Better tool

[rockydon]

Which is the ultimate or best tool to encode movies to MKV Format,I want best output with reference to picture quality

[amayra]

MKVToolNix + x264 Encoder + forum rules

[LoRd_MuldeR]

rockydon, please read the forum rules!
Do not ask "what's best" because this question cannot be answered objectively. Each and everyone has their own view about what's best in a certain area. The best is what works best for you!

Having said that, MKV is just a container (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_container_format) format. So, the «best» quality, of course, can be retained by not re-encoding at all and just muxing your streams "as-is" into MKV container.

If you actually need to re-encode, e.g. because you need to convert to a different audio/video format than what your source is, then you need at least to specify to which format exactly to intend to convert to...

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[amayra]

rockydon, please read the forum rules!


Having said that, MKV is just a container (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_container_format) format. So, the «best» quality, of course, can be retained by not re-encoding at all and just muxing your streams "as-is" into MKV container.

If you actually need to re-encode, e.g. because you need to convert to a different audio/video format than what your source is, then you need at least to specify to which format exactly to intend to convert to...

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I think this is what i'm mostly trying to say here lol

[rockydon]

First of all sry to ask for "best" tool and it's really subjective

If you actually need to re-encode, e.g. because you need to convert to a different audio/video format than what your source is, then you need at least to specify to which format exactly to intend to convert to...


My source is bluray disc,I have already removed it's protection,but need to create loseless rip of 1-2 gb,also bro how effective it will b to use ConvertToYV12() in encoding to mkv container,will tht enhance my bluray output,also 1 more issue I m facing,ffmpeg is not preferable for format m2ts,which filter will help me,also Dgv is no more free licence,from where can I get it,there r couple of issues I m facing it together,I apologise for huge list

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have already removed it's protection,but need to create loseless rip of 1-2 gb

Use x264 in 2-Pass mode. Set target bitrate, so that the final result hits 2GB.

also bro how effective it will b to use ConvertToYV12()

BluRay sources pretty much always are in YCbCr color format with 4:2:0 chroma sub-sampling and 8-Bits per component - also known as "YV12". Which means that ConvertToYV12() does nothing on such source. It's a NOP.

[rockydon]

Use x264 in 2-Pass mode. Set target bitrate, so that the final result hits 2GB.


BluRay sources pretty much always are in YCbCr color format with 4:2:0 chroma sub-sampling and 8-Bits per component - also known as "YV12". Which means that ConvertToYV12() does nothing on such source. It's a NOP.

Thanks for both the infos,bro just struggling with m2ts,which filter to use as ffmpeg says it's not preferred filter of m2ts,what should I do,should I go for other filter Or force ffmpeg

[LoRd_MuldeR]

just struggling with m2ts,which filter to use as ffmpeg says it's not preferred filter of m2ts,what should I do,should I go for other filter Or force ffmpeg

Not quite sure what you mean. But if processing M2TS is the problem, you could try demuxing the source M2TS with, e.g., tsMuxeR (https://www.videohelp.com/software/tsMuxeR). Or you can remux your source M2TS to MKV with MKVToolNix (https://www.videohelp.com/software/MKVToolNix).

[rockydon]

Not quite sure what you mean. But if processing M2TS is the problem, you could try demuxing the source M2TS with, e.g., tsMuxeR (https://www.videohelp.com/software/tsMuxeR). Or you can remux your source M2TS to MKV with MKVToolNix (https://www.videohelp.com/software/MKVToolNix).


I m extremely sorry for mistyping it's ffmsindex not ffmpeg,it says preferred containers as mkv,flv and mp4

My question was should I force file indexer through ffmsindex

And also other query,file analysis (scan type) takes around 20 mins any shorter way to just skip it or its necessary to do scan

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I m extremely sorry for mistyping it's ffmsindex not ffmpeg,it says preferred containers as mkv,flv and mp4

My question was should I force file indexer through ffmsindex

And also other query,file analysis (scan type) takes around 20 mins any shorter way to just skip it or its necessary to do scan

ffmsindex is a tool related to FFmpegSource (FFMS).

That is an Avisynth (and VapourSynth) source filter which makes use of libraries from FFmpeg project, but it is not the same as FFmpeg.

Anyhow, FFMS2 is known to have issues with M2TS. I think FFMS2 can use Haali Splitter for M2TS, if installed on your machine. But my recommendation still stands: Re-mux your M2TS to MKV first, using MKVToolNix. Or extract (demux) the "raw" streams, using tsRemuxR.

[rockydon]

But my recommendation still stands: Re-mux your M2TS to MKV first, using MKVToolNix. Or extract (demux) the "raw" streams, using tsRemuxR.
I tried extracting raw streams of mkv also tried extracting h.264 by TsRemuxR,and adding latter audio to it by megui,in both the scenarios I got output which was not running in my pc

I kept trying 3 times

In final instance it worked,so I doubted if there is something wrong in my machine (inadequate) to handle m2ts files,so I decided better to encode m2ts

My machine specifications - Quadcore 3.2 ghz Intel processor,4gb ddr3 ram

What must have wrong

[Cary Knoop]

My source is bluray disc,I have already removed it's protection,but need to create loseless rip of 1-2 gb,....
That is impossible.

If you compress a blu-ray disc to only 1-2GB it isn't anything close to a lossless operation.

[rockydon]

That is impossible.

If you compress a blu-ray disc to only 1-2GB it isn't anything close to a lossless operation.

Somewhere near to lossless quality I need,I will negotiate at 4-5 gb