Cannot blank ONLY the main movie in BDRB... Very frustrating!

[Lathe]

Basically that... I would have posted on JDobbs forum at Doom9, but for some reason I cannot reach the site at all.

Okay, I've been using BDRB thousands of times, and I absolutely HATE it when I come across a full Blu-ray where if I try to blank just the movie (in order to create just an Xtras disc with menus) it blanks ALL the files and all the Xtras, most frustrating!

Is there ANY way to 'Tell' BDRB just to blank the movie file and create a disc with menus and Xtras only? I don't really want to use other programs with their learning curves... But, I would frigg'n LOVE to figure this out WHY once in a while a Blu-ray will NOT allow me just to blank the movie file.

Usually, about my only choice is to use a super fast encoding speed and just do the whole disc, but that seems a tad wasteful.

I REALLY appreciate any help on this!

Thank you!

Jamie.

[mazinz]

You absolutely can do this. I've done this many times with the program for when i did not want to use a BD50. I am not by my desktop but can check later. I am certain to enable title blanking I had to enable an option in the hidden settings or it was choosing "edit mode" which then offered the option.

Likewise you could also use a short few second dummy clip (as long as its in blu spec) with Tsmuxer and BDinfo to do the same

[mazinz]

Ok. I am going to assume you know about BDRB's hidden options. If you are not aware, the program will allow you to do a number of things not in the normal interface gui.

Go to wherever you have the folder for the program. Go into the program's folder. You will see a file BDREBUILDER.ini and another hiddenops.txt.

For what you need, double click the ini (its just a text file really) and windows notepad should open it up and you will see something that looks like the following below

[Options]
VERSION=0.62.0.16
ENCODER=0
MODE=0
ENCODE_QUALITY=2
ONEPASS_ENCODING=0
AUTO_QUALITY=1
QUICK_EXTRAS=0



We are going to add two new commands to enable title blanking. These are

ENABLE_TEST=1
ENABLE_BLANKING=1


AND I will assume you DO NOT want to have the program re-encode anything. If so, it will still demultiplex and remux the items but it will not encode them. This command which is in the hiddenops text is as follows


FORCE_NOENCODE=1


Add all three of these commands under the MODE=0 option. then save the ini file. It will look like this:


[Options]
VERSION=0.62.0.16
ENCODER=0
MODE=0
ENABLE_TEST=1
ENABLE_BLANKING=1
FORCE_NOENCODE=1
ENCODE_QUALITY=2
ONEPASS_ENCODING=0
AUTO_QUALITY=1
QUICK_EXTRAS=0



The blanking was always experimental and this is why its not even listed in the hidden options

Open the program, load your film. Under mode make sure full disc is checked and now if you look further down in the mode section you will see a new option called

"Edit mode (manual blanking)"

Make sure you click on this option so its also selected along with full disc backup

Now you can click on any title in the window and blank title will be an option (right click on the title). Double check everything because the program will sometimes disable streams and such you want to keep. So if it has a red X on any audio or sub you still want, just double click it to enable it again

If you for whatever reason you still want it encode everything then just remove the
FORCE_NOENCODE=1 from the ini file or change it to FORCE_NOENCODE=0 instead

Hope this helps

[Lathe]

Ok. I am going to assume you know about BDRB's hidden options. If you are not aware, the program will allow you to do a number of things not in the normal interface gui.

Go to wherever you have the folder for the program. Go into the program's folder. You will see a file BDREBUILDER.ini and another hiddenops.txt.

For what you need, double click the ini (its just a text file really) and windows notepad should open it up and you will see something that looks like the following below

[Options]
VERSION=0.62.0.16
ENCODER=0
MODE=0
ENCODE_QUALITY=2
ONEPASS_ENCODING=0
AUTO_QUALITY=1
QUICK_EXTRAS=0



We are going to add two new commands to enable title blanking. These are

ENABLE_TEST=1
ENABLE_BLANKING=1


AND I will assume you DO NOT want to have the program re-encode anything. If so, it will still demultiplex and remux the items but it will not encode them. This command which is in the hiddenops text is as follows


FORCE_NOENCODE=1


Add all three of these commands under the MODE=0 option. then save the ini file. It will look like this:


[Options]
VERSION=0.62.0.16
ENCODER=0
MODE=0
ENABLE_TEST=1
ENABLE_BLANKING=1
FORCE_NOENCODE=1
ENCODE_QUALITY=2
ONEPASS_ENCODING=0
AUTO_QUALITY=1
QUICK_EXTRAS=0



The blanking was always experimental and this is why its not even listed in the hidden options

Open the program, load your film. Under mode make sure full disc is checked and now if you look further down in the mode section you will see a new option called

"Edit mode (manual blanking)"

Make sure you click on this option so its also selected along with full disc backup

Now you can click on any title in the window and blank title will be an option (right click on the title). Double check everything because the program will sometimes disable streams and such you want to keep. So if it has a red X on any audio or sub you still want, just double click it to enable it again

If you for whatever reason you still want it encode everything then just remove the
FORCE_NOENCODE=1 from the ini file or change it to FORCE_NOENCODE=0 instead

Hope this helps

Oh man... that was SO damn nice of you to go to all that trouble Bro to show me how to do this, I REALLY appreciate you taking the time to do this, thanks!

BUT... my friend... I'm sorry to say that I already know all this and when I want to create an Xtras only disc with menus, I ALWAYS choose the 'Edit/Blankin' function. BUT... again, what is happening that DESPITE doing this there are times where the playlist or whatever in BDRB will NOT allow me just to blank the main movie file, but blanks ALL files including all the Xtras. This only happens sometimes, but JD answered me when I finally brought up the thread there that sometimes the ones who make the Blu-rays deliberately play around and screw with the playlists as an 'Anti-Pirate' measure...

So, normally what I do in these occasional cases is simply reencode the entire disc at high speed, but with this movie I couldn't even do that. So, I ended up with my usual alternate option of simply importing the Xtras files and allowing BDRB to create a Quick menu. That's fine, really, it's just kinda nice to be able to have the full animated menus of the original Blu-ray if possible, but ultimately no biggie.

Hey, thanks again for taking the time to do this!

Cheers!

Jamie.