MeGUI: Huffy and 2pass encode error.

[EroKaos]

Hi, I was just messing round with this dvd I recently got and I decided to use MeGUI for the second time instead of the usual xvid but I had a problem this time (first time I did not have any problem but it was jsut a simple encode, no Queu Analisis Pass nor huffy pass).

I first did a Queue Analisys Pass:
Log for job job1


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Starting postprocessing of job...
Job completed successfully and deletion of intermediate files is activated
Postprocessing finished!
Looking for job processor for job...
Processor found!
Starting job job2-1 at 12:56:08
Starting preprocessing of job...
Preprocessing finished!
encoder commandline:
"F:\RH\TGWLTT\twltt.d2v.avs" -o "F:\RH\TGWLTT\hfyu_twltt.d2v.avi" -of avi -forceidx -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=ffvhuff:vstrict=-2:pred=2:context=1
successfully started encoding
Processing ended at 4:35:35
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Log for job job2-1

3DNow supported but disabledMEncoder dev-CVS-060515-06:00-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 X2 Manchester,Toledo (Family: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x6f8
AVS file format detected.
VIDEO: [YV12] 720x480 12bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:38 fourcc:0x32315659 size:720x480 fps:23.98 ftime:=0.0417
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
videocodec: libavcodec (720x480 fourcc=48564646 [FFVH])
Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm: raw (RAW YV12)
==========================================================================
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 1023MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 2047MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 3071MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 4095MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 5119MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 6143MB.
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ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 12286MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 13310MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 14334MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 15358MB.
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ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 19454MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 20478MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 21501MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 22525MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 23549MB.

Flushing video frames
Writing index...
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.

Video stream: 34356.012 kbit/s (4294501 B/s) size: 25331218396 bytes 5898.524 secs 141423 frames
This is a CQ job so there's no desired bitrate. Obtained video bitrate: 34359 kbit/s
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Starting postprocessing of job...
Job completed successfully and deletion of intermediate files is activated
Postprocessing finished!
Looking for job processor for job...
Processor found!
Starting job job2-2 at 4:35:35
Starting preprocessing of job...
Preprocessing finished!
Calling setup of processor failed with error The file F:\RH\TGWLTT\hfyu_twltt.d2v.avs cannot be opened.
Error message for your reference: AVISource: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc FFVH
(F:\Robin hood\The Girl Who Leapt Through Time\hfyu_twltt.d2v.avs, line 1)


From that I take it nothing went wrong.

Then the huffy pass:
Log for job job2-1

3DNow supported but disabledMEncoder dev-CVS-060515-06:00-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 X2 Manchester,Toledo (Family: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x6f8
AVS file format detected.
VIDEO: [YV12] 720x480 12bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:38 fourcc:0x32315659 size:720x480 fps:23.98 ftime:=0.0417
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
videocodec: libavcodec (720x480 fourcc=48564646 [FFVH])
Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm: raw (RAW YV12)
==========================================================================
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 1023MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 2047MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 3071MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 4095MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 5119MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 6143MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 7167MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 8191MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 9215MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 10239MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 11262MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 12286MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 13310MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 14334MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 15358MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 16382MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 17406MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 18430MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 19454MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 20478MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 21501MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 22525MB.
ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 23549MB.

Flushing video frames
Writing index...
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.

Video stream: 34356.012 kbit/s (4294501 B/s) size: 25331218396 bytes 5898.524 secs 141423 frames
This is a CQ job so there's no desired bitrate. Obtained video bitrate: 34359 kbit/s

I don't understand most of the stuff in that log but I can see some stuff that shouldn't be there if everything was fine.

The 2pass 1 and 2 didn't occur. The 2pass 1 gave me an error and the second one was skipped.
Starting postprocessing of job...
Job completed successfully and deletion of intermediate files is activated
Postprocessing finished!
Looking for job processor for job...
Processor found!
Starting job job2-2 at 4:35:35
Starting preprocessing of job...
Preprocessing finished!
Calling setup of processor failed with error The file F:\RH\TGWLTT\hfyu_twltt.d2v.avs cannot be opened.
Error message for your reference: AVISource: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc FFVH
(F:\RH\TGWLTT\hfyu_twltt.d2v.avs, line 1)


Anything I'm doing wrong to get these results?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

[mitsubishi]

This happened to me the other week, seems a common confusion.

Assuming you have ffdshow installed (of course you do ;) )

Go to the "VfW configuration" and tell it, under the codecs page, to decode huffy.

[EroKaos]

First of all, thanks for responding.
I just went to CCCP folder, VFW codec config and changed Huffyuv to have libavcoder as the decoder, not sure if that's what you meant. Assumnig that is what you meant, is there a way to use the huffy pass I got to encode the 2passes? If so, should I even do that or should I just encode a new huffy pass?

Thanks

[mitsubishi]

First of all, thanks for responding.
I just went to CCCP folder, VFW codec config and changed Huffyuv to have libavcoder as the decoder, not sure if that's what you meant. Assumnig that is what you meant, is there a way to use the huffy pass I got to encode the 2passes? If so, should I even do that or should I just encode a new huffy pass?

Thanks

Yeah the huffy pass will have been fine, it's just decoding it in avisynth it had a problem with.

You can go to the jobs (queue) list, select the errored jobs, right click them and changed the status to "waiting". Then it will run these jobs now.

[EroKaos]

Great! I won't have to spend 30hrs of encoding again, although I might for insignificant reasons. Anyway, thanks for all the help. Btw, I got one more question, not related to the topic though. Is there a way so that meGUI doesn't delete the .stats file it produces (if it does) so that if something happens during the encode and I have to restart my encode I can just point at it and skip the Queu Analysis Pass?

[Doom9]

Is there a way so that meGUI doesn't delete the .stats file it producesIt's the encoder that produces those files, and yes there's a way.. ever entered the settings before? You can tell megui to delete intermediate files or not delete them.. if you opt for the latter, everything will be kept. However, be careful with aborted passes.. say your encoder crashed during the second pass.. that means part of the second pass has already been performed and depending on the settings, the stats file may or may not have been updated (if you do a default 2 pass I believe the stats file won't be updated so you'll be fine.. but if you do a 3 pass encoding with x264, things in the middle pass look differently) and I'm not sure how starting with a stats file like that will influence the final outcome (if at all). This is however a matter to ask those that wrote the encoder in question.

[EroKaos]

Heh, I have been in the settings screen once or twice since this is my second time using it for something serious and not just fool around with it. I was just wondering since it would be convinient in a way.

Thanks