New to MeGui

[kis2005]

I've been using AGK for some time now and have gotten great results but I have been noticing a lot of discussions about MeGui. I've looked through the guide but I don't really know what I can do with it (other then it's an MPEG encoding tool) and what the system requirements are...I'm just realy looking for a basic overview. Can anyone help?

[berrinam]

It can run on any system, but with slower systems it will encode slower. There are some issues with win64 (these will hopefully be solved soon by compiling differently) and with win98 (nothing serious, and the workaround will soon be documented in the guide). Windows is required, as is .NET 2.0.

It is different/better than AGK because it supports x264 and MP4, as well as various forms of AAC encoding. These newer codecs mean that the results will be better quality for a given bitrate. It also provides more flexibility.

[Richard Berg]

To clarify: MeGUI shouldn't be noticeably slower than AGK or any other front-end. On my home machine, which isn't terribly modern, it's only taken a few seconds of CPU time over more than a week of work doing several kinds of operations. That said, most people use MeGUI for x264 while most people use AGK for Xvid; if you switch to an AVC codec when you switch to MeGUI, of course you'll see longer encode times.

[kis2005]

Ok that good to know. I do use XviD and I don't have the most modern of CPUs so I'll have to see what I get. One major question is does MeGui support subtitles? That is the only thing that I wish I had with AGK.

[Doom9]

what do you mean by do? megui muxes vobsub subtitles into mkv and srt subtitles into mp4 but it doesn't process subtitles.

[kis2005]

Doom9, What I mean by "do" is if I can set subs to a movie that I can turn on or off, similar to a DVD? I have read somethings about Neros format ( I haven't tried it yet) that allows for such a thing...though I may have miss understood. I'm just not sure what I can do with MeGui compared to AGK.

[foxyshadis]

Muxed text-based subtitles can be switched or turned off anytime during playback, as long as you have the subtitle filter (vsfilter). That's really a container thing, not so much megui.

[kis2005]

Thanks. I'll focus on MeGui and see what I can get with it. I really like AGK but it is nice to have the subs available when you needed them.

Any suggestions on codec? I have been using XviD with AGK and it has done me very well.