Hybrid: Input -> x264/x265/Xvid/VP8/VP9

[J_Darnley]

It does print the percent done, at least for wav input.

[Selur]

yeah, but since 5.1 wav are kind of huge (temporary files) and it accepts input via a pipe I would prefer to use it via pipe. (decode with ffmpeg/mencoder -> filter with sox -> encode with oggenc/neroaacenc)

[J_Darnley]

It does read wav from a pipe. (I didn't say a file). I did a simple test: cat temp.wav | oggenc2 - -o temp.ogg -q4

[Selur]

ffmpeg -threads 4 -v -10 -y -i "test_en_aid_128__09_37_15_718_01.ac3" -f sox - | sox -p -t wav - remix -m 1v0.2646,3v0.1870,4v0.1870,5v0.2291,6v0.1323 2v0.2646,3v0.1870,4v0.1870,5v-0.1323,6v-0.2291 norm | oggenc -r -b 196 -C 6 -R 48000 --ignorelength --utf8 -o "test_en_aid_128__09_37_15_718_02.ogg" -

and

ffmpeg -v -10 -threads 4 -i "test_en_aid_128__09_38_42_868_01.ac3" -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 6 -ar 48000 -f wav - | oggenc -r -b 128 -C 6 -R 48000 --ignorelength --utf8 -o "test_en_aid_128__09_38_42_868_02.ogg" -

both don't show any progress besides time-elapsed here,...

[J_Darnley]

Well that's just wrong. You told oggenc to use raw input when it is wav so of course there is no progress. Are you really using oggenc version 1? You should be using oggenc2. You could also just use sox to encode.

[Selur]

I tested with:
a. oggenc that comes with vorbis-tools on current Ubuntu systems
b. oggenc2 provides by rarewares

Since I never used oggenc before, since I normally don't use ogg: if you know a way to tweak the command calls please speak up since 'Well that's just wrong.' doesn't really help.

[J_Darnley]

I must apologise. It seems that oggenc doesn't like the ffmpeg|sox|oggenc2 combination. It spits out errors and doesn't encode anything. So yes, if you are going to use oggenc then it looks like it will have to be raw input.

[Selur]

So no ogg support until I find a way to get some progress indication with oggenc or another way to create ogg vorbis content.
(made a feature request over at xiph)

Cu Selur

[Riki]

Hi Selur. May I ask what to adjust in hybrid to get the most lossess conversion (and easiest to edit with a video editing program)? I did set CQ to Lossless but Im not sure if the colors were preserved and other stuff. Are there other settings I can adjust, or is there a profile I can look at?

The goal is lossless quality, yet fast playback/editing.

[Selur]

colors are always be yv12 (4:2:0), so if you input rgb you will lose some.
lossless + http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1396455 is probably a good start

[Riki]

thanks, although on the hybrid encoding tests the quality did not look so good on certain frames (with thin colored lines, etc). I was hoping there were other setting involved, but I guess CRF is probably the best option for now.

[Selur]

could be a TV/PC scale or a Rec.601, Rec.709 problem but I don't know of any way to control these through ffmpeg/mencoder (or another tool besides avisynth) so I couldn't add options to modify these. (Googled a lot but didn't find anything about it on the net regarding mencoder/ffmpeg. )

Cu Selur

[Selur]

Would anyone prefer aften for ac3 encoding over ffmpeg?
I'm thinking about adding support for an addition option to select aften as encoder, but I'm not sure if it would be useful to have some of aftens options, besides bitrate and quality available through the gui?

Cu Selur

[buzzqw]

aften!

and bitrate/channels as option is enough, aften has excellent default

BHH

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100513

*added*
- aften and oggenc support (reading progress from ffmpeg)

*changed*
- framecounter became a separate application (see first post for Download)

*fixed*
- raw avc frame counter
- mplayer not called with absolute path when doing dvd analysis
- "should be there" checks
- audio language passthrough on audio stream passthrough
- bug when raw audio passthrough and passthrough audio language were enabled

*cosmetics*
- show avc/vc1 frame counter progress in title bar

*updated*
- windows 32bit package (added oggenc, aften and framecounter)

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
Reset Defaults in Misc-Tab on first start

-> updated links in 1st post

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100515

*fixed*
- padding with ffmpeg (making sure that one multiple of 2 are padded)
sidenode: current ffmpeg build cause problems when using crop&pad together

*changed*
- using 'aften -v 2' output for progress indication instead of ffmpegs output during ac3 encoding with aften
- don't add -ss when autorcop raw video input- show number of scanned frames during autocrop

*cosmetics*
- hiding other audio options when 'ogg' is selected
- show number of scanned frames during autocrop

*updated*
- windows 32bit package (larger than before since mplayer, ffmpeg and mencoder use TLS Callbacks and I don't know a binary packer that can handle these)

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
Reset Defaults in Misc-Tab on first start

-> updated links in 1st post

[CpT]

I'm getting "Crop Crashed" using auto crop + Mplayer or ffmpeg for cropping.

Using the latest hybrid package on win7 32bit

Video changed to:
Format: AVC
Bit rate: 192
Frame rate: 23.976
Resolution: 1280x720
Interlacing: progressive
Aspect ratio: 1
Frame count: 1010

2010.05.16 - 13:38:00_100515 - selectVideoStream: 0
2010.05.16 - 13:38:00_100515 - setCurrentVideoInput: 0
2010.05.16 - 13:38:00_100515 - Crop crashed

[Selur]

Okay, I can reproduce this. Will send you a fixed version once I find the problem. (normal crop seems to work)

[CpT]

kk thanks, no hurries - its the weekend

[Selur]

Think I found the problem,..