BD Rebuilder Beta - Bug Reports Only

[pacificdune]

Hello!

I posted this before, but seems that everyone missed my post, or at least nobody knoew the answer... :)

I'm new here, but have been working with BD Rebuilder for several weeks. My current versions are BD Rebuilder 0.20.03, ffdshow 2744. When I first started working with the program I would get 100% utilization on 4 threads. Now I only seem to be getting 1 thread utilized and it runs painfully slow for that reason.

Does anyone have any insight on how I may be able to fix this?

Cheers!

PD

[datman]

2 films, Hunt for the red october and the jumper the audio is not synced with the picture. I have never seen this before. I tried to used the delay in tsmuxer but had no sucess.


I restarted the computer and it prompted me to do a check disk and ran through and deleted thousands of orphaned files. Everything seems to be ok. This is the 2nd time I've been through this with the chk dsk

[archie_here]

I am using Windows XP Pro.
When I use the script created by BD-RB, I am getting not able to play the avs script in MPC and i get a script error: Directshowsource does not have a named argument "framecount" (E:\WORKING\WORKFILES\VID_00141.AVS, line 2)

If I take the framecount out, I am able to play the script on MPC without problem.

Both ways BD-RB is failing to encode like below.

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1259707&postcount=1955

any insights guys? I definitely want to try BD-RB.

[smnckl]

Originally Posted by archie_here
I am using Windows XP Pro.
When I use the script created by BD-RB, I am getting not able to play the avs script in MPC and i get a script error: Directshowsource does not have a named argument "framecount" (E:\WORKING\WORKFILES\VID_00141.AVS, line 2)

If I take the framecount out, I am able to play the script on MPC without problem.

Both ways BD-RB is failing to encode like below.

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?...postcount=1955


any insights guys? I definitely want to try BD-RB.

I have just tried with one of the VID_XXXXX.AVS files that I have saved from an earlier rebuild. Tested on both Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista.

MPC-HC v1.2.908.0 handles the AVS file fine, tho without audio as expected.

1. Which version of MPC do you have installed?
2. Have you configured the filters under "View/Options..."?
3. Have you installed any external filters (which can be found on Sourceforge, on the same download page as MPC-HC itself?

I don't know why it does not work for you -- maybe you could try deleting the MPC folder and unzip again from the archive you downloaded. If it is not the v1.2.908.0 package,use Google to find that and try again.

Good luck.

[smnckl]

@archie_here


Originally Posted by archie_here

[22:13:37] BD Rebuilder v0.20.03 (beta)
- Source: 35990120_FEWGOODMEN
- Input BD size: 36.83 GB
- Approximate total content: [02:18:01.272]
- Target BD size: 4.27 GB
- MOVIE-ONLY mode enabled
- Resuming from previously started job.
[22:13:38] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [22:13:38] Reencoding: VID_00141 (1 of 1)
- Encode failed. Retrying.
- Encode failed. Retrying.
- Reached retry limit. Aborting.
[22:13:41] - Failed video encode, aborted

[Options]
MODE=1
QUICK_EXTRAS=0
PRIORITY_CLASS=1
RESIZE=0
TARGET_SIZE=4369
AUDIO_TO_KEEP=eng;
SUBS_TO_KEEP=eng;
TRELLIS=1
COLOR_BOOST=0
RESIZE_1080=0
DTS_REENCODE=1
AC3_REENCODE=1
AC3_640=0
AVCHD=0
AUDIO_TRACK_LIMIT=1
SUBTITLE_TRACK_LIMIT=1
ENCODER=0
VERBOSE_STATUS=0
[Paths]
SOURCE_PATH=E:\FGM\35990120_FEWGOODMEN\
WORKING_PATH=E:\WORKING\


I see that you are trying to shrink a 36.83GB movie down to a DVD5. Are you trying to keep the DTS soundtrack? If so, I believe that would not work as it would take up almost one-third of the DVD5. That might be the problem. Please provide more info about what you are trying to do.

To those who know better, please correct me if I am wrong.

@jdobbs

Could I suggest a short write-up on the switches/parameters in the BDREBUILDER.INI, appended to the first post, so that there can be no doubt as to what each switch does.

Or maybe someone else could do the write-up and have it made a sticky.

[GaPony]

Hello!

I posted this before, but seems that everyone missed my post, or at least nobody knoew the answer... :)

I'm new here, but have been working with BD Rebuilder for several weeks. My current versions are BD Rebuilder 0.20.03, ffdshow 2744. When I first started working with the program I would get 100% utilization on 4 threads. Now I only seem to be getting 1 thread utilized and it runs painfully slow for that reason.

Does anyone have any insight on how I may be able to fix this?

Cheers!

PD

I really don't know what to tell you about this... I've used every version of BD-Rebuilder since 17.11 and have changed through several versions of FFDShow, AviSynth, and Matroska Splitter... All four cores are always at 100% during encoding, and not so much during other phases of the copy process. I use a Q9650 with 8gb RAM...for what its worth.

I run at normal priority, as opposed to Idle priority, but I doubt that makes much difference unless maybe there would be a higher priority task running at the same time.

You might take a look at all the processes and services that you have running to see what might be pulling priority from BD-Rebuilder and its components.

[jdobbs]

any insights guys? I definitely want to try BD-RB.
You are using an old verion of AVISYNTH. From the CHANGES.TXT file:

January 20th, 2009 - v0.18.2
- PLEASE NOTE: Starting with this version, BD Rebuilder
REQUIRES AVISYNTH v2.57 or above. If you do not have it
installed, please download it from:
http://www.jdobbs.net/freeware/Avisynth_257.exe
and install it. BD-RB will not work with older
versions of AVISYNTH. It's also listed in the first post of this thread:

2. Download and install AVISYNTH 2.57 or above. If you are a DVD-RB user, it is compatible, so no worry. It is required for BD Rebuilder to work. AVISYNTH v2.57 can be downloaded from http://www.jdobbs.net/freeware/Avisynth_257.exe or from http://www.avisynth.org.

[jdobbs]

[Deleted, repeat]

[jdobbs]

In ffdshow video decoder configuration its the first option - H.264/AVC.

I changed it from libavcodec to ffmpeg-mt.

I then continued Kung fu Panda to the end and burned to re-writable and it plays fine in my samsung 1500.

This was a full back up as I only do full disk back up to BD25.

Kind regards.
Odd. I don't even have that as a choice. I can only choose between LIBAVCODEC and DISABLED. Maybe I need to upgrade?

[Biffa001]

just treid this and still getting the same x264.exe crash :(

Any other suggestions please as this excellent piece of s/w is just what I need!

I've updated AVISynth to the latest 2.58 version and tried again - still no joy, the same x264.exe crash.

- I've noticed in the BD_Rebuilder settings menu that ffmpeg is greyed out and only x264 is available to select - is that a problem?


- I've also noticed that when BD_Rebuilder gets to this point:

11:20:25] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [11:20:25] Collecting video information [00000]
- Video: 1920x1080, 23.976fps
- Bitrate: 3,171 Kbs
- [11:20:25] Reencoding: VID_00000, Pass 1 of 2

shouldn't Haali and FFDshow bee seen in the taskbar, as they aren't?

Any other suggestions please ? Thanks for your help, it's appreciated, hope we get to the bottom of this!

[espinha]

It happens a strange thing to me, with vista I work very weel with BD Rebuilder ( use it on 4 ou 5 to shrink to BD 25 and all work fine ).

I now format my pc and have XP64 version and when I start BDR gives this error :

[13:37:45] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [13:37:45] Extracting audio/subs [VID_00081]
- [13:37:45] Reencoding: VID_00081 (1 of 3)
- [13:38:18] Extracting audio/subs [VID_00110]
- [13:38:21] Reencoding: VID_00110 (2 of 3)
- [13:40:29] Extracting audio/subs [VID_00011]
- Error in attempt to extract audio/subs.
[13:52:37] - Failed to retrieve audio, aborted

and simply stop.


please help:confused:

[Shuttle99]

I've had the same problem with X264 locking up on the same movie 3 times so last night I tried to set in ffdshow x264 to ffmpeg-mt but it was not an option so I looked for a new version of ffdshow and there was a new version so I installed it and now it has ffmpeg-mt as an option. So I set it to ffmpeg-mt and first try and it completed and no lockup on the same movie that locked up 3 times in a row. So for some reason it does work and it also seems to be faster taking about an hour less time.

[sholweger]

Audio sync question....

I've only run into problems with audio sync on movies where the main movie is spread out over multiple m2ts files. I've tried using tsmuxer first to create a new blu-ray folder with the movie only put into 1 m2ts file thinking that would help and was wrong. 2 specific movies I have tried are Hancock and My Best Friend's Girl and the audio sync difference is significant by end of movie.

Please advise....thanks!

[pacificdune]

I really don't know what to tell you about this... I've used every version of BD-Rebuilder since 17.11 and have changed through several versions of FFDShow, AviSynth, and Matroska Splitter... All four cores are always at 100% during encoding, and not so much during other phases of the copy process. I use a Q9650 with 8gb RAM...for what its worth.

I run at normal priority, as opposed to Idle priority, but I doubt that makes much difference unless maybe there would be a higher priority task running at the same time.

You might take a look at all the processes and services that you have running to see what might be pulling priority from BD-Rebuilder and its components.

Thanks for the reply...

The other processes are not consuming anything and my CPU utilization runs at 25%. I'm using a Q9450, but don't think processor or memory is making a difference. I am looking through all of the ffdshow settings and there are places where you can set the number of threads to use, but those do not seem to make a difference. I am thinking of deinstalling and then reinstalling everything.

If anyone else has any input it would be much appreciated!

PD

[jewish]

I've had the same problem with X264 locking up on the same movie 3 times so last night I tried to set in ffdshow x264 to ffmpeg-mt but it was not an option so I looked for a new version of ffdshow and there was a new version so I installed it and now it has ffmpeg-mt as an option. So I set it to ffmpeg-mt and first try and it completed and no lockup on the same movie that locked up 3 times in a row. So for some reason it does work and it also seems to be faster taking about an hour less time.

Glad it worked for you mate.

[jewish]

Odd. I don't even have that as a choice. I can only choose between LIBAVCODEC and DISABLED. Maybe I need to upgrade?

You definately need the upgrade mate.

[jewish]

Hi jdobbs and everyone else.

I still had a few films - Mr and Mrs Smith/ID4/FF4-Silver Surfer where it would fail to encode, eg;

[12:19:42] BD Rebuilder v0.20.03 (beta)
- Source: MRMRSSMITH_F1
- Input BD size: 31.79 GB
- Approximate total content: [02:26:33.493]
- Target BD size: 22.90 GB
[12:19:43] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [12:19:43] Extracting audio/subs [VID_00001]
- [12:27:15] Collecting video information [00001]
- Video: 1920x1080, 23.976fps
- Bitrate: 20,511 Kbs
- [12:27:15] Reencoding: VID_00001, Pass 1 of 2
- Encode failed. Retrying.
- Encode failed. Retrying.
- Reached retry limit. Aborting.
[12:27:17] - Failed video encode, aborted

So since i had a few other codecs on my system which is Vista Ultimate i did some house cleaning.

I uninstalled Vista Codecs Pack and any others i could find. Regcleaned. Rebooted. Installed K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 470. Installed 472 update. Rebooted.

Trying Mr and Mrs Smith again and it has not failed within the first few mins as it did before. Going on 6 hours now and all going fine so far.

[12:52:00] BD Rebuilder v0.20.03 (beta)
- Source: MRMRSSMITH_F1
- Input BD size: 31.79 GB
- Approximate total content: [02:26:33.493]
- Target BD size: 22.90 GB
[12:52:04] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [12:52:04] Extracting audio/subs [VID_00001]
- [12:59:41] Collecting video information [00001]
- Video: 1920x1080, 23.976fps
- Bitrate: 19,486 Kbs
- [12:59:41] Reencoding: VID_00001, Pass 1 of 2
- [15:52:58] Reencoding: VID_00001, Pass 2 of 2


This encode failure has (i think) to do with the different codec packages people have on their PC`s.

Hope this helps everyone with "encode failed".

Will update when the encode has finished.

Kind regards all.

[Elesias]

the changeling plays perfecly on my bd35 with 1.3 european firmware and on ps3

I was wondering : in ffdshow video decoder configuration, in "Codecs" for VC-1, what decoder do you have ?

Mine is wmv9.

[GaPony]

shouldn't Haali and FFDshow bee seen in the taskbar, as they aren't?

FFDShow won't show up in the taskbar if you're working with VC-1 files... there's nothing for it to do if you have used "disabled" or "wmv9" for the VC-1 setting.

[Lif3styl3]

Hi,

so the next bd which won't work fine. i'am ripping one blu ray a day.
So, many reencoding procedures were working fine, but for the last few versions, no reencoding worked.

Today Reencoding of BAADER_MAINHOF_COMPLEX Results in an Error 8.

Don't know what it stands for. I have done a movie only copy, with all abailable langues and subtitles.

Any ideas ??

[archie_here]

You are using an old verion of AVISYNTH. From the CHANGES.TXT file:

January 20th, 2009 - v0.18.2
- PLEASE NOTE: Starting with this version, BD Rebuilder
REQUIRES AVISYNTH v2.57 or above. If you do not have it
installed, please download it from:
http://www.jdobbs.net/freeware/Avisynth_257.exe
and install it. BD-RB will not work with older
versions of AVISYNTH. It's also listed in the first post of this thread:
@ jdobbs n smnckl

Well, I already had a modded 2.57 so didn't update it, but the one in your link is of later build i guess. Its working now. Started the rip. Hopefully my other utilities which depends on the modded version works on the new dll too.

Thanks.

[Furiousflea]

It looks like a lot of you haven't even tried to resolve problems yourself. Please learn to follow basic instructions instead of wasting people's time with your lazyness.

With all these questions, I'm surprised jdobbs gets anytime at all to actually work on the program.

[Shuttle99]

Can someone post a snapshot of their ffdshow settings so some of us out here that are unsure we have all the codecs set correctly know what they should be set to.

Thanks

[GaPony]

Can someone post a snapshot of their ffdshow settings so some of us out here that are unsure we have all the codecs set correctly know what they should be set to.

Thanks

How tough is this? This is the third time I've reposted what jdobbs has stated at least twice... All you have to do is read the thread, (actually just the very first post to this thread) or use the search feature...

He (jdobbs... the author and authority on this program) mentioned that he used libavcodec for the mpeg2 and H.264/AV settings. All others would be the default settings, as FFDShow installs them. You could actually keep the default setting of ffmpeg-mt for the H264/AV setting without any problem.

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?...postcount=1952

[Shuttle99]

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[jewish]

This is my FFDSHOW settings for those that want it.

Kind regards all.

[rmeyers]

tsMuxeR v1.8.26 beta is supposed to have fixed the clpi issues it was having i believe

[stef73]

I was wondering : in ffdshow video decoder configuration, in "Codecs" for VC-1, what decoder do you have ?

Mine is wmv9.

mine is the same elisias

[Elesias]

So I don't understand why I have so many problems... Thanks for your answer though.

[turbojet]

You need wmp 11 installed to use wmv9, which does the same as disabled if wmvideo dmo decoder merit is the highest for vc-1.

[jdobbs]

Don't know if anyone else is experiencing this, but I just wanted to warn anyone who has upgraded FFDSHOW recently:

I ran into several problems (crashing) with the new release of FFDSHOW (ffdshow_rev2719_20090224_clsid) on Vista and was forced to step back to the previous release I was using (ffdshow_rev2661_20090207_clsid). Everything is fine now. Anything WMV or VC-1 would cause a crash almost immediately (I tried it on two different computers, same result) even though it was disabled in the FFDSHOW setup and the default WMV11 should have been used. I just looked, and the bad one is what is still posted for download on the www.x264.com site -- which, unfortunately, is where I've been telling everyone to go.

So if you are experiencing failed encodes... look into this first before posting.

You can download the version that I know works from this link (http://www.jdobbs.net/freeware/ffdshow_rev2661_20090207_clsid.exe).

[Furiousflea]

All you people with codec problems and if you can't get *any* encodes to work indicating a setup problem on your computer. Why don't you post in my "guide for tools" thread. There is a guide there telling you what settings to use. It's not that well written :p but it does the job and tells you exactly what you need to know.

Now PLEASE stop posting in here. Yes, I know I'm not a mod, but nobody else seems to be standing up and saying what needs to be said.

If you need help with your particular setup and you know full well that it is not a bug, post in my thread, that way we can update the guide with any potential problems you might have and solutions.

[drmih]

With respect to the x264 crashing issues can people check the source material. I have helped a couple of people and the problem was corruption in the source material. Although nobody does it, if your source did come from a newsgroup then there are some with corruption, particularly in the extras. I have had also had a bad rip which caused a problem and redoing it sorted it.

If x264 crashes, see which m2ts file it was doing. Use something like MPC to play the m2ts stream and look for pixelation / blocking (if x264 crashed at xx%, then you can do a rough calc to see how far you should be watching from).

[setarip_old]

@drmih

Hi!if your source did come from a newsgroup then there are some with corruption, particularly in the extras. I have had also had a bad rip which caused a problem and redoing it sorted it.You might want to re-read Rule #6 and the announcement at the top of the "Newbies" sub-forum...

[drmih]

@drmih

Hi!You might want to re-read Rule #6 and the announcement at the top of the "Newbies" sub-forum...

I haven't got a clue what you're on about - I know the rule and neither condone or am personnally using these sources myself but as part of a debugging process if some people are reporting problems caused by damaged sources it's no help to the author.

[jdobbs]

I don't think he's advocating downloading... he's trying to tell people that doing so can result in corrupted files, and not to post bug reports.

I will add to that... if they are downloading files from the internet, they are obviously not legitimate and aren't reliable for beta testing -- so please don't post any bugs you find against those sources. I don't want to have to chase some half-ass hacker's screw-up.

[datman]

I just encoded Gandhi. I first set it up off a fresh rip and as you see the only audio option was 2ch the multichannel option was not available. Not liking that option I ran tsremuxer only selecting the mutichannel and set that up in 20.03 and it worked. I didn't want to post until I was sure it would be successful.

[jdobbs]

I don't understand what you're saying.

[Furiousflea]

I don't understand what you're saying.

I think he's saying that when he opened the source in BD-Rebuilder the multichannel audio didn't appear. He then ran it through tsmuxer and loaded that output in BD-Rebuilder and it then detected it.

[tyau]

I just encoded Gandhi. I first set it up off a fresh rip and as you see the only audio option was 2ch the multichannel option was not available. Not liking that option I ran tsremuxer only selecting the mutichannel and set that up in 20.03 and it worked. I didn't want to post until I was sure it would be successful.



I have had that exact problem before with a few movies, but my enquiry was not addressed. This is why I always use tsmuxer to select my preferred subtitles and audio prior to making movie-only backup using BD-RB.

[rmeyers]

what? you just double click on the audio you want, and it adds it. or, in the settings, make sure you have 'limit to one track for each language' unselected, and then it will automatically add all of the different audio for your specific language.

[MikeyBK]

I just encoded Gandhi. I first set it up off a fresh rip and as you see the only audio option was 2ch the multichannel option was not available. Not liking that option I ran tsremuxer only selecting the mutichannel and set that up in 20.03 and it worked. I didn't want to post until I was sure it would be successful.

I have had that exact problem before with a few movies, but my enquiry was not addressed. This is why I always use tsmuxer to select my preferred subtitles and audio prior to making movie-only backup using BD-RB.

what? you just double click on the audio you want, and it adds it. or, in the settings, make sure you have 'limit to one track for each language' unselected, and then it will automatically add all of the different audio for your specific language.

Wow... that is pretty basic guys.... you really didn't know that you could double-click each audio to enable or disable audio (or Subtitle) streams?
As rmeyers is stating, you could've simply disabled that 2 channel English audio and enabled the TrueHD English stream...

[jdobbs]

I think he's saying that when he opened the source in BD-Rebuilder the multichannel audio didn't appear. He then ran it through tsmuxer and loaded that output in BD-Rebuilder and it then detected it. I don't think so. I think he's saying it wasn't "checked" -- which of course means that in the SETUP screen he selected "English" and "Limit to One Track for each language".

I can see from the graphic he loaded that it was there -- only not selected. All that would take is a single double-click (or unchecking "Limit to One Track for each language").

[Furiousflea]

I don't think so. I think he's saying it wasn't "checked" -- which of course means that in the SETUP screen he selected "English" and "Limit to One Track for each language".

I can see from the graphic he loaded that it was there -- only not selected. All that would take is a single double-click (or unchecking "Limit to One Track for each language").

...Where's the initiative gone to these days...It's beyond belief. I wouldn't be surprised if a gang of monkeys could have worked that out together. You know one of those news reports when they show how some monkey managed to press a correct sequence of buttons for some munch...Itsn't this at that level?

Brick wall!

[datman]

...Where's the initiative gone to these days...It's beyond belief. I wouldn't be surprised if a gang of monkeys could have worked that out together. You know one of those news reports when they show how some monkey managed to press a correct sequence of buttons for some munch...Itsn't this at that level?

Brick wall!

What can I say I'm a moron. I just clicked it and unchecked it. I guess I should be banned. FuriousFlea we all can't be geniuses. I just ask a question. It could have been answered simply. You don't have to spend 3x the time pointing out how stupid I am, Implying how smart you are.

[Furiousflea]

What can I say I'm a moron. I just clicked it and unchecked it. I guess I should be banned. FuriousFlea we all can't be geniuses. I just ask a question. It could have been answered simply. You don't have to spend 3x the time pointing out how stupid I am, Implying how smart you are.

I have nice qualities too like wanting to help you numptees, which is why I wrote a guide. It's not in there though so will add to it at some point. We were all unenlightened once, I'm sure there's stuff you know what I should and I don't. I really didn't mean it personally. This is the internet :)

[laserfan]

This is the internet :)It is also Doom9.org, where Rule #4 says "Be nice to each other..."!

The only members not subject to this rule are Atak and DS! :devil:

[Furiousflea]

It is also Doom9.org, where Rule #4 says "Be nice to each other..."!

The only members not subject to this rule are Atak and DS! :devil:

Awwww but I'm nice really don't be a meany!

[DaMacFunkin]

Ive recently done a backup of taken with version 20.03 to bd5 & i noticed the forced subtitles are missing, not sure if the problem lies with bdrebuilder or tsmuxer, using tsmuxer independently it only shows one english sub stream but does say some tracks not recognsed. This is a region b disc im using.

This has been tested in my ps3 & on a sony 550 blu ray player, my burner is a samsung w163a & use only quality ritek discs.

Thanks
Are you sure the forced subs are even there? The copy i had didn't force any subs even on the original on my Panasonic BD30, i think you might find that it is a mastering error and that is the reason it is currently very hard to track down in UK shops on Blu-ray, if you read this thread http://forum.dvdtalk.com/archive/t-548889.html a few other people also claim that the UK release doesn't indeed have these subs, as too are they needed, yes they are, how do you know that the french police man is having neeson follows till it happens?? etc.

[drmih]

After previously blaming all x264 failures on bad rips, I now have one which is puzzling me, and my detection method. I have a rip of 300 which I was doing full disc, and on an extra it gave the 'x264 stopped working' message. I identified the stream and played it with MPC and sure enough it was blocky and pixelated. Normally I would re-rip it but in this case I double checked by playing the rip with powerdvd. It was perfect and no sign of any damage. Given this I tried to resume the job but I still get x264 errors, although typically at different percentages through.
Am I missing something obvious?