StaxRip x86 (development for x86 has been stopped) [Archive] - Page 16

SeeMoreDigital

10th March 2006, 14:42

Container stands here for MP4Box, I just can't display MP4Box or muxer since novice users would not understand it. What you see there are all supported input formats (that I've enabled), AVI is certainly supported by MP4Box so I don't see a problem here.Okay... I see!

MP4Box muxer can be used to import MPEG-4 video streams stored within the AVI

I'm clueless about such topics, VirtualDub won't however place anything into MP4, it can only output AVI.So VirtualDub is generating and muxing the MPEG-4 ASP video stream into the .AVI container first and MP4Box is re-muxing the .AVI stream into the .MP4 container afterwards

stax76

10th March 2006, 15:07

So VirtualDub is generating and muxing the MPEG-4 ASP video stream into the .AVI container first and MP4Box is re-muxing the .AVI stream into the .MP4 container afterwards

Yes

It's also possible to use encraw but there is no GUI or profile and it's unlikely I do any more codec GUI's. Maybe if I stop using VDM but I don't see a reason to do so.

SeeMoreDigital

10th March 2006, 15:19

Yes

It's also possible to use encraw but there is no GUI or profile and it's unlikely I do any more codec GUI's. Maybe if I stop using VDM but I don't see a reason to do so.I'm not up-to speed with what the term "encraw" means. Is a command line encoding technique?

If so, are saying it may be possible to encode and place XviD in MP4 via command-line, like we can now with x264?

Cheers

polaris

10th March 2006, 15:25

thank you Stax, I will buy divx pro.

stax76

10th March 2006, 15:45

@SMD

Never tried so I hope I didn't tell something wrong, topic is here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98469&highlight=enc_raw).

dvd_maniac

10th March 2006, 17:34

Please try using the hotfix: http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/StaxRip_Hotfix.zip

Tried it and it didn't work. Gave me the same error.
I am going to try it on a different machine to rule out whether it's the way I am setting it up or not.

dvd_maniac

10th March 2006, 18:48

Tried it with 2 other PCs and they work fine.
I can't figure out why it is all of a sudden screwing up on this one.

SeeMoreDigital

10th March 2006, 19:01

@SMD

Never tried so I hope I didn't tell something wrong, topic is here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98469&highlight=enc_raw).I very much doubt you've done anything wrong ;)

dvd_maniac

10th March 2006, 20:06

Hi Again,

I am posting the preview of the audio to see if anybody here can tell me why I'm getting the error of the audio_output.mp4 file "does not exist"

PC that works:
"C:\Documents and Settings\dvd_maniac\My Documents\StaxRip_0.9.3.2\Applications\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\NewFolder\TheUnit-FirstResponders T01 DELAY 0ms.mpa" -output "C:\NewFolder\TheUnit-FirstResponders T01 DELAY 0ms_AudioOutput.mp4" ) -azid( -c normal -L -3db ) -ota( -d 0 -g max ) -bsn( -2ch -vbr_streaming -codecquality_high -aacprofile_he )

PC that doesn't work:
"C:\StaxRip_Hotfix\Applications\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\NewFolder\TheUnit-FirstResponders T01 DELAY 0ms.mpa" -output "C:\NewFolder\TheUnit-FirstResponders T01 DELAY 0ms_AudioOutput.mp4" ) -azid( -c normal -L -3db ) -ota( -d 0 -g max ) -bsn( -2ch -vbr_streaming -codecquality_high -aacprofile_he )

stax76

10th March 2006, 22:25

@dvd_maniac

Maybe you have a incompatible Nero version on one of your both PCs, StaxRip copies 4 Nero DLLs to the BeSweet dir so use the same BeSweet files on both PCs. So far I thought all DLLs would work. If the source for BeSweet is identical (your mp2/mpa file) and the files in the BeSweet dir (the DLLs and EXE file) are identical then output must be identical as well if there is no CPU incompatibility in case both PCs have different CPUs. Again, I don't know there are any incompatibilities. If different BeSweet files (from Nero) was the problem please make a backup of the BeSweet DLLs and EXE files (the entire directory) that don't work and send me the files that don't work per email as file attachment or tell me the last write dates of that BeSweet/Nero files so I can add a verification to prevent other users from your problem.

dvd_maniac

10th March 2006, 23:56

Hi Stax,

I have Nero 7 on two PC's and Nero 6 on another.

Nero 6 PC is fine. One of the Nero 7's is fine. The other Nero 7 is the problem.

But Nero 7 has been installed since the beginning and it used to work fine. No changes to hardware or software since. Like I stated originally, I was in the middle of a batch of files. The first one finished successfully and the second file is when it started giving me trouble.
The files are recorded from same source using identical TV tuners. I have tried the same files on the different PCs. They work on the two everytime and fail on the one PC everytime. I tried to copy the Apllications folder from the other two PCs and overwrite it on the problem PC. Same issue. Same DLL's and it still doesn't work.

This is on my Domain controller that is setup perfectly besides this. I normally wouldn't bother with so much troubleshooting and just format/reinstall but I can't in this case.

I tried deleting everything Staxrip related, maybe something got screwed up and I have to deleted it?
I am at a loss here...:(

Moat

11th March 2006, 03:22

Stax,
I think I got it. In the line:
Dim m As Match = Regex.Match(content, "FINISHED +(\d\d)\.")

It will not catch: FINISHED 100.00% FILM correctly.

This should get both:
Dim m As Match = Regex.Match(content, "FINISHED +(\d{1,3})\.")

-Moat

Gargantula

11th March 2006, 04:19

The source filter has to return a valid script, maybe it works using the script below as source filter, you should however not edit the source filter after opening a source file.

Also remember StaxRip is about doing things the easy way. You are doing something complicated, maybe other tools are more suitable.

I guess so, changing the last part didn't work. The whole video is encoded instead. I am trying to use VirtualDub Mod by itself, but I can see now why you made a program to make it easy! Complicated stuff just to get videos encoded correctly! Thanks to interlacing that is! Boo interlacing, with progressive I wouldn't be having these problems.

stax76

11th March 2006, 09:53

@dvd_maniac

What about executing the command line manually with the command prompt? Did you try that? You don't have to type everything, just copy and paste and hit enter.

@Moat

Thanks, expecting two digits was stupid of course.

Gehenna

11th March 2006, 10:16

@dvd_maniac

I started getting problems with AAC encoding using Nero 7.0 also,in the end it was down to a BSN error (Error 84: error configuring BSN!).

My install of Nero7 is fully legit, i could queue up 5 jobs,and it would fail to encode on the 3rd or something,no matter if i used StaxRip or CMD besweet= same error.

In the end,i used dimzon`s bse_Nero7WA.dll as opposed to BSN,and all has been fine to date.

Its almost like their is a counter involved,it lets you encode x number of jobs (nero dll`s) ,then quits working,i found this out after restoring my registry to a previous backup taken earlier in the day (b4 encoding) then when i tried with BSN it worked fine for x number of jobs,then failed again.

The nero website has some registry cleaning tools,which may fix the problem for a certain time,but frankly the dimzon approach works flawlessly for me (its easy to create profile in Staxrip to use dimzon`s DLL).

stax76

11th March 2006, 14:15

0.9.9.0 (2006-03-11)

new: Go To dialog in preview splitted in two different diaogs, one frame based and one time based.
new: The script used to show infos in the preview can be customized in the advanced options.
new: The actions available in the customizable menus are now called commands and are avaiable at the command line.
new: Preview has a new menu item to copy the frame number of the current position to the clipboard. It is useful to create zones in the codec configuration e.g. to encode the credits at a high quantizer. The new commands and macros used for this menu item are indroduced below.
new: Option for the threshold at which force film is used.
new: Forced shutdown modes.
new: MP3 enabled for MP4 container.
new command : 'Show Message Box' with title, message and icon parameter, available globally.
new command: 'Copy To Clipboard', available globally.
new command: 'Perform Auto Crop', available in the main window and from the command line.
new command: 'Perform Smart Crop', available in the main window and from the command line.
new macro: '%pos_frame%' returns the current position of the preview in frames, available globally.
fix: Applying IVTC filters and cutting caused audio being not synced.
fix: BeSweet AAC problem using Nero 7 because of missing MFC71.dll which is now always copied to the BeSweet dir.
fix: Changed all AAC audio profiles to use the dimzon plugin to workaround problems with Nero 7.
fix: 100% film sources wasn't detected as such.
change: Renamed 'Post Processing Mode' to back to 'Batch Mode' and tested, improved and fixed this mode.
change: x264 version updated.
change: Preparer to demux AVI supports now multiple input files.

@Gehenna

Thanks for sharing your observations, after reading all related threads I've changed all profiles using your method and hope it works better.

mod

11th March 2006, 14:21

Reaaally a nice work :)

SeeMoreDigital

11th March 2006, 14:25

Thanks Stax...

Being a newbie to StaxRip, may I ask if we can install new versions "over-the-top" of previous versions?

EDIT: Problem over.... I see how it works now :)

MP3 audio in MP4 works very well indeed...

Cheers

Nrmf

11th March 2006, 14:56

am i missing something here ...several files say password protected ...never seen this before with staxrip

Nrmf

11th March 2006, 15:00

got it ...sorry

stax76

11th March 2006, 15:43

Being a newbie to StaxRip, may I ask if we can install new versions "over-the-top" of previous versions?

Either this way or you can define in the settings the location of the settings, download and install directories. Then nothing is saved within the startup direcory and thus you can replace the entire directory. I have my download and install directory outside of my startup directory where all my software is, my settings directory is within my startup directory so every location has their own settings which is useful for me for testing purpose. The trick used to make this work is most paths in the settings can be absolute or relative to the startup directory. If relative paths are possible for a certain setting is documented.

Gargantula

11th March 2006, 23:45

What's Batch Mode for?

mulrich

12th March 2006, 01:28

Hey stax,

I'm getting the same problem as dvd_maniac, and I'm using v0.9.9.0 and I have Nero 7. It simply gives me a "File doesn't exist: L:\{path}\{filename}.aac" (replace path and filename with a real path and filename). What could be wrong?

~Cheers,
mulrich

dvd_maniac

12th March 2006, 06:29

fixed it for me...

stax76

12th March 2006, 10:09

What's Batch Mode for?

Did you read the context help?

I'm getting the same problem as dvd_maniac, and I'm using v0.9.9.0 and I have Nero 7. It simply gives me a "File doesn't exist: L:\{path}\{filename}.aac" (replace path and filename with a real path and filename). What could be wrong?

Did previous versions work better? Did you try what I had ask dvd_maniac to do?

pablak

14th March 2006, 21:45

change: Preparer to demux AVI supports now multiple input files

Hi

An error occured when I tried load multiple AVI.
"VirtualDub Error: Cannot append segment "...": The audio streams have different sampling rates."
After "OK" StaxRip is preparing video stream correctly (I think - in previev looks OK) but there is no audio source.

Only AVI with the same format (audio and sound) are supported, as in VirtualDub?

nickolasemp

15th March 2006, 17:30

Hello Stax.

When I try to input .ts streams from my satellite program everything crashes in dgindex... Staxrip then crashes as well and I have to open Task manager for it to close. When I use autogk none of these happens, the procedure goes on no matter what.

anne_so78

15th March 2006, 22:22

Hi,
I'm new to StaxRip. Seems to be a great program. However, I was wondering why Coding Technologies aacPlus v2 encoder is not supported, as it was significantly better than Nero's implementation of HE-AAC (especially at bitrates around 32) last time I checked - http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=752994#post752994
Not certain if that review is still relevant after three months. Anyways do you have any plans to include the new (or old) CT encoder?

stax76

15th March 2006, 23:59

@pablak

Did you try to load the files manually?

@nickolasemp

I'll need much more details.

@anne_so78

I don't have the time to add a second AAC encoder so unless someody joins StaxRip development your only chance is trying to configure StaxRip to use another encoder. If you can't figure out how to do it you might find this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=107847&highlight=staxrip) thread helpful.

defaulk9

16th March 2006, 19:03

Is it possible for StaxRip to get its own forum? Like maybe on Doom9 like GordianKnot has etc., or maybe its own forum site.

For one thing, it can be hard to navigate through 39 pages of support for this. And to be comprehensive, you have to check the thread you have for StaxRip on DigitalDigest as well.

I'm new to StaxRip, only recently checking it out, but it looks really good. And I'd love to see support for it break out of this little thread.

laserfan

16th March 2006, 19:03

My perfect season of 1920x1080i Boston Legal captures was marred last week when the local affiliate broke-in to the broadcast with 2 three-minute segments (out of 44min) where they switched to SD and zoomed-out to a corner of the image, while showing "Vote 2006" on the left and candidate counts on the bottom. After grinding my teeth over this for a while, it occurred to me that maybe I could crop-the-crap, but what about the original 16:9 AR? Sure enough, avisynth has an AddBorders feature so I decided to try it.

I decided I had to leave the half-sec "zoom-out" effect alone, but once the image was fixed in the corner I was able to crop it, add borders to restore the proper AR, and then encode. Upon re-joining the results were wonderful to watch compared to what it'd have been like with those election results plastered over the screen. Made two XviD versions as I usually do, an SD and a 720HD, man they are terrific--not even any audio glitches at the transitions.

If it weren't for the 1/2 second zoom effects, the result would be Great but instead it is only Wonderful! Stax I suppose there are other tools to achieve this same result, but none as easy and graceful as yours I think!

:thanks:

ppet

17th March 2006, 14:58

Hi, everyone!
I need a help - I use Stax rip, and everything is fine, but in my final mp4 file audio is about 4 sec. before video stream. How can mux audio + video with desire delay? I have .264 (and mp4) file and compresed audio (mp4)!
Please help me!

LRN

17th March 2006, 16:54

When you use "Add files" dialog, make sure you NOT add 0st file. IE:
VTS_02_0
VTS_02_1
VTS_02_2
etc.
You should add VTS_02_1, VTS_02_2, etc, but NOT VTS_02_0, because VTS_02_0 is very small vob file with video but without audio (this causes delay).

ppet

17th March 2006, 17:59

CvH

17th March 2006, 18:18

hi , i want to encode an HDTV (1080i) Stream (*.ts) to x264 (source *.ts is 11gb)

my problem is that the splitter (think its projectX) stops at 4,5gb (4.625.303.260 bytes) -> i can only encode the first 45mins :/

is there any solution? (ok i could cut the source ts in 3 parts but that wont help me much cause the cutting tools i tried always stops at 4,5gb :) )

LRN

17th March 2006, 19:39

ppet , dunno :-/
You could apply delay to audio, but you should do this in audio encoder. If you try to mux already encoded audio, applying delay in muxer, you'll fail to do this.

LRN

17th March 2006, 19:40

CvH , this is known limitation of many applications (can't handle files > 4.5 gb). Ask developers of tha application (projectx?), not stax

pablak

17th March 2006, 20:27

@pablak
Did you try to load the files manually?

Manually?

When I load one Avi file audio is demuxed but not loaded in project as source file for audio. This audio I'm loading manually.

When I open more than one Avi at once then is no demuxed audio, even from first avi.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

CvH

18th March 2006, 00:38

CvH , this is known limitation of many applications (can't handle files > 4.5 gb)

ok :)

i have now split the files with HDTVtoMPEG2 into handy pices (150mb), but i noticed that after demuxing it in staxrip that the demuxed stream is only 22mb and if i play it, it seems that only the Iframes and "several" b/p frames are in the stream , looks pretty strange (the 150mb parts play well and without errors, tested all combinations that are possible in h2m2 , same results)

after looking in the log
ok> PID 0x11 has PES-ID 0xE0 (MPEG Video) (1128 #7)
--> PID 0x0 (PAT) (12220 #66) -> ignored
--> PID 0x10 (PMT) (12408 #67) -> ignored
ok> PID 0x14 has PES-ID 0xBD (private stream 1) (12596 #68)
ok> PID 0x15 has PES-ID 0xBD (private stream 1) (14288 #77)
-> video basics: 1920*1080 @ 29.97fps @ 0.7031 (16:9) @ 38810400bps, vbvBuffer 597
-> starting export of video data @ GOP# 0
!> dropping useless B-Frames @ GOP# 0 / new Timecode 00:00:00.000
!> dropping GOP# 3 @ orig.PTS 12:14:42.975 (3967467800)
-> Pics exp/cnt 30/30, inGOP PTS diff. 50ms, new Timecode 00:00:02.969
!> dropping GOP# 4 @ orig.PTS 12:14:44.043 (3967563896)
-> Pics exp/cnt 30/30, inGOP PTS diff. 183ms, new Timecode 00:00:02.969
!> dropping GOP# 5 @ orig.PTS 12:14:45.261 (3967673506)
........ long log .....

no more ideas :/

*edit*
agk demuxed it fine , encoding also

stax76

18th March 2006, 14:10

i have now split the files with HDTVtoMPEG2 into handy pices (150mb), but i noticed that after demuxing it in staxrip that the demuxed stream is only 22mb and if i play it, it seems that only the Iframes and "several" b/p frames are in the stream , looks pretty strange (the 150mb parts play well and without errors, tested all combinations that are possible in h2m2 , same results)

That sounds like DGIndex chokes on your HDTVtoMPEG2 created files, I might not be able to help you with such problems. Advanced users might find the options found under 'Preperation' helpful, if you can't work with such things you might be out of luck.

@pablak

With manually I mean open VirtualDubMod, open the first AVI file and then append the second AVI file, does that work?

@ppet

I don't have your files and thus can't reproduce your problem so you have to try to find a way to narrow the problem down yourself until you find the reason. Simply try different things like try other DVD's to see if it happens always or only with a certain DVD. You can try doing it manually or with other AviSynth based applications like AutoGK, if that succeeds than StaxRip might have a bug and we might be able to find that bug.

ppet

18th March 2006, 15:32

@ppet

I don't have your files and thus can't reproduce your problem so you have to try to find a way to narrow the problem down yourself until you find the reason. Simply try different things like try other DVD's to see if it happens always or only with a certain DVD. You can try doing it manually or with other AviSynth based applications like AutoGK, if that succeeds than StaxRip might have a bug and we might be able to find that bug.

Hiq Stax!
The problem is with a certain DVD - "LADY_AND_THE_TRAMP". I will try to demux with another aplication - PgcDemux_1205.
:thanks:

laserfan

18th March 2006, 18:28

..i noticed that after demuxing it in staxrip that the demuxed stream is only 22mb and if i play it, it seems that only the Iframes and "several" b/p frames are in the stream , looks pretty strange (the 150mb parts play well...
I have seen this too; it seems to happen if the source file is "very small".

If you figure-out the problem by all means post back!

Nrmf

19th March 2006, 00:01

well i have reloaded win xp pro 64 and loaded staxrip for fun....now it seems to wrk..in the past it wouldnt as soon as i get a good qaulity .avi file i will post my results.

thanks stax

stax76

19th March 2006, 01:04

@Nrmf

It works because I added a compiler switch (pointed out by Richard Berg) forcing it to be executed as 32 bit application.

@ppet

Maybe a DVD Decrypter bug, please read here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=106091).

Nrmf

19th March 2006, 04:22

nice....can you throttle up some fps's then hitting about 65fps using latest divx and balanced setting. and what does your next release and time frame look like looking forward to running it

stax76

19th March 2006, 09:50

nice....can you throttle up some fps's then hitting about 65fps using latest divx and balanced setting.

Please elaborate.

and what does your next release and time frame look like looking forward to running it

I wanted to add automatic deinterlacing but it turned out to be too problematic. I don't have plans for anything other than support which includes small improvements but exludes big changes so likely there won't be anything exiting anytime soon unless somebody joins the development effort which is unlikely as well because I require a high standard.

Nrmf

19th March 2006, 15:01

well didnt know if there was anything you could do so that we could gian more fps....making the conversion times faster....i know its just a dream i have. second de-interlacing shouldnt be a big deal i found that using the option in divx codec does a real nice job. while i have you here is it possible to update the applications in staxrip or should i wait for your releases.

stax76

19th March 2006, 16:18

well didnt know if there was anything you could do so that we could gian more fps....making the conversion times faster....

It's a matter of the used settings, the default settings should be reasonable.

is it possible to update the applications in staxrip or should i wait for your releases.

It's possible but you should only do it if you got a reason. You'll see a warning which you have to read very carefully. Furthemore it would be helpful if you share your experience with us.