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Bluedan
11th June 2010, 19:29
For years I've been using megui on WinXP x64.

Recently I switched to Win7 x64. Now I found time to install megui (32bit), ran through the update procedure (only stable branch so far), and ran into the first problem: megui did not keep the profiles I imported. I had to manually import them twice until they "stayed". And a third time for audio profiles. Restarts in between - but I had never done that on my XP machine. Strange.

The worst thing is that my first attempt to do a two pass encode with HQ profile ended up with the above entry under log tab.
I didn't find anything like this via google search or forum search here.

As I'm quite new to Win7: Is it because all user folder have been transfered to partition "D:" ? (Did that right after first OS installation)
Or is it because I've set User Account Control to the highest level?

Any thoughts?
Bluedan
11th June 2010, 21:35
Shame on me. I re-checked the profile settings. And voilą: in the costum command line entry I made there was an extra space which turned the command useless. :stupid:

At least, that is solved. But another question arises: my 4 cores are not loaded 100% so far (1st pass). Actually most of them run at 50% to 60% all the time. Thread number is set to 0 = "Auto". Is there room for optimation?
foxyshadis
11th June 2010, 22:06
Check your avisynth script. If you use a lot of filtering, install avisynth-mt and add mt commands to the top. Check that you're using the fastest possible decoder for your source files. You can also replace slower filters with faster ones for the first pass, since the strength of the effect is normally less important than an effect just being there, in the first pass.
Bluedan
12th June 2010, 23:44
Next time I'll keep my mouth shut. :p
I usually do DVD transcoding, PAL country.
I rely on megui's suggestions in the script creator. So, apart from additional filters to reduce noise, only color conversion and crop is used. Not even deinterlace filter.

Though 1st pass seems to be slower, the 2nd starts with 90-100% immediately.
Thanks for your help!