MeGUI: General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

[blah123]

I've got problem with cutting off tv commercials from this .*ts file. This file is not broken (i ran some tests), and it's H264/AVC [MPEG4]

LOG:

Stream Type: Transport [188]
Profile: Main
Level: 3
Frame Size: 720x576
SAR: 12:11
Display Size: 785x576
Frame Rate: 25.000000 fps
Colorimetry: BT.601 [5]
Frame Structure: Fields (TFF)
Frame Type: not yet
Coded Number: 88653
Playback Number: 88653
Frame Repeats: 0
Field Repeats: 0
Bitrate: 1.368
Bitrate (Avg): 2.694
Bitrate (Max): 4.921
Audio Stream: 67: MPEG2 L2 2ch 48 192
Elapsed: 0:03:00
Remain: 0:00:00
FPS:
Info: Finished!

So, i used file indexer. Then used AVS Script Creator and chosen .dga file. On the capture screen are artiffacts and an error.



I can't do it. When i run AVS Cutter, and try to move bar to pick zones, that should stay in recording,
What else I can add... Without cutting TS file converted to AVI or MKV has also artiffacts! I checked other software like AVI ReComp and in this aplication file is converted properly and without artifacts...

Here you've got the log during AVS Cutter:

[Error] Log
-[Information] Versions
--[NoImage] MeGUI Version : 0.3.5.0
--[NoImage] OS : Windows Vista Premium Edition x86 SP2 (6.0.131072.6002)
--[NoImage] Latest .Net Framework installed : 3.5 (3.5.30729.01)
--[NoImage] Avisynth Version : 2.6.0.1
-[Error] Unhandled error
--[NoImage] Exception message: Nastapila proba odczytu lub zapisu pamieci chronionej. Czesto wskazuje to, ze inna pamiec jest uszkodzona.
--[NoImage] Stacktrace
---[NoImage] w MeGUI.AviSynthClip.dimzon_avs_getvframe(IntPtr avs, IntPtr buf, Int32 stride, Int32 frm)
---[NoImage] w MeGUI.AviSynthClip.ReadFrame(IntPtr addr, Int32 stride, Int32 frame)
---[NoImage] w MeGUI.AvsFile.AvsVideoReader.ReadFrameBitmap(Int32 position)
---[NoImage] w MeGUI.VideoPlayer.positionSlider_Scroll(Object sender, EventArgs e)
---[NoImage] w System.Windows.Forms.TrackBar.OnScroll(EventArgs e)
---[NoImage] w System.Windows.Forms.TrackBar.WndProc(Message& m)
---[NoImage] w System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
---[NoImage] w System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
---[NoImage] w System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
--[NoImage] Inner exception: null

And here's the log during the usage of AVS Script Creator:

[Information] Log
-[Information] Versions
--[NoImage] MeGUI Version : 0.3.5.0
--[NoImage] OS : Windows Vista Premium Edition x86 SP2 (6.0.131072.6002)
--[NoImage] Latest .Net Framework installed : 3.5 (3.5.30729.01)
--[NoImage] Avisynth Version : 2.6.0.1
-[Information] Log for job1 (idx, **** - October 10 21 58 56 -> **** - October 10 21 58 56.ffindex)
--[Information] [2010-10-12 14:13:50] Started handling job
--[Information] [2010-10-12 14:13:50] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files\MeGUI\tools\dgavcindex\dgavcindex.exe" -i "C:\***\ProgDVB\Record\************.ts" -o "C:\***\ProgDVB\Record\************.dga" -e -h -a
--[Information] [2010-10-12 14:13:50] Indexing started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
--[NoImage] Standard error stream
---[NoImage] Warning: no active SPS, timing SEI cannot be parsed
---[NoImage] Warning: no active SPS, timing SEI cannot be parsed
---[NoImage] Warning: no active SPS, timing SEI cannot be parsed
---[NoImage] Warning: no active SPS, timing SEI cannot be parsed
---[NoImage] Warning: no active SPS, timing SEI cannot be parsed
---[NoImage] Warning: no active SPS, timing SEI cannot be parsed
---[NoImage] Warning: no active SPS, timing SEI cannot be parsed
--[Information] [2010-10-12 14:13:52] Postprocessing
---[Information] Deleting intermediate files

So, i decided to use FFMSIndex in File Indexer. AVS Cutter works fine, there is no "Exception message: Nastapila proba odczytu lub zapisu pamieci chronionej. Czesto wskazuje to, ze inna pamiec jest uszkodzona", but there are some artifacts in the capture, so i Can cut .TS, but this way of encoding gives a YV12 video problems conected with AviSynth - on the contrary DGAVCIndex doesn't have such a problem.




In StaxRip, after importing dga file, the situation is the same:



So, i decided to try TSMuxeR. I mux file into m2ts, and MeGUI get this, so there is no artiffacts in preview in e.g. AVS Cutter, but the preview very often freezes during seeking on the bar.


Would you think about a solution to this problem?
I'm Polish, so some of erros are only in this language.

[poisondeathray]

blah123 - don't use dgavcindex on paff streams , known bug

you can use dss2() + haali media splitter + ffdshow

[blah123]

What is dss2() and what are paff streams?

[poisondeathray]

Originally Posted by blah123

What is dss2() and what are paff streams?

dss2 = directshowsource2

avss.dll comes with haali media splitter, put it in avisynth/plugins folder

paff = picture adaptive field frame . Think of it as interlaced AVC

[blah123]

Ok, interlaced videos. But 2 weeks ago I didn't have any problem with interlaced sources...

Ok, I put this dll file in "MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin", so what I should use to prepre TS to use it in AVS Script Creator?

[poisondeathray]

DSS("video.m2ts")
# other filters

if you want to deinterlace or add any filters you can add them

MeGUI Version : 0.3.5.0

and you might want to update your megui version (use the development server) , because some other bugs have been fixed

[blah123]

Here http://sourceforge.net/projects/megui/files/ the newest version is that I have... So where from i can get always the newest? Function of autoupdate doesn't give newer than 0.3.5.0...

So I put that file, and has got ffdshow and haali media splitter, but now when i'm trying to open make an avs file in AVSsc i get this error:


I'm a newbie in matters like this kind, so:

DSS("video.m2ts")
# other filters

doesn't give me a clear statement.

[poisondeathray]

no, put it in the avisynth\plugins directory

or use LoadPlugin("PATH\avss.dll")

Don't use directshowsource(), use dss2() .

Don't use the avisynth creator, you can use notepad or avsp or edit the script

Under options=>settings=>external config tab=> auto update use development server

[blah123]

Originally Posted by poisondeathray

no, put it in the avisynth\plugins directory

Still the same problem.

Originally Posted by poisondeathray

Don't use directshowsource(), use dss2() .

Don't use the avisynth creator, you can use notepad or avsp or edit the script

I don't know what are you talking about...
I've installed ffdshow and haali, as you just said, that's all. I didn't picked any other stuff, like 'directshowsource' or 'directshowsource2'. I prefer GUI version of making avs srcipt, beacuse it's simplier for me. I don't have a script, so I don't have anything to edit.

2 weeks ago I'didn't have such problems, this is very, very odd... MeGUI worked perfectly!

[Sharktooth]

get megui dev version. there is an option to enable DSS2.

[blah123]

I've got 0.3.5.18. Where i can switch on DSS2?

[Lighto]

Originally Posted by blah123

I've got 0.3.5.18. Where i can switch on DSS2?

[blah123]

OK, I installed FormatFactoy (it has some codecs) and evertyhing works fine. DSS2 also.

EDIT: Video is OK, but audio has weird click...

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/247...eird_click.mp3 <- here you can hear it, in the begining.

This is demuxed from TS to M2TS (in tsMuxeR):

MUXOPT --no-pcr-on-video-pid --new-audio-pes --vbr --vbv-len=500
V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC, "file_path*.ts", fps=25, insertSEI, contSPS, track=102
A_MP3, "file_path", timeshift=13ms, track=103, lang=pol

(Audio it's after encoding with cut from *.CLT file in MeGUI)

[DVDBob]

Where can i download dss2???

[flebber]

Originally Posted by DVDBob

Where can i download dss2???

Its already enabled in megui you don't need to download. Or using google http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/External_filters

[Carpo]

Do the x264 pre-sets - medium, slow, slower, very slow - etc, apart from each one making the encode take longer do they deliver a significant visual improvement? I know the longer it takes the better it should be, but if slow gives the same result as very slow, i might as well use slow and save myself some time

[nurbs]

Well slower is better, but how much is an other question. One thing I can say for sure is that if you use settings faster than the defaults you will lose quality pretty quickly, because you are turning off the psy optimizations. For the slower ones there are diminishing returns, that is you are definitly losing more in speed than you are gaining in encoding efficiency, and if you care about encoding time you might as well stay at the defaults and use a little higher bitrate or lower ratefactor.

[flebber]

Originally Posted by Carpo

Do the x264 pre-sets - medium, slow, slower, very slow - etc, apart from each one making the encode take longer do they deliver a significant visual improvement? I know the longer it takes the better it should be, but if slow gives the same result as very slow, i might as well use slow and save myself some time

I have found no need to go below slow, most of my encodes done on medium. I haven't had a source when tested where I could say slower has been required for me or produced a more notable result than slow.

[blah123]

What else I should have installed to open a preview of interlaced h264 in avs script creator?
I've got a ffdshow and haali and try to import .m2ts file (created in TS Muxer), but it fails with:


I can't choose dss2 (as @poisondeathray said), because this option is unavailable without video input...


How I should handle with this file???

[Shinji-kun]

For some reason when I encoded a video to x264 with MeGUI, upon viewing it in mpc-hc (with ffdshow outputting to YV12) there were jagged edges that looked like aliasing on red and bright orange objects (the only way to get rid of this effect was to output the video to RGB32 in ffdshow) but when I encoded the same video with identical settings (that I was aware of) in Staxrip, the jagged chroma effect was not apparent, even when I output to YV12 in ffdshow.

Why are the jagged edges only visible in video encoded with MeGUI? I have even noticed this chroma effect in fan subbers' encodes like Central-Anime and G_P. Is there some automatic chroma setting that Staxrip uses by default, that removes/avoids the chroma issue, that you have to manually specify in MeGUI?