RB-Keeper 0.7

[Amenophis]

RB Keeper is a tool which could be used in combination with DVD-RB and will do the following things:

- change the min/avg/max bitrate of every Project / TitleSet / VobID or segment.
- change progressive settings, gop structure & lenght, number of passes, bias, quant.char and matrix of every Project / TitleSet / VobID or segment.
- demux cells from the original dvd structure for keeping them without reencode
- change all or selected avs files (templates supported)

http://keeper.movie2digital.de/pics/keeper07b.png

http://keeper.movie2digital.de

[RickA]

Not had the chance to try this out yet. It looks like a great little program to help those of us less adept in the ways of DVD dubbing to take even more advantange of jdobbs' godsend of a program DVD-RB. Thanks. :)

[Amenophis]

new version is out, the following has changed:

# new features:
- you can change the progressive flag for every item
- you can preview your avs scripts if VirtualDubMod is installed
- encoding of 0-Frame-Segments works at least with integrated encoder

# bug fixes:
- keeping 0MB-Cells shouldn't result in a division by zero error anymore
- assigning min. bitrates should now work correctly
- removing lines from your avisynth script should now work correctly

# improvements:
- vob/cell list will keep focused when changing bitrates
- you can blank the avs mask before a new script gets analysed
- tweaked the encoder settings

http://keeper.movie2digital.de/keeper4a.png

http://keeper.movie2digital.de/keeper4b.png

[wink]

thanks

[PINOBIRD]

I Think this is a very usefull add on .
But I can't get this thing to work.
A guide or a tutorial would be nice.

Thanks

[Amenophis]

hi,

i've written an installation guide, you can get it at http://keeper.movie2digital.de/inst.php. the usage hints (0.4) should be useful, too.

[borgraf]

Wow.. another nifty tool to use with DVD-RB, kewl :)

There are so many add-ons now that they should have their own subforum :D

[Noah]

I'm trying this out with Terminator 3. I'm doing a movie only backup with end credits & beginnnig studio logos cut out. Its very close to DVD5 at that point, so I wanted to front-load all the needed compression into the first 3 cells and keep the rest original.

I ran Prepare, then opened up the rebuilder.inf in RB-Keeper. I then set it up to "keep" all but the first three cells. There's no real instructions, so I wasn't entirely sure what to do next, so I hit "Create Videostreams" (which ran DVD Decryptor and produced about 10MB of .mv2 files in /working dir/TEMP/, followed by the message "step1 completed") and then "Prepare Reauthoring" which didn't seem to do anything at all besides popping up "step2 completed."

I then saved rebuilder.inf and ran the Encode stage, which seemed to work as I expected, encoding the first 3 cells. Then I ran the Rebuild step, which again seemed to go smoothly until it finished with the third cell, at which point it produced the message, "Error in UpdateIFO: Shouldn't happen - contact developer," followed by "stop statement encountered," and DVD-RB then closes.

I do get a .VOB of those 3 cells I wanted to encode in /working dir/VIDEO_TS/ as a result of the rebuild, but I need the rest of the movie.

Any idea where I'm going wrong here?

[Noah]

OK...I think I'll probably have better luck using a mounted ISO source. DVD Decrypter is apparently reading from my DVD drive, not my working source directory.

[Amenophis]

Sorry for the missing instructions, these must have been getting lost. But you can use the hints for version 0.2, the keeping-cells feature hasn't changed much since then. you can get it here: http://keeper.movie2digital.de/support.php

please tell me if it worked when using the iso image. Otherwise i have to fix that. One reason for the error could be, that the fourth m2v doesn't exist at all - so please check in your d2vavs dir if all m2v files are present.

[Noah]

Yep, it worked like a champ with the ISO, and I did eventually find those instructions, which helped. ;)

It ended up a bit oversized, though. It looks like it used the original reduction % for the 3 re-encoded cells, instead of compensating for what was kept from the original. I'm not sure if it was intended to do that or not. Perhaps I didn't save the .inf file at the appropriate point or something. I'm redoing it now with manual bitrate adjustments that should work fine.

Anyway, RB-Keeper will be very useful for situations like this, now that I know how it works. ;)

[jptheripper]

Anyway this is still available? the websites seem to be down

[Amenophis]

the website is still running and I've noticed no downtime in the past (althrough i don't check this 24 hours a day)

[jptheripper]

i cant get a single link to work.. sent you a pm with my email

[Amenophis]

RB::Keeper 0.5 released 10.06.2004

* new features:
- AviSynth LivePreview: preview and compare filters without changing your files
- AviSynth template system: define up to four filter-sets and decide for every item which to use
- change ecl values for complete titleset or project

* bug fixes:
- fixed detection of framerate for calculation (was broken for non-pal before)
- fixed analysing of CCE Basic ECLs
- fixed handling of avisynth scripts (completely rewritten)

* improvements:
- more simple and intuitive user-interface
- start all selected actions with one click (keeping, changing avs, mencoding)
- tweaked the mencoder settings

you can get the tool and instructions here: http://keeper.movie2digital.de

http://keeper.movie2digital.de/keeper5c.png

http://keeper.movie2digital.de/keeper5d.png

[Amenophis]

next version is out:

# new features:
- new options: GOP size (m/c), number of b-frames (m/c), intra DC prec (c). and qchar (c)
- custom mencoder command now supported
- original avs files could now get restored

# bug fixes:
- a space in the working path shouldn't crash mencoder anymore
- fixed division by zero errors (occured at some very small cells)

[favalos]

Can i use it with procoder instead of mencoder???

[Amenophis]

no, the procoder is not supported. maybe it's possible in the future (procoder has commandline support), but in the moment other features have a higher priority for me.

[EddieTH]

I can't get RB-Keeper to load a DVD-RB project. When I select the Rebuilder.inf file and click Open I get the following error:

Zugriffsverletzung bei Adresse 0040401E in Modul 'RB-Keeper-0-5-1.exe', Schreiben von Adresse 005E6D28.

When I click OK on the error, the L button can't be selected again. If I switch to another tab (or back to the information tab afterwards) I get this error:

Gleitkommadivision durch Null.

I'm using DVD-RB 0.54 and RB-Keeper 0.5

Edit: I should have mentioned I'm running it on XP Pro and I use CCE Basic.

[Amenophis]

@EddieTH:

please sent me your ecl and inf file which caused that error. You can use the bugreport form here -> http://keeper.movie2digital.de/bugreport.php

[EddieTH]

Done. Thanks for helping out! When I get it working I'm planning to add a section on RB-Keeper to the DVD-RB guide on Afterdawn. I'm quite impressed with the AVS editing interface. Very nice work!

[Amenophis]

With 0-5-1 i had the same error warnings, but the new build of 25062004 doesn't have any problems with the inf/ecl files. althrough i called it alpha because i added some new and not very well tested features, it seems to be realy stable and there should be no need for using an older build.

i assume it was because i had limited the number of (used) titlesets some time ago to ten, in the actual version imho 25 processed titlesets are allowed. so rb-keeper tried to write 'behind' the array and you got this access violation ("Zugriffsverletzung") and the additional division by zero errors.

[EddieTH]

Problem Solved - Thanks! :thanks: I hadn't considered the possibility that it was the unusually large number of titles.

[Amenophis]

RB Keeper 0.7:

# new features:
- all steps (avs editing, ecl/inf processing, demuxing) can be done without other steps
- new CCE options: bias, number of passes, matrix
- autosize: the bitrate of the selected item will be adjusted to keep the project size

# bug fixes:
- when changing progressive mode, scanning order will be changed too
- DVD-RB 0.55 INF files with a large number of VTS shouldn't result in a crash anymore

# improvements:
- the mencoder interface is no more bundled with the Keeper. Please use ECLmencode for that
- improved look of the GUI

http://keeper.movie2digital.de/pics/keeper07b.png

[Amenophis]

no, it does only process the items which were prepared by dvd-rb.

[Lothar]

Sounds really good, but it seems that the homepage is down...

[Rockas]

I don't think that RBKeeper works with the DVD Rebuilder 0.62 or newer... but you can download it from www.dvdrebuilder.com

keep it UP

[TheSeeker]

Just a question. Does this program do anything that RB-Opt doesnt do? just wondering if I should be taking a look at this app as an alternative to RB-Opt.

[Rockas]

I never tested it and I can't check that where I am at the moment but you can download the help files and compare the description of both.