BD rebuilder for dummies thread

[datman]

I thought you had a 320gb drive... which one us of can't add? :) (80+170=250?)

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It was my bad eyes and wishful thinking I looked at the newegg add again and it was 250g still at $39 each free shipping I can make it work.

I got my P4 internet computer up and running in the much smaller old case. It is working but now it won't turn off I have read about that, either way this may be a temperary computer till I get everything dialed in

[datman]

hey guys,

well I'm up and running with the 2 HTPCs. I have to say this is the way for me.:D


I'm running W7-64 and the encodes are working good. Thanks to jdobbs and tekmobile . You must have seen my rash of posts in the bugs thread I was so :confused:

W7 is great for this limited use thus far. One thing with my W7 install none of the code keys will activate it. I don't know who to call. Well I got 29 more days

[GaPony]

You may need to re-register for a new key. Here's the link... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

[datman]

You may need to re-register for a new key. Here's the link... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx


I have been there. If you go there put your info in you will get a key, hit the back button you will get another key. There are 5 keys I think we are all using the same keys. Imay be wrong:confused:

[GaPony]

I think you're right. I saw a posting someplace that argued there were only about 25 keys, except for the first few unique keys that were issued before the website crashed, on the first day of the program.

If you want to put Windows 7 on multiple computers, you can use the same key for all of them.

[datman]

I am trying this encode tonight I am doing it from a protected ISO strait to BDRB 19.6 there are 13 different files that it's going through, (phase 1,1st pass, 2nd pass) it's in 2 of 13 now.It looked like the program paused at the end of 1 of 13 and the was a black dos screen that disappeared when I clicked on it and the program then started 2 of 13. I hope I don't have hang around to start the remaining 11 parts.


It looks like it would be faster to use tssplitter and tsmuxer.

[datman]

it went strait 3 of 13. Before when I saw the black window when the program restarted it had to do phase 1 again. This time it didn't .

I think it was that x264 crash and then a older x264 completes the encode.

this should be a good test, the best quality to a BD25 size and not reencoding the audio

[datman]

One thing I did find odd and for me lets know BDRB is not yet the single encoding software I need. When I got done with pineapple express saving it to a BD25 size it was something like 22.35g and the audio that I had checked to not recode ac3 was 448. I did it again the old way tssplitter and tsmuxer twice. I ended up with a file 19.2g and had full audio

[datman]

The errors I was trying to post in the bugs thread seemed to happen on particular movies that may or may not be a bug. On the last one “ Personal effects” I tried 3 or 4 different times each under a different set of parameters. The 1st off an unprotected ISO rip one with a tsmuxer-ed file and one using 19.06. Then I tried off the disc, all failed.

Then I tried to play the disc and it won’t play I plan to return it.

It seems to me every encode is completely different and the processing is different. On my system a normal encode takes 6 to 8 hours and the 1st pass speed can have speeds anywhere from 1.10 to 1.65 the 2nd pass less than half of that. It’s unknown to me why there can be so much difference from one encode to another. The one I on now is off a HDD archive. I have not decided if it is better to work off the disc or continue working off my files. It is very slow .27 I have had some nearly 3x that

[jdobbs]

The difference between first and second pass is normal. You typically don't run a lot of the high-end features on the first pass in order to speed it up -- but you need them for the second in order to a good final outpu.

[datman]

The difference between first and second pass is normal. You typically don't run a lot of the high-end features on the first pass in order to speed it up -- but you need them for the second in order to a good final outpu.


I know and expect the 2nd pass to be 1/3 the speed of the 1st.

One thing I have noticed and it may be partly because of the version of BDRB I was using at the time. I was having some encode that were much faster and tword the end they would gain speed knocking 2 hours off the encode (a guess) The end results looked good. These latest versions the speed starts out high and settles down about 3% into and stays there till the end