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

[zanaitoryoushi]

all this filtering just for crappy psp display??? (480x272 plus insane ghosting due to ultra slow response time)

i also have psp-1000 so i know how it looks.

hehe ikr, but i want to make movies more clear in the psp by trying out those filters, so did i do them right then? (regarding the arrangement), also thank you for the reply Atak..

[Chetwood]

@Atak_Snajpera

I've been searching this thread but came up empty so here it goes:

- how do I add an audio profile when I want to encode to mp3?
- how do I edit an audio profile, say change the 2.0 FHG AAC-LC to 64 kbit mono?

Every time I use 2.0 FHG AAC-HE 64, Ripbot stops encoding. Thx.

[Destructabomb]

Upon advice of Atak_Snajpera im attempting to use this program to encode some videos but im getting no output file whatsoever. Anyone have any fixes for this ?. Using Win 7 x64 built

[Mounir]

I have a problem with java i have installed yet it says not installed , i'm on win7 x64

[flebber]

You installed 64 bit java and it expects 32.

[Mounir]

I have tested on my other computer with win7 x86 and have no problem with java although i have problems later with ffdshow when i add the video ripbot bug big time.I'll retry tomorrow

[nameless.character]

@Mounir
You need to install both 64-bit AND 32-bit JAVA on an x64 system. They run entirely independent of each other.
As I understand it, since you probably only have the x64 version installed, when RipBot queries for JAVA x86 it turns up with a "Not Installed" answer.

[nameless.character]

do you see the same artefacts in ripbot (PREVIEW SCRIPT)?

if answer is no then there is something wrong with your player. btw what player do you use?


Sorry for the delayed response, it took me a while to migrate to Windows 8.

1) I do not see any artefacts on the preview.
2) For testing playback, I used WMP, VLC and also streamed to a PS3 via Twonky.

Some other observations I made:
The input video is extremely grainy (very fine grains). Possibly due to the fact that the movie is very old and grains offer a sharp appearance.
During encoding the low bit rate probably does not allow for the accurate reproduction of the small noise/grain and results in motion related artefacts ("twitching").
To test this theory, I also encoded another feature at very low bit-rate and it resulted in even bigger portions of the frame "twitching".

Now I do realize that pushing up the bitrate would probably be the easiest solution, but I am intent on encoding at 4314+320. The fact remains that there are much lower bit-rate encodes out there which although are lower on quality, still do not have any motion artefacts (twitches).

With this background, any help on how to optimise settings/presets would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Upon advice of Atak_Snajpera im attempting to use this program to encode some videos but im getting no output file whatsoever. Anyone have any fixes for this ?. Using Win 7 x64 built

see logs folder in ripbot264 directory

[Mounir]

After downloading Java 7 (x86) i could finally make it work , i get 18.25 fps total with 2 computers (Pentium 4 2 ghz / pentium 4 3ghz HT), SD ntsc PSP encoding/audio copy stream

I will try with my other two that should make a big difference

This page helped me a lot:
http://www.thehtpc.net/htpc-tips-and-tweaks/ripbot264-distributed-encoding/

[N1ghtjar]

Hello,

I have decided to upgrade from 1.16.5 to the latest version.
I am now noticing that the originating file name is showing as video.mkv instead of blahblah.m2ts for example

My older version did not do this, am I missing any plugins?

Appreciate any advise

[Atak_Snajpera]

I am now noticing that the originating file name is showing as video.mkv instead of blahblah.m2ts for example

this is the name of demuxed file

[N1ghtjar]

I understand its the demuxed file but it never used to do it, what has changed?

Also could you add the option on future updates to allow lossless audio, I can never get the calculations quite right when adding the audio after encoding

[Atak_Snajpera]

Also could you add the option on future updates to allow lossless audio, I can never get the calculations quite right when adding the audio after encoding
nope...

[flebber]

I have seen people doing that lossy video + lossless audio I don't understand why lossy+lossless? AAC at 320 sounds great, and you are going for compression otherwise you wouldn't lossy the video. MSU + Flac that would seemingly make more sense.

[mgadallah]

well, I've been advised by other people in this forum and other forums to try this tool but it seems that no one can give me a simple direct answer for my issue.
So I will post it here and I hope to be able to find an answer:
We are working with my oown business and it is a small media production company located in Egypt with short term contracts with local TV Channels and we are recording the original stream using PCI satalitte cards then do video editing to cut off commercials and un wanted parts then upload two copies one to its associated youtube channel and the other one to the local tv channel server website.
so we do edit the .ts or .mpeg-2 file to do crop and cut then do the encoding to .mp4 using the h.264 codecs ... that is all
So the more speed encoding I do the better business I can do.
So how can I make the best use of this software?
I used to use WinAVI to do the encoding but quality was not good as VidCoder and file size for WinAVI was big and not that small as VidCoder. This is the only reason for my questions, but you really can not imagine how much it is mandatory important to have a very fast time for encoding, I understand that it is not your business and I may be bothering you with all these details but even using core i7 2600k with nvidia gtx geforce 550 ti 2 gb can not make the encoding time fast.
But please let me ask if using another hardware may help or it does not matter?
The file with WinAVI is being encoded in 2 minutes while with VidCoder it is 7 or 8 minutes, and I really do want to use the VidCoder because of the quality and size.

[fantasmanegro]

Vidcoder uses Handbrake and handbrake is slower than x264 (RipBot uses x264) in my experience...

winavi... hmmm... DO NOT USE IT!...

about speed... talking about 264 encoders... better quality mean long time encoding... but x264 is very optimized and for the users it uses presets and tunes to make life easy as possible...

[flebber]

@mgdallah to get the best encode and speed only encode to the spec/quality you want and disable anything else. If you advised settings and output you require resolution/ bitrate & quality / hard ware support etc maybe can help more

[Chetwood]

I have seen people doing that lossy video + lossless audio I don't understand why lossy+lossless?
I think it's pointless too, however why not give the option to add any audio profile so people could go for it? I mean, I'm still waiting for Atak to answer these questions (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1587378&postcount=11652).

[Atak_Snajpera]

you really want to use mp3 format from 1993 when we have alot more efficient aac from 1999??? it does not make sense for me.

he-aac 64kbps works for me everytime.

[Chetwood]

Would it make sense to you when I said I would still hope for an editing function to go from AAC stereo to mono since the source is mono?

[slalom]

I think it's pointless too, however why not give the option to add any audio profile so people could go for it? I mean, I'm still waiting for Atak to answer these questions (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1587378&postcount=11652).
I agree, (although I would never keep an LPCM stream) It's just an option.
Oh, and the second audio, sometimes I need to include a second stream (not me, everyone of us!!)

[Mr Alpha]

Feature Request: If encoding a video where the source has Color primaries, Transfer characteristics and Matrix coefficients tagged in the source stream tell x264 to also add those tags to the output stream.

[Mounir]

Has anyone tried ripbot parallel encoding possibilities with complex avisynth filters ?
I was thinking of a scheme like this: avi file-> avisynth(complex script) > avs2avi > ripbot > parallel encoding (lossless preferably)
Would this work ?

Also what about lossless video encoding support in ripbot (huffyuv/lagarith), would it be difficult to implement it ?

thanks for your answers

[Atak_Snajpera]

ripbot264 is a gui for x264. however x264 also supports lossless encoding.
regarding complex filtering. so far i can confirm that vsfilter likes to crash in de mode. i won't be surprised if someting goes wrong while using QMTC or something similar. you will have to see whether it works for you or not.

[nameless.character]

Further to the video "twitching" problem as stated on my previous posts, I have found that eliminating the "Sharpen(0.2)" parameter improves the results to a good extent. It seems that video that is already very grainy does not do well with additional sharpening that is applied by RipBot as a default.

Another thing I found while looking at the scripts is that RipBot forces a downmix to 2ch audio even if a 5.1ch profile is selected. Here is what the script looks like:

#DownMix
Import("E:\RipBot264v1.17.3\Tools\AviSynth plugins\Scripts\DownMixAudio.avs")
audio=DownMix2Stereo(audio)

As per the guides and forum posts I have read, this should only be the case when selecting a 2ch audio profile even when output is to an mp4 container.

Should I remove this portion from the script and encode to get true 5.1ch audio within the mp4? Will the audio no longer work on a PS3 if I do so? :confused:

Thank You.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Should I remove this portion from the script and encode to get true 5.1ch audio within the mp4? Will the audio no longer work on a PS3 if I do so?
if you select 5.1 then you will get 5.1. You can verify file after encoding with mediainfo.

[nameless.character]

Although mediainfo states 5.1ch content in the output mp4, the sound does not play back the same as the original DTS-MA track. I was just wondering what would happen if I were to remove the downmix part from the script.

Thank You.

[Atak_Snajpera]

PS3 does not support 5.1 AAC. It probably downmixes on fly to stereo.

[8ternity]

Hi Atak,

After reformating my pc, i've install everything with the new version 1.17.3; and im getting that error:

"Application Error"
Exception EConvertError in module Ripbot264.exe at 0000949A. " is not a valid integer value.

That error happen after demuxed everything and before Gathering informations... Happen with many mkv hd contents.


Can you help me with that?

Thanks.


**UPDATE // EDIT***
I think i've found the error. Was i've wrote 2-Pass in settings. Does the setting name is "2 Pass" or "2-Pass" ?

[mgadallah]

Please why I get this error:
http://i.imgur.com/KnZ9ll.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/KnZ9l.png)

[Atak_Snajpera]

see ripbot264 distributed encoding tutorial on youtube

[rc71]

you really want to use mp3 format from 1993 when we have alot more efficient aac from 1999??? it does not make sense for me.

he-aac 64kbps works for me everytime.

Ah Atak...

You have to realize that if there are hundreds of millions of Americans that don't believe in evolution, there are going to be people who don't believe in AVC and AAC.
I just had that same discussion that apparently good small AVC is impossible. He only walked away after I challenged him to a 75% compression ratio and a poll to see if the quality was there.

[rc71]

I agree, (although I would never keep an LPCM stream) It's just an option.
Oh, and the second audio, sometimes I need to include a second stream (not me, everyone of us!!)

I would suspect that is because everyone who talks to Atak about this tries to convince him of their point, vs, I'm stupid, but can you add this anyway.

Regardless, if that's what you really want it, merge the audio yourself, don't ask, DEMAND, the author of a free program that makes encodes a breeze, to add another piece that someone will find a bug in.

Personally, if you have the money to buy an audio system that can fully utilize a 2gb freaken DTS blah blah audio file, then you can pay someone to add that freaken feature for you.

[Browser404]

The distributed encoding is an impressive touch, no doubt it will help many people.

Though I was wondering about another feature, could you make it possible to pause the endcode, this would be really helpful for me and probably many others. Or if not pause at least let us stop the second pass and restart it later without having to do the first pass again.

This would help me so much, some of the movies I'm encoding take 12 hours per pass (even on an i7) and I'm sure you can imagine having a PC tied up for 24 hours straight is problematic.

Since you've implemented distributed encoding that may even make adding a pause feature easier.

Please consider this, it would really help with very large encoding jobs.

As always thanks for the program :)

see ripbot264 distributed encoding tutorial on youtube

Oh, I'm not sure if you maybe meant to put a link to a video in that post, if you did I think you forgot ;)

[Atak_Snajpera]

Or if not pause at least let us stop the second pass and restart it later without having to do the first pass again.
In DE mode you can resume from last encoded chunk. (first pass or second pass)

[Mounir]

Please why I get this error:
http://i.imgur.com/KnZ9ll.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/KnZ9l.png)

You have to share the RipBot264temp folder so your main pc (where you launch ripbot) can access it
it is located in C: > temp

Assuming you run windows7, once RipBot264temp is located, right click on it > share with > specific people > everyone (add write/read options for this group) > share

[Chetwood]

You have to realize that if there are hundreds of millions of Americans that don't believe in evolution, there are going to be people who don't believe in AVC and AAC.

So what? I'm neither American nor creationist.

I would suspect that is because everyone who talks to Atak about this tries to convince him of their point
And I suspect, it makes sense to be able to encode a mono stream to mono AAC. That's why I asked if Atak could add an option to add audio profiles.

[Honusnap]

Hi all,

I'm using Ripbot for some month now, thanks for this simple and very efficient tool :)
Two things, that turns to be problems to me :
- The fact that Ripbot automatically demux audio from files is in my case useless and time consuming an option to disable this behavior would be cool.
- From time to time a file is encoded but will not appear in the destination folder... no error, file is just not there. If there is only one file to be compressed i can use the "video.264" file and mux it myself and everything is ok. The real problem is when there is multiple files in the queue, in this case the next compression will trash the "video.264" file and the whole previous compression is lost. I can see no errors ..

Did some of you experience this kind of problems ?

Thanks,

[slalom]

Check the log file for errors (there are errors)

[Honusnap]

Yeah, right.. i was looking for logs in the temp folder..
The error in this particular case is : :)

Error: Unknown chapter file format in 'C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job33\chapters.txt'. It does not contain a supported chapter format.

- Chapters.txt contain :

Error: (mkvextract) The file 'D:\Multimedia\- ToDo\Manual\vÚritÚ - 1997.mkv' could not be opened for reading (No error).

- Well the file is in this folder, perhaps the fact that i have some accents in my filename .. ?

Strange cause i have tested the command
mkvextract chapters 'D:\Multimedia\- ToDo\Manual\vÚritÚ - 1997.mkv' > Test.txt

And it simply generate an empty text file that is ok since there is no chapter in this file.

==> Not good to trash the "video.264" after a so "small error"... Chapters is not good => No chapters in the destination file

[slalom]

I agree with you, video.264 should be kept in temp/jobx directory in case of error.
Maybe Atak should change the path, like audio is saved in jobx directory

RipBot don't like accents, edit them before encoding

[Mounir]

I have a little problem with this ripbot it seems parallel encoding work ok with an AVC /.mp4 source (taken from youtube) but when i try with an mpeg2/.ts source nothing happen on the client machine, only the host machine encode.What could i do wrong ?

[Atak_Snajpera]

have you read note in ripbot264.ini?

[flebber]

Atak would you consider adding a simple sharpening option to Ripbot say a drop down with two options

Sharpen Film = LimitedSharpenFaster
Sharpen Animation = ToonLite

?

[Mounir]

have you read note in ripbot264.ini?

Yes i have read it, it says:
// Supported input formats AVI / MP4 / MKV / DVD / HD-DVD /

So in essence i would have to make my .ts a .vob since ripbot support "dvd" apparently,I will try ..

I've tried with avi lossless as file input, it don't work so far

[Atak_Snajpera]

using lossless in de mode may not be the best idea due to extremally high bitrate. streaming to multiple servers most likely will choke your hdd and network. i forgot to mention that not all codecs are supported in de mode. basicaly if ripbot does not detect video codec (no icon) then normal mode is activated.

mpeg2 ts i would remux to .mkv . also make sure that stream does not have any error!

[Honusnap]

Atak would you consider adding a simple sharpening option to Ripbot say a drop down with two options

Sharpen Film = LimitedSharpenFaster
Sharpen Animation = ToonLite

?

Just my my way of using Ripbot, not saying THIS is the way.
I never use any options inside Ripbot, i've builded three profiles in ffdshow
- Anime
- Film - Normal
- Film - Heavy
=> Normal / Heavy refer to filters use in each profile.

The profile is automaticaly loaded when x264.x64... is the launcher of the ffdshow process.

So the only thing i've got to do is tweak my profile in ffdshow, i can directly visually see the effect of each profile modification... then choose the profile that is going to be used by the x264.x64 process, kind of "default filter for the x264.x64 process"

The quality is very very good !

[fantasmanegro]

@Honusnap

cloud you share the info profile or screenshot?

[Honusnap]

@Honusnap

cloud you share the info profile or screenshot?

Here is a screenshot of the ffdshow window
There is not the 3 profiles i talked about, there are four in this case, i was testing new settings.