Watchmen Director's Cut

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JasonX
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Watchmen Director's Cut

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Works for about 4 minutes (1Gbps output file) then hangs (and usually recovers with a fail popup) at 2min 38s with an out put size of 1138.2M whilst reading 00500.m2ts.

Fails at the same place pretty consistently...

<snip>
DEBUG: Code 2147483647 at bCs<Y/4t@TU?,NDiE<x:29393700
DEBUG: Code 2147483647 at bCs<Y/4t@TU?,NDiE<x:29393700
DBG ASSERT: j*)90x7np_~`pF|&QJ-x#)pH at 7Jp)^=y>g[`L 8v0EKD:121264510
DBG ASSERT: j*)90x7np_~`pF|&QJ-x#)pH at 7Jp)^=y>g[`L 8v0EKD:121264510
LIBMKV_TRACE: Exception: MKV_ASSERT: TimecodeDelay >= int16(0x8000) && TimecodeDelay <= int16(0x7FFF)
Failed to save title 0 to file D://title00.mkv

Another time I got

<snip>
DEBUG: Code 3026256 at bCs<Y/4t@TU?,NDiE<x:121265177
DEBUG: Code 81902 at bCs<Y/4t@TU?,NDiE<x:213133273
DEBUG: Code 64543992 at bCs<Y/4t@TU?,NDiE<x:121265177
DEBUG: Code 81926 at bCs<Y/4t@TU?,NDiE<x:213133273
DEBUG: Code 4218805221 at bCs<Y/4t@TU?,NDiE<x:121265177
DEBUG: Code 0 at aunO=lJAWqIjw[[SDBEZO:213135458
DEBUG: Code 2187324320 at @.;W\~9\%!n[FX3Uy+m:213131249
DEBUG: Code 580 at @.;W\~9\%!n[FX3Uy+m:213131088
DEBUG: Code 0 at aunO=lJAWqIjw[[SDBEZO:213134377
LIBMKV_TRACE: Exception: Error while reading input
Failed to save title 0 to file D://title00.mkv
0 titles saved, 1 failed
captain
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Re: Watchmen Director's Cut

Post by captain »

Same here. I'm trying disc-backup.
captain
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Re: Watchmen Director's Cut

Post by captain »

Well, I was an idiot. I swapped the subdirectory and drive names, so OF COURSE it couldn't write anything to a non-existent hard drive! :-P

It would be really nice if MakeMKV would spit out more meaningful error messages, though. How hard is it to recognize "that drive doesn't exist"???

Anyway, I got both a good BACKUP, and then a clean & simple rip of BOTH "main titles". I have no idea which one is the real movie. One is 26.75gb and the other 28.01gb.
Romansh
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Re: Watchmen Director's Cut

Post by Romansh »

Isn't the larger file some sort of "Maximum Movie Mode", i.e. a visual director's commentary?
captain
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You might assume so, but it turns out that the SMALLER file is the one with "director walkons", storyboards, comparisons, etc. Weird. At least, in this case, it's obvious which is which, so I can toss the 26gb file and just watch the movie, mostly secure in the knowledge that I have the entire film in tact.
Romansh
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Re: Watchmen Director's Cut

Post by Romansh »

captain wrote:You might assume so, but it turns out that the SMALLER file is the one with "director walkons", storyboards, comparisons, etc. Weird. At least, in this case, it's obvious which is which, so I can toss the 26gb file and just watch the movie, mostly secure in the knowledge that I have the entire film in tact.
The smaller file in terms of file size or duration? I never actually used MakeMKV on this particular disc (US edition of the Director's Cut, not the Ultimate Cut), but I'm pretty sure the Maximum Movie Mode was a few minutes longer (looking at the durations in HandBrake)…
Romansh
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Re: Watchmen Director's Cut

Post by Romansh »

Romansh wrote:
captain wrote:You might assume so, but it turns out that the SMALLER file is the one with "director walkons", storyboards, comparisons, etc. Weird. At least, in this case, it's obvious which is which, so I can toss the 26gb file and just watch the movie, mostly secure in the knowledge that I have the entire film in tact.
The smaller file in terms of file size or duration? I never actually used MakeMKV on this particular disc (US edition of the Director's Cut, not the Ultimate Cut), but I'm pretty sure the Maximum Movie Mode was a few minutes longer (looking at the durations in HandBrake)…
I actually re-ripped this disc today. Indeed, while the "Maximum Movie Mode" is the longer feature, it's also smaller in terms of file size.
Vaire
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Re: Watchmen Director's Cut

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Again, my thanks to all of you who take the time to post these helpful tidbits. I was looking for this information today (as I picked up Watchmen today), and came here because I knew I would find it. You all have collectively saved me hours of wasted time. My hat is off to every single person on there forums who chooses to spend their time to help the community. You're all awesome!
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Re: Watchmen Director's Cut

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Vaire wrote:
Fri Oct 21, 2022 11:09 pm
Again, my thanks to all of you who take the time to post these helpful tidbits. I was looking for this information today (as I picked up Watchmen today), and came here because I knew I would find it. You all have collectively saved me hours of wasted time. My hat is off to every single person on there forums who chooses to spend their time to help the community. You're all awesome!
Ditto! I created an account just to say thanks. A decade later and this is still very useful! I hope to do my part someday soon.
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