Problems getthing BDtoAVCHD to work

[docbillnet]

I've been having problems getting BDtoAVCHD to work. It consistently fails after the extracting the streams. In my latest run I see the following the error log:

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LAST CMD LINE => "C:\Program Files (x86)\BDtoAVCHD\tsMuxeR\2.x\tsMuxeR.exe" "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\tsmuxer.job_0.meta" "D:\Videos\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D.ISO"
EXIT CODE => -2 (0xFFFFFFFE)
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If I try manually running the command I get the following output:

Network Optix tsMuxeR. Version 2.6.12. www.networkoptix.com
Can't open file: D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D.job_0.264

Sure enough when I look in the tsmuxer.job_0.meta file I see:

MUXOPT --no-pcr-on-video-pid --new-audio-pes --blu-ray --label="HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D" --vbr --custom-chapters=00:00:00.000;00:07:33.411;00:12:00.303;00 :12:59.445;00:15:55.371;00:20:56.922;00:23:15.436; 00:25:52.676;00:29:59.256;00:38:14.042;00:46:43.84 3;00:49:46.317;00:53:19.530;00:55:10.224;00:58:07. 859;01:08:42.327;01:12:22.338;01:15:45.708;01:19:1 0.162;01:22:46.837;01:25:09.688;01:28:07.741;01:31 :15.553 --vbv-len=500 --right-eye --start-time=524280
V_MPEG4/ISO/MVC, "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D.job_0.264", forceSEI, contSPS, subTrack=1
V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC, "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D.job_0.264", forceSEI, contSPS, subTrack=2
A_DTS, "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D.job_0.dts", down-to-dts, lang=eng

I do not see this job name in the folder, and it really would make sense for both streams to be the same file. I believe the correct contents of this file should have been:

MUXOPT --no-pcr-on-video-pid --new-audio-pes --blu-ray --label="HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D" --vbr --custom-chapters=00:00:00.000;00:07:33.411;00:12:00.303;00 :12:59.445;00:15:55.371;00:20:56.922;00:23:15.436; 00:25:52.676;00:29:59.256;00:38:14.042;00:46:43.84 3;00:49:46.317;00:53:19.530;00:55:10.224;00:58:07. 859;01:08:42.327;01:12:22.338;01:15:45.708;01:19:1 0.162;01:22:46.837;01:25:09.688;01:28:07.741;01:31 :15.553 --vbv-len=500 --right-eye --start-time=524280
V_MPEG4/ISO/MVC, "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D.job_0.mvc.h264", forceSEI, contSPS, subTrack=1
V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC, "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D.job_0.avc.h264", forceSEI, contSPS, subTrack=2
A_DTS, "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART1 2D+3D.job_0.dts", down-to-dts, lang=eng

I'm actually running this command now to see if produces the desired output. However, I suspect not, as there should be a step that re-encodes the video to fit on a BD9 disk, and I do not see anything in this command that looks like it does that. There is probably another step that either happens before or after this...

[docbillnet]

It seems the problem is MVCenc.exe is infected with a virus. At first I thought it was a false positive, but it created about 50 copies of itself in my temp folder, indicating this really is a legitimate infection. So I guess it wasn't a very good idea to tell bitdefender to stop scanning that folder so that MVCenc.exe wouldn't keep disappearing...

Anyone know where we can find an uninfected copy of this program?

[docbillnet]

It seems the problem is MVCenc.exe is infected with a virus. At first I thought it was a false positive, but it created about 50 copies of itself in my temp folder, indicating this really is a legitimate infection. So I guess it wasn't a very good idea to tell bitdefender to stop scanning that folder so that MVCenc.exe wouldn't keep disappearing...

Anyone know where we can find an uninfected copy of this program?

I'm beginning to suspect the duplicate copies in temp are actually a result of bitdefender unsuccessfully trying to quarantine the process. I now have the both the process and the folder excluded and the encoder runs. It is still error out, eventually but I'm getting closer.

The command:

"D:\Program Files (x86)\BDtoAVCHD\MVCenc.exe" "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART2 2D+3D.job_0.avc.h264" "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART2 2D+3D.job_0.mvc.h264" 130338 "D:\docbill\BDtoAVCHD\Temp\HOBBIT DOS EXTENDED 3D PART2 2D+3D.job_0.264" 10292 2 25000 25000

Ended with the error "no free frame surfaces". I see in one of the other discussions this happens with SW encoding runs too slow... It looks like an HD 2000 is going to always use SW encoding, so I can't reliable use "slow" or "slower" speeds. I'll try going the other way and use "fast" and see what happens.

[docbill]

In regards to the virus scanner issue, I sent a copy to bitdefender for analysis, and the response below indicates indeed it was a false positive.


From: Bitdefender Support Center <bdsupport@bitdefender.com>
Date: 30 November 2015 at 09:52
Subject: RE: New Open ticket: 2015112923070001
To: *******



Hello Bill,


Thank you for your patience.

The sample is clean and the access was restored by automatic update of Bitdefender:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7770070ebaa2bdb6a37a99733a8e14e17610403c2de69200ba8...is/1448894778/

Please don't hesitate to contact us again if you are experiencing further issues.

Hope you have a beautiful week ahead!


Cordially,

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[docbill]

Actually had success now converting. The bigger problem seems to be finding programs that can actually parse the output. The idea is I wanted to use BDtoAVCDH to compress 3-D BD-50 movies. If I specify an output bitrate, then the output will not be MVC. I found the one thing I could do to compress is output to AVCDH BD-9. That is compressed MVC. The problem then comes I have no software that can read those disks. Makemkv comes close to extracting, it gets to 100% before failing. DVDFab opens but when trying to copy will invariably freeze somewhere while copying. VLC will simply not open it at all...

I can used BDtoAVCDH to convert the AVCDH BD-9 to BD-50. The results are though almost identical, if not identical, with the same problems. There a very complex chain of BDtoAVCDH, DVDFab, and MakeMKV commands I managed to convert one disk to an 8 GB 3-D MKV file using MVC. However, my attempt on other discs using the same procedure has failed.

I suspect the the output of BDtoAVCDH is incomplete. As the error MakeMKV reports is a read error. (You have to turn on the debugging to see the error message.) Which means it is trying to read data that simply does not exist.

[docbill]

I'm not sure what I did differently, but I managed to get BDtoAVCHD to actually use the bitrate I specified. Converting to AVCHD BD-9 with a higher bitrate resulting in a file DVDFab could read. I was after ripping that to another ISO file and mounting it, makemkv was able to extract the MVC video. So now I have both the first two discs I tried converted as MKV mkv, each compressed under 10 GB. That is sufficient so the videos do not stutter when played from my router being used as a NAS. I honestly can't tell the difference between in quality between the compressed files and the original blu-rays, but I have not watched them all the way through yet. I imagine though eventually I'll upgrade technology where the difference is obvious...

I just purchased another 16 TB of disk storage, so disk space is no longer an issue, but network bandwidth is.

[hogger129]

To be honest, BD Rebuilder is much better in my experience.