RipBot 264 1.16.4 problem (maybe with eac2to.exe hang)

[Vilous]

Hope someone can help me with this mystery I've been having. I'm betting it is something obvious.. well obvious to someone.

I've been using RipBot264 for about a year now, converting Blu-Rays to AVCHD's. And for the most part, everything has been going fine but recently, things stopped working.

So, I installed a new copy of RipBot264 to a new location on a mostly empty 3TB harddrive, and uninstalled and reinstalled all the pre-requisites for RipBot to work (AviSynth, Haali, FFDShow, and Java), just to make sure it wasn't some problem with those. After doing all that, I still have the same issue.

Here's what happens. (this is happening now with every bluray I try to rip)

So copy the bluray to my HD, I use RipBot to 'add' one of the M2TS files from the Stream folder. I then select the playlist that I want to use and keep most of the other default settings on that screen.

Now, clearly, since I got this far, eac2to has analyzed the bluray and presented me with the playback options. Looking in the job file I see all of this in the job folder under the ripBot264temp folder.

Anyway, at this point I choose OK, and here's what happens.. it gets stuck Demuxing the stream at Progress 1% -forever-. No log file is seemingly generated, at least nothing with any useful debug info.

Looking at the processor, eac2to.exe drops to 00 CPU usage. And it never goes back up, I have left one job there for days. (btw, I turned OFF Low Priority on RipBot's main screen)

So, in desperation, I tried running the command from Blu-Ray_ExtractStreams.cmd that Ripbot generates from a command line.

Not surprisingly, it gets through the analyze phase with no problems, but when it gets to process phase, it hands right there at 1%. Here's the last few lines of output from eac3to.exe

s08 Extracting subtitle track number 8...
v02 Extracting video track number 2...
a03 Extracting audio track number 3...
v02 Muxing video to Matroska...
a03 Decoding with ArcSoft DTS Decoder...
a03 Reducing depth from 24 to 16 bits...
a03 Writing W64...
a03 Creating file "G:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.dtsma.w6 4"...
process: 1%

And it stays there forever. There is plenty of harddrive space on G. Everything has the right permissions to run. The OS is Windows 7.

If anyone knows what eac3to is doing at this point, or has some clue as to how I can proceed to figure out why it is stuck, I'd be VERY grateful.

Thanks,
-Vilous

[redwudz]

Is RipBot on your boot drive, or are you running it off the 'G' drive? If you have RB on the 'G' and are simultaneously writing and reading to and from the same 'G' drive, that may be a problem. But that's just a guess. I'm wondering if eac3to is having a problem finding a input or output drive.

I have RB on my boot drive, then read the ripped BD from one drive and put the final output on another drive. But all my temp files seem to be on the same drive as the ripped BD and just the final output is transferred to the second drive. But I also just encode to MKV with AC3 audio.

[Vilous]

Thanks for chiming in. I will give that a shot, but I'm skeptical. Previously, I have had RB on the same drive (albiet a different one) as the one I am demuxing to.

I'd suspect that even if there were an issue involved there, it would result in a slow-down as opposed to a complete halt. Anyway, I'll give it a shot.

[Vilous]

Alas it did not work. Problem occurs no matter what drive RB (and eac3to) is installed on. Any other ideas?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Maybe your antivirus is blocking eac3to ?

[mlim]

I also have the same exact issue. I am running the latest Ripbot264 1.16.5 on my 64-bit Windows 7, it hanged at "Please wait ... demuxing selected stream ... 1%", there was no error log created. It was working fine previously, the only thing changed or was different is that I am using my new 3TB HDD.

After reading thru the posts here, I suspected that eac2to has issues with writing to 3TB or maybe my BIOS needs updating. So to test my theory, I attached my old 2TB HDD and modified the parameter StoreTempFilesin in Ripbot264.ini. I changed the value from StoreTempFilesin=AUTO to StoreTempFilesin=G (my 2TB HDD) and now everything is working fine.

Hope someone can help me with this mystery I've been having. I'm betting it is something obvious.. well obvious to someone.

I've been using RipBot264 for about a year now, converting Blu-Rays to AVCHD's. And for the most part, everything has been going fine but recently, things stopped working.

So, I installed a new copy of RipBot264 to a new location on a mostly empty 3TB harddrive, and uninstalled and reinstalled all the pre-requisites for RipBot to work (AviSynth, Haali, FFDShow, and Java), just to make sure it wasn't some problem with those. After doing all that, I still have the same issue.

Here's what happens. (this is happening now with every bluray I try to rip)

So copy the bluray to my HD, I use RipBot to 'add' one of the M2TS files from the Stream folder. I then select the playlist that I want to use and keep most of the other default settings on that screen.

Now, clearly, since I got this far, eac2to has analyzed the bluray and presented me with the playback options. Looking in the job file I see all of this in the job folder under the ripBot264temp folder.

Anyway, at this point I choose OK, and here's what happens.. it gets stuck Demuxing the stream at Progress 1% -forever-. No log file is seemingly generated, at least nothing with any useful debug info.

Looking at the processor, eac2to.exe drops to 00 CPU usage. And it never goes back up, I have left one job there for days. (btw, I turned OFF Low Priority on RipBot's main screen)

So, in desperation, I tried running the command from Blu-Ray_ExtractStreams.cmd that Ripbot generates from a command line.

Not surprisingly, it gets through the analyze phase with no problems, but when it gets to process phase, it hands right there at 1%. Here's the last few lines of output from eac3to.exe

s08 Extracting subtitle track number 8...
v02 Extracting video track number 2...
a03 Extracting audio track number 3...
v02 Muxing video to Matroska...
a03 Decoding with ArcSoft DTS Decoder...
a03 Reducing depth from 24 to 16 bits...
a03 Writing W64...
a03 Creating file "G:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio_English.dtsma.w6 4"...
process: 1%

And it stays there forever. There is plenty of harddrive space on G. Everything has the right permissions to run. The OS is Windows 7.

If anyone knows what eac3to is doing at this point, or has some clue as to how I can proceed to figure out why it is stuck, I'd be VERY grateful.

Thanks,
-Vilous

[code777]

I am having the same issue with the lastest Ripbot264 1.16.5. This is my first try at ripping a blu ray and I have tried two different unlocking softwares (DVDfab and AnyDVD). When I run Ripbot (on my C: drive 160G) it will let me pick the correct .m2ts file (which is on my F drive (1.5TB) but as soon as the "Please wait demuxing selected stream 1%" pops up nothing else happens. I have left it for two hours and over night with no change. Any suggestions?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Have you read post number #6 ?

[gabbett1]

Actually I have read post 6 and it hasn't helped me at all. I am having the same problem. It keeps getting stuck at "Demuxing selected streams... 1%"

I am getting very frustrated. I need help!