Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl ERROR!!!

[Mr_X2012]

Hi all,

Just wondering how people have converted Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl to mkv using ripbot264 in the past. When loading the files into ripbot264 I receive an error of 0 chapters, 0 audio and 0 subtitles.

[Baldrick]

Try repost the image.

How did you rip the blu-ray? dvdfab, anydvd,makemkv,etc?

[Mr_X2012]

I ripped the BD using both anydvd and dvdfab. I saw a similar thread posted but that didn't lead anywhere either:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/305409-Ripbot-not-recognising-Blu-Ray-movie-properly

This is the exact same problem.

I tried demuxing the .m2ts using tsmuxer and what I was left with was a x264 video file and 2 x wav audio files (part1 3.99Gb 2h 4min, part2 626Gb 19min - They were demuxed from the single PCM audio file). The x264 will load fine into ripbot264; however, my issue now is the audio files. I want to have a single wav file which I'll convert to FLAC and then load into ripbot264 manually and process together.

I have tried using many different wav merge programs but, I haven't been succesful (e.g. can't merge audio files greater than 2Gb) I tried using foobar2000 which can merge the 2 x wav files into 1 then convert to FLAC; however, at the point of merger from wav1 to wav2 I'm presented with an error...

How have other people been able to convert this movie from BD to mkv using ripbot264?

I want to use CRF=16, Preset = Very Slow, Tune = Film, FLAC 16bit audio

Cheers

[fritzi93]

Try running AnyDVDHD in the background and extract main movie from disc with Clown_BD. Then see if Ripbot will work with the extracted files. I recall having to do that with Wall-E (another Disney disc), because Ripbot couldn't sort out main movie. Not correctly, anyway.

Have you tried identifying main movie *.mpls (movie playlist file) with BDinfo? Loading that into tsMuxer should yield the same result as Clown_BD, i.e. main movie in Blu-Ray structure.

Good luck.

[Mr_X2012]

I have located the .mpls using BDInfo and demuxed it using tsMuxer. This leaves me with the exact same files as previous:

1 x264 video file and 2 .wav audio files, same length and size as before.

How have others been able to do this? Should I abort using ripbot264 and select a different program?

[fritzi93]

I don't quite get why you're demuxing when what you need is main movie. Which skips right over the obvious thing to try: Remuxing to Blu-Ray structure, directly from disc with AnyDVDHD running, using the main movie mpls. But I'd recommend Clown_BD for this (it will automatically select the movie mpls). If it fails, it will at least tell you why.

If there's a problem with the audio, Clown_BD can most likely fix it while extracting main movie. BTW, that movie has PCM audio, 5.1 channel. You can try converting to AC3 5.1 while extracting main movie.

[Mr_X2012]

Hi I have found a way:

1. Demux the video and PCM audio files using tsMuxer.
2. Merge .1 and .2 PCM audio together and convert to FLAC
3. Load .264 and FLAC files manually into ripbot264
4. Change quality settings to my liking (i.e. HIGH, L4.1, VERY SLOW, FILM, CRF=16, CROP)
5. Convert

I tested this process using a smaller file size overnight and in the morning it looked and sounded fine, so I started it again with my higher quality settings. In the preview display in ripbot264 when paused it showed a lot of motion artifacts; however, when playing after conversion I saw none.


Even though I've found a way, I would like to understand your process just in case. What I did was:

1. Used BDInfo to verify the correct .mpls
2. Used tsMuxer to demux the .mpls (Is this not correct? What should I do other than demux?)
3. Result was same as demuxing the .m2ts (1 x .264 video file and 2 x .wav audio files)

[fritzi93]

No, you're still demuxing.

Use tsMuxer to *RE*- mux to Blu-ray structure. That removes a possible problem from the equation: Very rarely, tsMuxer may have a problem with audio. I recall at least two occasions; once with a DD EX audio stream, the other with PCM. Both times Clown_BD fixed it. But if you remux directly from original disc, any problem tsMuxer has with the streams should be removed from the equation. Although I think Clown_BD is more reliable for a problematic disc. It will only cost you a little time to see.

I still think Ripbot's problem was simply that it had trouble extracting main movie from a complex disc (Disney is notorious for that). You can prove or disprove that easily enough.

I don't have that disc, or I'd give it a go myself.

[jman98]

fritzi93 - You mean DTS EX (also known as DTS Extended) and not DD EX, but the point is valid. DTS EX freaks out a lot of programs that simply don't know how to handle it because it's uncommon (usually only used for secondary audio tracks like director's commentaries).

[fritzi93]

Thanks for the correction, my memory was at fault there.

[hello_hello]

I think the problem is many programs won't handle wave files larger than 4GB correctly, which is probably why tsMuxer was splitting it when demuxing. Maybe it's also why Ripbot was having problems recognizing the audio.
Using an eac3to front end such as Clown_BD to rip the movie is probably a better method. I use HD Streams Extractor (which is another eac3to front end) as it's built into MeGUI, but either should be fine.

My Method..... I use AnyDVD running in the background to decrypt the disc, but HD Streams Extractor to do the actual extracting. Once you've got the disc open you can select which video/audio/subtitle streams etc you want to extract and let it do it's thing. It'll extract the video to MKV and the audio, subtitles and chapters to individual files. I've not used Ripbot so I don't know if you can use it to add the extracted audio etc separately, however....

HD Streams Extractor will also convert the audio for you while it's extracting. By default it converts PCM audio to AC3, but you can convert to any of the other common formats if you choose. Just don't use "wav" unless you know your conversion program likes wave files larger than 4GB. I think "w64" is what you should use instead, but it's probably just as easy to convert to the desired final audio type (AC3, AAC, FLAC etc) while you're extracting.

When the extraction's finished you'll have an MKV file containing the video, an audio file in the chosen format and separate subtitle and chapter files.
If Ripbot will let you include external streams when setting up an encode (without wanting to re-encode them) you can open your ripped MKV with it, add the audio and chapters etc, then let it output the "finished" MKV/MP4 for you. Otherwise you could just use Ripbot to re-encode the video, then open the newly encoded version using MKVMergeGUI, add the extracted/converted audio, add the subtitles and chapters, then resave the lot as a "finished" MKV. Depending on your hard drive speed remuxing might take up to around 5 minutes.