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Old 1st February 2006, 16:26   #201  |  Link
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@Mutant_Fruit: you raise good points. I think in the end auto-update needs to be an all-or-nothing feature. If you want to use it, don't screw around with your own builds. Once you accept that POV, the only hard task is making it so good that nobody wants to use anything else
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Old 1st February 2006, 17:29   #202  |  Link
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How about to add OggTheora support?
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Old 1st February 2006, 17:48   #203  |  Link
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I'll check out the script templating tonight. Thanks
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Thanks for the info on the neroraw folder. So basically all audio dll's go in there and that's where meGUI looks? I'll test it out later(at work right now).
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Old 1st February 2006, 17:50   #204  |  Link
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So basically all audio dll's go in there and that's where meGUI looks?
I'm afraid you take me wrong. Not all audio dll's but nero aac related
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Old 1st February 2006, 18:26   #205  |  Link
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I havent had a chance to read through the other requests so Im not sure what has been requested/discussed with regards to auto updates.

I particularily like the way Stax has the auto updates. Simply goes and gets the files needed and doesnt force most users to have to fiddle with different downloads and making sure they are in the right place.

Using the latest build of MeGUI has been bad for me. For some reason I cant get AC3 encoded to AAC 5.1 using Avisynth method so I opted to use BeSweet for encoding instead. Now Im pretty sure I borked something somewhere along the way when using this new build and following the MeGUI guide but having everything auto downloaded/updated would save a lot of headaches for those that just want to get right to the encoding and spend less time configuring and putting programs in the right places etc... By using the download/update similar to Stax, then users wouldnt need to declare where programs reside in order for MeGUI to work which honestly should make bugs much easier to track down since those that use th dl/update would pretty much have the same setup across the board.

Is this actually going to happen and if so, any time soon?
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Old 1st February 2006, 18:30   #206  |  Link
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For some reason I cant get AC3 encoded to AAC 5.1 using Avisynth method
Please, post bug report @ MeGUI bug thread!
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Old 1st February 2006, 18:32   #207  |  Link
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Im not reporting a bug until I have time to figure out if I did something incorrectly. I dont want to report false bugs

The only reason I mentioned this was to show that an auto d/update would help prevent problems like I have (my own errors.)
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Old 1st February 2006, 19:28   #208  |  Link
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I'm afraid you take me wrong. Not all audio dll's but nero aac related
ah so is there a possibility to rather than just have a folder for nero aac to make just a general audio folder where it looks for all audio apps and dll's?
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Old 1st February 2006, 19:35   #209  |  Link
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ah so is there a possibility to rather than just have a folder for nero aac to make just a general audio folder where it looks for all audio apps and dll's?
yes, it's possible
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Old 3rd February 2006, 17:59   #210  |  Link
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On the "Queue" tab, there's a checkbox labelled "Shutdown at end of encoding". I suggest renaming that to "Shutdown MeGUI at end of encoding" or "Shutdown PC at end of encoding", to match whichever it does.

If it just closes down MeGUI, it would be nice to have the option to shut down the PC too.
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Old 3rd February 2006, 19:03   #211  |  Link
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You can't shutdown an application.. that term is only valid for an operation system. An application can be closed though.
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Old 3rd February 2006, 19:09   #212  |  Link
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You can't shutdown an application.. that term is only valid for an operation system. An application can be closed though.
For non-english-spoken users it can be same (like must && shoud)
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Old 3rd February 2006, 22:58   #213  |  Link
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i don't know if this has been mentioned but here's hoping for
Winamp aacPlus Multichannel support
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Old 3rd February 2006, 22:58   #214  |  Link
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Another request for a tick box to enable/disable the resizing (like you can with cropping). If you're resizing it's great and you can rely on MeGUI getting the SAR right... if you don't want to resize (most of my encodes are done to 1/3 or 1/4 DVD so I've no need to resize) then you have to work out the SAR yourself... and there's still confusion in that respect.

Case in point - http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=106656
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Old 3rd February 2006, 23:27   #215  |  Link
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Another request for a tick box to enable/disable the resizing (like you can with cropping). If you're resizing it's great and you can rely on MeGUI getting the SAR right... if you don't want to resize (most of my encodes are done to 1/3 or 1/4 DVD so I've no need to resize) then you have to work out the SAR yourself... and there's still confusion in that respect.

Case in point - http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=106656
While it may be a good idea to be able to turn resizing off, SAR calculation is no longer an issue in MeGUI; everything is now Display Aspect Ratio, which makes it MUCH simpler for the user -- you just have to enter 4:3, 16:9, etc, and MeGUI will do whatever conversions are required for this (don't be fooled by the fact that it still says SAR all over the place... that's just because the code has been updated, but not the GUI).

And this is another example of where AviSynth templates come in useful -- until the resizing checkbox is implemented (if it is), and you want to do a lot of encoding, then what you should do is create a custom avisynth profile in the script creator, and make it the same as the Default Profile, except without the <resize> line. This will mean that MeGUI doesn't put any resizing in, so if you always use that profile, then you will have a solution for what (I think) you are asking for.

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i don't know if this has been mentioned but here's hoping for
Winamp aacPlus Multichannel support
I second that request, because it supplies a wider variety of codecs, and Winamp AAC is better than Nero's for low-bitrate speech. However, along with Ogg Vorbis, I believe this will have to wait for the audio refactoring (code clean-up).
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While it may be a good idea to be able to turn resizing off, SAR calculation is no longer an issue in MeGUI; everything is now Display Aspect Ratio, which makes it MUCH simpler for the user -- you just have to enter 4:3, 16:9, etc, and MeGUI will do whatever conversions are required for this (don't be fooled by the fact that it still says SAR all over the place... that's just because the code has been updated, but not the GUI).
But MeGUI calculates the SAR on the assumption that you will be cropping AND resizing does it not? If you use MeGUI to create your AVISynth script and then just remove the resize line (or presumably remove it from the profile as you suggest) then the SAR is not going to be correct?
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Old 4th February 2006, 00:13   #217  |  Link
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But MeGUI calculates the SAR on the assumption that you will be cropping AND resizing does it not? If you use MeGUI to create your AVISynth script and then just remove the resize line (or presumably remove it from the profile as you suggest) then the SAR is not going to be correct?
MeGUI now uses DAR, not SAR. So calculation of SAR is a moot point.... and calculation of DAR is independant of the resolution, which makes it more intuitive.

Just rest assured that everywhere that you can edit the Aspect Ratio in MeGUI, it is DAR, which doesn't depend on the resolution. So you should have no problems (assuming you are using 0.2.3.2059 or later). You should see in the script creator that it now recommends Aspect Ratios of things like 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 47:20, 37:20. These are Display Aspect Ratios, and they are used throughout MeGUI. Don't worry about the effects of resizing -- only cropping is relevant.
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Old 6th February 2006, 08:13   #218  |  Link
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This is a very basic request, but can you add "time elapsed" for completed jobs. Time start and end gives you this info anyway, but it takes seconds longer to work out
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Old 6th February 2006, 19:10   #219  |  Link
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The queue window already requires horizontal scrolling, which is really ugly / hard to use. I'm not against adding more columns (I wanted to show the date, for instance, since most of my encodes take >1 day) but before we take suggestions like these we need to either (a) make the window a lot wider (b) make it resizable.
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Old 7th February 2006, 07:42   #220  |  Link
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Ability to edit the commandline for the lossless pre-render job. Thanks
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