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It's the THD track that is being converted to Mono, not the core track. Log from my post above: [12:06:09] Importing MKV: 1917_4K_HDR - Collecting audio/video streams from source... - Converting audio, Track #2, THD to AC3... - Building pseudo-BD source structure... [12:47:02] Video import completed successfully. It's not, the core is AC3 Multi-Ch @ 640... You are suggesting I compare the audio characteristics of a mono track to a multi-ch surround track? There is no comparison... |
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Again, use MediaInfo to look at the specs for the the THD audio track. |
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MediaInfo pre reencode for my 1080p Anna MKV: Code:
Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L4.1 Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, Reference fra : 4 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 1 h 58 min Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 33.0 Mb/s Maximum bit rate : 35.0 Mb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 (23976/1000) FPS Original frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.663 Stream size : 27.4 GiB (88%) Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Audio #1 ID : 2 Format : MLP FBA 16-ch Format/Info : Meridian Lossless Packing FBA with 16-channel presentation Commercial name : Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos Codec ID : A_TRUEHD Duration : 1 h 58 min Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 3 616 kb/s Maximum bit rate : 6 318 kb/s Channel(s) : 8 channels Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs Lb Rb Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 1 200.000 FPS (40 SPF) Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 3.01 GiB (10%) Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Number of dynamic objects : 15 Bed channel count : 1 channel Bed channel configuration : LFE Audio #2 ID : 3 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Format settings : Dolby Surround EX Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 1 h 58 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 640 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 545 MiB (2%) Language : English Service kind : Complete Main Default : No Forced : No Code:
[Status] LABEL=ANNA_1080P VERSION=v0.61.22 SOURCE_SIZE=31433637888 SOURCE_VIDEO_SIZE=31433637888 TARGET_SIZE=26306674688 REDUCTION=.836895646050652 RESIZE_1080=0 RESIZE_1440=0 AUDIO_TO_KEEP=eng; KEEP_HD_AUDIO=-1 SUBS_TO_KEEP=eng; BACKUP_MODE=1 MOVIEONLY_TYPE=0 USE_LAVF=0 INSTANCES=4 DGDECNV=-1 DGDECIM=0 FRIMSOURCE=0 FFMS2=0 SSIF_MODE=0 UHD_V3_MODE=-1 QUICK=0 ENCODE_STEP=0 COMPLETED=1 REBUILD_COMPLETE=1 [00000] AUDIO=10 PGS=1 APULLDOWN=0 S1440=0 VIDEO2=0 V2MBRATE=0 M2TS_TARGET=26306674688 RATE=27310 NSIZE=0 FLINK=0 MLINK=0 Code:
---------------------- [06/05/21] BD Rebuilder v0.61.22 [09:02:14] Source: ANNA_1080P_00000 - Input BD size: 29.27 GB - Approximate total content: [01:58:59.173] - Target BD size: 24.50 GB - Windows Version: 6.2 [9200] - MOVIE-ONLY mode enabled - Quality: High Quality (Default), 1-Pass VBR - Decoding/Frame serving: NVENCC - Audio Settings: AC3=0 DTS=0 HD=1 Kbs=640 [09:02:17] PHASE ONE, Encoding - [09:02:17] Processing: VID_00000 (1 of 1) - [09:02:17] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00000] - [09:03:17] Reencoding video [VID_00000] - Source Video: MPEG-4 (AVC), 1920x1080 - Rate/Length: 23.976fps, 171,169 frames - Bitrate: 27,310 Kbs - [09:03:17] Reencoding: VID_00000, Pass 1 of 1 - [09:19:26] Video Encode complete - [09:19:26] Processing audio tracks - Track 4352 (eng): Keeping original audio [09:19:26]PHASE ONE complete [09:19:26]PHASE TWO - Rebuild Started - [09:19:26] Rebuilding BD file Structure [09:20:08] - Encode and Rebuild complete - WORKFILES folder removed. [09:20:09] JOB: ANNA_1080P finished. MediaInfo post reencode to HEVC: I've bolded the Audio parts in question... Code:
---------------------- [08:46:17] Importing MKV: ANNA_1080P - Collecting audio/video streams from source... - Converting audio, Track #2, THD to AC3... - Building pseudo-BD source structure... [08:50:52] Video import completed successfully. MediaInfo: Video ID : 4113 (0x1011) Menu ID : 1 (0x1) Format : HEVC Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Format profile : Main 10@L4.1@High Codec ID : 36 Duration : 1 h 58 min Bit rate : 25.0 Mb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 10 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.503 Stream size : 20.8 GiB Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 format_identifier : HDMV Source : 00000.m2ts / 00000.m2ts Audio ID : 4352 (0x1100) Menu ID : 1 (0x1) Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : 129 Duration : 1 h 58 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 640 kb/s Channel(s) : 1 channel Channel layout : C Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 545 MiB Language : English Service kind : Complete Main bsid : 8 Dialog Normalization : -31 Dialog Normalization : -31 dB acmod : 1 lfeon : 0 dialnorm_Average : -31 dialnorm_Average : -31 dB dialnorm_Minimum : -31 dialnorm_Minimum : -31 dB dialnorm_Maximum : -31 dialnorm_Maximum : -31 dB dialnorm_Count : 1 format_identifier : AC-3 SamplingCount_Source : General_Duration Duration_Source : General_Duration Source : 00000.m2ts / 00000.m2ts Last edited by spotswood; 7th June 2021 at 00:23. |
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To me, you made it sound like the THD portion of the audio stream was being converted. As pointed out, the AC3 core should be extracted without any kind of recoding. You should be able to use eac3to to extract the AC3 core from the THD stream and then look at it with media info.
I would find it extremely strange that only a center channel would be placed in the lossy AC3 core and all of the other 7 channels of stuff placed in the THD objects. It is unfortunate that mediainfo does not list the core configuration. |
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You can use the MKV toolset to create a new MKV file with only the AC3 core and see what mediainfo now reports. I know, not your job, but it would help with troubleshooting since I suspect that JD doesn't have that file either. |
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Of course it is a mistery how a THD Atmos 8 channels can be converted, by ffmpeg I suposse, to an AC3 1 channel.
But, if you want an AC3, for what not select the track 3 of pre reencode mkv? It is clearly the core of TrueHD track from m2ts's BD.
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Hi spotswood,
it seems to me you are still selecting the wrong audio track... Given the fact that your imported source follows a natural numbering audio #4352 is track 1 (previously borked THD) and #4353 is track 2 (AC3@640) according to your MediaInfo log. Looking in your .inf file you are selecting track 1: Code:
REBUILD_COMPLETE=1 [00000] AUDIO=10 PGS=1 I suggest you also disable "remove WORKFILES after rebuild" so that you have the chance to examine the temporary files afterwards. Especially AUD_00000_4352.AVS in this case. ggtop EDIT: Just had a look with MediaInfo into a random disc containing a THD stream: Code:
Audio #2 ID : 4353 (0x1101) Menu ID : 1 (0x1) Format : MLP FBA AC-3 16-ch Format/Info : Meridian Lossless Packing FBA with 16-channel presentation Commercial name : Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos Muxing mode : Stream extension Codec ID : 131 Duration : 1 h 30 min Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 640 kb/s Maximum bit rate : 5 904 kb/s Channel(s) : 8 channels Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs Lb Rb Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 414 MiB (1%) Service kind : Complete Main Number of dynamic objects : 13 Bed channel count : 1 channel Bed channel configuration : LFE Last edited by ggtop; 6th June 2021 at 13:23. |
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Pilot error...
Hey guys... jdobbs and I had a little educational conversation and he corrected the error in my ways. Who knew you could use MakeMKV to backup to a folder! Not me! What a dumb a**... (wipes a carton of eggs off face). So please disregard my recent ramblings and I'll say it again, what a dumb a**. Crisis caused by pilot error averted... ;^)
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Fyi...
So just FYI and for those curious as to the source file for my previous posts, attached is the full MediaInfo from my original Anna BD that includes the THD-Atmos/core track in addition to the foreign language tracks.
So what I did originally was rip the movie only straight to MKV, keeping only the THD-Atmos/core English track, which I now know is split into 2 seperate tracks per MKV specs. When attempting to convert the movie to UHD/x265, rather than load the original disc into BDRB, I imported the previous movie only MKV into BDRB. During the import process BDRB wants to extract/convert the THD core track to AC3. Here's where things got wonky. Since the core was already extracted in the previous rip to MKV, there is no core to extract from the THD track (I'm guessing, but what do I know). BDRB now "converts" the THD track to AC3, but converts it to Mono. That is the big mystery and I'll leave that to you and jdobbs to figure out if you want to. It's actually moot at this point as instead of trying to import my existing MKV files to convert them to UHD/x265, I'll just start over and load the original disc into BDRB and convert from there. Hope this info helps for those interested in what is happening. Sorry for any confusion and thanks for the help provided... EDIT: The MediaInfo is too large to include in my post so I uploaded as an attachment. I've included just the audio portion since the whole thing including the video and subs is too big. Sorry 'bout that Chief! Last edited by spotswood; 12th June 2021 at 23:32. |
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I'm not sure if I've mentioned this or not. It's related to "Quick-Play" menus that contain multiple pages.
The "PAGE" label and "PREV/NEXT" buttons are positioned too close to the last QP menu item on a given page. Example provided below. The "PREV/NEXT" buttons actually overlap the last QP menu item on a given page. Well, you can't always tell. It depends on the QP menu item characters involved and "PREV/NEXT" button positioning which is determined by the longest QP menu item naming on the page. Here's a closer look. See below. The spacing from QP menu item to QP menu item is excellent. I'd love to see that same spacing used when the given page includes the "PAGE" label and "PREV/NEXT" buttons as well. It would prevent the overlapping as shown above and look much better in general. __________________________________ And if you'll indulge me since it's related... In addition to the increased spacing I'd love to see options added so that one could set the positioning of the "PAGE" label and "PREV/NEXT" buttons respectively. The added flexibility would be very welcome. Something like the below perhaps. MENU_PAGE_LABEL_HORIZONTAL=n (n = 0-1919 - Offset from left of 1080p screen.) MENU_PAGE_LABEL_VERTICAL=n (n = 0-1079 - Offset from top of 1080p screen.) MENU_PREV_NEXT_HORIZONTAL=n (n = 0-1919 - Offset from left of 1080p screen.) MENU_PREV_NEXT_VERTICAL=n (n = 0-1079 - Offset from top of 1080p screen.) In my case I'd left justify the "PAGE" label with the QP menu items and position the "PREV/NEXT" buttons, so that the same amount of menu backdrop is to the right of those buttons as is to the left of the "PAGE" label. This would remain consistent from page to page. (My menu backdrop is part of the menu background image in this case as I prefer the menu backdrop to have a fixed width from page to page.) I'd also bottom align the "PAGE" label with the "PREV/NEXT" buttons so that the "PAGE" label was not crowding the last QP menu item. And below is what the end result would look like which includes the increased spacing after the last QP menu item. Now tell me that doesn't rock. Symmetry is a beautiful thing. It can make all the difference in the world. The above looks far better than the first image I posted in my reply here. Would love to see BD Rebuilder improved in this regard. Last edited by Lowpro; 22nd January 2022 at 10:52. |
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Excellent. And so you know, the thought hadn't occured to me that I could reposition the "PREV/NEXT" buttons using BDedit. For each QP menu item, including the "PREV/NEXT" buttons you can change the "X" and "Y" values. Works like a charm. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to reposition the "Page" label. Well I assume it's a label as it's not listed as a button in BDedit anyway. If it were I could just reposition it how I like and call it a day.
As for the current spacing, from BDedit I can see that the "Y" value increases by 50 from QP menu item to QP menu item. The "Y" value from the last QP menu item to the "PREV/NEXT" buttons only increases by 40 however, hence the "PREV/NEXT" buttons overlapping the last QP menu item. See below taking note of the "Y" value from button to button. And here's what the end result looks like when the same spacing is used, i.e. increasing the "Y" values for the "PREV/NEXT" buttons by 10. Much better wouldn't you say. (Using TotalMedia Theatre 3 on an old Windows XP desktop to take screenshots of the actually Blu-ray menus. Comes in handy.) Before: After: So for now I can certainly just increase the "Y" value of the "PREV/NEXT" buttons by 10 using BDedit. Also loving the fact I can slide the "PREV/NEXT" buttons down further to the right now like I want. Just wish I could figure out how to reposition the "PAGE" label. I don't see how that can be done in BDedit unfortunately. I see no reference to the "PAGE" label in BDedit at all. Well, unless I just don't know where to look. Measuring things out in Photoshop I'd have to increase the "Y" value of the "PAGE" label by 16. The "PAGE" label would then be bottom aligned with the "PREV/NEXT" buttons no longer crowding the last QP menu item as a result. To align the "PAGE" label with the other QP menu items I'd need to increase the "X" value by 38. End result shown below. (I increased the "X" values of the "PREV/NEXT" buttons by 230 as well just for fun. Couldn't help myself. Loving the ability to reposition those buttons now. I updated all my QP menus for this TV series actually. To check out the whole spread see here.) The above would be much better positioning for the "PAGE" label I think. Perhaps you'll consider having the "PAGE" label use that positioning per a future build of BD Rebuilder. It would be an excellent improvement as would increasing the spacing between the last QP menu item and "PREV/NEXT" buttons of course. Better yet, the addition of hidden options for setting the horizontal and vertical positioning of the "PAGE" label and "PREV/NEXT" buttons. Okay, I better quit while I'm ahead. :-P In any event, I appreciate you having a look. Thanks! Last edited by Lowpro; 22nd January 2022 at 10:53. |
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If I remember correctly, the PREV/NEXT buttons are positioned based upon the BACKDROP. I'm guessing that the backdrop in your menus are created as a part of the background image? I guess I could also add an option to force the height/width of the backdrop. That whole quick menu feature was a lot of work... it's good to see that someone is getting some use out of it. Last edited by jdobbs; 20th June 2021 at 13:51. |
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With "The Andy Griffith Show" my backdrops are actually the same width across all 8 seasons, page to page, season to season. (See above.) It makes for much faster work when creating so many menu backgrounds. More importantly, I like the uniformity. In this case I determined the width of the backdrop based on the longest QP menu item across all 8 seasons. I then set the width of the backdrop so that it extends out 96 pixels or so past the extents of that QP menu item on each side. That's then the backdrop width I used across the entire TV series. (Click here to view the Blu-ray menus for all 8 seasons.) Quote:
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And perhaps you can shed some light on this for me. The "PAGE" label is still eluding me. Well, I'm calling it a label. It doesn't appear to be a button and isn't present in BDedit that I can see. I'd love to be able to control the placement. I'd be curious to know how that's being implemented. The "PAGE" label would look so much better if it were lined up with the other QP menu items and bottom aligned with the "PREV/NEXT" buttons per the mock-up in my previous post. An option to hide the "PAGE" label or make it fully transparent would even suffice. I could then just include the "PAGE" label within my backgroud image instead. Last edited by Lowpro; 23rd June 2021 at 12:17. |
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He shoots! He scores! I just came up with a workaround, so that I can reposition the "PAGE" label for my QP menus. My goal was to reposition the "PAGE" label, so that it was aligned with the other QP menu items and bottom aligned with the "PREV/NEXT" buttons as shown in the mock-up I posted a couple replies back. So as I mentioned previously, I wasn't seeing a way this could be done from BDedit. For whatever reason it just hit me. The "PAGE" label is actually part of the QP menu item selection area. That I can control the positioning of via BDRB. I can also set the position of each QP menu item using BDedit, hence my workaround. (In my case I set BD Rebuilder's backdrop to be fully transparent. I then include a backdrop within my background image instead.)
Tried it just now. It works beautifully. Once creating the QP menu initially I load the BDMV folder up in BDedit making all my updates as I normally do. This now includes adjusting the positioning of the "PREV" and "NEXT" buttons before remuxing the "99002 & 99004" M2TS files (...the QP menu items). At this point my QP menu is set to go with the exception of the "PAGE" label. To reposition the "PAGE" label I recreate the QP menu shifting the QP menu item selection area to the right by 38 and down by 16, i.e. the BDREBUILDER.INI hidden options, "MENU_HORIZONTAL" and "MENU_VERTICAL". I then copy the "99001 & 99003" M2TS and CLPI files (...the QP menu item selection area) from the resulting QP menu overwriting the same files from my original QP menu. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Gotta love it! Last edited by Lowpro; 11th July 2021 at 06:39. |
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