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

[nwg]

I tried doing I,Robot with a audio track that I created from the DTS-HD MA. I wanted 768kbps DTS so created a m2ts file with that audio. It got up to 94% on pass 1, then started to mux and ended up with a 735MB file (instead of a 4.37GB). If I mess with the audio first, am I better of doing a video only m2ts and then mux the audio in a new file after encoding the new H264 video. It would solve my problem where is it finishing too early as it is now the fourth or fifth time it has done it.

More control on what steps the program does would be good. A fully auto and a manual mode would be great. Perhaps have a tick box in the settings somewhere on what processes the program does or not do.

[Furiousflea]

This program has served me well last 6 months or so...

The 1 feature I would love....would be XVID support :)

Reason being is that this h264 on the Xbox 360 is great for 2 channel audio soruces, especially interlaced DVDs that are encoded at 50fps (so you can maintain the smooth motion) and 50fps video play great on the 360...

However for 5.1 movies, the Xbox 360 only supports 2 channel AAC audio...But it supports 5.1 DD with XVID...

Just wondering if it would be difficult to implement a profile for that or if you have any intention :)

(Had enough of using Fair Use Wizard)

Thanks for any heads up, and again as I've posted a couple of times already...Thanks for a front end :)

[nwg]

It would be good to be able to select H264 video files. I am trying Ripbot with just a video file (to mux a ac3 file afterwards). I had to go from a H264 video file to a mt2ts file which it makes a H264 file and back to a m2ts file.

[riptorn]

I keep getting couldnt open the file, cannot play back the video stream, no suitable decompressor could be found.

This only happens on some blu-ray/hd-dvds.

[Sgt_Strider]

Hi guys, I'm a newbie to this program. I'm wondeirng if RipBot will automatically resize a DVD to match the PSP's screen resolution? Can RipBot produce a MP4 file with subtitles and multiple soundtracks?

[deets]

Hi guys, I'm a newbie to this program. I'm wondeirng if RipBot will automatically resize a DVD to match the PSP's screen resolution?

it will if you select resize and then psp in the drop down.

[Sgt_Strider]

it will if you select resize and then psp in the drop down.

Have you done it before? Will the videos fully take advantage of every single pixel on the PSP?

[Furiousflea]

Have you done it before? Will the videos fully take advantage of every single pixel on the PSP?

Yes, if you select the PSP resolution of 480x272 in the drop down list box for resizing.

[asarian]

As for new feature requests, I guess I'd echo requests for a pause button, although I admit that it seems to work fine on my computer going in and out of hibernation in Windows XP. However, a pause button would be nice if I want the CPU to focus on something else temporarily.

I echo the 'pause' request, too. Sadly, Windoze has no "Suspend Task" functionality, like UNIX has (Ctrl-Z). Ideally, Ripbot could save its current state of progress, be closed even, and pick up where it left off the next time you start it. I often am transcoding for >32 hours. Ideally, you'd use your machine during the day for the stuff you usually use it for, and have it transcode/recode at night time.

[marcmartin]

I echo the 'pause' request, too. Sadly, Windoze has no "Suspend Task" functionality, like UNIX has (Ctrl-Z). Ideally, Ripbot could save its current state of progress, be closed even, and pick up where it left off the next time you start it. I often am transcoding for >32 hours. Ideally, you'd use your machine during the day for the stuff you usually use it for, and have it transcode/recode at night time.

I've been able to obtain this sort of functionality using a freeware utility named "BES - Battle Encoder Shirase 1.3.7". This allows you to target a process (in this case, x264.exe) and throttle down the CPU it demands anywhere from 0 to 100%. If I'm in no hurry, I will sometimes just throttle it down so the CPU doesn't have to run at 100% and the CPU fans don't have to run as fast.

Here's a link: http://mion.faireal.net/BES/

[Dark Shikari]

I've been able to obtain this sort of functionality using a freeware utility named "BES - Battle Encoder Shirase 1.3.7". This allows you to target a process (in this case, x264.exe) and throttle down the CPU it demands anywhere from 0 to 100%. If I'm in no hurry, I will sometimes just throttle it down so the CPU doesn't have to run at 100% and the CPU fans don't have to run as fast.

Here's a link: http://mion.faireal.net/BES/You can do that trivially on almost any OS by simply pausing a process. Windows can do this too.

Also, I laughed at the name :p

[bigggt]

Hi i am trying to find a new PC to work with Ripbot, with all the 64bit questions can someone tell me if this should work

http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=74%2C75,395&webid=752261&affixedcode=WW

will I see an improvement over my 3.5 fps on 1280x720 on my dual core

thanks

I know this isint the proper place to ask this but i am getting this pc just for Ripbot:)

[Paddy97]

@Dark Shikari : Since you are very much more knowledgeble in X264 then most could you please give me a hand?

With the [ level 4.0 ] HD . BluRay . Consoles profile in the .8 version of ripbot ( please see below ) it produces files that are not compatible with the Tvix media players if I encode a Bluray disc and I am trying to find out what to change in the profile to eliviate this problem. In MeGui the x264_dp_ Standalone-PS3-Xbox360 profile works like a charm but translating between that profile and Ripbots is more then I can manage. The tvix will reboot or stutter heavily as symptoms.

I've tried reducing the buffersize and maxbitrate to the levels in the megui profile but that did not fix the problem. Any other hints I should try to change in the ripbot profile?

[x264settings]
DeblockingStrength=0
DeblockingSensitivity=0
AdaptQuant=1
MotionEstimationAlgorithm=3 - UMH
SubpixelRefinement=7 - RD on all frames
I4X4=1
P4X4=1
P8X8=1
B8X8=1
AdaptDCT=1
I8X8=1
NumberOfRFrames=3
mixedRFrames=1
TrellisQuant=1
CABAC=1
NumberOfBFrames=3
AdaptBFrames=1
BPyramid=1
WeightBPrediction=1
HRD=1
BufferSize=30000
MaxBitrate=30000
Level=level 4.0


The easiest way would ofcourse to start using MeGui instead but Ripbot is so much more on par with my encoding skills from a user perspective.

[Dark Shikari]

The megui profile has no b-pyramid.

[marcmartin]

With the [ level 4.0 ] HD . BluRay . Consoles profile in the .8 version of ripbot ( please see below ) it produces files that are not compatible with the Tvix media players. In MeGui the x264_dp_ Standalone-PS3-Xbox360 profile works like a charm but translating between that profile and Ripbots is more then I can manage.


I also observed some playback problems (picture freezing) on my Popcorn Hour using the current RipBot HD profile. This is hardly scientific, but I took a look at the MeGui P3-XBOX360 profile, and made some changes to the RipBot HD profile based on that and the freezing went away. I think the changes I made were: turn off B-Pyramid, turn off Trellis, turn off P4x4, lower buffer and max bitrate to 20000, lower subme to 6. The encoding process is too long to figure out which one of these made the difference, and for all I know simply reencoding with no changes in the profile may have solved the problem!

[nurbs]

Trellis and subme can't cause problems on hardware players. p4x4 is not allowed in level 4.0 IIRC. b-pyramid might also be a problem.

[Ajax_Undone]

http://www.mediafire.com/?ixk1oygozaf

Try this profile on for size... I altered it so I wouldn't have problems with some of my stuff.

[marcmartin]

Try this profile on for size... I altered it so I wouldn't have problems with some of my stuff.

Thanks! I've just compared this with RipBot's built-in HD/BluRay/Console profile, and there are only 2
differences: P4x4 is turned off, and B-Pyramid is
turned off.

[Ajax_Undone]

Correct I made that adjustment when 1.10.8 came out figures it would help. :-)

It fixed all the problems I was having... As nurbs said just previously those settings are not possible in 4.0 profile...

You can however change to 4.1 but it really only works out good for PS3

[Dark Shikari]

Trellis and subme can't cause problems on hardware players. p4x4 is not allowed in level 4.0 IIRC. b-pyramid might also be a problem.p4x4 is surely allowed in L4.0.

[Ajax_Undone]

But my experience p4x4 always causes glitchy frames on my Popcorn Hour and my XBox is allergic to B-pyramid.

[Paddy97]

Thanks @Ajax_Undone, @marcmartin, @Dark Shikari

Taking away the Bpyramid and P4x4 will create a file that is able to run without problems on the latest Tvix beta firmware but it still reboots the last stable firmware release ( I have two tvix boxes ). I thought I would give Subme 6 ( since that is the level in the working megui profile ) a go as well to see if I can get a working file that also works with the stable firmware.

Thanks for your assistance so far!

[Sharc]

How can I set set the '--keyint' and '--min-keyint' parameters in the RipBot264 profiles?

[nurbs]

I thought I would give Subme 6 ( since that is the level in the working megui profile ) a go as well to see if I can get a working file that also works with the stable firmware.

Again, subme can't have an influence on hardware compatibility. subme 6 or 7 are a good compromise between speed and quality in my opinion.

[laserfan]

How can I set set the '--keyint' and '--min-keyint' parameters in the RipBot264 profiles?Dunno how to set in RB's profiles, but before you click "Start" (after selecting all other options for a job) you can manually edit the Pass1 and Pass2 .cmd files. Atak has expressed some discomfort ;) with users making such changes of course! But it works, and I like to use MeGUI x264 command lines in the RipBot program, because Atak's transparent bitrate calculator is outstanding. :)

If RipBot264 had a more complete x264 profile, and then had an option to pause before the tsMuxeR final step (to allow editing of the .meta file), It'd be perfect. Oh, I found it doesn't always interpret MPEG2 Blu-rays properly i.e. doesn't invoke DGindex as it should. And it uses a build of x264 my P4 doesn't like. But other than that... :p

[Paddy97]

Dear collegues, thanks for helping me tracking down how to make a profile that is safe for the Tvix HD-M6500/M7000 players. I have now after the last encode been able to produce a videofile that plays without either rebooting or stuttering the player. It also works like a charm on my Popcorn Hour A100 player.

The last thing that needed to get a working profile was to back down to Subme 6 from 7 that the new Ripbot uses. The old version .6 of Ripbot used Subme 6 and that one allways worked. I am aware that Nurbs says that this one can't have an impact but for some reason it does on the tvix. Below you can see the functioning profile. Please use it if you want to. The bitrate can be 30000 and still work but I am using a slightly less value just to keep everything on the safe side.

Once again, thanks for your efforts! I am now a very happy encoder that can take all my Bluray discs and put on the network so that my family gets a jukebox with great quality.

[x264settings]
DeblockingStrength=0
DeblockingSensitivity=0
AdaptQuant=1
MotionEstimationAlgorithm=3 - UMH
SubpixelRefinement=6 - RD on I/P frames
I4X4=1
P4X4=0
P8X8=1
B8X8=1
AdaptDCT=1
I8X8=1
NumberOfRFrames=3
mixedRFrames=1
TrellisQuant=1
CABAC=1
NumberOfBFrames=3
AdaptBFrames=1
BPyramid=0
WeightBPrediction=1
HRD=1
BufferSize=24000
MaxBitrate=24000
Level=level 4.0

[nurbs]

The last thing that needed to get a working profile was to back down to Subme 6 from 7 that the new Ripbot uses. The old version .6 of Ripbot used Subme 6 and that one allways worked. I am aware that Nurbs says that this one can't have an impact but for some reason it does on the tvix.

Sorry for giving bad advice, but that's very strange. Subme is an analysis option and while it obviously changes the written bitstream it shouldn't change it in any way that causes incompatibility. Maybe, if you feel like it, you could inform the manufacturer of the tvix about that problem.

[8ternity]

Hi Atak,

I have a question:
Did you think it can be possible to add an Save queue file to saving queue when we need to reboot between two conversion?

Thanks.

[Ajax_Undone]

October 9th is the last post that Atak made... Wonder where he is... Thank you Paddy97 for getting that to us works great...

[slow4mula]

has anyone had problems with the matrix revolutions bluray? when i load it into ripbot264 it says there are like 129 chapters and even after selecting 2-pass .bluray @ 8150mb final size it produces 12gb of garbage. I can tell it is going to be fubar right after it starts encoding because the speed is all messed up.

ive done about 100 other blurays with no real problems but this one refuses to work. any ideas?

[keysersose]

I am stuck on always getting this error -->DirectShow Service: Render File, the filter graph wont talk to me..

this pops up after Ripbot finishes demuxing the input stream..

I searched here and see it has come up before but I can't get past this problem

please help thanks!

[nwg]

I am stuck on always getting this error -->DirectShow Service: Render File, the filter graph wont talk to me..

this pops up after Ripbot finishes demuxing the input stream..

I searched here and see it has come up before but I can't get past this problem

please help thanks!


Is that the red graph thing that goes over 10 sec and nothing else? I have had the on the last two discs I tried. It did it with audio and video and also just video streams selected.

[Ajax_Undone]

has anyone had problems with the matrix revolutions bluray? when i load it into ripbot264 it says there are like 129 chapters and even after selecting 2-pass .bluray @ 8150mb final size it produces 12gb of garbage. I can tell it is going to be fubar right after it starts encoding because the speed is all messed up.

ive done about 100 other blurays with no real problems but this one refuses to work. any ideas?

It sounds like it wasn't decrypted properly! what decrypter have you used??

[slow4mula]

It sounds like it wasn't decrypted properly! what decrypter have you used??

latest version of anydvdhd..

i can play the decrypted m2ts file without any issue (i have nero w/ the hd plugin) so the rip seems to be fine :confused:

[Ajax_Undone]

latest version of anydvdhd..

i can play the decrypted m2ts file without any issue (i have nero w/ the hd plugin) so the rip seems to be fine :confused:

is it mpeg-2 or avc I know ripbot does not always pick up on mpeg-2 streams...

[slow4mula]

is it mpeg-2 or avc I know ripbot does not always pick up on mpeg-2 streams...

its vc1...the matrix and matrix reloaded encoded fine

has anyone else done or had problems with matrix revolutions?

[slow4mula]

it shows 159 chapters after loading into ripbot264 :confused:

http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=revolutionsjb9.jpg

[asarian]

latest version of anydvdhd..

i can play the decrypted m2ts file without any issue (i have nero w/ the hd plugin) so the rip seems to be fine :confused:

I converted the new blu-ray Matrix (all 3 of them, actually; plus the Animatrix) with RipBot264 just fine. No problemo. I just fed RipBot264 the .m2ts file, though, without having RipBot264 figure out the BD structure.

[~bT~]

Hi Atak,

I have a question:
Did you think it can be possible to add an Save queue file to saving queue when we need to reboot between two conversion?

Thanks.

it already does it. untick 'delete temp files' before you start encoding.

[mmmmdonut]

For those discs that have a 7.1 audio track, is it possible to re encode those tracks to 7.1 aac?

I know the existing versions of RB264 stop at 5.1 but wasnt sure if there are any reasons/issues with doing a 7.1 aac encode.

Thx

[asarian]

it already does it. untick 'delete temp files' before you start encoding.

I don't get it. How are you gonna interrupt RipBot264 exactly in-between two jobs? Once it's done with the first, it immediately proceeds to the second (which is good, btw).

Or are you saying you could actually interrupt the current job, and with 'delete temp files' ticked off, that RipBot264 will pick up where it left off? That would be fantastic!

[asarian]

Changed: Level 4.1 has been changed to Level 4.0 (Reason: some devices do not accept anything above Lv4.0. For example Tvix. Quality settings has not been changed!

Hmm, I wonder why Atak did this? According to wikipedia, there's some sizeable max bitrate differences between the two levels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264

4 = 20 Mbit/s 25 Mbit/s 60 Mbit/s 80 Mbit/s
4.1 = 50 Mbit/s 50 Mbit/s 150 Mbit/s 200 Mbit/s

Etc. Also, who cares whether Mr. Tuvix can't handle 4.1? Or a PSP? Why should that affect my Blu-Ray profile?

[slow4mula]

I converted the new blu-ray Matrix (all 3 of them, actually; plus the Animatrix) with RipBot264 just fine. No problemo. I just fed RipBot264 the .m2ts file, though, without having RipBot264 figure out the BD structure.

i tried stripping the m2ts from the bluray with tsmuxer to just the video and ac3 5.1 audio...still produced a ~12gb file when i had it hard set to 8150mb...

ill try re-ripping i guess

[asarian]

it already does it. untick 'delete temp files' before you start encoding.

Well, I upgraded to 1.10.8 to get this funtionality, but x264 fails after just a minute or so ("serious error; needs to close" kind). Sigh.

Am I the only one? I haven't had a working Ripbot264 (or x264 rather) since 1.10.5.

[asarian]

i tried stripping the m2ts from the bluray with tsmuxer to just the video and ac3 5.1 audio...still produced a ~12gb file when i had it hard set to 8150mb...

ill try re-ripping i guess
Well, I wouldn't know about size problems. I always set it to CRF=18, MotionEstimationAlgorithm=4 - ESA, and SubpixelRefinement=7; so the output is comparatively large (and non-predetermined). But I certainly didn't get garbage when recoding.

[Nemesis7]

I just got an iPhone, and mate... im so thankful for your application. This is too good! Thanks man!

[yotsu]

Hi Everyone. I have a big big problem with Ripbot264, when i started the job, the conversion doesn't work at all. I only have a message "Conversion is complete" it takes 500 ms to make the entire HD movie... When i preview the script it works, ripbot shows me the video so i really don't understand the thing :s

I reinstall FFDShow and halli media splitter , try different versions of Ripbot264, always the same thing. Impossible to encode :'(. Please help :thanks::thanks:

[Ajax_Undone]

Are you running it as an Administrator...

[Nemesis7]

Is it with RipBot264 possible to create a mp4 file that is compatible with the iPhone that:

- has multiple selectable subtitles which can be turned on/off in the iPhone (.srt input)
- has chapters (with names)

If not, are you planning on making this functionality? Thanks mate.

[yotsu]

Are you running it as an Administrator...

I'm not that stupid :p