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

[soneca]

Have you ever seen footage encoded as 23.976i,24i,30i and so on?

PAL is either 25i or 50p
NTSC is either 29.97i or 59.94p


Medium seems to be less blurry and without some artefacts

MEDIUM
https://i.imgsafe.org/d90b26b1ae.png

SLOW (notice artefacts on stairs and on the roof of the black VW Golf. Grass and wall on left is also slightly blurrier)
https://i.imgsafe.org/d90b974b37.png

The preset medium is better in my opinion.
Is RipBot264 using this preset by default?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Is that picture taken from out of your window ??? And is that your black Golf ??? (not stalking, just curious)
nah... It is just a test samples provided by some user long time ago.

Is RipBot264 using this preset by default?
Yes medium preset is used by default. You can verify that in script.

[soneca]

Atak, sorry for ignorance but where is the preset described in this script? :confused:

#Denoise
Loadplugin("C:\Programas\RipBot264v1.19.4\Tools\AviSynth plugins\mvtools\mvtools2.dll")
super=MSuper(video,pel=2)
fv1=MAnalyse(super,isb=false,delta=1,overlap=4)
bv1=MAnalyse(super,isb=true,delta=1,overlap=4)
fv2=MAnalyse(super,isb=false,delta=2,overlap=4)
bv2=MAnalyse(super,isb=true,delta=2,overlap=4)
video=MDegrain2(video,super,bv1,fv1,bv2,fv2,thSAD=400)

[Atak_Snajpera]

In settings check 'Use QMTC instead of yadif' and then activate deinterlace.

[steferrari]

Hello, my RipBot264 just installed some updates, since then it keeps giving me this error, with every video that I try to import.

ConvertToYV12: invalid "matrix" parameter (RGB data only)
(C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\getinfo.avs, line 2)

How can I fix this?
Thanks!

Edit 1: I tried to re-download RipBot (1.19.4) and I could add videos again.
Then I closed and re-launched it, updates was automatically installed (1.19.5) and it started to gave me that error message again.

Edit 2: I reinstalled all codec packs and everything seems fine now, sorry!

[byteshare]

Have you ever seen footage encoded as 23.976i,24i,30i and so on?

PAL is either 25i or 50p
NTSC is either 29.97i or 59.94p


Medium seems to be less blurry and without some artefacts

MEDIUM
https://i.imgsafe.org/d90b26b1ae.png

SLOW (notice artefacts on stairs and on the roof of the black VW Golf. Grass and wall on left is also slightly blurrier)
https://i.imgsafe.org/d90b974b37.png

Compelling photos. I'll have to do some more testing. I'll be honest I took it more on faith that the slow was better because of someone I know. I usually test these things more myself.

"Have you ever seen footage encoded as 23.976i,24i,30i and so on"
Don't know if I have but I also don't keep a good memory of that stuff. I was having issues with some videos not giving the option, but I figured a way around it by forcing the settings in batch mode, and if they didn't stick just manually copy pasting the code into the AVIscript. Also, my issue could have been a fluke, IDK.
:thanks:

Update: Ran some of my own tests, and indeed. Medium is performing better than Slow.

[slalom]

@Atak
on a two-monitor setup with extended desktop when I press the cover button the "download poster" window appears half in each screen (in the middle of the extended display)

not a big problem but I thought I should mention it

[guest]

Hi Atak,
Just got around to updating and using the latest build, and have discovered a strange problem.
When using video preview, instead of the player showing a video, it throws up an error message:-
"The Script's return value was not a video clip, (Is the undefined value)" in red letters.
However, I did a couple without adding a Level Change (eg:-PC-TV), and it previewed a video, BUT if I then added the PC-TV filter, the error message came back.
Any thoughts ???...I'm yet to process said queue, so don't know if error will jeopardize the process.

Update...nothing was processed, just errored the whole queue, have gone back to 1.19.4...

[byteshare]

Hi Atak,
Just got around to updating and using the latest build, and have discovered a strange problem.
When using video preview, instead of the player showing a video, it throws up an error message:-
"The Script's return value was not a video clip, (Is the undefined value)" in red letters.
However, I did a couple without adding a Level Change (eg:-PC-TV), and it previewed a video, BUT if I then added the PC-TV filter, the error message came back.
Any thoughts ???...I'm yet to process said queue, so don't know if error will jeopardize the process.

Update...nothing was processed, just errored the whole queue, have gone back to 1.19.4...

I've been using 1.19.5 and loving it. My guess is you need to reinstall your AVIsynth and/or codec packs.

[Tazlord]

the problem is set hard limit to 100 kbps in code. If calculated bitrate is lower than 100 then inject value 100. No idea why you got 99???
Just an update,
This still seems to be an issue. It's interesting because more are showing up as --bitrate 98 now. I wonder what made it change to 98 from 99?

[slalom]

Is there a problem with downloading posters after today's update?

[guest]

I've been using 1.19.5 and loving it. My guess is you need to reinstall your AVIsynth and/or codec packs.

Thanks for the info, but it didn't make any difference, and what codec packs are you referring to ???

One thing tho, if I set up a job in 1.19.4, there's not a problem, and if I then start 1.19.5, it previews & encodes that job, without a problem.

[Shrekage]

any way to have the temp drive be a share on a network NAS box?

[slalom]

any way to have the temp drive be a share on a network NAS box?
I think that would be slow
(don't you have a letter on that shared drive?)

[Shrekage]

slow... my NAS has 4x1G links on a RAID 10. when all the distributed encoders hit my main PC it kills the I/O for my single drive

[slalom]

Don't you have a letter on that shared drive?

[slalom]

Yes medium preset is used by default. You can verify that in script.
How can I change that preset??

[Shrekage]

Slalom, no, because in Windows 10 you have network places since mapping drives is from 1990.

however, I did map a network drive, pointing Ripbot temp folder to it, launching it and finding it could not access the shared drive because it insists on running in the elevated environment, mapping the drive in the elevated environment. adding a job, pressing the go button, and watching it error out...

Just as I expected, the EncodingClient can't share a mapped drive! it errors out immediately after copying the tools there

so what I am asking for is that the temp location can be \\server\share. and then the encoding client can use that as the shared location for all of the files and it can skip trying to share a folder on the machine in that instance...

doing it this way will take all I/O load off of the machine running ripbot, except managing the encodingservers and it's own encoding tasks, and put it on a device made to handle it--the NAS box...

[byteshare]

How can I change that preset??

Either when adding a video or editing encode settings:
AVISynth > Show Video Script

[slalom]

At whitch line??

[tkwou]

Hi I'm new to this forum. I wish I'd found it sooner. I hadn't used Ripbot264 for about a month. I was on 1.19.4 and it updated to 1.19.5 and I started getting the error. I reverted back to 1.19.4 and then checked each update file until I discovered that is was the Ripbot264.exe (1.19.5) that was causing the problem. I just kept the 1.19.4 version of the file and the program is running fine again. After reading this thread it appears all I needed to do was re-install the codepack. Strangely the core.zip downloads each time I run the program but the Update log says it's corrupt.

=========================
2016-12-03 09:17:51 : Installing updates...
2016-12-03 09:17:51 : [ERROR] C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot264\Updates\core.zip is corrupted. CRC32 mismatch. Expected value was 5CAA5F88 but got 8CD50F20
2016-12-03 09:17:51 : File C:\Program Files (x86)\Ripbot264\Updates\core.zip has been deleted.
2016-12-03 09:17:51 : Installation complete.
2016-12-03 09:17:52 : Next check after 2016-12-04 09:14:25

One other thing is that I recently processed a file with a Dolby TrueHD soundtrack and it immediately converted it to flac. I thought this was changed in 1.17.4. Is there something I'm doing wrong. I just want the soundtrack to demux.

[QUOTE=v1.17.4
Added: Demuxing DTS-MA and TrueHD (for those who really need them in mkv container for some reason)

[Atak_Snajpera]

Regarding "invalid matrix parameter (RGB data only)" make sure you have AviSynth 2.6 installed. I suppose you are still on pretty old 2.5.8 version.
CRC32 error was most likely caused by incomplete download (lost connection/aborted). Do not worry about that.

Regarding audio topic I will have to check.

[Viper714]

Hello all. I just noticed something when using Distributed encoding. While encoding in the "Ripbot264 Encoding Client" Window, I can not seem to scroll down the chucks section. Encoding works fine but the scrolling either manually(mouse clicking on scroll-bar, or arrows) or using the mouse wheel will not work. All other dialog windows on the PC work fine. I've encoding 5 movies so far with the same issue.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue??

[Wishbringer]

I did a fresh install of Win10Pro x64 (14393.447),
installed Avisynth 2.60
ffdshow tryouts rev 4533
Haali Media Splitter (MatroskaSplitter)
Java (newest 32bit release 8u111)

And Ripbot264 (download-link in #1 Post).
Updated Ripbot with Autoupdate.

After creating a job all wen't fine. Whole movie was encoded (was native 16:9 without cropping).
Then I added a movie 2.40:1 and enabled autocrop and resize (1920x800).
Preview didn't work. Encoding failed.

After I removed ".Sharpen()" behind resize-function, preview and encode worked.

I am curious. Isn't "Sharpen()" a buildin-function of avisynth.
Function doesn't seem to exists in my Avisynth.
(downloaded from Avisynth.org/Avisynth.nl)

[byteshare]

At whitch line??

#Deinterlace
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\Repair\RepairSSE2.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\RemoveGrain\RemoveGrainSSE2.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\nnedi3\nnedi3.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\masktools\masktools2.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\mvtools\mvtools2.dll")
LoadCplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\Yadif\Yadif.dll")
Import("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\Scripts\QTGMC.avs")
video=QTGMC(video,Preset="Medium",FPSDivisor=2)
At the last line

[byteshare]

Hello all. I just noticed something when using Distributed encoding. While encoding in the "Ripbot264 Encoding Client" Window, I can not seem to scroll down the chucks section. Encoding works fine but the scrolling either manually(mouse clicking on scroll-bar, or arrows) or using the mouse wheel will not work. All other dialog windows on the PC work fine. I've encoding 5 movies so far with the same issue.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue??

I though it was just me! I found if you let an encode start and don't click off the window you can still manipulate the scroll and encoding servers, but once I click off I lose control. I can't even click abort in the window, have to do that from the main RipBot window, which always works (don't lose ability to click on items).

[Wishbringer]

Hm, found another odd behavior:
I am encoding with DE.
Have 8 Server (E3-1240v5 with 64GB Ram each)
When a Encoding server crashes and I close Encoding Server and restart App,
I can't enable that Server in central Encoding Client again.
It is still disabled till end of whole encode.
In next batch it starts as normal enabled.

Seems the "On"-Button in Encoding Client doesn't work.

Encoding-Client chunks window:
I can scroll with middle mouse wheel, but bar and arrows doesn't work.
Like mentioned by byteshare and Viper714.

[Viper714]

Okay I am not the only one either. Yes, I noticed the same as Wishbriner. None of the ON or OFF buttons work on the Encoding client window. Byteshare, I just tried keeping the window in focus and it does work, but as you said the minute I click outside that window, it looses focus and I can't click on anything else.

Apparently it is loosing focus and can't get it back... :scared:

[Atak_Snajpera]

What windows version do you use?

I've just checked on my Win7 x64 and scroll bars work during encoding as well as all buttons ON/OFF/Abort.

[Viper714]

What windows version do you use?

I've just checked on my Win7 x64 and scroll bars work during encoding as well as all buttons ON/OFF.

Windows 10. Used to work okay about 6 months ago. Not sure what changed

[Atak_Snajpera]

Windows 10. Used to work okay about 6 months ago. Not sure what changed

Ask almighty M$ programmers. Welcome to Windows 10 Beta Service ;)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/E2gGddktAS8NTx2k8JSElKMpMGaPHY1JAqDkmK9boDbqM9njJeDb2pBp4fc_HQ=w506-h291

[slalom]

#Deinterlace
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\Repair\RepairSSE2.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\RemoveGrain\RemoveGrainSSE2.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\nnedi3\nnedi3.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\masktools\masktools2.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\mvtools\mvtools2.dll")
LoadCplugin("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\Yadif\Yadif.dll")
Import("C:\RipBot264v1.19.5\Tools\AviSynth plugins\Scripts\QTGMC.avs")
video=QTGMC(video,Preset="Medium",FPSDivisor=2)
At the last line
If I want minimum 500, how should it be?

[Wishbringer]

Win10 and Server 2016.
Described behavior appears on Server 2016 too:
Sharpen and Chunks and On-Button.

[Viper714]

[QUOTE=Atak_Snajpera;1788553]Ask almighty M$ programmers. Welcome to Windows 10 Beta Service ;)

Okay, so here is the latest.
When the encoding client windows first opens everything works (mouse wheel scroll, scroll-bar [dragging or click outside of scroll bar] ,scroll-bar arrows, ON & OFF buttons).

When I click on the Ripbot main window and go back to the encoding window only the mouse wheel scroll works. Nothing else works. Not even the abort button as byteshare & Wishbringer mentioned.

Love the picture btw!!! :D

[Atak_Snajpera]

When I click on the Ripbot main window and go back to the encoding window only the mouse wheel scroll works. Nothing else works. Not even the abort button as byteshare & Wishbringer mentioned.
Did the same and still works fine on my windows 7. I guess your win10 has period or something ;)

[byteshare]

What windows version do you use?

I've just checked on my Win7 x64 and scroll bars work during encoding as well as all buttons ON/OFF/Abort.

Windows 8.1

[thezfunk]

Regarding "invalid matrix parameter (RGB data only)" make sure you have AviSynth 2.6 installed. I suppose you are still on pretty old 2.5.8 version.
CRC32 error was most likely caused by incomplete download (lost connection/aborted). Do not worry about that.

Regarding audio topic I will have to check.

I had the exact same error. You are right, installing AviSynth 2.6 solved the issue.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Windows 8.1

Ok. I did some testing on Virtual Machine.

Windows 7 with updates -> no lock in encoding client after losing focus
Windows 8.1 without updates -> no lock in encoding client after losing focus
Windows 8.1 with installed updates -> LOCK !
Windows 10 14393 with installed updates -> LOCK !

Clearly M$ had to push some weird update to 8.1 and 10 somewhere in time.

[byteshare]

Windows 7 with updates -> no lock in encoding client after losing focus
Windows 8.1 without updates -> no lock in encoding client after losing focus
Windows 8.1 with installed updates -> LOCK !
Windows 10 14393 with installed updates -> LOCK !

Clearly M$ had to push some weird update to 8.1 and 10 somewhere in time.
Thank you for testing. I noticed that after the lock it looks almost like the window gets put into another window. It isn't a huge issue but it is a nuisance.

Any plans to give more queue management? Right now I've been using a turbo mouse to move items around faster.

[Deepcuts]

Thank you for creating this software.

I am using 10 machines connected over internet via OpenVPN and after some problems, I am happy with the speed.
Quick tip for those who might want to try connecting computers over internet via VPN:

On all clients connecting via VPN, edit C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts file and add at the end:
Main_PC_IP Main_PC_NetBiosName

example:
192.168.100.15 RipBot264PC

If a client connected over VPN cannot resolve the computer name, it will flick from Idle to Encoding because the client is set to work with computer name instead of IP.

Of course, 1 Gbps will help a lot. I do not recommend using anything lower with so many computers.

[Ronski]

I usually use the [MAIN x.x] 8bit Progressive profile H265, could somebody explain the benefits and pitfalls (if any) of using the [MA10 x.x] 10bit progressive profile please?

I've tried Googling and can't really find anything.

[Deepcuts]

Could use some help.
Just finished encoding 2 whole series of about 300 episodes only to discover that my Plex server just stops playing the resulted file after about 1 minute.
I can play the file locally just fine with MPC-HC, but all files encoded with RipBot264 behave the same: they stop after ~ 1 minute when playing from a Plex server.
ffmpeg -v error -i filename.mp4 -map 0:1 -f null - 2>error.log shows no errors.
Anyone else experienced such behavior?

later edit:
I even tried copying the file to Apache htroot and access the file via Chrome and the play stopped at the same time frame. So clearly Plex is not the problem.

[damia]

@ Atak_Snajpera
hai.. can i ask something.. i load file and take long time to gathering information...the file just 1.20GB i try use another computer load fast...can i know what is the problem?
thank you hope you reply ASAP :)

[Deepcuts]

@ Atak_Snajpera
hai.. can i ask something.. i load file and take long time to gathering information...the file just 1.20GB i try use another computer load fast...can i know what is the problem?
thank you hope you reply ASAP :)

Slow hard drive most likely.

[damia]

Slow hard drive most likely.

ohh i see.. C: or where file hard drive locate?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Could use some help.
Just finished encoding 2 whole series of about 300 episodes only to discover that my Plex server just stops playing the resulted file after about 1 minute.
I can play the file locally just fine with MPC-HC, but all files encoded with RipBot264 behave the same: they stop after ~ 1 minute when playing from a Plex server.
ffmpeg -v error -i filename.mp4 -map 0:1 -f null - 2>error.log shows no errors.
Anyone else experienced such behavior?

later edit:
I even tried copying the file to Apache htroot and access the file via Chrome and the play stopped at the same time frame. So clearly Plex is not the problem.

Try this switch
http://i.cubeupload.com/VGDuBq.png

You may also try remuxing your encodes to mkv.

[damia]

@Atak_Snajpera
can help me to solve this problem please? :)

[Deepcuts]

I have tried to re-encode a file with --stitchable, but the result is the same.
Using Google Chrome to directly play the mp4 from a web server or Plex, freezes the play at ~1:00 min.
Using Internet Explorer 11, Plex will not freeze.
So I guess this must be a Chrome problem somehow.

I tried re-muxing the mp4 as mkv, but no luck. It is still freezing.

[byteshare]

I usually use the [MAIN x.x] 8bit Progressive profile H265, could somebody explain the benefits and pitfalls (if any) of using the [MA10 x.x] 10bit progressive profile please?

I've tried Googling and can't really find anything.
I'm sure others will have very different opinions (also not the right forum for this), but quick differences IMO are:
8bit faster encode, slightly smaller filesize (sometimes), and higher degree of compatibility (number of devices that can play smoothly).
10bit better handling of dark scenes and banding (noticeably in CRF 20-24 (were I mostly encode)).

[byteshare]

I have tried to re-encode a file with --stitchable, but the result is the same.
Using Google Chrome to directly play the mp4 from a web server or Plex, freezes the play at ~1:00 min.
Using Internet Explorer 11, Plex will not freeze.
So I guess this must be a Chrome problem somehow.

I tried re-muxing the mp4 as mkv, but no luck. It is still freezing.

Try Kodi just to test since they have similar players.