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Old 27th June 2016, 10:06   #3841  |  Link
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1. There are several sources for both "multilib" builds (one EXE with all three bitdepth variants of the encoder included, which you can select by the parameter -D) and separate builds; my MinGW / GCC packages contain both kinds, more links to different builds can be found e.g. in the VideoHelp forum thread.

2. Multiplex it using mkvtoolnix (with mkvmerge as CLI tool, or with the formerly usual MKVmergeGUI or the current MKVToolnixGUI as GUI application) or maybe with ffmpeg too. This is not a "conversion", just wrapping the raw HEVC video stream into a Matroska container (which may then also contain more than just the video stream, like an additional audio stream).
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Old 27th June 2016, 20:29   #3842  |  Link
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1. There are several sources for both "multilib" builds (one EXE with all three bitdepth variants of the encoder included, which you can select by the parameter -D) and separate builds; my MinGW / GCC packages contain both kinds, more links to different builds can be found e.g. in the VideoHelp forum thread.

2. Multiplex it using mkvtoolnix (with mkvmerge as CLI tool, or with the formerly usual MKVmergeGUI or the current MKVToolnixGUI as GUI application) or maybe with ffmpeg too. This is not a "conversion", just wrapping the raw HEVC video stream into a Matroska container (which may then also contain more than just the video stream, like an additional audio stream).
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P.S. 1.: x265 1.9+217-626fcbac7ffb
Thanks Ligh, it works!
currently i am experimenting with the speed vs quality i can get, my cpu took more than 2 hours encoding 200MB 9 mins animation so i terminate it. I used preset veryslow

Code:
ffmpeg -i %1 -an -me_method umh -b_strategy 2 -subq 10 -refs 10 -v error -weightp 2 -trellis 2 -qmin 10 -qmax 81 -f yuv4mpegpipe - | x265_main12 --y4m - --level 5.1 --preset veryslow --min-keyint 12 --scenecut 40 --bframes 10 --qcomp 0.6 --rc-lookahead 60 --aq-mode 1 --aq-strength 0.8 --merange 24 --psy-rd 0.60 --crf %5 --output %2
will probably tweak for faster encode.
i appreciate if you can help?
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Old 28th June 2016, 06:25   #3843  |  Link
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Which of the following web pages is current? Maybe there are some new?
http://x265.ru/builds/
https://encoder.pw/
http://msystem.waw.pl/x265/
https://github.com/videolan/x265/commits/master
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Old 28th June 2016, 06:37   #3844  |  Link
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The videolan github should be a mirror of our main repository... https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265

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Old 28th June 2016, 06:38   #3845  |  Link
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Just compare the builds they offer with the list below:

https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/commits/

encoder.pw and x265.ru do NOT contain the builds based on the most recent commits.
waw.pl apparently is up-to-date, but their content is a mess

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Old 28th June 2016, 06:47   #3846  |  Link
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The videolan github should be a mirror of our main repository... https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265
Hmm... At the github I have a patch from 7 June, Videolan 24 June, Bitbucket 16 June. Hence my question.
https://patches.videolan.org/project/x265-devel/list/
https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/...branch/default

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Old 28th June 2016, 07:21   #3847  |  Link
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You forgot my build archive at MediaFire; but I will not build daily or even automatically, only after a few important commits, more or less weekly.
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Old 28th June 2016, 07:40   #3848  |  Link
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I didn't forget. You are here from the beginning.
He should ask: Do users LigH, El Heggunte, Selur, others have full accreditation, and are now confident creators codec X265?
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encoder.pw and x265.ru do NOT contain the builds based on the most recent commits.
We not only Selur's codecs are also outdated.(GNU 5.3.0)

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Old 28th June 2016, 08:21   #3849  |  Link
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He should ask: Do users LigH, El Heggunte, Selur, others have full accreditation, and are now confident creators codec X265?
They're not creators, just builders. They compile the source code which is being written (created, developed) by MulticoreWare programmers so that we (=regular users) can use x265 on our systems and encode video streams.
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Old 28th June 2016, 15:23   #3850  |  Link
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1. Where to get x265-10b.exe? I can't compile myself coz a noob here
2. How to convert o.hevc back to mkv?
You need 3 EXE files:
1) ffmpeg.exe from https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
2) x265-10b.exe from http://www.msystem.waw.pl/x265/ (first table, ver. 1.9+217, Minimum CPU arch AVX)
3) mkvtoolnix-gui.exe from http://www.fosshub.com/MKVToolNix.html (portable 64bit)

Let your original MKV file will be org.mkv
First you encode video:
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ffmpeg -i org.mkv -v error -vf scale=384:-2 -f yuv4mpegpipe - | x265-10b --y4m - -p0 new.hevc
After a while (should be ultra fast) you will have new.hevc file with encoded video.

Then you start mkvtoolnix-gui.exe.
1) press button "+ Add source files" and choose your original org.mkv
2) second time press button "+ Add source files" and choose your encoded new.hevc
3) in window "Tracks, chapters and tags:" please move last track "MPEG-H/HEVC/h.265" to second place from top (by mouse)
4) uncheck original video track, it should looks like in attached picture
5) press "Start muxing" button
You will have "org (1).mkv" file with replaced video track. If you do this, you can see if audio is sync with video (video quality should be very low). If all is OK, you can remove '-vf scale=384:-2' from ffmpeg options and instead of '-p0' in x265 options you can insert '-p8 --crf 20' and encode to better quality (but very slow).
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Old 28th June 2016, 15:52   #3851  |  Link
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I also compile a modded version including various input and output options.
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We not only Selur's codecs are also outdated.(GNU 5.3.0)
I normally build fresh versions when:
a. something interesting was committed
b. I release a new Hybrid version
but not sure if I won't stop building myself since the mingw builds keep on randomly crashing on my i7 and on newer Xeons,... (guess there is still something off with MinGW or the way https://github.com/jb-alvarado/media-autobuild_suite builds the binaries,.. MSVC builds seem to work fine)
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Old 30th June 2016, 10:19   #3853  |  Link
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Dear development team,

Has there been any good progress lately? When x265 can be expected to produce as sharp encodes as x264 does?
Thanks a lot!

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Old 30th June 2016, 13:22   #3854  |  Link
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Dear development team,

Has there been any good progress lately? When x265 can be expected to produce as sharp encodes as x264 does?
Thanks a lot!
I did recently an encode to test the advancements so far in x265. Honestly, I'm very disappointed when it comes to retaining detail (and a bit of noise).

The same encode done with x264 looks far and I repeat FAR better than the one done with x265.

I usually know what I do when configuring the options, but I wasn't able to match the quality of the x264 encode thus far.

So I'd say it'll probably take 1-2 years for x265 to come on par with x264
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Old 30th June 2016, 13:48   #3855  |  Link
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Try some custom options:
--rdoq-level 1
--output-depth 10
--rd 4
--tu-intra-depth 3
--early-skip
--fast-intra
--b-intra
--tskip
--tskip-fast
--limit-modes
--aq-mode 2
--qg-size 16
--me star
--max-merge 3
--weightb
--bframes 6
--ref 6
--rc-lookahead 40

Note the first entry, I use the level 1 despite people saying level 2 produces more ideal results. I agree with the help:
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Psy-rdoq is less effective at preserving energy when RDOQ is at level 2, since it only has influence over the level distortion costs.
I find level 1 produces the best results. --tu-intra-depth 3 is good and there is little speed penalty (only on intra, not on inter), setting it higher than 1 on inter has little improvement at the expense of encode speed. --early-skip, --fast-intra, --tskip, --tskip-fast, and --limit-modes are all performance options with little (none for me) discernible difference in picture quality. --b-intra, --aq-mode 2, --qg-size 16, --max-merge 3, --weightb, and --rc-lookahead 40 are all quality and/or efficiency related. --bframes 6 and --ref 6 seem the most ideal for me. Any higher than about 6 b-frames their usage drops very significantly. --me star seems the highest performing motion search algorithm in both quality and is fast. It really makes UMH and even HEX redundant due to the quality of the output and speed.

Note that I have --merange set to 25 for speed at 480P content. If encoding to a higher resolution then a higher merange would be beneficial. I did read there are SAO optimisations etc in the works, they should further improve the results.

Try those settings and see how the output compares. I mean just those settings, nothing else except for stating the CRF. The CRF can also be in decimal form, such as 20.5. These settings seem to work well together for not only a fast encode but great quality ouput. If you're game try say, 400 for --nr-intra and --nr-inter. It might sound counterintuitive for what you intend, but it does reduce the file size a bit such that you can use a slightly lower CRF. The lower CRF then could produce more likeable results. Try it out on a clip, one with both of those set to 0 and another with them both set to 400 but lower the CRF by say, 0.5 and see the output quality and file size. You may be even able to lower the CRF even a tad more than that.
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@burfadel

Thanks for the options. I'll try them but what I used for the test encode is very close to what you provided, except for the *--skip ones which I disabled. I will do some more tweaking here...
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just use --no-sao --deblock -2:-2 --rdoq-level 2 or 1 --psy-rdoq 1.5 or 2

@burfadel level 1 give better result for the same crf, but also a bigger file, at the same bitrate level 2 generally looks better.
also note, on presets lower than slow, without setting --psy-rdoq it's defaulted to 0 and --rdoq-level don't do anything.
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commit 17c0c875f27d @ http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/3...=1#post2450950

Only the x64 binary is "multilib", the x86 one is 8-bit only, and is "XP-compatible" (or at least I think so, I don't have an XP machine anymore).

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I found a codec creators. I should probably use them.
https://builds.x265.eu/
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Old 1st July 2016, 10:47   #3860  |  Link
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Hi everyone i use MeGui for my X264 encoding i was wondering if there is an encoding app like Megui with that much options for Hevc X265?! Is meGui the best in X265 or there are apps with better features for x265?!
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