StaxRip x86 (development for x86 has been stopped)

[weaver4]

I found that once I installed Staxrip it caused MeGui to fail. After some investigation I found that it changed the version of dgdecode.dll in the Avisynth plugin directory.

I was wonder if in the future if it was possilble to use a new name for this file, maybe dgdecode-staxrip.dll, and use that instead of changing the default dgdecode in the plugin directory?

BTW: To fix MeGui I downloaded 1.4.9 of DGMPGDec and installed it in the MeGui Tools directory replacing DGIndex and all was well with MeGui again.

The other problem that I am having is with version 1.0.0.1 I encoded a movie in Xvid Q3.0 and the size was 1891MB and I encoded the same movie with 1.0.0.2 and the filesize is 1969MB. (Audio was at the same rate.) With DivX Q4.0 the filesize went from 1953MB to 2023MB. Why are the files larger?

[s3rious]

I found that once I installed Staxrip it caused MeGui to fail. After some investigation I found that it changed the version of dgdecode.dll in the Avisynth plugin directory.

I was wonder if in the future if it was possilble to use a new name for this file, maybe dgdecode-staxrip.dll, and use that instead of changing the default dgdecode in the plugin directory?

BTW: To fix MeGui I downloaded 1.4.9 of DGMPGDec and installed it in the MeGui Tools directory replacing DGIndex and all was well with MeGui again.



to clear the problem change the avisynth plugin directory in the respective applications folder from the settings option, instead of the default C:/program Files/Avisynth/Plugins to something like C:Staxrip/Settings/Applications/Avisynth plugins for staxrip and a similar one for megui so you wont have any problems

[dvd_maniac]

Whenever I try to convert my Mpeg-2 captures it seems to extract the audio twice...Once using ProjectX and then again using DGIndex. Is this really neccessary or can I disable ProjectX?

From the beginning of the log file:
---------- Preparing ----------

Preparer: Extract audio from MPEG-2 using ProjectX
Command line: "F:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\java.exe" -jar "F:\StaxRip_1.0.0.0\Settings\Applications\ProjectX\ProjectX.jar" "S:\Done\Done\MarriedWithChildren-ShoelessAl.mpg"
Start time: 2:59:29 PM
End time: 3:02:32 PM
Duration: 00:03:03

---------- Preparing ----------

Preparer: Extract audio and index MPEG-2 using DGIndex
Command line: "C:\StaxRip_1.0.0.0\Settings\Applications\DGIndex\DGIndex.exe" -IF[S:\MarriedWithChildren-ShoelessAl.m2v] -IA=2 -FO=0 -YR=1 -TN=1 -OM=2 -DRC=2 -DSD=0 -DSA=0 -OF=[S:\MarriedWithChildren-ShoelessAl] -exit
Start time: 3:02:32 PM
End time: 3:04:11 PM
Duration: 00:01:38

[MKVCrazy]

Hi, I use StaxRip quite long now and I REALLY liked it but when I knew about the pic filters I can see that most of my clips encoded by StaxRip are darker. Is there anyway to adjust itÉ

In MeGUI

I can do it by writing a few lines in the avs file.

tweak (sat=1.1,bright=1.1)

but in StaxRip it doesnèt seem to work and I donèt know where to do it :à PLUS

Where is the option to use a Custom MatrixÉ

Thanks for reading this.
MKVCrazy.

[laserfan]

... can I disable ProjectX?Absolutely. Go to View --> Options (Project Options) and select Preparation and Disable "Extract audio from MPEG2 using ProjectX".

[MKVCrazy]

Hi, can someone pls help?

How do I tweak the colors? like brightness, saturation, etc

and I don't know how to let it encode one clip by one clip. For example MeGUI has the place to store all the jobs and to start when we want. But can StaxRip do multiple tasks? encode one after one itself without waiting in front of the computer to finish the first encode and start another?


Thanks.

The program looks good.



MKVCrazy.

[nohead]

wow, a new version to play with. I'm kinda late to discover there's a new version out... LOL

[dvd_maniac]

I upgraded a few days ago from 1.0.0.1 to 1.0.0.2 and now I keep getting an mp4box.exe error "Send or Don't Send". I checked the encoded .mp4 file and it plays fine. I can't tell exactly what the error is and it will not continue on to the next encode in the Queue until I click on Don't Send.

Is this happening to anybody else?

[LRN]

Buggy version of Mp4box. Happens with me too (i'm using MeGUI at the moment)
MP4Box - GPAC version - 0.4.5-DEV - compiled by Kurtnoise - Sep 14 2007

[Glorioso]

I'm using StaxRip to make AVI/XVid files to watch on my 360, but i get some "pauses" in the playback, is there any profile to the 360?

[dvd_maniac]

Any idea of when a fix for the mp4box.exe error will be fixed? I do a lot of batch encodes and it sucks having to click "Don't Send" before it starts the next encode...

[Poopoo]

Any idea when the program will be updated to support the newest x264 revisions and other external tools updates.

[weaver4]

I'm using StaxRip to make AVI/XVid files to watch on my 360, but i get some "pauses" in the playback, is there any profile to the 360?

The 360 uses HP@L4.1 profile (I believe) so follow the instructions that I made here: http://www.networkedmediatank.com/viewtopic.php?t=1342

Sorry, I misread your first email, my answer was for H264 not xvid.

[Glorioso]

The 360 uses HP@L4.1 profile (I believe) so follow the instructions that I made here: http://www.networkedmediatank.com/viewtopic.php?t=1342

Sorry, I misread your first email, my answer was for H264 not xvid.
THX
I'm using Xvid because my PC is rather slow at 264 encoding... i think the problem is the use of above 5k bitrates, i've made some tries with limited bitrate in saml files and didnt get any slow downs, i'm going to do a Large, 4.7GB, file to see the results.

[kevbo]

Weird request, and this is actually more of an Avisynth thing, but since my primary usage of all of these tools is through StaxRip, I thought I'd start here.

I've made some nice 24fps xvid avi's using StaxRip. They look lovely on my PC (although I think Reclock helps playback on them, since I have a 60Hz LCD monitor). However, when played on my Philips set-top DVD player, they judder, a lot. It doesn't even look like 3:2 pulldown: it looks like the player just plays the video at full speed until it gets too far ahead of the audio, then just pauses the video for a bit to let the audio catch up. The video/audio never appears to be truly in sync, and on panning shots, the jumping is very very visible.

So: how to solve this? I have nice FILM sources, and everything in the process has nice, IVTCed frames...but I kind of want to Telecine everything back together in the end so that it plays smoothly on the TV.

Any ideas? Is this possible? Does this affect anyone else?

Kevin

[qwan]

I dont why but offlate staxrip is taking around 10 to 16 hours to encode the 3rd pass of a 45 minute file
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/6400/staxcq0.th.jpg (http://img113.imageshack.us/my.php?image=staxcq0.jpg)
The first and the second pass take not more than 1 hour each.
I have not encoded anything for some time now, but earlier I would encode a 45 minutes file in around 3 and half hours.
I had staxrip 1.0.0.1
Infact in that I completed the 3rd pass which took 24 hours and at the end of it there was an error which "file already exists"
I was left with a video only file. I tried muxing the audio ofter converting it to aac but there is audio sync problem.

I then downloaded the latest version of staxrip and still the same problem.
I tried encoding in megui(i have been successful only once in my life) and I am getting some error when I use the autoencode option.

I really dont know what to do I am trying to encode this file from so many days.
Incase you are wondering why I am using 3pass encoding, well I am encoding it at 350 kpbs it is 624* resolutions video. I am aiming for a size of below 200mb. I have done it before with excellent results. I just dont know what is going wrong here.
Thanks

[LRN]

Post x264 commandlines?

[nohead]

Mmm, since I installed vista sp1(ultimate x64), I don't get mp4 error anymore... Don't know if it's related... :rolleyes:

[betard]

I just discovered Staxrip and encoded my first xvid but I am having issues with hardcoded subtitles that appear in the movie but not on my avi...

The movie I am trying to get to work is "Babel", and when I play it in my dvd player subtitles appear for all the non-english parts. But when I encode it, the subtitles are not present.

I tried "Tools --> Add Forced Subtitle" chose my .idx file, then a pop-up appears with a dropdown with 4 "english" options, I tried all of them, but each one hardcoded subs for the english dialog as well.

Can anyone help me figure this out? Is there another program I could use to read the sub files to know which one to use?

[swaaye]

So, how come this crashes Staxrip when it comes out of the automatic VOB indexing? It doesn't crash if I open the D2V file afterwards.... Preview works. Everything seems to work except when its doing whatever at the end of VOB indexing.


clip = MPEG2Source("%source_file%", idct=3)
clip = (framerate(clip) > 29) ? clip.TFM().Tdecimate(hybrid=1) : clip
clip = clip.Crop(%crop_left%,%crop_top%,-%crop_right%,-%crop_bottom%)
clip = clip.BicubicResize(%target_width%,%target_height%,0,0.5)
return clip


edit: Autocrop seems to crash... perhaps that's what's going on...

[weaver4]

Does Staxrip automatically detect Interlace and IVTC? When I open a video at 30fps StaxRip always made a 24fps video out of it so I assumed it did. But one video did not come out right, so I am now wondering.

[LRN]

No auto-detection. This isn't MeGUI :)

[weaver4]

Then why do 27.97fps NTSC videos end up as 23.97fps? It must be doing some auto detection. And the program does include the MediaInfo.dll which can detect FrameRate, Film and Interlace.

What I don't understand is that my vobs are 29.97fps and they get encoded to 23.97fps even though the "Field" filter is not checked and the IVTC option is not selected.

Here is what mediainfo says about the original vob:

Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Top Field First

[LRN]

Open d2v project in text editor and see what frame rate it contains.

[weaver4]

The d2v file says:

Frame_Rate=23976 (24000/1001)

So it is 23.976

[Glorioso]

Can someone tell me the best profile to use for a MP4 file to play at 360 or PS3? (720p or 1080p)

[stax76]

@weaver

you can find something here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=767752#post767752

@all

I try to catch up on unanswered issues soon!

[stax76]

New software versions. Update all the stuff that comes with StaxRip (filters, codecs, etc). This is top priority.

What would be most important to be updated in the latest unofficial build (http://www.planetdvb.net/non_drupal/staxrip/StaxRip_unofficial.exe)? I wonder if it would make sense to display the build date after the version information in the external applications dialog?

Update x264 (and other encoders) profiles.

added to to do list

Support for %track_bitrate% variable that corresponds to value of "bitrate" field in audio profile

I've added it but named it %bitrate% and I've updated the help in the audio settings dialog.

More than 2 audio tracks.

I think multiple streams would be harder to code and I don't know how many people would want to watch a movie three times with different language each. Now it's too late since it would be a major task, StaxRip does a lot automation, verification and has advanced feature like macros and commands which all have relations to the audio implementation so I highly doubt such a change would be a trivial task.

Use subtitles and chapters files size in video bitrate calculation. At the moment StaxRip would ignore 20-megabyte long subtitle file when coming up with video bitrate. This causes miscalculations and as a result - wrong target file size.

It does some calculation, IIRC depending on length about 1.5 MB each vobsub language. You'll find it searching the code for 'overhead'. Any better ideas?

Resizeable windows. Some controls (these with a lot of text) should scale themselves depending on window size. This may improve usability.

About which windows are we speaking?


More comfortable AviSynth script editor. Current editor is awkward. Like, when you doubleclick on the line to edit it, it unchecks this line (you're clicking NOT on the check box). And one short line is not enough for some scripts. Consider changing these editboxes into multiline editboxes (maybe with auto-resizing, so it would increase it's vertical size when you add new line).

I've fixed the double-click issue, never thought about the need of multi-line edit boxes but I will think about it.

Extended logging. It would be good to save some codec's data (besweet, x264 and mp4box console output, and much more). For BeSweet it could be done via -logfile switch. For x264 and mp4box - via stdout redirect.

Include logs from commandline windows of commandline tools and from tools logfiles (from BeSweet, VirtualDub, etc) into StaxRip's logs.
One of the reasons i want this to be - because x264.exe outputs very nice encoding statistics at the end of the encoding, and it is wasted, because StaxRip does not saves x264 output anywhere. x264 may even calculate SSIM metric (some people prefer to switch it off, but from my point of view it does not affects performance THAT much).


Does megui have such logging? If so I could look at both, application and implementation.


New AAC profiles for 2-pass encoding. This isn't top priority. On the other hand, it's easy (just add two more filters by default, you don't really need to change StaxRip code).

How would such a profile look like? Would it use pipelines or a temp file, how big would such files be and what about multi-core CPU?

@weaver4

I was wonder if in the future if it was possilble to use a new name for this file, maybe dgdecode-staxrip.dll, and use that instead of changing the default dgdecode in the plugin directory?

I think it's better to configure megui and staxrip pointing to the same application, in that case the latest stable release of DGIndex/DGDecode. I try to keep application versions up-to-date. of course it's not nice breaking other applications so I have to think about this issue in order to provide the smoothest possible user experience.

The other problem that I am having is with version 1.0.0.1 I encoded a movie in Xvid Q3.0 and the size was 1891MB and I encoded the same movie with 1.0.0.2 and the filesize is 1969MB. (Audio was at the same rate.) With DivX Q4.0 the filesize went from 1953MB to 2023MB. Why are the files larger?

This can be examined by comparing StaxRip logfiles of the different StaxRip versions using a diff tool like WinMerge.

to clear the problem change the avisynth plugin directory in the respective applications folder from the settings option, instead of the default C:/program Files/Avisynth/Plugins to something like C:Staxrip/Settings/Applications/Avisynth plugins for staxrip and a similar one for megui so you wont have any problems

Wouldn't megui than not also use the new dirrectory, I think both applications use auto loading by default.

Whenever I try to convert my Mpeg-2 captures it seems to extract the audio twice...Once using ProjectX and then again using DGIndex. Is this really neccessary or can I disable ProjectX?

What are the output filenames of ProjectX?

In MeGUI

I can do it by writing a few lines in the avs file.

tweak (sat=1.1,bright=1.1)

StaxRip don't allow loading avs files because this can't work with the AviSynth abstraction StaxRip uses in order to provide the best possible user experience in regard of getting the job done quick and easy. It's still possible to use custom filters, there is a filters dialog in the main menu, please read the help in this dialog.

Buggy version of Mp4box. Happens with me too (i'm using MeGUI at the moment)
MP4Box - GPAC version - 0.4.5-DEV - compiled by Kurtnoise - Sep 14 2007

Didn't happen to me yet, is there a better version?

I just discovered Staxrip and encoded my first xvid but I am having issues with hardcoded subtitles that appear in the movie but not on my avi...

I changed this code lately, maybe it works better now, you can download it here: http://www.planetdvb.net/non_drupal/staxrip/StaxRip_unofficial.exe

[LRN]

It does some calculation, IIRC depending on length about 1.5 MB each vobsub language. You'll find it searching the code for 'overhead'. Any better ideas?
H-m-m, i did not thought it does. However, i was speaking about these TTXT files i have been using. While they are much smaller than vobsub files, there may be a whole lot of them, so you can expect 1-2 megabytes of overhead. I'll tell you what really happens, after i make some measurements myself.

About which windows are we speaking?
AviSynth script editor, profile editor (where you can edit command line). Main window (it has some command lines and paths).

Does megui have such logging? If so I could look at both, application and implementation.
No, it doesn't. But i could try to make such implementation...You're using CreateProcess() to spawn processes such as besweet.exe and x264.exe? I'm not familiar with VB and i don't know how process creation is done there.

How would such a profile look like? Would it use pipelines or a temp file, how big would such files be and what about multi-core CPU?
How - see my previous posts.
Temp file. Neroaacenc does not supports 2-pass encoding from stdin.
How big - well, a few gigabytes. I don't think space is an issue. After all, some space is required for video stream (which may be big enough) anyways.
Nothing about multi-core CPUs. I don't know anything about muti-threading in neroaacenc.
Sadly, there's some weird problems with neroaacenc working in 2-pass mode. One guy came to me and told me that on some bitrates it just cuts the track off in the middle. Or something like that. In 1-pass mode it encodes ok. Looks like a bug to me, but i don't think guys at Nero would care to fix it soon...
So if you don't want to do it - here's a good reason for not doing it.

[weaver4]

@weaver

you can find something here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=767752#post767752

@all

I try to catch up on unanswered issues soon!

I'm sorry I don't understand. Are you saying that staxrip automatically does what this thread shows or that I should do in manually before I encode?

[Deinorius]

@Stax
What I'm missing very much is modifying CLI of the muxer. Ich would like something like you already use with encoder cli. Adding and removing cli functions but without any 1.pass of course.

[weaver4]

the x264 build that uses "adaptive quantization" as default and has "adaptive quantization sensitivity" has just about screwed up every x264 gui out there. I just wanted to warn you before you do an update to the latest x264 and screw up you great app. It really makes a mess out of single pass crf encodes like I do.

[Deinorius]

Do you mean Cefs patched builds?

[LRN]

What's wrong with --aq-strength and --aq-sensitivity ? I thought they are supposed to improve the quality, not to screw x264 GUIs...

[buzzqw]

the x264 build that uses "adaptive quantization" as default and has "adaptive quantization sensitivity" has just about screwed up every x264 gui out there.

it just screwed CRF encoding, NOT 2 pass encoding

BHH

[weaver4]

buzzqw: Your right, like I said in my post it screwed up my crf encodes.

LRN: It made the crf (constant quality) encodes file size go up by 75% over where it use to be. It was on be default and the GUIs had no way to turn it off, or set the sensitivity.

Deinorius: I don't know where the builds came from.

[stax76]

@LRN

The filters dialog and the audio settings dialog remember the size now (http://www.planetdvb.net/non_drupal/staxrip/StaxRip_unofficial.exe).

I'm not familiar with VB and i don't know how process creation is done there

IIRC lately piping related classes were added, using native code from .NET or hacking the .NET library is possible and sometimes necessary.

@weaver4

I'm sorry I don't understand. Are you saying that staxrip automatically does what this thread shows or that I should do in manually before I encode?

It automated according to the threshold defined in the advanced options.

What I'm missing very much is modifying CLI of the muxer. Ich would like something like you already use with encoder cli. Adding and removing cli functions but without any 1.pass of course.

You mean adding/removing args in the muxer dialog like it can be done in the x264 dialog?

[Deinorius]

You mean adding/removing args in the muxer dialog like it can be done in the x264 dialog? Absolutely correct. :)

[stax76]

Changelog:


1.0.0.3 (2008-03-05)

Updated x264 profiles and encoder version
Automatic aspect ratio signaling added for DivX, that mean it's supported for all codecs
now
DivX is the only application I don't host myself. StaxRip links to the download
provided at divx.com. The reason is it's 15 MB big. Unfortunately there are
silent updates very often. While silent updates usually work with StaxRip, the
version detection complains. I've added a special handling for DivX now to
handle this issue. StaxRip don't require the exact but a minimum version now for
DivX
Automatic subtitle demuxing using VSRip added
The profiles dialog has a button now to clone profiles
Muxing audio profiles are now editable from the audio profiles dialog in order to edit the stream type
MPA and MP2 were added to be valid stream types for the MP4Box muxer
Warning added to be shown when trying to open files containing character in the filename the command line parser of DGIndex can't cope with
The embedded folder browser used to select directories to batch process shows now volume names and hides hidden folders
The delay macro was only available in the scope of the audio settings, there are
now three global macros delay, delay1 and delay2. The help of the audio settings
dialog explains now the different scope
%bitrate% macro added to be used in the audio settings dialog
The filters dialog, script editor in the filters dialog and the audio settings
dialog remember their size
The filter editor in the main dialog shows a script editor on double-click
instead of enable/disable the filter. The filter dialog shows the script editor
with a left-click while pressing Ctrl
Improved support running StaxRip with limited user privilegs which is the normal
case under Vista

[weaver4]

Can I still use the Templates that I made for 1.0.0.2?

Thanks for the improvements!

[Ajax_Undone]

Great work Stax Runs awesome!!!

[stax76]

Can I still use the Templates that I made for 1.0.0.2?

yes, that should be no problem

[dvd_maniac]

I was wondering if someone could guide me step by step on how to hardcode forced subtitles?
What do I use to rip and how? Please explain like I'm an idiot as I just can't seem to get this.
I use x264 with AAC audio in the .mp4 container. MKV is not an option for me.

[stax76]

The subtitle extraction runs automatically by default, currently it only runs if the container supports subtiles, that is mkv and divx. Adding the subtitles is in the main menu so you do:

1. Load a template with mkv or divx container or load a mkv or divx container profile.
2. Open a DVD source and wait DGIndex and VSRip completing.
3. under 'Tools' select 'Add forced subtitle', select the language and you are done.

If you forgot to select the container you can reopen the d2v file to run VSRip. It runs everytime a source is loaded but only if the container supports the subtitles and only if the subtitles weren't extracted before.

[weaver4]

I think it would be good idea if we had a website where we could upload Templates.

I have made several that I use. For example the popcornhour a-100 uses CE-Highprofile but it needs to be limited to Level 4.1.

And the iPod 5.5g uses a two-pass file size profile, who would want that? A constant quality ( crf=24 ) is what I use. So I made a template to do that.

Love the program.

[dvd_maniac]

Thanx Stax,

I tried that but what I am really looking for is to hardcode the Forced Subtitles into the X264 video.
I use SageTV as my media center and my HD media extenders will not play any audio from MKV files produced by Staxrip and will not play subtitles from inside any container. I have to rip them into a seperate .srt file and modify Sage a little. And even then it's all subtitles or none. I do not like getting to a certain point of a movie, turning on Subs, rewinding to find out what I missed, then turning them back off again.
I'm looking to avoid all of this by hardcoding only the forced subtitles.
DVDFab's encoding process is able to handle this, but the quality is inferior to X264 and it's encoding tools limited compared to Staxrip. Plus it is not SMP ready so it's slow as hell...

[stax76]

@Deinorius

do you miss any specific muxing features?

I think it would be good idea if we had a website where we could upload Templates.

maybe somebody can recommend a drupal modul (one that is usable for non php developers like me).

@dvd_maniac

the steps I've explained add a AviSynth filter so x264 will encode it. I think people understand hardcoded and forced as the same thing.

[dvd_maniac]

Hi Stax,

I ripped the movie 30 Days of Night using latest DVDFab whole disk. Then I created a template using X264/AAC with the MKV container and loaded it. I imported the following 5 VOB files using Combine:
VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB, VTS_01_4.VOB & VTS_01_5.VOB.

I then cropped, cut and finally used Add Forced Subtitle.
The encode ran but The disk has two English subtitles. One for Director's comments, which took me about 1 hour encode to find out. The other was the real subtitle. When I was done with the final encode, the whole video had subtitles hardcoded to it, not just the forced ones?

When I play the DVD only the forced subtitles show. What could I have done wrong to make all subtitles burned onto the video instead of just Forced?

[Deinorius]

@Deinorius
do you miss any specific muxing features? There's nothing really specific.
But if there's some specific, then it would be (for Matroska) Title, fonts, framerate, timecode and especially tracknames. For mp4 there's nothing really specifically.

If you want to, you can add some of these functions, which are used often but generally it should be enough to add/remove args in the muxing dialog.

[Ryo94]

Hi,

I want to convert an MKV file (h264 video + mp3 audio) to avi (xvid) using staxrip.
The first time I tried it I couldn't open the MKV and got an error saying that I need to install the proper directshow filter, so now I installed haali media splitter and I can open that MKV in Staxrip but the problem is that Staxrip decodes the mp3 to wav instead demux it so I'm forced to recode the audio too.

I saw how Staxrip demux the mp3 or ac3 streams at time to import a vob, mpeg or avi file in order to remux that stream to the output video if I select "add exixting..." so I'm wondering if there is any way to do the same with MKV files in order to keep the audio quality.


I'm using Staxrip 1.0.0.1 (can't install .net 3.5 at this moment) and Haali media splitter 1.7.401.3

Thanx in advance for any help