, maximizing etc. and still no luck.

thanks

[jerky33]

Distributed Encoding Chunk Stuck in 'Starting...' State

Has anyone run into this, I've had several distributed encode jobs hang up due to this and have not been able to find a common cause for the occurrences.
Ideally there is some way to put the chunk in question back into a 'Queue' state and let the first available server try encoding the chunk properly.
If that is not possible would I be able to manually kick off that encoding the problem chunk and then manually combining the chunks when all chunks are completed, either automatically or manually.

Note: The behavior is that all other chunks are properly completed, and a random chunk will sit there and never get encoded, hence the job never completing.

Thanks

[iSeries]

So that's the proper 4.1 Profile? I'm confused with the max bit rate being 15000.

Maybe I'm asking for something that doesn't exist? I thought perhaps there was a proper/best 4.1 profile to support a max bit rate above 25k.

RipBot doesn't have a 4.1 profile, that's Wishbringer's custom AVCHD profile he used to give you an example of how you can create your own profile. In order for people to recommend encoding settings you should indicate what your playback device will be, eg blu ray player, PC etc.

@Wishbringer - seems you are aiming for blu ray player compatibility. You might want to change --min-keyint 2 to --min-keyint 1 as per http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=164083.

[Atak_Snajpera]

jerky33
find ripbot264_update_2012-02-12.7z

page538

[jerky33]

jerky33
find ripbot264_update_2012-02-12.7z

page538

This is great, I like that you shrunk the size of the chunks this should greatly improve efficiency as I have 1 slower machine on my network that was bogging down encoding jobs, especially when it was the last to finish up.

Thanks for directing me to the update, and keep up the good work.

[73ChargerFan]

Requests:
1) In New Job, Properties dialog where you can change deinterlacing, cropping, etc, if no changes were made, then exiting the dialog should be instant, no gathering of information
2) As part of job control, after audio is encoded once, note the time stamp. If the job is re-run and the audio settings, track, audio rip, etc haven't change, then don't encode audio again.
3) In "Encoding Settings" add quickie field to encode 10 second segment. An enable button & beginning time would be required.

Thanks Atak as always.

[jerky33]

I understand that the folks on this forum are not responsible for the x264 project directly, but was wondering if anybody knew if the x264 project had plans to take advantage of GPU based hardware for their encoding application?

[Atak_Snajpera]

no plans. too much work.

[Slitheen]

Latest release seems a bit buggy. Shutdown when finished doesn't work. I had to go into task manager to close the application and the temp folder is not emptying by itself.

[BosDvD]

How can i use this program in internet , not network ? (disturbed encoding)

Can i do it hamachi or something like that..?

[Wishbringer]

For distributed encoding computing clients need to have access to source material (e.g. Bluray-rips).
So for example, if you have a 40GB Source, and a local computing client and a remote computing client with nearly same performance,
you would have to transfer 20GB to your remote client.
Do you really want that?!
Additional remote client has to transfer computed result (smalller than that 20GB) back to source for muxing.

Maybe you have a synchron 100MBit Internet access, then it is possible (short transfer time),
but if you have an asynchron DSL connection (16.000/1000 kbit/sek).... good luck.... upload sucks... in both ways... upload from source to client and upload results from clients back to source.

[archaeo]

Latest release seems a bit buggy. Shutdown when finished doesn't work. I had to go into task manager to close the application and the temp folder is not emptying by itself.

Found the same issues here...

[soneca]

Latest release seems a bit buggy. Shutdown when finished doesn't work. I had to go into task manager to close the application and the temp folder is not emptying by itself.

It has been repaired a long time.
This (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1557788#post1557788) is the latest update.

[BosDvD]

Yep, i know. I have 4 server ,1gbit duplex conn. so it's not problem :) Teamviewer VPN app. is failed :/

[Slitheen]

It has been repaired a long time.
This (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1557788#post1557788) is the latest update.

This thread is 546 pages long. That update should be on page one with latest version. Let's have some initiative.

[Selur]

@Atak_Snajpera: got a question regarding fhg aac encoder: Did you check if WinAmps license allows the redistribution of the .dlls ?
(I was wondering since I added support for fhgaacenc but I'm not sure if it's okay to bundle the dlls with the Hybrid installer,..)

[Shrekage]

Yep, i know. I have 4 server ,1gbit duplex conn. so it's not problem :) Teamviewer VPN app. is failed :/

first thing you have to do is make sure you have SMB access (can access \\server\ripbot264temp from each client PC.
second then you have to make sure your firewall allows the server app access.

I have successfully used the distributed encoding over a routed network without issue

[JimmyK814]

first thing you have to do is make sure you have SMB access (can access \\server\ripbot264temp from each client PC.
second then you have to make sure your firewall allows the server app access.

I have successfully used the distributed encoding over a routed network without issue

Shrekage, what type of setup do you have? Are you using a HomeGroup? I have a domain setup, and after a month or more of trying, I can't get it to work.

[Shrekage]

Shrekage, what type of setup do you have? Are you using a HomeGroup? I have a domain setup, and after a month or more of trying, I can't get it to work.

I have a Windows 2008 R2 server that I use for media streaming. it is a Dell Poweredge 1950 with 2 Dell powervault MD1000's attached. I have a specific volume of striped drives that I use for temp space for encoding. It has a drive letter of A. the drive is administratively shared as a$. Also, I have the a:\temp\ripbot264temp shared as \\server\ripbot264temp with "Domain Users" having full control. I also set the folder permissions giving domain users full control.

Each encoding server PC has the a: drive mapped to \\server\a$.

That drive has the following folders

a:\source (all source material goes there)
a:\temp\ripbot264temp (temporary space for ripbot264)
a:\ripbotoutput (all output from ripbot is directed there

On each machine ripbot is run on, I placed the ripbot files in c:\program files (x86)\RipBot, and made shortcuts in the startmenu.

in each encoding server, I started up the server and verified that it created an exception in the firewall. on the client, I fired up the encoding client by itself and verified that I can connect to the encoding servers. once that was done, I started some testing with various source files...

I actually found that on some files the encodign cliend did not copy the file to the shared folder, but instead referred it to it's location on the server (a:\source\folder\file) so mapping the drive to the same letter on the encoding server solved that problem

[Atak_Snajpera]

I actually found that on some files the encodign cliend did not copy the file to the shared folder, but instead referred it to it's location on the server (a:\source\folder\file) so mapping the drive to the same letter on the encoding server solved that problem
what files? extensions? .avi , .mp4 .mkv...

On each machine ripbot is run on, I placed the ripbot files in c:\program files (x86)\RipBot, and made shortcuts in the startmenu.
Frankly you just need EncodingServer.exe. You can copy that file to Autostart folder.

[Shrekage]

what files? extensions? .avi , .mp4 .mkv...

after it happened on a .mpg file I mapped the drive and have not had any more issues. I have planned to unmap it and test with other file types to get a list but have not had time to do it yet. to be clear on what happened there, Ripbot created a job#.d2v file that points to the .mpg in the drive source. I can zip up the job file and attach if you want to see it...



I should also add that it does not seem to want to start the distributed encoding for .TS or .VOB files either. is this expected as I found that if I go in and trick ripbot it will distribute the encoding for these file types...

[Atak_Snajpera]

after it happened on a .mpg file I mapped the drive and have not had any more issues. I have planned to unmap it and test with other file types to get a list but have not had time to do it yet
for now only .vob (from DVD structure!) .mp4 and .mkv are copied. .TS is not well supported by FFMS2 decoder (Interlaced stream for example) so I can add it to DE mode yet.

[Shrekage]

for now only .vob .mp4 and .mkv are copied. I can add .mpg as well.

I would say that should be done even though I found a workaround for my situation.

as for the .TS files... I have had these for a very long time. and I dont have that many so it's not a big proglem...

Thanks!

[Atak_Snajpera]

for .mpg you can trick ripbot by remuxing all your mpg collection to .mkv ;)

[Atak_Snajpera]

@JimmyK814
run this small app on main pc and show me what you get.
http://www.mediafire.com/?l4h4w7jhe3w0eu9

[Ryushin]

I'm having a strange issue trying to encode Tudors Season 2 though Season 4. These are Canadian releases. They have no subtitles on the disc. If I add an episode on the list, which is composed of two m2ts files. The first m2ts is just 10 seconds long with the maker of the blu-ray. But it seems as though the audio is off by these 10 seconds. The first m2ts also seems to have the chapter information for that episode embedded into it.

If I select an episode, click edit, and then deselect the first ten second m2ts file, the episode's audio is synced correctly, but there is no chapter information. I have also tried selecting the audio via wave, flac, and core. Barring uploading the entire disk to Atak, is there any way to trouble shoot what might be causing this?

[Atak_Snajpera]

chapters are stored in playlist so if you edit playlist you also loose chapters unfortunately.

[Ryushin]

Any idea why the the sound would be off by the 10 seconds of the opening m2ts file? Anyway around that?

[Atak_Snajpera]

properties - audio delay 10000ms

[JimmyK814]

@JimmyK814
run this small app on main pc and show me what you get.
http://www.mediafire.com/?l4h4w7jhe3w0eu9

Main PC joined to a domain:

DomainName : ENTERPRISE <-- Correct
LocalComputerName : EPRISE-RED <-- Correct
LocalUserName : (My Name)
LocalWorkgroup : ENTERPRISE

Other notebook that I have not joined to a domain:

DomainName : Notebook-PC
LocalComputerName : NOTEBOOK-PC
LocalUserName : (My Name)
LocalWorkgroup : ENTERPRISE

The notebook is just for reference, I never loaded RipBot264 on it. I wanted to see what the difference was.

I noticed the DomainName and LocalComputerName match whenever a computer is not on a domain. If that variable were being used, it would make sense why it worked on a HomeGroup and not on a Domain. Although the casing difference between the two seems odd.

Just to recap, it was the EncodingServer App, that hasn't been updated since 1/1/2012 that always calls the path beginning with the domain name, not the EncodingClient that is more recent, though it could just be learning that path from the client I guess.

Let me know if I can do anything else to help.

[JimmyK814]

for now only .vob (from DVD structure!) .mp4 and .mkv are copied. .TS is not well supported by FFMS2 decoder (Interlaced stream for example) so I can add it to DE mode yet.

I've been trying .m2ts files from a Blu-ray this whole time. Is that unsupported with the distributed encoding? I saw "Distributed Encoding for DVD/HD-DVD/BD sources" in the change log so I assumed that was okay.

[JimmyK814]

I have a Windows 2008 R2 server that I use for media streaming. it is a Dell Poweredge 1950 with 2 Dell powervault MD1000's attached. I have a specific volume of striped drives that I use for temp space for encoding. It has a drive letter of A. the drive is administratively shared as a$. Also, I have the a:\temp\ripbot264temp shared as \\server\ripbot264temp with "Domain Users" having full control. I also set the folder permissions giving domain users full control.

Each encoding server PC has the a: drive mapped to \\server\a$.

That drive has the following folders

a:\source (all source material goes there)
a:\temp\ripbot264temp (temporary space for ripbot264)
a:\ripbotoutput (all output from ripbot is directed there

On each machine ripbot is run on, I placed the ripbot files in c:\program files (x86)\RipBot, and made shortcuts in the startmenu.

in each encoding server, I started up the server and verified that it created an exception in the firewall. on the client, I fired up the encoding client by itself and verified that I can connect to the encoding servers. once that was done, I started some testing with various source files...

I actually found that on some files the encodign cliend did not copy the file to the shared folder, but instead referred it to it's location on the server (a:\source\folder\file) so mapping the drive to the same letter on the encoding server solved that problem

I too am using Server 2008 R2. I use RipBot264 primarily on a Windows 7 PC joined to the domain. This is where I load RipBot264, with the distributed encoding enabled and it loads up the client and server by itself. The ripbot264temp folder is shared so that \\ComputerName\ripbot264temp resolves on any computer on the network including the server. Permissions are set to Full Control for everyone during my testing. The firewall is turned off completely.

I also installed RipBot264 on another workstation and the Windows 2008 R2 server as well. ripbot264temp is shared on those two systems so that \\server\ripbot264temp and \\workstation2\ripbot264temp resolves. I'm not sure if this was necessary or not, if not ever running the client on those PC's.

The Encoding client does not even work when using the Encoding server on the local computer for me, trying to call \\domain\ripbot264temp instead of \\ComputerName\ripbot264temp.

I didn't do any of what you did with the a: drive. Are you running the client on the Domain Controller? I haven't tried that.

My windows 2008 R2 server shows:

DomainName : ENTERPRISE <-- Correct
LocalComputerName : EPRISE-SVR <-- Correct
LocalUserName : Administrator
LocalWorkgroup : ENTERPRISE

with the test app.

I'll try to duplicate some of your setup to see if I have better luck. Is your StoreTempFilesin= set to a local drive on each PC or are you pointing to your mapped A: on every computer?

I am not pointing all of the temp folders to the same temp folder, though I did try this once. It seems like that wouldn't be how it's designed to work.

Thanks for explaining your setup so clearly.

[JimmyK814]

Just to add one more thing - all of the chunk files appear to be correct:

EPRISE-RED = ComputerName
ENTERPRISE = DomainName

\\eprise-red\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\1.cmd exists and contains:

"\\EPRISE-RED\Ripbot264temp\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "\\EPRISE-RED\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\1.avs" -o - | "\\EPRISE-RED\Ripbot264temp\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --crf 20 --stats "\\EPRISE-RED\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\1.stats" --fps 24000/1001 --force-cfr --min-keyint 24 --keyint 240 --frames 1439 --sar 1:1 --level 4.1 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --filter 0,0 --ref 3 --bframes 3 --b-adapt 1 --b-pyramid none --subme 7 --aq-mode 1 --trellis 1 --partitions all --me umh --stdin y4m --output "\\EPRISE-RED\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\1.264" -

The encoding server window shows Encoding started... and then Encoding terminated. immediately. When using a file monitor EncodingServer.exe is trying to access \\ENTERPRISE\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\1.cmd instead of \\eprise-red\RipBot264temp\job1\Chunks\1.cmd

[Shrekage]

I'll try to duplicate some of your setup to see if I have better luck. Is your StoreTempFilesin= set to a local drive on each PC or are you pointing to your mapped A: on every computer?

I am not pointing all of the temp folders to the same temp folder, though I did try this once. It seems like that wouldn't be how it's designed to work.

Thanks for explaining your setup so clearly.

Your welcome. I only hope it helps you out...

my domain has 2 DC's they are both VM's running on the server (as is my exchange server) I am not running ripbot on any other machine except the host server which is also my media server. the A drive is where I set the ripbot's temp drive in the settings. none of the other machines that have the a: drive mapped have ever run ripbot, just the encoding server app.

I seem to have the best luck if I repackage any of the files to mkv then do the conversion with ripbot. I did use some of my mpg (mpeg2) files and that's where I encountered the issue that required me to map the a: drive on all of the ecoding servers.

I ran that app...

DomainName : NEWSERVER <WRONG>
LocalComputerName : NEWSERVER <RIGHT>
LocalUserName : administrator
LocalWorkgroup : HART <---Domain Name

[Shrekage]

Hi,

Here are screenshots that I got from 2 instances where the encoding client crashed.

appcrash1.png seemed to happen after the encoding was finished

appcrash2.png caused the jpb to fail but ripbot was not aware of it's failure...

Here is info from the eventlog for the appcrash2

Faulting application name: EncodingClient.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x2a425e19
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0002f4b7
Faulting process id: 0x25dc
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd03e08c48dc63
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot\EncodingClient.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 9d3863e3-6fd5-11e1-bc89-001d096538e3

Let me know if you need additional information

Thanks!

[Atak_Snajpera]

Faulting application name: EncodingClient.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x2a425e19
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0002f4b7
Faulting process id: 0x25dc
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd03e08c48dc63
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot\EncodingClient.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 9d3863e3-6fd5-11e1-bc89-001d096538e3

The problem is ntdll.dll :( I also noticed that my ntdll.dll is older than yours 6.1.7601.17514

[samuelal]

Hello Atak,

I've been using v1.16.5 for a while now, but moved today to v1.17.0.

I would really like to have broader control over x264's encoder settings, as was available in 1.16.5:
http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l590/Roughneck2-0/Battlefield/RipBot-Step_2A-EncodingSettings-VIDEO-864.png

Is there a hidden option which re-enables the "full options" window shown above?


Regards,
//subscribed.

[Qiie]

why audio not sync when encoding 720p/1080p video?
i'm using v1.17.0

[Qiie]

btw how to use 10bit x264 on ripbot ?

[TheNomad]

Have you planned to support the creation of a 2nd audiostrem? Untill now I allways create a second acc file manually ad add it to the mp4 file using mp4box. It works great but its a lot of manual work. since you already have the capabilities to convert an audio track from the given source it should be possible to do the same thing with a second one and use the mp4box to add it to the mp4 file. When you use the enable, disable and group commands from mp4box and rename the file to m4v, it is even recognized as a multilanguage movie in iTunes and Apple mobile devices.
.\RipBot\Tools\MP4Box\MP4Box -add second_audio video.mp4
.\RipBot\Tools\MP4Box\MP4Box -enable 2 video.mp4
.\RipBot\Tools\MP4Box\MP4Box -disable 3 video.mp4
.\RipBot\Tools\MP4Box\MP4Box -lang 2=eng video.mp4
.\RipBot\Tools\MP4Box\MP4Box -lang 3=deu video.mp4
.\RipBot\Tools\MP4Box\MP4Box -group-add trackId=2:trackId=3 video.mp4

move video.mp4 video.m4v
I know that i could combine some of the commands to a single line. I just didn't do it yet.

[BlayzeX]

i'm using 1.17 and when I record with my HD PVR I usually start with a 2min before and follow with 2min after. WHen I try to encode the audio if the audio switches from stereo to 6ch ac3 it will not encode, the 2min before (commericals) and after have audio, but not the main content...

is there a setting I'm missing??

[Atak_Snajpera]

number of channels must be constant! you must remove commercials before encoding.

[samuelal]

Hello Atak,

Could you please take a moment and answer the question here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1565695#post1565695)?


Regards,

[Atak_Snajpera]

you can change encoder settings using x264 commands.

[samuelal]

you can change encoder settings using x264 commands.
What led you to remove the GUI part?

It was very useful for those (like me) who wish to have just a bit more control over the encoder without getting all dirty with the command like :(

[Atak_Snajpera]

x264 preset system. Expert users always use "raw" commands if they want to tweak something. If you are not an expert stick with optimal presets created by developers.

[crackinhedz]

Atak, Im looking to buy a new PC and am going back and forth between an i5 or i7 processor...Ripbot is pretty much the most stress I put on the processor, so I was curious your thoughts on which would benefit? Normally I use the CQ18 preset (bluray > mkv), and right now on my Core Duo (Quad) I average about 12 hour conversions...was hoping to cut that time down, not sure how many cores Ripbot (x264) can utilize?

Thanks for any suggestions...and if I should have posted this question somewhere else please forgive.

[Atak_Snajpera]

buy cpu with more logical cores and with higher clock. for good speed comparision download my x264 FHD benchmark. btw once you buy new pc you can use old one in distributed encoding for further speed up :)

[omegaman7]

Thanks a lot for your wonderful application man. I've been trying to convert an MKV to avchd without compression. Because apparently other than the container, they're highly similar. I get Tsmuxer errors with other applications. Ripbot didn't even flinch! Plus it reinserted black bars for resizing. EXCELLENT feature. Too bad about needing to reencode, but there doesn't appear to be a quality loss ;) I wonder if you'll ever consider a dvd output option?

[Atak_Snajpera]

dvd uses mpeg2 compression. ripbot264 is for h.264 compression.

[omegaman7]

dvd uses mpeg2 compression. ripbot264 is for h.264 compression.

Ahh yes. Now I have your thoughts on it. Gotcha :)

[JimmyK814]

Atak_Snajpera,

Is there any hope for my problem?

I'm curious as to how all of the batch files are created correctly with the computer name, but at run time, something is grabbing the domain name to call the .cmd files.

Could there be one instance in the EncodingServer.exe that is still pulling the wrong variable?

Did you have time to look over my posts? It looked like another user had different results with the test program than I did regarding domain name/workgroup name.

Thanks for your time! :thanks:

[Atak_Snajpera]

Problem located and fixed. Maybe tomorrow I will be able to send you 1.17.1 beta for testing

[JimmyK814]

Problem located and fixed. Maybe tomorrow I will be able to send you 1.17.1 beta for testing

That's great! Anything I can do to help... I will.

[kalleiskogen]

Hi kalleiskogen,

Remuxe your video in mkv with mkvmergegui (mmg.exe) and open your video with your Ripbot264 v1.16.5 ;)

Can someone give me a link for RipBot264 v1.16.5? Can't find any legit versions laying around...

And the same for mkvmergegui!

Thanks in advance!

Best regards, kalleiskogen.

[soneca]

Link (http://www.sendspace.com/file/zka4r9) to RipBot264 version 1.16.5.

[Selur]

VideoHelp's archive: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/RipBot264/old-versions#download (from RipBot264v1.5.1 to RipBot264v1.17.0)

[benjyv]

Well

10x!

[kalleiskogen]

Hi kalleiskogen,

Remuxe your video in mkv with mkvmergegui (mmg.exe) and open your video with your Ripbot264 v1.16.5 ;)

When i use MKVtoolnix, it becomes an audio file at 29.8mb when it was an video/audio file in the 13.7gbit range.

And everytime i do something in ripbot, it finishes in a second, and no output file is to be found...

Need help with this issue greatly!

P.S(-)My easy h264 doesn't wok either now. When i put in the file, and choose the output file location, and then press encode, it starts, finishes within a second, and no file is to be found...

Anyone?

[jbkappirossi]

hey guys, Can some one help me out?

I'm having trouble to convert a MP4 witch i rendert with Sony Vegas Movie Studio.
I've tried ripbot 1.16 and 1.17, When i start it up select the file, it then automaticly starts demuxing the audio.
Thus far no problem, but it take almost an hour demuxing the audio steram from a 1.64GB file of 8minutes playtime, even a full BD takes les to demux the audio.
But after its done the real issieu start, cause i dont care realy if it takes a while, but then it sais; ''Gathering Information'' and then it hangs or something.
The cpu load under taskmanager also drops to 0% load on ripbot. anyone know why or what this is causing?

I also tried to extract the stream seperately with ea3to, but the same thing, when i click on features nothing happens.

[Atak_Snajpera]

instead of mp4 could you use avi with some lossless codec(ffv1).
btw. if you have frame server debug mode plugin installed you can encode directly from vegas! I remember that i saw it on youtube

[mbatiri]

Hi atak
As any other ripbot264 users I should thanks a lot for your great effort for a wonderful and easy to use program.:)
I have a problem in CPU usage. As I use Persian subtitle (with Unicode encoding and RTL direction) for my 3D movies and also my movie player couldn't display RTL subtitles correctly (it shows them left to right), I use your program for muxing 3D Persian subtitle with movie frame by frame. Its O.K. but use very big source of CPU(my CPU is AMD phenom 800 4core 2.4Ghz) which sometimes it reaches up to 60 watt and its temperature becomes 62 and I think it is dangerous for CPU to work in such situation for 8 hours or more. Is it possible to control this usage of CPU to come down but in longest time do the procedure? For example instead of 8 hours, it does that in 12 hours but with use of 60% of CPU (about 40 watt).

[omegaman7]

I gather you use the stock heatsink for that CPU? Or your computer case is rather cramped/tight. A 60 watt CPU shouldn't get that hot. I've never heard of that model by the way. Typo? 60W is a rather unusual figure as well. In any case, more cooling for the processor is what you need. I got an overclocked Phenom 940(125W - 140W), WITH stock heatsink, in a cramped case averaging 53 - 55C. And that was very stable thanks to modifying the top of the case, to accommodate a 140mm fan. Cooling is everything ;)

[mbatiri]

Hi and thanks omegaman for your reply,
I think my case has problem for air flow and I don't understand your mean of stock headsink.
In normal operation, my cpu temp never exceeds 40 - 45 even when use corel studio for rendering videos or use converting programs, it reachs max 48.
But I want to know is it possible to control cpu source usage by this program to prevent damage to CPU?

[Atak_Snajpera]

My Q6600@3Ghz very often exceeds 80C during heavy encoding and nothing happens. Rock stable.

[soneca]

I consider this high temperature.
My processor(i7 980/ht off) does not exceed 52C(cpu) after hours of running at 100%.

[Atak_Snajpera]

don't forget that my CPU is in 65nm. Frankly I don't care about temp as long as CPU is rock stable in Lynx (linpack test)

[mbatiri]

Hi atak,
My CPU is in 45nm and temperature more than 68 is not safe.
Is it possible in your program that define how many core does encoding? I think if we can define two cores are used to encoding, its temp should be below 56.

[Atak_Snajpera]

My CPU is in 45nm and temperature more than 68 is not safe.
Who told you that 68+C is not safe for your CPU?

I think if we can define two cores are used to encoding, its temp should be below 56.
wow. You have bought quad core for what If you are not willing to use all your processing power?

[Wishbringer]

Intel Core2D/Q have integrated sensors which throttle down frequency when overheating.
I OC my Q9650 (45nm) to 4.5GHz and have 83C with IntelBurnTest over 24h and no errors.
With RipBot I reach 72C coretemp in summertime (71.4C is still covered by Intel Specs).see here (http://ark.intel.com/products/35428/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q9650-%2812M-Cache-3_00-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB%29)
And I am running that CPU since releasedate 2008 OCed.
Intel CPUs can handle much stresstesting.

[omegaman7]

BD rebuilder allows a hidden option for decreasing the allowed threads/cores. E.g. THREADS=3, for throttling back to 3 cores. A nice feature when one needs a free core. On an 8 or more core processor, this could be a very nice feature.

Not really suggesting Ripbot needs such a feature though. Perhaps that's why the mbatiri asks. Most Jobs I run through ripbot take no more than 1hr or 2 at most. I can browse the internet seamlessly. And my temps never exceed 40 - 45C high load. Thanks to my Megakiller.

If you're concerned about temps, you NEED better cooling. I don't get concerned about AMD temps until the 60C threshold is breached. Heat = degradation. I prefer keep the temps 55C and below. Especially my northbridge.

edit - You could always underclock the processor.

[mbatiri]

Thanks atak and other friends for their reply
Nobody tell me nor any where I read that temp over than 68 may burn CPU.But I have never seen my CPU temp exceed over than 48 and so I'm worry. In most hard situation, my CPU temp never exceed 61 and if it is safe, so there is no problem.
I am agree with atak who says I bought 4 core CPU and so I should use its best.
Thanks again for all.:)

[Gabes]

I got 88 C on my laptop I3 cpu. And yes, it is stable :) BTW: AMD can be burned at excessive temperature!

I couldn't find any ubuntu ripbot. any idea?

[Wishbringer]

I couldn't find any ubuntu ripbot. any idea?

Use Wine, maybe it works with Ripbot at Ubuntu.
Don't know how it handles Avisynth and GPU plugins.
http://www.winehq.org/

[Lighto]

Hi atak,
My CPU is in 45nm and temperature more than 68 is not safe.
Is it possible in your program that define how many core does encoding? I think if we can define two cores are used to encoding, its temp should be below 56.

Manually edit the x264 command lines in RipBot.
http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/X264_Settings#threads

[blacksapprow]

Hi,
Ripped 3D bluray disk's have 2 options on the ripbot menu, for left and right eye. Is it possible to combine those two into one, to 2D? Can you add future ripbot versions, that functionality Atak?

[Zorro70]

Hi,
Ripped 3D bluray disk's have 2 options on the ripbot menu, for left and right eye. Is it possible to combine those two into one, to 2D? Can you add future ripbot versions, that functionality Atak?

If you want a 2d encode froma 3d source Just use either left OR right eye and it will be 2d

Using 3d blu rays will usually have a brighter picture also.

There is no way to combine two video streams in ripbot..YET


My sandy bridge 2600k CPU has TJ (Thermal Junction) max temp of 98 degrees C, anything under that is safe!!!!!!!!!!


68C is nothing!!!!!

[soneca]

68C is nothing!!!!!

Depends ... cores or cpu?

[rantonio]

Is there any way to disable the automatic conversion of TrueHD to FLAC? I re-add the TrueHD audio back in after Ripbot is finished anyway, so I choose No Audio when I get to the options screen. But I have to wait 10-15 minutes while the conversion happens which I don't end up using. Thanks.

[Tuxon86]

Hi!

First, thank you for your hard work on this application. It is one of my favorite tool for transcoding.

I just want to know if you have ever considered supporting more than one audio and sub tracks? I believe this would be a nice addon, especially for foreign movies where one may want to keep the original audio and subs plus another language.

Thanks.

[benjyv]

Hi guys, ( no gays :D )

When there'll be a new version of RB?
..and this when came along? some changes between the time of its release?

10x!

Btw: If a source is fucked up, but someone still wanna save that movie, how can use SRestore with RB?
Any ideea?

[rc71]

A little help..

If I have an FLV file that has a LC AAC track but Ripbot won't see it, what would be the best way to extract it so later I can just add it to the video stream???????????

[flebber]

A little help..

If I have an FLV file that has a LC AAC track but Ripbot won't see it, what would be the best way to extract it so later I can just add it to the video stream???????????

In your \Ripbot\Tools\mkvtoolnix folder usg mmg to load and extract.

[rc71]

In your \Ripbot\Tools\mkvtoolnix folder usg mmg to load and extract.

As I stated, FLV file. MKVmerge Does NOT support FLV.

[Atak_Snajpera]

can you upload sample ? i would like to see what is wrong?

[sreemv]

Awesome tool! Distributed makes me salivate! BUT, not having success - have the same issue as Jimmy - the server keeps toggling between "ENCODING" and "IDLE" to no avail! Please let me know if you have the fix. AGAIN, awesome tool! and, distributed makes this a must have for me :)

[sreemv]

I got the distributed to work after I matched the usernames and passwords - but is there a way to enable/utilize more cores on the remote nodes?

And, how do I enable this distributed encoding with "avs" input? Right now its working with "m2ts" input but I usually make my own custom avs after the demux and input the avs into ripbot.

[Atak_Snajpera]

de mode needs phisical video file. btw . also wait for 1.17.1 because unpatched 1.17.0 has few ugly bugs in that mode. few pages back you will see what was wrong.

regarding low cpu utilization on servers. make sure that your network is fast enough.definetelly wi-fi 54mbps is not enough. at least n 300mbps is required. btw real max speed for my tp-link 1043nd router is only about 120mbps.

[rc71]

can you upload sample ? i would like to see what is wrong?

I'm Assuming that's for me.

Here's the flv file. 45mb

http://jumbofiles.com/6v6kyh37qdhq

Thanks.

[Gabes]

1)Demux issue.

I get this:

Settings\user\Desktop\RipBot264v1.16.5\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\00058.m2ts" 1: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv" -seekToIFrames 2: "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_Undetermined.w64" -down16 -progressnumbers -log="C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\demuxlog.txt"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 1 audio track, 0:06:36, 24p /1.001
1: h264/AVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
2: RAW/PCM, 2.0 channels, 16 bits, 48kHz
[v01] Extracting video track number 1...
[a02] Extracting audio track number 2...
[a02] Reading RAW/PCM...
[a02] Swapping endian...
[a02] Writing W64...
[v01] Muxing video to Matroska...
[a02] Creating file "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_Undetermined.w64"...
[a02] The original audio track has a constant bit depth of 16 bits.
Added fps value (24 /1.001) to MKV header.
Video track 1 contains 9485 frames.
eac3to processing took 1 minute, 31 seconds.
Done.

If I check the Temp dir all video and audio files are there correctly. Only the ripbot menu looks 'disabled' => http://i.imgur.com/q6I88.png . Then after I selected the mkv demuxed file and all job1 is deleted...

I installed WMP correctly, as I seen here, but still doesn't work. I tried few portable or installed versions of different ripbot but still have same problem. I did not change anything.

2)Question about quality. What's better for encoding: bigger M.E. algorithm or increasing B-frame and R-frame value? (ESA/TESA takes so long)

[Atak_Snajpera]

@rc71
remove this utf/unicode character from file name
The Walking Dead - Inside Episode 207 The Walking Dead Pretty Much Dead Already – AMC.flv

[sreemv]

Now that I am hooked onto this awesome distributed encoding - I am loving it and would like to suggest new features - just a wishlist :)

1] Increase the number of servers - perhaps allow a mixture of 32bit and 64bit?
2] Ability to distribute the load/frames - that is, I would like to say use server1 for 10%, server2 40%, server3 30%, server4 20%
3] Pause/Stop the encoding from one server and migrate/resume that on another server

[Atak_Snajpera]

1. maybe later. new version is already seriously delayed.
2. this may reduce overall encoding speed. it is very likely that fast servers would stay idle while slower were still encoding.
3. why would you need that?
btw. what pcs and how many do you have?

[Lighto]

Hi Atak, I would like to suggest a switch in the "RipBot264.ini" file which can toggle off RipBot264 from doing a few things upon executed.

This list would include:
1. Configuring settings of DirectShow decoding filters
2. Configuring of Autoload VSFilter in Haali Media Splitter properties

This will allow users who would like to use CoreAVC or Autoload VSFilter to load subtitles for batch operation have a easier time.

It will be nice if there is another switch which can make RipBot264 add the "convertfps=true" line automatically to handle batch encoding of VRF sources.

Please let me know your view on this.

Thank you!

[Atak_Snajpera]

This will allow users who would like to use CoreAVC or Autoload VSFilter to load subtitles for batch operation have a easier time.
I understand why you need Autoload VSFilter in batch mode but CoreAVC as decoder? What is wrong with libavcodec in ffdshow?

It will be nice if there is another switch which can make RipBot264 add the "convertfps=true" line automatically to handle batch encoding of VRF sources.
ok.

[Lighto]

I understand why you need Autoload VSFilter in batch mode but CoreAVC as decoder? What is wrong with libavcodec in ffdshow?



There is nothing wrong with ffdshow, I just thought that it might be good for folks who want to try out CoreAVC/LAV. :)

[rc71]

@rc71
remove this utf/unicode character from file name
The Walking Dead - Inside Episode 207 The Walking Dead Pretty Much Dead Already – AMC.flv

LOL! I didn't notices it wasN'T a hyphen. Worked fine. Thanks.

!!!!!!!Actually it didn't work fine. It created a 1k audio file that of course won't work!!!!.

[Atak_Snajpera]

strange . works on my pc.

Complete name : C:\temp\RipBot264temp\audio.aac
Format : ADTS
Format/Info : Audio Data Transport Stream
File size : 6.56 MiB
Overall bit rate mode : Variable

Audio
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Bit rate mode : Variable
Minimum bit rate : 116 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 6.56 MiB (100%)

and final mp4 file
General
Complete name : C:\Users\Dawid\Desktop\The Walking Dead - Inside Episode 207 The Walking Dead Pretty Much Dead Already AMC.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 40.6 MiB
Duration : 7mn 0s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 809 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-14 19:20:52
Tagged date : UTC 2012-04-14 19:20:52

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 7mn 0s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 677 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 368 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.739
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.096
Stream size : 34.0 MiB (84%)
Title : The Walking Dead - Inside Episode 207 The Walking Dead Pretty Much Dead Already AMC
Writing library : x264 core 122 r2184 5c85e0a
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=300 / keyint_min=30 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=20.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-14 19:20:52
Tagged date : UTC 2012-04-14 19:20:55

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 7mn 0s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 134 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 6.42 MiB (16%)
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-14 19:20:55
Tagged date : UTC 2012-04-14 19:20:55



post your log please

[Shrekage]

Encoding server won't show UI if launched whtin a remote desktop sesion.

I would also like to see the encoding server limit removed or increased to at least 16...

[rc71]

@Atak. I don't know what is the difference, but this isn't the first time I've, only me, had sound issues. I've tried it on two XP machines and a Win7 machine with no difference and yet others in the forum have no problem with the same file. I thought it must be something I'm installing on all the machine, but the win7 isn't my install so I'm lost. Anyway, like before, NeroAAC from MeGUI was able to encode the audio.

As for log, I have a job config file. I'm not sure what you want for a log file. But check out the LENGTH of the SOURCE audio.


[JobSettings]
VideoFile=E:\The Walking Dead - Inside Episode 212 The Walking Dead Better Angels.flv
VideoCodec=h264
VideoWidth=640
VideoHeight=368
VideoAspectRatio=16:9
VideoProfile=[HIGH 4.0] HD . Progressive
SourceFPS=25
MovieFPS=25
FPSinGUI=25
SourceNumberOfFrames=10397
SourceMovieLength=415.88
CurrentMovieLength=415.88
SourceAudioLength=0.557278911564626
Frames=10397
Duration=0:6:55.88
Mode=CQ
kbps=22
AudioFile=C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio.aac
AudioFileSize=768
AudioCodec=aac
AudioBPS=
AudioProfile=x.x C O P Y S T R E A M
Frequency=44100
Channels=2
DurationAudio=0:0:0.557
AudioLength=0.557278911564626
Normalize=OFF
AudioDelay=0
AudioLang=Undetermined [und]
Output=F:\The Walking Dead - Inside Episode 212 The Walking Dead Better Angels.mkv
Container=mkv
LockSize=0
Size=
Deinterlace=Do not deinterlace
Crop=Do not crop
CropTop=0
CropBottom=0
CropLeft=0
CropRight=0
Resize=Do not resize
ResX=640
ResY=368
Decimate=Do not decimate
Colors=Do not change colors
hue=0
sat=1
bright=0
cont=1
subtitles=Do not use subtitles
subtitleFileSize=0
path=
Denoise=Do not denoise
AssumeFPS=Do not change
Forced_Subtitles=NONE

[essential]

Did a search and didn't find anything. I've been using Ripbot to convert my blu-rays to 720p mkv's for a while with no issues, the program has been great, and it has by far the best UI for me.

Lately I've tried backing up my DVDs to mp4, and I've had issues. The setup and conversion is fine, and the resulting file looks great, however i'm having trouble when playing on my Boxee Box. When I play the file everything is fine and looks great, but if I try to fast forward, it'll take upwards of a minute after I stop for the video to come together, it'll be in super slow motion with no audio till everything catches up. My 720p MKV's fast forward just fine and they start instantaneously when I hit play after a fast forward. I've tried two different movies, one using the HD profile and one using the SD profile (with the latest version of Ripbot), but had the same issue with both resulting files, I do a 2-pass 1400meg locked size file with 5.1 192 sound. The tracking on the computer with VLC works fine and is normal, but since my MKV's work fine I on Boxee I assume I'm doing something wrong.

Is there a trick to SD material? Has anyone else had this issue and solved it? I'm very happy with the PQ, but the fast forward issue makes me think something is inherently wrong with the file/conversion and I'd like to figure it out prior to converting a large batch of my DVDs. Thanks.

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Shrekage
What happens in TeamViewer? Regarding server count. Max would be 8. To much copy-paste work ;)

@rc71
update ffmpeg.exe (http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win32/static/ffmpeg-20120409-git-6bfb304-win32-static.7z)

@essential
post mediainfo report for working HD and not working properly SD
Have you contacted with Boxee Box's tech support?

[essential]

@essential
post mediainfo report for working HD and not working properly SD
Have you contacted with Boxee Box's tech support?

Coincidentally, as I was posting this yesterday I was converting one of the DVDs I tried as an MKV instead of an MP4, all other settings the same, and I don't have the fast forwarding issue with that file. So it's something with the mp4 process/file, either on Boxee's end or Ripbots, because the Boxee doesn't have issues with other mp4's that I have.

MP4
General
Complete name : C:\bd\ironclad\ironclad.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format_Commercial_IfAny : XDCAM EX 25
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 1.36 GiB
Duration : 2h 1mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 610 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-15 21:04:47
Tagged date : UTC 2012-04-15 21:04:47

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format_Commercial_IfAny : XDCAM EX 25
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 2h 1mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 416 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 266 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.347
Stream size : 1.20 GiB (88%)
Title : ironclad
Writing library : x264 core 120 r2120 0c7dab9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1416 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-15 21:04:47
Tagged date : UTC 2012-04-15 21:06:36

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : HE-AAC / LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 2h 1mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 211 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz / 24.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 166 MiB (12%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-15 21:06:25
Tagged date : UTC 2012-04-15 21:06:36

Menu
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:14:19.133 : Chapter 2
00:23:51.800 : Chapter 3
00:34:16.400 : Chapter 4
00:43:15.300 : Chapter 5
00:52:28.633 : Chapter 6
01:02:20.367 : Chapter 7
01:13:56.534 : Chapter 8
01:25:46.867 : Chapter 9
01:36:01.334 : Chapter 10
01:45:54.400 : Chapter 11
01:54:17.833 : Chapter 12

MP4
General
Complete name : C:\bd\THE_BEAVER\the beaver.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 1.36 GiB
Duration : 1h 30mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 2 146 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-16 02:36:29
Tagged date : UTC 2012-04-16 02:36:29

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 952 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 10 000 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 266 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.478
Stream size : 1.24 GiB (91%)
Title : the beaver
Writing library : x264 core 120 r2120 0c7dab9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1952 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=10000 / vbv_bufsize=10000 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-16 02:36:29
Tagged date : UTC 2012-04-16 02:38:08

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : HE-AAC / LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 206 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz / 24.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 125 MiB (9%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-16 02:38:01
Tagged date : UTC 2012-04-16 02:38:08

Menu
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:06:52.700 : Chapter 2
00:11:36.933 : Chapter 3
00:14:40.533 : Chapter 4
00:19:55.533 : Chapter 5
00:24:17.367 : Chapter 6
00:30:54.867 : Chapter 7
00:33:26.367 : Chapter 8
00:40:01.034 : Chapter 9
00:48:16.534 : Chapter 10
00:51:08.201 : Chapter 11
00:55:29.168 : Chapter 12
01:00:48.168 : Chapter 13
01:05:25.334 : Chapter 14
01:08:59.434 : Chapter 15
01:12:06.867 : Chapter 16
01:16:47.167 : Chapter 17
01:21:59.534 : Chapter 18

MKV
General
Unique ID : 226002551083173183169057163372396832523 (0xAA06821079C61F34989A308D3444670B)
Complete name : C:\bd\THE_BEAVER\the beaver.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 1.37 GiB
Duration : 1h 30mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 2 150 Kbps
Movie name : the beaver
Encoded date : UTC 2012-04-16 07:11:07
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.2.0 ('I can't explain') built on Dec 29 2011 19:29:57
Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Nominal bit rate : 1 957 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 266 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.479
Writing library : x264 core 120 r2120 0c7dab9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1957 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : HE-AAC / LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 1h 30mn
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz / 24.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 1
00:06:52.700 : en:Chapter 2
00:11:36.933 : en:Chapter 3
00:14:40.533 : en:Chapter 4
00:19:55.533 : en:Chapter 5
00:24:17.367 : en:Chapter 6
00:30:54.867 : en:Chapter 7
00:33:26.367 : en:Chapter 8
00:40:01.034 : en:Chapter 9
00:48:16.534 : en:Chapter 10
00:51:08.201 : en:Chapter 11
00:55:29.168 : en:Chapter 12
01:00:48.168 : en:Chapter 13
01:05:25.334 : en:Chapter 14
01:08:59.434 : en:Chapter 15
01:12:06.867 : en:Chapter 16
01:16:47.167 : en:Chapter 17
01:21:59.534 : en:Chapter 18

[Atak_Snajpera]

before starting encoding edit job1_MuxFiles.cmd

add this to command line

..\mp4box.exe" -inter 0 -tmp "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp" ...