MeGUI: General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread - Page 358

Kurtnoise · 19th June 2013, 13:33

--fake-interlaced switch correspond to the fake string in the mediainfo x264 settings, 0 otherwise.

AGKnotUser · 19th June 2013, 13:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by LigH

There is a set of command line options for the x264 command line encoder application. These are not stored in the encoding result.

And there is a set of options for the libx264 encoder library. Those are stored in M4V metadata and can be read by MediaInfo.

Both option sets are not completely equal; some of the x264 CLI options are translated to different libx264 options, possibly even to a set of them, e.g. --preset, --tune, and obviously also --fake-interlaced.

No warranty for given information, only as far as I believe to understand; I do not belong to the developers who really know all the details.

Thank you.

Octo-puss · 25th June 2013, 17:19

I just noticed that most of my encodes have washed out colours compared to original. I can't find the cause. I thought it could be too high CRF values used, but it made no difference even when I went all the way down to 1.
Then I noticed something called "Colour correction" in AVS script creator, but it made no difference either.
The washed out colours appear in the video preview as well (obviously, I guess).

Does anyone have any idea what's the deal here?

detmek · 25th June 2013, 17:44

Without a original sample, I don't think so.

Octo-puss · 25th June 2013, 18:25

Well, I can't seem to be able to create a DVD sample, so we probably won't get anywhere

Furthermore, when I switch MPC-HC back to EVR renderer, colours look the same. When I use madVR, the encode looks washed up. It's really weird and I really have no idea what's wrong.

edit:
Allright, here's a sample.

FredMSloniker · 25th June 2013, 18:32

I periodically encode videos to upload to a service with a maximum file size of 1 gig, so I use AutoEncode to encode my videos to 0.98 gigs. Some videos, however, don't need to be that big; even a lossless encoding is less than 0.98 gigs. Previously, MeGUI has had no problem with this, simply spitting out a file of whatever size necessary. Lately, though, it's been erroring out. The third job of four contains the following error messages in the log:

[Warning] [6/25/2013 9:55:57 AM] x264 [warning]: target: 4325.00 kbit/s, expected: 3609.08 kbit/s, avg QP: 0.0564
[Warning] [6/25/2013 10:19:23 AM] x264 [warning]: try reducing target bitrate

But I don't want to reduce the target bitrate; if I can encode lossless (or as close to it as the codec will allow) and still come under the target filesize, why not?

Can anyone help me figure out what's changed or is going wrong?

nekrovski · 25th June 2013, 21:15

I haven't used megui in several months, just ran it, updated and now whenever I try to open a .mkv it says

"Unable to render the file.
You probably don't have the correct filters installed."

What went wrong?

Hmm this only happens when I choose direct show source and not on file indexer or one click encode.

Ha, looks like I forgot that I uninstalled haali media splitter. Seems to work fine now after I installed it.

LigH · 26th June 2013, 07:28

You should not use DirectShowSource anyway, as long as you can avoid it (because DirectShow sources may not certainly be frame-accurate and unfiltered). Exceptions are when native AviSynth source filters can't handle the specific source, or when you really know how to set up your filter chain.

mini-moose · 26th June 2013, 10:26

Hi

I'm trying to find what "Improved AVS opening" is about. Only thing I noticed is that if not selected the video/avs preview will open at the beginning, while when selected it will open in the middle.
Tried to find more info about the feature but without success so far.

thanks in advance.

Zathor · 26th June 2013, 22:10

Should be those changes:

Code:

2112 [Video Player] changed default start position to the middle if "Improved AVS opening" is selected 
2080 [AVS] if an AVS script cannot be opened the old method to open such files is used during the session. 
           the option can be completly disabled in the settings ("Improved AVS opening", enabled by default). Bug #3437874
2049 open avisynth script handling improved

Reason was that if an AVS script need some time to be opened (e.g. FFMS index file must be created) MeGUI did not respond

luke83 · 27th June 2013, 19:32

Problem :/

Code:

[Error] Log
-[Information] Versions
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:54] MeGUI: 2356
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:54] Operating System: Windows 7 x86 SP1 (6.1.65536.7601)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:54] .Net Framework: 4.0 (4.0.30319)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:54] AviSynth: 2.5.8.5 (11/01/2013 10:46:26)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:54] AvisynthWrapper: 02/01/2009 20:34:04
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] Haali Matroska Splitter: 1.11.96.14 (03/03/2011 11:40:46)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] Haali DSS2: 03/03/2011 11:37:50
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib: 0.85.5.452 (07/08/2008 20:31:12)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] LinqBridge: 1.0.0.0 (28/05/2009 01:24:34)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] MediaInfo: 0.7.63.0 (13/05/2013 10:47:16)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] MediaInfoWrapper: 0.7.61.0 (06/01/2013 14:47:15)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] MessageBoxExLib: 1.0.2218.28317 (19/12/2008 20:53:04)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] SevenZipSharp: 0.64.3890.29348 (02/01/2011 10:59:32)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] 7z: 9.20 (18/11/2010 16:27:34)
-[Information] Update detection
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:01:55] Automatic update is disabled
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:08:46] Connecting to server: http://megui.org/auto/
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:08:47] All files are up to date
-[Error] Log for job5 (video, VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avs -> hfyu_VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avi)
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:02] Started handling job
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:02] Preprocessing
---[Information] Bitrate calculation for video
----[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:03] Desired size after subtracting audio: 649481 KBs
----[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:03] Calculated desired bitrate: 984 kbit/s
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:03] Avisynth input script
---[NoImage] SetMTMode(5,0)
---[NoImage] Import("K:\Documents and Settings\Luca\Documenti\Software\Video Editing\MeGUI_0.3.5\tools\avisynth_plugin\AutoPath.avs")
---[NoImage] MyLoadPlugin("Anime\Chroma\ChromaShift.dll")
---[NoImage] MyLoadPlugin("Anime\SSmoother\RemoveGrain 1.0b\RemoveGrainSSE3.dll")
---[NoImage] MyLoadPlugin("Anime\Sharpener\aWarpSharp2\aWarpSharp2.dll")
---[NoImage] MyLoadPlugin("Anime\Dehalo\fft3dfilter211\FFT3DFilter.dll")
---[NoImage] MyLoadPlugin("Anime\Anti-aliasing\UnFilter.dll")
---[NoImage] MyLoadPlugin("Anime\Anti-aliasing\SangNom.dll")
---[NoImage] MyLoadPlugin("Anime\Line Darkener\Toon-v1.0-lite.dll")
---[NoImage] MyLoadPlugin("Decomb.dll")
---[NoImage] MyImport("Anime\Anti-aliasing\AAA.avs")
---[NoImage] LoadPlugin("K:\Documents and Settings\Luca\Documenti\Software\Video Editing\MeGUI_0.3.5\tools\dgindex\DGDecode.dll")
---[NoImage] DGDecode_mpeg2source("K:\Temp\Temp Megui\VTS_01_PGC_01_1.d2v")
---[NoImage] ChromaShift(C=2)
---[NoImage] SetMTMode(2,2)
---[NoImage] # Deinterlacer
---[NoImage] AssumeTFF().Telecide(guide=1).Decimate(mode=1,threshold=2.0)
---[NoImage] # Spatial Denoiser
---[NoImage] RemoveGrain(2).RemoveGrain(2)
---[NoImage] # Cropper
---[NoImage] crop(10, 2, -8, 0)
---[NoImage] # Resizer
---[NoImage] LanczosResize(702,526) # Lanczos (Sharp)
---[NoImage] # Dehalo
---[NoImage] fft3dfilter(bt=-1, plane=0, dehalo=1.0, hr=2.0, ht=50, svr=0, sharpen=0.3)
---[NoImage] # Sharpener
---[NoImage] aWarpSharp2()
---[NoImage] # Line darkner
---[NoImage] ToonLite(0.5)
---[NoImage] # Anti-aliasing
---[NoImage] AAA()
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:04] Job commandline: "K:\Documents and Settings\Luca\Documenti\Software\Video Editing\MeGUI_0.3.5\tools\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "K:\Temp\Temp Megui\VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avs" -c:v ffvhuff -threads 0 -sn -an -context 1 -vstrict -2 -pred 2 "K:\Temp\Temp Megui\hfyu_VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avi" 
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:04] Process started
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:04] Standard output stream
--[Error] [27/06/2013 20:02:04] Standard error stream
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:04] ffmpeg version 1.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:04]   built on Mar 28 2013 00:28:48 with gcc 4.8.0 (GCC)
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:04]   configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   libavutil      52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   libavcodec     54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   libavformat    54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   libavdevice    54.  3.103 / 54.  3.103
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   libavfilter     3. 42.103 /  3. 42.103
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   libswscale      2.  2.100 /  2.  2.100
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05] Input #0, avisynth, from 'K:\Temp\Temp Megui\VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avs':
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   Duration: 00:00:10.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]     Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo, bgra, 832x32, 20447 kb/s, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 24 tbn, 24 tbc
---[Error] [27/06/2013 20:02:06] [ffvhuff @ 020def80] Error: RGB is incompatible with median predictor
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:06] Output #0, avi, to 'K:\Temp\Temp Megui\hfyu_VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avi':
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:06]     Stream #0:0: Video: ffvhuff, bgra, 832x32, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 24 tbc
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:06] Stream mapping:
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:06]   Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo -> ffvhuff)
---[Error] [27/06/2013 20:02:06] Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
--[Error] [27/06/2013 20:02:06] Process exits with error: 1
--[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:06] Job completed

misagh72 · 29th June 2013, 11:47

how to add folder bluray to megui ?

Shevek · 29th June 2013, 19:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by misagh72

how to add folder bluray to megui ?

Use Tools->HD Streams Extractor

Ruriko · 30th June 2013, 02:47

Does anyone know a tool that can batch add videos? I used to use MeGUI Batch Expansion https://sourceforge.net/projects/meguibatchjobex/ but it doesn't work anymore

Zathor · 30th June 2013, 08:52

Have you already tried the oneclick tool in MeGUI?

Zathor · 30th June 2013, 09:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by luke83

Problem :/

Code:

---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05] Input #0, avisynth, from 'K:\Temp\Temp Megui\VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avs':
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]   Duration: 00:00:10.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
---[Information] [27/06/2013 20:02:05]     Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo, bgra, 832x32, 20447 kb/s, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 24 tbn, 24 tbc
---[Error] [27/06/2013 20:02:06] [ffvhuff @ 020def80] Error: RGB is incompatible with median predictor

Try adding ConvertToYV12() in your script.

luke83 · 30th June 2013, 12:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zathor

Try adding ConvertToYV12() in your script.

it doesn't work. Same error.

I have put it before and after Chromashift(C=2) but nothing happened

magsoud · 3rd July 2013, 11:06

How to Change Video fps 25.000 to 23.976 in MeGUI ?

LigH · 3rd July 2013, 11:56

Standard conversion is a complex topic. There are simple solutions (e.g. ConvertFPS or ResampleAudio/TimeStretch) with ugly results (much quality loss for either video or audio) or very elaborate solutions with still no guarantee for optimal results.

The best advice is: Avoid it. Use only correct sources. If you insist in mixing two different sources, RTFM.

Ruriko · 6th July 2013, 06:42

I am having problems with the one click encoder. I selected a folder and then I press yes to process all files and once that is done I pressed the Go button and nothing happens after that. The go button becomes greyed out. It works if I do single videos but I can't do folders. What is wrong?

25th June 2013, 17:19	#7143 \| Link
Octo-puss Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 571	I just noticed that most of my encodes have washed out colours compared to original. I can't find the cause. I thought it could be too high CRF values used, but it made no difference even when I went all the way down to 1. Then I noticed something called "Colour correction" in AVS script creator, but it made no difference either. The washed out colours appear in the video preview as well (obviously, I guess). Does anyone have any idea what's the deal here? Last edited by Octo-puss; 25th June 2013 at 17:34.

25th June 2013, 18:25	#7145 \| Link
Octo-puss Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 571	Well, I can't seem to be able to create a DVD sample, so we probably won't get anywhere Furthermore, when I switch MPC-HC back to EVR renderer, colours look the same. When I use madVR, the encode looks washed up. It's really weird and I really have no idea what's wrong. edit: Allright, here's a sample. Last edited by Octo-puss; 25th June 2013 at 18:34.

25th June 2013, 21:15	#7147 \| Link
nekrovski Registered User Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 57	I haven't used megui in several months, just ran it, updated and now whenever I try to open a .mkv it says "Unable to render the file. You probably don't have the correct filters installed." What went wrong? Hmm this only happens when I choose direct show source and not on file indexer or one click encode. Ha, looks like I forgot that I uninstalled haali media splitter. Seems to work fine now after I installed it. Last edited by nekrovski; 25th June 2013 at 21:26.

26th June 2013, 07:28	#7148 \| Link
LigH German doom9/Gleitz SuMo Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Germany, rural Altmark Posts: 6,784	You should not use DirectShowSource anyway, as long as you can avoid it (because DirectShow sources may not certainly be frame-accurate and unfiltered). Exceptions are when native AviSynth source filters can't handle the specific source, or when you really know how to set up your filter chain. __________________ New German Gleitz board MediaFire: x264 \| x265 \| VPx \| AOM \| Xvid

26th June 2013, 10:26	#7149 \| Link
mini-moose Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 385	improved avs opening Hi I'm trying to find what "Improved AVS opening" is about. Only thing I noticed is that if not selected the video/avs preview will open at the beginning, while when selected it will open in the middle. Tried to find more info about the feature but without success so far. thanks in advance.

19th June 2013, 13:33	#7141 \| Link
Kurtnoise Swallowed in the Sea Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Aix-en-Provence, France Posts: 5,191	--fake-interlaced switch correspond to the *fake* string in the mediainfo x264 settings, 0 otherwise.

25th June 2013, 17:44	#7144 \| Link
detmek Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 463	Without a original sample, I don't think so.

25th June 2013, 18:32	#7146 \| Link
FredMSloniker Registered User Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 5	I periodically encode videos to upload to a service with a maximum file size of 1 gig, so I use AutoEncode to encode my videos to 0.98 gigs. Some videos, however, don't need to be that big; even a lossless encoding is less than 0.98 gigs. Previously, MeGUI has had no problem with this, simply spitting out a file of whatever size necessary. Lately, though, it's been erroring out. The third job of four contains the following error messages in the log: [Warning] [6/25/2013 9:55:57 AM] x264 [warning]: target: 4325.00 kbit/s, expected: 3609.08 kbit/s, avg QP: 0.0564 [Warning] [6/25/2013 10:19:23 AM] x264 [warning]: try reducing target bitrate But I don't want to reduce the target bitrate; if I can encode lossless (or as close to it as the codec will allow) and still come under the target filesize, why not? Can anyone help me figure out what's changed or is going wrong?

29th June 2013, 11:47	#7152 \| Link
misagh72 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 13	how to add folder bluray to megui ?

30th June 2013, 02:47	#7154 \| Link
Ruriko Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 125	Does anyone know a tool that can batch add videos? I used to use MeGUI Batch Expansion https://sourceforge.net/projects/meguibatchjobex/ but it doesn't work anymore

30th June 2013, 08:52	#7155 \| Link
Zathor Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 2,405	Have you already tried the oneclick tool in MeGUI?

3rd July 2013, 11:06	#7158 \| Link
magsoud Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Tabriz Posts: 48	How to Change Video fps 25.000 to 23.976 in MeGUI ?

3rd July 2013, 11:56	#7159 \| Link
LigH German doom9/Gleitz SuMo Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Germany, rural Altmark Posts: 6,784	Standard conversion is a complex topic. There are simple solutions (e.g. ConvertFPS or ResampleAudio/TimeStretch) with ugly results (much quality loss for either video or audio) or very elaborate solutions with still no guarantee for optimal results. The best advice is: Avoid it. Use only correct sources. If you insist in mixing two different sources, RTFM. __________________ New German Gleitz board MediaFire: x264 \| x265 \| VPx \| AOM \| Xvid

6th July 2013, 06:42	#7160 \| Link
Ruriko Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 125	I am having problems with the one click encoder. I selected a folder and then I press yes to process all files and once that is done I pressed the Go button and nothing happens after that. The go button becomes greyed out. It works if I do single videos but I can't do folders. What is wrong?