Dr.divx equivalent to XviD?

[inman]

I have been searching for a dr.divx equivalent software for XviD. I am not talking about DVD encoders like AGK. Dr.divx also supports almost any video format(avi,rmvb,wmv etc..) as input. Anyone knows such a tool for XviD?

Please reply.

[Neo Neko]

Mencoder perhaps. Well I suppose it is not as GUI as Dr. Divx. But it will read almost anything. FFmpeg is not shabby either. But then again they are quite similar.

[niamh]

You could try Ripp-it, or Fair Use .Not sure what input it takes at all though

[inman]

Tried MeWig which bundles mencoder too. But it doesnt work. I tried to reencode an Xvid encoded file using Xvid. The moment I click the 'Encode' button, it says 'Finished' but no output.

Now to try Rip-It and Fair Use.

[Doom9]

as far as I know, AutoGK also supports TS and AVI input (though I might be mistaken about the latter). But XviD -> XviD? /me shakes his head until it starts to hurt.

[yaz]

have a look at dvx ! afaik, it supports several output formats but dunno anything about the inputs. just a hint, i've never tried. iirc, stax was musing about to change its name to dr.xvid ;)
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[stax76]

That's right, I was musing to rename DVX to Dr. XviD. Many people have suggested other good names like Mr. XviD, XviD Machine, XviD Producer etc. There are many other popular codecs and a codec popular today might tomorrow be surpassed by a better codec. Currently we are heading against AVC at fast pace. So from that standpoint it don't make sense to use XviD as part of the name of a multi codec application.

My new baby (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78421&perpage=20&pagenumber=2#post610904) is much likely to be named Stax Video Encoder! There might be little brotha's and sista's like Stax Audio Encoder (a BeSweet GUI), Stax DVB (renamed KeyDVB), Stax Shell Extension etc. I hope they'll gonna rock (http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/) and have soul (http://www.soulsvilleusa.com/) ;)

[inman]

The interface is super cool. Just the tool I was looking for. But I have some problems regarding encoding.

I have all programs/codecs used by your software uptodate(using your download option, another excellent feature) except for XviD codec which your app demands for an older version.

Now the thing is, I used an Xvid encoded video as input to get an Xvid output (I needed to crop the source video). When I start encoding, Vdubmod starts processing an avs script. When the process reaches somewhere between 20-30%, Avisynth shows an access violation error. I tried many times with different settings still the output is same.

Any idea on what is going on?

[inman]

When I tried another video, the first pass completed without any problems. But the moment second pass began, I got the following error:

"The object stream[0] has already been created. You can't call SetSource twice on it."

How to fix this?

[stax76]

"The object stream[0] has already been created. You can't call SetSource twice on it."

a user in the support forum hinted this, what happens is my AutoSource function which can be found in the AviSynth script opens the source including the audio so two audio sources are assigned to stream[0], the original one open in the script and the one of the selected audio profile/setting, the source of it was demuxed/decoded before by default. You can modify the script:

include audio

"""AVISource("C:\Film\c.avi")""", \

use this to exclude the audio

"""AVISource("C:\Film\c.avi",false)""", \

you might overwrite the standard project (File / Save As Standard Project) so you got the right script loaded after startup

in my new app I'll try to hide the complexity and handle it automatically

[Doom9]

I was musing to rename DVX to Dr. XviDConsidering that you support much more than XviD I wouldn't use a codec as part of the tool's name either.

[inman]

Originally posted by stax
"The object stream[0] has already been created. You can't call SetSource twice on it."

a user in the support forum hinted this, what happens is my AutoSource function which can be found in the AviSynth script opens the source including the audio so two audio sources are assigned to stream[0], the original one open in the script and the one of the selected audio profile/setting, the source of it was demuxed/decoded before by default. You can modify the script:

include audio

"""AVISource("C:\Film\c.avi")""", \

use this to exclude the audio

"""AVISource("C:\Film\c.avi",false)""", \

you might overwrite the standard project (File / Save As Standard Project) so you got the right script loaded after startup

in my new app I'll try to hide the complexity and handle it automatically

That did it stax. But now BeSweet has some problem. The besweet command window comes up and stays as such. The reason for this is an error in the BeSweet command line u use. In the cmd line, you use the same filename for both input and output and bcoz of that BeSweet will attempt to overwrite the file it is processing, which inturn leads to a state of deadlock. I tested this by changing BeSweet cmdline manually and it worked perfectly.

Therefore I advise you to fix this error. Actually you can use a fixed filename as output file in BeSweet cmdline bcoz once the process is complete, you wont need that file and can overwrite this file in the next process.

[stax76]

oh, audio source and target have the same file extension?

[DarkDudae]

ARCalculator also supports AVI as input files. And we are working on a system based in Direct Show that should allow any playable file as input.

Greetings

[inman]

Originally posted by stax
oh, audio source and target have the same file extension?

Actually both source and target use the same file name. This happens bcoz in my case I tried to re-encode a Xvid+MP3 to file to another Xvid+MP3 file. In the process, DVX would demux the audio track from the source AVI file and since it is also MP3, both source and target files would endup with the same extension. Therefore I think you can correct it in either of the following ways.

1. Just before you call BeSweet to process the audio, check to see if the target filename already exists. If yes, then either add a number to target filename or some text like '-new' (thats what BeSweet GUI does).

2. Use a fixed file name for all process.

[jjseth]

Originally posted by DarkDudae
ARCalculator also supports AVI as input files. And we are working on a system based in Direct Show that should allow any playable file as input.

Greetings

ARC File->Open->"Any video source".
Any news about DPowa player?:D :D

[stax76]

@inman

why do you need to reencode a MP3 file? Can't you just mux it? There is a profile for this.

[inman]

Originally posted by stax
@inman

why do you need to reencode a MP3 file? Can't you just mux it? There is a profile for this.

The original MP3 was 192kbps CBR. I wanted to change it to 128kbps VBR.