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

[Mtz]

Mtz
According to tech spec iPhone's native resolution is 480x320 (1.5:1) so I suggest to use PSP resolution (Black bars are added automatically).
According to official website (http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html) 480x320 is not the resolution, is the iPhone display resolution.

Video formats supported:

1. H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

2. H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

3. MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Many people make confusion for mobiles also: their display is 320x240, but the max. resolution supported by their device is 176x144.

Back to Ripbot: I see in the avs file -1,25
Example: video=TextSub(video,"C\Movie.srt",-1,25)
For what are these values, -1 and 25? Changing that values is not affecting any setting of the subtitle.

As I told you in my previous post, I want to help you improving the program. Personally, I can encode everything in everything with or without your program. Your answers at my posts are not showing to me that you want my help. If you want me stop bugging you, just tell this and I'll never post in this thread.

enjoy,
Mtz

[Atak_Snajpera]

According to official website 480x320 is not the resolution, is the iPhone display resolution.

That's odd. So you claim that iPhone is not able to play files in native resolution but only in higher resolution!?! (640x480) I'm asking because I don't have iPhone personally. BTW I said native resolution (LCD)

UPDATE: I checked in google about supported resolutions by iPhone and it seems that PSP resolutions are also supported. ( I'm not surprised :)

Back to Ripbot: I see in the avs file -1,25
Example: video=TextSub(video,"C\Movie.srt",-1,25)
For what are these values, -1 and 25? Changing that values is not affecting any setting of the subtitle.

I always loose synchronization if 25 (fps) value is removed. -1 is indeed useless.

[Mtz]

I bolded "up to". That's mean max: 640x480. Can be anything below.
480x320 is not "native" resolution. Is the display resolution.
For example, a Sony Ericsson mobile have the display resolution of 320x240. But it can't play files with video resolution higher than 176x144. A 3gp or mp4 movie with 320x240 cannot be played even the display have 320x240.

enjoy,
Mtz

[Atak_Snajpera]

480x320 is not "native" resolution. Is the display resolution.
When I say native resolution I always think about numbers of pixels on display.

Did you check PSP resolution?

[Mtz]

Yeah, I checked the PSP resolution and is adding borders as you told me, and is something like this:

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/7803/pspvarianta1vy7.th.jpg (http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pspvarianta1vy7.jpg)
AddBorders(0,36,0,36) [the movie is 2.4 and because of that I have 36 instead of 34]


But iPhone have a smaller display and I like more this:
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/722/pspvarianta2qh7.th.jpg (http://img118.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pspvarianta2qh7.jpg)
AddBorders(0,0,0,72)

In my examples I used SSA subtitles, because SRT can not contain info about font and position.

enjoy,
Mtz

[weaver4]

I was running RipBot off of a remote drive when it failed. Copied the files over to my local drive and then it ran fine. Don't know why but thought you would want to know.

Where does RipBot keep it's temporary files?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Where does RipBot keep it's temporary files?

In system temp. In Vista it will be in x:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Temp\RipBot264tmp

[acrespo]

Can you implement read AVS files? Because I need to use MAKEAVIS to do a fake AVI from AVS to open in RipBot

[Atak_Snajpera]

No problem. I will implement your request in new version but you will have to wait at least 2 days.

[weaver4]

I encoded a movie three times with StaxRip, AutoMkv and RibBot264 with the following parmaters:

size: 640x272
audio: 128kbs
CQ-CRF: 22

Here are the sizes for the three results:

StaxRip 1074M
AutoMKV 1085M
RipBot 1693M

Why is RipBot264 so much larger? AutoMKV with a CQ-CRF of 18 was the same size as your file.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Adaptive Quantization is the answer :) That's why 22 is set for default instead of 18. I was very disappointed when I saw ugly big blocks in dark and blue flat areas with CRF@18. CRF@22+AQ seems to be better balanced in terms of overall quality.

[acrespo]

I have other request. When I convert some DVDs I have extract subtitles with VSRip to make IDX/Sub, but these files need to open with VobSub function of VSFilter and not TextSub function that you already supported. Please implement VobSub function option too

[PSPNut]

iTunes fails silently during import and QuickTime gives an error -2041. If I extract the audio manually and transcode it using iTunes and then remux it back using mp4box, it works great.


Managed to dig in a bit more. Apparantly, iTunes is fine with with the output of enc_aacplus. The issue seems to be with mp4box's conversion of .acc to mp4. If I manually convert .aac -> mov/m4a then mux it with mp4box, it works fine.

If any of you here have seen similar results or have any other workarond, please let me know. While I love my PSP, it will be nice to have an easy way to get videos into the iPhone too. :)

[Atak_Snajpera]

If I manually convert .aac -> mov/m4a then mux it with mp4box, it works fine.
What did you do exactly?

[PSPNut]

What did you do exactly?

I converted the .aac to .mov using Quicktime. Optionally, it is possible to convert it using iTunes to m4a, but that takes a few more steps... Anyway, with the mov, I use mp4box version 0.4.5-DEV from the current Yamb.

C:\Program Files\Yamb>mp4box -version
MP4Box - GPAC version - 0.4.5-DEV - compiled by Kurtnoise - Sep 14 2007

C:\Program Files\Yamb>mp4box -add u:\2-1.264 -fps 23.976 -add u:\2-1.mov -new c:\2-1.mp4
AVC-H264 import - frame size 480 x 272 at 23.976 FPS
Import results: 74553 samples - Slices: 765 I 73788 P 0 B - 1 SEI - 733 IDR
IsoMedia import - track ID 1 - Audio (SR 48000 - 2 channels)
Saving c:\2-1.mp4: 0.500 secs Interleaving

The resultant mp4 can be imported into iTunes and sync'ed to iPhone.

If I use Ripbot's mp4box (0.4.3-DEV), it would not complete with the following errors:

C:\Program Files\Ripbot\Tools\mp4box>mp4box -add u:\2-1.264 -fps 23.976 -add u:\2-1.mov -new c:\2-1-tmp.mp4
AVC-H264 import - frame size 480 x 272 at 23.9760 FPS
Import results: 74553 samples - Slices: 765 I 73788 P 0 B - 1 SEI - 733 IDR
[iso file] Box "mp4a" size 187 invalid (read 1060)
[iso file] Box has 441 extra bytes
[iso file] Box has 12 extra bytes
[iso file] Box has 719 extra bytes
Error importing u:\2-1.mov: IsoMedia File is truncated

Thanks a lot for the great GUI!

[weaver4]

I turned off Adaptive Quantization and the file did not get any smaller.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Use x264 r680 instead of r699

[weaver4]

OK, I think I am running r680, here is what it says when I run x264 from the command line.

C:\Tools\RipBot\Tools\x264>x264 --help
x264 core:56 svn-680
Syntax: x264 [options] -o outfile infile [widthxheight]

[bizzy]

when i try to download ripbot, i get a 7z file. when i try to unzip it, it says "file format unknown or damaged". can someone help me out here? thanks

[Alfeuss]

when i try to download ripbot, i get a 7z file. when i try to unzip it, it says "file format unknown or damaged". can someone help me out here? thanks


Try winrar, if that doesn't work the file is bad. try redownloading.

[Miryan]

Or try this mirror: http://usite.hu/prg/RipBot
It has RipBot in a simple zip file.

[Espio]

Could you add a few more options for audio? Mostly I desire VBR (to save space) and 112kbps for something between 96 and 128. Otherwise, an excellent program. Also, allowing for multiples of 4 or 8 instead of just 16 in custom resolutions would be nice.

[chuuey]

thanks for the new version :D

[Miryan]

Also, allowing for multiples of 4 or 8 instead of just 16 in custom resolutions would be nice.

I think thats because 4 or 8 is not standard, only 16.

[Espio]

That's true, but many programs and devices can play nonstandard resolutions. Perhaps you could put a warning noting that it's nonstandard when a user chooses it?

[Alfeuss]

This small app (299 KB) written in Delphi is specially for people looking for something simple without exotic filters and unnecessary settings.

KIS= "Keep it Simple" I think that's what the author is trying to do.
without having to add a lot of options. If I need different options i simply use another GUI. Otherwise Ripbot is a well developed GUI.
CUDOS to the author.

[Atak_Snajpera]

That's true, but many programs and devices can play nonstandard resolutions. Perhaps you could put a warning noting that it's nonstandard when a user chooses it?

You can always change values in script if you are not satisfied with mod16.

KIS= "Keep it Simple" I think that's what the author is trying to do.
without having to add a lot of options. If I need different options i simply use another GUI. Otherwise Ripbot is a well developed GUI.
CUDOS to the author.

I always liked simple apps with nice clean UI therefore RipBot264 will never be like AutoMKV/XviD4PSP and other tools.

[repdetect2]

Thanks in advance again for the awesome app. I used the Iphone profile yesterday and I got this strange error when I try to play the file in quicktime.

The resulting file converted but with no audio. I am wondering if I need to just wipe out my codecs and reinstall ripbot?

Thanks.

[PSPNut]

I used the Iphone profile yesterday and I got this strange error when I try to play the file in quicktime.

The resulting file converted but with no audio. I am wondering if I need to just wipe out my codecs and reinstall ripbot?

I can't see the screenshot yet, did you get error -2041? If you did, this is a problem with either enc_aacplus or mp4box (I can't figure out which). You will have to either extract the audio seperately and then encode it to m4a using iTunes and then mux it up using mp4box or use Quicktime Pro to encode the intermediate %TEMP%/RipBot264temp/audio.aac to audio.mov and then mux it with mp4box (using Yamb is easier).

You can also let Ripbot do it for you if you edit %TEMP%/RipBot264temp/jobn/jobn_MuxFiles.cmd and replace audio.aac in there with audio.mov (that you have previously saved with Quicktime Pro) before you start encoding. n is the job number. If you choose this method, you can only encode one file at a time (unless you write a batch file to handle the conversion automatically, at the correct time as RipBot overrides the audio.aac after each job is done).

[repdetect2]

I can't see the screenshot yet, did you get error -2041? If you did, this is a problem with either enc_aacplus or mp4box (I can't figure out which). You will have to either extract the audio seperately and then encode it to m4a using iTunes and then mux it up using mp4box or use Quicktime Pro to encode the intermediate %TEMP%/RipBot264temp/audio.aac to audio.mov and then mux it with mp4box (using Yamb is easier).

You can also let Ripbot do it for you if you edit %TEMP%/RipBot264temp/jobn/jobn_MuxFiles.cmd and replace audio.aac in there with audio.mov (that you have previously saved with Quicktime Pro) before you start encoding. n is the job number. If you choose this method, you can only encode one file at a time (unless you write a batch file to handle the conversion automatically, at the correct time as RipBot overrides the audio.aac after each job is done).

Thats exactly the error I was getting. I am going to give that a try, I don't want to go back to any other apps, I really love ripbot :) Thanks again...

[repdetect2]

Do you think this will be fixed in a future release?

[PSPNut]

Do you think this will be fixed in a future release?

I hope so but that is really a question for the developers of mp4box and/or enc_aacplus or Atak :). In any case, this is still my favourite encoding GUI.

PS: You will need the latest 1.6.9 for the mp4box to mux the .mov file correctly.

[repdetect2]

I sent him a PM on this issue. I hope I am following the right channels, I am new to the app feedback thing :)

[Atak_Snajpera]

Did you try with 2.0 AAC LC 96kbps ?

[repdetect2]

Did you try with 2.0 AAC LC 96kbps ?

I will give that a try now sir and let you know here shortly...

[repdetect2]

Did you try with 2.0 AAC LC 96kbps ?

I received the same "error 2041 invalid sample description"

I have some freetime now, so I can test as much as you like :)

[Atak_Snajpera]

What resolution did you use?

[repdetect2]

What resolution did you use?

I used the ipod touch/iphone profile. Under advanced options for resize I have "don't resize" and then below its grayed out but it says 320x240...

[Atak_Snajpera]

Use PSP resolution !!! :) and don't forget to set audio to 96kbps.

[repdetect2]

Use PSP resolution !!! :) and don't forget to set audio to 96kbps.

I shall try that, thanks sir.

[Alfeuss]

I received the same "error 2041 invalid sample description"

Not sure if this info will help. I get that same error when trying to play the file in QT. I have researched it and it seems to affect QT. MPC plays the file fine.
However even though I have been encoding for the ipod g5, using floola to transfer the file. the result will not play.
I have tried a few thing to see if i can fix this. remux with NicMP4Box, and edit with AtomicParsley. xb360, and HQ profile have great results 4 what they r intended for. I will try to look further into it. thx again 4 this great looking GUI. :D

[Atak_Snajpera]

try also with 96kbps and let me know

iPOD users please check if this file works (encoded with latest enc_aacplus.dll - winamp 5.5)
http://www.mediafire.com/?24nyymhyjtl

[repdetect2]

try also with 96kbps and let me know

iPOD users please check if this file works (encoded with latest enc_aacplus.dll - winamp 5.5)
http://www.mediafire.com/?24nyymhyjtl

I will check it shortly and report back

[Alfeuss]

Tried the new dll from winamp. Also the sample u provided.
LOL that would help. yes error in qt, and no wouldn't play in ipod.

[repdetect2]

Tried the new dll from winamp. Also the sample u provided.

Did the file play in your ipod? Did you still get the error 2041?

I ended up having to go in to work, so I didn't get to test it out :(

[Alfeuss]

OMG sorry guys. after doing some work and narrowing it down, i see further in the thread the prob. was already discovered. The AAC file.
I'll go back to trolling, and do some reading b4 posting.

[repdetect2]

try also with 96kbps and let me know

iPOD users please check if this file works (encoded with latest enc_aacplus.dll - winamp 5.5)
http://www.mediafire.com/?24nyymhyjtl

I too have the same error and it won't play on the iphone...

[PSPNut]

try also with 96kbps and let me know

iPOD users please check if this file works (encoded with latest enc_aacplus.dll - winamp 5.5)
http://www.mediafire.com/?24nyymhyjtl

I have just tried it. Unfortunately, it still doesn't. But it works fine with VLC, CCC pack, etc (same as previously) :). Quicktime will still give error -2041. If I strip out the audio, it works fine, as before.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Last attempt :)

iPOD
f07_by_Conspiracy_720p.mp4 (http://www.mediafire.com/?9fdbfndd0lw) - muxed with -ipod switch

iPhone
realtime_demo_wannabe_by_maxon__fake_h264_1856kbps.mp4 (http://www.mediafire.com/?5bnd5jzcm0t) - muxed with -ipod -brand M4VP switch

[repdetect2]

Last attempt :)

iPOD
f07_by_Conspiracy_720p.mp4 (http://www.mediafire.com/?9fdbfndd0lw) - muxed with -ipod switch

iPhone
realtime_demo_wannabe_by_maxon__fake_h264_1856kbps.mp4 (http://www.mediafire.com/?5bnd5jzcm0t) - muxed with -ipod -brand M4VP switch

I tested the iphone file and I still get the same error. I can't tell if it will even play on the phone since it isn't recognized by itunes...

Don't give up, I can test all day if I have to :)