BD Rebuilder Beta - Bug Reports Only

[jdobbs]

Originally Posted by Kerry56

This was asked over at MyCE and I didn't have an answer for them. Is it possible to make a half SBS 3D MKV file using BD Rebuilder and H264? There is an option for this using HEVC, but he wasn't sure Plex could handle this type of file.

Sure you can. Here's an example of an ALTERNATE preset you could add:

[000nn]
caption=MKV Container, Half-SBS (3D), Intact Audio
vBitrate=4000
aType=2
vFormat=5
cType=1


The [00nn] would be set to whatever entry is the next one available in ALTERNATE.TXT. This one assumes the input is 3D at 1920x1080. It also keeps the audio intact, but you could easily convert the audio to AAC with automatic bitrate by using these values instead:

[000nn]
caption=MKV Container, Half-SBS (3D), Auto AAC
vBitrate=4000
aType=1
aBitrate=*
vFormat=5
cType=1

If the video bitrate (vBitrate) isn't high enough (4Mbs) you could change it -- but I normally use CRF for MKV encodes, anyway, so it wouldn't apply.

This assumes you have a monitor that allows you to manually assert 3D mode (most 3D TVs do).

[Kerry56]

Thank you for the answers. I'll point him to this thread. I've also advised him to join the doom9 forum so he can discuss any issues directly.

[max4]

Hello ... to see if you can help me
I want to encode a full bluray bd-25 with the following characteristics:

The main movie has a size of 21 GB
The extras having a size of to 5 gigabytes
a total of 26 GB.

I want to know if there is any command that can add to the config file so that the main movie will not be encoded, and only extras are encoded.
example:

The main movie unencoded 21 GB
The extras encoded 2 GB
A total of 23 GB.

This is possible?
as it would have to do this?

thanks in advance

[jdobbs]

It's not currently possible (at least not without a lot of manual intervention).

[montana72]

Originally Posted by max4

Hello ... to see if you can help me
I want to encode a full bluray bd-25 with the following characteristics:

The main movie has a size of 21 GB
The extras having a size of to 5 gigabytes
a total of 26 GB.

I want to know if there is any command that can add to the config file so that the main movie will not be encoded, and only extras are encoded.
example:

The main movie unencoded 21 GB
The extras encoded 2 GB
A total of 23 GB.

This is possible?
as it would have to do this?

thanks in advance

I what I do when I want to do that is to put full-disk, then remove the film and put in out what I want to weigh the extras, i.e. 3 gigabytes, then on the original drive I'm replacing the M2TS created the Extras by the original.

[Rich86]

Originally Posted by max4

Hello ... to see if you can help me
I want to encode a full bluray bd-25 with the following characteristics:

The main movie has a size of 21 GB
The extras having a size of to 5 gigabytes
a total of 26 GB.

I want to know if there is any command that can add to the config file so that the main movie will not be encoded, and only extras are encoded.
example:

The main movie unencoded 21 GB
The extras encoded 2 GB
A total of 23 GB.

This is possible?
as it would have to do this?

thanks in advance

Here is an alternate approach. It entails burning 2 - 25gb BD-R media, but I find media pretty inexpensive these days.

1. Create a movie only BD with zero added compression (use "Custom Target Size" to use a size that fits on a BD-R without reincoding).
2. Create a "Full-BackUp" BD of the same title, but use "Edit Mode" to delete the main movie. This disc/title should contain all your extras with the menu, but no movie.

Be sure to test playback off your hard drive before burning to be sure all works as intended.

[DoctorM]

I linked my miniguide in a PM to max4. He should have the info he needs on doing it manually. Anyone else interested, PM me, this isn't a bug report it is a feature request.

@Rich86 - An automated alternative is a BD25 movie-only and a BD5 of the bonus features. You lose the original menus, but the quick menus from BDRB I find to be better than what a lot of commercial discs have.

[Mark_Venture]

I had been using Alt Movie Only, MKV, 1920x1080, Intact Audio, and select target size.

A month or two ago I switched to using CRF 20 instead of target size.

The last few movies I've done are now a lower "over all bit rate" and of course, smaller files sizes.

Has anyone else seen this, or is it just me?

EDIT: This appears to be self inflicted.. Settings -> Encoder Settings... was set as "Good(Very Fast)" and "One Pass (ABR) Encoding"... where as before I had it.. "Automatic Quality Settings"

I'm not sure when I changed it, but setting it back to Automatic fixed it.

[jdobbs]

I use a CRF of 23 for my MKV encodes. I've seen nothing getting smaller at all. My guess is that the last few you've done just have a lower complexity and need less bitrate.

[Lathe]

Originally Posted by DoctorM

@Rich86 - An automated alternative is a BD25 movie-only and a BD5 of the bonus features. You lose the original menus, but the quick menus from BDRB I find to be better than what a lot of commercial discs have.

Or... very similar, but you COULD simply keep the menus for both discs for what is suggested above on each disc and delete each from the opposing disc. On the Blu-ray for the movie only, delete the extras, and for the BD-5 with the extras, delete the movie

[Capsbackup]

Originally Posted by Lathe

Or... very similar, but you COULD simply keep the menus for both discs for what is suggested above on each disc and delete each from the opposing disc. On the Blu-ray for the movie only, delete the extras, and for the BD-5 with the extras, delete the movie

This will only work if you burn the extras to a BD-R. If the extras are to be burned to DVD media, reencoding will be necessary to reduce the bitrate to be AVCHD compliant!

[Lathe]

Originally Posted by Capsbackup

This will only work if you burn the extras to a BD-R. If the extras are to be burned to DVD media, reencoding will be necessary to reduce the bitrate to be AVCHD compliant!

To me personally, just re encoding the extras for DVD wouldn't really seem like that big of a deal, but you are quite right!

[Bronxboybob]

Can you please let me know if BDRB keeps the subtitles in the reduced size file? When I try to use GRABIT for an apple tv file I cannot find the subititles in the file when I import it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[jdobbs]

Originally Posted by Bronxboybob

Can you please let me know if BDRB keeps the subtitles in the reduced size file? When I try to use GRABIT for an apple tv file I cannot find the subititles in the file when I import it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I need a better description. It keeps if for anything except an MP4 (which doesn't support PGS subtitles). For an MKV you have make sure MKV_MUXSUPS has not been set to "0" -- the default is "1", however (see HIDDENOPTS.TXT).

[DarWun]

I encountered an audio-video sync issue when doing a movie Movie rebuild of the Dead Snow 2 bluray. I'm not sure if it is a BD-Rebuilder bug or an issue with how the disk was authored. When selecting a movie only rebuild of the english language version of the movie, two titles are included in the playlist. The first is a short studio logo clip and the second is the main title. The audio and subtitles are attached to the main title. After starting the rebuild, the audio and subtitles are extracted and the intro clip is reencoded. When BD-Rebuilder attempts to convert the audio from DTS to AC3the rebuild fails. If settings are changed to retain the original DTS audio, the rebuild will complete. However, the audio is significanly out-of-sync with the video.

When I later found that the sync issue does not occur on a full rebuild of the disk, I took a closer look at the audio and video files extracted during the movie only rebuild. The audio duration is only long enough to cover the length of the main title. When all the pieces are put back together, the audio starts to play at the start of the intro clip instead of being delayed to the point where the main title starts. The amount that the audio is out-of-sync through the rest of the movie matches the length of the intro clip.

[jdobbs]

While it is illegal by the standard to have to two streams in a playlist that don't have exactly the same audio characteristics -- it's possible to force it if your authoring software has a way, making it a protection mechanism of sorts. I'll see if I can find that title and see if that's the case.

[DarWun]

Originally Posted by jdobbs

I'll see if I can find that title and see if that's the case.

Let me know if there is anything I can provide that would help you determine this so that you don't have to buy the disk if you don't want to. I enjoyed the film for what it was. But it definitely isn't a movie that has mainstream appeal.

I seem to remember having the same issue with the bluray for the original "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo". There was a short "Yellowbird" production studio clip up front of the movie that resulted in the audio and subtitles being out of sync with the main title. I didn't bother reporting the problem at the time as things weren't out of sync enough that they bothered me. That was a few years ago. I'll try to dig that disk out of storage to see if it does the same thing with the latest version of BDRebuilder.

[IanD]

Is it possible to rebuild a full Bluray as Quick Play, but split the resulting files for FAT32 systems?

I looked through the options and settings, but couldn't find any that might suit, except for the strict AVCHD setting, however that was only for BD5 or BD9.

ClownBD has a useful option (AVCHD for PS3), such that it automatically splits the m2ts files into contiguous 3.72GB pieces and creates a playlist with the component files so that they play uninterrupted. Unfortunately it only handles movie-only processing and I want the same thing but for all valid playlists.

[DVD Maniac]

I am running BDR in the recommended LAV only mode and am still getting repeated issues with playback. My preferred output is MKV, CRF=18. intact audio. Playing back the output file starts OK with no sync issues. If I use the browse bar on the player (Zoom Player) to jump to a specific time or use a chapter skip the playback stalls and in most cases the player crashes. I used to have this problem before but this was when I had FFDShow and Matroska installed. Going with LAV only seemed to cure the problem but now its back.

I have tried the obvious experiments such as using alternative soft players, alternative output file type (mp4 / full intact) etc but the problem will not go away. Its extremely frustrating!

Inspect yiields the following which seems correct for LAV only setup?

- Windows Version: 6.1 [7601]
- AVISYNTH Version: [2.5.8.0], Ok
- HAALI Splitter: Not installed
- FFDSHOW doesn't appear to be installed
- FFDSHOW Audio doesn't appear to be installed
- WIN7 preferred AVC CODEC: Not Set correctly
- WIN7 preferred VC-1 CODEC: Not Set correctly
- WIN7 preferred MPEG2 CODEC: Not Set correctly
- FFDSHOW VC-1 set incorrectly: [0]
- FFDSHOW MPEG2 set incorrectly: [0]
- FFDSHOW AVC set incorrectly: [0]
- AnyDVD settings check: Ok.
- BD-RB v0.50.0.2, not current

[gonca]

Your settings are off. Try re-installing LAVFILTERS.