BD Rebuilder Beta - Bug Reports Only

[jdobbs]

I've updated the first post of this thread with a link to a new version of BD-RB (v0.36.06). Changes for this release:- - Corrected an error in which the .CHP files used
with IVTC were not corrected to match the new
framerate.
- Corrected an issue in which hybrid sources under
certain circumstances in conjunction with the
IVTC could cause incorrect framerate calculations.
- Added a SETUP option for converting SD sources to
1080. This can be useful in creating high quality
backups of DVD to Blu-Ray or AVCHD.
- Added a SETUP option for converting 4:3 sources to
16:9. Caution: This option will clip the top and
bottom of images in order to make the conversion,
designed primarily for letterboxed 4:3 sources.
- Moved placement of filters in the AVS file so they
occur before any BD-RB embedded deinterlacing,
inverse telecining, or resizing.
- Changed the default deinterlacing mode for DECOMB
to blend=false. Blending can be enabled by setting
DEINTERLACE=2 in the config (INI) file.
- Corrected an error in which a source may incorrectly
be kept intact even though "USE_FILTERS" was set.
- Updated the X264 command line so that the "--ref"
parameter is set to the maximum for the specified
output size. 1080 will use "--ref 4", while others
(480, 576, and 720) will use "--ref 6". To disable
and always use "--ref 4", use the hidden setting
MAXIMIZE_REFS=0. [Update: v0.36.6] This feature
only applies to "Highest Quality" mode in order to
prevent slowdown in other modes. Also, the "--ref"
parameter has been removed from the tweak restricted
list.
- Modified the hidden option "WEIGHTP" so that "1" is
now the default (ON), adding "--weightp 1" to the
X264 command line. Setting it to "WEIGHTP=0" will
result in "--weightp 0".
- Updated the included version of X264.EXE to the
latest release (r1820).
- Updated the included version of X264-64.EXE to
the latest release (r1820).
- Other minor corrections and cosmetic fixes.

[jdobbs]

Ah, I see. Now it checks the German language. But when I select only German to keep I still have no English track in the extras although it's the only language there :( Would it be possible to change that?

And would it also be possible to make the main window resizeable? I'll look at keeping it when it is the only language... for now it's probably best to keep both German and English. If you click on the "Limit to One Track" box, you can ensure only one track is kept (there are often several English tracks).

[Dark Shikari]

- Updated the X264 command line so that the "--ref"
parameter is set to the maximum for the specified
output size. 1080 will use "--ref 4", while others
(480, 576, and 720) will use "--ref 6". To disable
and always use "--ref 4", use the hidden setting
MAXIMIZE_REFS=0.
Why? Surely in the fast modes you'd not want to use any more than the defaults for the given preset? This will make BD-RB vastly slower on fast modes.

[jdobbs]

Ughhh... guess I didn't give that enough thought. I'll change it for the next release. I'm sure I'll get some "it's running slower" reports...

[jdobbs]

Why? Surely in the fast modes you'd not want to use any more than the defaults for the given preset? This will make BD-RB vastly slower on fast modes. I've changed it so that it only applies to the "Highest Quality" mode and updated the link in the first post. I don't think I want to go through the "Why is it taking so long" reports.

Thanks for catching that.

Note to All: I've updated to the first post to include a link to BD Rebuilder v0.36.06. This update makes a correction to prevent faster modes from being slowed by the "--refs" update.

[chompy]

- Modified the hidden option "WEIGHTP" so that "1" is
now the default (ON), adding "--weightp 1" to the
X264 command line. Setting it to "WEIGHTP=0" will
result in "--weightp 0".
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But now, we've lost the option to have --weightp 2. Could you please also modify the hidden option "WEIGHTP" to also accept 2?

Greetings

[jdobbs]

But now, we've lost the option to have --weightp 2. Could you please also modify the hidden option "WEIGHTP" to also accept 2?

Greetings No. That can cause problems and shouldn't be used for Blu-ray backups.

[chompy]

No. That can cause problems and shouldn't be used for Blu-ray backups.

That option is fully bluray spec compliant, and the only problem was due to certain chipset bad firmwares and it was solved long ago with firmware upgrades.

(By the way, It has being used in your previous releases and it hasn't caused any problem).

Greetings

[jdobbs]

That option is fully bluray spec compliant, and the only problem was due to certain chipset bad firmwares and it was solved long ago with firmware upgrades.

(By the way, It has being used in your previous releases and it hasn't caused any problem).

Greetings

But not solved everywhere -- and I'm avoiding having to spend hour-after-hour explaining that to people... sorry, but the minimal advantage isn't worth the headaches. By the way you said "we've lost that option" -- it never was there. If you had set "WEIGHTP=2" in the past you were actually encoding with "--weightp 0" (the default).

[chompy]

But not solved everywhere -- and I'm avoiding having to spend hour-after-hour explaining that to people... sorry, but the minimal advantage isn't worth the headaches. By the way you said "we've lost that option" -- it never was there. If you had set "WEIGHTP=2" in the past you were actually encoding with "--weightp 0" (the default).

But when "WEIGHTTP=1" was set, the encoding was done with "--weightp 2" (x264 default). And if you had that option hidden for long time and don't see why I would remove it (if followed this post from long time ago, and I don't remember any problem due to it).

[Dark Shikari]

No. That can cause problems and shouldn't be used for Blu-ray backups.It only causes problems on a single chipset, and only if you didn't update the firmware.

On the other hand, it's not very useful compression-wise, so it's perfectly fine to just dump the WEIGHTP hidden option entirely.

[jdobbs]

It only causes problems on a single chipset, and only if you didn't update the firmware.

On the other hand, it's not very useful compression-wise, so it's perfectly fine to just dump the WEIGHTP hidden option entirely. I'll just modify it where you can set it in the hidden option. Then if people set it to "2" -- they're responsible for any problems themselves. The default value will remain "1".

[Sharc]

That's all it could be... but I've never seen anything like that.
Eventually I found the solution:
The ghosting disappears when I replace in the script
ConvertFPS(......) by AssumeFPS(....).

[jdobbs]

Eventually I found the solution:
The ghosting disappears when I replace in the script
ConvertFPS(......) by AssumeFPS(....). You may have problems if you do that. If "ConvertFPS" is there it means you probably have a hybrid or pulldown source -- and if you use AssumeFPS you could get audio sync problems.

I'll go back and check when-and-how that is inserted to be sure.

[Edit] Actually there are two possible "convertfps" possibilities. One is related to hybrid/pulldown sources, the other may not be.

1. Are you talking about the one that is a parameter in the "DirectShowSource" statement or the one that is an AVISYNTH command?

2. Is the problem occuring while attempting ALTERNATE output? If so -- which profile?

[xtremevideoinc117]

having problems with SALT Blu Ray using newest version. theres no audio selected and when i select it, it still doesnt get it. using Anydvd to read it then i load it with BD-rebuilder and burn it with IMGburn

[cyberdoggy]

- Added a SETUP option for converting SD sources to
1080. This can be useful in creating high quality
backups of DVD to Blu-Ray or AVCHD.


How do you load a Standard DVD, it seems you can only load a BD Structure disk?

[Sharc]

You may have problems if you do that. If "ConvertFPS" is there it means you probably have a hybrid or pulldown source -- and if you use AssumeFPS you could get audio sync problems.

I'll go back and check when-and-how that is inserted to be sure.

[Edit] Actually there are two possible "convertFPS" possibilities. Are you talking about the one that is a parameter in the "DirectShowSource" statement or the one that is an AVISYNTH command?
The one in the avisynth command.
Actually the conversion is from original blu-ray 23.976fps progressive to 25fps (PAL-DVD, Alternate output profile DVD-5 plus 'Assume PAL for DVD Output' in DB-RB setup).
And yes, AssumeFPS(25) results in the typical "PAL speedup", means the audio needs to be adjusted as well accordingly.
The advantage is that AssumeFPS() does not manipulate the original frames (insert, blend, or whatever).

[jdobbs]

How do you load a Standard DVD, it seems you can only load a BD Structure disk? I convert it with multiAVCHD first.

[Priapismic]

having problems with SALT Blu Ray using newest version. theres no audio selected and when i select it, it still doesnt get it. using Anydvd to read it then i load it with BD-rebuilder and burn it with IMGburn
Do you have an audio setup in BDRB that excludes the only source on the disc? Are you having BDRB convert to a output your system can decode?
Download Meidainfo and make sure the audio track is in there.

[xtremevideoinc117]

Do you have an audio setup in BDRB that excludes the only source on the disc? Are you having BDRB convert to a output your system can decode?
Download Meidainfo and make sure the audio track is in there.

no audio that excludes it.i'm redoing it, this time I went to each individual file and selected (AUD-002 DTS-HD XXL Multi-ch). how can i post the log file?

[jdobbs]

no audio that excludes it.i'm redoing it, this time I went to each individual file and selected (AUD-002 DTS-HD XXL Multi-ch). how can i post the log file? If it isn't being selected then it either isn't set for selection from the SETUP menu -- or it is an undefined audio language. The only time I've ever seen that happen is on a preprocessed source.

[jdobbs]

The one in the avisynth command.
Actually the conversion is from original blu-ray 23.976fps progressive to 25fps (PAL-DVD, Alternate output profile DVD-5 plus 'Assume PAL for DVD Output' in DB-RB setup).
And yes, AssumeFPS(25) results in the typical "PAL speedup", means the audio needs to be adjusted as well accordingly.
The advantage is that AssumeFPS() does not manipulate the original frames (insert, blend, or whatever). So how would I make it better? Squeeze the audio? That sounds like I'd get even more complaints.

[Video Dude]

So how would I make it better? Squeeze the audio? That sounds like I'd get even more complaints.
You can do the Don Graft method (DGPulldown) and adjust the pulldown flags. For conversion to PAL, encode 720x576, 23.976fps. Then flag it to 25fps. No adjustment to audio needed.

[jdobbs]

You can do the Don Graft method (DGPulldown) and adjust the pulldown flags. For conversion to PAL, encode 720x576, 23.976fps. Then flag it to 25fps. No adjustment to audio needed. If you do it with pulldown you're going to get distortion similar to the ghosting you'd get with ConvertFPS() (something equivalent anyway from doing the repeated fields for frame insertion) so it really doesn't improve much. But I can do that easy enough with "--pulldown euro". I'll do some testing and see which looks better. The other thing I can do is use AssumeFPS(25) and use AVISYNTH's TimeStretch() to adjust the audio -- I just hate to distort both the video and the audio.

The truth is there really is no good way to do it. Everything leaves you disappointed to one degree or another.

[cnote]

I'm going to use an example because I am having trouble trying to figure out how to word this correctly... The "Pacific" has 2 episodes on each disc. Is it possible to back up both episodes in "Movie-Only" mode? Is there a way to select both episodes in the "Other Movie-Only Playlist"? I use DVD-9's and my player has had trouble playing full back-ups on the dual layer dvd's. I have tried backing up each separately with a custom target size of about 3.8G. But I haven't had any success when I go to burn or playback those discs. Excuse me for making this more complicated than it is. Thanks for the help.

[setarip_old]

@ xtremevideoinc117

If you're in the US or Canada, there could be a problem with your source material at this date...

[jdobbs]

I'm going to use an example because I am having trouble trying to figure out how to word this correctly... The "Pacific" has 2 episodes on each disc. Is it possible to back up both episodes in "Movie-Only" mode? Is there a way to select both episodes in the "Other Movie-Only Playlist"? I use DVD-9's and my player has had trouble playing full back-ups on the dual layer dvd's. I have tried backing up each separately with a custom target size of about 3.8G. But I haven't had any success when I go to burn or playback those discs. Excuse me for making this more complicated than it is. Thanks for the help. There isn't an inherent way within BD-RB today. I plan to eventually add a capability that will do what you're asking -- it's just not going to be for a while. But... today if you ran it through multiAVCHD first (not in reauthoring mode), keeping both episodes, and then do a BD Rebuilder full backup against the result -- you will get output that is DVD-9 (AVCHD) compliant and it will do what you're asking.

[Sharc]

So how would I make it better? Squeeze the audio? That sounds like I'd get even more complaints.
For commercial PAL DVD it is common practice that 24 fps film originals are just speed up including audio by 4% to 25 fps. This often means (for simple audio conversion) that the audio pitch is also slightly shifted up - to most people this is unnoticeable. I personally prefer the speed up procedure over blending or pulldown judder.
Up to now I did the audio speed up manually with eac3to, and sync is perfect, but I would assume there are similar means for resampling the audio using other audio converters.
I haven't tried the audio speed adaptation parameter in AssumeFPS(25,1,true).
(Sups would have to be be re-stamped as well if one should want to keep sups. I do this with BDSup2Sub)

[omegaman7]

anybody have any trouble with "Shrek, The Final Chapter"? My encoding and what not seemed to be fine. Just watched it. But only one of my media players plays it properly. And the one that does play it, I have to load the single M2TS file for the audio to play properly. When I load the BD folder in to TMT 3, all is well til I play the main title. In which it sounds like it's playing 2 audio tracks simultaneously. The directors commentary, and the main track. Any thoughts on this?

I hate to burn it, only to find out the living room player exhibits the same problem ;) I have a BD-RE arriving Friday thank goodness!

[jdobbs]

For commercial PAL DVD it is common practice that 24 fps film originals are just speed up including audio by 4% to 25 fps. This often means (for simple audio conversion) that the audio pitch is also slightly shifted up - to most people this is unnoticeable. I personally prefer the speed up procedure over blending or pulldown judder.
Up to now I did the audio speed up manually with eac3to, and sync is perfect, but I would assume there are similar means for resampling the audio using other audio converters.
I haven't tried the audio speed adaptation parameter in AssumeFPS(25,1,true).
(Sups would have to be be re-stamped as well if one should want to keep sups. I do this with BDSup2Sub) There's actually a separate audio function built into AVISYNTH that will speed-up the audio without changing the pitch.

[Sharc]

There's actually a separate audio function built into AVISYNTH that will speed-up the audio without changing the pitch.
So you are positive that the speedup - even without changing the pitch - can be applied when extracting the audio from the original disc and converting it to ac3?

[jdobbs]

So you are positive that the speedup - even without changing the pitch - can be applied when extracting the audio from the original disc and converting it to ac3? I'm assuming the filter works correctly. The AVISYNTH page even has an example for converting audio from FILM to PAL. It has a "TEMPO" parameter designed for changing length without affecting pitch. I'll have to dig up some PAL video and run some tests.

[omegaman7]

anybody have any trouble with "Shrek, The Final Chapter"? My encoding and what not seemed to be fine. Just watched it. But only one of my media players plays it properly. And the one that does play it, I have to load the single M2TS file for the audio to play properly. When I load the BD folder in to TMT 3, all is well til I play the main title. In which it sounds like it's playing 2 audio tracks simultaneously. The directors commentary, and the main track. Any thoughts on this?

I hate to burn it, only to find out the living room player exhibits the same problem ;) I have a BD-RE arriving Friday thank goodness!
I apologize for the previous premature post. I should have done at least a little more testing. I have now. TMT 3 remains unchanged. It plays BD rebuilders processed files the same(Unprocessed/original plays fine). Strange audio overlay in the main title.
I have burned the BD-R anyway. Powerdvd10, and my living room BD player (BD-P1590) however do not exhibit the problem.
It does however raise the question. Are all standalone players gonna be ok with this? If you're as curious about the problem as I am, which components would you like me to post? The forum doesn't like me to post anything over 16,000 characters(I think that's the exact figure).

[Capsbackup]

@omegaman7;
If the title has PiP, then I have experienced what you describe, but only when playing back with TMT3. Every title I have backed up to BD-R/RE with PiP and DD Plus secondary audio has worked properly on my Sony S360 and BX1, as well as PowerDVD 7. I have not had any luck with TMT3 when playing back a full backup that BD-RB retains the PiP.
This is why it is important to confirm full backups play properly on standalones, and not just software players.

[omegaman7]

@omegaman7;
If the title has PiP, then I have experienced what you describe, but only when playing back with TMT3. Every title I have backed up to BD-R/RE with PiP and DD Plus secondary audio has worked properly on my Sony S360 and BX1, as well as PowerDVD 7. I have not had any luck with TMT3 when playing back a full backup that BD-RB retains the PiP.
This is why it is important to confirm full backups play properly on standalones, and not just software players.

Thanks for the info. That makes perfect sense. I haven't experienced this PiP as you have until now. I'll have to keep an eye out for it LOL! :thanks:

Why does the altered output have the problem though? The original plays fine.

[jdobbs]

Thanks for the info. That makes perfect sense. I haven't experienced this PiP as you have until now. I'll have to keep an eye out for it LOL! :thanks:

Why does the altered output have the problem though? The original plays fine. It's possible that the remapping of the audio PID is the issue. Normally PIDs for PiP audio should fall within 0x1A00-0x1A1F. But TSMUXER doesn't support that, so BD-RB remaps all the references in MPLS to match TSMUXER's assignment.

In my effort to make DTS Express work (also not supported by TSMUXER), I'm remuxing the secondary audio myself (separate from TSMUXER). I'll probably also do other PiP audio just so it is done correctly.

[stonej01]

Cannot get Inception to convert keeps failing. Ripped two separate times, one with a straight Anydvd rip then the other with a Dvdfab and anydvd combo.

Log:
-----------------------
[09:30:11] BD Rebuilder v0.36.06 (beta)
- Source: INCEPTION_-_COMBO
- Input BD size: 31.83 GB
- Approximate total content: [02:36:02.311]
- Target BD size: 22.90 GB
- Windows Version: 6.1 [7600]
- Auto Quality: Good (Very Fast), ABR
- Audio Settings: AC3=1 DTS=1 HD=0 Kbs=640
[09:30:14] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [09:30:14] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00004]
- [09:30:18] Reencoding: VID_00004 (1 of 5)
- [09:30:18] Collecting video information
- Source Video: VC-1, 1920x1080
- Rate/Length: 23.976fps, 1,880 frames
- [09:30:18] Reencoding: VID_00004, Pass 1 of 1
- Encode failed. Retrying.
- Encode failed. Retrying.
- Reached retry limit. Aborting.
- BD-Rebuilder v0.36.06 (beta)
- Windows Version: 6.1 [7600]
- AVISYNTH Version: 2.5.7.0, Ok
- HAALI Splitter: Ok
- FFDSHOW: 3326, Ok
- WIN7 preferred AVC CODEC: Ok
- WIN7 preferred VC-1 CODEC: Ok
- WIN7 preferred MPEG2 CODEC: Ok
- FFDSHOW VC-1 set to "wmv9", Ok
- FFDSHOW MPEG2 set to "libavcodec": Ok
- FFDSHOW AVC set to "ffmpeg-mt": Ok
- X264: Ok
- AFTEN: Ok
- FAAC: Ok
- MP4BOX: Ok
- WAVI: Ok
- TSMUXER: Ok
[09:34:43] - Failed video encode, aborted



INF File
[Status]
LABEL=INCEPTION_-_COMBO
VERSION=v0.36.06 (beta)
SOURCE_SIZE=34181229902
SOURCE_VIDEO_SIZE=34067576832
TARGET_SIZE=24589107200
REDUCTION=.718438362983597
RESIZE_1080=0
AUDIO_TO_KEEP=eng;
SUBS_TO_KEEP=all
BACKUP_MODE=0
MOVIEONLY_TYPE=0
USE_LAVF=0
QUICK=1
ENCODE_STEP=1
[00004]
AUDIO=1
PGS=
M2TS_TARGET=92775245

[jdobbs]

Remove any other "Codec Packs" you may have installed. It appears somthing has taken over VC-1 decoding and it isn't working. Try uninstalling HAALI and FFDSHOW -- and reinstalling again.

[stonej01]

Didnt have any other packs installed, must have been one of the other programs i installed over the last week,... but your solution did work, a quick reinstall and the conversion seems to be progressing nicely. How could you tell?

[jdobbs]

Didnt have any other packs installed, must have been one of the other programs i installed over the last week,... but your solution did work, a quick reinstall and the conversion seems to be progressing nicely. How could you tell? If all the settings are correct and it isn't working -- something has to be overriding the settings. With a lot of these installs it comes down to "the latest is the greatest" and whichever software was installed last takes control -- so reinstalling the "good" packages usually fixes it.

[Kerry56]

I'm trying to help someone with a problem in BD Rebuilder. Against my advice he was using DVDFab Blu ray Passkey in the background to break encryption and was working straight from the disk.

Here is his log file: 22:52:47] BD Rebuilder v0.36.06 (beta)
- Source: LOGICAL_VOLUME_ID
- Input BD size: 20.48 GB
- Approximate total content: [01:46:48.819]
- Target BD size: 22.95 GB
- Windows Version: 6.1 [7600]
- Quality: High Quality (Default), Two Pass
- Audio Settings: AC3=0 DTS=0 HD=1 Kbs=640
[22:52:47] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [22:52:47] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00001]
- [22:52:53] Reencoding: VID_00001 (1 of 4)
- [22:52:53] Collecting video information
- [22:52:53] Keeping original video (no reencode)
- [22:52:53] Reencoding audio tracks (if req'd)
- [22:52:53] Multiplexing M2TS
- [22:52:54] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00003]
- [22:53:02] Reencoding: VID_00003 (2 of 4)
- [22:53:02] Collecting video information
- [22:53:02] Keeping original video (no reencode)
- [22:53:02] Reencoding audio tracks (if req'd)
- [22:53:02] Multiplexing M2TS
- [22:53:03] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00002]
- [22:53:27] Reencoding: VID_00002 (3 of 4)
- [22:53:27] Collecting video information
- [22:53:27] Keeping original video (no reencode)
- [22:53:27] Reencoding audio tracks (if req'd)
- [22:53:27] Multiplexing M2TS
- [22:53:28] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00000]
- [23:17:19] Reencoding: VID_00000 (4 of 4)
- [23:17:19] Collecting video information
- [23:17:19] Keeping original video (no reencode)
- [23:17:19] Reencoding audio tracks (if req'd)
- [23:17:19] Multiplexing M2TS
- Error in attempt to multiplex: MUX_00000.meta
- SmartLabs tsMuxeR. Version 1.10.6 http://www.smlabs.net
[23:18:29] - Failed to build structure, aborted

He is using Win7, and everything checks out ok when using the Inspect.exe file. Simple case of not ripping to the hard drive first, or is this another problem?

[jdobbs]

Something appears to be corrupted. Nothing is being reencoded, but when TSMUXER attempts to remux all the extracted components of VID_00000, it is failing. The good news is that for this disc you really don't have to use BD Rebuilder -- if you look at the input and output sizes it will fit on a BD-25 as-is. Just copy it to your hard drive and write it with IMGBURN.

[Cupidjones]

I have tried multiply times to backup this disc to no avail. 4th disc of the original Twlight Zone Season 1. All others no issues. Thought I had a bad rip so tried it again, same problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[10:54:54] BD Rebuilder v0.36.06 (beta)
- Source: TZ_4
- Input BD size: 34.05 GB
- Approximate total content: [03:28:28.370]
- Target BD size: 22.95 GB
- Windows Version: 6.1 [7600]
- Auto Quality: Good (Very Fast), ABR
- Audio Settings: AC3=1 DTS=1 HD=1 Kbs=640
[10:54:55] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [10:54:55] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00007]
- [10:54:59] Reencoding: VID_00007 (1 of 10)
- [10:54:59] Collecting video information
- Source Video: MPEG-4 (AVC), 1920x1080
- Rate/Length: 23.976fps, 722 frames
- Bitrate: 16,896 Kbs
- [10:54:59] Reencoding: VID_00007, Pass 1 of 1
- [10:55:28] Video Encode complete
- [10:55:28] Reencoding audio tracks (if req'd)
- [10:55:28] Multiplexing M2TS
- [10:55:31] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00019]
- [10:55:35] Reencoding: VID_00019 (2 of 10)
- [10:55:35] Collecting video information
- Source Video: MPEG-4 (AVC), 1920x1080
- Rate/Length: 23.976fps, 722 frames
- Bitrate: 16,897 Kbs
- [10:55:35] Reencoding: VID_00019, Pass 1 of 1
- [10:56:03] Video Encode complete
- [10:56:03] Reencoding audio tracks (if req'd)
- [10:56:03] Multiplexing M2TS
- [10:56:08] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00003]
- Error in attempt to extract audio/subs.
- AV frame too large (65504 bytes). Increase AV buffer.
[10:56:09] - Failed to retrieve audio, aborted

[HWK]

- Error in attempt to extract audio/subs.
- AV frame too large (65504 bytes). Increase AV buffer.
[10:56:09] - Failed to retrieve audio, aborted

Which program did you use to rip disc. Also post Bd-Rebuilder configuartion setting file.

[drmih]

Got a bug on Salt - just encoded it to bd-9 without any problems. The disc is a multi m2ts disc with three versions of the film. I'm just watching the copy for Extended unrated cut and after about 30 mins the quality becomes nearly unwatchable - heavy blocking and nowhere near enough bitrate. At about 38 mins the films returns to perfect quality. Problem keeps occurring on certain scenes.

**Just for clarification, the scenes in question are in all three branching versions (00122 and 00123 if anyone wants to check their copies - the chase sequence from about 32 minutes onwards).

[KeVe1983]

Yeah thats a problem i had a few times now!

But in your case i dont understand why
BD9 is movie only, or not?

I have the same problems sometimes with my BD25 encodes.
If the Movie has more than 1 m2ts file, BD_RB encodes some parts as extras. So i've selected "Quicker encodes for extras" and so the Quality at some movie Parts is terrible and very blocking.

So if i see that the main movie has more than 1 m2ts file, i deselect "Quicker encodes for extras" and all seems fine.

My Disks with this Problems:

Wall-E -Encoded today with "Quicker encodes for extras" and some movie parts have heavy blocking. New encode with "Quicker encodes for extras" disabled = Encode is fine and i have no blocking

Inception
Salt
Knight and Day
Cop Out

[drmih]

My copy was full disc but not 'Quicker for extras' - highest quality possible. I have identified one or two m2ts files where the bitrate drops to around 0.5MBPS compared to the files either side in the playlist of about 2.0 MBPS

[KeVe1983]

Can u tell me the timestamp in the movie where this happens to you?
I've burned the disc already and will have a look.

Maybe "Quicker encodes for extras" is forced if u set the output to BD9, like HD-Audio encoding is forced if you select BD9 output.

[drmih]

Can u tell me the timestamp in the movie where this happens to you?
I've burned the disc already and will have a look.

Maybe "Quicker encodes for extras" is forced if u set the output to BD9, like HD-Audio encoding is forced if you select BD9 output.

It's from about 32 to 38 minutes.

[jdobbs]

Got a bug on Salt - just encoded it to bd-9 without any problems. The disc is a multi m2ts disc with three versions of the film. I'm just watching the copy for Extended unrated cut and after about 30 mins the quality becomes nearly unwatchable - heavy blocking and nowhere near enough bitrate. At about 38 mins the films returns to perfect quality. Problem keeps occurring on certain scenes.

**Just for clarification, the scenes in question are in all three branching versions (00122 and 00123 if anyone wants to check their copies - the chase sequence from about 32 minutes onwards). That film doesn't come out here in the US until Tues, Dec 14th. I'll test it then. Can you post your BDREBUILDER.INI contents so I can try to reencode with the same settings as you and see if I can repeat it?

Also, can you post the INF file and LOG for your encode? I'm fumbling in the dark when I don't have any logs to work with.