The complete HD (Blu-ray/HD-DVD) back-up thread.

I hope someone can help me with this....I want to rip my HD DVD's to a full m2ts container, and then encode them using whatever profile I choose. The problem I am having is I can't get the audio to work when I remux. I'm following the HD to Blu Ray guide (external link on the first page of this thread). I just can't get audio to work.

Here is what I've been doing:

First I use EVOdemux. Here are my screenshots:


As you can see, video stream 0 is the one I want (I've confirmed this already). I selected all of the audio streams, as the guide says that there is no way to know the language of each stream. Although the VTI tab does tell me that the MPL audio stream is true HD.


I chose vc1 for video and ddp for audio, just as the guide says.

I then demux. The guide says that there should be 2 files and that I should rename them video.vc1 and audio.ddp. This doesn't make sense to me, since I know I chose to demux all of the audio streams. Well, in the end, I have all of my audio streams like I thought I would as you can see in the picture below.



So now I try to remux the audio and video streams using TS muxer. The MLP stream is not recognized by the program. The other ones are. I chose the 2 that were 384kbps 48kHz 6-channel AC3 as you can see below.



I open the final m2ts file in MP Classic, and there is no audio stream to select. The video looks great though.

I tried to use eac3to to create extract the wavs from the HD audio stream, but I need a nero plugin I guess, that I can't find. I want to create a DTS stream, and I know that I need the wavs and a program called Surcode DTS Pro. But I can't find a way to get the wavs out.

Any idea as to what I am doing wrong? Why can't I get the true HD audio stream to work? I hope someone can help me out, as I can't find a solution anywhere. In the end, I want a full HD m2ts file (both video and audio) that I can encode using MeGUI or ripbot. I don't care about making it "PS3" ready or burning to bluray disc or AVCHD for DVD-9. My PC is connected to my 46" plasma and I pretty much play everything in MP Classic off a couple TB HDD's, or I play all of my HD content through my Popcorn Hour.

Thanks

 

I just got a new error with a different disc in BD-RB:

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[01:24:10] BD Rebuilder v0.25.04 (beta)
- Source: LUCKY_NO_SLEVIN
- Input BD size: 32.52 GB
- Approximate total content: [01:49:55.630]
- Target BD size: 7.72 GB
- MOVIE-ONLY mode enabled
[01:24:10] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [01:24:10] Extracting A/V streams [VID_00000]
- Error in attempt to extract audio/subs.
-
[01:46:26] - Failed to retrieve audio, aborted


Any Ideas?

 

More information than I could have asked for here! Thanks!

 

Can any one tell me best selling store of these kinds of cd's
thanks in advance

 

What kind of CD's?

 

I'm very new to this. I got a new computer and blu-ray burner, primarily so I could edit a movie so it sucked a little less (this I have completed and have no problems with). I also want to backup my movies, and while 25GB discs are no problem, I will need to shrink the larger ones, and since I want to keep the menus sometimes, I'm having some trouble. I've tried BD Rebuilder with Iron Man (tested just the movie first) and set the target size to a blu-ray, and the output file was only 2 GB and the video had weird motion problems going on, like ripples in water.

What could I have done wrong? I haven't had a ton of time to practice with this since I've been processing the movie I edited and fixing errors on that.

So...

1. What do I need to do to shrink a blu-ray successfully?
2. Is there a way to keep True HD or DTS HD/MA with any of this stuff?

 

1) As far as I know, BD Rebuilder is the only application that will enable you to retain your menu. I don't use it so I am not that familiar with it. You could try here...

http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f...at_version_0_29_03_september_8th_2009-733781/

2) Yes, there definitely is but I don't think this is possible with BD Rebuilder.

You could do it all manually like I do (and many others). All you need to do when re-encoding is calculate the bitrate required to meet the BD25 target. This has been discussed extensively throughout this thread.

 

Hey.

I just ripped my first blu-ray using Any DVDHD and all was fine and fairly quick(35 MINUTES).i USED power DVD to play back but there was no subtitles.How do i get the subtitles to start from the get go ?

The movie was "chocolate" just in case that matters.

Also can i delete every thing except just the main movie file and subtitles and still have it work ?

Also where are the subtitles located in a full BD rip ?

 

Hello,

I have read through most of this thread and I am a little confused.

Does the process described through this forum allow a Blu-ray movie to be ripped/encoded on to a regular DVD 5 or DVD 9??

I was under the impression that regular DVD 5 & DVD 9's could only hold a max bitrate of around 8,000 and the best resolution was 720x480.

Are my assumptions correct? If so, why are so many people encoding Blu-rays to DVD 5 & DVD 9, is there not significant quality loss compared to a retail Blu Ray or even a 25g BD disc ??

I have been encoding MKV movies(not full size Blu Rays) to fit on DVD 5/9 for a while but I was recently considering buying a blu ray burner in order to get a better video quality by having a higher bitrate and a better resolution quality, while utilizing a 25g BD disc. Is this not needed in order to have high quality 1080P discs??

Thanks for any responses!!

 

Cowboy619,

Yes, BD Rebuilder allows to to encode a blu-ray to a DVD5 or DVD9 disk. The resolution is 1920x1080 (1080p) and the results are great. A Movie-only copy to DVD 9 is nearly the same quality as the original BD.

Ripbot264 and AVCHD coder will supposedly do the same.

 

Can Anyone Help Me... Im Confused.

I did a few full disc back up with BDRB/anydvdHD without a problem.

now im stuck with 3 movie that make me spend a few coaster!

The Dark Knight (full disc mode) dont play at all
What happen in vegas (full disc mode) it boot until the menu and after i press play i stay stuck at the fbi warning.
Iron Man (full disc mode) it boot until the menu and after i press play i stay stuck at at the filmrating.

any help?

i think i should invest on BD-RE lol

 

What most of us do is encode to an extended version of AVCHD.

AVCHD was invented prior to Blu-ray to allow those with HD camcorders to archive their media in HD format on regular DVD media.

Please don't confuse the term DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) with DVD Video. DVD refers to a form of optical media, which almost any form of digital media can be placed upon it. The question is, what can read the media placed upon it... With AVCHD, any Blu-ray player is capable of this. DVD Video is the digital video standard that most of us know as the successor to video cassettes.

The good news is that most Blu-ray players will play beyond the old AVCHD spec (24 Mbit/s max bitrate and Dolby Digital sound) and allow higher bitrates along with HD audio.

If there is anything else you need, please ask.

 

Did anyone try Earth Bluray Ripper? I see it on all kinds of top 100 downloads lists. I am not a video expert so I do not want to buy something too sofisticated. Also, it costs about fifty bucks so if you know about something less expensive to create backups of BR dvds please let me know. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

This whole thread is full of information about free software to do this. Earth Blu-ray Ripper looks dodgy to me!

 

Just installed megui on a new computer and trying to encode x.264 file and getting an error:

--[Information] [10/6/2009 1:38:46 PM] Encoding started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
--[NoImage] Standard error stream: C:\Program Files\MeGUI\tools\x264\x264.exe: unknown option -- progress

any help is appreciated!

 

hi to every one

 

It was recently discovered over at the PS3AvchD forum (thanks to boba fett), that when a AVCHD project was finally finished, remuxed and all, the frame rate produced was slightly off... 23.975, instead of a proper 23.976 or 24p/1.01. The problem is; is that some standalones would not play the AVCHD disc because of the improper frame rate.

It was determined that MeGUI's script creator is the culprit, it would automatically round down 24000/1001 (23.976023976023976023976023976024) to 23.976, which in turn would tell AVISyinth to encode the improper frame rate. Apparently this issue is present with Ripbot as well.

The easy fix for this is to simply add;
AssumeFPS(24000/1001) to your AVISyinth script. I removed the "convert fps=True" from my script as well, it also worked.

 

I personally have never used the automated script generator as I have always manually created my AVIsynth scripts, so this might be why I haven't noticed this problem.

However, that is a fantastic find Odin and I think that any form of troubleshooting advice is always welcome here.

PS: For encodes already completed with this problem, I don't see why you couldn't rewrite the metadata at muxing stage to revert the video stream back to the correct frame rate.

 

MeGUI is having problems with your "-- progress" command. Personally, I don't use this command. From the top of my head, I am pretty sure x264 does not even support this command (I could be wrong). You could try removing it.

 

Even if tsMuxeR's FPS is set to change to 24000/1001 it still produces a 23.975 FPS, and eac3to still flags it as "unusual".