New eac3to GUI: HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Stream Extractor

[tedybear]

i did try google.....just arcsoft decoder.....

[kikker]

Just a question regarding the extraction of the chapter index for muxing into an MKV. It seems MKVmerge accepts only OGM or XML formatted chapter indexes. Would it be possible to have the chapter in one of these formats, or is this entirely reliant on eac3to's inability to do this?

I'm pretty sure that MKVmerge can take the text file created from your tool into the chapter editor and be saved, but it would save a step I think. Thanks...

[Greif]

Yeah, it's all eac3to. I'm just the pretty face

[Mark_A_W]

Originally Posted by tedybear

"making the ArcSoft DTS decoder work in eac3to:

Sometimes the ArcSoft DTS decoder doesn't work even after you've installed the full retail software. This can usually be fixed by manually adding the ArcSoft "Bin" folder (e.g. "C:\Program Files\Common Files\ArcSoft\Bin") to your environment path. If you don't know how to do this, google "environment path"."

can anyone please explain?

If that doesn't work, then you need to register the Arcsoft HD audio decoder.

The easiest way is to install Radlight Filter Manager, hit Register, and fish through the Arcsoft folder in Program Files and find the decoder (.ax file).

The demo version works with eac3to and therefore stream extractor.

[rat_killer]

I run the stand alone version of your GUI and it works pretty darn well for extraction from mkv files. Is there any way to update the version of your GUI called by MeGUI so that it also can work with mkv files?

[Greif]

The MeGUI version should accept MKVs as well. When browsing for the file, the MKV file-type is not a selectable type but you can type *.mkv in the file name box and the MKV files should appear. I just tested it and it seems to work.

[rat_killer]

Cool! thanks for the tip!

[deado]

I seem to be having a problem with HDBrStreamExtractor (both SVN and old version), when trying to extract the main video to mkv, it extracts all the way to 100% but then has the error noise and there is no completed extracted file. It only works if I choose to extract it as h264 or VC-1 instead of mkv.

I've only had this problem recently, anyone else getting this? Maybe it's because of a recent AnyDVD update? That's the only thing I can think of.

[Greif]

Anything in the log file?

[deado]

Didn't see anything in the log for eac3to 3.15, rolled back to 3.14 and I then saw a Haali error. Did eac3to test, seems Haali splitter wasn't installed, something must have uninstalled it because it was installed, anyway all working now

[swaaye]

Originally Posted by Greif

I would say no... it is not optimized for multiple cores. Currently, the BackgroundWorker class is being used to farm out to eac3to. I'm sure it could be optimized a bit better by using the Thread class and doing some plumbing work yourself, but I'm not really in the mood to do it.

I can see if I can clean things up a bit more.

I love this app. But I have to ask if you've made any progress on this "issue" with the worker thread pegging one core at 100% doing nothing really while the other CPU core does that actual work. I have only tried the prog on a dual and a quad, but I've been wondering if this issue makes it impossible to use the app on a single core CPU?

On a dual core what happens is one core is useless to processing. The other core gets loaded down with all of the working programs. You end up with say neroAAC and eac3to on the only free core maxing it out when these two apps could be on separate cores. I am assuming that eac3to and the apps it calls would run on different core affinities though which may be wrong.. (?)

Let me again stress that this utility is incredibly useful and I am infinitely appreciative of your effort to make it!!!

[Greif]

I will move it up on the todo list

[deado]

I don't know if it's a bug/limitation of eac3to, or just this GUI, but I'm having a problem with Mongol UK release.

Stream Extractor only shows the VC-1 1080p24 video and two stereo AC3 tracks for Mongol UK - the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track that is present on the disc is not shown! I've tried 0.5 and SVN - both are the same.

Anyone know why this is? Are there other titles with similar problems of not listing the streams properly?

[Kurtnoise]

did you try to run eac3to manually ?

[Mark Pitchford]

I've ripped the UK versiion of Mongol without any trouble... I think I was using the 0.5 build at the time!

[slipknot!]

Does it support DVD's? I tried to extract audio tracks from Crank2 R5, but an AC3 track is missing. It extracted only 2 of them, while there are 3 on the disc.

[deado]

Tried listing it using eac3to manually, and it says the same thing - VC1 1080p24, two AC3 2.0 tracks and that's it. I've tried eac3to 3.15 and 3.16.

Also I'm having another issue - Seven Pounds has player-forced subtitles at the 40-minute mark (when Will Smith is talking to Connie), yet eac3to and HDBrStreamExtractor are unable to find that subtitle track! There are only four subtitle tracks found - English, another English (SDH), French and Spanish (as per back cover). There should be another English track for the forced subtitles during the movie... eac3to has listed it for every other disc I've tried which has forced subs..

This basically makes eac3to useless for Seven Pounds!

[kurt]

demux the english sup file and load it into suprip. tick "only forced subtitles" an see if it helps.... or don't you want a srt file?

[deado]

Originally Posted by kurt

demux the english sup file and load it into suprip. tick "only forced subtitles" an see if it helps.... or don't you want a srt file?

Ahh thanks, now I've figured it out - the forced subs are part of the main subtitle (18mb), and in the log it says:

Subtitle track 6 contains 1017 normal and 32 forced captions.

This is the first title I've seen that is done like this - all other movies I've encountered have the forced subs as a seperate .sup file, I'll have to watch out for forced subs from the main subtitle file from now on!

And yeh ticking the "only forced subtitles" works for just getting those needed forced subs

[Kurtnoise]

I've a strange behaviour with this HD-DVD...

Here is the output from eac3to command line:

E:\audio\eac3to-3.16>eac3to.exe "G:\"
1) PEVOB_1.EVO+PEVOB_2.EVO, 2:12:24
"Feature Presentation"
- VC-1, 1080p (16:9)
- VC-1, 480p (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 5.1, 48khz
- TrueHD, English, 5.1, 48khz
- E-AC3, French, 5.1, 48khz

2) FR_DUB_CREDIT.EVO, 0:00:10
"dubbing_credit"
- MPEG2, 1080i (16:9)

3) VFVNDNF4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:17:16
"Designing the Near Future"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

4) VFVNMO4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:15:57
"Freedom! Forever!"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

5) VFVNEP4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:14:40
"England Prevails"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

6) VFVNGF4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:10:18
"Remember, Remember"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

7) VFVNEGG4FE1_HD.EVO, 0:02:34
"Natalie Portman SNL Rap"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

8) VFVNTTRL24LT1_HD.EVO, 0:02:24
"Theatrical Trailer"
- MPEG2, 480i (16:9)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

9) VFVNCPM4LE1_HD.EVO, 0:02:02
"Cat Power Montage"
- MPEG2, 480i (4:3)
- E-AC3, English, 2.0, 48khz

but using the GUI, when I select either #8 or #9 title, I get only the video stream...What's wrong ?