Evo to Mp4

[zazon]

Has anyone figured out an easy way to go from HD DVD to Mp4? I saw suggested running the Evo through tsMusxer, then putting it into RipBot. I did that and the picture of the resulting file looked good, but the audio was off by five or so seconds. I ask because I've got a few HD DVDs that I used my Xbox HD DVD player for, but my Xbox is starting to flaky and I don't want spend money on another Xbox right before the new one comes out. I'm guessing the new one won't support the drive either. Thanks for any help.

[JohnAStebbins]

Has anyone figured out an easy way to go from HD DVD to Mp4? I saw suggested running the Evo through tsMusxer, then putting it into RipBot. I did that and the picture of the resulting file looked good, but the audio was off by five or so seconds. I ask because I've got a few HD DVDs that I used my Xbox HD DVD player for, but my Xbox is starting to flaky and I don't want spend money on another Xbox right before the new one comes out. I'm guessing the new one won't support the drive either. Thanks for any help.

EVO files are essentially mpeg-2 program streams that lack a program stream map. So you have to probe the streams to figure out what stream types they contain. ffplay appears to be able to play evo files, so I would think that ffmpeg could remux or transcode them successfully. Also, HandBrake should be able to transcode evo files.

[zazon]

Thanks John. I had thrown the file into Handbrake, but it gave me an error message. I realized I was using an older version of Handbrake so I updated to the latest version. When I ran the evo through Handbrake using h264, the resulting file was unplayable. I tried using mpeg and that worked, but the file was pixelated, though the audio worked well. I know the transfer HD DVD transfer isn't great, but the RipBot encoded version looked better, though the audio was off. I wonder if I mess around with the settings whether I could get a better result? I'll take a look at ffmpeg. Thanks again.

[JohnAStebbins]

Thanks John. I had thrown the file into Handbrake, but it gave me an error message. I realized I was using an older version of Handbrake so I updated to the latest version. When I ran the evo through Handbrake using h264, the resulting file was unplayable. I tried using mpeg and that worked, but the file was pixelated, though the audio worked well. I know the transfer HD DVD transfer isn't great, but the RipBot encoded version looked better, though the audio was off. I wonder if I mess around with the settings whether I could get a better result? I'll take a look at ffmpeg. Thanks again.

I would need to see an activity log of your handbrake attempts to help more. "unplayable" and "pixelated" are descriptions that apply to about a thousand different problems :logfile:

[Selur]

Hybrid might also be worth a try, it should be able to handle .evo files,...

[zazon]

"unplayable" and "pixelated" are descriptions that apply to about a thousand different problems :logfile:

When I said the file was unplayable, I meant I couldn't open it with Media Player Classic or VLC, but I hear you on the vagueness of "pixelated". You could see blocks, particularly on darker backgrounds was what I was trying to say. I did open the file with ffplay and it looked much better or more normal if you will. I've attached both of the Handbrake logs, one for the h264 encode and the other for the mpeg encode. Thanks for any help.

[JohnAStebbins]

When I said the file was unplayable, I meant I couldn't open it with Media Player Classic or VLC, but I hear you on the vagueness of "pixelated". You could see blocks, particularly on darker backgrounds was what I was trying to say. I did open the file with ffplay and it looked much better or more normal if you will. I've attached both of the Handbrake logs, one for the h264 encode and the other for the mpeg encode. Thanks for any help.

The log for your h.264 attempt looks good. I don't know why it would fail to play. If I had to guess, I would say there is something wrong with your playback environment. Maybe a bad codec dll or something.

I think the reason for the "pixelation" in your mpeg-4 attempt is due to a bad QP value. You set QP to 12 which is *way* too high for this encoder. A value between 4 and 2 would be more reasonable (2 being higher quality).

[zazon]

Thanks John. I appreciate the help. Any good place to start looking for a codec? I'll give it another whirl with the QP toned down and report back. Thanks again.

[zazon]

OK, I ran the file through Handbrake again with the QP set to three and the resulting file was unplayable in Media Player Classic or VLC. I'm pretty sure I did all the settings the same, so I don't know where it went wrong.

After doing some more research I found somewhere here where someone was using MeGUI to process HD DVD files. I ran my file through EvoDemux, but when I put the video file into MeGUI, it tells me I don't have the right filters. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks for any help.