RipBot264 v1.18.3 - Simple and easy to use GUI -> IPOD . PSP . CONSOLES . BLURAY

[rlev11]

And just if anyone is interested, I just replace my 7950x with a 9950x. Doing a couple test runs looks like I am pushing about a 10-15% speed increase over the 7950x. Watching Ryzen Master I am also seeing about a 10 degree C decrease in cpu temp. Both were on the same 360mm Arctic 3 AIO. All I had set before with the 7950x in PBO was a hard thermal limit. Where the 7950x would top out my hard limit of 85 degrees C, the 9950x is sitting around 75C with the cpu utilization in task manager still running at 100%. I haven't changed anything in the bios after it reset everything on the CPU change, so I need to look to see if I can push things a bit more from seeing the lower temps. The 9950x is supposed to have a limit of 95C, I won't push it that much, but I think I can get a few more percent increase pushing it up so it hits that same 85C hardline i set.

I've read that the new Win11 update due out later this fall is supposed to really help boost Zen5, not sure if that is just gaming or everything, but will be interesting to see if it boosts encoding speed as well...

[Ryushin]

Cropping also helps with displays that are not 16:9. Some projectors screens are configured for 2.40:1 and a lot of mobile phones are around that same aspect ratio. Reverse also helps when watching 4:3 content on a 16:10 screen.

I only encode the back bars when I'm doing foreign movies and I want to push the subtitles into the black bars.

[Wishbringer]

anyone knows, what was the latest build of x265, that worked out of the box with RB?
Thanks

[LigH]

Probably v3.6+35, before alpha channel support was added. Or v3.6+46, after alpha but before multi-view.

[Wishbringer]

@LigH: for me 3.6-46 (your build) worked. 3.6-56 didn't start anymore in RB, so I stay at -46... Or are there other inter builds?

[LigH]

Not really, MultiCoreWare released patches in batches. You might try to select a specific patch but will risk that a feature depends on several patches at the same time.

[Wishbringer]

Originally Posted by LigH

Before the patches to support MVC were committed, specifying the input file name for x265 was optional.

Now that x265 may be able to read multiple input sources, it may also be mandatory now to specify them with a preceding parameter "--input".

@Atak_Snajpera:

Solution is really simple.
In jobX_EncodeVideoPassX.cmd just add "--input" before the last "-"

As a workaround it would be so simple even for us to add "--input -" in profiles, but then still the last "-" in cmd-file is too much and blocks executing.

So for running long single machine encodes, there is no problem to manually edit the files to work. But for DE it's too much....

[LigH]

I changed my x265 v4.0+4 archive.

Please note: From version 4.0 on I will build all variants without MultiView support so that they may still work without explicit --input parameter, except for a 64 bit build which has it explicitly enabled.

[Wishbringer]

@Atak_Snajpera:

Thanks for updating RipBot264 to 1.27.4 and updating several tools too (including x265 4.0-4).

@LigH:

Thanks for modding x265 for work with RB, but it seems, it's now not necessary anymore.

[LigH]

This was not a "modification", just a selection of compilation flags already provided by the unmodified sources.

[Epitaph]

My 3 systems updated Ripbot yesterday(not entirely sure that is the culprit) and I proceeded to line up 60 or so encodes. I am encoding to HEVC and I have no issues with VC1 or H264 sources but my system is completely hung up on mpeg2 extras... specifically interlaced TFF. I unchecked all MPEG2 videos and all other encodes finished without issue. If i have deinterlace off or inverse telecine , everything works fine... AVS Meter, Preview and DE. If I select Interlaced TFF, AVS Meter shows no progress, Preview will open MPC but it will hang until I end the process, and DE will run with all servers stuck on initializing(I've also tried without DE). Full disclosure, I am also trying to track down a random BSOD (that occurs while my system is idle) so this is all 24 hours after an in place WIN 11 Reinstall keeping documents and settings. Any Ideas or suggestions?

I downloaded a fresh copy of Ripbot from the first post in this thread, copied in my .ini files and disabled update. Ran it loading my previous que and it was unable to do anything with the same file. I then re-added the file and everything seems to work again. Re-adding the file into the updated Ripbot makes no difference. So there is something in the updated tools breaking Interlaced MPEG2.

[Juha]

Not sure whether this is an issue with 1.27.4 but a job with specific film gets stuck each time at the end of the conversion and the job never finishes properly. I have removed and re-created the job but the issue still occurs again.

I'm stuck at this point: https://images2.imgbox.com/0e/ae/6Ig7KjDG_o.png (Waiting even for hours won't help, job won't be finished).

The original source file for the job was .m2ts file (blu-ray). I muxed the source file into a mkv file and created the job again with it but the result was the same. Stuck again.

My conversion settings:

Video:
H265
Profile: MA10
Preset: Default
Tune: Default
Mode: CQ
CRF: 16
Crop: top 132, bottom: 132
CPU denoise: MDegrain3, Strength: 300

Audio: 5.1 FHG AAC-LC 320

Data from the source file:

Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 23.4 GiB
Duration : 1 h 38 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 34.0 Mb/s
Frame rate : 23.976 FPS
Encoded date : 2024-09-15 08:37:12 UTC
Writing application : MakeMKV v1.17.7 win(x64-release)
Writing library : libmakemkv v1.17.7 (1.3.10/1.5.2) win(x64-release)

Video
ID : 1
ID in the original source medium : 4113 (0x1011)
Format : VC-1
Format profile : Advanced@L3
Codec ID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 1 h 38 min
Bit rate : 29.8 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.599
Stream size : 20.5 GiB (88%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Audio
ID : 2
ID in the original source medium : 4352 (0x1100)
Format : DTS XLL
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Commercial name : DTS-HD Master Audio
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1 h 38 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 154 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 2.86 GiB (12%)
Title : Surround 5.1
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Text
ID : 3
ID in the original source medium : 4608 (0x1200)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 1 h 37 min
Bit rate : 31.7 kb/s
Frame rate : 0.378 FPS
Count of elements : 2225
Stream size : 22.2 MiB (0%)
Language : Finnish
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01
00:04:14.003 : en:Chapter 02
00:10:59.367 : en:Chapter 03
00:15:12.703 : en:Chapter 04
00:24:53.325 : en:Chapter 05
00:29:02.741 : en:Chapter 06
00:32:52.804 : en:Chapter 07
00:39:08.304 : en:Chapter 08
00:48:36.121 : en:Chapter 09
00:55:10.598 : en:Chapter 10
01:01:26.849 : en:Chapter 11
01:08:42.785 : en:Chapter 12
01:13:54.763 : en:Chapter 13
01:18:58.775 : en:Chapter 14
01:26:52.790 : en:Chapter 15
01:31:50.755 : en:Chapter 16

[slalom]

Remove 5 sec from the end with mkv merge and try again

[lemaireus]

Would one of you please help me find a way of extracting the Dolby Vision metadata from a blu-ray and remuxing that metadata to a Ripbot encode?

I do not have the skill to work with command line interfaces and have therefore not been able to use the DDVT tool which I'm sure would solve my problem quickly. If you are aware of a "how to use DDVT tools" set of instructions/help file, please post a link and I'll give that a shot. If there are GUIs that can get the job done, I'd be grateful for a nudge in the right direction.

My thirteen years on this platform have taught me the pointlessness of placing feature requests on this forum. Genuinely helpful suggestions have almost always come from all of you, the wonderful members of this community who have almost always done all they can to help others such as myself. Thank you very much, always.

[lemaireus]

Originally Posted by lemaireus

Would one of you please help me find a way of extracting the Dolby Vision metadata from a blu-ray and remuxing that metadata to a Ripbot encode?

I do not have the skill to work with command line interfaces and have therefore not been able to use the DDVT tool which I'm sure would solve my problem quickly. If you are aware of a "how to use DDVT tools" set of instructions/help file, please post a link and I'll give that a shot. If there are GUIs that can get the job done, I'd be grateful for a nudge in the right direction.

My thirteen years on this platform have taught me the pointlessness of placing feature requests on this forum. Genuinely helpful suggestions have almost always come from all of you, the wonderful members of this community who have almost always done all they can to help others such as myself. Thank you very much, always.

Thank you both very much for helping out. Since both of you refer to DoVi_Scripts, I shall try that out and hope that I can keep up with the learning curve. The YouTube help video makes a breeze of installation etc. Hope I'll get a hang of running the scripts by and by.

To those who wish to hear, it tells a story that help now comes through PMs rather than messages in the forum.

Once again, much gratitude for the wonderfully detailed and concretely helpful advice.

[Ryushin]

Originally Posted by lemaireus

Would one of you please help me find a way of extracting the Dolby Vision metadata from a blu-ray and remuxing that metadata to a Ripbot encode?

I do not have the skill to work with command line interfaces and have therefore not been able to use the DDVT tool which I'm sure would solve my problem quickly. If you are aware of a "how to use DDVT tools" set of instructions/help file, please post a link and I'll give that a shot. If there are GUIs that can get the job done, I'd be grateful for a nudge in the right direction.

My thirteen years on this platform have taught me the pointlessness of placing feature requests on this forum. Genuinely helpful suggestions have almost always come from all of you, the wonderful members of this community who have almost always done all they can to help others such as myself. Thank you very much, always.

I use that DDVT Tool for all my 4K encodes. It's command line menu drivin, but it is a piece of cake to use. Steps off the top of my head:
* Use MakeMKV to create the 4K MKV file.
* Check Blu-ray to come to verify if the aspect ratio is 1.78:1 or if not, I need to crop.
* Drag and drop the MKV file onto the DDVT_DEMUXER.cmd program.
* Select Crop if necessary, then start it up. A RPU.bin file will be created.
* Create your encode with RB. If you selected the crop option, make sure your output is cropped.
* Drag your created RB encode on DDVT_INJECTOR.cmd program and drag your RPU.bin file on it when it asks for it.
* Make sure the cropped settings match, select MUX to MKV and you're done.

[lemaireus]

Originally Posted by Ryushin

I use that DDVT Tool for all my 4K encodes. It's command line menu drivin, but it is a piece of cake to use. Steps off the top of my head:
* Use MakeMKV to create the 4K MKV file.
* Check Blu-ray to come to verify if the aspect ratio is 1.78:1 or if not, I need to crop.
* Drag and drop the MKV file onto the DDVT_DEMUXER.cmd program.
* Select Crop if necessary, then start it up. A RPU.bin file will be created.
* Create your encode with RB. If you selected the crop option, make sure your output is cropped.
* Drag your created RB encode on DDVT_INJECTOR.cmd program and drag your RPU.bin file on it when it asks for it.
* Make sure the cropped settings match, select MUX to MKV and you're done.

Thank you so much, Ryushin. I haven't yet had the time to give dovi_scripts a run through and DDVT tools, when I tried it last, seemed forbidding because of the command line interface. However, the steps you have outlined seem straightforward enough even for a technologically challenged person such as myself; it really cannot get any simpler than a drag and drop. I'll definitely give it another shot, follow the steps you have outlined, and hope that DDVT tools works for me this time around. I'll post the results I get, regardless of whether that is a 'success' or a 'failure' message.

Once again, thank you very much for helping out.

[lemaireus]

Originally Posted by Ryushin

I use that DDVT Tool for all my 4K encodes. It's command line menu drivin, but it is a piece of cake to use. Steps off the top of my head:
* Use MakeMKV to create the 4K MKV file.
* Check Blu-ray to come to verify if the aspect ratio is 1.78:1 or if not, I need to crop.
* Drag and drop the MKV file onto the DDVT_DEMUXER.cmd program.
* Select Crop if necessary, then start it up. A RPU.bin file will be created.
* Create your encode with RB. If you selected the crop option, make sure your output is cropped.
* Drag your created RB encode on DDVT_INJECTOR.cmd program and drag your RPU.bin file on it when it asks for it.
* Make sure the cropped settings match, select MUX to MKV and you're done.

Ryushin, I tried following the steps that you have so helpfully outlined, but I'm doing something wrong. When I double click DDVT_DEMUXER.cmd, the cmd window flashes "waiting for 30 seconds, press a key to continue . . .". Thereafter, when I "Drag and drop the MKV file onto the DDVT_DEMUXER.cmd program", the cmd window instantly disappears. In fact, all the DDVT_XXX.cmd files, with the exception of DDVT_HYBRID.cmd and DDVT_OPTIONS.cmd, perform the same disappearing act after 30 seconds, or the moment when I drag and drop an MKV file onto the cmd window. Here's how the cmd window looks before disappearing:



I am unable to figure out exactly what it is that I might be doing wrong.

[lemaireus]

Elementary, dear Watson, elementary. Some wonderful, generous, and precisely articulated help in PMs provided the correct diagnosis. I should have dragged the mkv file over the DDVT_DEMUXER.cmd script. Instead, I was double clicking DDVT_DEMUXER.cmd and dragging the file on the cmd window that opened thereafter. That is the first step out of the way; now to the next. Many thanks for helping out.

[lemaireus]

I succeeded in getting my first Ripbot encode with Dolby Vision metadata, all thanks to the wonderfully generous forum members handholding me in PMs and over here, in the forum, thanks to Ryushin. Once my elementary but fundamental mistake became clear, the rest was a cakewalk.

Ryushin and my PM-ing friends, much, much gratitude.