TX264 0.9.8 - GUI for x264 with audio encoding support

[ozok]

I don't think that is TX264's doing. Are you sure you used same x264 settings?

[Marchand]

Yes, only updated the version and settings are the same for encode (maximum possible). Program very well written and lightweight Comparable to other encoders that consume a lot of processing, ie they get to use 100% of the processors and almost gets to hang the machine. Getting between 64% to 81% is very good to use the machine to do other things. I do not know what you did, but it is very light to handle videos on Hi10p. Can I call this version of TX264-Lite ... HEHEHE. Thanks a lot.

[Barough]

Thnx a lot for the new TX264, but why haven't the mkvtoolnix parts been updated to v6.0.0.0?

[SeeMoreDigital]

Out of interest...

Has there been any compatibility tests running TX264 with Windows 8 32-bit?

[BK-201]

@Ozok,
I don't know if it's a problem with TX264(0.9.4.3057), or with Wine and Ubuntu but I can't encode using 10bit, 8bit seems to work fine.

Bug Report and Log below.

Bug Report - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ygs70w2nuzbs46n
Tx264 Log - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?0xk5dsvca4zxeay

[ozok]

@SeeMoreDigital no I didn't try it with Windows 8. Any input on that is welcome.

@Barough my bad. I generally check all the tools included in the package before a release but this time I missed it. You can replace them manually, I did after your warning and they work without a problem. (mkvmerge and mkvextract in tools\mkv\ folder)

@Marchand I don't have an explaination about this.

[BK-201]

@SeeMoreDigital,

I have run a successful encode session on Win8 64bit. Tx264 ran smoothly with no error

[soehest]

Getting a bit bored i decided to try out TX264. I like the clean and simple interface and the fact that it is not bloated by odd codec's etc :-) But i do have a question, which probabaly is stupid. Is TX264 supposed to work with vob files as input? I rip my dvd's to a single .vob file, but all encodes fail. As fair as i can tell something is wrong with the audio which can't be found:

Best regards

[ozok]

@BK-201 I don't understand why that happens.

@soehest, yes vob files should work. However, they sometimes have funny track ids for audio streams so TX264 has problem exracting them. I recently changed audio track id detecting method in TX264 and I seem to forget about the that issue about vob files. I'll return you when I find a solution.

Edit: typo

[BK-201]

Originally Posted by ozok

@BK-201 I don't understand why that happens.

That's okay I recently upgraded to Win8 so there is no problem anymore

[SeeMoreDigital]

I'm having problems with Win8 32-bit... For some reason when ever I try to close down TX264 I obtain an 'Error Window'.

Here the log:

[ozok]

@SeeMoreDigital, TX264 is designed to work as a portable program, it keeps settings file in its folder. When you put it in ProgramFiles folder where programs are not allowed to write, it tries to write settings file to there and since it is not allowed, this causes an error. You can copy TX264 to an other location (like C:\tx264) where it can write to.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Thanks ozok,

What a 'school-boy' error for me to make

Now that I have TX264 running correctly I'm trying to create a 'Pre-defined' profile for TX264 which offers the same (or near enough) settings as my old AutoMKV 0.98 profile. However, I don't seem to be able to obtain the same looking output.

My AutoMKV 0.98 profile looks like this: -

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VideoProfile xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Name>x264_QuickTime</Name>
<EncodingMode>4</EncodingMode>
<BitrateQuantizer>1000</BitrateQuantizer>
<KeyframeInterval>250</KeyframeInterval>
<NbBframes>3</NbBframes>
<MinQuantizer>10</MinQuantizer>
<MaxQuantizer>51</MaxQuantizer>
<Turbo>false</Turbo>
<MaxNumberOfPasses>3</MaxNumberOfPasses>
<NoDCTDecimate>false</NoDCTDecimate>
<PSNRCalculation>false</PSNRCalculation>
<noFastPSkip>false</noFastPSkip>
<NoiseReduction>0</NoiseReduction>
<MixedRefs>false</MixedRefs>
<X264Trellis>1</X264Trellis>
<NbRefFrames>4</NbRefFrames>
<AlphaDeblock>0</AlphaDeblock>
<BetaDeblock>0</BetaDeblock>
<SubPelRefinement>5</SubPelRefinement>
<MaxQuantDelta>4</MaxQuantDelta>
<TempQuantBlur>0</TempQuantBlur>
<BframePredictionMode>3</BframePredictionMode>
<VBVBufferSize>0</VBVBufferSize>
<VBVMaxBitrate>25000</VBVMaxBitrate>
<METype>umh</METype>
<MERange>16</MERange>
<MinGOPSize>25</MinGOPSize>
<Profile>1</Profile>
<Level>4.0</Level>
<IPFactor>1.4</IPFactor>
<PBFactor>1.3</PBFactor>
<ChromaQPOffset>0</ChromaQPOffset>
<VBVInitialBuffer>0.9</VBVInitialBuffer>
<BitrateVariance>1.0</BitrateVariance>
<QuantCompression>0.6</QuantCompression>
<TempComplexityBlur>20</TempComplexityBlur>
<TempQuanBlurCC>0.5</TempQuanBlurCC>
<SCDSensitivity>40</SCDSensitivity>
<BframeBias>0</BframeBias>
<Deblock>true</Deblock>
<Cabac>true</Cabac>
<WeightedBPrediction>false</WeightedBPrediction>
<AdaptiveBFrames>true</AdaptiveBFrames>
<BFramePyramid>false</BFramePyramid>
<ChromaME>true</ChromaME>
<P8x8mv>true</P8x8mv>
<B8x8mv>true</B8x8mv>
<I4x4mv>true</I4x4mv>
<I8x8mv>false</I8x8mv>
<P4x4mv>true</P4x4mv>
<AdaptiveDCT>false</AdaptiveDCT>
<SSIMCalculation>false</SSIMCalculation>
<Interlaced>false</Interlaced>
<Width>false</Width>
<Sar>false</Sar>
<aud>false</aud>
<nal-hrd>false</nal-hrd>
<pulldown>0</pulldown>
<aq-mode>false</aq-mode>
<aq-strength>false</aq-strength>
<psy-rd>false</psy-rd>
<deadzone-inter>false</deadzone-inter>
<deadzone-intra>false</deadzone-intra>
<fpel-cmp>false</fpel-cmp>
<me-prepass>false</me-prepass>
<QuantizerMatrixType>0</QuantizerMatrixType>

I think I must have missed something (again). Can anybody advise what the equivalent (or near enough) TX264 '.pdo' file settings would be for me to try please?


Cheers

[ozok]

Update:

--0.9.5
-Added: Support for fdkaac
-Added: Audio encoding wil lbe done before video encoding (thx to XStylus)
-Added: Skin
-Added: Option to disable skin
-Fixed: Audio ID problem with some vob or mpeg files
-Fixed: Couldn't show Lame progress
-Fixed: GUI got distorted after an encode
-Improved: Lowered CPU usage of GUI during an encode
-Updated: MkvToolNix to 6.1.0
-Updated: x264 to rev2273
-Updated: Alphacontrols to 8.31 Beta
-Updated: QAAC to 2.18

[darkio]

No deinterlace or ivtc methods ?

[ozok]

Originally Posted by darkio

No deinterlace or ivtc methods ?

No, I'm afraid.

[ozok]

Update:

--0.9.6
-Fixed: Couldn't open avs files (thx to MerolaC)
-Fixed: Files without audio streams or avs files caused some problems (thx to MerolaC)
-Fixed: Vobsub streams couldn't be muxed to output
-Fixed: Audio extraction progress wasn't shown
-Changed: Skin
-Improved: GUI's CPU usage while encoding is lowered
-Removed: CPU usage bar
-Updated: x264 to rev2309

[BK-201]

How to load AVS script with tx264?

[ozok]

Just open them like any other video file (ie drag&drop). I cannot say if it will be converted properly because I used only very simple scripts.

[BK-201]

Okay I'll give it a try, that's if I can create an avs script lol

I'll post the results, if I have success.