MeGUI - mencoder x264/snow/mpeg4/XviD GUI with AAC encoding and MP4 output

[bond]

Originally posted by Doom9
The log should tell you something.. I catch the mp4creator stdout (but perhaps it too sends errors to stderr) and put it in the log.

there is no log created

And because of mp4creators stupidity when it comes to input filetypes (I wouldn't mind indicating my input type as an additional flag, but using the extension, that's just weird beyond reason)

hm i find this a normal behaviour, its like why should you have to use a "-avi" flag for signalling .avi input if you can simply analyse the extension

Either way, considering your avs2yuv problem I strongly suggest you upgrade to a reasonable OS

yeah, i know its crap, but till now all major problems could be solved somehow (eg piping via cygwin works, or simply direct .avs input in mencoder) and i am simply too lazy to resetup

[Doom9]

there is no log created

Then how can you encode using my GUI? After encoding completes, the status window will close and a log window will come up with everything that mencoder wrote to stdout and stderr, plus additional stdout info from mp4creator and some of my own stuff (mp4 overhead info for one).
If mp4creator isn't there, the GUI will already balk.

hm i find this a normal behaviour, its like why should you have to use a "-avi" flag for signalling .avi input if you can simply analyse the extension

AVI can contain MPEG-4 ASP, AVC and a lot of other stuff, so you'd still have to do some input analysis for this to work

[bond]

Originally posted by Doom9
Then how can you encode using my GUI? After encoding completes, the status window will close and a log window will come up with everything that mencoder wrote to stdout and stderr, plus additional stdout info from mp4creator and some of my own stuff (mp4 overhead info for one).

the status window doesnt close

[Doom9]

the status window doesnt close

Didn't that always happen for you? I thought you never actually got a single job that finished (they do mencoder wise but MeGUI never finishes). I'm afraid considering that you're the only one with an oudated OS and at the same time the only one with problem, and further considering all the hoops programmers have to jump through to sometimes get modern software to work on outdated operating systems, I can only assume. Don't you have any computer with a reasonable OS accessible to you? And why not upgrade? It's like dragging a 100kg stone after your car.

I really wish I could help, if it were a problem on W2K I'd consider a W2K installation of VMWare and get the debugger running, but I won't touch WinME.

[North2Polaris]

Originally posted by Doom9
Please keep all the mp4 statistics at the end of the log and if you have a sizeable number of them from reasonable input (preferably full movies, but at least 10'000 frames) send them to me..

@Doom9,

I just did a successful 2-pass run of about 10,000 frames. I saved the 2 logfiles in a text file. Are you still interested in getting these?

North

[Doom9]

I saved the 2 logfiles in a text file. Are you still interested in getting these?

Just the end part starting with the filesizes. But, the more you have, and the longer the movie the happier I'll be Of course, that is assuming your output is MP4.. otherwise I'm not interested.

[North2Polaris]

Like this?

MP4 muxing info:
Size of raw input file: 38321919 bytes
Size of video in mp4 file: 38406041 bytes
Total overhead: 84122 bytes
Overhead per frame: 8.01619973318087bytes

source information
codec: AVC
number of b-frames: 0

Will the logfile from a one pass encode give you the information you need?

[Doom9]

Here's version 0.165

new: supports weighted prediction for b-frames
new: supports adaptive b-frames

both those features require an up-to-date mencoder build. I suggest one dated 2/25 or newer. Since those features require an up-to-date mencoder build I think the next version will make use of mencoder's avs input capabilities.

v0.165 downloaded 56 times prior to removal

[Doom9]

Like this?

Yup, just the way I like it

Will the logfile from a one pass encode give you the information you need?

No.

I guess in the future I'll read out the mencoder end output and compare it to the set bitrate so that whenever I have the bitrate calcuations down and somebody complains about over or undersize I can point my fingers to the codec

Also attached are the latest sources. The next features will probably require a big rewrite, so I figured a source release was in order in case any quick fixes are needed on the current codebase.

[hellfred]

@Bond
You can try to use another "Dosbox". When i was still using manly Win98 i found cmd.exe from ReactOS very usefull, giving me e.g. tab-completion. And there were some builds/backports of MS cmd.exe to Win9x on the net, too. But those failed to switch the partition, just worked on one (e.g. only on c:\)

Hellfred

[celtic_druid]

I made a version that doesn't require avs2yuv if someone wants to test?

@edit by admin: removed link since it's now outdated.

Did some tests including mp4 output and it worked ok here.

Changes.
No avs2yuv required.
Wider gui.
Updated readme (-avs2yuv, +mp4creator).

Everything else is the same.

[JoeBG]

@ celtic_druid

Very nice GUI and it works perfect

[Doom9]

Here's version 0.166:

new: preliminary audio support. commandlines are already written and persistent profiles can be created, but audio encoding is currently not possible
new: GUI adapts to the chosen input (audio: mp4/aac audio is for muxing only, selecting other audio input enables the audio configuration. video: only the codec configuration page of the currently selected codec is being shown) => no more tab scrolling
new: advanced codec settings (RC and Quantizer) are hidden by default and can be enabled via checkbox. This should make the GUI less cluttered

changed: video profiles are now written and read from <path of megui>/profiles/video so make sure you copy all your profiles there
changed: adjusted column widths in the queue
changed: many internal improvements reflecting the fact that video and audio encoding will eventually be supported (hopefully in the next version)
changed: avs2yuv is no longer needed

Oh and then there's a todo I forgot to put into the readme: eliminate need for job.bat now that I'm using mencoder without avs2yuv.

v0.166 downloaded 49 times prior to removal

[JoeBG]

@ Celtic_druid

I have blue faces with your build. I tried it with the mencoder from netfarm because I could not find your updatet mencoder. I tried this mencoder here:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

@ doom9

Did you test version 0.166 with a mencoder from celtic_druid? Or do have to create a special avisynth skript?

[celtic_druid]

This has already been discussed. Basically older versions of dgdecode output by default to 1420 which the avs mencoder patch thinks is YV12 so you have blue faces instead of pink.

Solution is to update dgdecode.

This is also I noticed covered in the new readme.

[JoeBG]

Originally posted by celtic_druid
This has already been discussed. Basically older versions of dgdecode output by default to 1420 which the avs mencoder patch thinks is YV12 so you have blue faces instead of pink.

Solution is to update dgdecode.

This is also I noticed covered in the new readme.

Ok, sorry for this

[Doom9]

urgh, sorry guys, avs2yuv.exe is still required in v0.166(not for encoding, but the check for the application's existence will fail and encoding won't start).

Here's v0.1661 that no longer checks for avs2yuv and also doesn't need job.bat anymore either.

version 0.1661 was downloaded 161 times prior to removal

[azsd]

thx,

nice tools,I ve using it now

little suggest,could you please change the form's font to Tahoma,8(.25)pt (mostly app use)
change the formborderstyle to FixedDialog,and the Maxmizebox to False?
it's do not functional more but sould look better.
default fonts(if you haven't change the default value,the value will not store in C# apps) will specialed by framework runtiming,so i get some control's text be clipped in my OS.

[Doom9]

@azsd: all those things will be taken care of in the new version.

[Doom9]

@bond: regarding the codec names: perhaps you have noticed there's a tooltip on the codec label. I've added another one to the codec selection dropdown now which gives an explanation on the codec types. I hope that makes it clear enough.