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Old 13th July 2017, 04:17   #26241  |  Link
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Making a Full backup of a disc with 1 Feature and 2 Extras (all VC-1).
I selected "Quicker Encode for Extras". Nevertheless Extra 1 was encoded 2-pass i.e. same as the Feature. Extra 2 was encoded 1-pass CRF (as expected).
Is this possibly a bug?
Perhaps to add that Extra 1 was quite large (14.4GB), Extra 2 was 1.5 GB, the feature was 26.4GB.
In the .ini I set the option "QUICK_USE_QUALITY=1", but I would have assumed that this affects only the encoder quality settings but not the mode which should still be 1-pass CRF for all Extras.

Secondly: Since v0.50.24 the .log is no longer written (or updated) to the HD. Is there as setting for this which I missed?

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Making a Full backup of a disc with 1 Feature and 2 Extras (all VC-1).
I selected "Quicker Encode for Extras". Nevertheless Extra 1 was encoded 2-pass i.e. same as the Feature. Extra 2 was encoded 1-pass CRF (as expected).
Is this possibly a bug?
Perhaps to add that Extra 1 was quite large (14.4GB), Extra 2 was 1.5 GB, the feature was 26.4GB.
In the .ini I set the option "QUICK_USE_QUALITY=1", but I would have assumed that this affects only the encoder quality settings but not the mode which should still be 1-pass CRF for all Extras.

Secondly: Since v0.50.24 the .log is no longer written (or updated) to the HD. Is there as setting for this which I missed?
Yeah, I've had that happen a number of times when any of the Xtras are somewhat large. don't have a solution though, sorry...
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Old 15th July 2017, 21:03   #26245  |  Link
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Are there any plans for conversion to DTS be added in the future, or are there reasons that dcaenc isn't implemented into BDRB? Usually I externally convert DD+ to DTS with LameXP before importing to BDRB, which on Full Disc reencodes then requires a MultiAVCHD reauthor beforehand. Would be nice to skip the extra steps if possible.
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Are there any plans for conversion to DTS be added in the future, or are there reasons that dcaenc isn't implemented into BDRB? Usually I externally convert DD+ to DTS with LameXP before importing to BDRB, which on Full Disc reencodes then requires a MultiAVCHD reauthor beforehand. Would be nice to skip the extra steps if possible.
LameXP outputs DTS? What encoder does it use?
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LameXP outputs DTS? What encoder does it use?
It uses dcaenc.

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Making a Full backup of a disc with 1 Feature and 2 Extras (all VC-1).
I selected "Quicker Encode for Extras". Nevertheless Extra 1 was encoded 2-pass i.e. same as the Feature. Extra 2 was encoded 1-pass CRF (as expected).
Is this possibly a bug?
Perhaps to add that Extra 1 was quite large (14.4GB), Extra 2 was 1.5 GB, the feature was 26.4GB.
In the .ini I set the option "QUICK_USE_QUALITY=1", but I would have assumed that this affects only the encoder quality settings but not the mode which should still be 1-pass CRF for all Extras.

Secondly: Since v0.50.24 the .log is no longer written (or updated) to the HD. Is there as setting for this which I missed?
There's really no definitive way for BD-RB to definitively identify which is the feature when there are multiple large playlists. It just makes an educated guess.

Not writing to the log file? I'll have to check that. There've been no changes to that code in ages.
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I don't think I ever explained my other question very well.

BDRB stops Multiprocessing from being used on smaller files during a Full Disc Reencode.

When using Multiprocessing, I find that I get better results if I lower the number of threads used. For Multiprocess=12, I set Threads=1.

This works great for the main feature.

The problem I run into is when BDRB processes the smaller files on the disc that default back to only 1 process, the program still uses Threads=1. I was hoping you might include a fix for this in hidden options so that BDRB knows to use a different number of threads for those files.

For Multiprocess=0, the program would use the number of threads defined in Threads=y
For Multiprocess=x>0, the program would use the number of threads defined in Threads_MP=y
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There's really no definitive way for BD-RB to definitively identify which is the feature when there are multiple large playlists. It just makes an educated guess.

Not writing to the log file? I'll have to check that. There've been no changes to that code in ages.
This kind of ties in with what I had written about a few pages ago. Do you suppose it would be a big task for you to include a 'simple' tab in the menu where one COULD indeed indicate (maybe from a drop down list) which playlist is the 'main movie' file and which are the Xtras? That would be awesome, because in the uncommon case that I was mentioning before, I was extracting from a series disc (UFO) the last bonus disc, where in this case, one of the Xtras was larger than the one episode on the disc.

Do you think it would be workable to have a place in the menu 'simply' to select which is which so BDRB will 'know'...?
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...or perhaps by a right-click on the VID_0000... stream in the Stream tab (similar to Preview / Blank this Item ....), for example "Set as Extra".
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...or perhaps by a right-click on the VID_0000... stream in the Stream tab (similar to Preview / Blank this Item ....), for example "Set as Extra".
Hey, not bad Sharc! You know... it doesn't happen very often, but now and then you really come up with a great idea!
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Usually I externally convert DD+ to DTS
What do you hope to gain by doing that?
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Instead of dcaenc, why not the better replacement: ffdcaenc
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There's really no definitive way for BD-RB to definitively identify which is the feature when there are multiple large playlists. It just makes an educated guess.
I see. And when in doubt which one is the true Feature BD-RB decides to encode both like a Feature (which makes sense in probably most cases).
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I see. And when in doubt which one is the true Feature BD-RB decides to encode both like a Feature (which makes sense in probably most cases).
Yes. It uses several checks to make the determination. One is that it assumes anything larger than 5 billion bytes is a feature. I used that number after comparing several "series" BDs. But, of course, it can't always be right.
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...or perhaps by a right-click on the VID_0000... stream in the Stream tab (similar to Preview / Blank this Item ....), for example "Set as Extra".
Yeah, that would be a good way to do it.
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Secondly: Since v0.50.24 the .log is no longer written (or updated) to the HD. Is there as setting for this which I missed?
I tested it on my system and it is working correctly. Not sure why it would be different on yours. Do you have BD-RB installed in "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" perhaps? If you do it's possible that Windows is virtualizing and writing the output to another location. It started doing that with Windows Vista, I believe.

[Edit] But... that could only happen if your Working Folder were there too... which is not very likely. So I really have no idea why it isn't working on yours.
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I tested it on my system and it is working correctly. Not sure why it would be different on yours. Do you have BD-RB installed in "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" perhaps? If you do it's possible that Windows is virtualizing and writing the output to another location. It started doing that with Windows Vista, I believe.

[Edit] But... that could only happen if your Working Folder were there too... which is not very likely. So I really have no idea why it isn't working on yours.
Thanks for checking. Nothing of above applies for my installation, weird. I tried to trace the case back and I suspect now that it came with a Win10 update or with another program installation. I'll wait for the next OS update to see whether it will revert to normal behaviour.
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What do you hope to gain by doing that?
Slightly better audio quality than 640kbps ac3 that maintains backwards compatibility with SPDIF.
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