StaxRip x86 (development for x86 has been stopped)

[TauTau]

Hi,

the last few days I had a few jobs encoded from mpeg2 to x264 with staxrip. After all that CPU-Terror, I found out, that each file has the audio from the first file... How could that happen?

[nohead]

How would I use the latest X264 with Staxrip?
Could I just download the wrong version and ignore the message?

Actually, I just replaced the x264.exe file in the application\x264 folder with the newer version and ignore the message. I'm using v6.14 and it's just great for my core 2 duo

[cobrajet]

an updated version shall come out

[nohead]

I must be drunk... but wait... I see a new version 0.9.9.3...
Grabbing NOW!!!
Thanks to whoever who worked on the new version...

[wunschkind]

wow,

great... thank you very much for the update


wunschkind

[DarkZell666]

Sorry, I'll have to nitpick:

Originally Posted by nohead

I'm using v6.14

"rev. 614" doesn't mean "v6.14" at all, be careful when mentioning version numbers like that

[nohead]

"rev. 614" doesn't mean "v6.14" at all, be careful when mentioning version numbers like that

Told ya that I'm usually drunk when I post...LOL (build, rev, ver, trunk, wip, alpha, beta, rc; u just must lover programmers...

[LRN]

How about changelog? What's new in 0.9.9.3?

[Deinorius]

Read this:

Originally Posted by Changelog 0.9.9.3 (2007-01-07)

• Fix: Autodetection of NTSC film content was broke because of a change in DGIndex's d2v file format.
• Fix: The delay wasn't detected for muxing profiles and thus wasn't detected for AC3
• Fix: FluxSmooth wasn't detected as requirement
• Automatic internet updates are now fully supported. When StaxRip starts it checks the internet if there is a new StaxRip version available. If a new version is available it downloads and installs it automatically after a user confirmation.
• New setup wizard with Vista like command buttons so the user don't have to bother with a next button and got the tooltip right on the button.
• New DGIndex feature to use relative file paths is now supported in that all AviSynth scripts are written to the source directory
• External Applications get the message that informs about wrong versions back enabled after downloading
• Anamorphic encoding: In case no auto resize is performed the resize value get adjusted to the image size actually used
• Crop dialog: Opening the crop dialog now disables the crop reminder assistant tip so the tip is skipped automatically and doesn't have to be clicked away with 'next' manually
• AAC uses now the new encoder by Nero
• x264 and AAC are now the default codecs
• x264: The 'Quality' value (--crf) of the profile 'Constant Quality' was changed from 20 to 22
• Jobs: Starting encoding has now to be started with the job dialog. Pressing 'Next' creates a job and opens the job dialog so the only thing left to do is pressing 'Start' in the job dialog
• Preview Dialog: New menu item and command added to the preview dialog to delete all selections at once
• Third party applications: Automatic detection of required applications located within MeGUI's tools directory
• Update: DGIndex/DGDecode was updated to version 1.4.8
• Update: x264 616
• Update: DivX 6.4
• Update: XviD 1.1.2
• Commands: The 'Add Job' command couln't be used from the menu

[ch@@boom]

hey stax
thx for the new version

1 small change request:
option to update all external apps in one sweep without user intervention

[bob0r]

StaxRip_0.9.9.3.zip mirrored on http://x264.nl

When will x264 use --threads auto?
What about all other new x264 settings?

[Deinorius]

Which settings do you mean specifically?

[cobrajet]

0.9.9.4 out

[hellfred]

The changelog is rather short, which was to be expected taking the small period of time between 0.9.9.3 and 0.9.9.4 into account:

0.9.9.4 (2007-01-14)

    * Fix: CLI (command line interface) was broke due to a feature introduced by version 0.9.9.3
    * Fix: DivX certification profile with no restriction combined with 1 pass quality based encoding was broke
    * x264 --threads auto added as default, because of this StaxRip will offer but not force to reset all video codec related settings.
    * Update: DivX 6.4.0.51
    * Update: AviSynth 2.5.7
    * Update: VirtualDub 1.6.17

[nohead]

0.9.9.5 (2007-01-21)

* mkvtoolnix 2.0.0 added, StaxRip can handle now raw x264 streams
* MP4Box 0.4.3_2006-11-15 added
* Additionally to the 'Default Target Directory' project option there is now a 'Default Target Name' option. The value of both options may contain macros which can be choosen from a new menu containing friendly names
* The button to open a source in the main dialog shows the 'Source Files' dialog directly instead of displaying a context menu. To show the file browser directly the text box can be double clicked, the file browser shown here supports multiselect, multible files will be alphabetically ordered. Hovering the mouse over text boxes in the main dialog shows a hint that the text box can be double clicked
* Check for updates can be performed manually ('Help/Check For Updates')
* Lanczos4Resize added to the filter profiles as 'Very Sharp'
* Saving a template profile from now on flags the active project as saved so StaxRip won't any longer bother asking to save
* The title bar shows now always the name of the template used
* Auto Resze is now restricted to not resize the width higher as the source width (only applied if the source width is higher than 576). Please report a Issue if this is a limitation for you
* Improved initial directory for file browser dialogs
* The download page has now a link pointing always to the latest StaxRip version using a php redirect

Another new version. Thanks for your hard works!

[laserfan]

This sudden new activity is making me a little dizzy! But it is a welcome sight to see!

[wdmalik]

yea ... thnx god development started

[digitalone]

three new versions in less than three weeks!! thx a lot bro..really appreciate ur hard work.

[Nakaleen]

I have been using Staxrip for ages now, encoding all my DVD's and DVB recordings. I have found that Staxrip is the best (9.9.2).

But I am building a HTPC. At the moment I have ...

DVR-MS to MPG automated (DVRMSToolBox)
16:9 or 4:3 sorted manually
convert all MPG's to Xvid automated (using mencoder)

Two things, I wish to make it all automated, hopefully with Staxrip's auto crop for 4:3 dvb recordings. Also a better Xvid encoding (my mencoder settings suck as it takes 4X as long as Staxrip to encode)

I have been looking at the Staxrip commandline settings but I'm having trouble finding settings I need, they are...

Set the bitrate: I want to set the Video bitrate for xvid, but according to the commandline help I can only set the % (what ever that means?!?)

Set the Width:height ie I want all my 4:3 footage to be 640:480 and my 16:9 to be 640:352

Can Staxrip do these things via commandline and automated (for example I want all my recordings on my HTPC to be encoded overnight while I sleep) as at the moment I am using Staxrip manually to encode each recording?

Or should I look at somehow use AviSynth directly via batch/commandline?

BTW: If you were wondering what mencoder settings I am using it is...

16:9 Pass 1
"c:\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -noodml %1 -o %2 -vf pp=fd,crop=720:572,scale=640:356 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:last_pred=2:dia=-1:vmax_b_frames=2:vb_strategy=1:cmp=3:subcmp=3recmp=0:vqcomp=0.6:turbo:vpass=1:vbitrate=746 -oac mp3lame -srate 44100 -lameopts vbr=0:br=128:vol=0:mode=0:aq=7adding=3 -af volnorm -ffourcc DX50

16:9 Pass 2
"c:\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -noodml %1 -o %2 -vf pp=fd,crop=720:572,scale=640:356 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:last_pred=2:dia=-1:vmax_b_frames=2:vb_strategy=1:cmp=3:subcmp=3recmp=0:vqcomp=0.6:turbo:vpass=2:vbitrate=746 -oac mp3lame -srate 44100 -lameopts vbr=0:br=128:vol=0:mode=0:aq=7adding=3 -af volnorm -ffourcc DX50

4:3 Pass 1
"c:\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -noodml %1 -o %2 -vf pp=fd,crop=528:572,scale=640:480 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:last_pred=2:dia=-1:vmax_b_frames=2:vb_strategy=1:cmp=3:subcmp=3recmp=0:vqcomp=0.6:turbo:vpass=1:vbitrate=746 -oac mp3lame -srate 44100 -lameopts vbr=0:br=128:vol=0:mode=0:aq=7adding=3 -af volnorm -ffourcc DX50

4:3 Pass 2
"c:\mplayer\mencoder.exe" -noodml %1 -o %2 -vf pp=fd,crop=528:572,scale=640:480 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:last_pred=2:dia=-1:vmax_b_frames=2:vb_strategy=1:cmp=3:subcmp=3recmp=0:vqcomp=0.6:turbo:vpass=2:vbitrate=746 -oac mp3lame -srate 44100 -lameopts vbr=0:br=128:vol=0:mode=0:aq=7adding=3 -af volnorm -ffourcc DX50

[CvH]

some litle problems at HDTV encoding

- *.TS (H.264 / DVB-S2 / 1080) streams arent supported yet (afaik no tool currently supports that )

-> works only if i do this

- start GRAPHEDIT
- point Halli media splitter to the input.ts file
- insert Halli matroska muxer to create output.mkv
- link video and audio pins
- "play" monitor output in the splitter dialog pop up

now open the output.mkv in StaxRip

-> works afaik only with ffdshow (libavcodec decoder)

-> didn´t work with PowerDVD 6/7 (Decoder couldn´t detect the fps (maybe ffdshow also not, but it didn´t output an error) so the decoder can´t be used)

-> possible fix is to have the fps in human control or a possibility to load an avs script like ("DirectShowSource("c:\output.mkv",fps=25.00,audio=false)")
-> somewhere is an AviSynth feature, but where ?


-> the resize switch limits at 720x... , but would be usefull for hdtv to increse it till 1920


-> the crop/previewwindow is always to big for my screen at HDTV (movie @ 1920 , screen @ 1440) possible always starts at 80% or something


would be nice if it can be fixed and or included

tx in advance