RipBot264 keeps freezing during encode

[cjbrown80]

Hey all,
I'm trying to use RipBot264 to hard code English subs with Spanish DTS-HDMA for the two part movie Che. The RipBot version is 1.15 and avisynth is 2.5.8 and I believe all the other components are up to date. I'm trying to keep as high quality as possible since this is a backup. Everything demuxes fine but roughly 60 to 90 seconds into the re-encode, my whole system locks up. I initially tried removing my overclock and checked that my BIOS and GPU drivers were up to date, etc.. but that hasn't helped. Any ideas?

[Baldrick]

Does it just freezes with this blu-ray?
And your computer never freezes when you do anything else that is very cpu demanding?
Have you monitored the cpu temperature while encoding?

[cjbrown80]

It also froze with disc two of Che, but not the demux, just the re-encode. I've run Memtest and prime95 for several hours each and totally stable, cpu temp doesn't exceed 62C on any core with RealTemp. It has to be whatever the encoder is that's causing this, right? Ffdshow?

[redwudz]

I had some instability problems with RipBot of late, and I turned off AnyDVD HD during the encode, uninstalled AVISynth, ffdshow, and Haali, then reinstalled them. I also uninstalled several other BD programs like MakeMKV and a couple of others and it's been working correctly ever since. Unfortunately, I don't know which change fixed the problem.

Did you examine the RipBot log? It may give a reason for the failure.

[cjbrown80]

Thanks, Red. I'll try some similar tests as I have avisynth, ffdshow, haali, and anydvdhd all installed on this machine.
Let you know what I find.

[johns0]

The problem i had with the encoding freezing is with the newer x264.exe are unstable.Thing is the the system shouldnt lock up cause of it.

[cjbrown80]

Damn, I've got all the Super Mods helping. Thanks, guys! Your combined wizardry is amazing.

Okay, to business. I've uninstalled and re-installed aforementioned utilities and now the encode process gets all the way to the end, and right before it finishes, it freezes. (This is what I believe since I checked last night before bed and it only had about 3000 frames to go on the encode job(out of 194k), and I had the shut down when finished thing checked, and when I came down this morning it was frozen.)

[cjbrown80]

Okay, I ran it again and it worked this time. I suppose something else could have crashed it last night.
Now my only problem is the quality is noticably lower than I was hoping it would be (file size shrunk to 8 GB from 32) and the subtitles didn't hard code like (I think) they were supposed to. Is there a separate setting for this? I was on the High 4.0 profile with CQ 26, stream copy the DTSHD audio with Eng subs selected.

[redwudz]

I generally use two pass, though it takes longer. I backup my BDs to MKV with a filesize of 8GB. I've been happy with the finished product when displayed on my projector screen. I don't mess with subs, so no help there.

One other thing to watch out for is MS updates. They can mess up an encode. I've turned of auto update after MS restarted my computer about 5 hours into a 6 hour encode. Again, check the RipBot log as it usually shows RipBot internal errors. If it doesn't show anything, then maybe it's external, the OS, a program that is running in the background, or a hardware problem, usually RAM.

RipBot is a assemblage of quite a few programs that performs some very complex operations with a huge volume of data, so there's lots of possibilities for problems. I rip all my BDs to my HDD now before running RipBot. And with a few, I ended up running them through tsMuxeR after decryption to remove extra languages and subs, and audio tracks, before starting RipBot and that seemed to help.

I did revert to an older version of RipBot a while ago and that helped cure problems. But I'm running the latest version now and no problems anymore. You might try a older version like v1.12x and see if that helps.

[johns0]

The problem you might have is with subs(srt) is the that the length of some of the lines are too long and other things such as overlapping timecodes,use SubtitleEdit to check the subs for errors and change the line breaks so they dont run too long.

If the subs are graphic based(sup)then its not a sub problem.

[cjbrown80]

The subs don't even show up though. I think they're in the file, but I'd like them permanently on the video stream. Just selecting them in the job edit screen is supposed to remux them into the file, but is that how you hard code them over the video, or am I misunderstanding this process?

[cjbrown80]

Okay, I still can't get this to work. All I'm trying to accomplish is getting the .sup subtitle file from the bluray, burned into the video, without a significant loss in video quality. Is there a tool that can use the .sup file directly?

I have already tried the OCR with SupRip to make a .srt file, and neither RipBot264 or Handbrake can successfully burn that file onto the resulting .mkv file. No matter which way I try, the file has no subtitles on it after the encode, it looks just like it did originally.

Sorry guys, I'm trying here, spent hours reading other posts over the last two days.

[redwudz]

If you wanted the subs permanently burned into the video, you would have to re-encode the whole video file. Re-encoding will cause some loss in quality.

Here's a guide for VD to do that with some AVI type files, but I doubt it will work with Blu-ray conversions, but it may give you an idea what's involved: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/315058-HowTo-add-permanent-Letterboxed-subtitles-to...aldub-SRTtoSSA

[cjbrown80]

Thanks, Red. I looked through that guide, and it seems somewhat convoluted for what I'm trying to do. Is there a tool that can work with .sup files directly and not have to convert to .srt, then to .ssa? Also, I don't mind the slight quality loss with the re-encode. In other words, what I don't want is an 8GB video, when the original was 32GB, and x.264 seems to look awesome anywhere from 20 to 30 GB for a 2 hour movie.

[cjbrown80]

Is there any tool that can render the .sup file into a video stream so I can composite it in with video editing software?

[cjbrown80]

Allright, I'm a dumbass. In RipBot264 I was selecting the subtitle file on the initial job settings window, which I now realize just muxes the .sup file back into the file from whence it came. What I didn't realize, but have now figured out, is the Properties button creates a script that will hardcode the .sup file onto the video, like I originally wanted.
Thanks for your help, gents. I'll try not to waste peoples time again in the future.