x264gui

bond · 4th June 2005, 20:12

algern0n has converted the x264vfw gui code to a standalone gui app, which can be used as gui for the x264 commandline encoder

with the gui you can encode from an .avs source directly to .mp4 or to raw avc
the gui offers the same options as the vfw one (of course) and also anamorphic signalling

algern0n will most likely not have time to continue working on the gui and therefore it would be great if someone else could take it over and add all the other funky options the commandline encoder offers

enjoy!

ps: ps its written in C and only 30kb big

virus · 4th June 2005, 21:00

for those of you not familiar with IRC and the #x264 channel in particular, "algern0n" is actually me

a few quick notes:

x264gui is a normal Win32 application. It runs on all Windows platforms out there without the need to install extra stuff - however, x264.exe is required
x264gui doesn't use VfW at all. It's just an interface to the cmdline encoder.
the above package contains a binary executable and full source (everything GPL'ed, of course). No extra libs needed for building it. I've used MinGW and gcc 3.4.2. The exe is only 28 KB or so, since it only relies on standard libs shipped with the OS (I love compact executables )
doesn't support raw YUV input. That would require extra dialogs to input width and height of the clip and is rarely used, so I didn't bother to add it.
being a normal Win32 app, you don't need to launch it from a dos or bash shell. However, it opens a (dos) console to show the output of x264 CLI if you choose to run the encoding pass on the fly. Alternatively, you can save your config to a batch file of your choice to run it later.
make sure to install it in the same directory as x264.exe or, even better, put x264.exe in one of your PATH directories.
saves the config in the Registry, but in a different place than x264vfw so the settings won't mix.
only one instance of x264gui can run at any given time. If you try to launch it twice, the 2nd instance won't start.
I've replaced the useless fourcc box with a PAR width/height widget (yes, SeeMoreDigital, that's for you )
not fully tested. use at your own risk.
I encourage people at taking over the development. It's not so hard. Also, other than pure C code, other things like a bit of documentation and an icon for the exe are lacking... anyone?

for all troubles you must address your complaints to bond, Project Manager, PR, and Lead Chatterer of the whole thing. It was bond pushing for such a solution - he believes that x264gui will kill the obsolete VfW interface...

Personally, I've just stepped in using a free day for providing a working codebase people can improve on. Unfortunately I have no time to mantain it

So...

enjoy

virus aka algern0n

Chainmax · 4th June 2005, 22:43

This is great. All we need now is for someone to start digging through all the threads and whip up a quick guide including generally recommended settings for us n00bs

.

opsis81 · 5th June 2005, 00:00

Many

to virus for his wonderful gui

bob0r · 5th June 2005, 00:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by opsis81

Many

to virus for his wonderful gui

Also thank Sharktooth, who writes the VFW GUI what this CLI GUI is based on!
And hopefully soon with pthread support, highly experimental!

ALL!

P.S.
x264gui.exe added to x264cli.exe on my x264 website.

virus · 5th June 2005, 00:37

I don't understand jeryll's post. This thread is about x264gui. Posting screenshots of another program here is highly confusing imho. Could a moderator please split that post to a different thread?

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob0r

Sharktooth, who writes the VFW GUI what this CLI GUI is based on!

Well, no

x264gui is based on the current GUI present in SVN, not the new one Sharktooth is working on. Credits for the current VfW GUI go to a lot of people (it's basically XviD VfW readapted)... I'm not even sure how many devs contributed code to it. At least 6 or 7 for sure.

Anyway thanks for mirroring the package

bob0r · 5th June 2005, 01:20

@virus

Ok Ok Ok

Blue_MiSfit · 5th June 2005, 03:17

this may be a bit OT, but I am wondering exactly what to do with the lovely raw .264 streams that the cli encoder can output. I did a quick encode of 2000 frames, and want to package the raw stream in MKV. MKVToolnix didnt know what to do with the file when I drag and dropped it.

help the raw stream n00b

-Misfit

celtic_druid · 5th June 2005, 03:39

MKVmerge takes mp4 as input for native AVC muxing.

berrinam · 5th June 2005, 04:54

.264 files can be put into the mp4 container through mp4box or mpeg4ip. See YAMB for a gui for mp4box

EDIT: avc2avi should also put these streams into the avi container, but I have never used it.

JoeBG · 5th June 2005, 07:00

Thanks for this wonderfull gui

hpn · 5th June 2005, 08:50

Is there a way to do an unattended 2-pass encoding with this beauty? The gui looks so sexy and simple so I may decide to trash VirtualDub completely for my future x264 encodes.

Doom9 · 5th June 2005, 10:16

well, for automated twopass, audio encoding, dgindex project creation, avisynth script creation, overhead calculations, profiles, etc. you may want to turn to megui: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=87567

It currently requires mencoder for x264 encoding but x264.exe support is on the todolist and shouldn't be too hard (and of course all the other features that are already in there will also be available in x264.exe mode). I had a volunteer who was going to make a much more userfriendly gui and not wanting to make his work more difficult I put development of any features that touch the GUI on hold for a while but now I haven't heard from him in a bit so I might resume and just do the GUI myself.

Krismen · 5th June 2005, 10:38

What happend to x264cli gui post?

JoeBG · 5th June 2005, 10:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doom9

...so I might resume and just do the GUI myself.

I miss some features:
- zones
- abr first pass (--bitrate xxx --ratetol 2.0 --pass 1)
- b-pyramid
- weightb
- me "umh"

Most of this is possible in MeGUI. I think a standalone x264GUI should have all this.

virus · 5th June 2005, 11:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeBG

I miss some features:
- zones
- abr first pass (--bitrate xxx --ratetol 2.0 --pass 1)
- b-pyramid
- weightb
- me "umh"

I think a standalone x264GUI should have all this.

I think that x264gui already has b-pyramid, weightb and ABR first pass

(at least, if I understand correctly, CBR has been nuked so a bitrate-based single pass *is* ABR by default).
Also, the first pass of Nth pass is already bitrate-based in x264gui (no longer qp-based).

SeeMoreDigital · 5th June 2005, 11:32

Thanks Virus,

Cool... I like my anamorphic signalling. Nice to know somebodies thinking about me...

And... How difficult would it be to add .d2v source file support?

bob0r · 11th June 2005, 22:38

@bond
@virus

Since x264 build 260, VFW now has threads/ratio/8x8dct
Is it possible to update the x264gui.exe?

Doom9 · 11th June 2005, 22:46

@bob0r: I think

Quote:

Unfortunately I have no time to mantain it

kinda tells it all. I guess it's time to take out the W32 API skills

bob0r · 12th June 2005, 00:46

@Doom9

Thats why i directed it to bond also

And VFW is kinda up-to-date now, it wasn't when that gui was made, so 1 update per month should be doable.

At least it takes less time then teaching me

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virus Senior n00b Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Italy Posts: 446	for those of you not familiar with IRC and the #x264 channel in particular, "algern0n" is actually me a few quick notes: x264gui is a normal Win32 application. It runs on all Windows platforms out there without the need to install extra stuff - however, x264.exe is required x264gui doesn't use VfW at all. It's just an interface to the cmdline encoder. the above package contains a binary executable and full source (everything GPL'ed, of course). No extra libs needed for building it. I've used MinGW and gcc 3.4.2. The exe is only 28 KB or so, since it only relies on standard libs shipped with the OS (I love compact executables ) doesn't support raw YUV input. That would require extra dialogs to input width and height of the clip and is rarely used, so I didn't bother to add it. being a normal Win32 app, you don't need to launch it from a dos or bash shell. However, it opens a (dos) console to show the output of x264 CLI if you choose to run the encoding pass on the fly. Alternatively, you can save your config to a batch file of your choice to run it later. make sure to install it in the same directory as x264.exe or, even better, put x264.exe in one of your PATH directories. saves the config in the Registry, but in a different place than x264vfw so the settings won't mix. only one instance of x264gui can run at any given time. If you try to launch it twice, the 2nd instance won't start. I've replaced the useless fourcc box with a PAR width/height widget (yes, SeeMoreDigital, that's for you ) not fully tested. use at your own risk. I encourage people at taking over the development. It's not so hard. Also, other than pure C code, other things like a bit of documentation and an icon for the exe are lacking... anyone? for all troubles you must address your complaints to bond, Project Manager, PR, and Lead Chatterer of the whole thing. It was bond pushing for such a solution - he believes that x264gui will kill the obsolete VfW interface... Personally, I've just stepped in using a free day for providing a working codebase people can improve on. Unfortunately I have no time to mantain it So... enjoy virus aka algern0n Last edited by virus; 4th June 2005 at 21:04.

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Blue_MiSfit Derek Prestegard IRL Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,989	this may be a bit OT, but I am wondering exactly what to do with the lovely raw .264 streams that the cli encoder can output. I did a quick encode of 2000 frames, and want to package the raw stream in MKV. MKVToolnix didnt know what to do with the file when I drag and dropped it. help the raw stream n00b -Misfit __________________ These are all my personal statements, not those of my employer :)

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berrinam Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,740	.264 files can be put into the mp4 container through mp4box or mpeg4ip. See YAMB for a gui for mp4box EDIT: avc2avi should also put these streams into the avi container, but I have never used it. Last edited by berrinam; 5th June 2005 at 04:58.

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JoeBG stupid Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Cologne Posts: 638	Thanks for this wonderfull gui __________________ cu Joe ------------------------ freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose

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Doom9 clueless n00b Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: somewhere over the rainbow Posts: 10,579	well, for automated twopass, audio encoding, dgindex project creation, avisynth script creation, overhead calculations, profiles, etc. you may want to turn to megui: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=87567 It currently requires mencoder for x264 encoding but x264.exe support is on the todolist and shouldn't be too hard (and of course all the other features that are already in there will also be available in x264.exe mode). I had a volunteer who was going to make a much more userfriendly gui and not wanting to make his work more difficult I put development of any features that touch the GUI on hold for a while but now I haven't heard from him in a bit so I might resume and just do the GUI myself. __________________ For the web's most comprehensive collection of DVD backup guides go to www.doom9.org

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Chainmax Huh? Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Uruguay Posts: 3,103	This is great. All we need now is for someone to start digging through all the threads and whip up a quick guide including generally recommended settings for us n00bs .

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opsis81 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 131	Many to virus for his wonderful gui

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bob0r Pain and suffering Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,337	@virus Ok Ok Ok

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celtic_druid Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,171	MKVmerge takes mp4 as input for native AVC muxing.

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hpn Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 191	Is there a way to do an unattended 2-pass encoding with this beauty? The gui looks so sexy and simple so I may decide to trash VirtualDub completely for my future x264 encodes.

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SeeMoreDigital Life's clearer in 4K UHD Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Notts, UK Posts: 12,227	Thanks Virus, Cool... I like my anamorphic signalling. Nice to know somebodies thinking about me... And... How difficult would it be to add .d2v source file support? __________________ \| I've been testing hardware media playback devices and software A/V encoders and decoders since 2001 \| My Network Layout & A/V Gear \| Last edited by SeeMoreDigital; 5th June 2005 at 13:38.

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bob0r Pain and suffering Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,337	@bond @virus Since x264 build 260, VFW now has threads/ratio/8x8dct Is it possible to update the x264gui.exe?

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bob0r Pain and suffering Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,337	@Doom9 Thats why i directed it to bond also And VFW is kinda up-to-date now, it wasn't when that gui was made, so 1 update per month should be doable. At least it takes less time then teaching me