mp4 movie

edistoriverrat

Need help, transfering full dvd to mp4, I am only getting a partial movie. About 10 to 30 minutes or so of the first part of the movie is missing. Is there something I am doing wrong.
Any help,
thanks.

signals

You have posted in the wrong forum, you should use the Ripper forum since this is the module you are using. I will move your thread there after you supply the DVDFab internal log session from the failed conversion. Instructions for this are linked in my sig, below.

edistoriverrat

mp4 log

Hope the log is here.

signals

The log is incomplete. A log session begins with the DVDFab version number and a date stamp and can end any number of ways depending on what happens. Please try it again. I will move this to the Ripper forum in the meantime.

edistoriverrat

log files

Ok, I will send both internal log files
the dvdfab_internal.log and the fabcheck_internal.log they are as is.

Thanks,

edistoriverrat

mp4

Started checking all my converted mp4's, and found that aboout 1 in every 4 conversions, I am loosing from 6 to 30 minutes of the movie in all of them. I hope you can find the reason for this, because this is not good at all.
Thanks

signals

That is unusual but can be caused by several things, including problems reading the disc, overheating etc. If it seem to always happen near the end of the title, I might suspect heat. I have not looked at your logs yet, but do you get any error messages?

edistoriverrat

mp4

It is the first 6 to 30 min of the movie that is missing. The full DVD movie is all there and is good. Just when it is converted to the MP4's is the part missing.

cholla

I don't know if this will help as I didn't check the .mp4s I used DVD Ripper on for any of the movie missing.
I will check to see if I still have them .If I do they are on my other computer & I don't have it booted right now.
The problem I found with the .mp4s were they wouldn't play on my TV from a flash drive or my external harddrive.
My TV messaged incorrect audio codec & incorrect video codec .
That meant my TV didn't have the codecs to play the DVDFab DVD Ripper created .mp4s
It regularly plays other .mp4s so the problem was with the DVD Ripper created .mp4s.
The .mp4s played fine on my computer.

Then I used .mkv for the conversion & they worked fine with my TV.
So the point of all this is give .MKV a try . Unless you don't like the .mkv format or have found it incompatable with your devices.

signals

Hi Cholla, if you find those mp4s, run one of them that would not play on the TV through MediaInfo and attach or send me the results. Does the TV play AAC audio from other sources? Did you use a different audio codec setting?

cholla

Hi signals,
I had deleted those .mp4s but I wanted to see if one I created with DVD Ripper had any missing time as some of the ones edistoriverrat posted about.
The .mp4 I created didn't have any lost time.
So the MediaInfo is from a fresh conversion with 10.0.4.3
I didn't have any .mp4s that were 6 channel AAC except this one that won't play on my TV.
I tested with a .mp4 2 channel AAC & it played correctly on my TV,
I'm sure I could create a 6 channel AAC with other software I have.
I will see if I can do that & post back how it goes.
Heres the MediaInfo requested:

signals

Thanks cholla, do any of the AAC 5.1 from other encoders play on the TV OK? Could I impose on you to supply the MediaInfo from one of those as well?

cholla

signals , I have Handbrake working on doing an AAC 6-Channel right now.
The .mkv I have is AC3 .
I will see if I can create an .mkv AAC 6 channel also .
It will take a while but I would like to know for sure myself.

IIRC the DVD Ripper .MKV (that I had already deleted ) worked.

So give me some time & I will have 3 MediaInfo's for you.

signals

Sounds great, thanks.

cholla

I converted the same DVD with 3 different softwares.
With DVDFab DVD Ripper I converted the .mp4 in post 11.
It wouldn't play on my TV (Sharp Aquos).

These three all played.
DVDFab10Ripper_works.txt is for a 6 channel .mkv with AAC audio.
The MediaInfo audio clearly shows this one as 6 channels.

ConvertXtoVideo-works.txt is for a 6 channel .mp4 with AAC audio .
The MediaInfo audio shows both 2 & 6 channels.
A version of DVDFab Media Player 2 shows it as 6 channel in its' "File Information" when played.

Handbrake_MP4_works.txt is for a 6 channel .mp4 with AAC audio .
The MediaInfo audio shows both 2 & 6 channels.
A version of DVDFab Media Player 2 shows it as 6 channel in its' "File Information" when played.

signals

Thanks for all the effort, it will help narrow this down. Don't be a stranger!

cholla

You Welcome signals & I hope it helps to find the problem.
For me the .mkv works fine & is equal to or even better than the .mp4.
Of course some TVs & other devices might only play an .mp4 & not an .mkv file.
I did do one more .mp4 conversion with DVDFan10's DVDRipper.
This time I used the MP4 setting in the pulldown instead of the H264.
This .mp4 still didn't play on my TV but has different stats in MediaInfo that the one with H264.
This is it:

edistoriverrat

Ok, I tried the mkv format. Does the same thing as the mp4, lost the first 6 min of Bitter Harvest, exact same spot as the mp4 format. So none of that worked.

cholla

@ edistoriverrat ,
First let me say I'm not even close to an expert at DVDFab logs.
So far I haven't been able to get a video with any time missing.
I just use the basic .MP4 or .MKV setting in Ripper.

I did take a look at the ones you posted.
I believe this one means you have Lightening Shrink checked in your common settings.
Maybe Lightening Recording also. I don't know if they could cause the missing video .
GPU check: Lighting shrink status-1, 1

Also error curl post: Couldn't connect to server.
That means for some reason DVDFab was attempting to connect to its' server during the Ripper conversion but couldn't. My guess is this means you have "Enable Cloud Decryption Service" checked. Again I don't know if that would cause the problem.

Maybe you need to try with this disabled: CUDA GPU acceleration for video h264 encoding enabled . I don't have that on my computer so I can't test it.

pathplayer enabled . Mine is set to "Enable PathPlayer ,when necessary"

In Common Settings Drives/Read You might set Retry times to a higher number .
Then "Skip sectors after a reading error" to a lower number.

@ signals, I did another conversion of a the same DVD with just FFMPEG using the command prompt.
It played on my TV.
This is the MediaInfo on it:

edistoriverrat

Same results,
I did all suggestions you said. The lightening, the cloud, the cuda, retry and skip sectors, and nothing has worked, still missing parts of movie. Even installed the new official ver. that just came out.
Anything else, I hope?
I will try to send the two new logs with this.
Thanks