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

[NLA]

The supported files which can be added for a batch job differ from those that can be added individually (specifically, I'm referring to .m2ts decrypted blu-ray support). I've been waiting for some kind of batch functionality for years, and now that its here, I can't really use it. :( And shouldn't the batch menu have some more options for what to do with audio, ie. wave, FLAC, core, etc?

P.S. What happened to the encoder settings menu? Used to be full of fantastic, easy-to-change options, and now its basically a textbox with a button to open a text file? Bit of a step backwards, isn't it?

Bumping my unanswered post. :confused:

[qbass]

Hi,

Great app, thanks for that!

My things:

* bug? Using <SOURCE_FOLDER>\ in batch mode gives "Access violation" message for me.

* feature: ability to load batch list from file or even edit this list/richbox. To be able to use output of "dir /b /s C:\PHOTOS\*.mpg" as source of batch list.

* feature: ability to rotate movie with radiobuttons ratcher than using "Open the video file in RipBot, click on "properties", "show script" and add "video=turnleft(video)" or "video=turnright(video)" before "return video"."

* feature: ability to use creation time of source file as same in output file.

* feature: ability to keep some meta information from source file, like Tagged date

* bug: ripbot cannot find audio stream in .wma file created with ms movie maker, audio from mediaInfo:
Format : WMA
Format profile : Pro
Codec ID : 162
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Audio
Description of the codec : Windows Media Audio 10 Professional - 128 kbps, 48 kHz, 2 channel 16 bit (A/V) 1-pass CBR

Once again thanks for app, it is just great.

[fantasmanegro]

Hi,

* bug? Using <SOURCE_FOLDER>\ in batch mode gives "Access violation" message for me.


i second this...
the same thing happened

[Atak_Snajpera]

record your desktop with camstudio and send video to www.mediafire.com

[Chetwood]

Just tried Ripbot on a 50 FPS PAL test clip that I tried to reduce to 25 FPS by "assuming 25 FPS". After encoding to x264/AAC/MKV the file was twice as long, played back in what appeared to be slow motion and had no sound despite an AAC stream being present. Is it possible that Ripbot has problems with FFV1/WAV in AVI as source? Also, how can I add my own audio profile and how about a button in the GUI to view the log of the last job? Thx.

[ozok]

@Atak_Snajpera you can use madExcept to track down these kind of errors (Access violation etc). It is free for non-commercial purposes and supports many Delphi versions AFAIK.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Just tried Ripbot on a 50 FPS PAL test clip that I tried to reduce to 25 FPS by "assuming 25 FPS". After encoding to x264/AAC/MKV the file was twice as long, played back in what appeared to be slow motion and had no sound despite an AAC stream being present. Is it possible that Ripbot has problems with FFV1/WAV in AVI as source? Also, how can I add my own audio profile and how about a button in the GUI to view the log of the last job? Thx.

video=selecteven(video)

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Atak_Snajpera you can use madExcept to track down these kind of errors (Access violation etc). It is free for non-commercial purposes and supports many Delphi versions AFAIK.

cool. thanks.

[Chetwood]

video=selecteven(video)
Wow, took me some searching to find where to put this. Anyway, when I select "2.0 FHG AAC-HE 64 kbs (CBR)" as audio output, I'm getting

Error: The source file 'C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\audio.aac' could not be opened successfully, or retrieving its size by seeking to the end did not work.

Selecting "2.0 FHG AAC-LC 96 kbs (CBR)" however works although in both cases the same audio file is used?

[soneca]

New version, thanks Atak! http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p305/soneca1/thumbsup.gif

[8ternity]

HI Atak,

Encodingclient.exe his detected has false positive from Nod32 5.0.XXX and delete when download is completed.

I will try to submit that file to eset and give explanations.

[soneca]

The same thing happened here, I had to disable the Nod to complete the download.
Sent for analysis but so far no answer.

[defalopii]

i have share the RipBot264temp, but still getting error RipBot264temp is not shared! Auto closing...
please any detail documentation how to use RipBot264 distributed encoding ??

[Atak_Snajpera]

have you watched this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEHcjxsGiI4&feature=g-upl

[benjyv]

I'll wait the next version cuz this one couldn't be DL-ed, at leats at me gaves errors:(

[defalopii]

have you watched this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEHcjxsGiI4&feature=g-upl

Yes, i am using Windows Server 2003
Have 4 server on different data center, but i cant make it work for RipBot264 Distributed Encoding

[Atak_Snajpera]

can you open \\computer-name\ripbot264temp from servers side ?

[nst6563]

I'm having a similar problem with my setup. Ripbot doesn't auto-close, however all the encoding clients cycle with a message stating "x264 [error]: could not open input file `-'
encoding terminated.

I've checked the temp folder and it's shared correctly. I can access it from the remote computers. I've even turned off all firewalls. Same errors.

Any hints?

All systems are i7, 8-16gb ram, Win7 Professional, and this latest version of ripbot.

[Atak_Snajpera]

close ripbot

disable x264 x64 in ripbot264.ini

usex264x64=0

remove old job and create new job again

[defalopii]

still not work..
RipBot264temp is not shared! Auto closing...
can you give me detaill documentation about this Distributed Encoding ??
should i install ripbot on each of my 4 servers that spread on 4 countries?
and how to determine where should be the server and the client ??

[Ryushin]

still not work..
RipBot264temp is not shared! Auto closing...
can you give me detaill documentation about this Distributed Encoding ??
should i install ripbot on each of my 4 servers that spread on 4 countries?
and how to determine where should be the server and the client ??

RipBot264 distributed encoding only works on the local LAN. Not over the Internet. You have to understand that you are transferring very large chunks of data.

[Shrekage]

still not work..
RipBot264temp is not shared! Auto closing...
can you give me detaill documentation about this Distributed Encoding ??
should i install ripbot on each of my 4 servers that spread on 4 countries?
and how to determine where should be the server and the client ??

@Defalopii:

If you watch the video demonstration of distributed encoding, you will see that you have to share the ripbot264temp folder on the machine running ripbot264. on EACH client, you must be able to connect to \\computer\ripbot264temp.

While this can work on the internet, it is not secure unless you run it inside of VPN's like I did.

The problem you will then run into is bandwith. you need ALOT of bandwith because you are transferring VIDEO files to EACH server to be transcoded, then you are transferring them BACK to the client PC, this is VERY bandwith intensive, and usually, your uplink is slow enough that you get NO benefit from doing it this way...

Even with 5Mbit uplink it was still too slow to use that way.

[Shrekage]

Hi Atak,

loving the 8 servers now! Thanks for that!

Is there any way to have the encoding server start on screen instead of in the tray? maybe a command line option?

Thanks

[Atak_Snajpera]

shrecage could you write some guide how to use de via internet?

regarding encoding server i thought that auto hiding to tray would be less anoying for user.

[8ternity]

Bug to latest version:

Exception EConvertError in module Ripbot264.exe at 0000949A.

" is not a valid integer value.

[defalopii]

Now i can connect the entire client server over the internet
But when start encoding i got this in every client server: Encoding Terminated
Whats wrong ??

[Atak_Snajpera]

how fast is your upload speed at home?

[defalopii]

my upload/download speed is about 50MB/s

[Atak_Snajpera]

can you open shared folder from server side?

[Adub]

8ternity, it will help Atak if you give steps to actually reproduce your bug report.

[8ternity]

I'Ve just click "add" choose the mkv file, it demuxed the audio and crashed.

[Shrekage]

shrecage could you write some guide how to use de via internet? .

as long as yuo can access the share on the client PC and you can connect to the server from the client, there should be no problem in regards to where in the world the server is. in my case, I have VPN's setup between 4 subnets between my house, my father-in-laws house, my office and a coworker's house. they are all private networks that I have routed with some old fortinet corporate firewalls lying around... I would not recommend snyone do this over the internet without using VPN tunnels between the networks/hosts. outside of the VPN setup, setting up ripbot is exactly the same as it is if you are on the same subnet (network).



regarding encoding server i thought that auto hiding to tray would be less anoying for user.

that's right, but a command line switch (something like executing encodingserver /f could bring it up unminimized.

I am working on making a windows PE image that I can pxe boot to my linux clients when I need that extra little effort and when you start the server inside of WinPE, you have no way to bring it up since there is no tray...

it's still WIP but when it's done I plan to create instructions for everyone...

[jett2]

Hi folks,
I wrote a little GUI to simplify the process of activating/deactivating the DE-feature for my clients. (Done with AutoIT).
http://www.digital-labs.de/download/RipBot/Distributed-Encoding.jpg
Just have a look at the self-explaining INI-file, where you have to change the name (or the IPs) of your clients.
Source-code included! (For those who don't trust an exe that needs admin-rights ;) )
Download here: http://www.digital-labs.de/download/RipBot/DistributedEncoding-activate.zip

Feedback welcome!

[Atak_Snajpera]

Now i can connect the entire client server over the internet
But when start encoding i got this in every client server: Encoding Terminated
Whats wrong ??

here is good guide how to setup VPN
http://www.pcworld.com/article/210562/how_to_set_up_vpn_in_windows_7.html

also don't forget to forward port 1723 in your router!

[defalopii]

I stuck here: Please Wait...Gathering information...
Video is .mkv format
OS: Windows Server 2008 64bit
All RipBot and parts using the newest update
Any help ??

[Atak_Snajpera]

see first post

[Carpo]

anyone else getting a warning from ESET about the EncodingClient.exe? It is saying it might be some new unknown heuristics virus, I have sent it for analysis as a false positive, as I have never had issues with RipBot before, also I am guessing this has been asked before, but could you add LAV filters to the allowed programs, so those of use who don't want to have haali or ffdshow can still use your program?

[Atak_Snajpera]

eac3to won't work without haali.

[Carpo]

guess eac3to needs updating then, will bug madshi :)

[Atak_Snajpera]

also haali media splitter works better for transport stream.

[empty1969]

Atak,

Can you add the option to create the temp audio and video file in the job folder?

Thanks

Empty

[robf]

Thanks for continued updates of your excellent tool!

I finally figured out that I needed the encoding server running on the remote machines in order to get distributed to work (which I might suggest adding to your video tutorial BTW).

Now that it is working however my remote server dies after about 3 minutes of encoding. And when I say dies, I mean the whole machine locks up and must be hard rebooted. Both the main and external server are running windowsx64.

Any suggestions on a good way to debug this?

Oh and another thing I observed is that it doesn't look possible to use 32bit windows machine as a remote server if the main machine is 64-bit.

-Rob

[g0th1ckn1ght]

I was wondering if the following features could be somehow implemented please:

What i would like to do with my mkv is leave the video untouched (don't care about about file size), mux audio AC3 (THD) or DTS (DTS HD) as well as have forced subs (foreign language subs that are forced in some parts of the movies e.g Avatar Na'vi language) as well as soft subs (while have forced subs still enabled).

Is this in anyway possible please.

Thanks you.

[Atak_Snajpera]

robf
looks like your pcs are overheating. run linx from first post to check if the same happens.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I was wondering if the following features could be somehow implemented please:

What i would like to do with my mkv is leave the video untouched (don't care about about file size), mux audio AC3 (THD) or DTS (DTS HD) as well as have forced subs (foreign language subs that are forced in some parts of the movies e.g Avatar Na'vi language) as well as soft subs (while have forced subs still enabled).

Is this in anyway possible please.

Thanks you.

use mmg.exe

[defalopii]

where i can edit x264 profile like in MeGUI ??
http://thumbnails41.imagebam.com/19675/297e39196740178.jpg (http://www.imagebam.com/image/297e39196740178)

Or is there any way to import MeGUI's profile to RipBot264 ??

[MWD1001]

use mmg.exe

g0th1ckn1ght- If you use mkvmerge as Atak suggests, it's very tricky to get it to work with most media players and bluray players that support media files. I just spent 3 days testing this exact method of making lossless mkv files. Make sure in mkvmerge that header compression is off for both audio and video, but on for subtitles. Also, some bluray players and/or media players will not show or support subtitles with .sup or .idx/.sub format. I had to convert mine to .srt, and then in mkvmerge make sure I was using UTF-8. That was the only way I could my bluray player to show the subtitles through its media player support, and even then they were less than perfect. They show up in the black box below the film instead of overlaying the film like most sup/idx/sub subtitles do when watching natively from disc.

Another way to do this, and probably easier, is to just use MakeMKV. It makes lossless files from your source material. The only problem with this program when it comes to bluray sourced subtitles is the same old story where most, if not all, media players and bluray players fail to display the subs.

I've found the best way to deal with forced subtitles (like alien language from films, for example), is to spend the time commitment and hard re-encoded them into the picture using RipBot. Choose a very high 2-pass bit rate or very low CRF (something like 16 or lower) if you feel you want to get as close to the original bit rate of the native source. Overkill most likely, but you'll get visually close to lossless with the video.

[robf]

robf
looks like your pcs are overheating. run linx from first post to check if the same happens.

Thanks for that. I ran Linx and in fact it did fail. Upon further testing it isn't heat but dying memory. Off to buy some new memory...

Do you have a suggestion on how to run distributed with a mix of x64 and x32 machines? Is it as simple as setting Usex264x64=0 on the main machine?

[Trayman]

@robf I think you need to do that on all machines but other than that it's as easy as changing Usex264x64=0.

//Trayman

[Chetwood]

g0th1ckn1ght- If you use mkvmerge as Atak suggests, it's very tricky to get it to work with most media players and bluray players that support media files.
So from your experience with one BD player (by SONY, no less) you can draw this conclusion? Actually, it's the other way round: using MKVToolnix results in files playable on standalones. MakeMKV e.g. does not compress subs but mmg does by default so they do run on the WDTV LIVE.

Also, some bluray players and/or media players will not show or support subtitles with .sup or .idx/.sub format. I had to convert mine to .srt, and then in mkvmerge make sure I was using UTF-8.
Again no problem of MKVToolnix but of a crappy player.

They show up in the black box below the film instead of overlaying the film like most sup/idx/sub subtitles do when watching natively from disc.
No surpise there cause SRT is not bitmap but text and also the lowest common denominator that has no position information.

I've found the best way to deal with forced subtitles (like alien language from films, for example), is to spend the time commitment and hard re-encoded them into the picture using RipBot.
The best way to deal with is, is to spend the time otherwise wasted on encoding to search for a proper cheap standalone that supports standard sub formats like PGS.