BD-Rebuilder not working after fresh Windows XP reinstall....

[siratfus]

Well actually, I'm not sure if it ever worked on XP at all. I've been using rebuilder on my Vista notebook. I decided to move all work the the desktop, but It coincided with having to reinstall Windows XP. So I actually never tested it before. The system is now fresh with none of my previous softwares or codecs.

My computer seems to be working fine. I downloaded all the tools in the Milotis guide and reinstalled everything fine. But BD-Rebuilder keeps failing to re-encode. "Failed video encoded. Aborted." Is there some sort of codecs package that I should download?

Please advise.

[HWK]

What codecs and program you have already downloaded on your computer.

[jdobbs]

Well actually, I'm not sure if it ever worked on XP at all. I've been using rebuilder on my Vista notebook. I decided to move all work the the desktop, but It coincided with having to reinstall Windows XP. So I actually never tested it before. The system is now fresh with none of my previous softwares or codecs.

My computer seems to be working fine. I downloaded all the tools in the Milotis guide and reinstalled everything fine. But BD-Rebuilder keeps failing to re-encode. "Failed video encoded. Aborted." Is there some sort of codecs package that I should download?

Please advise.Follow the directions in the first post of the bug thread. That should be all you need to make it work.

[siratfus]

Follow the directions in the first post of the bug thread. That should be all you need to make it work.

Thank you! However, before I read your suggestion, I googled the web and found this post by someone at afterdawn answering to someone who had the same issues as me. I followed it, and it worked for me.

"In ffshow video decoder options go to codecs. set MPEG2 to libavcodec, VC1 to WMV9 and H264/AVC to libavcodec. Try again. I have seen very similar BD rebuilder logs on mates systems that did not have these codecs enabled in FFDSHOW."

[jdobbs]

Thank you! However, before I read your suggestion, I googled the web and found this post by someone at afterdawn answering to someone who had the same issues as me. I followed it, and it worked for me.

"In ffshow video decoder options go to codecs. set MPEG2 to libavcodec, VC1 to WMV9 and H264/AVC to libavcodec. Try again. I have seen very similar BD rebuilder logs on mates systems that did not have these codecs enabled in FFDSHOW." Well, if you want to listen to someone else rather than the guy who wrote the program, go ahead and do it some other way -- it's up to you. But (as I say in the post I referenced) you will have better luck installing WMP 11. There are some sources that WMP9 won't decode and you'll get the error you're reporting. The other two should be set to libavcodec by default when FFDSHOW is installed.

[siratfus]

Well, if you want to listen to someone else rather than the guy who wrote the program, go ahead and do it some other way -- it's up to you. But (as I say in the post I referenced) you will have better luck installing WMP 11. There are some sources that WMP9 won't decode and you'll get the error you're reporting. The other two should be set to libavcodec by default when FFDSHOW is installed.

Hey Jdobbs, sorry didn't mean to offend you. It's just the other instructions were more detailed. For example, when you say enable mpeg2, I don't know what that means when the drop down boxes presents several options.

The other two sources was not set to libavcodec at default, which is probably what caused all this confusion. That random poster said he saw the same thing happen to a few other people where the default settings were not what it's suppose to be.

However, on my vista notebook, even with the default settings for mpeg2 and vc-1 set to disabled. I've been encoding fine on my vista notebook, but been 50/50 on it being able to play on my ps3. On my XP desktop, it would not encode at all until I changed it to libavcodec.

I will download WMP 11 as you recommended. However does it matter whether it's 9 or 11, when all I plan to do is watch it on my PS3? Please advise.

[jdobbs]

Hey Jdobbs, sorry didn't mean to offend you. It's just the other instructions were more detailed. For example, when you say enable mpeg2, I don't know what that means when the drop down boxes presents several options.

The other two sources was not set to libavcodec at default, which is probably what caused all this confusion. That random poster said he saw the same thing happen to a few other people where the default settings were not what it's suppose to be.

However, on my vista notebook, even with the default settings for mpeg2 and vc-1 set to disabled. I've been encoding fine on my vista notebook, but been 50/50 on it being able to play on my ps3. On my XP desktop, it would not encode at all until I changed it to libavcodec.

I will download WMP 11 as you recommended. However does it matter whether it's 9 or 11, when all I plan to do is watch it on my PS3? Please advise.
I'm not offended -- I'm just trying to save you some headaches. :)

Yes it matters. WMP11 or 9 is being used to frame serve the original VC-1 source to X264 (while it is encoding). If it (WMP9) can't decode it and present it to X264 -- you get a "Failed video encoded. Aborted" message. Sound familiar?

[Sophocles]

Well, if you want to listen to someone else rather than the guy who wrote the program, go ahead and do it some other way -- it's up to you.

LOL. I think I might have been the other guy, or at least the one that posted that info earlier in the AD thread while trying to resolve an issue another experienced. It worked a couple of times and others who saw it repeated the post.

The info was not intended in any way to contradict anything by jdobbs. It was just me on my usual exploration searching for answers.

[jdobbs]

Well obviously it worked better than my post... :)

[siratfus]

Jdobbs, so I upgraded WMP 9 to 11 and also restarted the computer. However, when I open up the FFDSHOW Video Decoder Configuration, for VC-1, the drop down still only shows disabled, libavcodec or WMP 9. Should I reinstall FFDSHOW?

[GaPony]

You use "Disabled". It will then use WMP 11.

[siratfus]

You use "Disabled". It will then use WMP 11.

Got it! I see it in the bug thread too. I should read more carefully.