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

[Selur]

Hybrid rev.110330

*added*
- autoLoading first audio file,.. if the videoInput is i.e. test.avi and has no audio stream in it Hybrid will now search the input folder for audio files named test*.EXT, where EXT is any audio extension Hybrid knows and automatically load the first found as audio source.
- MPLS-Selector so one can select which Titles should be analysed on blu-ray input
- .mpls selector option to ignore .mpls files with a duration below X minutes
- support x264 option '--frame-packing' for stereoscopic encoding
- subtitle extraction from DVD Source will honor chapter selection and only extract the selected parts
- Default Hybrid Default Video Profiles (requires Model reset!)
- (windows) dependency to 'NamedPipe' from roozhou (needed for mplayer raw decoding)
- option to force cfr output when decoding with mencoder/ffmpeg
- option to select if ffmpeg or mencoder is used as raw decoder
- option to let mp4box/mkvmerge skip the explicit naming of PAR 1:1 in the muxing call (needed for some mp3/mp4 players)

*fixed*
- mp4/mov id grabbing
- removed unneeded 'splitx 0:0' from mp4box call
- audio only preview
- subtitle extraction problem
- bug with he-aac signaling
- chapterTab adjust chapters to chapter selection
- one of the problems with cut support (still experimental)
- naming problem when extracing multiple audio to raw from BluRay
- bug in '3.1 to dl2' sox call
- crash when a needed tool was missing
- Hybrid closing when POPUP occured while Hybrid was minimized by preventing PopUps while minimized.
- x264: force cfr output was accidently disabled (should be enabled when 'Use internal decoder if possible' is activated.
- x264: bug in cl when feeding timecodes to x264
- x264: baseline + veryslow/placebo -> using subMe 9 instead of subMe 10, since 10 is not allowed (needs CABAC)
- avs analyser crash

*changed*
- x264: check that 'force cfr' isn't enabled if the decoder used isn't x264
- x264: wrong named x264 .stats file if output contained two consecutive white spaces
- x264: qMax = 69 ('The QPs above 51 are "fake QPs" for VBV emergency. You can disable VBV emergency entirely by pushing the max down to 51.' by Dark Shikari)
- better m2ts Overhead with ac3 audio
- limit bitrate<>size flipping
- automatically enabling 'generate output name' when Queue Titles/Chapters is pressed
- (windows) using vstrip instead of vstrip_ifo&vstrip.dll (-> added a vstrip version - vstripFree - that can't remove microvision or css to the windows package to avoid legal problems)
- added some warnings for DVDs created with old/broken TmpgEnc Version
- overwrite mplayer channel count with info detected by mediainfo
- bunch of small cosmetics
- use MPlayer as decoder for raw audio to counter problems with to short dts stream when decoding with ffmpeg (mplayer also looks for DS filters if it can't decode material, i.e. raw thd)
- ffmpeg: use libmp3lame for mp3 encoding (-> with this ffmpeg fpr Hybrid needs to be compiled with --enable-libmp3lame support)
- mplayer/mencoder: -noautosub -> -nosub

*removed*
- (windows) dependency to pssuspend
- (windows) dependency to vstrip_ifo and vstrip.dll

*updated*
- Windows package (added separate 64bit and Win2k addition downloads)

-> updated links in 1st post

Cu Selur

[illogan]

Yeay ! ;D

[Selur]

Hybrid rev.110331

*fixed*
- bug in mplayer call,.. that caused a crash for dvd input

-> updated links in 1st post

Cu Selur

[flebber]

Cheers can't wait to try.

[modlinsky]

Hi, Selur

Thanks for new version. It's excellent.
The question is, do you plan to update the vpxenc to the latest libvpx 0.9.6?

Thanks in advance.

[Selur]

do you plan to update the vpxenc to the latest libvpx 0.9.6?

Sure, as soon as someone compiles a vpxenc version that accepts input via stdIn I'll start implementing support for it.
(last time I checked, stdIn support was broken and vpxenc crashed for all input I fed it with; haven't tested the lastest version that comes with vpx-vp8-debug-src-x86-win32mt-vs9-v0.9.6.1)
-> seems to work (assuming they didn't change a command line parameter I haven't checked)
+ just found a small typo (could send you a fixed version if you post what sort of Hybrid flavor you need Windows 32/64bit)

Cu Selur

[modlinsky]

Windows 32

[modlinsky]

Hi, Selur
First of all good news, I went back to your latest Hybrid version.
Bad news, is the test version you send me doesnt work at all. I think the problem is on the encoder side.
Thanks.

[Selur]

Bad news, is the test version you send me doesnt work at all.

That's strange,.. some additional infos might be helpful,..
I did do a 1pass bitrate and a 2pass bitrate encode (with otherwise the default settings) and the encoding worked here,..

[tony62]

Hi Selur,

My god, great job on this, it is brilliant!

Can you explain how to save the Hybrid Path as it always reverts & recreates the "app data" directory.

Also, can you explain the "Reset Defaults" "Reload Defaults" & "Save Defaults", please, Thanks!!

[tony62]

Some bugs:

[tony62]

Hi,

I'd like to create an AVI from Xvid & AC3. How do i change the container?

Thanks!

[Selur]

1. There is an 'Edit'-button please use it.
2. Don't add attachments if you want a 'fast' reply attachments need approval from a moderator.

Can you explain how to save the Hybrid Path as it always reverts & recreates the "app data" directory.

To save the Config->Path settings you need to Save Defaults for 'All' or just the 'GlobalDataModel'.
-> Select Save Defaults->GlobalDataModel and hit the Save Defaults -> Selected Button.

Also, can you explain the "Reset Defaults" "Reload Defaults" & "Save Defaults", please, Thanks!!

It's relatively straight forward.
'Reset Defaults' allows you to reset a single DataModel or all DataModels (which hold the settings in Hybrid) to it's 'factory defaults'
'Reload Defaults' allows you to reload a single DataModel or all DataModels to it last saved state. (i.e. the 'factory defaults')
'Save Defaults' allows you to overwrite a single DataModel or all DataModels by saving their current state.

i.e.
a. to reset/load/save a single DataModel:
1. select the model to reset/load/save
2. press the 'Selected'-button in associated section (GroupBox)
(if you reseted a model, Hybrid needs to restart)

b. to reset/load/save all DataModels, press the 'All'-button in associated section (GroupBox)

Some bugs:

See the first post in this thread about infos needed for me to recreate a bug.

I'd like to create an AVI from Xvid & AC3. How do i change the container?

If you just want to remux an .m4v and a .ac3 file to .avi the following should work.
1. load the m4v (Main-> Input File)
2. set Main->'Audio handling' to 'custom'
3. load the audio source (Audio->Main->'Audio Source'->'Audio File')
4. add the audio (Audio->Main->Add; make sure Audio->Main->'Reencoding audio stream' is disabled)
5. set Main->'Video handling' to 'passthrough' and Main->'Audio handling' to 'passthrough all'
6. Set a output file (Main->'Output File') with an .avi extension
7. add job to queue (Main->'Add to Queue')
8. start Job (Jobs->Start)

Cu Selur

[Selur]

@all "Hybrid Win32 package"-users:
atm. some work is done by one user to build a NSIS Installer,..
-> So I wanted to know if anyone prefers the '.zip' package over an installeror if it would be okay to drop the package(s) and add a NSIS installer instead?
(Depending on the environment the installer would install the WinXP/Win2k 32bit/64bit version of the tool required,...)

Cu Selur

[flebber]

Originally Posted by Selur

@all "Hybrid Win32 package"-users:
atm. some work is done by one user to build a NSIS Installer,..
-> So I wanted to know if anyone prefers the '.zip' package over an installeror if it would be okay to drop the package(s) and add a NSIS installer instead?
(Depending on the environment the installer would install the WinXP/Win2k 32bit/64bit version of the tool required,...)

Cu Selur

I am happy with an installer but my question would be how would installing updates for hybrid work. Currently I just paste the new hybrid.exe into my zip folder.

[Selur]

For whole package updates you would just download and start the installer which would replace the old files with the new once. (+ reset the defaults if activated in the installer)
For Hybrid binary only updates you would still simply overwrite the Hybrid.exe

Cu Selur

[Music Fan]

What would be the difference with the current installer ?

[Selur]

There is no 'current installer'.
The main purposes of the installer would be:
- simple deployment (only one package download for all windows versions)
- user selects:
- where Hybrid should be put
- if avisynth 32bit or 64bit support should be added (avsInfo 32/64bit version)
- if the defaults should be resetted after installation
- simple clean removal (uninstaller will delete the hybrid program folder and the datamodels, if selected, on uninstall)

Cu Selur

[Music Fan]

Ok, thanks.

if avisynth 32bit or 64bit support should be added

Does it mean that Avisynth would be included in the exe, or it would be downloaded if selected ?

[flebber]

Originally Posted by Selur

For whole package updates you would just download and start the installer which would replace the old files with the new once. (+ reset the defaults if activated in the installer)
For Hybrid binary only updates you would still simply overwrite the Hybrid.exe

Cu Selur

The only issue is of course the user would end up redownloading all packages to update potentially 1 single package.