Proposal: XviD 1.1.0 (beta3?) release

[suxen_drol]

yuri khan: commited to cvs head.

smd and others: a new gui has been discussed by many people for long time. whilst i agree that the user interface needs improving, the reality is, that a major overhaul (as often proposed) is a lot of work. if there were a consesus on a design layout, then perhaps somebody would be willing to take up the challenge.

[708145]

Originally Posted by Yuri Khan

I stepped into another issue in xvid_encraw today

In short, I ran out of space while encoding. But xvid_encraw does not check if encoded frame was successfully written, and continues encoding. Of course, until I come and free up some space, the encoded frames are going to be dropped on the floor

My paranoid alter ego also suggests that if after that some free space mysteriously appears, subsequent writes will succeed, resulting in a stream that is both invalid and hard to fix.

I do not know what would be a good solution to this. On the one hand, I want it to stop encoding if the results are not going to be stored. On the other hand, I want to continue encoding when some space is freed up, from the point just before the failure. And on the third hand, I know it is extremely difficult to guarantee transaction semantics with file I/O.

pipe the output of encraw to another process that only writes to disk.
if the write process gets halted due to lack of space your encraw process will pause as well.
once you free space both will continue again.

bis besser,
T0B1A5

[celtic_druid]

As reported on page 1, Picture Aspect Ratio has already been changed to Display Aspect Ratio. You can check it out yourself in my last cvs compile.

[Elias]

Originally Posted by celtic_druid

As reported on page 1, Picture Aspect Ratio has already been changed to Display Aspect Ratio. You can check it out yourself in my last cvs compile.

Cool! I will, sorry for not reading every post, not enough time for that.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally Posted by celtic_druid

As reported on page 1, Picture Aspect Ratio has already been changed to Display Aspect Ratio. You can check it out yourself in my last cvs compile.

If Druids were gods.....




Thanks mate

[Teegedeck]

Discussion of possible improvements of XviD have been moved to a new thread. Please continue that discussion there:
possible improvements beyond XviD 1.1 final [thread split]

Please use this thread here just to discuss bugs and cosmetic improvements that should be taken care of before XviD 1.1 goes final.

[SeeMoreDigital]

By-the-way...

Given that the packed bit-stream AR issue has been sorted now, would there be any chance of having a separate direct-show decoder filter?

And during the installation process. How about an selectivity option to install just the encoder. And another option to install the encoder plus decoder?


Cheers

[suxen_drol]

Originally Posted by SeeMoreDigital

By-the-way...
Given that the packed bit-stream AR issue has been sorted now, would there be any chance of having a separate direct-show decoder filter?

And during the installation process. How about an selectivity option to install just the encoder. And another option to install the encoder plus decoder?
Cheers

these decisions are left up to those responsible for compiling and packaging the releases, koepi, celtic druid and whomever else. the nsis installers scripts are not stored in the xvid cvs tree.

[celtic_druid]

Well I also offer the individual files so if you wanted just the dshow decoder you could copy xvid.ax and xvidcore to your sys folder and reg the ax. Really though since it was split into xvidcore, vfw and ax I can't see much point to just the vfw or just the dshow.

By the way, new build up with quality presets.

[SeeMoreDigital]

I hear what you say.... But given that XviD's DS decoder is so small (fixed) and simple to understand, I think it would be very useful for newbies on the hunt for "flexible" MPEG-4 decoder!

A separate DivX encoder, is out of the question (as DivX don't allow it anyway). And installing FFdshow may be too much like hard work for some people


Cheers

[Teegedeck]

What is the problem about installing the few bytes more that are the encoder? For example I haven't heard anyone asking for a decoder-only MP3 codec install, yet.

Not that it would be a technical problem to have an encoder-only installer; it just needs someone to compile it. But next thing you know someone complains about not being able to edit XviD encoded files, as we hear it so often from users who only have ffdshow installed.

[Manao]

But that's just a matter of configuring properly ffvfw. Its default configuration is rather restrictive (which is good for the experienced user, not that good for the newbies)

[SeeMoreDigital]

If I remember correctly Koepi provide a separate DS decoder at one time....

And some users may find it helpful to include an separate decoder filter (or as an auto install) when sending MPEG-4 files to other people on disc, who (still) may not have an MPEG-4 decoder filter!

Not so long ago I would send out "show-reel" CD's of peoples work in 720x576 anamorphic XviD (taken from an beta or digi-beta source), and was quite surprised at how many people in the industry did not know about MPEG-4 on their PC's.... And some of them did not even know they had MPEG-4 capable stand-alone players at their premises.... but that's another story!

Originally Posted by celtic_druid

By the way, new build up with quality presets.

Can you provide a link please I can't find it

[celtic_druid]

http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/xv....2005.10.16.7z
For those who want seperate files. Only xvidvfw.dll is updated anyway.
Installer: http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/XviD.cvs.head.exe

Exactly, people will download the dshow decoder and then complain that VDub won't open their XviD files. Like I said, before there was xvidcore, it made some sense, but now it doesn't really since xvidvfw.dll adds very little to the installer.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Hi Celtic-Druid....

I think it the reason why I got confused about your Beta 3 build, was due to this: -




EDIT: I don't think the "Load Defaults" is functioning correctly!


Cheers

[celtic_druid]

It isn't beta3, it is just another cvs build. Load defaults seems to be working fine here or was that just a joke to get me to press it?

[SeeMoreDigital]

It does not look like I'm having a good day

Load defaults works okay now (after re-boot).... And can somebody alter/ammend title of this thread please.... for clarity sakes

You know.... for dumb (and blind) old farts like me!

[Kopernikus]

Any News about the new GUI or a 1.1 final release?