How to backup and convert Blu-ray to MP4 HD or MKV HD

[skylab2]

[quote="Atak_Snajpera"]@skylab2
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1229352#post1229352

Hi Atak,

I went to the link you provided above, I can't find the answers, what am I looking for?
Sorry if I sound stupid.

Skylab2

[Atak_Snajpera]

OMG! read post 3557 !

[skylab2]

I have read post 3557, and I changed to wmv9, I am still getting the same problem.

[skylab2]

ok, I even try to reinstall the ffdshow and still getting the same problme.
What could be the problem?

[Atak_Snajpera]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1222910#post1222910

[Knobbyman]

What media player does everyone use to play these movies after encoding them? .mp4 or .mkv

-Eric

[gjrhine]

Popcorn Hour

[Baldrick]

What media player does everyone use to play these movies after encoding them? .mp4 or .mkv

-Eric

Media Player Classic together with ffdshow. Or VLC Media Player, SMPlayer, KMplayer.

[Knobbyman]

Strange.. Only KMplayer will play this back w/o being all kinds of jerky.

BTW AWESOME GUIDE!! THANK YOU!!!!

Now I can start backing up all my HD & BR movies.. make it so I can be nice & lazy and not have to move from my couch to switch

Baldrick ... YOU ROCK!

-Eric

[vrblkent]

How do you get the best quality out of the backup of a mkv file through blu ray.

Is it better quality setting it at CQ with the lowest CRF setting, or using 2 pass and setting the kbps to high.

Thanks for your help with this, this is a great tool and thread.

[redwudz]

Two pass encode is usually the best quality. The downside is it takes a long, long time for the encode.

[skylab2]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1222910#post1222910

Ok, I uninstall everything and reinstall them again.

I am not getting error anymore, not even the missing video.mkv error when loading m2ts file.
I can load both .ts and m2ts file, however, after the files are demuxed, ripbot just sit there, all the option are
gray out, all I can do is click on abort. It doesn't continue like it did before. see attach screen cap.

Help please.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Go to Ripbot264temp/job1/ and show me video - Log.txt

Did you select WMV9 in ffdshow again?

[skylab2]

Go to Ripbot264temp/job1/ and show me video - Log.txt

Did you select WMV9 in ffdshow again?

Yes, WMV9 is selected.

here is the video log:

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eac3to v2.78
command line: "E:\blu-ray\Tools\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "J:\STAR_WARS_CLONE_WARS\clonewars.m2ts" 1:"J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\video.mkv" 2:"J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio.1.ac3" -progressnumbers
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M2TS, 1 video track, 5 audio tracks, 7 subtitle tracks, 1:38:25
1: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
2: AC3 EX, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
3: TrueHD/AC3, 5.1 channels, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
(embedded: AC3 EX, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB)
4: AC3 EX, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
5: AC3 EX, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
6: AC3 EX, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
7: Subtitle (PGS)
8: Subtitle (PGS)
9: Subtitle (PGS)
10: Subtitle (PGS)
11: Subtitle (PGS)
12: Subtitle (PGS)
13: Subtitle (PGS)
[a02] Extracting audio track number 2...
[v01] Extracting video track number 1...
[v01] Muxing video to Matroska...
[a02] Removing AC3 dialog normalization...
[a02] Creating file "J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio.1.ac3"...
Added fps value to MKV header.
Video track 1 contains 141586 frames.
eac3to processing took 30 minutes, 20 seconds.
Done.

[Atak_Snajpera]

move video.mkv and audio.1.ac3 to another directory and then try to open it in Ripbot264

[skylab2]

move video.mkv and audio.1.ac3 to another directory and then try to open it in Ripbot264

I try that and still does not work, just sitting there, only abort is on, all others are gray out.

[Knobbyman]

Just a quick comment I was having the exact same problem that Skylab2 is having.. with all the options grayed out. This just started happening.. no software was changed on the server. (a simple reboot fixed the problem)

My other question which is just a annoyance because I have no idea where to start with it..

I was able to rip a HD & BR movie but my sound is off.. it looks like the sound veried from being in-sync with the video to being almost 5 sec. out of sync.

I tried both .mp4 and .mkv files doing a x.xcopy for the .mkv format and the highest audio option for the .mp4

Am I somehow missing a step to sync the audio & video? Here's what I'm doing.

1) - Dump HD movie to the hard drive in .iso format
2) - mount .iso with "Virtual Clone Drive"
3) - run RipBot and point it to "H:\BDMV\STREAM\00000.m2ts
4) - Select the following on the Blu-Ray Structure screen
-- 00100.mpls, 00007.m2ts, 2:32:13
-- 1: Chapters, 40 chapters
-- 2: VC-1, 1080p24 /1.001 (16:9)
-- 3: TrueHD/AC3, English, 5.1 channels, 48khz
-- 0: NO SUBTITLES

So did I mis a step?
I'm going to try using AnyDVD to dump the files straight to the hard drive instead of into a .iso just to see but I don't think that's the problem.

-Eric

[skylab2]

I tried reboot the computer, still having the same problem all option are gray out.

I am stuck at this point, help.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Send me 50 MB sample of video.mkv.
www.mediafire.com
Use dgsplit http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/DGSplit.shtml

[skylab2]

ok the file has been uploade to mediafire, here is the link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b64d4222cd9d5fced2db6fb9a8902bda

[Atak_Snajpera]

I tested your sample and it works fine on my PC!


Reinstall WMP 11
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Players/Microsoft-Windows-Media-Player-11.shtml

[Tomak]

After about 88% of conversion in RipBot the MPlayer classic appears and try to play getinfo.avs file and that's the end of conversion Till this time I have job1 dir wth mkv file and audio1.ac3 file. MKV plays but no audio. It seems like those 2 files are not compiled.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Did you try v1.12.0? Show me what you have in video - Log.txt . It should be in ../RipBot264temp/Jobx/

[jwdaigle]

Im sure you are sick of hearing it, but great guide. Read a lot of others, and this one was written well enough that my thick skull could deal with it

Since I am a control freak (), I am doing it command line (except for subtitles). Its a really simple script, but there is one thing I still dont quite understand.

In your guide, you talk about cropping the video. It seems like what you are doing is cropping out the black borders from the original Blu Ray source. Makes sense - Blue ray is always 16:9 (either 1920x1080 or 1280x720), but a popular geometry for the actual film seems to be 2.35-2.40 these days. Hence the black borders.

Why did you use 132 from the top and bottom (meaning you crop out 264 total)? Are the black borders on all blu rays this size? Probably not coincidence that 1920 / (1080-264) roughly equals 2.35?

I havent tried doing a cropped encode yet, but I am also wondering how MPC will deal with it - will it center it in the middle of the screen (ie, add its own borders) ?

Thanks for any enlightenment - I want to add a crop to my avs script, but not sure if it can be automated for all blu rays.

Thanks,

Joe

[skylab2]

After about 88% of conversion in RipBot the MPlayer classic appears and try to play getinfo.avs file and that's the end of conversion Till this time I have job1 dir wth mkv file and audio1.ac3 file. MKV plays but no audio. It seems like those 2 files are not compiled.

I can't reinstall wmv11, I already has the latest version. The one in the link is an older version.

Anyway, I uninstall all the software and reinstall them again, still has the same problem just sitting there.

What else can I do here?

[skylab2]

Sorry about the wrong quote, I select the wrong message.

[sightus]

Hi

some of the last HD DVDs I converted to a mkv shows this when I am using VLC.


Is this VLC-based or related to the mkv? Its kind of strange cause not every mkv shows this message.

Thanks

[Atak_Snajpera]

Instead of VLC you should use MPC-HC !!!
configuration:
1) Options -> Output
2) select EVR custom + resizer bilinear ps 2.0
3) open movie and right click on it and select Shaders -> YV12 Chroma Upsampling

Done

[sightus]

Instead of VLC you should use MPC-HC !!!
configuration:
1) Options -> Output
2) select EVR custom + resizer bilinear ps 2.0
3) open movie and right click on it and select Shaders -> YV12 Chroma Upsampling

Done

This will increase the qualitity, right? Is it possible that this will use much more CPU-Power? But the main problem is still the same; i got these status screen which shows the frames an the In/out-put Resolution.


Thanks

[Atak_Snajpera]

It won't use more CPU power because shaders run on GPU (Pixel Shader 2.0)
Go to ffdshow video decoder configuration and deselect OSD