GotG - Decides to transcode when I don't think it should

[BSE]

I've been trying to create a partial copy of Guardian's of the Galaxy, stripping out everything but the main feature.

It gets about 1 minute in, then shows a pop-up about transcoding. That becomes unwatchable, with stutter, skipped frames and audio/video out of sync.

Seems like for this type of copy, transcoding shouldn't be needed, and my guess is that that is the root of the problem I am having.

I know there isn't much you can do without a log. If someone would kindly point me at the instructions for creating one, I will provide it. I thought there would be a sticky for that somewhere.

Thanks

 

[MCalca1706]

Holding down the ALT Key after a burn is completed is supposed to bring up extra butt

I've been trying to create a partial copy of Guardian's of the Galaxy, stripping out everything but the main feature.

It gets about 1 minute in, then shows a pop-up about transcoding. That becomes unwatchable, with stutter, skipped frames and audio/video out of sync.

Seems like for this type of copy, transcoding shouldn't be needed, and my guess is that that is the root of the problem I am having.

I know there isn't much you can do without a log. If someone would kindly point me at the instructions for creating one, I will provide it. I thought there would be a sticky for that somewhere.

Thanks

Holding down the ALT Key after a burn is completed is supposed to bring up extra buttons with the option to send a log file. If a burn fails it is supposed to come up automatically. So far it has not worked for me. Good Luck.

 

[Adbear]

If you are running in trial mode then it will always re-encode the file as it put a watermark onto the video. I'm not sure if that is what's causing the problem, but I have successfully encoded GotG multiple times in testing, to shrunk full disc, shrunk movie only, mp4 and mkv.

I assume that when you say it's skipping etc that it's doing that when you play back the final output file and not whilst watching the transcode preview

 

[BSE]

This is with the paid version, not the trial. It is with version 1.0.2.7.

And you are correct, the skipping is during playback of the resultant folder, using J River Media Center 20.

Am I correct in thinking that transcode/re-encode should not be necessary?

I will re-run the conversion and post the log when it completes....

 

[BSE]

Here's the log. It says it doesn't re-encode, but the first bit of the movie (when playing back in jrmc) works fine, then it starts getting stutters and audio/video out of sync after that. Which seems to be about when the UI had displayed the transcoding message during clonebd copy.

 

[Adbear]

What format are you outputting too? If it's Mp4 or MKV then it always re-encodes, if it's a Blu-ray output then check the summary, if the input size and the output size are the same then it shouldn't re-encode

 

[BSE]

I'm outputting to bluray. The summary shows input size == output size for all files.

I'm just trying to the output folder to the main movie only, not re-encode. I'm not sure why it decides to transcode after a minute or so, which is why I'm asking here!

 

[BSE]

Does CloneBD show the "transcoding..." pop-up every time? Even if no re-encoding is necessary? When I started playback, it played smooth, but since I saw that message, and I don't mind skipping the intro scene to GotG, I skipped ahead in the player and saw the stuttering. However, if I don't skip in JRMC, the same "jumpy" scene plays smoothly.

So now I'm wondering if the "transcoding" is a red-herring and this is a player issue.

I tried another disc, and the same message popped up after the copy started.