BD Ripper (3D Plus) Problem extracting bonus material

[docbill]

I'm having a real problem trying to extract bonus material from blu-ray. For example I have the Star Trek The Original Series Blu-Ray set. Season disc 4 contains a copy of the DS-9 version of Touble with Tribbles as track 41. If I try and tell blu-ray ripper to rip that track, it just seems to go into an endless cycle of doing nothing. The CPU monitor shows DVDFab uses 1% or so CPU, but the there is never any progress reported, and the output file size remains at 0 bytes.

If instead say I used blu-ray copy, I can open the disc with handbrake and the track does not show up available for conversion. If I use HdbrStreamExtractor I can extract the subtitles from that track, but not the video or audio.

Many of bonus features seem to have the same problem.

I'm at a loss as what to try to actually rip all the bonus material from my blu-ray discs.

[terry5]

Hi docbill,
Update your fab to the lastest build 8153 QT beta, select "Disable all GPU codecs for decoding and encoding" in Common settings page\General\a/V codec, then try it again.

[docbill]

I tried the 8.1.5.3 QT version with GPU disabled, but I see the same problem. I noticed all the extra features with this problem are listed as VC1. If I understand correctly that means they are wmv encoded. So I can understand why HandBrake ignores them, but I don't really understand why DVDFab is having such a hard time.

Interesting enough I tried converting to MP4 and for that conversion the progess also remained at 0% until suddenly it jumped to 100% after about 5 minutes. Sadly when I examined the output file, I found it a fraction of the size it should have been. When I played the file it turned out to be audio only.


As a workaround, I found if I first rip the blu-ray with DVDFab blu-ray copy, I can then use ribbot264 to convert the relevant features to AVCHD, where I just copy audio, not re-encode. It turns out ribbot264 doesn't deal properly with mixed frame rates and such, so I can't go directly to mkv with it. I can then use DVDFab, Handbrake, or many other programs to covert to mkv.

It it a pitty DVDFab blu-ray ripper doesn't correctly handle the wmv format. But I've found most of the time, but so far the extra features I've found encoded in this format on a blu-ray are really low quality. For example the DS-9 episode I mentioned looks like it was simply fat pixel upsampled to 1080i from 480p. It only look decent with a deblocking filter, or lowering back down to 480p again.

So I probably won't bother with this workaround for most of the bonus features encoded this way. Instead I'll just wait for a version of DVDFab that fixes this problem.

Bill

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[Norm@Home]

Problem Extracting Bonus Materials Fix

I had been having a similar problem as docbill on the Star Trek bonus materials title (regular episodes converted fine no problem) where no matter what settings I used for either Avi or Mp4 the output audio and video was out of sync. (This using the latest release version 8.1.5.9)

I contacted support about the issue and there is at least a workaround which is to extract to Mkv and use mkv.remux and option "to M2TS" > m2ts.passthrough and it worked fine.

- Norm