Hi all.
Does anyone have any pointers on converting a 3D bluray to DCP? The
bluray which is the source in this case has the 3D encoded as MVC. From
my reading, this means the right eye picture is encoded as a separate
stream (which is a delta from the left eye).
Have ripped the bluray with MakeMKV which recognises that it's an MVC-3D
stream. And the file it outputs appears to be the right size so I think
MakeMKV is not dropping the extra stream or something like that.
But I haven't found any software that can display both eyes at present.
DCP-o-matic doesn't see it, and nor does Bino 3D player or VLC.
I'm on Mac but can get hold of a Windows box if I need to.
Anyone encountered this before?
Many thanks,
Jim
Hi all,
I have a new version of DCP-o-matic here:
https://dcpomatic.com/rc-download
There have been some bug fixes, but more importantly this version is built
against a newer version of the macOS SDK than previous versions, and has a
number of changes to comply with changes in Apple's notorization
requirements.
I was hoping to leave these fixes until 2.16.0 but Apple have quietly
changed some things and forced my hand.
I would be very grateful if anybody could take the time to test it.
It won't run on anything earlier than macOS Mavericks but I will upload a
different version for old OS versions soon.
Thank you!
Carl
Really great idea!
Thanks,
Dave Roman
The Colour Closet
#101-511 West 14th Ave
Vancouver, BC, Canada
V5Z 2V7
639 317 7724
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> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 01:14:09 +0100 (BST)
> From: Carl Hetherington <cth(a)carlh.net>
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> Hi all,
>
>> Can you tell us how this works/what it is doing in detail?
>
> There is some platform-specific code to find available drives and open
> them as devices that DCP-o-matic can write raw data to. Then there is a
> library called lwext4 (https://github.com/gkostka/lwext4) (that I have
> tweaked a little) which can make an ext2 filesystem given a place to write
> the raw data.
>
> So the DCP-o-matic Disk Writer just asks for a DCP and a drive, then
> formats the drive as ext2 with the required inode size, copies the data
> and verifies it.
>
> It seems to work on Windows and Linux and I am just working on the Mac
> version.
>
> The two main concerns I have are:
>
> 1. does it destroy users' data?
> 2. does it *always* either a) make a valid DCP drive or b) give an error.
>
> If we are confident that (1) happens rarely and (2) happens mostly then we
> will probably have a useful tool. TBH one of the main motivations here is
> to remove a source of error that can be blamed on DCP-o-matic, and to
> simplify the explanation of the DCP-making process to truly be "put your
> file in, click the button, get a drive out".
>
> All the best,
> Carl
>
>
>
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>> -----Original-Nachricht-----
>> Betreff: [DCP-o-matic] DCP-o-matic Disk Writer alpha test
>> Datum: 2020-03-30T00:35:45+0200
>> Von: "Carl Hetherington via DCPomatic" <dcpomatic(a)carlh.net>
>> An: "dcpomatic(a)carlh.net" <dcpomatic(a)carlh.net>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm hopefully not-too-far (TM) away from having a very alpha-quality
>> version of a "disk writer" tool for DCP-o-matic. This is a thing which
>> can format a drive as EXT2 and copy a DCP onto it from
>> Linux/macOS/Windows.
>>
>> Since the potential for disaster is fairly high with this tool (i.e.
>> unrecoverably destroyed hard disk partitions) I am hoping to find some
>> brave and interested parties to test it out in a sort of "closed beta"
>> arrangement, rather than making it available to everybody in the normal
>> test version.
>>
>> If you are interested in helping out with testing, drop me a line! All
>> that's really required is an understanding that the software might destroy
>> any data that happens to be on any drive connected to the computer that
>> you run it on. So if you have an old machine that you could tolerate
>> re-installing, that would be ideal! It doesn't need any great CPU power.
>>
>> If you have access to a cinema to test your copied drives, even better!
>>
>> I hope everybody is keeping as well as can be expected given the current
>> state of the world.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Carl
>>
>>
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> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:28:56 -0700
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> To: Carl Hetherington <cth(a)carlh.net>
> Cc: "audiovisual(a)t-online.de" <audiovisual(a)t-online.de>,
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> My spare Mac situation might be great for this since it is booting off an external USB. So, if the program will confuse and wipe out anything, it will be a good target. I?ll make certain to make an image of it for when you are ready for testing!
>
> Best in return,
> C J
>
>> On Mar 30, 2020, at 5:14 PM, Carl Hetherington via DCPomatic <dcpomatic(a)carlh.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>> Can you tell us how this works/what it is doing in detail?
>>
>> There is some platform-specific code to find available drives and open
>> them as devices that DCP-o-matic can write raw data to. Then there is a
>> library called lwext4 (https://github.com/gkostka/lwext4 <https://github.com/gkostka/lwext4>) (that I have
>> tweaked a little) which can make an ext2 filesystem given a place to write
>> the raw data.
>>
>> So the DCP-o-matic Disk Writer just asks for a DCP and a drive, then
>> formats the drive as ext2 with the required inode size, copies the data
>> and verifies it.
>>
>> It seems to work on Windows and Linux and I am just working on the Mac
>> version.
>>
>> The two main concerns I have are:
>>
>> 1. does it destroy users' data?
>> 2. does it *always* either a) make a valid DCP drive or b) give an error.
>>
>> If we are confident that (1) happens rarely and (2) happens mostly then we
>> will probably have a useful tool. TBH one of the main motivations here is
>> to remove a source of error that can be blamed on DCP-o-matic, and to
>> simplify the explanation of the DCP-making process to truly be "put your
>> file in, click the button, get a drive out".
>>
>> All the best,
>> Carl
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original-Nachricht-----
>>> Betreff: [DCP-o-matic] DCP-o-matic Disk Writer alpha test
>>> Datum: 2020-03-30T00:35:45+0200
>>> Von: "Carl Hetherington via DCPomatic" <dcpomatic(a)carlh.net>
>>> An: "dcpomatic(a)carlh.net" <dcpomatic(a)carlh.net>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm hopefully not-too-far (TM) away from having a very alpha-quality
>>> version of a "disk writer" tool for DCP-o-matic. This is a thing which
>>> can format a drive as EXT2 and copy a DCP onto it from
>>> Linux/macOS/Windows.
>>>
>>> Since the potential for disaster is fairly high with this tool (i.e.
>>> unrecoverably destroyed hard disk partitions) I am hoping to find some
>>> brave and interested parties to test it out in a sort of "closed beta"
>>> arrangement, rather than making it available to everybody in the normal
>>> test version.
>>>
>>> If you are interested in helping out with testing, drop me a line! All
>>> that's really required is an understanding that the software might destroy
>>> any data that happens to be on any drive connected to the computer that
>>> you run it on. So if you have an old machine that you could tolerate
>>> re-installing, that would be ideal! It doesn't need any great CPU power.
>>>
>>> If you have access to a cinema to test your copied drives, even better!
>>>
>>> I hope everybody is keeping as well as can be expected given the current
>>> state of the world.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Carl
>>>
>>>
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Hi all,
I'm hopefully not-too-far (TM) away from having a very alpha-quality
version of a "disk writer" tool for DCP-o-matic. This is a thing which
can format a drive as EXT2 and copy a DCP onto it from
Linux/macOS/Windows.
Since the potential for disaster is fairly high with this tool (i.e.
unrecoverably destroyed hard disk partitions) I am hoping to find some
brave and interested parties to test it out in a sort of "closed beta"
arrangement, rather than making it available to everybody in the normal
test version.
If you are interested in helping out with testing, drop me a line! All
that's really required is an understanding that the software might destroy
any data that happens to be on any drive connected to the computer that
you run it on. So if you have an old machine that you could tolerate
re-installing, that would be ideal! It doesn't need any great CPU power.
If you have access to a cinema to test your copied drives, even better!
I hope everybody is keeping as well as can be expected given the current
state of the world.
Kind regards,
Carl
Dear Carl,
Our customer Mrs. Deickert is working with your wonderful tool to create frequently DCPs for her cinema.
We created a remote working solution for, the Sony Server is connected to a small PC with is continuosly connected to the Internet. First we tried Apple iCloud synchronization to bring the DCP files from her Macbook Pro to the Windows PC, now we switched to GDrive.
Currently we face the issues that the GDrive sync app does not sync two files which are technically identical but have a different naming. I speak about both the j2c and the file in the movie folder. I do not know why during the export you save the video file with two diffenent names. Is there a way to disable the second video export in the movie folder? As GDrive is skipping the j2c movie file, the server does not allow to ingest the DCP in a correct way. Do you have any idea?
Thank you and best regards from Munich
René
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