Ladies vs Butlers US Edition.

[FrostBitten]

I'm having a problem getting a US version of an Anime "Ladies vs Butlers" to rip correctly.

It pulls the entire thing off the disc fine, but the created mkv file is squished horizontally into some gross parody of a 3:4 aspect ratio. The file specs say the ripped file is 1920x1080, yet the actual image is half the width (seemingly compressed, not missing anything) and full height. The box says 1.78:1 aspect ratio. This happens with both discs of the set. This is the first BD disc set I've seen where there's only one title, despite there being multiple episodes per disc. Don't honestly know if that matters really.
Discs Play normally on separate BluRay Players. Discs are using aacs v57. No errors are generated and many titles are skipped as being under 120 seconds long.

EDIT: After attaching the mediainfo I noticed the aspect ratio in the file is set to 1.0. Using MKVToolNix to force the video track's aspect ratio to 16/9 fixes the video problem. So MakeMKV is incorrectly setting the aspect ratio flag in the output file.

Sample Image:


Here's the MediaInfo from the generated file:
General
Unique ID : 297863146504403242799391668091695467259 (0xE0165AF622947F981CB62DAD7AB90AFB)
Complete name : E:\v2\Lasies Vs Butlers D1.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 39.1 GiB
Duration : 2 h 23 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 39.0 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2017-01-05 17:52:14
Writing application : MakeMKV v1.10.4 win(x64-release)
Writing library : libmakemkv v1.10.4 (1.3.3/1.4.4) win(x64-release)
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Video
ID : 1
ID in the original source m : 4113 (0x1011)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@High
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12
Codec ID : V_MPEG2
Codec ID/Info : MPEG 1 or 2 Video
Duration : 2 h 23 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 35.9 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 40.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.000
Original display aspect rat : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.723
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00:00
Time code source : Group of pictures header
GOP, Open/Closed : Closed
Stream size : 36.0 GiB (92%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Audio #1
ID : 2
ID in the original source m : 4353 (0x1101)
Format : PCM
Codec ID : A_PCM/INT/LIT
Duration : 2 h 23 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS (1600 spf)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.54 GiB (4%)
Title : Stereo
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #2
ID : 3
ID in the original source m : 4352 (0x1100)
Format : PCM
Codec ID : A_PCM/INT/LIT
Duration : 2 h 23 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS (1600 spf)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.54 GiB (4%)
Title : Stereo
Language : Japanese
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #1
ID : 4
ID in the original source m : 4608 (0x1200)
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 2 h 22 min
Bit rate : 28.8 kb/s
Count of elements : 3487
Stream size : 6.25 MiB (0%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #2
ID : 6
ID in the original source m : 4609 (0x1201)
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 2 h 15 min
Bit rate : 323 b/s
Count of elements : 33
Stream size : 78.2 KiB (0%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Menu
00:00:00.083 : en:Chapter 01
00:01:56.199 : en:Chapter 02
00:11:08.250 : en:Chapter 03
00:23:31.493 : en:Chapter 04
00:23:47.008 : en:Chapter 05
00:26:16.157 : en:Chapter 06
00:37:41.342 : en:Chapter 07
00:47:19.419 : en:Chapter 08
00:47:34.935 : en:Chapter 09
00:50:25.105 : en:Chapter 10
00:59:04.624 : en:Chapter 11
01:11:06.345 : en:Chapter 12
01:11:22.861 : en:Chapter 13
01:12:53.952 : en:Chapter 14
01:26:37.275 : en:Chapter 15
01:34:55.272 : en:Chapter 16
01:35:10.788 : en:Chapter 17
01:37:47.945 : en:Chapter 18
01:47:45.542 : en:Chapter 19
01:58:43.199 : en:Chapter 20
01:58:58.214 : en:Chapter 21
02:01:11.847 : en:Chapter 22
02:09:02.818 : en:Chapter 23
02:22:30.625 : en:Chapter 24

Any other info I can provide, please let me know along with link as to HOW to provide whatever logs/dumps you may need.

[Woodstock]

Unless something has changed since this title was released, the aspect ratio is correct in the MKV file. I have the first release, and it played fine in VLC. And post-processing it in handbrake also found the correct display orientation.

I wonder if VLC is screwing up again?

[FrostBitten]

Unless something has changed since this title was released, the aspect ratio is correct in the MKV file. I have the first release, and it played fine in VLC. And post-processing it in handbrake also found the correct display orientation.

I wonder if VLC is screwing up again?

Both VLC and MPC-HC have the same problem. Even the thumbnails generated by the OS are incorrect in their aspect ratio. The information provided about the media is via a third program called MediaInfo, and that one points out the aspect ratio is 1.0 instead of 1.78 (16/9). Since that info is embedded in the output file from MakeMKV, it has to be MakeMKV that's making the error. That, or a dll/codec that MakeMKV is using is the same name as one already on my system. K-lite, Handbrake and MKVToolNix are the only other video related tools that deal with MKVs on my system.

[Woodstock]

OK, so I dug out the disks (fortunately, in one of the top boxes in storage), and you're right - MOST (but not all) of the tracks show the wrong aspect ratio in VLC.

However, handbrake finds the correct aspect ratio when I load the file for transcoding, so the issue is probably with the header.

As I understand the situation, there are two places where the aspect ratio are stored on the disk, and they're SUPPOSED to be the same. One is in the transport stream itself, the other in the directory. MakeMKV copies the one from the directory to the header of the MKV file. If they're different (and LvB seems to suffer from this), what you get depends upon your player; It will either ignore the header's info (like handbrake does), or ignore the transport stream's info (like VLC and MediaInfo are doing).

I'm told that there is a header editor in mkvtoolnix that can make the change without copying the file, but I run everything through handbrake anyway, and it sees the correct value, so it didn't matter to me last year. Under 6GB for the entire series while staying with 1080p is better than 60GB...