Alternate use for DVD Catalyst?

[dvdcatalyst]

Well, getting there. The file did finish this time. (9+ gigs in size. The original was about 34 gigs.) Though, I'm finding when I play it back to check it, I'm getting all kinds of odd graphic oddities (screen jumping to next segment, pixelization and distortion) and the audio is out of sync. I'm wondering if I'm making my MKV wrong? I've been using MAKEMVK. When I did the conversion, should I have checked H264? It was unchecked.

Getting closer!

Don't enable the conversion in the mkv2mp4 app. from what it sounds like it didn't transfer the entire file, or something in your file is causing complications. When the process is running look in the my documents folder for a file called video.h264 and see how large it gets.

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[Nadious]

I didn't get a chance to mess with it this weekend, but I'm trying now. So far, the file you asked me to check is growing in size every couple of seconds. 4.73 gigs so far and it is continuing to grow as it extracts the video. I'll try to keep an eye on it to see if I can tell how big it actually gets.

[Nadious]

Ok, in this second test... the finished file ended up being the same size as the H264 file: just a bit over 21 gigs. Not sure what happened in the first one, but the sizes are a match. However, I'm still getting the odd graphical glitches in the film and the audio remains out of sync.

[dvdcatalyst]

Ok, in this second test... the finished file ended up being the same size as the H264 file: just a bit over 21 gigs. Not sure what happened in the first one, but the sizes are a match. However, I'm still getting the odd graphical glitches in the film and the audio remains out of sync.

The glitches, I have no idea what could cause them. There is no actual conversion done to the video portion at all. It is just extracted. The audio-sync could be caused by the glitches. If the video skips a few frames during those glitches, the audio will be off.

The couple of files I tried worked fine. One was an anime episode, and I did a few movies since. I just started a tv episode to see if I can replicate it. Can you try a different file, just to see?

[Nadious]

Yeah, I'll try to rip another Blu-Ray and see it does the same thing.

[dvdcatalyst]

Yeah, I'll try to rip another Blu-Ray and see it does the same thing.

The original file you have (the one giving you issues) if you run it through mediainfo, does it actually show h264/avc video or VC-1?
Unfortunately, bluray comes in 2 different video formats. It might be that the file you have is VC-1

[Nadious]

Ok, here are the two rips that I did using MAKEMKV. The first one (Tron) came up like this when I pulled it up with Media Info:

General
Unique ID                        : 177731566867001899913571904551113862216 (0x85B5DACB99D007839277B3785F162C48)
Complete name                    : E:\Blu Ray Rips\title00.mkv
Format                           : Matroska
File size                        : 22.3 GiB
Duration                         : 2h 5mn
Overall bit rate                 : 25.5 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-04-12 13:12:07
Writing application              : MakeMKV v1.6.7 win(x64-release)
Writing library                  : libmakemkv v1.6.7 (0.7.7/0.8.1) win(x64-release)

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP             : M=1, N=24
Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                         : 2h 5mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 23.4 Mbps
Maximum bit rate                 : 35.8 Mbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.471
Stream size                      : 20.5 GiB (92%)
Language                         : English
Color primaries                  : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics         : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients              : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : DTS
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID                         : A_DTS
Duration                         : 2h 5mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 24 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 1.32 GiB (6%)
Title                            : 3/2+1
Language                         : English

Menu
00:00:00.000                     : en:Chapter 00
00:04:07.163                     : en:Chapter 01
00:14:44.174                     : en:Chapter 02
00:23:15.602                     : en:Chapter 03
00:26:52.694                     : en:Chapter 04
00:36:12.211                     : en:Chapter 05
00:38:35.980                     : en:Chapter 06
00:46:52.726                     : en:Chapter 07
00:53:03.763                     : en:Chapter 08
01:04:54.181                     : en:Chapter 09
01:13:47.423                     : en:Chapter 10
01:19:00.944                     : en:Chapter 11
01:22:40.455                     : en:Chapter 12
01:25:50.895                     : en:Chapter 13
01:28:11.828                     : en:Chapter 14
01:31:42.413                     : en:Chapter 15
01:43:13.061                     : en:Chapter 16
01:48:18.033                     : en:Chapter 17
01:54:48.381                     : en:Chapter 18
01:58:03.659                     : en:Chapter 19

The second file, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, came up listed as this:

General
Unique ID                        : 210220171939908153772910215063381863260 (0x9E26EEB21DA006D9C9646A3CAD45EB5C)
Complete name                    : E:\Blu Ray Rips\VotDT\title00.mkv
Format                           : Matroska
File size                        : 20.6 GiB
Duration                         : 1h 52mn
Overall bit rate                 : 26.1 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-04-13 23:48:08
Writing application              : MakeMKV v1.6.7 win(x64-release)
Writing library                  : libmakemkv v1.6.7 (0.7.7/0.8.1) win(x64-release)

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 2 frames
Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                         : 1h 52mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 24.1 Mbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.485
Stream size                      : 19.0 GiB (92%)
Language                         : English

Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : DTS
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID                         : A_DTS
Duration                         : 1h 52mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 24 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 1.19 GiB (6%)
Title                            : 3/2+1
Language                         : English

Text
ID                               : 3
Format                           : PGS
Codec ID                         : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info                    : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language                         : Portuguese

Menu
00:00:00.000                     : en:Chapter 00
00:04:28.476                     : en:Chapter 01
00:07:37.039                     : en:Chapter 02
00:11:58.259                     : en:Chapter 03
00:15:22.463                     : en:Chapter 04
00:20:06.288                     : en:Chapter 05
00:27:14.507                     : en:Chapter 06
00:32:20.688                     : en:Chapter 07
00:36:46.370                     : en:Chapter 08
00:39:51.597                     : en:Chapter 09
00:41:56.388                     : en:Chapter 10
00:45:21.927                     : en:Chapter 11
00:47:51.493                     : en:Chapter 12
00:52:52.544                     : en:Chapter 13
00:58:04.939                     : en:Chapter 14
01:01:51.332                     : en:Chapter 15
01:05:43.731                     : en:Chapter 16
01:08:20.805                     : en:Chapter 17
01:10:49.912                     : en:Chapter 18
01:16:55.027                     : en:Chapter 19
01:20:23.568                     : en:Chapter 20
01:23:48.314                     : en:Chapter 21
01:28:23.506                     : en:Chapter 22
01:32:30.461                     : en:Chapter 23
01:35:58.753                     : en:Chapter 24
01:38:07.464                     : en:Chapter 25
01:40:55.549                     : en:Chapter 26
01:45:06.967                     : en:Chapter 27

I did both of these files by only selecting the main video track and 3/2/+1 (English) audio track. VotDT, however, came out even WORSE than Tron did. It distorts very badly right form the start and at times, there is nothing but audio playing with a gray screen in several parts of the film. If I open these MKV files in VLC, they appear to play fine. If I convert them with Handbrake, they also come out ok.... just something using this application in the process of making it into an MP4 causes it to go all crazy.

[dvdcatalyst]

Ok, here are the two rips that I did using MAKEMKV. The first one (Tron) came up like this when I pulled it up with Media Info:

I did both of these files by only selecting the main video track and 3/2/+1 (English) audio track. VotDT, however, came out even WORSE than Tron did. It distorts very badly right form the start and at times, there is nothing but audio playing with a gray screen in several parts of the film. If I open these MKV files in VLC, they appear to play fine. If I convert them with Handbrake, they also come out ok.... just something using this application in the process of making it into an MP4 causes it to go all crazy.

Just for the other readers of this thread, this topic is NOT about DVD Catalyst, it is about MKV2MP4, which doesn't actually convert video, it just regenerates an MKV file into an MP4 file. The results discussed here are not related to DVD Catalyst.


The info is similar to the files I tried myself with MKV2MP4, and they came out fine. I don't know what could be causing complications. As mentioned before, the video doesn't actually get modified at all with MKV2MP4, it just copies the video stream into a new filetype. It could be that the settings used for creating the AVC video stream in your MKV just isn't compatible with the MP4 format, which would also affect your audio sync.

I guess your best bet would be to actually convert the files then, rather than using MKV2MP4 to leave the video stream completely unmodified.