AutoMKV 0.93a - (DVD/TS/AVI/AVS to X264/XviD/WVC1 into MKV/MP4/WMV) update 30/12/2007

[weaver4]

Have you any thoughts on Psychovisual Enhancement ?

I don't know whether you ever used the EKG in Dr DivX 1 but basically the idea was to decrease the bitrate in areas the eyes wouldn't notice anyway.

How do you think this impacts on Constant Quality encodes since all is equal ?

I was just wondering whether it is not in fact better to vary the Quantiser (as is happening) for a better overall Psychovisually pleasing result.

What's your take ?


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

I never liked it. The 5 to 10% it would save on a filesize was not worth it. I mean how do they know what is important to me? Maybe I do want to look at the redhead in the corner of the picture. Ever watch the movie 6th sense? When you watch it the second time you realize that all the hints of what is going on were red objects. It is unlikely that a computer could figure that out.

Where this is important is whey you are trying to bet the best picture possible over the smallest pipe. There is one RF-TV distribution system that uses DivX and it limits the bandwidth to 1000kbs. They use PE to squeeze out every bit.

[SeeMoreDigital]

...There is one RF-TV distribution system that uses DivX and it limits the bandwidth to 1000kbs. They use PE to squeeze out every bit.Really, where?

[weaver4]

I tried modifying the <MinQuantizer>23</MinQuantizer> <MaxQuantizer>23</MaxQuantizer> but this caused H264 to crash.

I even downloaded the Sharktooth profiles but they're much the same...

:) :D :eek:
Pascal

What profile are you using and when you run avinaptic on it what results is is giving you.

[delacroixp]

Where’s the volume control ?

First, I really like this program. It does a good job, and I love the fact that it works in the background. Now my question: I want to increase the volume of the movies that I’m encoding.

The checkbox for “normalize” doesn’t do enough for my purposes, and I can’t find any other volume settings. Sorry to be dense about this, I realize that since mp3gain.exe, etc. are there that it must be possible, but I don’t see “gain” or “volume” in the Advanced Audio Options. I don’t see anything in the Advanced Settings. The Advanced Profiles Editing seems to be all about the video. I don’t know where else to look or what files to open up.

I’m a newbie, and I barely understand half of this thread, but I’d really appreciate a leg up here. I’ve used other programs to raise the volume, and I’d like to do it with AutoMKV. Perhaps the answer is obvious; I will slap my head and be humbled, but right now I’m lost. Please point me in the right direction.

In the Wiki it shows VBR as one of the pull-downs for Lame. I only seem to have ABR and CBR -- even when I put it on max quality. Why?

Which container are you using for your encodes (PC and/or DVD-standalone, etc...) and why encode into MP3 when AAC MP4 is eminently superior...

BeSweet offers very nice AAC 5.1 or stereo (VBR/CBR) encoding facilities... if you are willing to get your hands dirty...


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

@delacroixp

I even downloaded the Sharktooth profiles but they're much the same...

no, not the same and not compatible. if you change only this value from 23 to 24 and x264 crash , you have done something other.

BeSweet offers very nice AAC 5.1 or stereo (VBR/CBR) encoding facilities... if you are willing to get your hands dirty...

even automkv could convert ac3 to aac... select an ac3/mpa/... as input file

BHH

[RipcordAFF]

open mkvmaudio.avs in virtualdub , any errors ?

for me is a bad installation of avisynth ... try disinstalling and reinstalling 2.5.7

BHH


Buzz, you got it, Bad Aavisynth install, Thanks for the help!!!!!!!!:thanks: :thanks: :thanks:

[fenomeno83]

I restarted my pc and now work!

[RipcordAFF]

@BuzzQw

Well I spoke a little early, I am having the same problem that I remember having on XP, however I dont remember how to fix it. I spent a long time reading back through the previous pages and couldnt find the solution. What happens is it goes through all the steps just fine, and on let's encode, it just goes straight to saving log. And what it spits out is a really small (like 40k) wmv file. I am trying to encode a 1.5 gb vob file.

The fix, if i remember correctly had to do with copying some .dll s into the exe folder, I think maybe the GDindex one, but not sure....Any ideas? Thanks, you are an amazing guy!

[delacroixp]

Have you any thoughts on Psychovisual Enhancement ?

I don't know whether you ever used the EKG in Dr DivX 1 but basically the idea was to decrease the bitrate in areas the eyes wouldn't notice anyway.

How do you think this impacts on Constant Quality encodes since all is equal ?

I was just wondering whether it is not in fact better to vary the Quantiser (as is happening) for a better overall Psychovisually pleasing result.

What's your take ?


I never liked it. The 5 to 10% it would save on a filesize was not worth it. I mean how do they know what is important to me? Maybe I do want to look at the redhead in the corner of the picture. Ever watch the movie 6th sense? When you watch it the second time you realize that all the hints of what is going on were red objects. It is unlikely that a computer could figure that out.

Where this is important is whey you are trying to bet the best picture possible over the smallest pipe. There is one RF-TV distribution system that uses DivX and it limits the bandwidth to 1000kbs. They use PE to squeeze out every bit.


How can I get true Q23 Constant Quality for H264 MKV container ?

I tried modifying the <MinQuantizer>23</MinQuantizer> <MaxQuantizer>23</MaxQuantizer> but this caused H264 to crash.

I even downloaded the Sharktooth profiles but they're much the same...

What profile are you using and when you run avinaptic on it what results is is giving you


I don't know whether you read my post on Page 74, #1469: (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=973478&postcount=1469) but I tested an Episode of 'Band of Brothers' using AVInaptic with incredible results.
Also, I've been using the H264 (=> MKV container) ConstantQuality-CRF profile.

I've also posted a query on x264: Constant quality vs constant file size (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=974346&postcount=11) and point out that it would seam a 'Variable Quantizer' is sometimes desirable.


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[vgiozo]

I had reported earlier a (very) low volume problem when encoding form AC3 6ch to Nero AAC 2ch...

It seems that the quality or bitrate mode in audio settings has no difference on the result...used both ways and ended up with low volume...

With the AC3 2ch audio to AAC 2ch, the volume is as it should be, so the problem can be attributed to the downmixing process...

The problem was not fixed by the previous or last (most recent) release...
The encodings were made with the 0.79a release...

[delacroixp]

@delacroixp

I tried modifying the <MinQuantizer>23</MinQuantizer> <MaxQuantizer>23</MaxQuantizer> but this caused H264 to crash.

I even downloaded the Sharktooth profiles but they're much the same...



no, not the same and not compatible. if you change only this value from 23 to 24 and x264 crash , you have done something other.


I tried the Sharktooth CQ-ASP_Q2_eq(crf).xml profile and changed

<MinQuantizer>10</MinQuantizer> and <MaxQuantizer>51</MaxQuantizer>
to
<MinQuantizer>23</MinQuantizer> and <MaxQuantizer>23</MaxQuantizer>

which then crashed...


I realized that this probably wouldn't work anyway since those commands relate to multipass High-speed, High-quality (http://gabextreme.googlepages.com/DeathTheSheep_x264_VfW_guide.html) encoding.



:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

@RipcordAFF

was tivtc.dll

open your movie.avs file in virtualdub and look at the error (if any)

it's strange because in automkv 0.79a i used the compatibility version of dgindex (1.4.9 beta12) and tivtc (1.00 iirc)

@vgiozo
one more test
copy aacgain from \exe\besweet folder to temp folder
from dos box run "aacgain.exe audio.mp4" (without quotes)
what is the message ?

and post your mkvmaudio.avs

thanks ! :)

BHH

[weaver4]

Really, where?

I don't remember the name of the system, but it is used in this upscale apartment complex in our city. They do this to encourage to dwellers to buy the broad-band bundle from the apartment complex rather than the local telco.

So I was told it was a wi-max type system from motorola with a Ethernet-Divx-Video converter box that is limited to 1Mbit/sec. I want to say the box is from Pace, but I am not sure about that.

[RipcordAFF]

buzzqw-- Where is this movie.avs file? And what exactly is virtualdub? Im kinda new at all this, but this is the same error that i used to have under xp when i had to update those dlls......Im kinda stuck :( I cannot find those files you mentioned, but if you tell me, id be glad to post anythign i find

[delacroixp]

@delacroixp

i am very happy. :rolleyes:


could you guess this value from what is taken ?

DGINDEX! this value are the true value inside the mpeg file!
if your player took the dar and display 1080i or whatever blame your player! :mad:
or, if you are absolutly sure about width/height post a bug on DgIndex/dvd2avi forum


I don't think I can follow up the issue with DGIndex and the movie has a 16:9 aspect ratio with 1024x576 resolution but that's not the problem.
I've also noticed that when ripping with DVD Decrypter it lists the series as a 720x576 (PAL) 16:9 movie which is clearly illogical...

added!

now when selecting "Original" as WIDTH the RESIZER goes to NONE
The problem is that I can manually set the full resolution of 1024x576 by choosing '...' but I can't set the Resize Filter to NONE... only Original or 'AutoCrop Only' will allow No Resize Filter.

Please Help !

:thanks:


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[delacroixp]

I finally encoded the entire Band of Brothers series @ Q23 (640x360) onto 1 DVD with 1 MB to spare... and this from a series that is originally 34 GB and 12 hours long...

This truly, is a testament, not only to the power of H264, the simplicity and versatility of AutoMKV, and the sheer genius of Buzzqw... but also the absolute potential of the Constant Quality CRF profile...

See pic pending

:thanks:


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

@delacroixp

I've also noticed that when ripping with DVD Decrypter it lists the series as a 720x576 (PAL) 16:9 movie which is clearly illogical..

start reading here http://www.doom9.org/aspectratios.htm

and after you have read, re-read, then if you got any question go here http://www.seemoredigital.net/03_Video_Info.html and specially here http://82.10.220.174/03_Video_Only_Info/PAL_-_Anamorphicly_Encoded_Images.html

The problem is that I can manually set the full resolution of 1024x576 by choosing '...' but I can't set the Resize Filter to NONE... only Original or 'AutoCrop Only' will allow No Resize Filter.

after these read you will know that this is a false problem

BHH

[nx6]

The problem is that I can manually set the full resolution of 1024x576 by choosing '...' but I can't set the Resize Filter to NONE... only Original or 'AutoCrop Only' will allow No Resize Filter.

Remember that the maximum width of DVD-video is 720px. Therefore, it is impossible to encode at 1024xanything and not have resizing. If you don't resize, where is the encoder going to get the extra pixels from?

I have a question you can probably answer: Is it possible to encode using Constant Quality-CRF and have the encoder set the quality setting? Like if I set a container size, have the encoder check to see how complex the movie is and then set the quality level to suit the final size? Or am I just describing how regular encoding works now. :D

[weaver4]

Can't I make use the iPod 5.5G and not set a filesize? Everytime I select Don't Care about Filesize it automatically sets me back to ConstantQuality-CRF.

The reason that I am asking is that the ipod 5.5G profile is the profile that should be used to work with the new Apple-TV, but for the apple TV I don't care about filesize because the files will stay resident on my computer. But if I use the Constant Quality-CRF profile the results will not play on the Apple-TV.

[vgiozo]

@vgiozo
one more test
copy aacgain from \exe\besweet folder to temp folder
from dos box run "aacgain.exe audio.mp4" (without quotes)
what is the message ?

and post your mkvmaudio.avs

Unfortunately I 've deleted the temp along with the dvd folder...but I can Always encode a new movie! I'll be doing it just for you though, cause I'm not really into renting dvds and encoding into video files :cool:

I got another movie here with only 6ch AC3, so I'll let it encode during the night and see what we come up with...

Cheers

[delacroixp]

@delacroixp

start reading here http://www.doom9.org/aspectratios.htm

and after you have read, re-read, then if you got any question go here http://www.seemoredigital.net/03_Video_Info.html and specially here http://82.10.220.174/03_Video_Only_Info/PAL_-_Anamorphicly_Encoded_Images.html


after these read you will know that this is a false problem


OK... all done !!! ... aswell as Anamorphic Widescreen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_widescreen) from Wikipedia where they mention
"It should be noted that the picture is not vertically manipulated in any way—the normal anamorphic process instead uses a horizontally-oriented element to squeeze the width only.".

So it's a bit like using old 'square' film completely and then horizontally stretching it into 2.39:1 or 16:9... rather than using only half the film area...

Aspect Ratios (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/aspectratios.htm) on Doom9 Guides goes on to say that "When you encode for a PC based format (like DivX) you'll have to first unqueeze the picture and then resize that to your desired resolution (this would correspond to a stream having a 1:1 DAR)." ... since DivX only supports square pixels... and hence the 1024x576...

So far so good...
So I take it AutoMKV will alow me to encode the movie at the Full Resolution of 720x576 and then stretch it out to 1024x576 on playback... is that where the 'Aspect Ratios and Muxing' option comes in... ???

Can I still ask questions... or do I have to read some more... ???


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[vgiozo]

Kind of an out of context question, but while I always use the "highquality-slow" profile for H264 encoding, I see great variations in the speed of encoding, ranging from 6fps to 24fps...
How does that measure with you?

That is with movies encoded at 720x* resolution and not that different in the scene-change speed etc, not a big fan of action movies in general...

(on a Amd64 X2 3800+ NF4 939, 1Gb ddr400 /dual channer computer)
Now running at 7.21fps with 5:25 hours to go for the first pass (wish I could give it a nudge)

[TheRyuu]

Question about a custom matrix.

Using Sharktooth's EQM v2, from what I understand is also EQM AutoGK Sharpmatrix, what will that do to the encode?

I know the best is either None or Auto but I guess I'm just curious.

[Shark_jlc]

When I load an ifo, what does the audio slider default to?

[buzzqw]

@delacroixp

Aspect Ratios and Muxing

go to advanced settings and set force muxing ar to 2.35 (only avaiable for mkv or mp4 container)

@weaver4
interesting question...

in x264 you can encode in
1 pass at fixed bitrate
2 pass
1 pass CRF
1 pass QP

so... you want unlimited size, it's is ok... but what profile ?

you can set disk settings to 10000 (yes 10gb) and automkv will compute bitrate (for 1 pass/2 pass)

or in advanced setting set the bitrate (1pass/2pass profile again)

make your choice

@vgiozo
keep me informed (about audio)

highquality-slow
seriusly, try the main profile and look at difference with slow... and take also note of speed...
for me the slow/er profile is to use only to squiz the last bit

@wizboy11
sharp matrix is to be used with high bitrate encoding, when no frames must be "bad".
Using a sharp/low matrix when bitrate isn't adeguate (to low/to high) will cause only more artifact


@Shark_jlc
i don't have understud...
you mean audio track language (and is set to first found) or audio bitrate ?

BHH

[delacroixp]

Has anyone encoded from Sony Superbit DVD's (http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/superbit/what_is_superbit.html) ???

Apparently (http://www.hifi-writer.com/he/superbit/superbit.htm) they use the same resolution (Dimensions) of regular DVD's but boost the bitrate by sometimes 100%... which gives a better quality movie... something like encoding movies @ Q18 rather than Q22...

Also, audio is improved with the (probably) better DTS sound format.

It should encode beautifully with H264... especially for those guys/girls who can't get hold of HD and 1080HD material.


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[delacroixp]

@delacroixp
go to advanced settings and set force muxing ar to 2.35 (only avaiable for mkv or mp4 container)

@weaver4
interesting question...

in x264 you can encode in
1 pass at fixed bitrate
2 pass
1 pass CRF
1 pass QP


Works beautifully though I will only C the results in 5 hours... 6 fps with 105,000 frames to go is a bit rough... (perhaps I should experiment with 1 chapter ??).

What is the best Filter to use for "Original" (In my case BoB, a war drama/documentary)... I'm trying MipSmooth(preset=MovieHQ2).
Perhaps AutoMKV could default to a recommended Filter for the "Original" setting.

I noticed "AutoCrop Only" insists on using a Resize Filter... I guess it's impossible to crop in such a way that AR is maintained and Risizing is un-necessary without killing the movie...
A 4:3 movie with black space (Top=2 and Bottom=2) would then be cropped (Left=4 Right=4 Top=2 and Bottom=4)... a bit cumbersome I suppose.
Would (can) H264 still support "Original" with, let's say, 2 lines cropped... without resizing and playing back with the correct AR ???


=> weaver4
I think he encodes into Xvid though I suppose the Profiles are generally the same...



:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

Works beautifully though I will only C the results in 5 hours... (perhaps I should experiment with 1 chapter ??

better with some sample (100 mb...)

What is the best Filter to use for "Original"
Don't ask what is best, as forums rules
every film has its filter, removegrain(mode=2), DeGrainMedian(limitY=5,limitUV=5,mode=3), Convolution3d (preset="movieHQ") and MipSmooth(preset=MovieHQ2) are all very good general pourpose denoise , but only testing will lead you to "perfect filter" for THIS movie

I noticed "AutoCrop Only" insists on using a Resize Filter... I guess it's impossible to crop in such a way that AR is maintained and Risizing is un-necessary without killing the movie...
EXACTLY :) if you want to maintain the AR you need to resize

Would (can) H264 still support "Original" with, let's say, 2 lines cropped... without resizing and playing back with the correct AR ???

this isn't a feature of codec but of container. play with your file and mmg.exe and study the command line. Awesome result could be obtained with correct mkvmerge options

BHH

[delacroixp]

I discoverd an interesting article on CRF vs QP (http://handbrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1607) quantizer encoding.

Posted by jbrjake on Handbrake Forum (Fri, Feb 16 2007)

When you use a constant QP (the default), you compress every frame the same amount, regardless of the content.

When you use a constant rate factor, it varies the QP slightly. When a scene has a lot of action and motion, it will raise the QP (compressing more). This is because your eye will be distracted by everything going on, and won't have time to see the heavier compression. When a frame doesn't have a lot of motion, it will lower the QP, compressing it less. This is because your eye will have more time to look at the image, so you want it to be as much like the source as possible.

If you were a computer, you would look at a CRF encoding and say it was lower quality than the CQP copy. And it would be. But if you're a human being, subjectively, the CRF copy will look better. It least compresses the parts you see the most, and most compresses the parts you see the least.

I hope that's clear. I plan to have a Wiki page about CRF eventually, but I haven't had a chance to put one together yet.


Personally, I always use CRF for single-pass encodes and can think of no reason to ever use CQP.


What do you think ???


The Thread went further on to say that
Posted by jbrjake on Handbrake Forum (Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:50 pm)

If you seriously desire high quality output and you're patient, you can do a 1-pass CRF encode with a high quality level (65-75%), figure out what the bitrate is on it, and then do a 2-pass encode with that as the average bitrate.

See, when you do a CRF or CQP encode, you have no control over the output's size/bitrate. All you control is how heavily compressed each frame is. Once you know the bitrate you need to reach a certain quality level (compression rate factor), a 2-pass in ABR mode set to that bitrate will pack in even more quality.

How wierd is that... I always thought (certainly with QP) that 1-pass CQ gives the best quality for that filesize (all else being equal)... but now a 2-pass can actually increase the quality even further... !!!

Is this for real or what ?


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[delacroixp]

Don't ask what is best... every film has its filter but only testing will lead you to "perfect filter" for THIS movie

:search: :readfaq: :search:


Would (can) H264 still support "Original" with, let's say, 2 lines cropped... without resizing and playing back with the correct AR ???

this isn't a feature of codec but of container. play with your file and mmg.exe and study the command line. Awesome result could be obtained with correct mkvmerge options

Magic... MKV rocks !!!


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[Shark_jlc]

@delacroixp

@Shark_jlc
i don't have understud...
you mean audio track language (and is set to first found) or audio bitrate ?

BHH


the LowQual <> HiQual audio bitrate slider. What does it default to when an IFO is loaded?

[weaver4]

I was talking about the iPod profiles, it does not make sense to me that they are tied to filesize. These devices have a hard drive and the new Apple-TV has a harddrive. They should be like the ConstantQuality-CRF profile where you set the quality and tell it to encode. But if you use the ConstantQuality-CRF profile as it is the content will not play on the ipod or apple tv.

If you set the filesize to 10G and just let the coder figure it out you have no control over filesize/quality.

[buzzqw]

@Shark_jlc
the LowQual <> HiQual audio bitrate slider. What does it default to when an IFO is loaded?

you can copy the audio source, and so it's true the audio bitrate slider isn't needed, but you can encode the audio track to XXX and so the bitrate is needed again... (but maybe i don't understud well...)

@weaver4

the ipod profile's are 2 pass profile and so it is NOT possible to encode PER QUALITY

or you do a 2 pass encode or you do a 1 pass quality/bitrate encoding

more: the ipod profile aren't compatible with ipod... because of picky player inside... the mp4mux doesn't support the type of muxing needed by this player (ipod)
for compatibility you need to use nicmp4box, for muxing

BHH

[delacroixp]

@delacroixp
go to advanced settings and set force muxing ar to 2.35 (only avaiable for mkv or mp4 container)

@weaver4
interesting question...

@vgiozo
keep me informed (about audio)

@wizboy11
sharp matrix is to be used with high bitrate encoding, when no frames must be "bad".

@Shark_jlc
i don't have understud...


I tried with the first episode of BoB with Q22 and it came out with a staggering 850 MB... awesome Dr DivX Q3 (equivalent) came out at 1.3 GB... I'm really amazed...

However... the AR was still 4:3 (instead of 16:9)... so I tried a short chapter... also 4:3 and the logs dissapeared.
Finally I did another chp and also ticked the Anamorphic Encoding under "Muxing Options" aswell as the 2.35 Force Muxing AR.

The AR is still 4:3 though I can happily play the clip in Zoom Player by setting the 16:9 Aspect Ratio with perfect results... Media Player Classic and WMPlayer are unable to playback in 16:9...

Included Logs follow:
BoB 02 Chp 2.ini

; AutoMKV parameters
[AutoMKV]
DVD Drive = NONE
Input File = H:\Movies\To Be Encoded\Band of Brothers\BoB 02 - Chapter 2\BoB 02 - Chp 02.VOB
Input Folder = H:\Movies\To Be Encoded\Band of Brothers\BoB 02 - Chapter 2\
Output Folder = F:\Movies\Encodes\
Container = MKV
Movie Name = BoB 02 - Chp 02
Size = 1 CD
Slice = 1
Resizer = 12
Width = Original
Set encoding mode = X264
Audio Track 1 = NONE
Audio Codec 1 = Nero AAC
Audio Bit 1 = 7
Audio Bitrate 1 = 0.35
Audio Channel 1 = Stereo
Audio Track 2 = NONE
Audio Codec 2 = Nero AAC
Audio Bit 2 = 7
Audio Bitrate 2 = 0.35
Audio Channel 2 = Stereo
Sub Track 1 = NONE
Sub Track 2 = NONE
Encoding Profiles = _Pascals - 22 - CQ - CRF.xml
Hit Media/Go Unlimited = Selected Unlimited media size
Use CRF/CQ for AutoResize = 0
CRF/CQ Value = 22
Bitrate Encoding = 0
Bitrate Value = 700
Quality Encoding = 0
Quality Value = 75
Delete temporary files = 0
Encrust/Burn Subtitles = 0
Enable Shutdown = 0
Process this IFO = 0
Process this PGC = 0
PGC to Process = -1
Force ITU Resizing = 0
Anamorphic Encoding = 1
Filter = MipSmooth(preset = "MovieHQ2")
Enable Last Line AVS Script = 0
Last Line AVS Script =
Deinterlacer = AUTO
Field Order = AUTO
Language = eng
Use ProjectX for TS files = 0
Use custom X.ini = 0
Use DelayCut = 1
HQ Deinterlacer = 0
Matrix = NONE
Force PAR in XviD = NONE
Use DirectShowSource for Video = 0
Use DirectShowSource for Audio = 0
Enable Manual Crop And Resize = 0
Crop Top =
Crop Left =
Crop Bottom =
Crop Right =
Manual Width =
Manual Height =
Audio Track Name 1 =
Movie Title Name =
Audio Track Desc 1 =
Nero Profiles 1 = AUTO
Nero Encoding Mode 1 = Quality
CCT Profiles 1 = AUTO
Channel Options 1 = AUTO
MP3 Settings 1 = ABR
Windows Media Audio = AUTO
Windows Media Channel = AUTO
Normalize Audio 1 = 1
Frequency 1 = AUTO
Tempo 1 = NONE
Pitch 1 = NONE
OtherADD 1 =
Audio Track Name 2 =
Audio Track Desc 2 =
Nero Profiles 2 = AUTO
Nero Encoding Mode 2 = Quality
CCT Profiles 2 = AUTO
Channel Options 2 = AUTO
MP3 Settings 2 = ABR
Normalize Audio 2 = 1
Frequency 2 = AUTO
Tempo 2 = NONE
Pitch 2 = NONE
OtherADD 2 =


AutoMKV Log

17:01:32 0.79 - - - - - - - - - - - - - START JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
17:01:32 Selected Input file: H:\Movies\To Be Encoded\Band of Brothers\BoB 02 - Chapter 2\BoB 02 - Chp 02.VOB
17:01:32 Selected Output dir: F:\Movies\Encodes\temp\
17:01:32 Selected Final Name: BoB 02 - Chp 02
17:01:32 Selected Container type: MKV
17:01:32 Selected Encoder: X264
17:01:32 Selected Size: 1 CD
17:01:32 Selected Slice: 1
17:01:32 Selected Profile: _Pascals - 22 - CQ - CRF.xml
17:01:32 Selected Width: Original
17:01:32 Selected Resizer: NONE
17:01:32 Selected Filters: MipSmooth(preset = "MovieHQ2")
17:01:32 Selected Deinterlacer: AUTO
17:01:32 Selected Field Order: AUTO
17:01:32 Enabled CRF/CQ AutoRes at 22 value
17:01:32 Track Language 1: NONE
17:01:32 Audio Codec 1: Nero AAC
17:01:32 Audio Quality 1: 0.35
17:01:32 Audio Channel 1: Stereo
17:01:32 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 1
17:01:32 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
17:01:32 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
17:01:32 Lame Settings: ABR
17:01:32 Audio Normalization: 1
17:01:32 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
17:01:32 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
17:01:32 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 2
17:01:32 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
17:01:32 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
17:01:32 Lame Settings: ABR
17:01:32 Audio Normalization: 1
17:01:32 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
17:01:32 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
17:01:32 Activate Anamorphic Encoding
17:01:32 Selected Unlimited media size
17:01:32 Dgindex CMD: F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\dgindex\dgindex.exe -FO=0
-OM=0 -YR=2 -If=[H:\Movies\To Be Encoded\Band of Brothers\BoB 02 - Chapter 2\BoB 02 - Chp 02.VOB]
-OF=[F:\Movies\Encodes\temp\movie] -exit -minimize
17:01:37 Starting fixing audio delay on track number 0
17:01:37 Finished fixing audio delay
17:01:42 Number of Frames: 10498
17:01:42 Framerate: 25.000000
17:01:42 Movie length in Seconds: 420
17:01:42 Movie Width: 720
17:01:42 Movie Height: 576
17:02:29 Processing completed. Type is determined to be progressive.
17:02:29 Order: unk
17:02:29 Starting X264
17:02:29 CRF encoding X264: F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\encoder\x264.exe --pass 1
--crf 22 --stats "F:\Movies\Encodes\temp\.stats" --progress --keyint 250 --bframes 3
--qpmin 10 --qpmax 51 --no-psnr --mixed-refs --trellis 1 --ref 3 --filter -2,-1 --direct auto
--vbv-maxrate 25000 --me umh --no-ssim --weightb --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --analyse
p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8,p4x4 --8x8dct --threads 3 --
output "F:\Movies\Encodes\temp\movie.mp4" "F:\Movies\Encodes\temp\movie.avs"
17:33:29 Accepted values are between 697303040 and 741343232 bytes (movie+audio)
17:33:29 Got a file of size: 60914510 bytes + audio size -2 bytes (60914508)
17:33:29 "F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\matroska\mkvmerge.exe" -o "F:\Movies\Encodes\temp
\BoB 02 - Chp 02.mkv" --track-name -1:"BoB 02 - Chp 02" --aspect-ratio 1:2.35 Movies\Encodes\temp\movie.mp4"
--title "Done with AutoMKV 0.79 http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=854221 "
17:33:31 Final Muxed size: 60973777 bytes
17:33:31 Encoding finished: 00:31:59 elapsed time
17:33:31 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
17:33:31 Script AutoCrop.log
17:33:31
17:33:31 Crop(0,4,720,568)
17:33:31 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
17:33:31 Script Resmovie.avs
17:33:31 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
17:33:31 Script movie.avs
17:33:31
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\autocrop.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\BicublinResize.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\blockbuster.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\cnr2.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\ColorMatrix.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\Convolution3D.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\corrector.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\DctFilter.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\Decomb.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\Deen.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\degrainmedian.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\DGDecode.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\EEDI2.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\fft3dfilter.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\FluxSmooth.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\frfun7.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\hqdn3d.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\MaskTools.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\medianblur.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\MipSmooth.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\mt_masktools.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\mvtools.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\RemoveGrain.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\Repair.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\SangNom.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\SimpleResize.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\TBilateral.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\TDeint.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\TIVTC.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\TomsMoComp.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\TTempSmooth.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\UnDot.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\UnFilter.dll")
17:33:31 LoadPlugin("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\VSFilter.dll")
17:33:31 #loadpluginstart
17:33:31
17:33:31 #test1
17:33:31
17:33:31 Import("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\MCBob_v03c.avsi")
17:33:31 Import("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\mvbob.avsi")
17:33:31 Import("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\seesaw.avsi")
17:33:31 Import("F:\Movies\_DIVX Program Files\Associate Progs\AutoMKV\AutoMKV 079a\exe\filter\spresso.avsi")
17:33:31 #importstart
17:33:31
17:33:31 #test2
17:33:31
17:33:31 movie = mpeg2source("F:\Movies\Encodes\temp\movie.d2v")
17:33:31 function getOrder(clip c) {
17:33:31 order = GetParity(c) ? 1 : 0
17:33:31 Return order }
17:33:31 #filter1start
17:33:31
17:33:31 #test3
17:33:31
17:33:31 #cropstart
17:33:31
17:33:31 cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
17:33:31 fixed_aspect = 1
17:33:31 c_width = width(cropclip)
17:33:31 c_height = Round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
17:33:31 input_par = float(float(c_width)/float(c_height))
17:33:31 input_par = input_par > 1.4 ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
17:33:31 out_width = 720
17:33:31 out_height = Round(float(out_width) / input_par)
17:33:31 hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
17:33:31 out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
17:33:31 new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
17:33:31 autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
17:33:31
17:33:31 last = movie
17:33:31 #resizestart
17:33:31
17:33:31 #test4
17:33:31
17:33:31 #filter2start
17:33:31
17:33:31 #test5
17:33:31
17:33:31 MipSmooth(preset = "MovieHQ2")
17:33:31 ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",hints=false,threads=3)
17:33:31 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
17:33:31 Script mkvmaudio.avs
17:33:31 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
17:33:31 Script mkvmaudio.bat
17:33:31 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
17:33:31 Script mkvmaudio2.avs
17:33:31 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
17:33:31 Script mkvmaudio2.bat
17:33:31
17:33:31 - - - - - - - - - - - - FINISHED JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -



Sorry about all the baby-sitting...


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[vgiozo]

@vgiozo
one more test
copy aacgain from \exe\besweet folder to temp folder
from dos box run "aacgain.exe audio.mp4" (without quotes)
what is the message ?

and post your mkvmaudio.avs

thanks ! :)

BHH
Ok, the newly encoded movie in which downmixing from 6 to 2ch was applied, presented equally low volume...

I did what you said above and this is what followed (jpg image)
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8274/aacgainja1.th.jpg (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aacgainja1.jpg)
or
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8274/aacgainja1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

And here is the mkvaudio.avs
http://d.turboupload.com/d/1642232/mkvmaudio.avs.html

[delacroixp]

I finally encoded the entire Band of Brothers series @ Q23 (640x360) onto 1 DVD with 1 MB to spare... and this from a series that is originally 34 GB and 12 hours long...

This is truly a testament, not only to the power of H264, the simplicity and versatility of AutoMKV, and the sheer genius of Buzzqw... but also the absolute potential of the Constant Quality CRF profile...

See pic pending

:thanks:


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

The Docs include .mht web pages and the InMatrix Zoom Player which is especially usefull in updating or downloading all the necessary codecs... even if they prefer to use another player later...

[buzzqw]

@delacroixp

open the movie.d2v with a text editor, search fro Aspect_Ratio= xxx

what is written ?

@vgiozo
got the error !! is due to SPACE in your installation folder
you have installed automkv in "C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a" but the space between program AND files do not permit aacgain to work
First of all thanks for this bug !
Second, fixed in next release
Third, movie automkv079a folder to c:\apps\automkv079a or something similar
Fourth: ok, now that you have normalized the audio click on muxing.bat for re-mux

thanks again!
BHH

[vgiozo]

Great, thank you very much...

[delacroixp]

open the movie.d2v with a text editor, search fro Aspect_Ratio= xxx

what is written ?


I've just started a chkdsk on the beast... on all the drives (2 RAID 1 standard)... so I wont have access for quite awhile.

How do I get rid of Multi-Quote... I clicked it in error (I don't even know what it is) and now every "quote" is the same...

Please help !!!

:thanks:


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[RipcordAFF]

buzzqw-- Where is this movie.avs file? And what exactly is virtualdub? Im kinda new at all this, but this is the same error that i used to have under xp when i had to update those dlls......Im kinda stuck :( I cannot find those files you mentioned, but if you tell me, id be glad to post anythign i find


So Buzz, I am still having no luck fixing this problem. Its the same problem as I had w\ my first install which I fixed by updating some dlls, but now its doing it w\ the new version under vista..... Please let me know if you have any ideas. thanks!

[delacroixp]

DGIndexProjectFile15
1
H:\Movies\To Be Encoded\Band of Brothers\BoB 02 - Chapter 2\BoB 02 - Chp 02.VOB

Stream_Type=1
MPEG_Type=2
iDCT_Algorithm=6
YUVRGB_Scale=0
Luminance_Filter=0,0
Clipping=0,0,0,0
Aspect_Ratio=16:9
Picture_Size=720x576
Field_Operation=0
Frame_Rate=25000 (25/1)
Location=0,0,0,25373

After this it's just serious hex and stuff...


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[weaver4]

more: the ipod profile aren't compatible with ipod... because of picky player inside... the mp4mux doesn't support the type of muxing needed by this player (ipod)
for compatibility you need to use nicmp4box, for muxing

Well if I can't use AutoMKV for the iPod I won't buy an iPod. If the iPod profile does not work for the iPod does the Zune profile work for the Zune?

[delacroixp]

You can download VirtualDub here (http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/) ... look for v1.6.17 (stable)

VD is one of the oldest video encoder/manipulator come jack of all trades apps ... written by a varsity student... how kewl is that.

You can find movie.avs in your 'temp' Encoding Output folder... check it out....

Enjoy !!!


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

@delacroixp

this value is not normal Crop(0,4,720,568)
for a 16:9 film the crop should more , a lot more
i think that this film is 4/3, and then squeezed to 16/9
i can suggest to ask help on general forum

@RipcordAFF
virtualdub: www.virtualdub.org

the movie.avs is in temp folder created by encoding

try this open mediaplayer classic and load the movie.avs, if it is ok you will see your movie and (if wmv encoding) hear audio, if not ok you will see a huge red line. Take note of this error (if present)

moreover the next full update will got the new wmcmd.vbs, that is more stable

@weaver4
yes, zune is ok, ask dlflannery (my main Zune tester)

BHH

[delacroixp]

Well if I can't use AutoMKV for the iPod I won't buy an iPod. If the iPod profile does not work for the iPod does the Zune profile work for the Zune?

I tried to create a 320x240 and 320x180 MP4 clip for my nephews new Nokia cellphone... the audio is fine but no movie...
Havn't tried anything for the MS Zune.


:) :D :eek:
Pascal


BTW
How do I de-activate the double-quote icon (bottom left on every post)... it's orange on one of my posts and everytime I quote... the same stuff is quoted...

[delacroixp]

Sorted... quoting is back to normal... my problem-solving skills are a bit limited...

:thanks:


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

I almost thought I was grounded for life and would have to move to a new forum... like DGIndex... heaven forbid...

[delacroixp]

@delacroixp

this value is not normal
for a 16:9 film the crop should more , a lot more
i think that this film is 4/3, and then squeezed to 16/9
i can suggest to ask help on general forum

@weaver4
yes, zune is ok, ask dlflannery (my main Zune tester)


np... you have already helped me more than my fair share on this forum to get things working perfectly... my posts are positively drowning out everyone else...
People are soon going to start thinking this is my forum... heaven forbid... a good time to chill...

Band of Brothers was meant to be a TV series... the most expensive ever @ $125 million so that may have something to do with the 4:3...


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[RipcordAFF]

@delacroixp

@RipcordAFF
virtualdub: www.virtualdub.org

the movie.avs is in temp folder created by encoding

try this open mediaplayer classic and load the movie.avs, if it is ok you will see your movie and (if wmv encoding) hear audio, if not ok you will see a huge red line. Take note of this error (if present)

moreover the next full update will got the new wmcmd.vbs, that is more stable

BHH


Hey Buzz, I tried to open movie.avs w\ virtual dub, here is the error:

"Avisynth open failure:Loadplugin: unable to load "C:\users\reed\desktop\utilities\dvd stuff\automkv\exe\filter\removegrain.dll"
(F:\dvd rips\lost\e12\temp\movie.avs, line 25)


And ideas? Thanks man

[Shark_jlc]

@Shark_jlc
you can copy the audio source, and so it's true the audio bitrate slider isn't needed, but you can encode the audio track to XXX and so the bitrate is needed again... (but maybe i don't understud well...)
...

BHH

Let me try again. I set the audio bitrate slider to 128 kbps and save my settings. However, last night I opened AutoMKV, browsed to an IFO, and when the file was loaded by AutoMKV the audio slider changed to 64 Kbps.

So, I was wondering why the slider changed, is 64 the audio bitrate of the ifo/vob file that loaded? Or is it a bug?

Thanks buzzqw.

[vgiozo]

@buzzqw

The problem has not been fixed...I still get low volume, even though I changed the program path of AutoMKV, so that it does not contain any spaces...(c:\Apps)

What else could be at fault here?

[buzzqw]

@RipcordAFF
download this
http://home.arcor.de/kassandro/RemoveGrain/RemoveGrain.rar

delete from \exe\filter the RemoveGrain.dll and put into \exe\filter the RemoveGrainS.dll from this rar file
raname RemoveGrainS.dll to RemoveGrain.dll !

@Shark_jlc
must be a bug.. i will check!

@vgiozo
.... ... ... again copy aacgain.exe into this temp folder and from dos launch aacgain.exe audio.mp4

what is the message ? thanks again !

BHH

[vgiozo]

@buzzqw

The message is exactly the same as the one before...

[TheRyuu]

@RipcordAFF
download this
http://home.arcor.de/kassandro/RemoveGrain/RemoveGrain.rar

delete from \exe\filter the RemoveGrain.dll and put into \exe\filter the RemoveGrainS.dll from this rar file
raname RemoveGrainS.dll to RemoveGrain.dll

BHH

I know this doesn't really concern me but why rename it?
It shouldn't matter whether it says Removegrain.dll/Removegrainsse3.dll or w/e it may be.

I thought that, from what I've heard, get used either way.

Edit:
I put Removegrainsse3.dll in the filter folder, deleted the old one and it still worked AFAIK.

[Shark_jlc]

@RipcordAFF
@Shark_jlc
must be a bug.. i will check!

BHH


Actually, open AutoMKV, change the audio slider to 128, save settings, close AutoMKV.

Re-open AuMKV and the audio slider is at 64.

[dlflannery]

Encoding a .flv file to .wmv (Zune 1 pass quick profile).

The input is an AVS script:
global video=directShowSource("C:\Video\xmas_lights.flv", audio=false, fps=29.97)
global audio=directShowSource("C:\Video\xmas_lights.flv", video=false, fps=29.97)
audio=DelayAudio(audio, -1.0)
audiodub(video, audio)
Note that the "global" declarations make no difference in the problem to be reported here.

The movie.avs file is:
Import("C:\Video\xmas_lights.avs"), which is just importing my input AVS script. It plays OK in Media Player Classic.

The WME encoder script crashes with an error number after correctly determining the length. Can't read the error number -- it disappears too fast.

The very strange thing is: if I run the movie_wmv.bat file created in the temp folder, it encodes OK!

I can also use this AVS input to get a successful encoding using my own batch files that I had created before I started using AutoMKV.

I've tried this with another AVS source file that I had used before and it doesn't have this problem. :confused: It appears that when AutoMKV runs movie_wmv.bat it causes an error that doesn't happen if the batch file is run outside of AutoMKV. :confused:

[Tobytl]

Hello all, first of all I would just like to say thanks for this great utility, all the work really is appreciated.

That said, I think I may have come across a slightly obscure bug with AutoMKV (or maybe autocrop). There seems to be a slight incompatibility between deinterlacing (or processing film) and autocrop on some occasions. On a few 4:3 movies I have tested there are serious chroma aberrations that seem to stem from autocrop cropping on mod2 offsets instead of mod4 (though the height is mod4). eg: Crop(8,2,708,476).

Bad:6991

Now if I move the tfm().tdecimate() line above all the autocrop stuff (accommodating the movie variable of course) or manually crop on a mod4 offset this doesn't happen. eg: Crop(8,4,708,476)

Good:6992

The easy fix would be to deinterlace before autocropping, or for the end user to manually enter mod4 offsets (easy for me, almost no cropping is needed). The more elegant fix lies somewhere in autocrop.dll though I'm afraid. It's not supposed to pick non mod4 offsets in yv12 ever, but it apparently does sometimes.

If this has all been discussed before, I am very sorry, I just noticed it when watching my futurama rips on my htpc.

[buzzqw]

@vgiozo and ALL

i will solve this problem drastically.
In next update i will reintroduce Normalize() in audio script.
On my pc (p4 2.8 1gb ram) the analysis last 10 minutes before start encoding (on Matrix film), for me is ok.

@wizboy11
you are perfecly right. AutoMKV will load the dll in \exe\filter

@Shark_jlc
on my side is correct... (but maybe i had already fixed it..)

@dlflannery
In next update i will use the new wmcmd.vbs, a lot more reliable, this will solve the "big number" error

@Tobytl
in this rare cause i suggest to use the manual crop and resize in advanced settings

BHH

[delacroixp]

@delacroixp
this value is not normal
for a 16:9 film the crop should more , a lot more
i think that this film is 4/3, and then squeezed to 16/9
i can suggest to ask help on general forum

@RipcordAFF
virtualdub: www.virtualdub.org

@weaver4
yes, zune is ok, ask dlflannery (my main Zune tester)


Assuming I have an Mpeg-2, 4:3 AR movie @ 720x576...
Is there some way I can tweek the MKV container into muxing the file @ 16:9 DAR... ???

I know that most players would support a 16:9 playback anyway... but an automatically correct playback would be perfect !!!

I love the idea of encoding @ 720x576 and then stretching... rather than stretching to 1024x576 first and then encoding with the huge and unnecessary increase in filesize.

:thanks:


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

BTW
I have posted on MkvToolnix (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=975103&postcount=246) (see link).

[buzzqw]

@delacroixp
download this sample (3mb) http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/2-35.mkv

it is 720*576 but it will play at 1024*576
if not must be something not setted in your player/decoder

BHH

P.S. i play it with mediaplayer classic + ffdshow_beta2_20070319_clsid.exe + MatroskaSplitter07032007.exe

[dlflannery]

.......
@dlflannery
In next update i will use the new wmcmd.vbs, a lot more reliable, this will solve the "big number" error
........BHH
I downloaded the latest wmcmd.vbs (3/22/2007) and substituted for the version in 0.79a. It made no difference in the problem.

Did you understand that the movie_wmv.bat (created by AutoMKV) runs OK when launched outside AutoMKV but the exact same batch file has an error when launched by AutoMKV ? One possibility to explain this is that AutoMKV is prematurely terminating the process running the wmcmd.vbs (?). I get .wmv files of varying lengths each time I run this encode in AutoMKV.

[delacroixp]

@delacroixp
download this sample (3mb) 20th Century Fox Intro (http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/2-35.mkv)

it is 720*576 but it will play at 1024*576
if not must be something not setted in your player/decoder


Plays beautifully...
Perhaps your Anamorphic Muxing options in AutoMKV are not working correctly... !!!

P.S. i play it with mediaplayer classic + ffdshow_beta2_20070319_clsid.exe + MatroskaSplitter07032007.exe
buzzqw You're totally wasting your time with me... all this stuff is like seriously Greek to me...


:) :D :eek:
Pascal


btw
The clip starts up in 16:9 (is this correct ?).

***NOTE***
I think there's something wrong with Zoom Player... if I set the AR to Derived (recommended)... BoB produces a 4:3 DAR while Fox has a DAR between 4:3 and 16:9.
With MediaPlayer Classic (v 6.4) set to Keep Aspect Ratio... BoB and Fox play automatically @ 16:9...
How wierd is that !!!

btw2
When encoding BoB on Original do I 'tick' Anamorphic aswell as change "Force Muxing AR" (default is Automatic) ?
Actually both those Muxing boxes could be included into 1 box.

[buzzqw]

@dlflannery
One possibility to explain this is that AutoMKV is prematurely terminating the process running the wmcmd.vbs

no, isn't this problem. AutoMKV will wait always for end of process.

i seriusly don't know what is happen on your side.

i don't want that something get hooked (directshowsource ould be very picky and nasty..) reboot ?

@delacroixp
this file is MADE WITH AUTOMKV... you will see it when playing with mediaplayer classic... i just set the force mux to 2.35

The clip starts up in 16:9 (is this correct ?).
yes is correct since the sample IS 16/9 but signed in MKV to play at 2.35

BHH

[SeeMoreDigital]

Hi Buzz,

There does appear to be something "hinky" regarding your "2-35 MKV" sample!

Upon playback in MPC the image appears to be displayed at something like 3.12:1, instead of 2.35:1.

EDIT: This is what I see: -

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/808/whatiseeux5.th.jpg (http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whatiseeux5.jpg)

Plus, I'm unable to de-mux the AVC stream out of the MKV container and re-mux it into the MP4 container :confused:

[buzzqw]

@SeeMoreDigital

:confused: i just passed --aspect-ratio 1:2.35 to mkvmerge...

donwload this http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/2.35.rar (2.15 mb)

contain: log, script avs, mp4 generated by x264, muxing instruction and encoding instruction

where is the glitch ?

BHH

[SeeMoreDigital]

I've just added a screen-shot (to my previous post) of what I see when playing your 2-35.MKV source in MPC with Haali's Matroska filter...

With regard to de-muxing....

Normally I'm able to use AVI-Mux_GUI to de-mux the AVC stream out of the MKV container (to a .RAW stream - which in reality is an elementary .H264 stream). Then I use YAMB/MP4Box to mux the .H264 stream into .MP4


Cheers mate

[dlflannery]

@dlflannery
no, isn't this problem. AutoMKV will wait always for end of process.

i seriusly don't know what is happen on your side.

i don't want that something get hooked (directshowsource ould be very picky and nasty..) reboot ?
......BHH
Apparently this is a case of directShowSource being "very picky and nasty".

I changed the input AVS from:
video=directShowSource("C:\Video\xmas_lights.flv", audio=false, fps=29.97)
audio=directShowSource("C:\Video\xmas_lights.flv", video=false, fps=29.97)
audio=DelayAudio(audio, -1.0)
audiodub(video, audio)
to:
directShowSource("C:\Video\xmas_lights.flv", fps=29.97)
delayAudio(-1.0)
and it encoded OK!

I can only guess that running the movie_wmv.bat from AutoMKV provides a different Windows environment than when you run it outside AutoMKV, and this triggers the quirks of DirectShowSource or DirectX or ..?

[RipcordAFF]

@RipcordAFF
download this
http://home.arcor.de/kassandro/RemoveGrain/RemoveGrain.rar

delete from \exe\filter the RemoveGrain.dll and put into \exe\filter the RemoveGrainS.dll from this rar file
raname RemoveGrainS.dll to RemoveGrain.dll !


BHH


Hey Buzz, I did that, copied that into my my filter folder, and same result, just goes from let's encode (flashes up) and straight to saving log. Just a little 50k or so, wmv file as a result..what is going on!? :confused:

[buzzqw]

@dlflannery
... it ain't broke, why fix it?
i don't know what happen inside directx/directshowsource... sorry
my knowledge is limited in this area :eek:

@RipcordAFF
open the movie.avs in virtualdub again, and look at the error...
if not present is audio...

BHH

[RipcordAFF]

...


@RipcordAFF
open the movie.avs in virtualdub again, and look at the error...
if not present is audio...

BHH

Actually Buzz, it seems to work under virtualdub. When I open the 5k movie.avs file, it plays, i cannot seek or scan through the file, but it plays the whole length I think (I watched about one minute, certainly more than 5k would be). No errors w\ movie.avs in virtual dub

If it matters, Im trying to encode this into wmv

[buzzqw]

@RipcordAFF

so it is audio...

post movie.avs (trim all first part with all load plugin), and post also movie_wmv.bat

BHH

[RipcordAFF]

@RipcordAFF

so it is audio...

post movie.avs (trim all first part with all load plugin), and post also movie_wmv.bat

BHH

Here they are, i think this is what you wanted

[buzzqw]

delete the attacment and paste here the script or mail me at my mail address (license.txt)

BHH

[RipcordAFF]

Im not sure how to post scripts here, but i will email you the attachment if you pm me your email address

[buzzqw]

at my mail address (license.txt)

open license.txt, my mail is written here

BHH

[Tobytl]

Sorry to bother you guys again, but I ran into another problem when I set the Futurama batch to run while I slept. It appears that if you manually set the crop, you don't actually get film decimation (maybe no deinterlacing at all, but haven't tested other methods). It produces this bit of script:
...

last = movie
tfm(d2v="E:\DVD\Futurama\301\temp\movie.d2v").tdecimate()
crop(movie,8,0,-8,-0)
#resizestart

#test4

LanczosResize(704,528)
...

As you can see, it sets the movie variable (the mpeg2source data) to the default variable. Does the film processing/decimating on that default variable (last). Then just crops the original, non film processed/decimated movie variable, and returns it. So the end result is still interlaced (telecined).

[nx6]

P.S. i play it with mediaplayer classic + ffdshow_beta2_20070319_clsid.exe + MatroskaSplitter07032007.exe
You're totally wasting your time with me... all this stuff is like seriously Greek to me...
Pascal


You already have Media Player Classic, ffdshow is just a big decoder pack. It also has some adjustment options for picture quality on playback, you can find it here (http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php). I'm not sure where Matroska Splitter is on the web, I got it from installing the Lazy Man's MKV (http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022257/matroska/) tools.

[dalihrp]

Hi , I Wonder,

Is AutoMKV full compatible with VISta? I only interested for DVD->WMV.

thanx

[buzzqw]

@Tobytl
Thanks for this bug !
Fixed in next release

@dalihrp
AutoMKV is compatible with Vista. (i havn't vista but several user reported the compatible)

The next question is WMcmd.vbs compatible with Vista ?

Some user report success, some other not.
The culprit is how wvc1 is installed.

i can only suggest to test

@nx6 and @delacroixp

Haali media splitter http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/

BHH

[PlayWithFire]

How can i use AutoMKV from a command line?
I want to automatically convert files downloaded with µTorrent to WMV so they can be streamed to my 360.

[delacroixp]

You already have Media Player Classic, ffdshow is just a big decoder pack. It also has some adjustment options for picture quality on playback, you can find it here (http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php). I'm not sure where Matroska Splitter is on the web, I got it from installing the Lazy Man's MKV (http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022257/matroska/) tools.

I installed Zoom Player and it automatically updates all necessary codecs to the latest versions... it's pure good luck and good fortune that anything works in my life at all... I'm seriously clueless... things just seam to happen one thing after another... wierd !!!

http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/ZoomPlayerInstallCentral.jpg

:thanks: much



:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[delacroixp]

How can i use AutoMKV from a command line?
I want to automatically convert files downloaded with µTorrent to WMV so they can be streamed to my 360.
Sounds good !

Just as everyone's looking for a pretty (GUI)face to make the complex more simple and easy to use... there's bound to be someone to reverse the process...


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[delacroixp]

Remember that the maximum width of DVD-video is 720px. Therefore, it is impossible to encode at 1024xanything and not have resizing. If you don't resize, where is the encoder going to get the extra pixels from?
Why you asking me...??? For all I know... the extra pixels come from PixieLand !!!

I have a question you can probably answer: Is it possible to encode using Constant Quality-CRF and have the encoder set the quality setting? Like if I set a container size, have the encoder check to see how complex the movie is and then set the quality level to suit the final size? Or am I just describing how regular encoding works now. :D
You're going to have to really tone down your questions a hang of a lot more... this is like "The Weakest Link" stuff... I've got the maturity of a 4 yr old, the IQ to match and I'am also very bad with guessing games... but that sounds pretty much like an HQ 2-pass... where the encoder is judging the necessary quality for the second pass... in a CRF kinda way.

This would, of course, not be possible with ConstantQuality-QP since each Quantizer can only have 1 filesize... so if you choose a filesize in-between 2 Quantizers... you're missing the boat by up to, potentially, 50% (half Qx and half Q(x+1))... meaning, half your movie would have lesser quality than the other half... the ultimate inconsistency.


@buzzqw

IF someone selects "Original" and
IF anamorphic and
IF mkv container

THEN AutoMKV should automatically set the anamorphic muxing

ELSE not 'mkv container' and they'll have to set the DAR manually on the player ???

ELSE not anamorphic... np

ELSE not "original"... np


This should be done automatically by AutoMKV if someone chooses the "Original" Resolution option !!!



:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

@PlayWithFire

read the changelog and from dos box write automkv.exe /?

I want to automatically convert files downloaded with µTorrent to WMV so they can be streamed to my 360.

please remember the forum rules, also

Quote:I have a question you can probably answer: Is it possible to encode using Constant Quality-CRF and have the encoder set the quality setting? Like if I set a container size, have the encoder check to see how complex the movie is and then set the quality level to suit the final size? Or am I just describing how regular encoding works now.

automkv will judge the width/height based on quality and disk settings (on autoresize)

one more way if to select crf profile and HIT Media Size, in that case automkv will try to "guess" the crf needed to fit media and if fail will switch to 2 pass encoding (actually just one more pass, since crf encoding is the first pass)

BHH

[delacroixp]

I'm re-encoding "Band of Brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Brothers)" @ full resolution & Q22... it's marginally too big... and I'm on a budget... 2 DVD's...

Well, there are 10 episodes each with the same Intro & Credits...
I'm not one to "torch" the intro's and stuff but perhaps I could slice them all out and keep 1 Intro & Credit... linked into an xml menu... which would then play for each episode.

The episodes are only 1 hour long so that they (the I's & C's) actually add up to a whopping 9% of each episode... which is 900MB over 2 DVD's and which are unnecessary anyway.
It's not as totally straight-forward as that since the intro isn't always completely at the beginning... in half the episodes, the interview starts first.

What can I use to slice up the VOB's since AutoMKV doesn't have that pre-encoding option like Virtual Dub and others... ?
I'm also considering a HQ 2-pass aswell since I'm getting a good idea of the 'proportional' size of each episode with the 1-pass CQ-CRF encodes... and I gather a good 2-pass can even further increase the quality.


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[xmcnuggetx]

I have started trying to convert Lost Episodes from my DVDs to a Zune compatible format. I am not concerned much with size or time. I really want the quality to be nice. I am trying to use Zune_1_Pass_Slow or Zune_2_Pass_Slow and both are giving me horizontal lines. I have tried setting deinterlacer to auto and none, both result in the lines. I have attached an image as well as the log.

[Shark_jlc]

I have a ripped movie that I want to make into a .wmv (which I've done a few of so far) but on this one, AutoMKV finishes with it in 6 minutes. It should take about.... 12 hours.

Any ideas where I should start looking to get this taken care of?

[nx6]

Argh! I hate it when things just go BOOF for no reason and I'm not here to see it.

12:38:11 0.79 - - - - - - - - - - - - - START JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
12:38:11 Selected Input file: S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
12:38:11 Selected Output dir: S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\
12:38:11 Selected Final Name: RashomonCRF20AAC25
12:38:11 Selected Container type: MKV
12:38:11 Selected Encoder: X264
12:38:11 Selected Size: 1 CD
12:38:11 Selected Slice: 1
12:38:11 Selected Profile: ConstantQuality-CRF.xml
12:38:11 Selected Width: Original
12:38:11 Selected Resizer: NONE
12:38:11 Selected Filters: RemoveGrain(mode=2)
12:38:11 Selected Deinterlacer: AUTO
12:38:11 Selected Field Order: AUTO
12:38:11 Enabled CRF/CQ AutoRes at 18 value
12:38:11 Track Language 1: Japanese (AC3 1ch, 0xBD 0x80) [0]
12:38:11 Audio Codec 1: Nero AAC
12:38:11 Audio Quality 1: 0.25
12:38:11 Audio Channel 1: Stereo
12:38:11 Track Language 2: English (AC3 1ch, 0xBD 0x81) [0]
12:38:11 Audio Codec 2: Nero AAC
12:38:11 Audio Quality 2: 0.25
12:38:11 Audio Chennel 2: Stereo
12:38:11 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 1
12:38:11 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
12:38:11 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
12:38:11 Lame Settings: ABR
12:38:11 Audio Normalization: 1
12:38:11 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
12:38:11 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
12:38:11 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 2
12:38:11 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
12:38:11 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
12:38:11 Lame Settings: ABR
12:38:11 Audio Normalization: 1
12:38:11 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
12:38:11 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
12:38:11 Selected 1' Sub tracks: English 0 (0xBD 0x20) [0]
12:38:11 Selected Unlimited media size
12:38:11 Starting SubRipping
13:25:49 Subtitle Size: 1468416 bytes
13:25:49 Finished SubRipping
13:25:49 Starting Indexing
13:25:49 Dgindex CMD: S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\dgindex\dgindex.exe -FO=0 -OM=1 -TN=1,2 -YR=2 -AIF=[S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob] -OF=[S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie] -exit -minimize
14:16:41 Finished indexing
14:16:41 Starting fixing audio delay on track number 1
14:16:41 DelayCut CMD: S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\dgindex\Delaycut.exe -auto -out "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed1.ac3" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie T01 1_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 611ms.ac3"
14:17:50 Original 1' Audio Size: 126951936 bytes
14:17:50 DelayCut CMD: S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\dgindex\Delaycut.exe -auto -out "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed2.ac3" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie T02 1_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 1ms.ac3"
14:19:04 Original 2' Audio Size: 126951936 bytes
14:19:04 Finished fixing audio delay
14:19:05 Encoding S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed1.ac3 to NeroAAC with 0.25 quality
14:23:30 Applying ReplayGain
14:23:32 Encoded 1' Audio Track: 22419890 bytes
14:23:32 Encoding S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed2.ac3 to NeroAAC with 0.25 quality
14:28:01 Applying ReplayGain
14:28:02 Encoded 2' Audio Track: 22025454 bytes
14:28:03 ForceFilm Detected: 97.400002% FILM found
14:28:42 Number of Frames: 158532
14:28:42 Framerate: 29.970030
14:28:42 Movie length in Seconds: 5290
14:28:42 Movie Width: 720
14:28:42 Movie Height: 480
14:49:28 Processing completed. Type is determined to be partly film.
14:49:28 Processing completed. Type is determined to be partly film.
14:49:28 BFF: 53
14:49:28 TFF: 403
14:49:28 Order: tff
14:49:29 Starting X264
14:49:29 CRF encoding X264: S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\encoder\x264.exe --pass 1 --crf 20/BitrateQuantizer --stats "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\.stats" --progress --keyint 250 --bframes 3 --qpmin 10 --qpmax 51 --no-psnr --mixed-refs --trellis 1 --ref 3 --filter -2,-1 --direct auto --vbv-maxrate 25000 --me umh --no-ssim --weightb --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --analyse p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8,p4x4 --8x8dct --threads 2 --output "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.mp4" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.avs"
14:49:35 Accepted values are between 697303040 and 741343232 bytes (movie+audio)
14:49:35 Got a file of size: -1 bytes + audio size 44453754 bytes (45187960)
14:49:35 "S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\matroska\mkvmerge.exe" -o "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\RashomonCRF20AAC25.mkv" --track-name -1:"RashomonCRF20AAC25" --aspect-ratio 1:1.344538 --chapters "S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\chapters.txt" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.mp4" --language -1:jpn "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\audio.mp4" --language -1:eng "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\audio2.mp4" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\RashomonCRF20AAC25.idx" --title "Done with AutoMKV 0.79 http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=854221 "
14:49:38 Final Muxed size: -1 bytes
14:49:38 Encoding finished: 02:11:27 elapsed time
14:49:38 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
14:49:38 Script AutoCrop.log
14:49:38
14:49:38 Crop(8,2,708,476)
14:49:38 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
14:49:38 Script Resmovie.avs
14:49:38 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
14:49:38 Script movie.avs
14:49:38
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\autocrop.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\BicublinResize.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\blockbuster.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\cnr2.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\ColorMatrix.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Convolution3D.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\corrector.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DctFilter.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Decomb.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Deen.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\degrainmedian.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DGDecode.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\EEDI2.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\fft3dfilter.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\FluxSmooth.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\frfun7.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\hqdn3d.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MaskTools.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\medianblur.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MipSmooth.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mt_masktools.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvtools.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\RemoveGrain.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Repair.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SangNom.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SimpleResize.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TBilateral.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TDeint.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TIVTC.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TomsMoComp.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TTempSmooth.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnDot.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnFilter.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\VSFilter.dll")
14:49:38 #loadpluginstart
14:49:38
14:49:38 #test1
14:49:38
14:49:38 Import("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MCBob_v03c.avsi")
14:49:38 Import("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvbob.avsi")
14:49:38 Import("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\seesaw.avsi")
14:49:38 Import("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\spresso.avsi")
14:49:38 #importstart
14:49:38
14:49:38 #test2
14:49:38
14:49:38 movie = mpeg2source("S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.d2v")
14:49:38 function getOrder(clip c) {
14:49:38 order = GetParity(c) ? 1 : 0
14:49:38 Return order }
14:49:38 #filter1start
14:49:38
14:49:38 #test3
14:49:38
14:49:38 #cropstart
14:49:38
14:49:38 cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
14:49:38 fixed_aspect = 0.888889
14:49:38 c_width = width(cropclip)
14:49:38 c_height = Round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
14:49:38 input_par = float(float(c_width)/float(c_height))
14:49:38 input_par = input_par > 1.4 ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
14:49:38 out_width = 720
14:49:38 out_height = Round(float(out_width) / input_par)
14:49:38 hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
14:49:38 out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
14:49:38 new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
14:49:38 autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
14:49:38
14:49:38 last = movie
14:49:38 tfm(d2v="S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.d2v").tdecimate(hybrid=3)
14:49:38 #resizestart
14:49:38
14:49:38 #test4
14:49:38
14:49:38 #filter2start
14:49:38
14:49:38 #test5
14:49:38
14:49:38 RemoveGrain(mode=2)
14:49:38 ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",hints=false,threads=2)
14:49:38 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
14:49:38 Script mkvmaudio.avs
14:49:38
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
14:49:38 NicAC3Source("S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed1.ac3")
14:49:38 #Applying STEREO downmixing routines
14:49:38 function stereo(clip a)
14:49:38 {
14:49:38 flr = GetChannel(a, 1, 2)
14:49:38 fcc = GetChannel(a, 3)
14:49:38 lfe = GetChannel(a, 4)
14:49:38 lfc = MixAudio(fcc, lfe, 0.2071, 0.2071)
14:49:38 mix = MergeChannels(lfc, lfc)
14:49:38 lrc = MixAudio(flr, mix, 0.2929, 1.0)
14:49:38 blr = GetChannel(a, 5, 6)
14:49:38 Return MixAudio(lrc, blr, 1.0, 0.2929)
14:49:38 }
14:49:38 #
14:49:38 6==Audiochannels() ? stereo() : last
14:49:38 Soundout(output="cmd",type=1,format=3,autoclose=true,executable="S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\besweet\neroaacenc.exe",prefilename=" -ignorelength -q 0.25 -if - -of audio.mp4",postfilename="",nofilename=true,showoutput=false)
14:49:38 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
14:49:38 Script mkvmaudio.bat
14:49:38
14:49:38 "S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\BeSweet\ffmpeg.exe" -y -t 1 -i "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\mkvmaudio.avs" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\junk.wav"
14:49:38 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
14:49:38 Script mkvmaudio2.avs
14:49:38
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
14:49:38 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
14:49:38 NicAC3Source("S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed2.ac3")
14:49:38 #Applying STEREO downmixing routines
14:49:38 function stereo(clip a)
14:49:38 {
14:49:38 flr = GetChannel(a, 1, 2)
14:49:38 fcc = GetChannel(a, 3)
14:49:38 lfe = GetChannel(a, 4)
14:49:38 lfc = MixAudio(fcc, lfe, 0.2071, 0.2071)
14:49:38 mix = MergeChannels(lfc, lfc)
14:49:38 lrc = MixAudio(flr, mix, 0.2929, 1.0)
14:49:38 blr = GetChannel(a, 5, 6)
14:49:38 Return MixAudio(lrc, blr, 1.0, 0.2929)
14:49:38 }
14:49:38 #
14:49:38 6==Audiochannels() ? stereo() : last
14:49:38 Soundout(output="cmd",type=1,format=3,autoclose=true,executable="S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\besweet\neroaacenc.exe",prefilename=" -ignorelength -q 0.25 -if - -of audio2.mp4",postfilename="",nofilename=true,showoutput=false)
14:49:38 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
14:49:38 Script mkvmaudio2.bat
14:49:38
14:49:38 "S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\BeSweet\ffmpeg.exe" -y -t 1 -i "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\mkvmaudio2.avs" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\junk2.wav"
14:49:38
14:49:38 - - - - - - - - - - - - FINISHED JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


I see I have a final muxxed size of -1 bytes, but I don't know how I got there.

[buzzqw]

@Shark_jlc
open movie.avs in virtualdub, it is ok ?
launch movie_wmv.bat from dos, what is the error ?

@nx6
--crf 20/BitrateQuantizer
what the hell is this ? you have edited the profile ????

@ALL
next update should be a little more robust on wmv encoding (or i hope so...)

BHH

[Shark_jlc]

@Shark_jlc
open movie.avs in virtualdub, it is ok ?


Actually, I get the following error:


Avisynth open failure:
I don't know what "audio" means (D:\temp\movie.avs, line 85)



launch movie_wmv.bat from dos, what is the error ?


There is no error, it calculates the length incorrectly:

Warning: Encoder failed to retrieve duration attribute from source plug-in.
Trying alternate method now.
Opening source....................
Source duration successfully retrieved: 10 seconds.

======== Encoding Completed ========

Video :
Codec: Windows Media Video 9
Average bit rate: 2107 bps
Expected fps: 24
Dropped frame count: 0
Total coded frames: 240
Average sample rate: 24.001
Dropped bytes: 0 bytes
Total bytes: 10919 bytes

Overall:
Encoding time: 11 seconds
Average bit rate: 2107 bps
File size: 21201 bytes
File duration: 9.991 seconds


@ALL
next update should be a little more robust on wmv encoding (or i hope so...)

BHH

Sounds good! :)

[delacroixp]

@Shark_jlc

@nx6

what the hell is this ? you have edited the profile ????

@ALL
next update should be a little more robust on wmv encoding (or i hope so...)


I should have picked up on this error myself though my H264 command line syntax is a bit poor...
I used to be a Tutor at UCT (http://www.uct.ac.za/) to the first year Pascal (http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=4-0393954455-1) students...

Syntax errors are deadly and totally unforgiving... though Pascal was quite student-friendly...
In your case it looks like you've deleted the "<" in <BitrateQuantizer>18</BitrateQuantizer>

Replace it and you're well on the road to script and profile modding...


:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[nx6]

@nx6
what the hell is this ? you have edited the profile ????

I'm playing around with exactly how much the quality/file size changes with the Quantizer, yes. I'm not making permanent changes to the profile, though.

How come the width changes to 720px with the ConstantQuality profile? Shouldn't it be AUTO or Original?


Syntax errors are deadly and totally unforgiving... though Pascal was quite student-friendly...
In your case it looks like you've deleted the "<" in <BitrateQuantizer>18</BitrateQuantizer>
Pascal

Good lord. If that what was causing this the whole time I feel really stupid. I've had this happen a couple times before and I never knew why.

[buzzqw]

How come the width changes to 720px with the ConstantQuality profile? Shouldn't it be AUTO or Original?

good point, should be original, thanks!

i'm not making permanent changes to the profile, though.

sorry if i seemed harsh.. don't want ! i can only suggest to duplicate the profile, while leaving intect the orginal, and so working on duplicate :)

BHH

P.S. btw... in next release you will welcome in "thanks" section of license.txt. One of the few that have answered on questions of other forummers ! thanks!

[nx6]

I have a request. In advanced audio settings, can we have the values retained until AutoMKV is restarted? Right now if I go in an make changes like setting a title for the muxxed file or adding "Director's commentary" to an audio track name, I hit save and the window closes, but if I reopen it everything gets reset back.

[dlflannery]

If you are encoding DVD (or VOB, MPEG2) to WMV and haven't tried "Film" in the deinterlacer setting, do so. (Try auto first.)

If you have gspot or dgindex and know how to use them you can check to see if the the video is telecined (film) but just trying the setting in AutoMKV may be as quick and easy.

I can also recommend VideoReDo (http://www.videoredo.com)for cleaning up the .vob files (and it will join them for you). You can free-trial it uncrippled -- just download, install, and ask for the free trial key.

[BixMix]

@BixMix


The way to apply MORE gain is to DE-CHECK Normalize AND in last option of advanced audio setting, at right of Pith and none, in the blank space write something like Amplifydb(15) this command force an audio gain of 15 decibel, in this way YOU must choose the gain, since in no more automatic

BHH

I did what you suggested. Either I misunderstood or I found a bug because it never got louder. After trying a couple of times, I made it 25 decibel (wondering if I just couldn't hear a difference or something). Here's the log; I think it still is "normalizing" the volume even though I unchecked the box.

06:43:54 0.79 - - - - - - - - - - - - - START JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
06:43:54 Selected Input file: C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\ThatGirl\VTS_01_0.IFO
06:43:54 Selected Output dir: C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\
06:43:54 Selected Final Name: ThatGirl-Amplifydb(25)
06:43:54 Selected Container type: WMV
06:43:54 Selected Encoder: WMV
06:43:54 Selected Size: 1 CD
06:43:54 Selected Slice: 1
06:43:54 Selected Profile: 2_Pass_VBR_VeryQuick.xml
06:43:54 Selected Width: Automatic
06:43:54 Selected Resizer: SimpleResize (neutral soft)
06:43:54 Selected Filters: RemoveGrain(mode=2)
06:43:54 Selected Deinterlacer: AUTO
06:43:54 Selected Field Order: AUTO
06:43:54 Track Language 1: English (AC3 2ch, 0xBD 0x80) [0]
06:43:54 Audio Codec 1: WMV
06:43:54 Audio Quality 1: 256
06:43:54 Audio Channel 1: Stereo
06:43:54 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 1
06:43:54 Audio Track Language: und
06:43:54 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
06:43:54 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
06:43:54 Lame Settings: ABR
06:43:54 Audio Normalization: Normalize Audio
06:43:54 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
06:43:54 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add : Amplifydb(25)
06:43:54 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 2
06:43:54 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
06:43:54 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
06:43:54 Lame Settings: ABR
06:43:54 Audio Normalization: 1
06:43:54 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
06:43:54 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
06:43:54
06:43:54 Starting Indexing
06:43:54 Dgindex CMD: C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\dgindex\dgindex.exe -FO=0 -OM=1 -TN=1 -YR=2 -AIF=[C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\ThatGirl\VTS_01_1.vob] -OF=[C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\movie] -exit -minimize
06:43:58 Finished indexing
06:43:58 Starting fixing audio delay on track number 1
06:43:58 DelayCut CMD: C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\dgindex\Delaycut.exe -auto -out "C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\fixed1.ac3" "C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\movie T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3"
06:43:58 Original 1' Audio Size: 5525760 bytes
06:43:58 Finished fixing audio delay
06:44:04 Number of Frames: 6902
06:44:04 Framerate: 29.970030
06:44:04 Movie length in Seconds: 231
06:44:04 Movie Width: 720
06:44:04 Movie Height: 480
06:46:38 Processing completed. Type is determined to be film.
06:46:38 BFF: 40
06:46:38 TFF: 180
06:46:38 Order: var
06:46:38 Autoresize CMD: cscript.exe "C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\encoder\WMCmd.vbs" -input "C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\resmovie.avs" -output "C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\resmovie.wmv" -v_codec WMV8 -v_mode 2 -v_quality 85 -s_config "C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\wmv_crb" -a_codec WMASTD -a_mode 0 -title "ThatGirl-Amplifydb(25)" -year 2007 -copyright "Done with AutoMKV! 0.79" -a_setting 256_44_2
06:47:26 Tested total movie: 5%
06:47:26 AutoResize movie size: 2111885 bytes
06:47:26 Movie Width suggested: 19456 value based on sample size (2702.22% of original width)
06:47:26 WMV CMD: cscript.exe "C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\encoder\WMCmd.vbs" -input "C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\movie.avs" -output "C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\movie.wmv" -v_codec WMV8 -v_mode 3 -v_bitrate 25747456 -s_config "C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\wmv_crb" -a_codec WMASTD -a_mode 0 -title "ThatGirl-Amplifydb(25)" -year 2007 -copyright "Done with AutoMKV! 0.79" -a_setting 256_44_2
06:57:21 Final Muxed size: 121750974 bytes
06:57:22 Encoding finished: 00:13:28 elapsed time
06:57:22 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
06:57:22 Script AutoCrop.log
06:57:22
06:57:22 Crop(0,48,720,384)
06:57:22 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
06:57:22 Script Resmovie.avs
06:57:22
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\autocrop.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\BicublinResize.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\blockbuster.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\cnr2.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\ColorMatrix.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Convolution3D.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\corrector.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DctFilter.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Decomb.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Deen.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\degrainmedian.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DGDecode.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\EEDI2.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\fft3dfilter.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\FluxSmooth.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\frfun7.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\hqdn3d.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MaskTools.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\medianblur.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MipSmooth.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mt_masktools.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvtools.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\RemoveGrain.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Repair.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SangNom.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SimpleResize.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TBilateral.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TDeint.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TIVTC.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TomsMoComp.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TTempSmooth.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnDot.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnFilter.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\VSFilter.dll")
06:57:22 #loadpluginstart
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test1
06:57:22
06:57:22 Import("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MCBob_v03c.avsi")
06:57:22 Import("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvbob.avsi")
06:57:22 Import("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\seesaw.avsi")
06:57:22 Import("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\spresso.avsi")
06:57:22 #importstart
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test2
06:57:22
06:57:22 movie = mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\movie.d2v")
06:57:22 audio = NicAC3Source("C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\fixed1.ac3",2)
06:57:22 function getOrder(clip c) {
06:57:22 order = GetParity(c) ? 1 : 0
06:57:22 Return order }
06:57:22 #filter1start
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test3
06:57:22
06:57:22 #cropstart
06:57:22
06:57:22 cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
06:57:22 fixed_aspect = 0.888889
06:57:22 c_width = width(cropclip)
06:57:22 c_height = Round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
06:57:22 input_par = float(float(c_width)/float(c_height))
06:57:22 input_par = input_par > 1.4 ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
06:57:22 out_width = 704
06:57:22 out_height = Round(float(out_width) / input_par)
06:57:22 hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
06:57:22 out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
06:57:22 new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
06:57:22 autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
06:57:22
06:57:22 tfm(d2v="C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\movie.d2v").tdecimate()
06:57:22 #resizestart
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test4
06:57:22
06:57:22 SimpleResize(out_width,out_height)
06:57:22 #filter2start
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test5
06:57:22
06:57:22 RemoveGrain(mode=2)
06:57:22 function Comptest(clip c, float percent)
06:57:22 {
06:57:22 frange=floor(14./(percent/100.))
06:57:22 Return SelectRangeEvery(c, frange, 14)
06:57:22 }
06:57:22 audio=ConvertAudioToFloat(audio)
06:57:22 audio=getchannel(audio,1,2)
06:57:22 audiodub(audio,last)
06:57:22 Comptest(5)
06:57:22 ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",hints=false,threads=3)
06:57:22 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
06:57:22 Script movie.avs
06:57:22
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\autocrop.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\BicublinResize.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\blockbuster.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\cnr2.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\ColorMatrix.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Convolution3D.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\corrector.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DctFilter.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Decomb.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Deen.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\degrainmedian.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DGDecode.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\EEDI2.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\fft3dfilter.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\FluxSmooth.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\frfun7.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\hqdn3d.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MaskTools.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\medianblur.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MipSmooth.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mt_masktools.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvtools.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\RemoveGrain.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Repair.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SangNom.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SimpleResize.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TBilateral.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TDeint.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TIVTC.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TomsMoComp.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TTempSmooth.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnDot.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnFilter.dll")
06:57:22 LoadPlugin("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\VSFilter.dll")
06:57:22 #loadpluginstart
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test1
06:57:22
06:57:22 Import("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MCBob_v03c.avsi")
06:57:22 Import("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvbob.avsi")
06:57:22 Import("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\seesaw.avsi")
06:57:22 Import("C:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\spresso.avsi")
06:57:22 #importstart
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test2
06:57:22
06:57:22 movie = mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\movie.d2v")
06:57:22 audio = NicAC3Source("C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\fixed1.ac3",2)
06:57:22 function getOrder(clip c) {
06:57:22 order = GetParity(c) ? 1 : 0
06:57:22 Return order }
06:57:22 #filter1start
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test3
06:57:22
06:57:22 #cropstart
06:57:22
06:57:22 cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
06:57:22 fixed_aspect = 0.888889
06:57:22 c_width = width(cropclip)
06:57:22 c_height = Round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
06:57:22 input_par = float(float(c_width)/float(c_height))
06:57:22 input_par = input_par > 1.4 ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
06:57:22 out_width = 704
06:57:22 out_height = Round(float(out_width) / input_par)
06:57:22 hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
06:57:22 out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
06:57:22 new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
06:57:22 autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
06:57:22
06:57:22 tfm(d2v="C:\Documents and Settings\Ned\Desktop\temp\movie.d2v").tdecimate()
06:57:22 #resizestart
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test4
06:57:22
06:57:22 SimpleResize(out_width,out_height)
06:57:22 #filter2start
06:57:22
06:57:22 #test5
06:57:22
06:57:22 RemoveGrain(mode=2)
06:57:22 ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",hints=false,threads=3)
06:57:22 audio=ConvertAudioToFloat(audio)
06:57:22 audio=getchannel(audio,1,2)
06:57:22 audiodub(audio,last)
06:57:22 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
06:57:22 Script mkvmaudio.avs
06:57:22 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
06:57:22 Script mkvmaudio.bat
06:57:22 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
06:57:22 Script mkvmaudio2.avs
06:57:22 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
06:57:22 Script mkvmaudio2.bat
06:57:22
06:57:22 - - - - - - - - - - - - FINISHED JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Interestingly, this music video doesn't need to be any louder. However the movie from the same DVD (same rip by DVDFab) is quiet. I need to find time to do more research on why...

Thank you for your continuing help.

[Shark_jlc]

If you are encoding DVD (or VOB, MPEG2) to WMV and haven't tried "Film" in the deinterlacer setting, do so. (Try auto first.)

...

It's always on auto, and that hasn't worked for this particular movie, neither did setting it to film. Thanks though :/

[buzzqw]

@nx6
as you know i reset all advanced setting every time the window is open. BUT automkv remember the settings till next reopen of advanced audio settings.
About memorizing this settings (even with save settings) could cause user to "apply without remember" same settings.

i prefer to let it be set every time

@dlflannery
well said

@BixMix
wmv encoding. this is the key!
advanced audio settings aren't applied to wmv encoding.
Audio will ne normalized in wmv from next version!

@Shark_jlc
what is reported by deint.log ?

BHH

[AMED]

Hi buzzqw

is there any chance of getting the subtitle track 1 and subtitle track 2 drop down boxes to display something instead of NONE when using external subtitles. Maybe something like "Using External Subtitles".

Also do you plan to add any support for forced subtitles?

[Shark_jlc]

@Shark_jlc
what is reported by deint.log ?
BHH

Here is the deint.log file when the AutoMKV deinterlacer dropdown is set to Auto.

[buzzqw]

@AMED
i will look... but not now.. and not so easy... since the external subtitle are not exclusive of one selected

about cc, have you at hand the link on vsrip and cc? (or i will search myself)

@Shark_jlc

thanks, wait for approval

@ALL
in next update i will introduce ffmpeg.exe as encoder
till now i have added support (limited) for flv, rv10, mpeg2video, msmpeg4v2.
I tryed even snow... but i miss surely something

any other codec to add ?

BHH

[glynor]

Yesterday I attempted to rip my copy of O Brother Where Art Thou using only AutoMKV. I typically rip the discs myself using either DVD Fab Decrypter or RipIt4Me, but I decided to give AutoMKV a shot.

So, I loaded it into my DVD drive (an external Plextor PX-712UF drive), selected the drive from the drop-down, hit the check DVD drive button, it selected the right PGC, and I set my settings and hit Go.

Unfortunately, the rip process never completed. DVD Fab Express loaded, and the process was going, but it was running extremely slowly. Watching the process in Process Explorer showed it was using basically 0% CPU time (it was "blipping" up to 1-2% every so often, but generally was at 0%), but the I/O chart was very interesting -- It was "spiking" up and down regularly like a EKG readout. I checked, and the file sizes in the output directory were slowly climbing, so it was doing something. At first, I thought the process was stalled because it was progressing so slowly...

Either way, I was curious, so I let the process run overnight. After running for over 16 hours solid, it was still only about 2/3 completed. I killed the task this morning because I was tired of waiting.

So today I ran the same disc, in the same drive, on the same machine through DVD Fab Decrypter (the current freebie version) on it's own and it completed in about 25 minutes.

Not sure what's going on here, but something was screwy. The logs were unfortunately completely empty on disk, so I don't have much to show other than that. I'm happy to run the test again if you show me what I can post that'll help!

[glynor]

@ALL
in next update i will introduce ffmpeg.exe as encoder
till now i have added support (limited) for flv, rv10, mpeg2video, msmpeg4v2.
I tryed even snow... but i miss surely something

any other codec to add ?


Any chance we can get DV?

[buzzqw]

@glynor

about ripping:
I loaded it into my DVD drive
good
selected the drive from the drop-down
good
hit the check DVD drive button
good

it selected the right PGC, and I set my settings and hit Go.
bad
why bad?
after ripping i select directly the main movie BUT if you select the pgc (and check USE this pgc or use this ifo) automkv will parse all those vobs and extract only the pgc you select.
The pgc fuction is to use with episodic dvd not in main movie selection


Any chance we can get DV?
just to specify: take an "file" and encode TO DV ?
if so.. i must check ffmpeg if dv is supported in encoding, no problem to add

BHH

[glynor]

@glynor
bad
why bad?
after ripping i select directly the main movie BUT if you select the pgc (and check USE this pgc or use this ifo) automkv will parse all those vobs and extract only the pgc you select.
The pgc fuction is to use with episodic dvd not in main movie selection

Nope... Sorry. I think you misread my comment (or I mis-represented what I had done). I said IT picked the correct PGC, not that I did. I had Process this PGC and Process this IFO unchecked.

Just to note... I've now re-tried the operation with the same computer and same disc and same settings and it appears to be working properly. Not sure what's going on now!! :confused:

EDIT: Actually... Interesting results.

As I mentioned, I ripped the DVD myself using DVD Fab Decrypter and then I encoded it to a x264 MKV. Worked perfectly. Then, immediately and without closing/reopening AutoMKV, I attempted to re-rip the disc using AutoMKV. I kept all the settings the same as what I had just used, but selected my drive from the dropdown and hit "Check DVD". It properly selected the F:\Video_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO, I changed the "output file name", and I hit go. Interestingly, even though it is a CSS protected DVD, AutoMKV didn't actually launch DVD Fab Express but proceeded directly into the Dgindex step. I manually "restored" the Dgindex window and (unsurprisingly) the video display window was black.

I was fairly sure something was going wrong so I Killed the AutoMKV process tree, deleted the orphaned temp directory, and started over. After "launching fresh", AutoMKV properly launched DVD Fab Express and is currently properly decrypting the disc. So... That was pretty odd!


just to specify: take an "file" and encode TO DV ?
if so.. i must check ffmpeg if dv is supported in encoding, no problem to add

Yes. That's exactly what I mean. I wouldn't use it often, but it can come in handy sometimes for converting to weird formats that can't be handled by my favorite converter... AutoMKV of course!

[PlayWithFire]

i almost gone AutoMKV working for converting MKV to WMV. There's just one problem: there's no sound.
Can anyone help me?

[nx6]

...AutoMKV didn't actually launch DVD Fab Express but proceeded directly into the Dgindex step. I manually "restored" the Dgindex window and (unsurprisingly) the video display window was black...

DGIndex's window is always black for me. I can tell if its running or not because on a running DGIndex:

The window title wont be just "DGIndex" but "DGIndex - VOB 1_1..." something about the file its processing.
There will be a minimized, inactive window in the lower left corner of the screen (minimized to a small title bar, not to the taskbar). The tile of this window is "Information" and it is not possible to restore this window I find.
The hard drive will be churning.


Were any of these symptoms occurring?

[nx6]

i almost gone AutoMKV working for converting MKV to WMV. There's just one problem: there's no sound.
Can anyone help me?
I don't mean to be insulting, but you did remember to select audio tracks, right?
Can you post the log file?

[PlayWithFire]

no, you are not insulting at all
but yes, i did select an audio track.
i should elaborate a little bit. Some sound does come thought, but mostly background noise. It's really strange.

i will post my log file when i get home tonight

[nx6]

no, you are not insulting at all
but yes, i did select an audio track.
i should elaborate a little bit. Some sound does come thought, but mostly background noise. It's really strange.

i will post my log file when i get home tonight

Did you choose a 5.1 channel audio track as your source but a 2 channel audio format? Sometimes I have weird effects with the loudness of vocals in relation to background noise when playing a 5.1 channel audio track over a two channel system.

Use the "code" tags when you post the log, if you attach a text file we'll have to wait for it to be approved, and if you just paste without the tags the word wrap will make it harder to read.

[PlayWithFire]

nx6, i don't think i did that
here's my log

20:56:09 0.79 - - - - - - - - - - - - - START JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20:56:09 Selected Input file: D:\Video\TV\Lost\Lost.S03E13.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv
20:56:09 Selected Output dir: D:\Video\HD\temp\
20:56:09 Selected Final Name: Lost.S03E13.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU
20:56:09 Selected Container type: WMV
20:56:09 Selected Encoder: WMV
20:56:09 Selected Size: Don't care about size
20:56:09 Selected Slice: 1
20:56:09 Selected Profile: 1_Pass_CBR_UltraQuick.xml
20:56:09 Selected Width: 720
20:56:09 Selected Resizer: SimpleResize (neutral soft)
20:56:09 Selected Filters: RemoveGrain(mode=2)
20:56:09 Selected Deinterlacer: AUTO
20:56:09 Selected Field Order: AUTO
20:56:09 NeroAACEnc.exe: not present
20:56:09 Enabled CRF/CQ AutoRes at 85 value
20:56:09 Track Language 1: Lost.S03E13.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv
20:56:09 Audio Codec 1: WMV
20:56:09 Audio Quality 1: 96
20:56:09 Audio Channel 1: Stereo
20:56:09 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 1
20:56:09 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
20:56:09 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
20:56:09 Lame Settings: ABR
20:56:09 Audio Normalization: 1
20:56:09 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
20:56:09 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
20:56:09 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 2
20:56:09 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
20:56:09 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
20:56:09 Lame Settings: ABR
20:56:09 Audio Normalization: 1
20:56:09 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
20:56:09 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
20:56:09
20:56:12 Number of Frames:
20:56:12 Framerate:
20:56:12 Movie length in Seconds: 0
20:56:12 Movie Width:
20:56:12 Movie Height:
20:56:12 Avi engage mode not corrected, switched to DirectShowSource
20:57:38 Number of Frames: 60874
20:57:38 Framerate: 23.976044
20:57:38 Movie length in Seconds: 2539
20:57:38 Movie Width: 1280
20:57:38 Movie Height: 720
20:57:41 Order: unk
20:57:41 WMV CMD: cscript.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\encoder\WMCmd.vbs" -input "D:\Video\HD\temp\movie.avs" -output "D:\Video\HD\temp\movie.wmv" -v_codec WMV7 -v_mode 0 -v_bitrate 108057856 -s_config "D:\Video\HD\temp\wmv_crb" -v_bframedist 1 -v_dquantoption 2 -v_lookahead 0 -v_mbmodecost 0 -v_mmatch 0 -v_mslevel 1 -v_msrange 0 -v_mvcost 0 -v_bdeltaqp 1 -a_codec WMASTD -a_mode 0 -title "Lost.S03E13.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU" -year 2007 -copyright "Done with AutoMKV! 0.79" -a_setting 96_44_2
22:30:05 Final Muxed size: 441276800 bytes
22:30:05 Encoding finished: 01:33:56 elapsed time
22:30:05 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:30:05 Script AutoCrop.log
22:30:05
22:30:05 Crop(0,4,1276,708)
22:30:05 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:30:05 Script Resmovie.avs
22:30:05 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:30:05 Script movie.avs
22:30:05
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\autocrop.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\BicublinResize.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\blockbuster.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\cnr2.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\ColorMatrix.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\Convolution3D.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\corrector.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\DctFilter.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\Decomb.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\Deen.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\degrainmedian.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\DGDecode.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\EEDI2.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\fft3dfilter.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\FluxSmooth.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\frfun7.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\hqdn3d.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\MaskTools.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\medianblur.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\MipSmooth.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\mt_masktools.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\mvtools.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\RemoveGrain.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\Repair.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\SangNom.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\SimpleResize.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\TBilateral.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\TDeint.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\TIVTC.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\TomsMoComp.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\TTempSmooth.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\UnDot.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\UnFilter.dll")
22:30:05 LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\VSFilter.dll")
22:30:05 #loadpluginstart
22:30:05
22:30:05 #test1
22:30:05
22:30:05 Import("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\MCBob_v03c.avsi")
22:30:05 Import("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\mvbob.avsi")
22:30:05 Import("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\seesaw.avsi")
22:30:05 Import("C:\Documents and Settings\Pasha\Desktop\AutoMKV\exe\filter\spresso.avsi")
22:30:05 #importstart
22:30:05
22:30:05 #test2
22:30:05
22:30:05 movie = directshowsource("D:\Video\TV\Lost\Lost.S03E13.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv",audio=false)
22:30:05 movie = isRGB(movie) ? ConvertToYV12(movie,interlaced=true) : movie
22:30:05 movie = isYUY2(movie) ? ConvertToYV12(movie,interlaced=true) : movie
22:30:05 audio = DirectShowSource("D:\Video\TV\Lost\Lost.S03E13.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv",fps=23.976044,convertfps = true,video=false)
22:30:05 function getOrder(clip c) {
22:30:05 order = GetParity(c) ? 1 : 0
22:30:05 Return order }
22:30:05 #filter1start
22:30:05
22:30:05 #test3
22:30:05
22:30:05 #cropstart
22:30:05
22:30:05 cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
22:30:05 fixed_aspect = 1
22:30:05 c_width = width(cropclip)
22:30:05 c_height = Round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
22:30:05 input_par = float(float(c_width)/float(c_height))
22:30:05 input_par = input_par > 1.4 ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
22:30:05 out_width = 720
22:30:05 out_height = Round(float(out_width) / input_par)
22:30:05 hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
22:30:05 out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
22:30:05 new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
22:30:05 autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
22:30:05
22:30:05 #resizestart
22:30:05
22:30:05 #test4
22:30:05
22:30:05 SimpleResize(out_width,out_height)
22:30:05 #filter2start
22:30:05
22:30:05 #test5
22:30:05
22:30:05 RemoveGrain(mode=2)
22:30:05 audio=ConvertAudioToFloat(audio)
22:30:05 audio=getchannel(audio,1,2)
22:30:05 audiodub(audio,last)
22:30:05 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:30:05 Script mkvmaudio.avs
22:30:05 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:30:05 Script mkvmaudio.bat
22:30:05 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:30:05 Script mkvmaudio2.avs
22:30:05 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:30:05 Script mkvmaudio2.bat
22:30:05
22:30:05 - - - - - - - - - - - - FINISHED JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[nx6]

nx6, i don't think i did that

I actually missed that this was converting MKV to WMV.
(snip)
20:56:09 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 2
20:56:09 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
20:56:09 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
20:56:09 Lame Settings: ABR
20:56:09 Audio Normalization: 1
20:56:09 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
20:56:09 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
20:56:09 {{where's the audio encoding info? it should be somewhere in here}}
20:56:12 Number of Frames:
20:56:12 Framerate:
20:56:12 Movie length in Seconds: 0
20:56:12 Movie Width:
20:56:12 Movie Height:
20:56:12 Avi engage mode not corrected, switched to DirectShowSource
20:57:38 Number of Frames: 60874
(snip)

What format are the audio tracks in the MKV in?

[nx6]

@buzzqw

I've been trying occasionally to do a grayscale encoding using the method you gave me here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=969510#post969510), but so far it's not completing successfully.
12:28:29 0.79 - - - - - - - - - - - - - START JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
12:28:29 Selected Input file: S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
12:28:29 Selected Output dir: S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\
12:28:29 Selected Final Name: RoshomonCRF18BWAAC25
12:28:29 Selected Container type: MKV
12:28:29 Selected Encoder: X264
12:28:29 Selected Size: Don't care about size
12:28:29 Selected Slice: 1
12:28:29 Selected Profile: ConstantQuality-CRF.xml
12:28:29 Selected Width: 720
12:28:29 Selected Resizer: SimpleResize (neutral soft)
12:28:29 Selected Filters: RemoveGrain(mode=2)
12:28:29 Selected Deinterlacer: AUTO
12:28:29 Selected Field Order: AUTO
12:28:29 Enabled CRF/CQ AutoRes at 18 value
12:28:29 Track Language 1: Japanese (AC3 1ch, 0xBD 0x80) [0]
12:28:29 Audio Codec 1: Nero AAC
12:28:29 Audio Quality 1: 0.25
12:28:29 Audio Channel 1: Stereo
12:28:29 Track Language 2: English (AC3 1ch, 0xBD 0x81) [0]
12:28:29 Audio Codec 2: Nero AAC
12:28:29 Audio Quality 2: 0.25
12:28:29 Audio Chennel 2: Stereo
12:28:29 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 1
12:28:29 Movie title Name: Roshomon (B&W encoding)
12:28:29 Audio Track Language: und
12:28:29 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
12:28:29 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
12:28:29 Lame Settings: ABR
12:28:29 Audio Normalization: Normalize Audio
12:28:29 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
12:28:29 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
12:28:29 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 2
12:28:29 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
12:28:29 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
12:28:29 Lame Settings: ABR
12:28:29 Audio Normalization: 1
12:28:29 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
12:28:29 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
12:28:29 Selected 1' Sub tracks: English 0 (0xBD 0x20) [0]
12:28:29 Activate Last line AVS Script: grayscale()
12:28:29 Selected Unlimited media size
12:28:30 Starting SubRipping
14:20:26 Subtitle Size: 1468416 bytes
14:20:26 Finished SubRipping
14:20:26 Starting Indexing
14:20:26 Dgindex CMD: S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\dgindex\dgindex.exe -FO=0 -OM=1 -TN=1,2 -YR=2 -AIF=[S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob] -OF=[S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie] -exit -minimize
15:10:06 Finished indexing
15:10:06 Starting fixing audio delay on track number 1
15:10:06 DelayCut CMD: S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\dgindex\Delaycut.exe -auto -out "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed1.ac3" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie T01 1_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 611ms.ac3"
15:11:11 Original 1' Audio Size: 126951936 bytes
15:11:11 DelayCut CMD: S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\dgindex\Delaycut.exe -auto -out "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed2.ac3" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie T02 1_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 1ms.ac3"
15:12:12 Original 2' Audio Size: 126951936 bytes
15:12:12 Finished fixing audio delay
15:12:12 Encoding S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed1.ac3 to NeroAAC with 0.25 quality
15:16:37 Encoded 1' Audio Track: 22419890 bytes
15:16:37 Encoding S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed2.ac3 to NeroAAC with 0.25 quality
15:21:10 Applying ReplayGain
15:21:12 Encoded 2' Audio Track: 22025454 bytes
15:21:12 ForceFilm Detected: 97.400002% FILM found
15:21:50 Number of Frames: 158532
15:21:50 Framerate: 29.970030
15:21:50 Movie length in Seconds: 5290
15:21:50 Movie Width: 720
15:21:50 Movie Height: 480
15:42:25 Processing completed. Type is determined to be partly film.
15:42:25 Processing completed. Type is determined to be partly film.
15:42:25 BFF: 53
15:42:25 TFF: 403
15:42:25 Order: tff
15:42:26 Starting X264
15:42:26 CRF encoding X264: S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\encoder\x264.exe --pass 1 --crf 18 --stats "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\.stats" --progress --keyint 250 --bframes 3 --qpmin 10 --qpmax 51 --no-psnr --mixed-refs --trellis 1 --ref 3 --filter -2,-1 --direct auto --vbv-maxrate 25000 --me umh --no-ssim --weightb --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --analyse p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8,p4x4 --8x8dct --threads 2 --output "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.mp4" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.avs"
15:42:55 Accepted values are between 31876710400 and 33889976320 bytes (movie+audio)
15:42:55 Got a file of size: 0 bytes + audio size 44453754 bytes (45187960)
15:42:55 "S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\matroska\mkvmerge.exe" -o "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\RoshomonCRF18BWAAC25.mkv" --track-name -1:"RoshomonCRF18BWAAC25" --aspect-ratio 1:1.344538 --chapters "S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\chapters.txt" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.mp4" --language -1:und "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\audio.mp4" --language -1:eng "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\audio2.mp4" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\RoshomonCRF18BWAAC25.idx" --title "Roshomon (B&W encoding)"
15:42:59 Final Muxed size: -1 bytes
15:42:59 Encoding finished: 03:14:30 elapsed time
15:42:59 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:42:59 Script AutoCrop.log
15:42:59
15:42:59 Crop(8,2,708,476)
15:42:59 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:42:59 Script Resmovie.avs
15:42:59 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:42:59 Script movie.avs
15:42:59
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\autocrop.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\BicublinResize.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\blockbuster.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\cnr2.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\ColorMatrix.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Convolution3D.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\corrector.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DctFilter.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Decomb.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Deen.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\degrainmedian.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DGDecode.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\EEDI2.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\fft3dfilter.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\FluxSmooth.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\frfun7.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\hqdn3d.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MaskTools.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\medianblur.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MipSmooth.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mt_masktools.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvtools.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\RemoveGrain.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Repair.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SangNom.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SimpleResize.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TBilateral.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TDeint.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TIVTC.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TomsMoComp.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TTempSmooth.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnDot.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnFilter.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\VSFilter.dll")
15:42:59 #loadpluginstart
15:42:59
15:42:59 #test1
15:42:59
15:42:59 Import("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MCBob_v03c.avsi")
15:42:59 Import("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvbob.avsi")
15:42:59 Import("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\seesaw.avsi")
15:42:59 Import("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\spresso.avsi")
15:42:59 #importstart
15:42:59
15:42:59 #test2
15:42:59
15:42:59 movie = mpeg2source("S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.d2v")
15:42:59 function getOrder(clip c) {
15:42:59 order = GetParity(c) ? 1 : 0
15:42:59 Return order }
15:42:59 #filter1start
15:42:59
15:42:59 #test3
15:42:59
15:42:59 #cropstart
15:42:59
15:42:59 cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
15:42:59 fixed_aspect = 0.888889
15:42:59 c_width = width(cropclip)
15:42:59 c_height = Round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
15:42:59 input_par = float(float(c_width)/float(c_height))
15:42:59 input_par = input_par > 1.4 ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
15:42:59 out_width = 720
15:42:59 out_height = Round(float(out_width) / input_par)
15:42:59 hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
15:42:59 out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
15:42:59 new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
15:42:59 autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
15:42:59
15:42:59 tfm(d2v="S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\movie.d2v").tdecimate(hybrid=3)
15:42:59 #resizestart
15:42:59
15:42:59 #test4
15:42:59
15:42:59 SimpleResize(out_width,out_height)
15:42:59 #filter2start
15:42:59
15:42:59 #test5
15:42:59
15:42:59 RemoveGrain(mode=2)
15:42:59 ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",hints=false,threads=2)
15:42:59 grayscale()
15:42:59 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:42:59 Script mkvmaudio.avs
15:42:59
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
15:42:59 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
15:42:59 NicAC3Source("S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed1.ac3")
15:42:59 #Applying STEREO downmixing routines
15:42:59 function stereo(clip a)
15:42:59 {
15:42:59 flr = GetChannel(a, 1, 2)
15:42:59 fcc = GetChannel(a, 3)
15:42:59 lfe = GetChannel(a, 4)
15:42:59 lfc = MixAudio(fcc, lfe, 0.2071, 0.2071)
15:42:59 mix = MergeChannels(lfc, lfc)
15:42:59 lrc = MixAudio(flr, mix, 0.2929, 1.0)
15:42:59 blr = GetChannel(a, 5, 6)
15:42:59 Return MixAudio(lrc, blr, 1.0, 0.2929)}
15:42:59 #
15:42:59 6==Audiochannels() ? stereo() : last
15:42:59 Soundout(output="cmd",type=1,format=3,autoclose=true,executable="S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\besweet\neroaacenc.exe",prefilename=" -ignorelength -q 0.25 -if - -of audio.mp4",postfilename="",nofilename=true,showoutput=false)
15:42:59 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:42:59 Script mkvmaudio.bat
15:42:59
15:43:00 "S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\BeSweet\ffmpeg.exe" -y -t 1 -i "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\mkvmaudio.avs" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\junk.wav"
15:43:00 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:43:00 Script mkvmaudio2.avs
15:43:00
15:43:00 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
15:43:00 LoadPlugin("S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
15:43:00 NicAC3Source("S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\fixed2.ac3")
15:43:00 #Applying STEREO downmixing routines
15:43:00 function stereo(clip a)
15:43:00 {
15:43:00 flr = GetChannel(a, 1, 2)
15:43:00 fcc = GetChannel(a, 3)
15:43:00 lfe = GetChannel(a, 4)
15:43:00 lfc = MixAudio(fcc, lfe, 0.2071, 0.2071)
15:43:00 mix = MergeChannels(lfc, lfc)
15:43:00 lrc = MixAudio(flr, mix, 0.2929, 1.0)
15:43:00 blr = GetChannel(a, 5, 6)
15:43:00 Return MixAudio(lrc, blr, 1.0, 0.2929)}
15:43:00 #
15:43:00 6==Audiochannels() ? stereo() : last
15:43:00 Soundout(output="cmd",type=1,format=3,autoclose=true,executable="S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\besweet\neroaacenc.exe",prefilename=" -ignorelength -q 0.25 -if - -of audio2.mp4",postfilename="",nofilename=true,showoutput=false)
15:43:00 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:43:00 Script mkvmaudio2.bat
15:43:00
15:43:00 "S:\AutoMKV079a\exe\BeSweet\ffmpeg.exe" -y -t 1 -i "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\mkvmaudio2.avs" "S:\AutoMKV079a\temp\MainMovie\RASHOMON\VIDEO_TS\temp\junk2.wav"
15:43:00
15:43:00 - - - - - - - - - - - - FINISHED JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


There's something goofy going on in the highlighted area, but I don't know what.

[buzzqw]

audio = DirectShowSource("D:\Video\TV\Lost\Lost.S03E13.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv",fps=23.976044,convertfps = true,video=false)

seems that DirectShowSource is unable to access your file,

create an avs script with written only
DirectShowSource("D:\Video\TV\Lost\Lost.S03E13.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv",fps=23.976044,convertfps = true,video=false)
and open with media player classic, are you able to hear sound ?

@nx6
please don't blame me... but
grayscale() doesn't exists... use
greyscale() :p

btw thanks for answering and suggesting to other user!
(yesterday i was busy with some redolog/controlfile of one of our oracle servers...)

BHH

[nx6]

@nx6
please don't blame me... but
grayscale() doesn't exists... use
greyscale() :p
BHH

:eek: :eek: :eek:

They're both correct spellings, it's just :rolleyes:

:thanks: I will try again later on (these jobs take a loooooong time to encode).

[delacroixp]

@nx6
please don't blame me... but
grayscale() doesn't exists... use
greyscale() :p


In programming... there is no room for "syntax" errors...
I'm dying to see how your 'grayscale' encode pans out... it's pretty exciting...

You don't perhaps know how to use "single channel mono (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113811&page=66)"... I tried to downmix... (in BeSweet/Belight) but the new file is larger than the stereo-only... it still seams to be creating 2 channels, rather than one... albeit 'mono channels'...


:eek: :eek: :eek:

They're both correct spellings, it's just :rolleyes:

:thanks: I will try again later on (these jobs take a loooooong time to encode).
Try a 100 MB clip first... perhaps you can rip just one chapter.


I've been trying some seriously HQ 2-pass encodes since I now know how large (proportionally) each episode of BoB should be... I used the first chapter from the first episode which still turned out to be 400 MB...

Anyway I tried the "HighQuality-Insane" profile set to the same filesize as the 22-CQ-CRF encode... I normally got 6fps... now I got 2fps (x2 - for the 2nd pass)... so it took six-times longer... Funny enough... there was no significant difference in quality though I will have a closer look later...
I usually look for differences in small text in the intro... especially the 'diagonal leg' of the capital 'R'... maybe even in red... but I could see nothing.

For maximum quality... what kind of profile/filters/settings do you recommend ??? I'm looking for Q20-CRF quality on a Q22-CRF budget...



:) :D :eek:
Pascal

[delacroixp]

If I save my "Original" settings AutoMKV restarts with the Resize Filter option set to "SimpleResize(neutral soft)" instead of NONE.

Perhaps
IF someone chooses the 'AutoCrop Only' option... THEN

IF using MKV container... THEN
no resizing takes place and muxing switches are automatically set.

ELSE resize accordingly.


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[nx6]

In programming... there is no room for "syntax" errors...
I'm dying to see how your 'grayscale' encode pans out... it's pretty exciting...

You mean the greyscale encode? :D

You don't perhaps know how to use "single channel mono (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113811&page=66)"

No, I do actually. I just forgot to set it on the audio settings when I did the "normal" encoding so I was purposefully leaving it on stereo with this grayscale attempt as well for consistency (since I would be comparing the final movie sizes).

Since the size of the "color" one was 1.66GB (@CRF:18), I know the final encoding I do when I finish playing around will be at a lower quality setting anyway, I can downmix it on that one. But I'll just use the default CRF profile for now (to avoid anymore hiccups like accidentally deleting brackets). :D

[gekan]

...
For maximum quality... what kind of profile/filters/settings do you recommend ??? I'm looking for Q20-CRF quality on a Q22-CRF budget...
What do you mean "Q20-CRF quality on a Q22-CRF budget"?

[delacroixp]

For maximum quality... what kind of profile/filters/settings do you recommend ??? I'm looking for Q20-CRF quality on a Q22-CRF budget...

What do you mean "Q20-CRF quality on a Q22-CRF budget"?

Well... I'm looking for Q20 quality on Q22 filesize... with a little patience, endurance and persistence to help 'pay the way'...


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[PlayWithFire]

What format are the audio tracks in the MKV in?i have no idea, how do i find out?

create an avs script with written only
DirectShowSource("D:\Video\TV\Lost\Lost.S03E13.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv",fps=23.976044,convertfps = true,video=false)
and open with media player classic, are you able to hear sound ?yes, i can hear sound if i do this

[gekan]

Well... I'm looking for Q20 quality on Q22 filesize... with a little patience, endurance and persistence to help 'pay the way'...


:):D:eek:
Pascal
It would be great if you find settings to result in this way. It would be really great! :)

[buzzqw]

UPDATE !!! 0.80

new full package

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMKV080_NORIP.rar (12 mb)
http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMKV080.rar (12.5 mb)

0.80 Full Package 29/03/2007
ADDED: MediaInfo. AutoMKV will use it as last resort to analyse input file
ADDED: New WMCmd.vbs. More stable and robust
ADDED: In Log file the AR reported by DgIndex
ADDED: WMV WVC1 preset based on Zambelli post http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123812 , these preset are 2 pass encoding (Preset_Fast_WVC1.xml, Preset_Good_WVC1.xml, Preset_Better_WVC1.xml, Preset_Best_WVC1.xml, Prest_Insane_WVC1.xml)
ADDED: Normalize() to audio avs file. On my pc (p4 2.8ghz 1gb ram) took 10 minutes to analyze film like Matrix before start encoding, wait and go to drink a tea.
ADDED: FFmpeg.exe as encoder. If xvid_encraw/x264/wmcmd isn't able to process input file (not on dvd input) ffmpeg will try to encode to desidered codec/container/width (not autocrop sorry...). Manual crop will be parsed and applyed
ADDED: Multi Encoder!. If a file named "flv" or "msmpeg4v2" or "mpeg2video" or "rv10" is present in automkv folder then automkv will be force to used ffmpeg.exe to these format. (not woriking on dvd or avs input)
ADDED: VirtualDub (1.7.1) as launcher of SoundOut plugin. More support to "strange" avs audio file
FIXED: MP4 was recognized as AUDIO. Now is Video
FIXED: XviD_CQ profile is now a true CQ. BQuantRatio is set to 1 (suggestion by weaver4)
FIXED: In X264 the -ref was applyed two times (thanks to Demeragon)
FIXED: New Audio setting for WMV (more compatible with new WMCmd.vbs)
FIXED: AACgain doesn't work for installation path with space (like c:\program files\automkv\... ) (thanks to vgiozo)
FIXED: Some tuning to audio downmixing when using WMV
FIXED: Moved Force Mux AR to Muxing Options and Anamorphic Encoding to Aspect Ratio Options (suggestion by delacroixp)
FIXED: Some layout change to Log file
FIXED: Substituted RemoveGrain.dll to RemoveGrainS.dll (fix Athlon issue). If you have a more powerfull CPU delete this file and from http://home.arcor.de/kassandro/RemoveGrain/RemoveGrain.rar take the DLL version your CPU supports (RemoveGrainSSE2.dll or RemoveGrainSSE3.dll). Same job with RepairSSE2.dll or RepairSSE3.dll
FIXED: Some tuning to WMV bitrate calculator
FIXED: If profile is CRF or CQ, and user select Go Unlimited Size, the width is now set to "Original" (suggestion by nx6)
UPDATE: NicAudio to 2.0.0.2, DgIndex to 1.4.7 beta 17, X264 v635, ffmpeg.exe v8435

NOTE: i tryed to add support with ffmpeg to encode in DV and SNOW but without success. There are 2 sample encoding command line: where is the error ?

DV: ffmpeg.exe -i movie.avi -vcodec dvvideo -target dv -b 3000000 -cropleft 2 -croptop 72 -cropright 2 -cropbottom 72 -s 640x352 -r 25.000 -acodec pcm_u16le -ac 2 -ar 48000 test_dv.avi

SNOW: ffmpeg.exe -i movie.avi -vcodec snow -b 200000 -pass 1 -r 25.000 -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ab -ar 44100 test_snow.snow

@delacroixp

try with "spresso" filter or the Kiss method (keep it simple/stupid) "Deen().Undot()"

@PlayWithFire
do proprierties of file, is 5.1 ? (and try this update!)

BHH

[Shark_jlc]

Awesome Buzzqw, I look forward to trying this out tonight!

[PlayWithFire]

@buzzqw, AWESOME!

i'll try the update tonight, thanks a lot!
(I think i might need to explore where that PayPal button goes :p )

[DarkZell666]

@buzzqw:

I see one error with the snow command-line:
-ab needs a value (and there isn't any specified).
ex: -ab 128000 (for 128kbps).

I'm not sure about the absence of -ab for the DV command-line though, it may be a predetermined value due to the use of the "pcm_u16le" audio codec.

[buzzqw]

i'm not sure about the absence of -ab for the DV command-line though, it may be a predetermined value due to the use of the "pcm_u16le" audio codec.

without the value it will use the 1536 (iirc)

BHH

[Shark_jlc]

Sorry about the size of this post, but I got tired of waiting for the attachments to be approved.

1st post: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=975924#post975924

2nd Post: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=976021#post976021

3rd Post: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=976379#post976379

Movie.avs

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\BicublinResize.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\blockbuster.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\cnr2.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\ColorMatrix.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Convolution3D.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\corrector.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DctFilter.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Decomb.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Deen.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\degrainmedian.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\EEDI2.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\fft3dfilter.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\FluxSmooth.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\frfun7.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\hqdn3d.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MaskTools.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\medianblur.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MipSmooth.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mt_masktools.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvtools.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\RemoveGrain.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\Repair.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SangNom.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SimpleResize.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TBilateral.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TDeint.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TIVTC.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TomsMoComp.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\TTempSmooth.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnDot.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\UnFilter.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\VSFilter.dll")
#loadpluginstart

#test1

Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\MCBob_v03c.avsi")
Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\mvbob.avsi")
Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\seesaw.avsi")
Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV079a\exe\filter\spresso.avsi")
#importstart

#test2

movie = mpeg2source("D:\temp\movie.d2v")
function getOrder(clip c) {
order = GetParity(c) ? 1 : 0
Return order }
#filter1start

#test3

#cropstart

cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
fixed_aspect = 0.888889
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = Round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(float(c_width)/float(c_height))
input_par = input_par > 1.4 ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
out_width = 720
out_height = Round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)

last = movie
tfm(d2v="D:\temp\movie.d2v").tdecimate()
#resizestart

#test4

#filter2start

#test5

RemoveGrain(mode=2)
ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",hints=false,threads=2)
audio=ConvertAudioToFloat(audio)
audio=getchannel(audio,1,2)
audiodub(audio,last)


Deint.log (edited for length)

processed frames: 29/2850 -- 1% completed

.........

processed frames: 2850/2850 -- 100% completed
BAutoDeint [info]: Number of sections of type `unknown': 121
BAutoDeint [info]: Number of sections of type `progressive': 16
BAutoDeint [info]: Number of sections of type `film': 53
processed frames: 0/1895 -- 0% completed
processed frames: 19/1895 -- 1% completed

.......

processed frames: 1895/1895 -- 100% completed
BAutoDeint [info]: Number of sections of type `bff': 56
BAutoDeint [info]: Number of sections of type `tff': 226
BAutoDeint [info]: Number of sections of type `unknown': 97

Processing completed. Type is determined to be partly film.
Field order is variable.

Any help is appreciated. I will try again tonight with .80, but nothing jumped out at me in the change log as helping with this specific issue.

[glynor]

Two things I found with this build (0.80), one very small and one big.

1) The first time you use this, VirtualDub will give you a warning that you have to click through and until you do it pauses all execution. This warning is minimized though so if you wander off you might not ever see it. No huge deal, but just be aware.

2) When I'm ripping from an episodic VOB/IFO on my hard drive (ripped from DVD using DVD Fab Decrypter), and I've selected a second audio track, and I encode directly (by clicking the "Start Encoding" button) everything goes smoothly. However, if I add the job to the Queue, the second audio track gets forgotten somehow and does not get processed. I discovered this today with 0.79a and tried it again with 0.80 and no change. I have no idea if this only applies to jobs similar to the one I'm processing, or if it applies to all jobs sent to the Queue (I've only tried the one type so far). Either way, with five or six different jobs I've tried the second audio track is not getting done for jobs sent to the Queue.

Also... A couple of little questions:

I'm not real clear on when we have to check the new Process this PGC/IFO options vs. when we don't. The select PGC combobox is always active on the Basic Settings tab and always seems to list all of the titles when I select a IFO file as the Input. If I'm ripping an Episodic DVD, and I don't check the Process this PGC/IFO options, but I choose one of the titles from the Select PGC combobox, what happens? Is my selection in the combobox ignored (and if so, why isn't the combobox greyed out)? Something else?

My other question is more of a request. I realize you generally dislike working on the Queued Jobs section of the application, buzzqw. However, it'd be really keen if we could get two things:

a) In the Queued Job listing tab, can you move the Movie Name field over to the far left of the window (just to the right of the Input File field maybe)? When I'm trying to see what jobs I've queued, the Movie Name field is generally the most important one, and it's way over to the right where I can't see it. Alternatively, if we could re-order those ourselves (and have it "stick") that'd be swell.

b) It'd be super-keen if we could re-order the job list. I realize this might be some serious work though... But keep it in mind. Quite often if I decide that one job is more important than others, I have to delete all of the jobs in order to move one up a few "steps". I imagine I could also do it by closing AutoMKV and then manually re-numbering the queue#.ini files, but I've never tried (and that's certainly less than intuitive).

Oh, and thanks a lot for trying on the DV encoding. Sorry that I can't be any help with the command line though! I'm no FFMPEG ninja...

[buzzqw]

@Shark_jlc

the script miss the audio=XXXX (must be just after movie= )
what audio tracks have you selected ???

@glynor

The select PGC combobox is always active on the Basic
in dvd mode (main film only), without checking use this pcg and process this ifo is used only for determine the pgc of subtitle extraction

Process this ifo: is to check before selectin the ifo (on already ripped dvd).
Normaly automkv even if you point to a specific ifo will select the BIGGEST ifo, and so the vobs belonging to this ifo will be processed.

BUT if you check (before manual selecting the ifo) Use this IFO automkv will process only the vobs belonging to this SPECIFIC IFO. (example you select Video_TS.ifo... then only Video_TS_0X.vob will be processed)

The Use this PCG is to use with dvd that contain only one pgc (one set of vobs) BUT this vobs contain multiple episodes.
So you select the ifo (before have checked use this ifo), AND then CHECK USE THIS PGC, go in main tab and select from combo list the PGC (episode) to process.
After the FULL film is ripped (if needed) autoMKV will SCAN all this vobs and will create a NEW VOB that contain ONLY this PGC and then will work on this vob

I hope to be clear! (someone will copy this to the wiki... ?)

about missing audio: thanks.. i will look at this!

about queue... :scared: ... i will try ... but as you well understud i don't like working on it too much...

BHH

[Shark_jlc]

@Shark_jlc

the script miss the audio=XXXX (must be just after movie= )
what audio tracks have you selected ???

...
BHH

The only thing in the drop down typically, as I try to rip the dvd's with only the audio track I want to use. I can verify tonight though.

[glynor]

VirtualDub has been crashing on me when trying to convert the audio track (track 1) in a conversion to NeroAAC for me (two different occasions with two different "episodes" from the same DVD rip). I haven't completed the encode yet (the last time I killed it after VirtualDub crashed), but it looks like it might still be working...

Here's the relevant details of the encode from the log:

14:12:55 Track Language 1: English (AC3 2ch, 0xBD 0x80) [0,1,2,3,4,5,6]
14:12:55 Audio Codec 1: Nero AAC
14:12:55 Audio Quality 1: 0.50
14:12:55 Audio Channel 1: Stereo
14:12:55 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 1
14:12:55 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
14:12:55 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO

Nothing really appears to be showing up in the log related to the crash though, and the VirtualDub error message didn't really provide much info (other than that VirtualDub had crashed)... What else can I post to help?

EDIT: Here's the mkvaudio.bat and mkvaudio.avs from this run: http://www.geocities.com/ri0n/automkv/vdub_audio_crash.zip

[nx6]

i have no idea, how do i find out?

If you're playing the file in VLC Media Player, go to View->Stream and Media Info, then click on the "Advanced information" tab.

If you're playing the file in Media Player Classic with ffdshow, go to File->Properties and click on the "Details" tab.

[buzzqw]

the crash happen early or while encoding ?

i have (again) encode audio track of matrix with your script and vdub don't blame...

please try change (inside mkvmaudio.bat)
"C:\Program Files\AutoMKV\exe\BeSweet\vdub.exe" /x "C:\video\projects\temp\mkvmaudio.avs" to

"C:\Program Files\AutoMKV\exe\BeSweet\ffmpeg.exe" -y -t 1 -i "C:\video\projects\temp\mkvmaudio.avs" "C:\video\projects\temp\junk.wav"

and relaunch mkvmaudio.bat, but i supposce could be "damaged" your ac3 file (bad rip ?)

BHH

[glynor]

the crash happen early or while encoding ?


I believe right as the encode was finishing. The encode where VirtualDub crashed (that caused me to post before) actually just finished all the way, and the audio appears to work perfectly (for both tracks). I can't hear any problems with it at all.

The only real issue then is that the error message VDub threw up blocked AutoMKV from completing until I clicked "OK".


please try change (inside mkvmaudio.bat)
"C:\Program Files\AutoMKV\exe\BeSweet\vdub.exe" /x "C:\video\projects\temp\mkvmaudio.avs" to

"C:\Program Files\AutoMKV\exe\BeSweet\ffmpeg.exe" -y -t 1 -i "C:\video\projects\temp\mkvmaudio.avs" "C:\video\projects\temp\junk.wav"

and relaunch mkvmaudio.bat, but i supposce could be "damaged" your ac3 file (bad rip ?)


Since the encode worked, I'd guess the AC3 file was okay (though maybe it has a small error in it near the end). I'm actually testing re-encoding the same file right now and I'll watch to see when the error comes up. Interestingly, in the progress dialog that comes up, it lists:

Source Position: [00.12:55] of [00:00:05] Speed 10.74 x Realtime

Which appears that it doesn't have an accurate total length.

Okay... My test re-encode just finished. The error comes up after VirtualDub is completely finished converting (and after the 5 second auto-close countdown on the progress dialog finishes). The error lists the crash details as:

An out-of-bounds memory access (access violation) occurred in module 'SoundOut'...
...reading address 00000004.

I also have a "crashinfo.txt" file generated by VDub that I can post if you need it.

I'm trying it right now with the modified BAT file...

Dum...dee...dum... :)

No error that time. Don't know if that helps though. The junk.wav file it generated is tiny (188 kb) and doesn't appear to contain any actual sound. Do you need anything posted further?

[delacroixp]

You've surpassed yourself yet again... surely another miracle of software engineering...
I will certainly download 080 tonight and try it out sometime next week...
LoL... Just kidding...


@delacroixp
try with "spresso" filter or the Kiss method (keep it simple/stupid) "Deen().Undot()"

@PlayWithFire
do proprierties of file, is 5.1 ? (and try this update!)


I read In (http://www.amazon.com/Search-Excellence-Lessons-Americas-Companies/dp/0446385077) search (http://www.businessballs.com/tompetersinsearchofexcellence.htm) of (http://www.mckinsey.com/ideas/books/insearchofexcellence.asp) Excellence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Excellence) while doing Business Science at varsity... one of their main themes was "kiss" and "if not broke why fix it".

In the quest for perfection rather than simplicity I will definitely give SPresso a go... your version doesn't seam to have any variations ???
Most of your filters have a couple of different flavours...


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[dlflannery]

.... The first time you use this, VirtualDub will give you a warning that you have to click through and until you do it pauses all execution. This warning is minimized though so if you wander off you might not ever see it. No huge deal, but just be aware........
Same experience for me ... I never saw any message -- finally just closed the command window Vdub was running in. Then it went on OK. Didn't happen again on the second try.

[Shark_jlc]

3 things:

1) I have the exact same issue with .80 as I did with .79a (see my post above), I had 2 options in my audio drop down ("English (AC3 2ch, 0xBD 0x81)[0]" and "English AC3 2ch, 0xBD 0x82)[0]"), and I chose the first one. The length by the encoder was still determined to be 10 seconds.

Virtualdub did give me a different error this time though when I tried to open movie.avs:

Avisynth open failure:
TFM: Illegal transitions found in dvd2avi project file!
Please use the fixed version that has been created
in the same directory as the original d2v file.
(d:\temp\movies.avs, line 74)

Here is my AutoMKV output:

20:34:51 0.80 - - - - - - - - - - - - - START JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20:34:51 Selected Input file: D:\todo\MainMovie\SHEERLUCKHOLMES\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
20:34:51 Selected Output dir: D:\temp\
20:34:51 Selected Final Name: VIDEO_TS
20:34:51 Selected Container type: WMV
20:34:51 Selected Encoder: WMV
20:34:51 Selected Size: Don't care about size
20:34:51 Selected Slice: 1
20:34:51 Selected Profile: 1_Pass_Quality_Quick.xml
20:34:51 Selected Width: Original
20:34:51 Selected Resizer: NONE
20:34:51 Selected Filters: RemoveGrain(mode=2)
20:34:51 Selected Deinterlacer: AUTO
20:34:51 Selected Field Order: AUTO
20:34:51 NeroAACEnc.exe: not present
20:34:51 Enabled CRF/CQ AutoRes at 89 value
20:34:51 Track Language 1: English (AC3 2ch, 0xBD 0x81) [0]
20:34:51 Audio Codec 1: WMV
20:34:51 Audio Quality 1: 128
20:34:51 Audio Channel 1: Stereo
20:34:51 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 1
20:34:51 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
20:34:51 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
20:34:51 Lame Settings: ABR
20:34:51 Audio Normalization: 1
20:34:51 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
20:34:51 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
20:34:51 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 2
20:34:51 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
20:34:51 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
20:34:51 Lame Settings: ABR
20:34:51 Audio Normalization: 1
20:34:51 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
20:34:51 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
20:34:51
20:34:51 Starting Indexing
20:34:51 Dgindex CMD: C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\dgindex\dgindex.exe -FO=0 -OM=1 -TN=1 -YR=2 -AIF=[D:\todo\MainMovie\SHEERLUCKHOLMES\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob] -OF=[D:\temp\movie] -exit -minimize
20:35:37 Finished indexing
20:35:37 On selected tracks Dgindex isn't able to demux any audio tracks, now rerunning dgindex in demux all tracks mode
20:35:37 Dgindex CMD: C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\dgindex\dgindex.exe -FO=0 -OM=2 -YR=2 -aif=[D:\todo\MainMovie\SHEERLUCKHOLMES\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.vob] -OF=[D:\temp\movie] -exit -minimize
20:36:29 Finished FULL indexing
20:36:29 Starting fixing audio delay on track number 1
20:36:29 Finished fixing audio delay
20:36:34 Number of Frames: 94557
20:36:34 Framerate: 29.970030
20:36:34 Movie length in Seconds: 3156
20:36:34 Movie Width/Height: 720/480
20:36:34 DgIndex AR: 4:3
20:40:09 Processing completed. Type is determined to be partly film.
20:40:09 Processing completed. Type is determined to be partly film.
20:40:09 BFF: 56
20:40:09 TFF: 224
20:40:09 Order: var
20:40:09 WMV CMD: cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\encoder\WMCmd.vbs" -input "D:\temp\movie.avs" -output "D:\temp\movie.wmv" -v_codec WMV9 -v_mode 2 -v_quality 90 -s_config "D:\temp\wmv_crb" -v_bframedist 1 -v_dquantoption 2 -v_lookahead 0 -v_mbmodecost 0 -v_mmatch 0 -v_mslevel 1 -v_msrange 0 -v_mvcost 0 -v_bdeltaqp 1 -a_codec WMASTD -a_mode 0 -title "VIDEO_TS" -year 2007 -copyright "Done with AutoMKV! 0.80" -a_setting 128_48_2
20:41:09 Only Movie Size: 41331 bytes
20:41:10 Final Muxed size: 41331 bytes
20:41:10 Encoding finished: 00:06:19 elapsed time
20:41:10 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:41:10 Script AutoCrop.log
20:41:10
20:41:10 Crop(4,0,712,480)
20:41:10 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:41:10 Script Resmovie.avs
20:41:10 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:41:10 Script movie.avs
20:41:10
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\autocrop.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\BicublinResize.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\blockbuster.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\cnr2.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\ColorMatrix.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\Convolution3D.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\corrector.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\DctFilter.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\Decomb.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\Deen.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\degrainmedian.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\DGDecode.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\EEDI2.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\fft3dfilter.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\FluxSmooth.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\frfun7.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\hqdn3d.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\MaskTools.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\medianblur.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\MipSmooth.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\mt_masktools.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\mvtools.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\RemoveGrainS.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\RepairS.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\SangNom.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\SimpleResize.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TBilateral.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TDeint.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TIVTC.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TomsMoComp.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TTempSmooth.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\UnDot.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\UnFilter.dll")
20:41:10 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\VSFilter.dll")
20:41:10 #loadpluginstart
20:41:10
20:41:10 #test1
20:41:10
20:41:10 Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\MCBob_v03c.avsi")
20:41:10 Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\mvbob.avsi")
20:41:10 Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\seesaw.avsi")
20:41:10 Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\spresso.avsi")
20:41:10 #importstart
20:41:10
20:41:10 #test2
20:41:10
20:41:10 movie = mpeg2source("D:\temp\movie.d2v")
20:41:10 function getOrder(clip c) {
20:41:10 order = GetParity(c) ? 1 : 0
20:41:10 Return order }
20:41:10 #filter1start
20:41:10
20:41:10 #test3
20:41:10
20:41:10 #cropstart
20:41:10
20:41:10 cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
20:41:10 fixed_aspect = 0.888889
20:41:10 c_width = width(cropclip)
20:41:10 c_height = Round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
20:41:10 input_par = float(float(c_width)/float(c_height))
20:41:10 input_par = input_par > 1.4 ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
20:41:10 out_width = 720
20:41:10 out_height = Round(float(out_width) / input_par)
20:41:10 hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
20:41:10 out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
20:41:10 new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
20:41:10 autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
20:41:10
20:41:10 last = movie
20:41:10 tfm(d2v="D:\temp\movie.d2v").tdecimate()
20:41:10 #resizestart
20:41:10
20:41:10 #test4
20:41:10
20:41:10 #filter2start
20:41:10
20:41:10 #test5
20:41:10
20:41:10 RemoveGrain(mode=2)
20:41:10 ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",hints=false,threads=2)
20:41:10 audio=ConvertAudioToFloat(audio)
20:41:10 audio=Normalize(audio)
20:41:10 audio=getchannel(audio,1,2)
20:41:10 audiodub(audio,last)
20:41:10 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:41:10 Script mkvmaudio.avs
20:41:10 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:41:10 Script mkvmaudio.bat
20:41:10 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:41:10 Script mkvmaudio2.avs
20:41:10 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
20:41:10 Script mkvmaudio2.bat
20:41:10
20:41:10 - - - - - - - - - - - - FINISHED JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


2) Secondly, here is a command that gets executed before the encoding:

"C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\encoder\BAutoDeint.exe" --input "D:\temp\createautodeintmovie.avs" 1>"D:\temp\"deint.log


I think the quotes are in the wrong spot at the very end, I'm guessing it should be:

"C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\encoder\BAutoDeint.exe" --input "D:\temp\createautodeintmovie.avs" 1>"D:\temp\deint.log"


3) Lastly, this message is duplicated in the log. I noticed this on .79a as well, so this is not a new "feature":

20:40:09 Processing completed. Type is determined to be partly film.

[dlflannery]

......NOTE: i tryed to add support with ffmpeg to encode in DV and SNOW but without success. There are 2 sample encoding command line: where is the error ?

DV: ffmpeg.exe -i movie.avi -vcodec dvvideo -target dv -b 3000000 -cropleft 2 -croptop 72 -cropright 2 -cropbottom 72 -s 640x352 -r 25.000 -acodec pcm_u16le -ac 2 -ar 48000 test_dv.avi
..............
BHH
Buzz, I did some experimenting with this. If you try just:

ffmpeg -i myVideo.avi -target dv myVideo.dv it will work.
This produces a 720x480 file with yuv411p color.

Then you can try adding in the crops, fps, etc. What I found was:

1. You can only get a 720x480 output (or 720x576 if you use -target pal-dv). Looking at DV specs in wikipedia this makes sense because the formats are:

720x480, 4:1:1 (NTSC)
720x576, 4:2:0 (PAL)

However I found the color was still yuv411p even if I specified pal-dv.

If you use -s to specify any other size it throws an error.

2. Your crops and pads cannot change the image size. In other words the sum of top/bottom crops must equal the sum of top/bottom pads, and the same for left/right crop/pads. It appears crops and pads apply to the output format only, even if you put them before the input file name.

3. you can only get pcm_s16le audio. If you try to specify pcm_u16le it will not encode.

4. Frame rates are only 25 for pal and 29.97 for ntsc and do not need to be specified. If you specify the wrong frame rate it is an error.

5. aspect ratio can be specified but I can't see that it makes any difference in the encoded file.

6. video bitrate (-b) is meaningless and is ignored. The rate is determined by ffmpeg based on the other parameters.

7. I had to use the .dv extension on my output files in order for vlc player or quicktime player to recognize and play them.

8. You don't need the -vcodec option if target = dv.

I thought maybe if you did not specify the target ("dv") ffmpeg might let you set the other parameters to other values but I never found any combination that it would accept.

I couldn't get wmv files to encode to DV. Complained of audio sync errors.

Here is an example of the output from ffmpeg:
Input #0, avi, from 'myVideo.avi':
Duration: 00:01:52.8, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1162 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 640x480, 29.97 fps(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Assuming NTSC for target.
Output #0, dv, to 'test_dv.dv':
Stream #0.0: Video: dvvideo, yuv411p, 720x480, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 29.97 fps(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, 1536 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame= 3380 fps= 66 q=0.0 Lsize= 396094kB time=112.8 bitrate=28771.2kbits/s

video:396094kB audio:21150kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead -5.068979%

Hope this helps you. DV files are so huge! When are they needed?

[buzzqw]

@glynor
thanks for your test!
seems that soundout could have some problem... on some audio source. I think that those audio track have some problem...

about junk.wav... yes is junk.. could you mail me the crash report ? just to point to Sh0dan
thanks again!

@delacroixp
the filter box is editable.. try to edit spresso to your taste!
and if you found an good setting post here! (to share with all) :)

@Shark_jlc
download dgindex 1.4.8 http://www.64k.it/andres/data/d/dgmpgdec148.zip , unzip in dgindex folder , take dgdecode.dll and put also in filter folder
in this way ivtc must be fixed

20:35:37 On selected tracks Dgindex isn't able to demux any audio tracks, now rerunning dgindex in demux all tracks mode
seems problem in demuxing. please do this:
1) manually launch dgindex and create the d2v file AND the audio file
2) launch AutoMKV, on input select the d2v and the audio file
3) set your wmv encoding and let's start encoding!

I think the quotes are in the wrong spot at the very end

it's is a true problem since bdeint will fuction.... i called it a missed feature... don't worry the test is fully operative

@dlflannery
thanks, i will do some more test based on your tests!

BHH

[Bigmango]

Hi,

I'm trying to shrink a movie for a mobile phone.

For this I'd like to set the FPS at 12.5 ; but there seems to be no way to set the fps in automkv ?

Could you please add this option ?

Thanks.

[Ronin-7]

Hi,

I'm trying to shrink a movie for a mobile phone.

For this I'd like to set the FPS at 12.5 ; but there seems to be no way to set the fps in automkv ?

Could you please add this option ?

Thanks.

I second this if it is at all possible buzzqw.

I picked up a Meizu M6 (http://en.meizu.com/product_m6.asp) which plays XviD in AVI but only at 20fps & would be great if I could use AutoMKV with it as most of the other conversion software is pretty poor.

[buzzqw]

or this I'd like to set the FPS at 12.5 ; but there seems to be no way to set the fps in automkv ?

picked up a Meizu M6 which plays XviD in AVI but only at 20fps

It is already possible!

in advanced setting, check "Last line AVS script" and write ChangeFPS(20.000) or ChangeFPS(12.500) :)

BHH

[Shark_jlc]

@Shark_jlc
download dgindex 1.4.8 http://www.64k.it/andres/data/d/dgmpgdec148.zip , unzip in dgindex folder , take dgdecode.dll and put also in filter folder
in this way ivtc must be fixed


seems problem in demuxing. please do this:
1) manually launch dgindex and create the d2v file AND the audio file
2) launch AutoMKV, on input select the d2v and the audio file
3) set your wmv encoding and let's start encoding!

BHH

It still failed. The encoding process still detected the length to be 10 seconds.

Here is the automkv log:

08:03:20 0.80 - - - - - - - - - - - - - START JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
08:03:20 Selected Input file: D:\MyTry\VTS_01_1.d2v
08:03:20 Selected Output dir: D:\MyTry-Output\temp\
08:03:20 Selected Final Name: VeggieTales - Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler
08:03:20 Selected Container type: WMV
08:03:20 Selected Encoder: WMV
08:03:20 Selected Size: Don't care about size
08:03:20 Selected Slice: 1
08:03:20 Selected Profile: 1_Pass_Quality_Quick.xml
08:03:20 Selected Width: Original
08:03:20 Selected Resizer: NONE
08:03:20 Selected Filters: RemoveGrain(mode=2)
08:03:20 Selected Deinterlacer: AUTO
08:03:20 Selected Field Order: AUTO
08:03:20 NeroAACEnc.exe: not present
08:03:20 Enabled CRF/CQ AutoRes at 89 value
08:03:20 Track Language 1: D:\MyTry\VTS_01_1 T02 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3
08:03:20 Audio Codec 1: WMV
08:03:20 Audio Quality 1: 128
08:03:20 Audio Channel 1: Stereo
08:03:20 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 1
08:03:20 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
08:03:20 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
08:03:20 Lame Settings: ABR
08:03:20 Audio Normalization: 1
08:03:20 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
08:03:20 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
08:03:20 Advanced Audio Settings DUMP Track 2
08:03:20 Nero Option Profiles: AUTO --- Encoding Mode: Quality
08:03:20 CCT Option Profiles: AUTO --- Channel Options: AUTO
08:03:20 Lame Settings: ABR
08:03:20 Audio Normalization: 1
08:03:20 Frequency: AUTO --- Tempo : NONE
08:03:20 Pitch: NONE --- Other Add :
08:03:20
08:03:20 DelayCut CMD: C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\dgindex\Delaycut.exe -auto -out "D:\MyTry-Output\temp\fixed1.ac3" "D:\MyTry\VTS_01_1 T02 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3"
08:03:23 DelayCut CMD: C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\dgindex\Delaycut.exe -auto -out "D:\MyTry-Output\temp\fixed2.ac3" "D:\MyTry\VTS_01_1 T03 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3"
08:03:28 Number of Frames:
08:03:28 Framerate:
08:03:28 Movie length in Seconds: 0
08:03:28 Movie Width/Height: /
08:03:28 DgIndex AR: 4:3
08:03:31 Order: unk
08:03:31 WMV CMD: cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\encoder\WMCmd.vbs" -input "D:\MyTry-Output\temp\movie.avs" -output "D:\MyTry-Output\temp\movie.wmv" -v_codec WMV9 -v_mode 2 -v_quality 90 -s_config "D:\MyTry-Output\temp\wmv_crb" -v_bframedist 1 -v_dquantoption 2 -v_lookahead 0 -v_mbmodecost 0 -v_mmatch 0 -v_mslevel 1 -v_msrange 0 -v_mvcost 0 -v_bdeltaqp 1 -a_codec WMASTD -a_mode 0 -title "VeggieTales - Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler" -year 2007 -copyright "Done with AutoMKV! 0.80" -a_setting 128_48_2
08:03:49 Only Movie Size: 25533 bytes
08:06:00 Final Muxed size: 25533 bytes
08:06:00 Encoding finished: 00:02:40 elapsed time
08:06:00 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:06:00 Script AutoCrop.log
08:06:00 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:06:00 Script Resmovie.avs
08:06:00 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:06:00 Script movie.avs
08:06:00
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\autocrop.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\BicublinResize.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\blockbuster.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\cnr2.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\ColorMatrix.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\Convolution3D.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\corrector.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\DctFilter.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\Decomb.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\Deen.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\degrainmedian.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\DGDecode.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\EEDI2.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\fft3dfilter.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\FluxSmooth.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\frfun7.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\hqdn3d.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\LeakKernelDeint.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\MaskTools.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\medianblur.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\MipSmooth.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\mt_masktools.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\mvtools.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\NicAudio.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\RemoveGrainS.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\RepairS.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\SangNom.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\SimpleResize.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\SoundOut.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TBilateral.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TDeint.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TIVTC.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TomsMoComp.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\TTempSmooth.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\UnDot.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\UnFilter.dll")
08:06:00 LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\VSFilter.dll")
08:06:00 #loadpluginstart
08:06:00
08:06:00 #test1
08:06:00
08:06:00 Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\MCBob_v03c.avsi")
08:06:00 Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\mvbob.avsi")
08:06:00 Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\seesaw.avsi")
08:06:00 Import("C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\filter\spresso.avsi")
08:06:00 #importstart
08:06:00
08:06:00 #test2
08:06:00
08:06:00 movie = mpeg2source("D:\MyTry\VTS_01_1.d2v")
08:06:00 audio = NicAC3Source("D:\MyTry-Output\temp\fixed1.ac3",2)
08:06:00 function getOrder(clip c) {
08:06:00 order = GetParity(c) ? 1 : 0
08:06:00 Return order }
08:06:00 #filter1start
08:06:00
08:06:00 #test3
08:06:00
08:06:00 #cropstart
08:06:00
08:06:00 cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
08:06:00 fixed_aspect = -1.#IND00
08:06:00 c_width = width(cropclip)
08:06:00 c_height = Round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
08:06:00 input_par = float(float(c_width)/float(c_height))
08:06:00 input_par = input_par > 1.4 ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
08:06:00 out_width =
08:06:00 out_height = Round(float(out_width) / input_par)
08:06:00 hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
08:06:00 out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
08:06:00 new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
08:06:00 autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=40,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0)
08:06:00
08:06:00 last = movie
08:06:00 #resizestart
08:06:00
08:06:00 #test4
08:06:00
08:06:00 #filter2start
08:06:00
08:06:00 #test5
08:06:00
08:06:00 RemoveGrain(mode=2)
08:06:00 audio=ConvertAudioToFloat(audio)
08:06:00 audio=Normalize(audio)
08:06:00 audio=getchannel(audio,1,2)
08:06:00 audiodub(audio,last)
08:06:00 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:06:00 Script mkvmaudio.avs
08:06:00 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:06:00 Script mkvmaudio.bat
08:06:00 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:06:00 Script mkvmaudio2.avs
08:06:00 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
08:06:00 Script mkvmaudio2.bat
08:06:00
08:06:00 - - - - - - - - - - - - FINISHED JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -



VirtualDub fails to open Movie.avs on line 67 which now says: "out_width ="

Thanks for the help so far buzzqw.

[buzzqw]

this problem is due to compatibility.
open the movie.avs

change fixed_aspect = -1.#IND00 to fixed_aspect = 1.42222
and change out_width = to out_width = 720

save movie.avs and launch movie_wmv.bat!

BHH

[Shark_jlc]

this problem is due to compatibility.
open the movie.avs

change fixed_aspect = -1.#IND00 to fixed_aspect = 1.42222
and change out_width = to out_width = 720

save movie.avs and launch movie_wmv.bat!

BHH

This was my output from running movie_wmv.bat

D:\MyTry-Output\temp>cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\AutoMKV080\exe\encoder\WMCmd.vbs" -input "D:\MyTry-Output\temp\movie.avs" -outp
ut "D:\MyTry-Output\temp\movie.wmv" -v_codec WMV9 -v_mode 2 -v_quality 90 -s_config "D:\MyTry-Output\temp\wmv_crb" -v_bframedist
1 -v_dquantoption 2 -v_lookahead 0 -v_mbmodecost 0 -v_mmatch 0 -v_mslevel 1 -v_msrange 0 -v_mvcost 0 -v_bdeltaqp 1 -a_codec WMASTD
-a_mode 0 -title "VeggieTales - Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler" -year 2007 -copyright "Done with AutoMKV! 0.80" -a_settin
g 128_48_2
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

Microsoft (R) Windows Media Encoder Command Line Script Utility
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Title: VeggieTales - Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler
Year: 2007
Copyright: Done with AutoMKV! 0.80

Warning: Encoder failed to retrieve duration attribute from source plug-in.
Trying alternate method now................................

Warning: Encoder failed to retrieve source duration again.
Encode process might not continue or progress report may be inaccurate.

...

======== Encoding Completed ========

Video :
Codec: Windows Media Video 9
Average bit rate: 8228 bps
Expected fps: 24
Dropped frame count: 0
Total coded frames: 240
Average sample rate: 24.001
Dropped bytes: 0 bytes
Total bytes: 68584 bytes

Overall:
Encoding time: 56 seconds
Average bit rate: 8228 bps
File size: 80405 bytes
File duration: 9.991 seconds

Obviously, 56 seconds of encode is still too short :/

[buzzqw]

Total coded frames: 240

open the avs in virtualdub , must be present another error
post here! :)
we will hunt down it!

BHH

[glynor]

DV files are so huge! When are they needed?

DV files are fairly large. The DV-NTSC codec data rate is 3.6MB/s, which results in file sizes for raw DV streams of roughly 12.9GB/hour. Still, this is a far cry from the data rates of other formats used natively by "pro" Non-Linear Editor applications (Avid, FCP, etc). DVCPRO 50 runs 7.2MB/s for example, commonly used 2:1 M-JPEG runs 12MB/s, and uncompressed SD (8-bit) runs 24MB/s.

I, personally, use DV because Final Cut Pro supports editing DV video natively (I don't have to render the files before use when I bring them into a FCP Project), and because it is the native format of just about every SD camcorder there is (and when importing footage from my cameras I can work with the exact same bit-perfect copy of the data that the camera "recorded"). Like I said when I originally mentioned it could be useful... I won't use it TOO much, but since x264 is such a nice quality codec, it would be nice to be able to compress some of my less-quality-sensitive source footage to x264 for long-term storage, and then have AutoMKV "reinflate" the files to DV so that I can use them in FCP. It'd save me tons of storage space for archival and stock footage. :)

When editing, DV has a number of benefits over some other formats that you may be thinking of (such as MPEG-2), mostly speed and quality related. MPEG-2 can be a very high-quality codec, but compressing to it in high qualities takes time and CPU power. DV is much "easier" on the system, and allows it to render a lot more things in real time. When you're editing raw footage together and adding effects and transitions and overlaying multiple different video tracks, performance can certainly be an issue (just try to edit a sequence in MPEG-2 with 15 video streams playing back at once)! In that kind of situation, dropping even 1 frame isn't really acceptable...

@glynor
thanks for your test!
seems that soundout could have some problem... on some audio source. I think that those audio track have some problem...

about junk.wav... yes is junk.. could you mail me the crash report ? just to point to Sh0dan
thanks again!

Thanks for looking into it for me. As I said, since the file encoded successfully I'm really not too concerned, as long as it doesn't happen with a bunch of other encodes. If it happened just this one time... Well then, that's just bad luck I guess!

I'm happy to mail the crash report (and did), but I'm not sure what you mean by "point to Sh0dan" (I think that's the person who developed SoundOut, but I'm not sure what you were getting at)... Can I have a clue?

[Shark_jlc]

in dvd mode (main film only), without checking use this pcg and process this ifo is used only for determine the pgc of subtitle extraction

Process this ifo: is to check before selectin the ifo (on already ripped dvd).
Normaly automkv even if you point to a specific ifo will select the BIGGEST ifo, and so the vobs belonging to this ifo will be processed.

BUT if you check (before manual selecting the ifo) Use this IFO automkv will process only the vobs belonging to this SPECIFIC IFO. (example you select Video_TS.ifo... then only Video_TS_0X.vob will be processed)

The Use this PCG is to use with dvd that contain only one pgc (one set of vobs) BUT this vobs contain multiple episodes.
So you select the ifo (before have checked use this ifo), AND then CHECK USE THIS PGC, go in main tab and select from combo list the PGC (episode) to process.
After the FULL film is ripped (if needed) autoMKV will SCAN all this vobs and will create a NEW VOB that contain ONLY this PGC and then will work on this vob

I hope to be clear! (someone will copy this to the wiki... ?)

BHH

Copied to the wiki, I may make this into its own page.

[buzzqw]

@glynor
got dv working, thanks to dlflannery!
(fixed in next update)

thanks for crash report, I will send to Sh0dan! :)

@Shark_jlc

thanks for the WIKI update!!
also remember to open the movie.avs in virtualdub and tell the error

BHH

[Shark_jlc]

...

@Shark_jlc

thanks for the WIKI update!!
also remember to open the movie.avs in virtualdub and tell the error

BHH

No problem. I'll have to open the file tonight (in about 8 hours) when I get home from work, and I wont forget :)

[Ronin-7]

It is already possible!

in advanced setting, check "Last line AVS script" and write ChangeFPS(20.000) or ChangeFPS(12.500) :)

BHH

That's great thanks for the tip buzzqw.

[suppperj]

Let me just say that after reading 80 pages of this post I'm both completely impressed and intimidated. I understand why the forum makes neebies wait 5 days...I found most of my solutions reading through this post.

My question is a bit more basic than what I've seen on here so far. When selecting my resize option I've found that I like "autocrop" the best.

I understand that the other filters are best used for either upsizing or downsizing but my question is, why upsize or downsize at all? I understand if you're converting a video for an IPod or Zune but I'm playing my videos on a big screen TV.
Is there an advantage to resizing that I don't know about?

Would changing my CRF give me the quality I'm looking for in a 700mb file?

Sorry for being long winded. I appreciate everything you guys are doing...even if I don't understand 3/4 of it. Thanks.

[Bigmango]

It is already possible!

in advanced setting, check "Last line AVS script" and write ChangeFPS(20.000) or ChangeFPS(12.500) :)

BHH

:eek: thx for the tip !

Hope you'll add that small FPS gui option in the next version, for the common folks like me.

:thanks:

[salman1]

how to add more than just one filter using this program
i want to use removegrain and removedirt

[buzzqw]

@suppperj

first of all Welcome to the FORUM!

but I'm playing my videos on a big screen TV.
yep.. not all have big lcd/plasma tv and in smaller tv even the 576*xxx is ok to view

also you want quality (using the crf profile) but quality is a personal taste , opinion and for me 700mb could not be enough for many films...
Also... someone use SAP (stand alone player, divx player) and rarely sap support big resolution...

and one last hint: Would changing my CRF give me the quality I'm looking for in a 700mb file?
If you want quality IN 700 MB don't use CRF, use Encoding-MainProfile. A 2 pass profile is often the best option to get quality in determinated media size.

@salman1
i want to use removegrain and removedirt

more then simple on filter box write removegrain(mode=2).RemoveDirt()
or use whatever filter but remember to concatenate with .

BHH

[salman1]

also what filter can i use to get rid of video noise?

[Barleyman]

Ha, looks like AutoMKV has been "discovered".

Not quite as bad as being featured in /., but something like that by the new blood.

So about splitting the AutoMKV thread.. :devil: Are we waiting for 100 pages?

I put in some stuff to the "profiles" section about xvid profiles that I know something about. Feel free to document the intimidating h.264 and WMV profile pull-down selections! http://automkv.wiki-site.com/index.php/Profiles

[suppperj]

I'm grateful I discovered MKV. For a newbie it seems to be the best of all worlds.

So if I am one of the lucky few that can display his video on a larger screen does that mean the "autocrop" selection is best? I've been using autocrop and limiting my size to 700mb with very satisfactory results.

I'm afraid I'm missing out on better quality because I'm not resizing.

I'd take these general questions to a more general forum but I've come to trust the answers here after having been able to fix other problems based on the advice in this thread.

[Barleyman]

Generally speaking resize during encoding is bad, m'kay? If you care about quality, that is. 700MB is fine for about 45-60min of DVD with AC3 audio using XVID.

If you try to fit movie into as small space as possible, it's better to resize it to a smaller size than have lovely lego-blocks all over the screen due to too much compression. So quality-wise it goes:
original size + bigger file > resized + smaller file > original size + smaller file.

Cropping is usually for only the letterbox movies that have black bars on top/bottom. Typical for stuff you get from TV. Letterbox movies with subtitles need special care..

Autocrop checks little bit of the beginning of the movie (still in 0.8?) to see if it has black bars. If the movie is 16:9 (fills wide-screen tv), autocrop shouldn't do anything at all.

[dlflannery]

@glynor
Thanks for the tutorial on benefits of DV -- very interesting!

[weaver4]

I encoded a movie using XviD with MP3 last night. The audio on the movie was about 15 db lower in volume than the same movie done with AutoGK. I looked in the log and I did not see anywhere where the volume was normalized.

[dlflannery]

ADDED: Multi Encoder!. If a file named "flv" or "msmpeg4v2" or "mpeg2video" or "rv10" is present in automkv folder then automkv will be force to used ffmpeg.exe to these format.
How does this work? I've put files named flv and flv.flv in the folder containing automkv080.exe. But when I start to encode a .flv video (either to WMV or to AVI/XVID) I just get an error message: "No Video Sequence Header Found" :confused: DGIndex is left running and has to be shut down manually.

I've used ffmpeg (outside AutoMKV) to encode this video to WMV7 and WMV8 with no problem.

When I encode using AVS to source this file into autoMKV it encodes but there are some video and audio glitches near the end. The ffmpeg encodings do not have these problems, so it would be nice to be able force autoMKV to use ffmpeg for the encoding.

[Shark_jlc]

@Shark_jlc

thanks for the WIKI update!!
also remember to open the movie.avs in virtualdub and tell the error

BHH

Here is the errror. It's horrible screenshot, but here it is: http://picasaweb.google.com/shackmiscpics/Misc/photo#5047914159952217954

I'm going to try to find the duplicate dll file and retry all this.

[Shark_jlc]

Here is the errror. It's horrible screenshot, but here it is: http://picasaweb.google.com/shackmiscpics/Misc/photo#5047914159952217954

I'm going to try to find the duplicate dll file and retry all this.

I renamed \\AutoMKV080\exe\DGIndex\DGDecode.dll and DGIndex.exe, and then reran the dgindex you linked for me. Then ran AutoMKV and I have been encoding for 10 minutes.

So far so good!

[buzzqw]

@weaver4
open the mkvmaudio.avs
after the nicaudio you will see Normalize()
from my test the normalize fuction applyed before downmixing is faster but applyed after downmixing is slower and louder...

in next update i will put normalize after downmixing... even if -15db cannot be explained with normalize on

@dlflannery
STOP! i added the possibility to encode "file" and get as output flv/mpeg2... ffmpeg is used as encoder!
create the flv file (no extension)
open automkv feed your shour sample (set resize/width/disk settings. AS AUDIO CHOOSE LAME!!!, also deactivate deinterlace, set it to none) and click start
after few minuter you have a movie.flv!

BHH
after few

[delacroixp]

Hi,

I'm trying to shrink a movie for a mobile phone.

For this I'd like to set the FPS at 12.5 ; but there seems to be no way to set the fps in automkv ?

Could you please add this option ?

:thanks:

I second this if it is at all possible buzzqw.

I picked up a Meizu M6 (http://en.meizu.com/product_m6.asp) which plays XviD in AVI but only at 20fps & would be great if I could use AutoMKV with it as most of the other conversion software is pretty poor.

It is already possible!

in advanced setting, check "Last line AVS script" and write ChangeFPS(20.000) or ChangeFPS(12.500) :)


I'm trying to encode clips or even movies for my nephew's Nokia 6233 (http://www.3g.co.uk/3GForum/archive/index.php/t-44839.html) but can it play less-than 15fps ???
I went to the Nokia Forum (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/586585.html) but they don't mention about "less is more" ... most of my movies are @ 25 FPS so that a 12.5 FPS conversion should make for better playback...

:thanks:


:):D:eek:
Pascal


BTW
For all those looking for a shortcut to the "last page" of the AutoMKV Forum...

While on 'last page' (or any page except start-page) save to favourites... then
=> favourites...
=> right-click on "AuotoMKV - last page"
=> properties
=> change the URL page number (last 2 characters) to 999...

and you have a "dynamically changing link" to the last page...

[buzzqw]

@ALL WMV Encoder Around

i have update the WMV profile section of wiki (thanks again to Shark_jlc, The Master of Wiki!). There are some notions about audio (in wmv) that can be very useful to understand the encoding in AutoMKV

BHH

[delacroixp]

Does mp4 support 1 channel audio ?

I've looked through all your audio options for stereo and mono and you only support 2, 6 or Auto... even for mono.


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

:confused:

mono is selectable regardless of audio codec and audio container. Where is the problem ?

BHH

[delacroixp]

Sorry... double post...

:):D:eek:
Pascal

[delacroixp]

:confused:
Does mp4 support 1 channel audio ?

I've looked through all your audio options for stereo and mono and you only support 2, 6 or Auto... even for mono.


mono is selectable regardless of audio codec and audio container. Where is the problem ?
There's no problem getting MONO audio... but it's using up 2 channels and double the necessary space of 1 channel mono.
Mpeg 1 (http://sound.media.mit.edu/mpeg4/audio/) does support single-channel ('mono') and two-channel ('stereo' or 'dual mono') ...

I'm encoding movies for my nephew's Nokia 6233 and audio can easily use up 30 - 40% of the filesize... which is crazy...


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[Shark_jlc]

@ALL WMV Encoder Around

i have update the WMV profile section of wiki (thanks again to Shark_jlc, The Master of Wiki!). There are some notions about audio (in wmv) that can be very useful to understand the encoding in AutoMKV

BHH


That profiles page just grew over night with good information!! Just to let you know NX6 is responsible for a good portion of the Changelog and Barleyman is almost entirely responsible for the profiles page, except, of course, for what you just did :)

Also, and more importantly :), my encode finally finished successfully, by using the version of DGIndex you gave me, and me renaming the old dgindex dll files.

so, what does this mean about the state of the current dgindex used with AutoMKV? :/


For all those looking for a shortcut to the "last page" of the AutoMKV Forum...

While on 'last page' (or any page except start-page) save to favourites... then
=> favourites...
=> right-click on "AuotoMKV - last page"
=> properties
=> change the URL page number (last 2 characters) to 999...

and you have a "dynamically changing link" to the last page...

This is the best thing you have posted to date, delacroixp.

[dlflannery]

.........@dlflannery
STOP! i added the possibility to encode "file" and get as output flv/mpeg2... ffmpeg is used as encoder!
create the flv file (no extension)
open automkv feed your shour sample (set resize/width/disk settings. AS AUDIO CHOOSE LAME!!!, also deactivate deinterlace, set it to none) and click start
after few minuter you have a movie.flv!
..........
I think I understand (not sure about "feed your shour sample" :confused: ). I will try this -- assuming the "shour" is just an extra typo.

A suggestion related to ffmpeg:

As far as I can tell AutoMKV cannot source .flv directly -- only via AVS. This would be fine except (as I described in a previous post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=977357#post977357)) you can get better results encoding from .flv sources directly into ffmpeg (instead of AVS into WMcmd.vbs as done in AutoMKV). Of course ffmpeg currently will only encode to WMV7 AND WMV8 for WMV.

Would it make sense to integrate this direct-into-ffmpeg encoding into AutoMKV as an option for source types that are now only supported via AVS but can be handled by ffmpeg (such as .flv ) ?

I have only tried one-pass ffmpeg encoding to WMV. I think there is a way to do two-pass (but it really isn't important for Zune encoding).

I realize this may require very complicated logic to properly incorporate into AutoMKV and maybe it just isn't worth the effort (??).

:thanks:

[buzzqw]

so, what does this mean about the state of the current dgindex used with AutoMKV? :/

the huge changelog... http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=116841
but... now... don't know..

@dlflannery
As far as I can tell AutoMKV cannot source .flv directly -- only via AVS
yes, and i don't want to expand support to this file type.

actually ffmpeg is used in 2 way
1) if xvid/x264/wmvcmd.vbs fails the encoding -> ffmpeg is invoked to encode to xvid/x264/wmv
2) if flv/rv10/mpeg2video file is present .. (and from next update dv/wmv7/wmv8) the input file is taken as is and passed to ffmpeg for generating flv/rv10....

i hope to be clear.. and yes "shour" (mean anything ?) is just an extra (one more) typo!

BHH
EDIT: as is is improper since i take the width selected, the crop (or manual crop), the audio bitrate...

[BixMix]

@BixMix
wmv encoding. this is the key!
advanced audio settings aren't applied to wmv encoding.
Audio will ne normalized in wmv from next version!

BHH

I've experimented with the AutoMKV 0.80. I don't hear an audio change--even at Amplifydb(25)--checked or unchecked it is still "normalizing". Is volume increase still in development?

Thanks for your help.

[buzzqw]

@BixMix
as i already said the advanced audio setting aren't applyed in wmv

Audio will ne normalized in wmv from next version!

open movie.avs and look at end script

BHH

[dlflannery]

STOP! i added the possibility to encode "file" and get as output flv/mpeg2... ffmpeg is used as encoder!
create the flv file (no extension)
open automkv feed your shour sample (set resize/width/disk settings. AS AUDIO CHOOSE LAME!!!, also deactivate deinterlace, set it to none) and click start
after few minuter you have a movie.flv!
BHH,
I tried this (source = mpeg2, encoding to flv, 500 kbps video specified). It didn't work but I have figured out why: In ffmpeg_flv.bat the ffmpeg options for video (-b) and audio (-ab) bitrates are way off.

-b was 25042000 (too high)
-ab was 6000 (too low)

I substituted "-b 500k" and "-ab 64k" and the two pass encoding worked very well (320x240 output, with auto crop).

Question: The encoded file was in the temp folder, named "movie.flv". If the ffmpeg batch had run OK would AutoMKV have copied this to the final folder and movie name?

It seems like a lot of processing goes on, and a lot of files are produced (20+) in the temp folder that are not needed, including audio.mp3. Only the ffmpeg_flv.bat file is actually needed to create movie.flv.

[buzzqw]

(set resize/width/disk settings. AS AUDIO CHOOSE LAME!!!,

the bitrate is computed based on disk settings, the audio bitrate is taken from the value displayed (so 112 = 112000)

500 kbps video specified this value isn't parsed... mmm.. i will introduce it.. thanks!

Question: The encoded file was in the temp folder, named "movie.flv". If the ffmpeg batch had run OK would AutoMKV have copied this to the final folder and movie name?

i haven't added the "move to right folder" now , is just all in temp directory

and about intermediate file.. yes... many and more isn't needed... but this is the first start... :)

BHH

[buzzqw]

update 0.80a !

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMKV080a.exe

ADDED: FFmpeg.exe support to DV (create a file named "dv" in AutoMKV folder) (suggestion by dlflannery)
ADDED: FFmpeg.exe support to WMV7 (create a file named "wmv7" in AutoMKV folder) (suggestion by dlflannery)
ADDED: FFmpeg.exe support to WMV8 (create a file named "wmv8" in AutoMKV folder) (suggestion by dlflannery)
ADDED: FFmpeg.exe will control the manual specifyed bitrate (just write 500 for 500000 bitrate!) set in Advanced Settings (thanks to dlflannery)
ADDED: File created by FFmpeg.exe are moved to right folder at end of encoding (thanks to dlflannery)
FIXED: VirtualDub is now the default invoker of SoundOut in all code
FIXED: Moved Normalize() to last part of mkvmaudio.avs.It will be slower (15 minutes for analyzing the Matrix movie, against 10 before) but audio is louder
FIXED: Some improvment to ffmpeg encoding

a big thanks to dlflannery for this release !

BHH

[dlflannery]

the bitrate is computed based on disk settings, the audio bitrate is taken from the value displayed (so 112 = 112000)

this value isn't parsed... mmm.. i will introduce it.. thanks!



i haven't added the "move to right folder" now , is just all in temp directory

and about intermediate file.. yes... many and more isn't needed... but this is the first start... :)

BHH
BHH,
Before you released 0.80a, I did more experiments and found that if you put 64 in the audio rate (which would not be normal # for Lame -- that's why I had not tried it before) and enter a reasonable target files size in MB, it worked, i.e., I discovered what you said above. Anyway it looks like 0.80a will take care of all of this. :thanks:

[dlflannery]

BHH,
It works as advertised! :thanks:

I assume you still have to:
1. select Lame audio encoding
2. set interlacer to None

One tip (at least for ffmpeg encoding from mpeg2 to flv):
Do not select the AVI container -- if you do the muxer runs after the ffmpeg batch file and crashes saying "file already in use", then the "send report to Microsoft ?" message. This problem does not occur if you select MP4 container, X264 codec. (In either case the correct .flv output file was created.) I did not try with the MKV container selected.

Also: the constant bit rate you enter (Advanced Tab) is the total (audio + video) rate for this type encoding. (Different from WMV encoding.)

[salman1]

HI
i have LimitedSharpen.avsi but i don't no how to use with this program can some one tell me plz thx a lot

[Barleyman]

Added a chapter on removegrain filter.. http://automkv.wiki-site.com/index.php/Filters

[delacroixp]

Are there MKV muxing options that can boost colour saturation ?
I know from DivX encoding that colours are the first to go when compression is increased but they have a lovelly player that can beautifully increase 'saturation' during playback.

While encoding Band of Brothers in H264 I was so stunned with the huge decrease in filesize and even the crispy clarity that I neglected to compare to the original. Even encoding with Q22 instead of Q24 increases the colour quality substantially.
The series was totally digitally mastered and enhanced to the point that 'nothing' is natural... all the colouration has been modified.

So I did a Q18 Encode http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Q18_MKV_Thumb2.jpg (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Q18_MKV.jpg) ... comparing it to the Original http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Org_VOB_Thumb.jpg (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Org_VOB.jpg) ... and the difference is quite startling...

Perhaps there's a filter I could use that pays particular attention to colour correction ?


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[nx6]

BTW
For all those looking for a shortcut to the "last page" of the AutoMKV Forum...

While on 'last page' (or any page except start-page) save to favourites... then
=> favourites...
=> right-click on "AuotoMKV - last page"
=> properties
=> change the URL page number (last 2 characters) to 999...

and you have a "dynamically changing link" to the last page...

Or you could just bookmark this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113811&goto=newpost

Which is the link I get in my email when new posts are on this thread. That way you don't miss posts if more than one page worth has been added in your absence.

[delacroixp]

Or you could just bookmark this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113811&goto=newpost

Which is the link I get in my email when new posts are on this thread. That way you don't miss posts if more than one page worth has been added in your absence.

Looks good to me... especially if you just want to see the latest post... my link only goes to the latest page... I'm sure there's some command like goto=newpage...
When I was at varsity we only learned 'structured programming', for software that is easily maintained and modified by 'other programmers'... and the goto statement was off-limits... and so too spagetti code.

I think you've just introduced me to the real potential of the 'goto' statement...

:thanks:


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[salman1]

i think this program need show preview like megui

[nx6]

Added a chapter on removegrain filter.. http://automkv.wiki-site.com/index.php/Filters

I've been wondering where I can get more info about what the filters do. Maybe I should try reading the wiki I've been working on more. :D

I hope we eventually get all the filters listed here.


So I did a Q18 Encode (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Q18_MKV.jpg) comparing it to the Original (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Org_VOB.jpg)... and the difference is quite startling... see for yourself.

Perhaps there's a filter I could use that pays particular attention to colour correction ?

That's quite interesting. The difference is like night and day (pun totally intended here) :D. But that looks more like a gamma or contrast issue than a color problem. Is there a way to adjust those attributes from AutoMKV. One way to confirm is to use the adjustment filters in ffdshow on playback (the "Picture Properties" in this case) and see what you have to adjust the most to get something closer to the source material.

@buzzqw:

The option for adding a custom title to a muxxed file is located in a Muxing Options section in the Advanced Audio Settings, which makes little sense. How about moving it to the Advanced Settings tab. The Muxing Options section there has space under the "Force Muxing AR" setting (http://automkv.wiki-site.com/images/1/17/Advsetting.png).

Or, it might be better space-wise to swap the location of Muxing Options with Project Options. So it would look like this (forgive this rather crude quality mockup):

http://automkv.wiki-site.com/images/thumb/b/bd/NewAdvsetting.jpg/800px-NewAdvsetting.jpg

[Barleyman]

I've been wondering where I can get more info about what the filters do. Maybe I should try reading the wiki I've been working on more. :D

I hope we eventually get all the filters listed here.


I wouldn't hold my breath on that score. On the other hand, if you browse the thread you can find Buzz explaining how the idct and couple other filters work.

Earlier versions of AutoMKV actually had docs for all the filters, but they mostly go into program algorithm-style treatise and do not actually tell you where this filter would be useful.

In any case, my opinion is that if there is no reason to filter such as synthetic noise in the source, you shouldn't.

Other use of filtering is to reduce the resulting filesize while keeping "apparent" image quality but in my experience you need many iterations with short video clips to find image quality you can live with and the compressibility result isn't that dramatic. I quess filtering is most useful when you have fixed target filesize such as 350MB or something :rolleyes: With filtering the movie/episode can be shoehorned into smaller filesize without getting lovely macroblocks..

If you use CQ encoding like me to archive DVB recordings, filtering is pretty useless since I don't care if the encode is 450MB or 550MB for one tv series episode. Except for video with noise. SHIELD or Oz will produce 1.5-2x filesize and compress much slower than series without noise added.

[buzzqw]

@dlflannery
Also: the constant bit rate you enter (Advanced Tab) is the total (audio + video) rate for this type encoding. (Different from WMV encoding.)
Fixed in next update!
in next update the specified bitrate is used only for video!

@salman1
put limitedsharpen.avsi in \exe\filter folder
start automkv, in filter list you can write limitedsharpen()

@delacroixp
strange... try updating haali media splitter and ffdshow
also open the movie.avs, is present colormatrix at end script ?

@salman1
is in todo list (but far away..)

@nx6
i had made some adjustmen...
look here
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/2133/advancednx6fv6.th.png (http://img393.imageshack.us/my.php?image=advancednx6fv6.png)

is it ok ?

BHH

[nx6]

@nx6
i had made some adjustmen...
look here
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/2133/advancednx6fv6.th.png (http://img393.imageshack.us/my.php?image=advancednx6fv6.png)

is it ok ?


Yes, that is better.
Although I do notice how crowded the Project Options section is now compared to the Demuxing and Indexing Options section. ;)

That's a nice big empty space you've cleared out there on the right. Some secret feature going in there later? :D

[Prospero424]

A quick question:

I've noticed a remarkable speed increase when going from version .79 to .80.

I tried encoding the same exact movie using the same exact same settings (a 2-hour long 1920x1080 MPEG2 transport stream converting to a 1280-width x264 mkv using the HighQuality-Insane profile and a DVD-5 file size) and the x264 encoding time went from about 30 hours per pass to 15 hours.

I was just curious to see if anyone else had noticed this and what the reason might be.

Needless to say, I'm not complaining :)

(Athlon X2 3800+, 2x2.0Ghz)

[vgiozo]

I use the High-Quality Profile myself, the "Slow" one, but you must really have nerves of steel to encode using the "Insane" profile...

I've also witnessed an increase in speed...maybe the X264 encoder has been updated as well?

[nx6]

I use the High-Quality Profile myself, the "Slow" one, but you must really have nerves of steel to encode using the "Insane" profile...

I've also witnessed an increase in speed...maybe the X264 encoder has been updated as well?

It's in the changelog.

v0.80: Released 29/03/2007


Added MediaInfo. AutoMKV will use it as a last resort to analyze the input file.
Added new WMCmd.vbs, which should be more stable and robust.
Added in Log file the AR reported by DGIndex will now be listed.
Added WMV WVC1 presets. These presets are 2-pass encoding (Preset_Fast_WVC1.xml, Preset_Good_WVC1.xml, Preset_Better_WVC1.xml, Preset_Best_WVC1.xml, Prest_Insane_WVC1.xml)
Added Normalize() to audio avs file.
Added FFmpeg.exe to be used as encoder, if xvid_encraw/x264/wmcmd isn't able to process input file (not on dvd input) FFmpeg will try to encode to desired codec/container/width (not autocrop sorry...). Manual crop will be parsed and applied.
Added Multi Encoder support. If a file named "flv" or "msmpeg4v2" or "mpeg2video" or "rv10" is present in AutoMKV folder then AutoMKV will be force ffmpeg.exe to use these format. This does not work on dvd or avs input.
Added VirtualDub (1.7.1) as launcher of SoundOut plug-in, which should help deal with imperfect avs audio files.
Fixed bug where MP4 was recognized as AUDIO, now is recognized as video.
Changed XviD_CQ profile so it is now a true CQ. BQuantRatio is set to 1.
Fixed bug where in X264 the -ref was applied two times.
Added new Audio setting for WMV for better compatibility with the new WMCmd.vbs.
Fixed bug preventing AACgain from working for installation paths with space (like c:\program files\automkv\... ).
Added some tuning to audio downmixing when using WMV.
Changed location of Force Mux AR control to Muxing Options, and moved Anamorphic Encoding to Aspect Ratio Options.
Changed layout of log file some.
Changed RemoveGrain.dll to RemoveGrainS.dll, for better compatability with Athlon processors. Note: If you have a more powerfull CPU delete this file and from http://home.arcor.de/kassandro/RemoveGrain.rar take the DLL version your CPU supports (RemoveGrainSSE2.dll or RemoveGrainSSE3.dll). Do the same thing with job with RepairSSE2.dll or RepairSSE3.dll.
Added some tuning to WMV bitrate calculator
Changed width option so it now sets to "Original" if profile is CRF or CQ, and user selects "Go Unlimited" for final file size.
Updated NicAudio to 2.0.0.2, DgIndex to 1.4.7 beta 17, X264 v635, and ffmpeg.exe to v8435.

[Espio]

Great program, but I have a few requests:

-When I go into the Advanced Audio Settings just to change one thing everything is reset which is annoying if I forget something.
-When the selected profile is changed, everything is reset, also annoying.
-After you send a job to the queue it cannot be edited.
-Also, maybe consider adding some advanced settings for Vorbis? (Mostly allowing the bitrate to be selectable instead of just a quality setting)

Otherwise this program is great, much better than AutoGK ever was.

Edit: just got a memory violation in virtual dub saying something about out-of-bounds and audio, the setting I was using was Nero AAC, CBR 128kbps, from 5.1 AC3 to 5.1 AAC (Original).

[buzzqw]

-When I go into the Advanced Audio Settings just to change one thing everything is reset which is annoying if I forget something.

i prefer as is, those options are for advanced users and basically shouldn't opened.
I don't think to change the behavior.

-When the selected profile is changed, everything is reset, also annoying.
several profile need special options to be triggered. while i concord that is annoying i prefer to reset all

-After you send a job to the queue it cannot be edited.
yes, queue is a bad argument, i dislike it and queue dislike me :angry:

-Also, maybe consider adding some advanced settings for Vorbis? (Mostly allowing the bitrate to be selectable instead of just a quality setting)
most option on vorbis regards bitrate management and freq. Quality is the normal and preferred way of encoding.

Edit: just got a memory violation in virtual dub saying something about out-of-bounds and audio, the setting I was using was Nero AAC, CBR 128kbps, from 5.1 AC3 to 5.1 AAC (Original).
another user reported a memory error, AT END of ENCODING, when audio was already (and well ) compressed.
Must be presen some glitch in SoundOut...

BHH

[delacroixp]

I use the High-Quality Profile myself, the "Slow" one, but you must really have nerves of steel to encode using the "Insane" profile...

I guess that's why they call it "Insane"... only recommended for the seriously crazy... or well informed.


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[Prospero424]

One more quick question:

What, technically, does the "HQ Deint" option do? Is this something one should always have checked when quality is the first priority (and the source requires deinterlacing) or are there specific circumstances it should be reserved for?

TIA

[delacroixp]

@dlflannery

@salman1

@delacroixp
strange... try updating haali media splitter and ffdshow
also open the movie.avs, is present colormatrix at end script ?

@salman1

@nx6

Haali media splitter and ffdshow are updated daily... (courtesy of Zoom Player)

movie.avs
...
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",hints=false,threads=3)


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

@prospero
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=937978#post937978

@delacroixp
a little bit is needed...

BHH

[gonwk]

Hi Buzzqw,

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

I am an AMATUER ... and don't know beans about programming or other heavy duty stuff. I am just point and click user ... For your Info ... version AutoMKV 0.80 was the first time that I actually could do conversion from DVD to AVI with success.

I have few questions/suggestions:

Q1: Under you AVI and XviD choices ... you have different .xmls ... is there a way that it can tell someone like me what is the Quality Rate on those ... like 2000kbps, or 4000kbps ... you something simple and no-brainer.

Q2: Seems the conversion engine is slower than before? Or is it my imagination?

BTW, I LOVE YOUR PROGRAM ... everything contained in one "Neat" little folder instead of being spread all over like some other program(s).

Thanks again,
G!

[glynor]

Sorry again to bring up the Queue, but...

I'm still attempting to rip an episodic DVD using AutoMKV, and (in addition to losing the second audio settings for queued jobs) ripping from within AutoMKV doesn't seem to work at all when you queue the jobs. I've had a number of jobs all fail to work, while using identical settings but not queueing them works fine. I'm not sure if any of my settings are required for this issue to occur, so here's what I'm doing:


Input File: x:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO (selected drive and hit Check DVD Drive button)

Container: MKV
Codec: x264
Profile: Encoding-Highprofile.xml
Audio Track 1: English (AC3 2ch), NeroAAC (Stereo, Q=0.5)
Subtitle Track 1: RIP ALL SUBS
Resize Filters: Lanczos Resize
Set Width: AutoCrop Only
Filters: RemoveGrain(mode=2)
Output File: 250MB

Advanced:
Process this PGC & Process this IFO both checked.

What happens is, for queued jobs, DVD Fab Decrypter never actually launches and rips the DVD. It immediately loads DGINDEX then just stalls and sits there. DGINDEX of course has nothing to process, and so just sits there running.

For me, of course, the big advantage to using the Queue is for episodic DVDs. Ripping these manually is annoying, because you have to start one, let it finish, then remember to come back to the computer and start the next one. Over and over again, just for one disc! For a one-off movie, this isn't a huge deal, but for 7 episodes on a disc, it's really a pain...

Another little annoyance I've encountered is that when ripping from DVD, AutoMKV seems to ignore both the "saved" output folder location (it resets to AutoMKV's installed folder as soon as you hit "Check DVD Drive"), and ignores what you have typed in Movie Name for the purposes of naming the Logfile. The actual output file gets properly named, but the log file seems to always end up called "Click on INPUT for choosing FILE to ENCODE.log".

[buzzqw]

@gonwk

the profiles are based on quality/speed of encoding. There profile are not based on bitrate but the tradeoff between quality and speed

so the XviD_Fastest.xml/XviD_Fast.xml is the fastet and lower quallity
the normal are the good equilibrium for quality and speed
the slow and extra slow if for better quality AND low bitrate
the sap is tuned for Stand Alone Player (divx player)

@glynor
thanks for your test, i must admit that i haven't time now for much testing and debugging (a part little features)... i hope to have more time in next days/weeks :o

BHH

[glynor]

@glynor
thanks for your test, i must admit that i haven't time now for much testing and debugging (a part little features)... i hope to have more time in next days/weeks :o


Hey... I'm just pleased you have time to do this at all! Thanks for all your hard work and help!

[delacroixp]

I was encoding a few BoB clips for a Nokia 6233 (still wont work) and one clip had no sound... the temp folder had 2 audio tracks (eventhough the clip only had 1)... audio1.mp4 was only 6kbs... so I remuxed using 'muxing.bat' by swopping audio1.mp4 and audio2.mp4... all fine

Then I tried muxing only audio2 with MkvMerge and discovered a nice 'muxing display option' that might be handy in AutoMKV though 'Force Muxing Ratio' probably works just fine...


http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/MkvMergeMuxingDisplayThumb.jpg (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/MkvMergeMuxingDisplay.jpg)

Click... to see full image:


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[glynor]

@buzzqw

I ran into another AC3 source file that crashed VirtualDub (again the SoundOut module) at the very end of the encoding process. Unfortunately, for some weird reason I haven't been able to upload the files successfully to RapidShare or any of the similar services. I'm going to try to upload from my home computer tonight and see what happens...

Either way... Again, once I closed the VirtualDub error message, the encoding process continued and completed without issue. Again, the file plays fine.

[buzzqw]

thanks glynor!
i need your ac3 crashing file.. if i am able to repeat the error Sh0dan could fix it... or i hope

btw i "should" have fixed the second audio missing, added the edit job queue... and surely added more and lots bugs in queue :p

@all
i will downgrade dgindex to latest stable 1.4.8
this will fix several bugs on ivtc
any comment ?

stay tuned for next update!

BHH

[glynor]

thanks glynor!
i need your ac3 crashing file.. if i am able to repeat the error Sh0dan could fix it... or i hope

btw i "should" have fixed the second audio missing, added the edit job queue... and surely added more and lots bugs in queue :p

Thanks for the work on the queue. It was quiet in here today and I suspected you might be lighting your hair on fire from all my queue-related requests!! :eek:

I think there's something weird about uploading to those services from my office's network. I've been trying since last Friday and had no luck (with like 5 different RapidShare-esque sites). I just transfered the problem AC3 file to my USB flash drive and I'm gonna tote it home and try from there tonight. It'll take longer (the office is on an 20mbps Internet connection) but hopefully it'll work!

[Shark_jlc]

@all
i will downgrade dgindex to latest stable 1.4.8
this will fix several bugs on ivtc
any comment ?

stay tuned for next update!

BHH

That works for me. I've started using 1.4.8 manually before going to AutoMKV just because I don't have time to hassle with 1.4.9 if it fails.

But if I'm a lone exception, don't change on my behalf :)

[TheRyuu]

Would a script like this work:
ColorMatrix(Mode="Rec.601->Rec.709",scaling=2,threads=2).a=last.b=FluxSmoothT(8).SeeSaw(NRlimit=0, NRlimit2=5, Sstr=1.70, Szp=1, Slimit=50, Sdamplo=29, Spower=1, sootheT=0, SdampHi=35)

Just curious because the a= b= is all part of Seesaw and I wasn't really sure how to do that with nothing but a one line thing.

[dalihrp]

whenever I encode DVD to WMV (use wmv9 profile) , AutoMKV always ;
1; complain it failed to find video length, an then
2; the alternative method also always failed and then
3; it using something ffmepg?, it encode but then
4; the result is not good, file size not small (I compare with result i got with movie maker) and quality also not good.

any idea to improve my experience encoding dvd->wmv with autoMKV?

thanx.

[dlflannery]

whenever I encode DVD to WMV (use wmv9 profile) , AutoMKV always ;
1; complain it failed to find video length, an then
2; the alternative method also always failed and then
3; it using something ffmepg?, it encode but then
4; the result is not good, file size not small (I compare with result i got with movie maker) and quality also not good.

any idea to improve my experience encoding dvd->wmv with autoMKV?

thanx.
What settings have you tried for Deinterlacer (Advanced Setting Tab)? Try Film and None.

ffmpeg cannot encode to wmv9 so don't know what you are actually getting. (It can encode to wmv7 and wmv8).

Save the log file and post it here. (Clear the log file before running -- only save one case.)

[Shark_jlc]

whenever I encode DVD to WMV (use wmv9 profile) , AutoMKV always ;
1; complain it failed to find video length, an then
2; the alternative method also always failed and then
3; it using something ffmepg?, it encode but then
4; the result is not good, file size not small (I compare with result i got with movie maker) and quality also not good.

any idea to improve my experience encoding dvd->wmv with autoMKV?

thanx.

1 & 2 happened about version .78 somewhere. It's more annoying then anything, as it does not affect the output, only our ability to guess when it will be done.

[buzzqw]

update 0.80b! http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMKV080b.exe

ADDED: On start AutoMKV will warning if found files named dv or msmpeg4v2 or mpeg2video or rv10 or flv or wmv8 or wmv7 are present.
ADDED: Is now possible to edit job and resave job. For re-save job don't use Add Job but Resave Job on Queue Panel
ADDED: Some bugs in queue mode
ADDED: Possibility to specify the Width&Height in Matroska muxing. In that case the AR is ignored (suggestion by delacroixp)
FIXED: The Specify bitrate on Advanced Options , in ffmpeg.exe encoding, is now used only as video bitrate (suggestion by dlflannery)
FIXED: An ugly bug that will not trigger normalize() if Advanced Audio Options were opened
FIXED: The double "Processing completed. Type is determined to be partly film" reported in log
FIXED: Autoresize on WMV will now consider audio size
FIXED: On WMV is now possible to feed normal audio file and avs audio file, no more need to include audio source in movie avs files
FIXED: More sanity check on WMV encoding
FIXED: Missing Second Audio track in queue mode (thanks to Glynor)

note about wmv, the complain it failed to find video length, an then
2; the alternative method also always failed and then
is often due to directshowsource not providing enough information.
I suggest to install lastes ffdshow tryout and haali media splitter

@wizboy11
open the movie.avs , edit the script and try opening in virtualdub...

BHH

[delacroixp]

The Force Mux W*H is very neat... and being able to download only the AutoMKV080b.exe file is also usefull... since many people are on "limited bandwith"...

I haven't been able to test any colour-changes on Band of Brothers (see Post (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=977686&postcount=1684))... nx6 suggested a gamma correction or even a change in contrast (see Post (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=977741&postcount=1688)) but my understanding is that Gamma effects => brightness and Contrast effects => the 'range' of brightness...

Are there in fact any Advanced colour muxing options, especially saturation, available to MKV... rather than let the user adjust their player ???
This could be usefull, not only to BoB but Q24 or lower quality encodes where the colour may have been bleached out...

A boost in colour saturation is to video... what a boost in volume is to audio...

:):D:eek:
Pascal

[DarkZell666]

@buzzqw:ADDED: Some bugs in queue modeI hope not :D

[buzzqw]

@delacroixp
the color change is very strange...
watching on other monitor/pc is the same ?

@DarkZell666
I hope not
coding the queue is mayor pita... even worst since i don't use it (i doing only main movie backup) i haven't test well...
but i hope it will be better now :fingercrossed:

BHH

[glynor]

ADDED: Some bugs in queue mode


Ha ha ha ha ha!! :D

That made my morning. Hysterical, buzzqw!

Thanks for the fixes and work. I do appreciate it. I'll check it out and (I'm sure) ruin some future day of yours with some obscure bug.

[delacroixp]

@delacroixp
the color change is very strange...
watching on other monitor/pc is the same ?

I thought so myself... though they are both from the same monitor... one looks gr8 they other a bit 'grey'... I've tried 3 monitors (1 CRT & 2 LCD)... the colour from the CRT is probably the most real...

Funny thing happened... I can't get another 'video printscreen'... the video comes out black... I downloaded a few printscreen apps... which didn't work either... I even disabled the 'hardware acceleration'... and the printscreen to clipboard function works fine... but the video looks like c#@&...
The first time must have been 'beginners luck' or 'devine intervention'...

I'm still interested in the colour-thingy anyhow... filters, muxing, players... etc. (It makes all the difference)


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[nx6]

I haven't been able to test any colour-changes on Band of Brothers (see Post (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=977686&postcount=1684))... nx6 suggested a gamma correction or even a change in contrast (see Post (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=977741&postcount=1688)) but my understanding is that Gamma effects => brightness and Contrast effects => the 'range' of brightness...

When I looked at the two screenshots you showed me, what I noticed is one looked much brighter than the other (like the encoded movie made it appear to be evening verses midday in the original VOB), which is why I suggested a gamma or contrast issue.

Remember that when you are displaying video you are working with light, which is additive color (as opposed to pigment, which is subtractive color). A scene being too dark will result in colors being less bright and looking somewhat washed out as well. Which is why I suggest playing with the Picture Properties filters on playback and see if fixing the difference in lightness in the scene also helps the color saturation, there might be a saturation problem as well I will admit.

[glynor]

I realize that this might seem a bit odd, but I'm gonna ask anyway. On another forum I've been involved in a discussion on how to get DVDs extracted from disc and into a MKV file without recompressing the audio or video at all. Essentially a "copy original" for both Audio and Video, but with all the other benefits of a MKV file and with support for subtitles and multiple audio tracks and whatnot.

You've been adding all this super cool ffmpeg encoder stuff lately.... Is there any way we could get a lossless "copy original video" option for converting from DVD --> MKV somehow?

I've been trying to accomplish this seemingly simple task almost all day with one DVD using MKVtoolnix and DVD Fab Decrypter/DVD Decrypter+RipItForMe/IFOEdit/DVD Shrink/etc/etc/etc and I'm about ready to pull my hair out and set it on fire. I can get the VOBs into the MKV file, but sometimes it's a nightmare to get them to all get recognized and in the right order and everything. Half the time MKVtoolnix seems to just arbitrarily cut off my MKV file at around the 500MB mark, even though my source VOB is 5GB or so in size...

Everyone on the other thread has said essentially "AutoMKV looks like exactly what I want, except I don't want to recompress the video. I want a 5GB+ MKV file with AC3 audio and MPEG-2 video with the absolute best quality possible."

Any ideas or love?

[nx6]

@delacroixp

Check out this picture (http://automkv.wiki-site.com/index.php/Image:BoB01_Org_VOBedit.jpg).

I took your original images and combined them. The right half is your VOB, the left is the encoded file. On the upper 40% of so of the encoded file side I have done Brightness/Contrast adjustment to it (you can see the border running just above the truck's headlights). This is why the sky is similar in brightness to the VOB side. But there is a saturation problem as you diagnosed.

In the middle of the entire frame I have applied a saturation adjustment which overlaps all three areas (enclosed in white frame). You can see the upper left quadrant of it is the closest to the VOB sample area outside the white frame. Just so you have the figure: this is a 60% increase in saturation. So you would need to adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation to get an encoding closer to the original material.

[buzzqw]

tonight i had encode Matrix with Preset_Good_WVC1
perfect encode... but i cannot ear audio... even if is present :confused:

this is the "interesting sections" of movie.avs

audio = NicAC3Source("D:\DVDMAGIC\temp\fixed1.ac3",2)
...#trim video section#...
audio=ConvertAudioToFloat(audio)
audio=Normalize(audio)
audio=getchannel(audio,1,2)
audiodub(audio,last)

and here the wcmd.vbs
cscript.exe "C:\Programmi\PureBasic4\AutoMKV\exe\encoder\WMCmd.vbs" -input "D:\DVDMAGIC\temp\movie.avs" -output "D:\DVDMAGIC\temp\movie.wmv" -v_codec WVC1 -v_mode 3 -v_bitrate 564000 -s_config "D:\DVDMAGIC\temp\wmv_crb" -v_preset good -v_bframedist 1 -v_dquantoption 3 -v_bdeltaqp 1 -a_codec wmapro -a_mode 0 -title "VTS_02_0" -year 2007 -copyright "Done with AutoMKV! 0.80b" -a_setting 128_48_2_24
even if the encode is come out near perfet (705mb, aimed 700mb) and mediainfo report is ok
General #0
Complete name : D:\DVDMAGIC\VTS_02_0.wmv
Format : Windows Media
File size : 705 MiB
PlayTime : 2h 21mn
Bit rate : 699 Kbps
Movie name : VTS_02_0
Recorded date : 2007
Copyright : Done with AutoMKV! 0.80b
Buffer Average : 200

Video #0
Codec : VC-1
Codec/Info : Microsoft
Bit rate : 556 Kbps
Width : 704 pixels
Height : 304 pixels
Aspect ratio : 2.35

Audio #0
Codec : WMA3
Codec/Info : Windows Media Audio 3
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
but i cannot ear audio...

i changed this "audio=Normalize(audio)" to "audio=amplifydb(audio,15)" and the encode come out perfect as before BUT i can ear audio!

I suppose that the normalize process (since is a two time process) make the encoder... crazy ???

i will post a link to this post to Zambelli thread

BHH

P.S. Encode on Win2003 Server, playing with Windows Media Player 10

[delacroixp]

Remember that when you are displaying video you are working with light, which is additive color (as opposed to pigment, which is subtractive color). A scene being too dark will result in colors being less bright and looking somewhat washed out...
All good.

Quite frankly I'm more interested in how it's going with your greyscale encode... I think there must be a huge application with all the historical black and white movies around...

Even in terms of archiving purposes it would be of great documumentary value to humanity before they all disintegrate and are lost forever... I still havn't found a solution to 'single channel mono' ... and your small video encodes may be offset by relatively large audio encodes...


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[nx6]

All good.

Quite frankly I'm more interested in how it's going with your greyscale encode... I think there must be a huge application with all the historical black and white movies around...

It didn't work out as far as I can tell for the purpose I meant it to.

Test film was 720x480, 1h 28m 09s, 4:3 aspect ratio
Encoded as H264, @ CQ-CRF: 18
AAC .25 audio, 2 audio tracks and one subtitle track.

"Color" Film: 1,793,394,045 bytes (1.66 GB)
Greyscale Film: 1,801,501,190 bytes (1.67 GB)

Yes, the greyscale film was actually slightly larger.

It did work on an anime episode (but that was color to start with and I wouldn't want it in greyscale).

Test episode was 720x480, 24m 42s 4:3 aspect ratio
Encoded as H264, @ CQ-CRF: 22
AAC .20 audio, 2 audio tracks and one subtitle track.

Color encode: 206,565,028 bytes (196MB)
Greyscale encode: 181,273,632 bytes (172MB)

I have a theory that studios master the original DVDs as greyscale to start with with these old movies. You ever notice how when you watch an old film that has been re-released 50 years later the studio's new 21st century logo is shown before the old studio's logo, yet BOTH are in greyscale? Why isn't the new one in color since it was just added and the second one in greyscale since it was part of the original print of the film? Because the studios mastered the entire movie as greyscale! They can't show the logo in color then since those colors are not available. By doing this, the mpeg stream the DVD player reads can have greater quality for the same bandwidth as a normal color film. Or they can use a lower stream and save disc space (cheaper single-layer DVD manufacturing now).

So the reason my trick doesn't work is my movie is already been reduced to greyscale so there's no extra information to throw out. Another possibility is the encoding algorithms can tell they are so many fewer colors in the film when compressing and iron out the bulky data stream without me telling them to reduce colors manually.

For most uses, adding greyscale() would be of no value, but there are still a few uses it might be good for. Like PVR recordings off a TV tuner card. Since the capture card is a color tuner there might be extra color information in the original recorded files that can be removed by re-encoding. If it was off a poor analog cable or broadcast reception there might be picture interference that is in color on the greyscale film, like I mentioned before, converting this fuzz to B&W would make it less noticeable. This could have value if you were encoding instructional films or something where color wasn't important but file size was.

Do you know the official bit depth of Apple's QuickTime used to be 16 bit (32 thousand colors)? The reason was, at the time, many computers did not have the processing power to handle playback of a full color movie at a reasonable resolution (this was back when 320x240 was considered average size), and the difference in perception between 16 and 24 bit is not that much (just try switching your monitor to "thousands of colors" and use it for a while). So movies done this way were watchable on far more computers and took up much less space on disk.

If this is a case of the original DVD being in greyscale to start, it might be possible this would change on a disc-by-disc basis. I didn't check the times of the encoding jobs, but I imagine they didn't vary much, so it's a feature I might use "just for the hell of it" when I'm ripping B&W films just in case it helps.

If this is a case of just good algorithms, then you wouldn't get any benefit on your BoB episodes as the encoder is already doing as good a job of compressing on those B&W scenes as they are.

I will probably do some more experimenting, though.

... and your small video encodes may be offset by relatively large audio encodes...

When I redo some of this stuff, I'll remember to set the mono downmix option like I meant to the first time, which will prevent that issue.

I'm actually interested in solving your problem with the color and brightness difference you were having as it was quite a striking difference when viewing the two screenshots side-by-side. It would be nice to know I could solve a similar issue in my own encodings using the methodology I employed in that image I posted to you if I had the same problem.

encode once
check differences
use image editor to change a single frame to match source material, noting changes & values altered
rerun encode with the same changes applied by the encoder to the entire film

I can imagine a processing like this being applied to the entire film might make the AutoMKV job much longer though.

[nx6]

tonight i had encode Matrix with Preset_Good_WVC1
perfect encode... but i cannot ear audio... even if is present :confused:


What a coincidence, I watched the Matrix tonight on my computer! But I was watching my DVD, not a file on my hard drive.

probably a dumb question but:

Audio #0
Codec : WMA3
Codec/Info : Windows Media Audio 3
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48 KHz

What would an audio card do if asked to play back a file of a sampling rate too high for it?

Also, another silly point, sometimes I activate the mute on WMP accidentally as the shortcut key is I think the pause key on another player I use or something like that. I usually have trouble figuring out that's what it is and start restarting my machine because I think Windows's audio processing is messed up.

[buzzqw]

@nx6
What would an audio card do if asked to play back a file of a sampling rate too high for it?

same avs script but without normalize() is perfectly audible... so isn't a decoder/hw problem

also... eve if i am a perctly :helpful: i know how to use wmp ... :p

BHH

[delacroixp]

... and your small video encodes may be offset by relatively large audio encodes...
When I redo some of this stuff, I'll remember to set the mono downmix option like I meant to the first time, which will prevent that issue.

I hate to break this to you... but my mono seams headed the same way as your greyscale... one of my (downmix) MONO encodes was larger than the stereo version... possibly because stereo works as a 2-man team while MONO is carrying the complete signal in 1 channel (x2).

Mpeg-1 supports 'single channel MONO' but Mpeg-4 still uses 2 channels even if you choose Mono...


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[glynor]

So.... Regarding my request for muxing "passed through" video. I finally figured out a reliable method for getting non-recompressed video from a DVD into a MKV file, but it certainly isn't simple. It's probably not the perfect way to do it, but I posted step-by-step instructions over here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=39604.msg271816#msg271816

While investigating this, I became more and more convinced that this would be a superb addition to AutoMKV. I think that, at least for DVD based source files, it would probably be fairly simple to add the feature, since AutoMKV already has to go through all the steps to extract the video anyway (so it has all the pieces you need right there). Of course, simple's probably a relative term.

Either way, I think it'd be great to have this option in such an easy to use application. Lots of people really prefer to keep the video in the most pristine format possible, but would like the convenience of using a single file format like MKV. As it is, it's quite a hassle to accomplish...

This, plus AutoMKV's other capabilities of encoding the Audio (if desired) and extracting subtitles and all that, would be ideal IMHO!

[nx6]

I hate to break this to you... but my mono seams headed the same way as your greyscale... one of my (downmix) MONO encodes was larger than the stereo version... possibly because stereo works as a 2-man team while MONO is carrying the complete signal in 1 channel (x2).


Well, what codec were you using? Since the AAC is set with a "quality" slider perhaps it felt that to get that quality level in one channel out of a two channel input file it would need to encode the mono at twice the bitrate (this is why I prefer to use set CBR's to encode, no guessing as to what the actual filesize will be, I can figure it out mathematically if I want to).

My source audio is 1ch to begin with, so I'm sure using the "stereo" downmix option did make my audio files twice as big for no reason.

Anyway, reducing to one channel should cut the audio file in half if they are full stereo.

@buzzqw: Does the LAME encoder use full stereo or joint stereo?
I suppose that the normalize process (since is a two time process) make the encoder... crazy ???
Perhaps the normalize filter has trouble reading the levels of the audio after its been used once and as a result considers everything over 0db as over level, so it now drops everything below 0db. :D Hence, no audio.

[buzzqw]

@glynor
i will look!

@nx6
lame default is j-stereo, but since i use preset abr it change on bitrate change, but will simply switch from joint to simple stereo

BHH

[delacroixp]

Well, what codec were you using? Since the AAC is set with a "quality" slider perhaps it felt that to get that quality level in one channel out of a two channel input file it would need to encode the mono at twice the bitrate (this is why I prefer to use set CBR's to encode, no guessing as to what the actual filesize will be, I can figure it out mathematically if I want to).

My source audio is 1ch to begin with, so I'm sure using the "stereo" downmix option did make my audio files twice as big for no reason.

Anyway, reducing to one channel should cut the audio file in half if they are full stereo.

I fell in love with VBR mp3 way back when it rarely even worked with DivX... so I just love VBR mp4.
I use BeSweet (BeLight GUI)... and even though I don't know the actual bitrate... I know I'm getting the best possible quality, given the 'Normal', 'Streaming', 'Audiophile', etc quality levels... and I can compare filesize afterwards... I work on the audio track separately and it's all pretty quick... it's a bit like the CQ-CRF profile for video... the ultimate in dynamic variability...

Well perhaps not... we're still missing 'variable frame rate'... and a quality based 'automatic resize', so that an animation would tend to resize at a lower resolution and a detailed movie would tend towards a higher resolution for the same quality level... perhaps that's the ultimate CQ encode...

Quite frankly, I'ld prefer to use the AutoMKV audio encoding facility... IF I knew I was getting the maximum possible 'volume boost' without clipping and I often do so after testing the track with BeSweet and then use the Amplifydb(xx) option...
I had an Aiwa 'feather touch' cassette deck in high school in 1980 and recorded LP's from a record library... but you could never be sure if your tape recording was too loud or too soft... even if it had good volume there could always be one spot that became distorted (clipped)... it was all pretty random...

Can you actually compare your 1 channel audio source to the mp4 encode filesize... I can't see how it will even allow a single channel file after encode.


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[delacroixp]

Lots of people really prefer to keep the video in the most pristine format possible, but would like the convenience of using a single file format like MKV.
I certainly do... especially if you're encoding from Mpeg-4 (P10) source material and you have no need to resize...

I'm no Einstein on encoding and video formats but what exactly is the real advantage of MKV over MP4... the actual encode is MP4 and the MKV container even increases the filesize... SAP's don't play either so you're left with PC-playback... sure different formats WMV, et al, have specific target hardware but what's the specific power of one format over another... menu's, filesize, quality, features ???


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[Bigmango]

but what exactly is the real advantage of MKV over MP4... the actual encode is MP4 and the MKV container even increases the filesize... SAP's don't play either so you're left with PC-playback... sure different formats WMV, et al, have specific target hardware but what's the specific power of one format over another... menu's, filesize, quality, features ???


:):D:eek:
Pascal

More flexibility. In an mkv you can keep all the subtitles and audio tracks when you do a dvd backup.

The killer feature for me is that with MKV you can have several AC3/DTS audio tracks. You can't use AC3/DTS with MP4.

I don't want low quality audio and I watch my movies on my home theater with a high end 6.1 receiver, so I need the AC3/DTS pass through.

One more reason for keeping the AC3/DTS with the h.264 files is that you should later be able to demux the mkv and author the sources directly to a blue ray / hd-dvd.

[zambelli]

tonight i had encode Matrix with Preset_Good_WVC1
perfect encode... but i cannot ear audio... even if is present :confused:
This might be a dumb question, but have you tried playing back the .avs to see if it's outputting any audio at all? Have you tried replacing NicAC3Source with just WAVSource to see if it works?

[buzzqw]

@zambelli

opening the avs in virtualdub and afte waiting 10 minutes... yes
the normalize() fuction first analyze all audio stream then apply the gain thru all encode...

i can suppose that normalize isn't best with wmcmd.vbs but the audio gain is very important when encoding from ac3/dts to wma audio.

very good solution could be letwme encoder/wmcmd.vbs to normalize the audio... but this fuction is missing...

Have you tried replacing NicAC3Source with just WAVSource to see if it works?
since i have the ac3 file i tryed with nicac3... because the directshowsource is a pita with wmcmd.vbs...

if isn't too much try downloading automkv80.rar and the update (all in first post in this thread) then try encoding a full film

a big thanks for your interest!

BHH

[buzzqw]

i open a pool on general discussion about resizer to include / exclude in next version

please vote!

BHH

[zambelli]

opening the avs in virtualdub and afte waiting 10 minutes... yes
the normalize() fuction first analyze all audio stream then apply the gain thru all encode...
Does any other encoder work with Normalize()? I'd be surprised. Most encoders expect a frame sample at a time - I doubt any encoder would wait 10 minutes for a sample without timing out or just moving on.

since i have the ac3 file i tryed with nicac3... because the directshowsource is a pita with wmcmd.vbs...
You could always use BeSweet to decode to WAV and then just use WAVSource. That's far more reliable anyway.

[buzzqw]

with other encoder i don't feed the audio directly ... because i mux video AND audio after encoding... but with i haven't found audio+video wmv muxer around (and comman line able...)

BHH

[buzzqw]

one more test

LoadPlugin("c:\nicaudio.dll")
NicAC3Source("c:\matrix.ac3",2)
normalize()

with this command line
cscript.exe "c:\WMCmd.vbs" -input "c:\audio_wma.avs" -output "C:\audio.wma" -audioonly -a_codec wmapro -a_mode 0 -a_setting 192_48_2_24

will generate a 2 hour and more silent audio file

the same script processed with bepipe (feeding nero aac or oggenc2.exe....) or soundout is perfectly audible.

substituting the normalize() with amplifydb(15) will solve the problem BUT can introduce clipping in audio track

Zambelli i don't want to bother you, seriusly, i will only ask if will be a better solution. And pre-encode ac3 to wav to wmv isn't my clear idea of good workflow...

thanks!

BHH

[delacroixp]

i open a pool on general discussion about resizer to include / exclude in next version

please vote!

BHH
where ???

I'm always a sucker for this kind of voting thing... under communism, apartheid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid), Hitler and pre-democratic history... most people (the average person) never got a chance to vote and declare their pleasure/displeasure...

Here at AutoMKV you can vote for progress and development, assured of the certainty that 'you are doing the right thing'... where it's one small step for AutoMKV but one giant leap for mankind...


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

here http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=124389

BHH

[delacroixp]

It still disturbs me that I (as an MKV container user) can't use the AutoCrop-Only option... the sheer power and elegant simplicity of MKV is negated by the forced-resizing implementation of AutoMKV... which by it's very name... purports to champion MKV...

Only yesterday I encoded The Deer Hunter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter) (Dec 1978) only to discover that it not only has 'huge' amounts of black space top and bottom (T=>70 B=>71) but also left and right (L=>9 R=>8)... this after more than 12hrs of encoding...
Unfortunately I then had to rely on an old friend, Dr DivX 2.0.0 OSS (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/DrDivX.jpg), to shed some light and show me the way (see pic)...

I then restarted the encode with manual cropping, adjusted upwards the left crop from 9 to 10, the bottom crop from 71 to 72 and manually set the muxing options to anamorphic and automatic...
This encode was complicated by the now modified resolution which was originally 720x576 (PAL)/16:9 but is now 702x434 ([720-18x576-142]anamorphic) which on playback becomes ???x434.

If that wasn't enough... my encode is right now getting funny on me too... see pic

http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/DeerHunterThumb.jpg (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/DeerHunter.jpg)

click for full view...


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[buzzqw]

you cannot crop by odd numbers

open the movie.avs in virtualdub and spot the error

BHH

[Barleyman]

15:52:39 Framerate: 25.000000
15:52:39 Movie length in Seconds: 2690
15:52:39 Movie Width/Height: 704/576
15:52:39 DgIndex AR: 4:3
15:53:11 Processing completed. Type is determined to be progressive.
15:53:11 Order: unk
15:53:11 CQ encoding XviD: C:\Program Files\AutoMKV\exe\encoder\xvid_encraw.exe -cq 3 -progress -threads 0 -max_bframes 2 -imax 31 -quality 6 -vhqmode 1 -qtype 0 -pmax 31 -bmax 31 -framerate 25.000 -bquant_ratio

Does that mean I get no de-interlacing or I get some super-duper-slow de-interlacer?

Would it be possible to get xvid "cartoon" option support? south park encodes are oversized.. And I would imagine family guy/simpsons/futurama would be too.

I get ugly deinterlacing flicker with south park btw. Is there some straightforward way to deal with that?

Especially in the horisontal lines..

[delacroixp]

you cannot crop by odd numbers


You mentioned so once before but I thought I had correctly accounted for odd-cropping by adjusting upwards by +1 where necessary.

See "The Deer Hunter.ini"


DVD Drive = NONE
Input File = F:\Movies\To be Encoded\Deer Hunter\The Deer Hunter.VOB
Input Folder = F:\Movies\To be Encoded\Deer Hunter\
Output Folder = H:\Movies\Encodes\
Container = MKV
Movie Name = The Deer Hunter
Size = 1 CD
Slice = 1
Resizer = 12
Width = Original
Set encoding mode = X264
Audio Track 1 = NONE
Audio Codec 1 = Nero AAC
Audio Bit 1 = 7
Audio Bitrate 1 = 0.35
Audio Channel 1 = Stereo
Audio Track 2 = NONE
Audio Codec 2 = Nero AAC
Audio Bit 2 = 7
Audio Bitrate 2 = 0.35
Audio Channel 2 = Stereo
Sub Track 1 = NONE
Sub Track 2 = NONE
Encoding Profiles = ConstantQuality-CRF.xml
Hit Media/Go Unlimited = Selected Unlimited media size
Use CRF/CQ for AutoResize = 0
CRF/CQ Value = 18
Bitrate Encoding = 0
Bitrate Value = 700
Quality Encoding = 0
Quality Value = 75
Delete temporary files = 0
Encrust/Burn Subtitles = 0
Enable Shutdown = 0
Process this IFO = 0
Process this PGC = 0
PGC to Process = -1
Force ITU Resizing = 0
Anamorphic Encoding = 1
Filter = RemoveGrain(mode=5)
Enable Last Line AVS Script = 0
Last Line AVS Script = ChangeFPS(12.5)
Deinterlacer = AUTO
Field Order = AUTO
Language = eng
Use ProjectX for TS files = 0
Use custom X.ini = 0
Use DelayCut = 1
HQ Deinterlacer = 0
Matrix = NONE
Force PAR in XviD = NONE
Use DirectShowSource for Video = 0
Use DirectShowSource for Audio = 0
Enable Manual Crop And Resize = 1
Crop Top = 70
Crop Left = 10
Crop Bottom = 72
Crop Right = 8
Manual Width = 702
Manual Height = 434
Audio Track Name 1 =
Movie Title Name =
Audio Track Desc 1 =
Nero Profiles 1 = AUTO
Nero Encoding Mode 1 = Quality
CCT Profiles 1 = AUTO
Channel Options 1 = AUTO
MP3 Settings 1 = ABR
Windows Media Audio = AUTO
Windows Media Channel = AUTO
Normalize Audio 1 = 1
Frequency 1 = AUTO
Tempo 1 = NONE
Pitch 1 = NONE
OtherADD 1 =
Audio Track Name 2 =
Audio Track Desc 2 =
Nero Profiles 2 = AUTO
Nero Encoding Mode 2 = Quality
CCT Profiles 2 = AUTO
Channel Options 2 = AUTO
MP3 Settings 2 = ABR
Normalize Audio 2 = 1
Frequency 2 = AUTO
Tempo 2 = NONE
Pitch 2 = NONE
OtherADD 2 =

I've obviously made a mistake in my ignorance but I don't think odd cropping is to blame...


:):D:eek:
Pascal

[glynor]

The killer feature for me is that with MKV you can have several AC3/DTS audio tracks. You can't use AC3/DTS with MP4.


That's why I switched to using MKV over MP4. Plus, in my testing, the vast majority of Set Top Players couldn't even handle MP4 (and certainly couldn't handle x264). Since I decided XviD's quality wasn't going to cut it...

I do still use MP4 for some files (mostly purposed for streaming via my Quicktime Streaming Server), but for basically everything else I just use MKV. You just don't really have to worry about what format the stream is in... MKV can probably handle it.

[buzzqw]

@delacroixp

open the movie.avs in virtualdub and spot the error

@Barleyman
simply autodeint isn't unable to determine the frame / interlacer type.
if you know how to proper deinterlace, select the right frame type

for carton options you must use the zones option of xvid_encraw
C:\>xvid_encraw.exe -help zones
xvid_encraw - raw mpeg4 bitstream encoder written by Christoph Lampert 2002-2003

xvid_encraw built at 20:07:02 on Feb 3 2007
Zones options:
You can define up to 64 zones using the -zones option as described below.

-zones start,mode,value[,options][/start,mode,value[,options]]...

Parameters of a zones use the comma (,) as a delimiter. Multiple zones are separated by a slash (/). The end of each zone is defined by either the start of the following zone or the last frame of the input file.

start : Start frame of the zone
mode : weight zone = w, quanttizer zone = q
value : Depending on mode either the zone's weight or quantizer.
options : Enables certain encoder features for the zone. Each feature is represented by a single letter. An integer number stands for b-frame sensitivity. To enable multiple features at the same time combine the appropriate symbols without any delimiting characters.
K = being with keyframe
O = Enable chroma optimizer
G = Greyscale encoding
C = Cartoon mode
integer = B-Frame sensitivity

Example:
To create a first zone starting at frame 0 with weight 1.0, all options enabled and b-frame sensitivity -5, and a second zone starting at frame 1000 with constant quant 4 and no options enabled you would use the -zones option like this:

-zones 0,w,1.0,-5KOGC/1000,q,4

BHH

[Barleyman]

@Barleyman
simply autodeint isn't unable to determine the frame / interlacer type.
if you know how to proper deinterlace, select the right frame type

Hm. No no, you got mixed up.

I have de-interlace artifacts with south park, where I force TFF + deint. I get nice flickery horizontal lines, yuck. I get those even if I use the slooooooooow hq deint. No combing, thought, so TFF is correct.

With this other show (deadwood, actually) it says it's "progressive", but the field order says "unk" .. In any case, since I got ~25fps encode for that, I didn't get hit with the HQ encoder. OK pic quality, too.

Didn't know you can use progressive in PAL DVB.. On the other hand, I suppose it's progressive @ 25fps.

for carton options you must use the zones option of xvid_encraw


How about I just tick "XVID cartoon mode" checkbox? :p

[buzzqw]

I get nice flickery horizontal lines

could not be a FILM type ?
have you tryed all deint options with hq enabled ?

it says it's "progressive", but the field order says "unk"

when movie type is determine to be progressive the field test isn't done... so in UNKnow ...

How about I just tick "XVID cartoon mode" checkbox?

ok... let me work on this :)

BHH