Lock size apparently has a bug

[Joao7]

I put 2048 under "Lock size" and "kbps" automatically go to a negative number. I just ignored that and tried to do the conversion, but I get a conversion time of 14 seconds and no final results.

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Log:
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C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264_1.17.5\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs" -o - | "C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264_1.17.5\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --pass 1 --bitrate -1609 --stats "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.stats" --fps 24000/1001 --force-cfr --min-keyint 24 --keyint 240 --frames 169012 --sar 1:1 --level 4.0 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --b-pyramid none --stdin y4m --output NUL -

y4m [info]: 1920x800p 1:1 @ 10000000/417083 fps (cfr)

x264 [error]: bitrate not specified

x264 [error]: x264_encoder_open failed




C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs: 1920x800, 10000000/417083 fps, 169012 frames

error: wrote only 2285802 of 2304000 bytes


C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264_1.17.5\tools\avs2yuv\avs2yuv.exe" "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs" -o - | "C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264_1.17.5\tools\x264\x264_x64.exe" --pass 2 --bitrate -1609 --stats "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.stats" --fps 24000/1001 --force-cfr --min-keyint 24 --keyint 240 --frames 169012 --sar 1:1 --level 4.0 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 25000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --b-pyramid none --stdin y4m --output "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" -

y4m [info]: 1920x800p 1:1 @ 10000000/417083 fps (cfr)

x264 [error]: bitrate not specified

x264 [error]: x264_encoder_open failed




C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\job1.avs: 1920x800, 10000000/417083 fps, 169012 frames

error: wrote only 2285802 of 2304000 bytes


C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\RipBot264_1.17.5\tools\mkvtoolnix\mkvmerge.exe" -o "C:\Users\Joao\Desktop\RoboCop.mkv" --compression 0:none --title "RoboCop" --default-duration 0:24000/1001fps "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264" --compression 0:none --language 0:eng --sync 0:0 "C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\job1\1_audio_English.dt s"

mkvmerge v6.6.0 ('The Edge Of The In Between') built on Dec 1 2013 17:55:00


Error: The file 'C:\Temp\RipBot264temp\video.264' has unknown type. Please have a look at the supported file types ('mkvmerge --list-types') and contact the author Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org> if your file type is supported but not recognized properly.

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Elapsed Time: 00h:00m:14s
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Please help! Thanks

[hech54]

What are you talking about?

[Joao7]

What are you talking about?

I want my film to stay with 2 gb, so I put in "lock size" 2048 mb. Ok, but when I start convert, I get this log and no results. What I think may be it is the value of "kbps" be negative, but I don't know why this happens. Is there a minimum amount that I can put in "lock size"?

[Baldrick]

Try and see if it's the audio that causes it. Try change it from copy to some other audio codec.

Or else might Ripbot264 calculate the average bitrate incorrect. You can then adjust the video bitrate manually with help of a bitrate calculator ...if you just know the bitrate for the dts audio track.

[Joao7]

Try and see if it's the audio that causes it. Try change it from copy to some other audio codec.

Or else might Ripbot264 calculate the average bitrate incorrect. You can then adjust the video bitrate manually with help of a bitrate calculator ...if you just know the bitrate for the dts audio track.

Hey Baldrick, THANKS!
It seems that the change of the audio profile worked for me, the number in "kbps" was positive, about 2000. Moved to the "5.1 FHG AAC-LC 320 kbps [abr]" profile. Now I'm converting the movie, let's see if it will work ...
Now just wanted to understand why this worked, it would be because of the giant size of the type of DTS format I was trying to copy?

[ndjamena]

You told it you wanted 2048kbps total, but the DTS-MA audio was already more than that. If you take the DTS-MA bit rate away from the 2048kbps then the video has to be encoded at -1609kbps to make up the difference... Now THAT"S compression!

[Baldrick]

What is the dts-ma bitrate?

[El Heggunte]

LOL. Atak will have to fix the "feature" a.s.a.p.

[Baldrick]

You told it you wanted 2048kbps total, but the DTS-MA audio was already more than that. If you take the DTS-MA bit rate away from the 2048kbps then the video has to be encoded at -1609kbps to make up the difference... Now THAT"S compression!

No, it means 2048 MB. Total file size. Not 2048kbits. But it's still probably too low for 2 hours dts-ma.

[ndjamena]

You told it you wanted 2048kbps total, but the DTS-MA audio was already more than that. If you take the DTS-MA bit rate away from the 2048kbps then the video has to be encoded at -1609kbps to make up the difference... Now THAT"S compression!

No, it means 2048 MB. Total file size. Not 2048kbits. But it's still probably too low for 2 hours dts-ma.

That would make even more sense. I just extracted the DTS-MA audio from The Dark Knight Rises and it's total size is 4.61GB with a duration of 2:44:00 and a total bit-rate of about 4018kbps.

[Joao7]

What is the dts-ma bitrate?

Baldrick, follows the specifications of the original film, you can see that it is very big, 11.9 gb, and I think that is because of the dts audio...

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General
Unique ID : 223105509918717886295707458425499849320 (0xA7D88EE83A78A720B44E1A4610429268)
Complete name : C:\Users\Joao\Videos\Filmes\RoboCop\RoboCop.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 11.9 GiB
Duration : 1h 57mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 14.5 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2014-06-03 02:57:47
Writing application : mkvmerge v6.9.1 ('Blue Panther') 64bit built on Apr 18 2014 18:23:38
Writing library : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 57mn
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 57mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : Unknown / 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
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[ndjamena]

1 920x800. Not the original source either.

One more version of MKVMerge and that output will tell us EVERYTHING we need to know and more...

[Joao7]

1 920x800. Not the original source either.

One more version of MKVMerge and that output will tell us EVERYTHING we need to know and more...

Well, that's what I downloaded, man. And I think the problem is with the audio and not the video...

[ndjamena]

You can't see the bit-rate from that MediaInfo output, since both the h.264 video and MA component of the DTS Audio are variable bit-rate. Currently, MKVMerge doesn't log the bps or number of bits and won't until the next version. You'd have to remux the DTS-MA into it's own container to have any idea what the bit-rate is, but since that would include the container overhead, it would only be semi-accurate anyway. MKVInfo -t is the only way to get accurate information about tracks for the moment.

[Joao7]

You can't see the bit-rate from that MediaInfo output, since both the h.264 video and MA component of the DTS Audio are variable bit-rate. Currently, MKVMerge doesn't log the bps or number of bits and won't until the next version. You'd have to remux the DTS-MA into it's own container to have any idea what the bit-rate is, but since that would include the container overhead, it would only be semi-accurate anyway. MKVInfo -t is the only way to get accurate information about tracks for the moment.

Is this what you need?

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(MKVInfo) + EBML head
(MKVInfo) |+ EBML version: 1
(MKVInfo) |+ EBML read version: 1
(MKVInfo) |+ EBML maximum ID length: 4
(MKVInfo) |+ EBML maximum size length: 8
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type: matroska
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type version: 4
(MKVInfo) |+ Doc type read version: 2
(MKVInfo) + Segment, size 12811794496
(MKVInfo) |+ Seek head
(MKVInfo) | + Seek entry
(MKVInfo) | + Seek ID: 0x15 0x49 0xa9 0x66 (KaxInfo)
(MKVInfo) | + Seek position: 4099
(MKVInfo) | + Seek entry
(MKVInfo) | + Seek ID: 0x16 0x54 0xae 0x6b (KaxTracks)
(MKVInfo) | + Seek position: 4258
(MKVInfo) | + Seek entry
(MKVInfo) | + Seek ID: 0x1c 0x53 0xbb 0x6b (KaxCues)
(MKVInfo) | + Seek position: 12811756334
(MKVInfo) |+ EbmlVoid (size: 4043)
(MKVInfo) |+ Segment information
(MKVInfo) | + Timecode scale: 1000000
(MKVInfo) | + Muxing application: libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1
(MKVInfo) | + Writing application: mkvmerge v6.9.1 ('Blue Panther') 64bit built on Apr 18 2014 18:23:38
(MKVInfo) | + Duration: 7049.217s (01:57:29.217)
(MKVInfo) | + Date: Tue Jun 03 02:57:47 2014 UTC
(MKVInfo) | + Segment UID: 0xa7 0xd8 0x8e 0xe8 0x3a 0x78 0xa7 0x20 0xb4 0x4e 0x1a 0x46 0x10 0x42 0x92 0x68
(MKVInfo) |+ Segment tracks
(MKVInfo) | + A track
(MKVInfo) | + Track number: 1 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 0)
(MKVInfo) | + Track UID: 1
(MKVInfo) | + Track type: video
(MKVInfo) | + Lacing flag: 0
(MKVInfo) | + MinCache: 1
(MKVInfo) | + Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
(MKVInfo) | + CodecPrivate, length 40 (h.264 profile: High @L4.1)
(MKVInfo) | + Default duration: 41.708ms (23.976 frames/fields per second for a video track)
(MKVInfo) | + Video track
(MKVInfo) | + Pixel width: 1920
(MKVInfo) | + Pixel height: 800
(MKVInfo) | + Display width: 1920
(MKVInfo) | + Display height: 800
(MKVInfo) | + A track
(MKVInfo) | + Track number: 2 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 1)
(MKVInfo) | + Track UID: 2808778954803057284
(MKVInfo) | + Track type: audio
(MKVInfo) | + Codec ID: A_DTS
(MKVInfo) | + Default duration: 10.667ms (93.750 frames/fields per second for a video track)
(MKVInfo) | + Audio track
(MKVInfo) | + Sampling frequency: 48000
(MKVInfo) | + Channels: 6
(MKVInfo) |+ EbmlVoid (size: 1107)
(MKVInfo) |+ Cluster
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[Joao7]

Converted movie. Excellent audio quality. Excellent video quality. Final file with 1.99 gb.
Following specifications of the converted video.
Thanks guys

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General
Unique ID : 236639670900008985695299448582576614242 (0xB207248FF5484F81B80E444D67152B62)
Complete name : C:\Users\Joao\Videos\Filmes\RoboCop\RoboCop.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 2.00 GiB
Duration : 1h 57mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 2 432 Kbps
Movie name : RoboCop
Encoded date : UTC 2014-06-04 00:15:10
Writing application : mkvmerge v6.6.0 ('The Edge Of The In Between') built on Dec 1 2013 17:55:00
Writing library : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 57mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Nominal bit rate : 2 112 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.057
Writing library : x264 core 135 r2345 f0c1c53
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=2112 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / nal_hrd=vbr / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 1h 57mn
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
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[ndjamena]

It takes a while to get there but this is the ultimate output of MKVInfo -t:

Statistics for track number 1: number of blocks: 236713; size in bytes: 29590727531; duration in seconds: 9872.9; approximate bitrate in bits/second: 23977322
Statistics for track number 2: number of blocks: 925675; size in bytes: 4959156708; duration in seconds: 9873.87; approximate bitrate in bits/second: 4018005
Statistics for track number 3: number of blocks: 115710; size in bytes: 4183143653; duration in seconds: 9873.92; approximate bitrate in bits/second: 3389246
Statistics for track number 4: number of blocks: 308559; size in bytes: 236973312; duration in seconds: 9873.89; approximate bitrate in bits/second: 192000
Statistics for track number 5: number of blocks: 308559; size in bytes: 552937728; duration in seconds: 9873.89; approximate bitrate in bits/second: 448000
Statistics for track number 6: number of blocks: 3826; size in bytes: 17242121; duration in seconds: 9809.55; approximate bitrate in bits/second: 14061

You didn't add the -t and just gave us the forward headers.