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

[zirkov]

Here's one of my example mp4, http://www.mediafire.com/?dzhfbc1oedx

[malgates]

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5883/new1zy6.th.png (http://img520.imageshack.us/my.php?image=new1zy6.png)
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Big THX

[Atak_Snajpera]

Here's one of my example mp4, http://www.mediafire.com/?dzhfbc1oedx
Remove first dot from file name [Cyber12 . com]_Bounen_no_Xamdou_04.mp4
correct file name -> [Cyber12_com]_Bounen_no_Xamdou_04.mp4

[zirkov]

Thanks you, its working fine right now. Btw any tips for inserting image for 3-5 sec at opening, my file always get ripped by another website.

[poisondeathray]

Btw any tips for inserting image for 3-5 sec at opening, my file always get ripped by another website.

You can do this through avisynth. Just google "logo, watermark, avisynth." You can add overlays, images, or just a small logo if you want. Here is a sample guide (there are many others floating around):
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=48608

In ripbot264, when you push properties, it shows you the avisynth script. Just manually add it to your script.

[zirkov]

I tried to follow animesuki's tutor but it alwasy give me "Frame size dont match". Oh well I need learn about avisynth, btw this ripbot save me time, thanks for releasing it ^^

[leemjas]

[QUOTE=Atak_Snajpera;1170848]1-ref


Good question and I think I know the answer :)

First I go through the properties tab and pick the option build in picture and then I go to the 3 dot subtitle tab and pick the subtitles again.

As i mentioned previously the subtitles display correctly but are not switchable they are burned in the movie.

So what am I doing wrong?

[hdpete]

Please can someone tell me how I can convert the single flac .thd 5.1 audio file created in Ripbot264's temp folder to 6 seperate channel wavs? As I have SurCode DTS, I want to turn the original TrueHD converted to FLAC by Ripbot into a 1536kbps DTS soundtrack, but I need the individual 6 channels as WAVs to load into SurCode.

Thanks for your advice.

P.S. I've tried conversion with dbPowerAmp, but there's a 4gb wav limit.

[BZeeme]

I got RipBot264 (v1.10.5) working on my Vista machine but decided to put it on a spare WinXP computer so I can just let it run until done. On the WinXP, after RipBot264 muxes the bluray to MKV, MPC runs and displays an error message about Directshowsource can't open video.mkv due to a certification failure (getinfo.avs, line 20). Any suggestion as to how to correct?

[dirk362]

I've had plenty of success with BluRay to MKV, and all worked fine with exact sizes, great quality etc. RipBot264 has been an eye-opener of an application that does exactly what people want without overcomplicating things.

I'm now trying a few of my HDDVDs and I'm hitting a brick wall - they all seem to oversize !

If I take an example - Serenity HD-DVD

EVO, 1 video track, 6 audio tracks, 28 subtitle tracks, 1:59:01
"MainMovie"
1: Joined EVO file
2: Chapters, 20 chapters with names
3: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9) with pulldown flags
4: E-AC3, English, 5.1 channels, 1536kbit/s, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB, 25ms

Audio track 4 gets converted into FLAC file as per log below:-

[a04] Extracting audio track number 4...
[a04] Removing dialog normalization...
[a04] Decoding with DirectShow (Nero Audio Decoder 2)...
[a04] DirectShow reports 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 48khz
[a04] Applying RAW/PCM delay...
[a04] Encoding FLAC...
[a04] Creating file "D:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio.1.eac3.flac"...
Video track 3 contains 171228 frames.
eac3to processing took 16 minutes, 51 seconds.
Done.

The resultant FLAC file is 2.76Gb in size. This should leave 5.24Gb for Video

RipBot264 insists if I set 2-Pass, Lock @ 8150, that bitrate is 11093. This of course creates a massively oversized file of 11.9Gb, which even taking into account the 2.76Gb for Audio makes it 9.14Gb for Video, which is wrong as well.

I'd thought the bitrate calculation (please correct me if I'm wrong) for x264 is something like

Video Bitrate = ((Size - (Audio * Length )) / Length) * 8

Which for this disc would be ((8345600 – (192.25 * 7141)) / 7141) * 8
which equates to a Video Bitrate = 7811

Is there something obvious I'm missing here around HDDVD and RipBot264 ? I'm currently trying a different film to check this is reproduceable.

Interestingly (perhaps not) MeGUI reckons that video bitrate should be 6249

I guess the obvious question would be can someone post the details of the calculation method(s) within RipBot264 ?

[Atak_Snajpera]

First I go through the properties tab and pick the option build in picture and then I go to the 3 dot subtitle tab and pick the subtitles again.

As i mentioned previously the subtitles display correctly but are not switchable they are burned in the movie.

So what am I doing wrong?

I knew from the begining what you did wrong :) "build in picture" means "they are burned in the movie."

dirk362
What happens if you encode audio to AC3 instead of FLAC?

[Atak_Snajpera]

On the WinXP, after RipBot264 muxes the bluray to MKV, MPC runs and displays an error message about Directshowsource can't open video.mkv due to a certification failure (getinfo.avs, line 20).
Remove all codec packs, Install latest Windows Media Player , FFDSHOW , HAAli media splitter and AviSynth

[dirk362]

Atak,

If I encode audio to AC3 instead of FLAC, this creates a "crap" audio file - by this I mean its all there etc, but the audio is choppy, has "clicking" in it for want of a better description. I've never determined why Aften always seems to create bad encodes for me. The PC this is all running on has never had anything other than RipBot264 and Nero 7 installed to ensure I'm not inheriting any bad codec packs etc.

But in terms of output size, I do end up with a valid 2-pass locked to 8150 encode and its the correct size. So going with AC3 640Kbps its correct. Keeping the better audio within FLAC, its wrong.

As a quick sanity check, I am checking 1.10.4 to the muxing stage to see what it states as the bitrate. This is using the versions of eac3to etc that were also in 1.10.4, which do have slight differences (e.g. RipBot264 states length is 1:58:46 for the joined EVO files, whereas eac3to correctly still shows 1:59:1 in the log files). This also states same bitrate as 1.10.5 of 11093

If I therefore wish to progress with HD-DVD then it appears I need to stick with AC3 and therefore I'll have to determine what is breaking the re-encoding of the audio - I do so hate having to rebuild the PC again, but its probably the safest option. I may also try out a VM first just to sanity check the Aften issue once and for all.

If there are any logs etc that would be useful, let me know. I've kept a copy of the working files from the encode (just not the video.mkv and the .flac file to save a bit of disk space)

[Atak_Snajpera]

If I encode audio to AC3 instead of FLAC, this creates a "crap" audio file - by this I mean its all there etc, but the audio is choppy, has "clicking" in it for want of a better description.
Did you check if .flac is free of "clicking" ? Maybe source .flac is already broken and therefore aften produces corrupted AC3? I've noticed that eac3to uses Nero Decoder. Could you check with libav (remove nero)

Regarding file size with flac audio. I will do some test letter.

[dirk362]

The FLAC file is fine (checking once its been demuxed) and no issues with audio clicking or drop outs etc.

I will do as you suggest and remove Nero so that libav is used, and post results (will also try with force eac3to to use libav as well just for "intersting" comparison)

[dirk362]

OK. There turns out there is nothing wrong with the AC3 conversion - it was my SPDIF settings. Somewhere along the line something (possibly me in a fit of stupitity) changed the SPDIF Restrict Sample Rate - this had been set to 48kHz only, so 44kHz wasn't enabled. If I remove the Restriction, output of the converted AC3 file plays fine. So using libav works fine to convert E-AC3 to AC3 640Kbps rather than using FLAC.

There is still the issue of oversized output when using FLAC though. I'd still rather use FLAC for the audio for better quality, so if your testing does turn up a fix, that would be great.

[Wishbringer]

I am just uploading a cutted 10sec clip (with tsMuxeR 1.8.4b):
http://www.mediafire.com/?ii9cqpbxvcp

It's from a BluRay-Disk.
When selecting stream on BD, I only get Russian TrueHD and Japanese AC3 in dropdown-menu, all other Audio tracks in DTS are not shown.
When making this little example clip, and selecting clip from hdd, all audio tracks are shown in menu.

So there are two thoughts:
Maybe RipBot has two identification routines for BD and m2ts files, and the BD routine don't "see" the DTS tracks,
or tsMuxeR alters the stream that RipBot can handle DTS.
But if 2nd thought is true, it's worthless to upload clips made with tsMuxeR, because Atak_Snajpera only sees working solution and can't narrow down on problem.
Is there another way to make clips? (I cant upload original 44GB stream ;-) )

[Atak_Snajpera]

There is still the issue of oversized output when using FLAC though.
I will try to fix that.

I'd still rather use FLAC for the audio for better quality, so if your testing does turn up a fix, that would be great.
I would rather use AC3 640kbps audio instead of flac. I prefer better quality video than audio. FLAC audio eats to much bits from video.

When selecting stream on BD, I only get Russian TrueHD and Japanese AC3 in dropdown-menu, all other Audio tracks in DTS are not shown.
Show me what you have in Blu-Ray_structure_info.txt (do not use forum's attachment option!)

[~bT~]

First I go through the properties tab and pick the option build in picture and then I go to the 3 dot subtitle tab and pick the subtitles again.

As i mentioned previously the subtitles display correctly but are not switchable they are burned in the movie.

So what am I doing wrong?
u dont need to go to properties tab.
select the subs like in the pics below..

http://maxupload.com/img/C6DF3C7B.jpg
http://maxupload.com/img/772069BA.jpg

[dbone1026]

I have been using Ripbot to convert my Blu Ray/HD DVD rips to mkv, and it has worked like a charm. Now I have set my sights on my standard dvd rips. I was looking to convert them to MP4. Any suggestions on the best settings to use? I would like to maintain as much quality as possible, but try to lock the file size to no more than 2GB'ish. I have an Xbox/PS3 that I could use to stream, but most likely I will use Popcorn Hour or SageTV Extender. Unfortunately I am in the process of running Cat5e wiring in my house, but it probably won't be done for another few weeks, so I won't be able to test the files out on my HDTVs yet (the reason why I thought I would ask now what settings everyone would recommend, don't want to run the risk that I create a bunch of files only to then test them out on my tvs in a few weeks and find out they look like crap). My HDTVs are 42' and 60'. I was thinking about using the following settings:

Video -> 4.1 HD ->2-Pass->2000MB (or should I just use Constant Quality and figure out which one gets me close to 2000MB?)
Audio -> 5.1 CT AAC-LC 320 kbps [abr]
Crop -> Automatically
Size -> Do Not Resize -> 720 x 480 (should I resize to HD-Full/HD-Ready or does that not accomplish anything since these are not HD dvds?)

[~bT~]

^ The below is what I would do..

Video - L4.1 @ 21 or 22 CQ in MKV (PH plays MKV)
Audio - AAC @ 192 or 256 kbps (320 IMO is overkill)
Crop and resize to SD-PC if source is DVD files as its not clear from your post above as you mention rips..

[dbone1026]

Dirk - I have had the same problem. I have converted 2 HD DVD movies, both using same presets (locking file size at 8150MB). First movie came out at 11.7GB, the second movie came out at 7.93GB. It appears the that first file suffered from the same issue that you had, second file came out perfect. I am going to try and encode a third file tonight, lets see what result I get.

[Ajax_Undone]

Depends on source the better quality of source the bigger file you get regardless of set size... Had the same problem with Divx about a year ago...

[Selur]

@Atak_Snajpera: What formula did you end up for calculating the muxing overhead for .m2ts files?

[leemjas]

u dont need to go to properties tab.
select the subs like in the pics below..

http://maxupload.com/img/C6DF3C7B.jpg
http://maxupload.com/img/772069BA.jpg

Thanks you have been a great help ..

[BZeeme]

"On the WinXP, after RipBot264 muxes the bluray to MKV, MPC runs and displays an error message about Directshowsource can't open video.mkv due to a certification failure (getinfo.avs, line 20)."

Remove all codec packs, Install latest Windows Media Player , FFDSHOW , HAAli media splitter and AviSynth


No codec packs. Upgraded from WMP10 to WMP11 - problem corrected. Thank you.

[lmao2k]

I'm getting this error all the time after the program finishes remuxing to mkv

http://www.gotany.info/tmp/error.png

I'm running server 2003 SP2 with all the latest updates as of 24hrs ago. WMP 11 and I did a clean install of ripbot264, ffdshow & avisynth. I never used to get this problem and so a bit baffled to why it is happening now.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[aeroliteflyer]

First let me say, this is the first program I have used that converted my .mpg (DVD rip) to h.264 reliably and with perfect audio sync and smooth video. I had several movies encoded for my iPhone 1. Everthing was good. then I downloaded to 2.0.1, and now on the iPhone it says "this movie format not supported". I have tried turning all settings off and everything I could think of, still nothing. I used videora, and those play just fine on the iphone, as well as some others, but I cant get them to get the good audio sync and smooth video that I have gotten using ripbot. So I am just wondering what I am missing, maybe one of you knows what in the world apple changed to not like these encodings now. I tried the ones i had, that were working perfectly, and i tried doing them again. I know its something with the new iphone software, and not ripbot, just wondering if anyone here might know what is throwing off new iphone software. Apparently i am not the only one either. Thanks for any responses.

Chris

[dbone1026]

I'm getting this error all the time after the program finishes remuxing to mkv

http://www.gotany.info/tmp/error.png

I'm running server 2003 SP2 with all the latest updates as of 24hrs ago. WMP 11 and I did a clean install of ripbot264, ffdshow & avisynth. I never used to get this problem and so a bit baffled to why it is happening now.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Ah, the dreaded FFmpegSource error. I received the same error, I don't know if this is the same problem as you are having. Atak suggested that I take the original m2ts file and create a new one using TsRemux, and then use the new file with Ripbot. This worked like a charm. I only get this error once in a while with specific files, but the TsRemux rebuild seems to do the trick.

[lmao2k]

Ah, the dreaded FFmpegSource error. I received the same error, I don't know if this is the same problem as you are having. Atak suggested that I take the original m2ts file and create a new one using TsRemux, and then use the new file with Ripbot. This worked like a charm. I only get this error once in a while with specific files, but the TsRemux rebuild seems to do the trick.

I shall give that a go now and report back.

Thanks

[lmao2k]

TsRemux reports an error with the streams and on completion the resulting file is unresponsive. I'll have another play with the stream to see if I can fix it.

[~bT~]

First let me say, this is the first program I have used that converted my .mpg (DVD rip) to h.264 reliably and with perfect audio sync and smooth video. I had several movies encoded for my iPhone 1. Everthing was good. then I downloaded to 2.0.1, and now on the iPhone it says "this movie format not supported". I have tried turning all settings off and everything I could think of, still nothing. I used videora, and those play just fine on the iphone, as well as some others, but I cant get them to get the good audio sync and smooth video that I have gotten using ripbot. So I am just wondering what I am missing, maybe one of you knows what in the world apple changed to not like these encodings now. I tried the ones i had, that were working perfectly, and i tried doing them again. I know its something with the new iphone software, and not ripbot, just wondering if anyone here might know what is throwing off new iphone software. Apparently i am not the only one either. Thanks for any responses.

Chris
i have the same firmware & i use these settings which have worked gr8 so far!

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1170284&postcount=2209

[aeroliteflyer]

Thanks for the info, i will try those settings tonight. Just out of curiousity, are you using the deinterlace/decimate filters. i am using those 2. Also, are you importing that into itunes then using itunes to "convert to iphone"?? thanks again..

Chris

[~bT~]

^ depending on the source (dvd files, interlaced or double fps ts), i would use deinterlace/decimate otherwise, no.

no, i'm importing to itunes then direct to ipod. no other conversion.

[dirk362]

Dirk - I have had the same problem. I have converted 2 HD DVD movies, both using same presets (locking file size at 8150MB). First movie came out at 11.7GB, the second movie came out at 7.93GB. It appears the that first file suffered from the same issue that you had, second file came out perfect. I am going to try and encode a third file tonight, lets see what result I get.


I've done another 3 HD-DVD encodes, leaving audio as do not encode (therefore as FLAC). One came out correct size, one oversized at 11.2Gb and one oversized at 10.9Gb. The correctly sized one has quite low bitrate for video of 6830 Kbps, which for a 2h18m film is too low, and it shows.

I'm going to go with the recommendation and encode to AC3 640Kbps, and put more bits aside for video. It only adds a few minutes processing, and in two tests the audio/video is fully sync'ed.

[asarian]

Thanks, Atak. I got the ffdshow issue resolved now. But while rendering, in Windows 2008, I get the following error after a few hours:

"x264 has stopped working"

I tried to upgrade the x264 version you include in your package, but RipBot264 (v1.10.5) immediately says all jobs are finished when I do that. Is there a way I can bypass that?

[BZeeme]

Thanks, Atak. I got the ffdshow issue resolved now. But while rendering, in Windows 2008, I get the following error after a few hours:

"x264 has stopped working"

I tried to upgrade the x264 version you include in your package, but RipBot264 (v1.10.5) immediately says all jobs are finished when I do that. Is there a way I can bypass that?

I just had this error last night on my Vista computer. The computer is fairly new and I've run Ripbot264 successfully before so I tried defragging. I then went back to RipBot, used "edit" to review my settings and restarted the processing. It is still running after 8 hours.

[aeroliteflyer]

~bt~, i tried that profile you sent, worked perfectly. amazing!!. thanks for the help.

chris

[asarian]

I just had this error last night on my Vista computer. The computer is fairly new and I've run Ripbot264 successfully before so I tried defragging. I then went back to RipBot, used "edit" to review my settings and restarted the processing. It is still running after 8 hours.

Thanks. But I somehow doubt defragging will stop x264 from hanging. I tried AVC -> AVC last night (just for test), and x264 crashed almost immediately. I'd rather Atak tell us how we can update the x264 prog in his distro. :)

[Ajax_Undone]

I just had this error last night on my Vista computer. The computer is fairly new and I've run Ripbot264 successfully before so I tried defragging. I then went back to RipBot, used "edit" to review my settings and restarted the processing. It is still running after 8 hours.

Is it still processing the same movie? (8 hours)

[wakebrder]

Just an FYI guys: BD-25 = 23098 MB according to Image Burn.

If you've got that much to work with, I might suggest giving a little cushion. (just sayin')

[~bT~]

~bt~, i tried that profile you sent, worked perfectly. amazing!!. thanks for the help.

chris

gr8 to hear! maybe Atak can change the profile in future build?

[BZeeme]

Is it still processing the same movie? (8 hours)

Yes. All 5 blurays I converted to BD9s took about 3 hours for pass 1 and 6 to 10 hours for pass 2. Vista Home Premium, Core 2 Duo E8500, 4G DDR2, 4 SATA 300 HDDs.

[topsham]

Can anyone give me a link to the 64 bit version of x264.exe to use with Vista 64 and Ripbot264?

[illestdomer2005]

Hey guys, I am new here, and I've browsed this thread but probably missed some stuff; so, if my question has been asked and answered, I apologize. Anyhow, I've got a new comp with an LG GGC-H20L BD-ROM, 780i mobo, Q6700 2.66GHz Quad-core, 2 GB DDR2 RAM, 8800 GT GPU, and 500 GB SATA HD. When I fire RipBot up, it seems to take an inordinately long time processing my .m2ts files before it even gives me the option to enqueue the job. Does RipBot demux the selected audio and video file into a single video and audio stream before it'll run or...? It just took roughly 3 hours before my Hellboy BD (ripped to hard drive first) was even available for compression. Do I have a codec issue or something? If so, how can I completely start from scratch and install what I need -- and only what I need to avoid potential conflicts -- and in what order should I install?

I know I am a bit of a "n00b" with this stuff, but I appreciate any help. Thanks guys. Oh, and I've used XVID4PSP to also convert my BDs into MP4s and MKVs. It doesn't seem to take nearly the prep time, but it has its own pet issues, I guess. I just wanted to fix whatever problems I'm having with RipBot since everybody seems to love it.

[~bT~]

^ it shouldn't take 3 hours but i can see a slight issue which may have a considerable effect here.

you have 1 hard drive.

and yes, it does demux before you can continue to queue.

[Ajax_Undone]

Can anyone give me a link to the 64 bit version of x264.exe to use with Vista 64 and Ripbot264?

I don't think anyone has yet built a x64 bit version of x264 I know ffdshow has x64 bit builds of there own codecs and filters but beyond that not much has come out for x64 on the codec end...


Ripbot264 currently as it is works on Vista x64 and it uses the 32bit x264 exe...

If your having problems then maybe post a log so the developer can help you...

[dirk362]

In some of my encodes I've noticed some unwanted blocking, most notable in scenes where they fade up or down (e.g. fade at end of movie, fade between acts).

Having compared encodes from several sources, as well as lots of investigation around the web and forums, as well as DVXA settings in "competing" applications, I'd like to canvass people's opinions/views around some of the settings in the current level 4.1 profile.


deblock - At present we have 1:0:0, which is defaults in x264. When not using cqm, there is some value to using 1:-1:-1 to retain detail. Has any one done any comparison encodes ? Certainly it seems 1:-1:-1 will retain better detail without blocking when not using cqm.

trellis & psy_rd - When using RDO, x264 wiki seems to state that trellis=2 is preferred to trellis=0, as that will retain quality over speed of encode.

ref - Max for 1080p is 4, max for 720p is 9. Is 3 a good average, and does RipBot264 take this into account and adjust this based on avisynth resizing if not encoding to 1920x1080 ?
However, as we use b_pyramids, are we actually stating ref=4, but then applying the -1 to this value to fix x264 and its (potential) issues with b-pyramids ?

keyint & min-keyint - Everything I read states this should be based around framerate. So for HD/BluRay, shouldn't these be 240 & 24 ? They always seem to be the default of 250 & 25.

Any thoughts from anyone ?

I'm going to perform an encode of a single chapter from a BluRay with the default level 4.1 profile, and then the same with "my" values by creating a custom 4.1 profile and compare them at same frame (by eye)

[daWsOn_s]

Hello,
I've upgraded to 1.50.5 from 1.8.x and now when I set a list of video to convert everytime it finishes one file it say in status "Muxing.." (anyway the file is already finished and ready to play) that lasts for ever. I have to abort and restart every file:confused:

is there anyway I can drag & drop or insert a lot of files together without choosing each one and setting the same global settings?

[riptorn]

The app seems to be using all 8 cores on my pc but on the first pass cpu only runs around 20% so I get 13fps; on the second pass im hitting 20-22fps. Any reason?