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

[tkwou]

Sorry I guess I should include that I'm re-encoding Blu ray to Profile AVC High 4.0 at an average bit rate of 20000 on a 2-Pass.

[Atak_Snajpera]

increase chunk size from default 60s to 300s or even 600s.

[tkwou]

Thanks I'll give that a try. What about the BDO strength setting. Should I leave it at 2? Also, as I've asked before, how do I demux a TrueHD soundtrack without it automatically converting to Flac? Thanks.

[byteshare]

Thanks I'll give that a try. What about the BDO strength setting. Should I leave it at 2? Also, as I've asked before, how do I demux a TrueHD soundtrack without it automatically converting to Flac? Thanks.

You could try BDO 1 or 0:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1729404#post1729404

As for Demuxing TrueHD soundtrack, I'd manually do this with MKVToolNix

[tkwou]

Thanks byteshare, it's just that the TrueHD track is already in the Blu-ray .mkv so that I would have to remove the track first by creating a new .mkv file before using Ripbot264. Otherwise it will just demux the TrueHD track and start converting it to Flac which wastes a lot of time. Then when Ripbot264 is finished I would need to remux the .mkv again to add the TrueHD soundtrack back.

[Ronski]

I also use MKVToolnix to strip out the video only, then use Ripbot264 to process that, then re mux again with MKVToolnix, leaving out the original video stream and mux in the new stream. It does take extra time, but I don't do many so not a problem for me.

It would be ideal if ripbot can be told to just process the video and leave everything else as it is.

[byteshare]

Thanks byteshare, it's just that the TrueHD track is already in the Blu-ray .mkv so that I would have to remove the track first by creating a new .mkv file before using Ripbot264. Otherwise it will just demux the TrueHD track and start converting it to Flac which wastes a lot of time. Then when Ripbot264 is finished I would need to remux the .mkv again to add the TrueHD soundtrack back.

If the copy audio isn't working for you, than you'll have to do it manually, however...I recommend using a batch file to do these things. I can help with that if you need it.
I'd use these for now (in .bat form) for stripping out audio (going from audio/video to just video:
for %%a in (*.mkv) do "C:\Program Files\MKVToolNix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "..\output\%%a" -A "%%a"
Just audio (audio/video to just audio):
for %%a in (*.mkv) do "C:\Program Files\MKVToolNix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "..\output\%%a" -D "%%a"

[tkwou]

Thanks for your advice but I already know how to do it. I was just hoping there was a simple way so I wouldn't have to. I don't understand why True-HD is still singled out to be converted to Flac when other HD audio tracks are left alone.

[byteshare]

Thanks for your advice but I already know how to do it. I was just hoping there was a simple way so I wouldn't have to. I don't understand why True-HD is still singled out to be converted to Flac when other HD audio tracks are left alone.

I'm not sure either. RipBot could use a little TLC when it comes to audio but the program is great overall so what can you do but wait for updates :)
I know I'd like to see a "none" option for audio in batch mode.

[Atak_Snajpera]

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zat5jd4as3wa1jl/EncodingClient.exe

This version has improved BDO algorithm.
First change is range. It now accepts only values between 0 and 1. (if value is larger then 1 is used)
There is also a new safety limit how much bitrate can be reduced for low complexity chunks (credits and so on). In old version it was 100kbps. Now the limit is 25% of nominal bitrate. In example below you can see that bitrate does not drop below 250kbps in credit section.

https://i.imgsafe.org/4971fcf592.png

[byteshare]

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zat5jd4as3wa1jl/EncodingClient.exe

This version has improved BDO algorithm.
First change is range. It now accepts only values between 0 and 1. (if value is larger then 1 is used)
There is also a new safety limit how much bitrate can be reduced for low complexity chunks (credits and so on). In old version it was 100kbps. Now the limit is 25% of nominal bitrate. In example below you can see that bitrate does not drop below 250kbps in credit section.
This only affects 2-pass and not CQ mode, correct?

The new 2.3 x265 has a few other optimizations for 2-pass mode.
http://x265.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes.html

[Atak_Snajpera]

yes. Only 2-pass needs this bitrate adjustment for each chunk.

[NeFReT]

Could you give a video narration for Ripbot264 distributed encoding?

I could not connect two computers with WiFi, would you tell me how to switch between two computers ?

Translated by Google

[Atak_Snajpera]

I could not connect two computers with WiFi,
Check firewall

[byteshare]

Take your time. I can wait few days...

Other than that one Crash I posted I haven't had any problems with the encoding client. Thank you!

[Atak_Snajpera]

Other than that one Crash I posted I haven't had any problems with the encoding client. Thank you!

I've also experienced similar crash on my pc so definitely I must debug this. What is really annoying that It is so rare :(

[ador250]

why still uses ffdshow? there is no further development & update since 2014..Lavfilters should be a better option..I bring this issue because I had nvidia gpu and want hardware decoding while encoding..want my cpu to give all it's juice to encoding..ffdshow only has intel quicksync no cuvid/cuda support but Lavfilters has all of this..pls consider this option.

[Atak_Snajpera]

why still uses ffdshow? there is no further development & update since 2014..Lavfilters should be a better option..I bring this issue because I had nvidia gpu and want hardware decoding while encoding..want my cpu to give all it's juice to encoding..ffdshow only has intel quicksync no cuvid/cuda support but Lavfilters has all of this..pls consider this option.

Do you realize that during conversion encoding process (x264/x265) is a true bottleneck?

http://i.cubeupload.com/9Vdnim.png

Hardware decoding won't reduce encoding time because CPU spends more than 90% of cycles on encoding.

[skylinekiller]

I would like to upgrade my method of ripping tv DVD box sets. Don't laugh, but my current method is:
1) rip each video title with DVDFAB VOB passthroguh
2) Use MeGUI and use FileIndexer to crop, de-interlace (if required) and add my Decomb to the .avs script
3) Use foobar to make my .AAC sound file
4) Use VDub with misc filters and a two pass to make .avi
5) extract H264 and remux with Yamb
6) Final tv series of .mp4

Does rip bot do this in less steps? If so, does it accurately crop and de-interlace as required?

[Atak_Snajpera]

yes...

[NeFReT]

access violation at address 004c6280 in module encodingserver.exe read of address 00000098

Socet Error # 10061

Connetion refused

I get an error. Can you make a detailed narration? In Turkish. Will tell

[skylinekiller]

Is there a RipBot guide or tutorial that can get me going in the right direction to accomplish this? I only have used it to batch .mkv's into .mp4s. At most the only advanced feature is changing it from 1080p to 720p.

I would like to upgrade my method of ripping tv DVD box sets. Don't laugh, but my current method is:
1) rip each video title with DVDFAB VOB passthroguh
2) Use MeGUI and use FileIndexer to crop, de-interlace (if required) and add my Decomb to the .avs script
3) Use foobar to make my .AAC sound file
4) Use VDub with misc filters and a two pass to make .avi
5) extract H264 and remux with Yamb
6) Final tv series of .mp4

Does rip bot do this in less steps? If so, does it accurately crop and de-interlace as required?

[skylinekiller]

By the way, in RipBot, is 22 CRF an acceptable setting for a DVD TV series rip? I'ts an older TV show, I Dream of Jeannie. So not a lot of fast motion scenes. I have been doing 2 pass 2048KBS on all my TV shows, regardless of BD or DVD, new or old. From what I am reading, I am overkilling the DVD with 2048 kbs on old DVD TV Shows.

[Atak_Snajpera]

By the way, in RipBot, is 22 CRF an acceptable setting for a DVD TV series rip?
You have to decide. Do some test encodes and see for yourself.

[byteshare]

@Atak_Snajpera I know it would be a lot of work, and I'm not trying to pressure, but have you looked at using newer mvtools? https://github.com/pinterf/mvtools/releases/tag/2.7.9.22
It includes some speedup improvements for MDegrain1-6. I tried using it with RipBot and it errored out so I think maybe it has something to do with another dependency?
If it can't/won't ever happen no worries, I use the program a lot as is.
HandBrake doesn't even have a denoise as good as mdegrain in RipBot :)

[brumsky]

Atak_Snajpera, would it be possible to add a some CLI support to ripbot? I'd like to be able to add encodes to the list.

Something like the follow command

ripbot source dest x265 audio1 5.1 ac3

It would ideally use the default HEVC profile. I'm hoping to automate this with a powershell script I have been using.

Thanks love Ripbot264!!

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Atak_Snajpera I know it would be a lot of work, and I'm not trying to pressure, but have you looked at using newer mvtools? https://github.com/pinterf/mvtools/releases/tag/2.7.9.22
It includes some speedup improvements for MDegrain1-6. I tried using it with RipBot and it errored out so I think maybe it has something to do with another dependency?
If it can't/won't ever happen no worries, I use the program a lot as is.
HandBrake doesn't even have a denoise as good as mdegrain in RipBot :)

Indeed latest version is 23% faster than old one on my SandyBridge CPU.
Just copy mvtools2.dll from x86 folder and it will work.

@brumsky
I will think about it.

[byteshare]

Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
I downloaded: https://github.com/pinterf/mvtools/releases/tag/2.7.14.22
copied the mvtools2.dll from the x86 folder in the .7z to my C:\RiptBot\Tools\AviSynth plugins\mvtools\ folder (copied the one in their to somewhere else and then over write the one there.

When I try to preview:
LoadPlugin: unable to load "C:\RiptBot\Tools\AviSynth plugins\mvtools\mvtools2.dll", error=0xc1
(C:\Temp\RiptBot264temp\job384_preview.avs, line 33)

Go ahead and try to encode anyways, and during the "Please Wait...Preparing chunks..." I get:
Application error: Exception EFOpenError in module EncodingClient.exe at 0002411A.
Cannot open file "C:\Temp\RiptBot264temp\job384\info.txt". The system cannot find the file specified.

Tried this for giggles with the x64 one too.
This is my Denoise code (default):
#Denoise
Loadplugin("C:\RipBot\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)

Copy the original mvtools2.dll back in and no problems. If it makes a difference I'm on Windows 7 SP1 with a Haswell microarchitecture (4th generation).

[Atak_Snajpera]

@Byteshare
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1796749#post1796749

[byteshare]

@Byteshare
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1796749#post1796749

Thank you. Sorry I'm so daft sometimes. Just had to install:
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x86
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x64
Which I had done on my other computers but not the issue one...had been a while since I had to do that so I forgot :(
:thanks:

[slalom]

@Atak
for a few days now, when I search for a cover, I get a list with names and covers, but the first column with the year is empty

[Atak_Snajpera]

They have once again changed something. I will take a look tomorrow.

[slalom]

They have once again changed something. I will take a look tomorrow.
Fixed! the best support! :thanks:

[soneca]

In this latest update mvtools has been updated to version 2.7.9.22.
Atak, why did you choose this version instead of the last version, 2.7.14.2?

[jonah]

Having an issue here with DE that I'm sure is particularly simple.

Got an encode going on the main PC. Two other pc's on the LAN- one is helping with the encode, but the other one just sits there flicking between "Idle" and "Encoding". Over and over and it's infuriating.

It's a clean install. Any ideas as to the issue?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Try to capture error message in EncodingServer app. (screenshot)

[guest]

Having an issue here with DE that I'm sure is particularly simple.

Got an encode going on the main PC. Two other pc's on the LAN- one is helping with the encode, but the other one just sits there flicking between "Idle" and "Encoding". Over and over and it's infuriating.

It's a clean install. Any ideas as to the issue?

I had a similar thing happen to me the other day......check that you are using the same Windows log in password on EVERY pc.

Worked for me....

[Ronski]

I had all my servers doing that yesterday, then I noticed it was trying to encode one that had already been done. Don't know if I'd inadvertently ticked the check box, but the servers were complaining the file was missing which it would be as I'd deleted it. But surely the main program should simply skip it if the files missing rather than trying to encode it?

I'm sure I've mentioned this before.

[brumsky]

Indeed latest version is 23% faster than old one on my SandyBridge CPU.
Just copy mvtools2.dll from x86 folder and it will work.

@brumsky
I will think about it.

Thank you! Just a very simple way to add encodes to the list would be perfect!

On another note, I've been getting errors with some videos when attempting to do the autocrop feature.

I get this for avs2avi.exe.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: avs2avi.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 40eb0522
Fault Module Name: msvcrt.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.0.9600.17415
Fault Module Timestamp: 54504b2e
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000c24e
OS Version: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.400.8
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 5861
Additional Information 2: 5861822e1919d7c014bbb064c64908b2
Additional Information 3: 6ee2
Additional Information 4: 6ee2432e64e99bdcea5e4be767a3b1a2

Read our privacy statement online:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=280262

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:
C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt


along with this error, which makes sense as the auto crop fails.

http://i.imgur.com/tv1NiNb.jpg

Thanks again!

[byteshare]

In this latest update mvtools has been updated to version 2.7.9.22.
Atak, why did you choose this version instead of the last version, 2.7.14.2?
I manually updated to 2.7.14.2 and having no issues with this version.

http://i.imgur.com/tv1NiNb.jpg
Do you have:
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x86
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x64
Installed? (Some say just x86 is enough) If not try that. I've had issues like that before.

[brumsky]

Do you have:
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x86
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x64
Installed? (Some say just x86 is enough) If not try that. I've had issues like that before.

Yeah I have both installed.
x86 14.0.23918
x64 14.0.24215

it doesn't happen on everything, I have found a pattern either...

[byteshare]

Yeah I have both installed.
x86 14.0.23918
x64 14.0.24215

it doesn't happen on everything, I have found a pattern either...
I'm on:
x86: 14.0.23.026.0
x64: 14.0.23.026.0
Those are the versions you should be on if you install from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
Unless you did the update: Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable Update 3 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53587
If it is just some files and not other than find a file that is affected and post the media info to see if maybe there is something else I/we can see about the video.

[brumsky]

I'm on:
x86: 14.0.23.026.0
x64: 14.0.23.026.0
Those are the versions you should be on if you install from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
Unless you did the update: Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable Update 3 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53587
If it is just some files and not other than find a file that is affected and post the media info to see if maybe there is something else I/we can see about the video.

Ok I'll dig one up. Thanks.

[tkwou]

Hi Atak_Snajpera, I opened Ripbot264 today and it took an update. Now distributed encoding is down. It remains checked but encoding client doesn't open when you click START.

[tkwou]

Sorry jumped the gun. A couple of restarts and it's working again.

[Atak_Snajpera]

New auto crop method beta test.

Main features
-Slightly faster (1.5x-2x faster)
-more accurate (less chance for over cropped frame)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/d73d7kkwkor7100/Ripbot_new_autocrop_algo.7z

[soneca]

On my pc it was about 30% faster.
Wanted to test with a dark film, I remember the autocrop wrongly cut the movie Underworld, unfortunately I no longer have this BD with me.

[Atak_Snajpera]

The speed up will bigger if you have 16 Thread CPU (for example Ryzen 7). Realistically it is around 50%.

[soneca]

Does this greater accuracy also occur in dark films? Usually the most problematic for AutoCrop.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I've tested with Underworld (2003) and borders where correctly detected.