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

[lemaireus]

I have already copied the error log above, at the bottom of page 865.

I encode into x265, two passes, and always encode multichannel lossless master audio tracks into 640k AC3.

It's very frustrating getting that kind of an error at the end of 10:34 hours of work. This is the third file on which I am getting that error. Apparently the audio encoder does not encode DTS-MA track into AC3, which is why mkvmerge cannot find that track. Yes, I have checked the job folder each time, and there has never been an 'Encoded_Audio_1.ac3' file in the folder each time I get this error.

If Ripbot had not immediately deleted the encoded video, then I would have encoded and muxed the audio track myself in cases of such errors.

Atak, would you please consider that option: leave the encoded video intact in the job folder, and delete that only when all the temporary files are deleted? Such a simple option can save hours and hours of work going to waste in case of an error such as the one I posted above, and also in cases where the error is 'video.265 could not be opened.' (I used to get that sometimes in the past, not anymore).

Please leave the encoded video intact in the job folder for the file being encoded, for a user to delete as and when they please.

[slalom]

If Ripbot had not immediately deleted the encoded video, then I would have encoded and muxed the audio track myself in cases of such errors.
Run CombineAllChunks.cmd in chunks folder to get the video

[stryker412]

I posted my error log on the previous page too. Not sure why all the sudden I'm getting no audio and the chapters cannot be read.

[slalom]

Download the file from the first page and update that
That's what I do when I have trouble. Replace your files except .ini's

[GZZ]

Cosmetic Change. Can the text in the DE window be breaked into 2 lines or can the window be enlarged. As some of the text is truncated until I resize the column on every DE start.

https://imgur.com/YMFB3tb

[lemaireus]

Run CombineAllChunks.cmd in chunks folder to get the video

Thank you, Slalom. The question for a relative novice with cmd is 'how'?

May I assume that by 'chunks folder' you mean the job folder, thus, for example, 'job1'? How to I run 'CombineAllChunks.cmd' in that folder. A run down in three to four steps will be very helpful, and much appreciated.

Thanks a lot for what I hope will soon become a working suggestion.

[stryker412]

Atak, any suggestions?

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884279#post1884279

[Atak_Snajpera]

Atak, any suggestions?

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884279#post1884279

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884278#post1884278

[lemaireus]

Run CombineAllChunks.cmd in chunks folder to get the video

Slalom, I did a bit of work on your suggestion, and there is an issue. I think you are working with the assumption that I am using distributed encoding. I am not. I am encoding my video on the one machine I have.

Atak, would you please consider the option of leaving the encoded video intact in the job folder, and delete that only when all the temporary files are deliberately deleted by a user? Such a simple option can save hours and hours of work from going to waste in case of an audio or video muxing error (Encoded_Audio_1.ac3 cannot be opened, or video.265 cannot be opened).

Here are references back to my previous two posts on the issue, with the first showing the error log:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884332#post1884332
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884333#post1884333

[slalom]

Slalom, I did a bit of work on your suggestion, and there is an issue. I think you are working with the assumption that I am using distributed encoding. I am not. I am encoding my video on the one machine I have.
Actually, yes I was :o

[stryker412]

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884278#post1884278


Yes the contents of that file were in my post.

[GZZ]

I see FFMS2 Video decoder is default. What is the difference and benefits from one another FFMS2 vs. LSMASH ?

[lemaireus]

This is becoming routine, and therefore very, very frustrating. Got the error once again today; each time I have to encode DTS/DTS-MA audio into AC3, at the end of a two-pass encode I get the message:

Error: The file 'E:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job2\Encoded_Audio_1.ac3' could not be opened for reading: open file error.

I can copy the entire log file, if you like.

Atak, the solution I have suggested is really a straightforward one, even if it takes time writing some fresh code, but it will save a lot of people a lot of frustration if they could simply pick up the encoded video and mux is manually in case of these errors, rather than having to do the entire encode from scratch.

Please allow Ripbot to leave the encoded video in the job folder, till a user deletes that job folder manually. That is all it will take to save hours and hours of encoding from being flushed down the drain.

Keeping my fingers crossed for a positive response from you.

[byteshare]

I see FFMS2 Video decoder is default. What is the difference and benefits from one another FFMS2 vs. LSMASH ?
LSMASH is the newer one added to RipBot, so if you never had any issues with FFMS2 I'd use that, but LSMASH works differently so that if you have issues with frame accuracy on a source such as MPEG2 then use that one.

This is becoming routine, and therefore very, very frustrating. Got the error once again today; each time I have to encode DTS/DTS-MA audio into AC3, at the end of a two-pass encode I get the message:

Error: The file 'E:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job2\Encoded_Audio_1.ac3' could not be opened for reading: open file error.

I can copy the entire log file, if you like.

Atak, the solution I have suggested is really a straightforward one, even if it takes time writing some fresh code, but it will save a lot of people a lot of frustration if they could simply pick up the encoded video and mux is manually in case of these errors, rather than having to do the entire encode from scratch.

Please allow Ripbot to leave the encoded video in the job folder, till a user deletes that job folder manually. That is all it will take to save hours and hours of encoding from being flushed down the drain.

Keeping my fingers crossed for a positive response from you.
Have you posted a sample of the source here?
Does it happen consistently on the same source, aka if you ran a sample that had an issue again and again does it happen each time?

[lemaireus]

LSMASH is the newer one added to RipBot, so if you never had any issues with FFMS2 I'd use that, but LSMASH works differently so that if you have issues with frame accuracy on a source such as MPEG2 then use that one.

Have you posted a sample of the source here?
Does it happen consistently on the same source, aka if you ran a sample that had an issue again and again does it happen each time?

The fist section of the reply was to GZZ, but in my case, I never had problems of the kind I do before the move to LSMASH. Frame accuracy was never an issue with me. My sources are usually BD/BDRemuxes and never did I ever have a problem with FFMS2 in any audio conversions.

The issue has been coming up since the move to LSMASH. I have had the error thrice since that shift, with three difference sources. Common to these three sources was a DTS audio track: lossless DTS-MA tracks in two sources, and 1504k DTS track in the third source. I haven't yet tried converting .thd audio. Will give that a run through and post an update.

I shall do a thorough test tomorrow of samples with three different kinds of audios: DTS-MA, DTS, and TrueHD. Shall post the results after that, and will upload a sample in case that is necessary for analysis.

More tomorrow. Desperately looking for a solution to this because the problem is intensely frustrating: it ruins the encode right at the end of two passes, when it's time to mux the audio-video streams.

[stryker412]

Ripbot (newest version) is not picking up the audio track or the chapter files in my latest TV show rip. The tracks are indeed there as listed in MediaInfo and using VLC. Anyone else seeing this?

[GZZ]

The fist section of the reply was to GZZ, but in my case, I never had problems of the kind I do before the move to LSMASH. Frame accuracy was never an issue with me. My sources are usually BD/BDRemuxes and never did I ever have a problem with FFMS2 in any audio conversions.


Thanks for the explanation, though there was some extra decoding speed hidden in LSMASH, but if it just an alternative to those who have frame accuracy issue, then I leave it a FFMS2 as it has worked fine so far.

[sneaker_ger]

You will always find samples that make problems in L-SMASH but work fine in ffms2 and vice versa. You can't win.

[duffbeer]

99.9% of the time FFMS2 works perfectly. LSMASH has caused massive problems.

[Atak_Snajpera]

99.9% of the time FFMS2 works perfectly. LSMASH has caused massive problems.

Ffms2 is more broken than i thought. Latest version of lsmash
(Not included in ripbot) fixed vc1 decoding and that random skips in avc and hevc. Just test your files in my tool seektester to see what i mean.

[lemaireus]

Update regarding the following posts:

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884332#post1884332
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884333#post1884333
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884690#post1884690
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884700#post1884700

I ran the tests and here are the results: every encode that involved audio encoding on a setting other than 'copy stream' failed. None of the job folders of the encodes which gave the error contained the new encoded audio file which should have been there. The inference was obvious: that EAC3 wasn't kicking in at the start of the encoding process because, most likely, the file with the command line code meant to start EAC3 might have become corrupted.

Once the problem was diagnosed, it was the small matter of testing a solution. I downloaded a fresh copy of Ripbot, updated it, and ran the test encodes again, and everything is now working fine.

Essentially, I went through all the frustration I did because of the corruption of the file with the command line that was meant to start EAC3 for encoding audio, and which stopped working at some stage.

Thank you very much for your suggestions, and I'll keep my fingers crossed that the encodes proceed smoothly hereafter.

[byteshare]

Ffms2 is more broken than i thought. Latest version of lsmash
(Not included in ripbot) fixed vc1 decoding and that random skips in avc and hevc. Just test your files in my tool seektester to see what i mean.
I'd be willing to try LSmash again once the new version is added to RB, if it fixed the seek/frame issues that were happening before.
How is FFMS2 broken? I'm not seeing issues with it at the moment.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I'd be willing to try LSmash again once the new version is added to RB, if it fixed the seek/frame issues that were happening before.
How is FFMS2 broken? I'm not seeing issues with it at the moment.

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1884507#post1884507

[stryker412]

Tried a number of different things such as older versions of RipBot, manually updating eac3to/mkvtoolnix/etc. Nothing has worked. Been using RipBot for years and now it won't load any audio tracks from this rip. Of all things... It's the recent Scooby Doo BD release. The audio tracks are there (they play fine in VLC). At a loss here.

[cypher007]

hello, awesome program been using it for years.

but I have one feature request. if I have an MKV with a DTS-MA sound track I would like to be able to recode it with just DTS core. I can do this with a pure blu ray using ripbot as it will let me select core. but it seems I have no options like this when dealing with MKV's.

[slalom]

Use tsMuxer to get the core

Once the problem was diagnosed, it was the small matter of testing a solution. I downloaded a fresh copy of Ripbot, updated it, and ran the test encodes again, and everything is now working fine.

Essentially, I went through all the frustration I did because of the corruption of the file with the command line that was meant to start EAC3 for encoding audio, and which stopped working at some stage.

Thank you very much for your suggestions, and I'll keep my fingers crossed that the encodes proceed smoothly hereafter.
Told you! :D

[Viper714]

So, I just finished encoding a 4K movie, The Mummy 3" and it took 6 hours and 40 minutes to encode in x265. Should I do 264 instead. That is way to looong with four machines running in DE. I can normally do 1080 blu rays in x264 in about 45-60 minutes. I just encode video and do a copy stream on audio. What is the best setting for encoding 4K movies? Any suggestions are helpful...

Below is a sample of my conversion times. Disregard the Aquaman times it was a test only.
https://i.imgur.com/DpV4AFR.png

[Atak_Snajpera]

There is no best settings ... 4x pixels to encode plus x265 Has to take a long time.

[stryker412]

Atak, I downloaded Staxrip and was able to load up the source files without problem. Any idea why Ripbot cannot pull up the audio or chapters for these?

https://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1884279&postcount=17298
https://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1884823&postcount=17324

[Atak_Snajpera]

Maybe filename Has some non standard (unicode)characters.

[byteshare]

Maybe filename Has some non standard (unicode)characters.
Yeah, I setup a regex batch (antRenamer) to strip those from my files before I add them to RipBot.

[emmaurilio]

Hi all!

I´m having some problems with encoding with RipBot1.21 and above. I tried to find a topic about this problem without success. The solution may be quite simple, but I don't know a lot about the details of the encoder plugins. That´s why I ask your help.

The files bellow will show better what is happening, but in short the final file had a green frame added after each normal frame of the original video.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a2eu6dlanqr2plh/AAD3TpZg-Xls2EkTlwcFVxY_a?dl=0

The encoding is working well until version 1.20. I suspect that the problem is occurring with the AviSynth.

Can someone help me?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Hi all!

I´m having some problems with encoding with RipBot1.21 and above. I tried to find a topic about this problem without success. The solution may be quite simple, but I don't know a lot about the details of the encoder plugins. That´s why I ask your help.

The files bellow will show better what is happening, but in short the final file had a green frame added after each normal frame of the original video.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a2eu6dlanqr2plh/AAD3TpZg-Xls2EkTlwcFVxY_a?dl=0

The encoding is working well until version 1.20. I suspect that the problem is occurring with the AviSynth.

Can someone help me?

Will be fixed in next auto update. Be patient.

Temporary hack -> rename .mpg to .ts

[emmaurilio]

Will be fixed in next auto update. Be patient.

Temporary hack -> rename .mpg to .ts


Thanks for the answer!

I'm patient :) , but just to understand how it works... is there a prediction or even vague idea of the timing of this next update? I am using version 1.20, so I disabled autoupdate and because that I will not know when it occurs. :/

Thanks.

[emmaurilio]

Will be fixed in next auto update. Be patient.

Temporary hack -> rename .mpg to .ts


It works!!! Thanks!

[POTI]

I have an odd one. It just started happening yesterday. I am running win 10 all up to date. I started getting this error.
AVC Import results: 159138 samples (481657 NALUs) - Slices: 1460 I 53052 P 104626 B - 160553 SEI - 1414 IDR
Stream uses forward prediction - stream CTS offset: 2 frames
Opening file C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\Encoded_Audio_1.aac failed
Error importing C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\Encoded_Audio_1.aac:lang=und: Requested URL is not valid or cannot be found

I checked to make sure that the temp folder is shared and it is. The Encoded_Audio_1.aac is missing. I can go in and play the job and it all appears and sounds ok. Anything else you need from me to look into this? Happening on multiple encodes.

[ReinerSchweinlin]

I noticed machines running WIn10 slow down encoding when headless left alone. As soon as I log into them with Remote Desktop, the pace steps up. If I manually set the priority of ffmpeg/x265 to "above normal" - I get full usage of CPU - until the next chunk and it all slows down again.
Win7 machines in my swarm don't show this behaviour.
The win10 Machines are already cleaned from most background processes.

I tried setting "priority above normal" in the server settings, but this doesn´t seem to change anything.

Any advice?

[byteshare]

I noticed machines running WIn10 slow down encoding when headless left alone. As soon as I log into them with Remote Desktop, the pace steps up. If I manually set the priority of ffmpeg/x265 to "above normal" - I get full usage of CPU - until the next chunk and it all slows down again.
Win7 machines in my swarm don't show this behaviour.
The win10 Machines are already cleaned from most background processes.

I tried setting "priority above normal" in the server settings, but this doesn´t seem to change anything.

Any advice?
Leave them logged in? I just leave mine logged in (not locked) and don't see an issue with the CPU like that.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I noticed machines running WIn10 slow down encoding when headless left alone. As soon as I log into them with Remote Desktop, the pace steps up. If I manually set the priority of ffmpeg/x265 to "above normal" - I get full usage of CPU - until the next chunk and it all slows down again.
Win7 machines in my swarm don't show this behaviour.
The win10 Machines are already cleaned from most background processes.

I tried setting "priority above normal" in the server settings, but this doesn´t seem to change anything.

Any advice?

Maybe it is some power saving strategy in win10? I can't help here because I'm using only win7.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/power-throttling-windows-10

[ReinerSchweinlin]

Thanx to both of you for replying.
@byteshare
I can´t leave all of them logged in, so this sadly is no option for me.
@Atak
Would it be possible to implement "priority above normal" for the startup of the servers`?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Just use Process Hacker and save process priority for ffmpeg.exe and x264.exe/x265.exe
https://i.imgsafe.org/9f/9f77c38193.png

[silentstrife]

Hello,

I am a long time user/reader, first time poster. Great program, have been using it for a very long time. I just got the recent update and after processing a movie, I have no video, just a cover picture, and audio only. I have tried using both of the 2 new encoders and set them across the board for the options. Has any one had this happen or reported yet? I haven't seen anything in the last few pages.

Also, when i tried to use DE, it failed on all of my video conversion attempts. Unfortunately i didn't screen shot or see any error logs to provide.

Error Log:
D:\>"D:\Blu Ray Tools\RipBot264v1.24.0\EncodingClient.exe" "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1_EncodingClient.meta"

D:\>"D:\Blu Ray Tools\RipBot264v1.24.0\tools\mkvtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "D:\video.mkv" --compression 0:none --title "video" --default-duration 0:24000/1001fps "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.265" --compression 0:none --language 0:eng --aac-is-sbr 0:0 "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\Encoded_Audio_1.aac" --chapters "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\chapters.txt"
mkvmerge v37.0.0 ('Leave It') 64-bit
Error: The file 'D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.265' could not be opened for reading: open file error.
-------------------------

Elapsed Time: 02h:58m:03s

Manually combine the chuncks, ran Job1_MuxFiles.bat, found output video at expected location, opened to find no video at all but has audio.

RB Ssettings:
MPEG-2 and Other set to LSMASH, the others are set to FFMS2.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Try again with new fresh job .

[ReinerSchweinlin]

Hey Atak,

thank you for the suggestion, didn´t know that process hacker can do that. A first quick try didn´t help though. Still dropping CPU Usage when left alone.. For some reason I cannot change the power scheme permanently, Windows always reverts it after a few hours. Seems to be a standard behaviour, since I discovered this on several WIN10 machines which are completely different (win64/32/home/pro/etc, different CPUs..). I will have to do more investigation on this.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I hope you left process hacker running in background because otherwise those processes will run with standard normal priority.

[silentstrife]

Try again with new fresh job .

Hi Atk,

Yes that was a fresh job. The only thing i know happened was the update from version 1.24 to 1.25. I might just go back to 1.24 and disable the auto-update. If you can think of any info i can provide to help fix this issue please let me know.

RB Job Settings - Profile - MA10 X.X 10 bit progressive HEVC, CQ 20, Denoise - MDegrain2 + KNLMeansCL, audio 2.0

Basic System info:
Windows 10 Pro V.1903
CPU - i7-5960x
RAM - 32GB
GFX - RTX 2070

[LigH]

@ReinerSchweinlin: Microsoft SysInternals' "ProcessExplorer" can do that too. It is my default Task Manager now.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Hi Atk,

Yes that was a fresh job. The only thing i know happened was the update from version 1.24 to 1.25. I might just go back to 1.24 and disable the auto-update. If you can think of any info i can provide to help fix this issue please let me know.

RB Job Settings - Profile - MA10 X.X 10 bit progressive HEVC, CQ 20, Denoise - MDegrain2 + KNLMeansCL, audio 2.0

Basic System info:
Windows 10 Pro V.1903
CPU - i7-5960x
RAM - 32GB
GFX - RTX 2070

Compress whole job folder (without big files like video.mkv or audio files) and send IT to me. I will take a look...

[ReinerSchweinlin]

I hope you left process hacker running in background because otherwise those processes will run with standard normal priority.

Of course
@LigH
Thanx for the info.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Of course
@LigH
Thanx for the info.

Have you verified that process in fact gets higher priority?