New eac3to GUI: HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Stream Extractor

[swaaye]

I would say no... it is not optimized for multiple cores. Currently, the BackgroundWorker class is being used to farm out to eac3to. I'm sure it could be optimized a bit better by using the Thread class and doing some plumbing work yourself, but I'm not really in the mood to do it.

I can see if I can clean things up a bit more.

I love this app. But I have to ask if you've made any progress on this "issue" with the worker thread pegging one core at 100% doing nothing really while the other CPU core does that actual work. I have only tried the prog on a dual and a quad, but I've been wondering if this issue makes it impossible to use the app on a single core CPU? :)

On a dual core what happens is one core is useless to processing. The other core gets loaded down with all of the working programs. You end up with say neroAAC and eac3to on the only free core maxing it out when these two apps could be on separate cores. I am assuming that eac3to and the apps it calls would run on different core affinities though which may be wrong.. (?)

Let me again stress that this utility is incredibly useful and I am infinitely appreciative of your effort to make it!!!

[Greif]

I will move it up on the todo list :)

[deado]

I don't know if it's a bug/limitation of eac3to, or just this GUI, but I'm having a problem with Mongol UK release.

Stream Extractor only shows the VC-1 1080p24 video and two stereo AC3 tracks for Mongol UK - the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track that is present on the disc is not shown! I've tried 0.5 and SVN - both are the same.

Anyone know why this is? Are there other titles with similar problems of not listing the streams properly?

[Kurtnoise]

did you try to run eac3to manually ?

[Mark Pitchford]

I've ripped the UK versiion of Mongol without any trouble... I think I was using the 0.5 build at the time!

[slipknot!]

Does it support DVD's? I tried to extract audio tracks from Crank2 R5, but an AC3 track is missing. It extracted only 2 of them, while there are 3 on the disc.

[deado]

Tried listing it using eac3to manually, and it says the same thing - VC1 1080p24, two AC3 2.0 tracks and that's it. I've tried eac3to 3.15 and 3.16.

Also I'm having another issue - Seven Pounds has player-forced subtitles at the 40-minute mark (when Will Smith is talking to Connie), yet eac3to and HDBrStreamExtractor are unable to find that subtitle track! There are only four subtitle tracks found - English, another English (SDH), French and Spanish (as per back cover). There should be another English track for the forced subtitles during the movie... eac3to has listed it for every other disc I've tried which has forced subs..

This basically makes eac3to useless for Seven Pounds!

[kurt]

demux the english sup file and load it into suprip. tick "only forced subtitles" an see if it helps.... or don't you want a srt file?

[deado]

demux the english sup file and load it into suprip. tick "only forced subtitles" an see if it helps.... or don't you want a srt file?

Ahh thanks, now I've figured it out - the forced subs are part of the main subtitle (18mb), and in the log it says:

Subtitle track 6 contains 1017 normal and 32 forced captions.

This is the first title I've seen that is done like this - all other movies I've encountered have the forced subs as a seperate .sup file, I'll have to watch out for forced subs from the main subtitle file from now on!

And yeh ticking the "only forced subtitles" works for just getting those needed forced subs :)

[Kurtnoise]

I've a strange behaviour with this HD-DVD...

Here is the output from eac3to command line:
E:\audio\eac3to-3.16>eac3to.exe "G:\"
1) PEVOB_1.EVO+PEVOB_2.EVO, 2:12:24
"Feature Presentation"
- VC-1, 1080p (16:9)
- VC-1, 480p (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 5.1, 48khz
- TrueHD, English, 5.1, 48khz
- E-AC3, French, 5.1, 48khz

2) FR_DUB_CREDIT.EVO, 0:00:10
"dubbing_credit"
- MPEG2, 1080i (16:9)

3) VFVNDNF4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:17:16
"Designing the Near Future"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

4) VFVNMO4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:15:57
"Freedom! Forever!"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

5) VFVNEP4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:14:40
"England Prevails"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

6) VFVNGF4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:10:18
"Remember, Remember"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

7) VFVNEGG4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:02:34
"Natalie Portman SNL Rap"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

8) VFVNTTRL24LT1_HD.EVO, 0:02:24
"Theatrical Trailer"
- MPEG2, 480i (16:9)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

9) VFVNCPM4LE1_HD.EVO, 0:02:02
"Cat Power Montage"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz


but using the GUI, when I select either #8 or #9 title, I get only the video stream...What's wrong ?

[Greif]

What does the output look like when you do:

E:\audio\eac3to-3.16>eac3to.exe "G:\" 8)

[Kurtnoise]

Hi,

E:\audio\eac3to-3.16>eac3to.exe "G:\" 8)
EVO, 1 video track, 1 audio track, 0:02:24
1: MPEG2, 480i60 /1.001 (16:9)
2: AC3 Surround, English, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB, 16ms

E:\audio\eac3to-3.16>eac3to.exe "G:\" 9)
EVO, 1 video track, 1 audio track, 0:02:02
1: MPEG2, 480i60 /1.001 (4:3)
2: AC3, English, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB, 17ms
...

[Nyquist]

Hi,

want to extract a DTS-ES 5.1 stream, which is recognized by HdBrE, but I can only select AC3 as file format, not DTS. On a DTS-MA track, I can select DTS.

[Greif]

Can you show me the results from inspecting the feature with eac3to?

eac3to-3.16>eac3to.exe [DISC]: [STREAM#])

[Nyquist]

Sure, here we go:

Track 5 gives the DTS export option, track 6/7 only AC3


M2TS, 3 video tracks, 7 audio tracks, 7 subtitle tracks, 1:38:40, 98.945p
1: Chapters, 32 chapters
2: h264/AVC, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: h264/AVC, 480p24 /1.001 (20:11)
4: h264/AVC, 480p24 /1.001 (20:11)
5: DTS Master Audio, English, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 48khz
(core: DTS-ES, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 1509kbps, 48khz)
6: DTS-ES, Italian, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 1509kbps, 48khz
7: DTS-ES, German, 5.1 channels, 24 bits, 1509kbps, 48khz
8: AC3 Surround, English, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48khz
9: AC3 Surround, Italian, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48khz
10: AC3 Surround, German, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48khz
11: AC3 Surround, English, 2.0 channels, 192kbps, 48khz
12: Subtitle (PGS), English
13: Subtitle (PGS), English
14: Subtitle (PGS), Italian
15: Subtitle (PGS), German
16: Subtitle (PGS), Italian
17: Subtitle (PGS), German
18: Subtitle (PGS), English


eac3to 3.16
HdBrStreamExtractor SVN (0.5 throw an error regarding parent threads etc.)

[Kurtnoise]

it's because, DTS-ES, AC3 Surround & AC3 EX are not yet recognized by the GUI...:)

btw, I'm surprise by this:

M2TS, 3 video tracks, 7 audio tracks, 7 subtitle tracks, 1:38:40, 98.945p
:confused:

[Greif]

I've been super busy @ work so don't have much time right now to address this and other issues.

As long as you keep posting issues like this they are captured and I can fix them when I do have time.

[Nyquist]

Why are you surprised?

it's because, DTS-ES, AC3 Surround & AC3 EX are not yet recognized by the GUI...:)

btw, I'm surprise by this:


:confused:

[Kurtnoise]

Why are you surprised?
have you seen already movies at 98.945p ?


@Greif:
Index: eac3to/AudioStream.cs
===================================================================
--- eac3to/AudioStream.cs (revision 13)
+++ eac3to/AudioStream.cs (working copy)
@@ -85,9 +85,12 @@
switch (audioStream.Name.ToUpper())
{
case "AC3":
+ case "AC3 EX":
+ case "AC3 SURROUND":
audioStream.AudioType = AudioStreamType.AC3;
break;
case "DTS":
+ case "DTS-ES":
case "DTS MASTER AUDIO":
case "DTS HI-RES":
audioStream.AudioType = AudioStreamType.DTS;

;)

[Nyquist]

Ok, that's something I didn't note :)

have you seen already movies at 98.945p ?

[Kurtnoise]

note that it's related to eac3to, not the GUI.

[Nyquist]

Yep, but has no impact on the extracted streams.

note that it's related to eac3to, not the GUI.

[Wishmaster74]

Hi all.
First off, if theres a thread about this elsewhere or not the correct place for this I apologize, please direct me to where I should be :)

I use the HD stream extractor (EAC3to) for most of my blurays.
However, since the latest updates of MeGUI 3.1.1040 and 3.1.1041 I get constant errors with the stream extractor.

It Queues and shows the codec as EAC3to and the directory where ever I chose with ((xxx)) right after it. As soon as I click start it just says error.

I reverted back to 3.1.1028 and updated all but the core of MEgui and now the stream extractor and Eac3to is working properly.

Is this a new bug in the new core versions, or a fix for it somewhere or am I being a complete noob and missing something simple.

Thanks.

[Kurtnoise]

this has been fixed (http://www.mediafire.com/?2zyzzexy5yj)...

[Karkas]

I get this error and then the utility crashes when i try to continue despite...

"Controls created on one thread cannot be parented to a control on a different thread."

Is there something I did wrong? What is this error?

[Greif]

No, nothing you did wrong. That is an outstanding bug that I have to track down.

I have been really busy @ work and still continue to be so I haven't had time to work on this stuff. I will get to it probably during the summer, hopefully sooner.

I do not think the same things is happening in MeGUI so you can try using that as well.

[Karkas]

No, nothing you did wrong. That is an outstanding bug that I have to track down.

I have been really busy @ work and still continue to be so I haven't had time to work on this stuff. I will get to it probably during the summer, hopefully sooner.

I do not think the same things is happening in MeGUI so you can try using that as well.

So is it just certain titles or maybe trying to rip it again will fix it?

[Greif]

Yes, I have found the bug with just certain titles.

[lifespeed]

I have tried HDBrStreamExtractor numerous times. I have found that at least 50% of the time it chokes and complains about 'discontinuity' in the stream file or some such nonsense.

But when I run eac3to from the command line the conversion always works!

I would really like to get this program working as it is the only GUI I am aware of that supports MKV video and FLAC audio. The author of ClownBD, for some reason, thinks it unimportant to support the FLAC audio conversion. In my mind this is the key benefit of conversion. After all, the video remains the same just in a different container and DRM-free.

[Greif]

Can you provide me with the exact error message? Can you show the log that is created?

[Mark_A_W]

Greif

I've been using the SVN version for ages now, and it works pretty well (as long as you don't try and do two discs in a row). But the 0.5 version is, umm, unusable basically.

Could you edit the first post and make it much more obvious that the SVN version is the one to download please?


And thanks for this application. It makes eac3to much easier, and does 90% of what eac3to will do, yet it's simple and user-friendly (unlike the other gui I tried).

Cheers

Mark

[Greif]

Yes, I've been meaning to clean up the downloads and promote SVN to 0.6 (or whatever) ... I'll try to do it this week but I will make a quick edit of the 1st post to make sure people are downloading the SVN for now.

Real life work plays the bills... it will get done though...

Thanks.

[jmonier]

I have tried HDBrStreamExtractor numerous times. I have found that at least 50% of the time it chokes and complains about 'discontinuity' in the stream file or some such nonsense.

But when I run eac3to from the command line the conversion always works!

I would really like to get this program working as it is the only GUI I am aware of that supports MKV video and FLAC audio. The author of ClownBD, for some reason, thinks it unimportant to support the FLAC audio conversion. In my mind this is the key benefit of conversion. After all, the video remains the same just in a different container and DRM-free.

I get this problem very infrequently (<5%). For me, when I get it, it talks about a missing sync byte. On the most recent one that I got (John Adams Disc 1 Part 2) it happened on command line as well (and I did not check this in any other case). This makes sense since all the GUI does (I think) is to generate a command line and then execute it.

The fix that I found was to uncheck "Prohibited User Operations", "Remove Annoying Adverts and Trailers" and "BD Live" in AnyDVD. With this done I did not get the discontinuity. Note that it played though the area of the discontinuity just fine in TMT with or without these options checked.

Note that the problem is not limited to eac3to. I also got something similar with MakeMKV.

[lifespeed]

The fix that I found was to uncheck "Prohibited User Operations", "Remove Annoying Adverts and Trailers" and "BD Live" in AnyDVD. With this done I did not get the discontinuity. Note that it played though the area of the discontinuity just fine in TMT with or without these options checked.

Thanks! Somewhere in the dark depths of my memory I recall there being issues with those settings. I suspect those settings are only useful when using AnyDVD to rip to ISO or folders. I'll check and report back.

[<><]

Trying out your tool, but keeps crashing, error here:

Description:
Stopped working

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: hdbrstreamextractor.exe
Problem Signature 02: 0.6.3364.13393
Problem Signature 03: 49c0e872
Problem Signature 04: HdBrStreamExtractor
Problem Signature 05: 0.6.3364.13393
Problem Signature 06: 49c0e872
Problem Signature 07: 52
Problem Signature 08: 87
Problem Signature 09: System.NullReferenceException
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

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Log here:
eac3to v3.16
command line: "C:\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "\\tower\disk1\English Movies\310 to Yuma [Blu-Ray]" 1) -progressnumbers
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 1 audio track, 2:02:30, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 25 chapters
2: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: RAW/PCM, English, 7.1 channels, 16 bits, 48khz



It crashes on any movie i try, and doesn't even load when i try to load a HD-DVD.

Also, why is there a size difference when using TsMuxer to rip movie/audio track only?

Thanks

[mikelebron]

I would like to request an enahcement - I would love for this to have the option of after creating the individual files to auto do the MKV Merge. Any ideas on this? Also being to batch / queue jobs would be great..

[setarip_old]

@<> <

Hi!

You do know, don't you, that you have to either first rip/decrypt your media, or have "AnyDVD HD" running in the background?

[Greif]

@mikelebron - you can queue jobs using MeGUI. unless eac3to plans on supporting it, I dont see me adding MKV muxing as a feature.

[<><]

@<> <

Hi!

You do know, don't you, that you have to either first rip/decrypt your media, or have "AnyDVD HD" running in the background?
The movie is already ripped/decryped and already was stripped of movie only/audio only using tsMuxer which is still in blu-ray folder format...was just testing out this tool, which keeps erroring out.

[Greif]

does eac3to work at the commandline?

[Brazil2]

does eac3to work at the commandline?
Basically eac3to IS a command line tool.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966

This thread is about a GUI for eac3to.

[Greif]

@BRazil2: ... Yes I know eac3to is a commandline tool. If you check the first post of this thread, you'll notice I wrote this GUI. I was asking <>< if what he was trying to do works using eac3to rather than the GUI.

[<><]

@BRazil2: ... Yes I know eac3to is a commandline tool. If you check the first post of this thread, you'll notice I wrote this GUI. I was asking <>< if what he was trying to do works using eac3to rather than the GUI.

Yes the command line works fine, it's the GUI that causes a critical error.

I tried 10 times, 9 of those times it got a critical error I pasted above, 1 time it actually went through its scan and let me view the streams and select the output method (TXT,MKV, FLAC) and was output into mkv container w/ flac audio as I wanted.

For Blu-rays it errors out after it reaches 100% for the stream scan, for HD DVDs it errors out right after I click on the "Features" link to get the movie info. Again, sometimes it completes the scan and lets me view the streams and select the output, but it fails 9 out of 10 times.

using the SVN build linked on the first post of your thread.

Thanks

[Greif]

@<><: so it's failing on the retrieval of the features.

Is that code-snippet you posted earler from the GUI or eac3to?

eac3to v3.16
command line: "C:\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "\\tower\disk1\English Movies\310 to Yuma [Blu-Ray]" 1) -progressnumbers
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 1 audio track, 2:02:30, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 25 chapters
2: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: RAW/PCM, English, 7.1 channels, 16 bits, 48khz


If it's not directly from eac3to, can you show me the following output?

eac3to.exe "\\tower\disk1\English Movies\310 to Yuma [Blu-Ray]" 1) -progressnumbers

Thanks.

[<><]

Here is the output directly from eac3to run from command prompt:

C:\eac3to>eac3to "\\tower\disk1\English Movies\310 to Yuma [Blu-Ray]" 1) -progressnumbers
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M2TS, 1 video track, 1 audio track, 2:02:30, 24p /1.001
1: Chapters, 25 chapters
2: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
3: RAW/PCM, English, 7.1 channels, 16 bits, 48khz

C:\eac3to>

The vista critical error i get is attached as image (which was the same as i pasted in my first post)

Thanks

[monotube]

Hello, I'm using with success the last svn of this program. I have problems only with DTS ES 6.1 tracks ( generally seamless branching from Pixar ); in this case I can't select DTS and I select wav, with sometime problems muxing with TsMuxer. Is it a problem of the gui or maybe of eac3to 3.16?

I have installed arcsoft decoder, nero7 and surcode.

Many thanks in advance to all

[Greif]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been busy at work and I recently installed Windows 7 RC on my home machine. When the RTM of Windows 7 is released - which I think will be tomorrow ;) - I'll reinstall VS2K8 and get my project up and running again.

[monotube]

Hello, I'm using with success the last svn of this program. I have problems only with DTS ES 6.1 tracks ( generally seamless branching from Pixar ); in this case I can't select DTS and I select wav, with sometime problems muxing with TsMuxer. Is it a problem of the gui or maybe of eac3to 3.16?

I have installed arcsoft decoder, nero7 and surcode.

Many thanks in advance to all

[Greif]

Updated to 0.6. This version is a very quick update that fixes the stream "extrac as" combo boxes and some of the audio types.

more to come soon.

[QUEENFAN]

Hi,

how can I get ONE EVO (out of a HD-DVD without copy-protection ;-) containing just the audio-stream(s) I want and chapters/subtitles?

Thanks a lot for this tool.