Encode EVO HD files to AVI/MKV/MP4/MPG 1/2 etc.?

[Ajax_Undone]

Has anyone yet created an app that can encode EVO HD files to AVI/MKV/MP4/MPG 1/2 and so on...

i'd like to beable to compress these enormous files to something useable...

[hajj_3]

nope:( you have to use loads of programs and there are no proper guides anywhere, there are either guides that assume you know lots about it already or there are bits of information over about 200 pages.

dont understand why someone hasnt created a full indepth guide like there is for xvid and divx on this site, they would get loads of praise and would help 1000's of ppl.

[laserfan]

I have never used MeGUI, but this (http://forum.videohelp.com/topic333634.html) looks pretty comprehensive and maybe even understandable! :p

[Galileo2000]

I am little confused here.

First we want the best PQ possible with HD / BD, then we want to reencode into something which will be lower PQ quality because we don't like the size of files.

Perhaps I am missing something here, but what's the point to get HD / BD in the first place? "Regular" SD DVDs coupled w/good scaler/deinterlacer are still quite good.

[bourke]

First we want the best PQ possible with HD / BD, then we want to reencode into something which will be lower PQ quality because we don't like the size of files.

Not necessarily - we may merely want to re-encode BD/HD into formats that can be played back universally (on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC) from the one disc.


At the moment this means VC-1 video stream muxed with a compatible audio stream (e.g. DD, or better DTS) and then burnt onto DVD-9 media or an external hard drive.

[Raptus]

Perhaps I am missing something here, but what's the point to get HD / BD in the first place? "Regular" SD DVDs coupled w/good scaler/deinterlacer are still quite good.
HD source reduced to 720p and encoded with x264 to DVD-5 or DVD-9 is already much better than SD DVD. Keep in mind that many DVDs have bad film transfer and too much edge enhancement... In that case you could make your own still far superior DVD version by reducing your HD source to anamorphic SD and authoring it.

[FoxRacR17]

and for some size doesnt matter. I for one and buying a nice big hard drive (since they are dirt cheap now) and i'm going to copy my hd-dvd collection to wmvhd vc-1 on my hard drive and just stream them to my 360. This is the only way i can watch them through hdmi since my monitors dvi cable is not hdcp compliant.

[Taktaal]

This is a little newbie guide I started working on, just displaying how to convert a VC1/DD+ HD-DVD into a standard format mkv without using any all-in-one tools. Maybe it can help you to get going with HD reencoding.

Getting the Software

VirtualDub
http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

Avisynth
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page

FFmpeg with E-AC3
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=129050

GraphEdit
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/showsoftware_graphedit_141.html

Windows Media Player 11
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=

x264.exe
http://x264.nl/

EvoDemux
http://pel.hu/down/EVOdemux.exe

Haali Splitter
http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/

MKVToolnix
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

Ripping the HD DVD
This (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123282) is a good thread explaining the different options to copy a HD-DVD movie to hard disk and decrypt it.

Demuxing the movie
At this point you should have the whole HD-DVD in a directory on your PC. The most important part is a bunch of .EVO files in a HVDVD_TS subfolder. There will probably be 1-3 Multi-GB files with names like FEATURE_n.EVO (the main movie) and a couple smaller EVOs that include things like the menu and extras.

What we're interested in mostly is the main movie. So start EVODemux, load the FEATURE_1.EVO, and wait until the program has stopped parsing the file. Scroll down and check if the movie length is correct.
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/demux1.png
If it isn't you need to go to the Options tab, and set "Continue with second EVO".
Write down how many calculated frames the movie has, we're going to need that number later. In fact it's probably a good idea to copy&paste the whole movie info into a text file for later use.

Do not use the "Read XPL" feature. It's currently bugged in EVODemux and will cause problems later.

Now it's time to see what type of tracks we have in the movie. EVODemux will give you all the info, so just scroll down in the text, and take note of the information there. In this sample case, we have one VC-1 video track, three DD+/E-AC3 5.1 channel audio tracks (number 0 to 2) and one DD/AC3 stereo track with the number 3.
Usually, the commentary track is the lowest quality and has the highest number so this is clearly track 3. Track 0 is probably the english one as it usually comes first on US or UK releases, and 1/2 are the french/spanish ones.
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/demux2.png

After that, go to the Video/Audio tab, and check all checkboxes that you want in the final movie. Press "Rebuild"
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/demux3.png

After this, you should have in your output directory a 10-20 GB big .EVO file containing the complete movie and all wanted audio tracks in one continuous file. It's a good idea to rename it to a better name too.
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/demux4.png

Converting the audio
Some of the tracks might already be in the AC3 format. We don't need to convert those as they are already compatible with all standard movie players.
For those, just check them in the Video/Audio tab of Evodemux, and press "Demux".
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/audio1.png

The E-AC3 tracks have to be reencoded to a more sensible audio format in order to be compatible with a wide choice of players. AC3 is a good choice of course to convert to.
The program we're going to use here is the new version of FFMPEG with E-AC3 support.

To convert the default audio track, use the command
ffmpeg -i input.evo -vn -acodec ac3 -ab 448k output.ac3

FFMPEG unfortunately tends to number the audio tracks in a different way than Evodemux, so take note from the output that follows this command to see what the tracks are numbered like.
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/audio2.png

Here, we see that the commentary is actually the track 0:1, spanish and french are 0:2 and 0:3 (sometimes the secondary audio tracks are stored at a lower bitrate) and english is 0:4.
So we modify our ffmpeg command to use the -map option to select the correct audio track, and export each track with their own command
ffmpeg -i serenity.evo -map 0:4 -vn -acodec ac3 -ab 448k serenity.en.ac3
ffmpeg -i serenity.evo -map 0:2 -vn -acodec ac3 -ab 448k serenity.fr.ac3
ffmpeg -i serenity.evo -map 0:3 -vn -acodec ac3 -ab 448k serenity.es.ac3
When converting E-AC3 tracks you'll probably get a lot of warnings because ffmpeg support for the format is still in beta.

Converting the video
Once you have installed all the necessary filters and software, converting a HD-DVD movie isn't any different than doing the GraphEdit -> Avisynth -> VirtualDub path with regular DVDs.

First, we have to build a GraphEdit graph. Open the software, but don't drag&drop the EVO into it. That will open it with the default filter which will probably be Sonic Cineplayer and that's bugged and will lead to desynchronized audio.
Instead, choose "Graph" -> "Insert Filters...", then choose "DirectShow Filters" -> "Haali Media Splitter" and insert that. You'll get a popup asking you for a file to split, select the .EVO that you rebuilt earlier
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/video1.png

Next, insert the "WMVideo Decoder DMO" Filter, and connect the EVO file with the decoder
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/video2.png
If you get an error here, you forgot upgrading WMP to version 11.

Save the graph.

Next, create an AviSynth script to load the graph. A very basic sample:
DirectShowSource("serenity.grf", fps=23.976, framecount=171229, audio=false)
What's important here is that you have to manually set the movie to the correct framerate (always 23.976 for HD-DVDs) and set the correct framecount according to the number EVODemux calculated for you earlier. If you don't set those two options you'll get a bugged encode.
Also you can add dozens of other AviSynth options here like cropping away black bars, make sure the movie dimensions are dividable by 16, filtering away movie grain, scaling for mobile devices etc. Those options are out of scope for this guide and you should refer to the AviSynth Wiki (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page) for them.

Save the Avisynth script.

Right here, you can basically use any software you want that supports .AVS sources. We're going to use the x264 command line encoding tool, alternatively you could also use VirtualDub for Xvid or the WMVideo encoder for making a WMV.
x264 --bitrate 8000 --progress --threads auto -b 3 --b-bias 5 --b-pyramid --weightb --b-rdo --bime -8 -t 1 -o NUL serenity.avs
x264 --bitrate 8000 --progress --threads auto -b 3 --b-bias 5 --b-pyramid --weightb --b-rdo --bime -8 -t 1 -o serenity.mkv serenity.avs
Those two lines make a decent two pass x264 encode in just a few hours. You have to obviously adjust the input/output files, and can do the same with the bitrate as well as any other option if you want. Save this as a .bat file and run it by double clicking.

If you want higher image quality, the following is a slower but better quality set of options
x264 --pass 1 --bitrate 8000 --bframes 3 --b-pyramid --direct auto --deblock -3:-3 --subme 1 --analyse none --me dia --threads auto --thread-input --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim -o NUL serenity.avs
x264 --pass 2 --bitrate 8000 --ref 5 --mixed-refs --no-fast-pskip --bframes 3 --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --weightb --direct auto --deblock -3:-3 --subme 7 --analyse all -8 --trellis 1 --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim -o serenity.mkv serenity.avs
Reencoding the video with these settings will probably take around a full day on an average dual core computer.
Of course, a whole book could be written on the pro- and contra of various x264 settings, try looking in the MPEG 4 AVC forum (http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=77) for more discussion about it.

If you want to try out the encode, you can add a
Trim(0, 3000)
line to the .avs script to just encode the first 3000 frames (2 minutes) of the movie. This makes it possible to fiddle with the quality settings without spending hours on each encode.

Remuxing everything again
Load the recompressed mkv movie and the ac3 audio(s) into MKVmerge.
Set an output filename, and press "Start muxing".

Dealing with audio sync issues
There's mainly two ways to deal with audio sync problems.
First find out what kind of offset you have. Try to measure by how much the audio is out of sync at the start, and how much at the end. Try looking for things that have both clearly visible and audible parts. Gunshots are good, slamming doors, scene changes from a noisy to a quiet place, etc.

If the audio offset is the same at the start as at the end, it's probably the fault of a strange EVO that's not fully supported by the programs we're using. You can however fix that by repairing it while muxing the final mkv. If you select your audio track in mkvmerge, you can set a delay to that track.
http://exar.ch/suprip/hddvd-guide/sync1.png
If the audio happens before the video, use positive numbers, otherwise negative. Try to measure it exactly because a human can notice a 1 frame desync, perhaps not consciously, but it will make the movie feel strange in a way.

If the movie starts out synchronized, but gets desynced over time, two things could have happened. Either you forgot the fps=23.976 setting in AviSynth, in which case you can add a 1001/1000 value in the "Stretch by" field in mkvmerge to fix it.
Or you used Sonic Cineplayer as decoder, in which case you're screwed and you need to reencode the movie again. At least I've never found a way to reliable fix such an audio track because it seems to speed up and slow down at random points.

Subtitles
To come

Chapters
To come

[bourke]

Taktaal, great guide, can you add in these possible steps:


DD+ ==> LPCM

EAC3to


LPCM ==> DTS (if you have a DD+ track or an LPCM track - e.g. Blu-ray - then DTS is much much better quality than DD :-)

SurCode (commercial)


AVC / MPEG-2 ==> VC-1

Windows Media Encoder

[Raptus]

Yes, great (first?) guide!

The only thing that bugs me is the WMP11 requirement. I guess it is only needed for VC1 sources, right?

[Ajax_Undone]

Thanks Taktaal very much appreciative 1080i X.264 hvc is awesome... it took my AMD system 3 hours to complete both passes and save my HDD 15GB's per Vid with no visable loss...

[breez25]

Hi,

thanks a lot for the guide .. but unfortunately I get an error message when i klick insert filter (Haali Media Splitter selected) and choose the rebuilt Evo.. "Invalid fist byte" and "filter failed to load file".

I installed all the required decoders and i don't have any playback problems with mkv/x264 etc.

As an .Evo file i used a movie trailer.. might this be the reason for the error?

one more question ... is this guide especially for VC1 material? cause wouldn't it be unnecessary to use the WMVideo Decoder for H264/AVC?

I was thinking about buying a blu-ray burner for 200€ ... are there also .evo files on Bluray Disks that i could act as described?

Thanks a lot!

[rfisher1968]

Using the method described above I have successfully done "happy feet" and converted to a mkv file. I tried the same method with "the bourne supremacy" with the audio is out of sync. I thought it might be the frame count from evodemux that might be causing my problem, but i have no clue.

Any help.

[Taktaal]

There's mainly two ways to deal with audio sync problems.
First find out what kind of offset you have. Try to measure by how much the audio is out of sync at the start, and how much at the end. Try looking for things that have both clearly visible and audible parts. Gunshots are good, slamming doors, scene changes from a noisy to a quiet place, etc.

If the audio offset is the same at the start as at the end, it's probably the fault of a strange EVO that's not fully supported by the programs we're using. You can however fix that by repairing it while muxing the final mkv. If you select your audio track in mkvmerge, you can set a delay to that track.
http://taktaal.net/gfx/sync1.png
If the audio happens before the video, use positive numbers, otherwise negative. Try to measure it exactly because a human can notice a 1 frame desync, perhaps not consciously, but it will make the movie feel strange in a way.

If the movie starts out synchronized, but gets desynced over time, two things could have happened. Either you forgot the fps=23.976 setting in AviSynth, in which case you can add a 1001/1000 value in the "Stretch by" field in mkvmerge to fix it.
Or you used Sonic Cineplayer as decoder, in which case you're screwed and you need to reencode the movie again. At least I've never found a way to reliable fix such an audio track because it seems to speed up and slow down at random points.

[juzzy999]

Converting the audio
Eac3To is our main tool for converting the audio. It's a command line program so we have to start it from there. The syntax is pretty easy and explained in the programs thread on the Doom9 forums, so I won't spend much time explaining that.
Start it with "eac3to input.ddp output.ac3" and it will work a few minutes and convert the Dolby Digital Plus track to regular AC3.
http://taktaal.net/gfx/audio1.png



Having an issue with converting this audio.

I have installed all filters and still im getting this error "The Raw file doesnt seem to fit"

How do i fix this error and decode the audio? It's driving me insane.................

[igboo]

Having an issue with converting this audio.

I have installed all filters and still im getting this error "The Raw file doesnt seem to fit"

How do i fix this error and decode the audio? It's driving me insane.................

You need to install the Bluray/HD DVD plugin from Nero. It's $24.99, but it's the only thing that fixed the problem when I was having it.

[juzzy999]

Cool, ill try that..

[rfisher1968]

Thanks, I got it fixed now. I'm on to the next movie

[Taktaal]

Having an issue with converting this audio.

I have installed all filters and still im getting this error "The Raw file doesnt seem to fit"

How do i fix this error and decode the audio? It's driving me insane.................

Btw from what movie was the audio, and what type of audio was it? You can see it in the first few lines of the EAC3TO output.

[juzzy999]

Got it working now! I needed to buy the blu-ray/hd dvd plugin from nero...

I have a perfectly working mkv with 5.1 audio playing.

BUT....

Im trying to encode the mkv to wmv-hd using WME

It wont let me use any of the 5.1 or 7.1 channel audio streams.. It keeps coming up with error.. (0xC00D0BB8)

When i use any 2 channel audio, it works fine. (Video is fantastic by the way)

Audio is a big prob??? How do i fix this audio problem???

Please help?

[Ajax_Undone]

Whats so great about WMV-HD ugh... Keep the MKV file its much better quality...

[eas4uk]

Whats so great about WMV-HD ugh... Keep the MKV file its much better quality...

it streams to xbox 360 easily

[saint-francis]

Is this the Nero plugin needed?

http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/Blu_Ray_Plugin.html

It comes with disclaimers about refunds not being an option so b4 I sink the money into it I want to be certain that I know what I'm getting.

After I install this plugin the audio conversion should go smoothly? I checked out the thread on it but it's dozens of pages and I don't have enough time in one day to read them all.

[tyee]

Isn't there any other program to use other than Nero plugin for the audio? I'm sure I've seen mention of something else. I'm not installing the whole Nero Package just for the audio.

[Ajax_Undone]

Isn't there any other program to use other than Nero plugin for the audio? I'm sure I've seen mention of something else. I'm not installing the whole Nero Package just for the audio.

Sure its that opensource one youhavent created yet... LOL :)

Have you tried a google search...

[tyee]

I just looked over some of my notes from other threads and the one I was thinking of was the "DTS/AC3/DD+ source" filter. Will that one do it?

[Kumo]

i'm trying to compress a hddvd to x264.my system is xp, with win media sdk11 and sonic scenarsit decoder installed. i demuxed the vc1 file with evodemux. i can open the vc1 file with graphedit(graph is:"vc1->sonic demuxer->sonic decoder)" and it plays, but if i save the graph, and i open it in avisynth[script is:"Directshowsource("C:\path\file.GRF", fps=23.976, audio=false, seekzero=false, seek=true).trim(o,num frame tot)" ], i found out that it stops much earlyer than it should do(at frame 120000 instead 190665)(the movie is trunkated).i tryed even with "framecount=num frames" instead of ".trim()", but that way i've got a script error trying opening avs file. anybody knows wich problem could be?

[tyee]

I tried this with a HD trailer and didn't even use frame numbers and it worked fine. Give it try.

[saint-francis]

Write down how many calculated frames the movie has, we're going to need that number later.

I have noticed that there is a difference between the number of calculated frames and the number of counted frames when I uncheck Fast EVO Checking and re read the .EVO's. Which is the correct length? A different guide I found said to use the number of counted frames.

[mrpeterparker]

running under vista... i get an error when linking the .evo to WMVideo Decoder in graphedit.. any fixes for this?

"these filters can not agree upon a connection. verify type of compatibility of input pin and output pin. no combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection"

[Taktaal]

I just looked over some of my notes from other threads and the one I was thinking of was the "DTS/AC3/DD+ source" filter. Will that one do it?

No, that is just an input filter for eac3to that had to be used for earlier version. You still need a proper DTS/DD+ codec which are unfortunately hard to get.

i'm trying to compress a hddvd to x264.my system is xp, with win media sdk11 and sonic scenarsit decoder installed. i demuxed the vc1 file with evodemux. i can open the vc1 file with graphedit(graph is:"vc1->sonic demuxer->sonic decoder)" and it plays, but if i save the graph, and i open it in avisynth[script is:"Directshowsource("C:\path\file.GRF", fps=23.976, audio=false, seekzero=false, seek=true).trim(o,num frame tot)" ], i found out that it stops much earlyer than it should do(at frame 120000 instead 190665)(the movie is trunkated).i tryed even with "framecount=num frames" instead of ".trim()", but that way i've got a script error trying opening avs file. anybody knows wich problem could be?

Try to make your AVS script simpler to debug the issue. Then add more commands to it until you find the error.

running under vista... i get an error when linking the .evo to WMVideo Decoder in graphedit.. any fixes for this?

"these filters can not agree upon a connection. verify type of compatibility of input pin and output pin. no combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection"

Vista is pretty buggy as far as rarely used drivers are concerned. Maybe you can try running the application as admin and/or disable UAC entirely.
If this doesn't fix it, and you can't upgrade the OS to Windows XP, I'd suggest running an XP VM on it to do video editing, it's just a lot better.

[saint-francis]

running under vista... i get an error when linking the .evo to WMVideo Decoder in graphedit.. any fixes for this?

"these filters can not agree upon a connection. verify type of compatibility of input pin and output pin. no combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection"

Are you sure the source is VC-1? If it's AVC you need to just use Haali media splitter -> ffdshow or something like that. Or you can use DGAVCDecode.

[|sawo|]

does anyone know how to remove the grain?
I usually use removegrain, but now it says only planar color spaces are supported (i tried convert to yv12 but it still doesnt work)

[Ajax_Undone]

Grain in HD LOL that works!!!

I just encoded my first HD movie and I got Grain as well...

What gives

[|sawo|]

Ofcourse it has grain what do u expect?

[saint-francis]

Yeah I have been having some serious problems with grain in HD DVD's.

Check this thread out.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=131475 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=131475)

[Sephiroth0000]

TAKTAAL.... If I follow your guide will it allow me to change the output file from MKV? If so what other formats will it allow me to save as the OUTPUT file? Any information you have would be appreciated. Thankyou :)

[|sawo|]

Sephiroth0000 if i udnerstand correctly your question, then you havent read the guide.When you got to the part with avs you can convert the video to ANY output format you want all you need is encoder that support avs scripts like megui(avi/mp4/mkv) or virtualdub(support any vfw codecs)

saint-francis i read the thread and i dont see a reason not to use the standart filters that most of the people are using to remove the grain from hdtv transport stream caps.The only problem i got with hd-dvd is that i cant get the removegrain filter working correctly due to loads of bugs.Sometimes the avs script gives me an error due to the hd-dvd colorspace, other times megui just crashes when i load the avs script etc...

[Taktaal]

MKV is just a container that the x264 command line application likes to export to. It also happens to be pretty much the best one. The only alternatives are AVI (outdated and only supports CBR audio), OGM (which is almost never used anymore) and MP4 (which is more targeted towards handheld movies).

For grain, RemoveGrain doesn't seem to work too well with HDDVD sources. I'm generally using DeGrainMedian.

[BM98MaSTeR]

Is there a guide for doing this with BDs yet? I read the VideoHelp thread, but it doesn't seem like a specific enough solution. Trying to convert the source to another format like mp4 that would be playable in other devices.

[dezza9995]

TMPGEnc 4.0 Express accepts the video stream without having use AviSynth/Graphedit. Not sure yet about the encoding quality yet but going to try it later. It even accepted importing the evo file directly from the HD-DVD but the audio was corrupted.

[dezza9995]

8hrs of encoding and its managed to make me a 720p WMV of The Mummy from HD-DVD at 6gb, small enough to fit on a dual layer dvd. Audio is also in perfect sync first time and it plays on Xbox 360 too.

[tyee]

That's so cool. Well done! So what did you have to do about the audio, anything? Will TMPGEnc output AVC files too? Was your input file VC1 or AVC?

[dezza9995]

The audio was converted to normal AC3 from E-AC3 as shown on page 1 of this thread, using FFMPEG. When i opened the EVO file in TMPENC i just selected the converted AC3 as the audio stream.

It will output as AVC to, just checked and its in there as one of the output options.

http://www.mediahump.com/image/75584/

this is the output options for AVC encoding.

Update: The input file was VC1 straight from the EVO. I do believe that TMPenc used a decoder was already installed on my computer, more than likley something from Powerdvd which i have installed.

[Sephiroth0000]

TMPGEnc 4.0 Express accepts the video stream without having use AviSynth/Graphedit. Not sure yet about the encoding quality yet but going to try it later. It even accepted importing the evo file directly from the HD-DVD but the audio was corrupted.

But the EVO source comes in 2 features with a HD DVD. So did you REBUILD the EVO originally? Explain your wiseness :)

[dezza9995]

I did rebuild the evo using evodemux first, so it contained only the 1 video stream and the 1 audio stream that i wanted. Sorry, i did say that it opened direct from the HD-DVD when i should have mentioned that i rebuilt it first to my HD. The audio stream was then converted from E-Ac3 to AC3 using FFmpeg as Tmpgenc didnt like the Eac3 stream. The evo then simply opened in Tmpgenc and i added the newly created audio stream from there.

[Sephiroth0000]

I did rebuild the evo using evodemux first, so it contained only the 1 video stream and the 1 audio stream that i wanted. Sorry, i did say that it opened direct from the HD-DVD when i should have mentioned that i rebuilt it first to my HD. The audio stream was then converted from E-Ac3 to AC3 using FFmpeg as Tmpgenc didnt like the Eac3 stream. The evo then simply opened in Tmpgenc and i added the newly created audio stream from there.

Thankyou very much. I am demuxing now. If your way is 100% successful my friend you haave foundd the most easiest means of encoding HD DVD...well done :P

[dezza9995]

Ok, just realised that there was something else in the equation here that allowed the EVO file to open in TMPGEnc, a decoder. Sonic Cineplayer HD Decoder Pack was installed and when i removed it the EVO file no longer opened so it was not the PowerDVD decoders like i first thought. I've installed it again and TMPEnc is opening the EVO again.

Sorry about that.

[Sephiroth0000]

Ok, just realised that there was something else in the equation here that allowed the EVO file to open in TMPGEnc, a decoder. Sonic Cineplayer HD Decoder Pack was installed and when i removed it the EVO file no longer opened so it was not the PowerDVD decoders like i first thought. I've installed it again and TMPEnc is opening the EVO again.

Sorry about that.

I was going to ask this morning what was installed funny enough because the EVO refused to load up. I went to load it up and the program just did nothing and then went to NOT RESPONDING. I have the Sonic CinePlayer Decoder Pack 4.3 ...I take it that it is not efficent? Where can I buy this program from aswell please?

Oh and thankyou by the way for sharing your methods and keeping everyone in the know :)

The more information we share the faster we all move along as a whole

[bgbop15]

Perhaps he is using 4.2? I have heard of people going back to 4.2 because of issues with 4.3