StaxRip x86 (development for x86 has been stopped) [Archive] - Page 9

stax76

17th January 2006, 00:08

Is there way to reuse first pass statistic? There's no reason to perform first pass again, if i decide to reencode movie with different second pass settings.

You could use VirtualDubMod manually.

LRN

17th January 2006, 01:37

I mean - with StaxRip :)
Allright, here it is:
FEATURE REQUEST: Please-please-please, make some checkbox in codec options, something like "do not perform 1st pass" wich will use .stats file from "Temporary Files" directory.
Are you happy now? :)

stax76

17th January 2006, 18:19

I'm skeptical about that kind of feature, I can add only features that are really important, the scenario where this feature is really important is not obvious, maybe you can explain one.

Sirber

17th January 2006, 18:23

Someone asked me the same thing but I refused. Most codec can do "Fast First Pass" so it's pretty useless and more confusing.

stax76

17th January 2006, 18:35

Someone asked me the same thing but I refused. Most codec can do "Fast First Pass" so it's pretty useless and more confusing.

I refused it for DVX as well and Len0x probably refused it for AutoGK more than once btw.

wiak

17th January 2006, 19:46

64 bit system is currently not supported.
:scared:
64bit and 32bit uses the same .NET
and after all 64bit is the future!
it gives you over 10% in encoding boost

StaxRip runs fine but it CRASHES :(

LRN

17th January 2006, 19:49

It's not useless for x264. Remembder: AVC is much slower than ASP. Even fast first pass takes several hours. For example, my current rip took 07:22 for first pass and will take approximately 22:00 for second pass (it's still in progress, x264 shows eta 02:37, 88% complete). If i decide to reencode this movie (for example, quality is not good enought), this feature will save me whole 7 hours!
Feature itself isn't complex. Just don't perform first pass and assume, what .stats-file already exists in tempdir.

stax76

17th January 2006, 20:38

64bit and 32bit uses the same .NET
and after all 64bit is the future!
it gives you over 10% in encoding boost

StaxRip runs fine but it CRASHES

I don't have such a system to debug it, maybe next Christmas, sorry.

It's not useless for x264. Remembder: AVC is much slower than ASP. Even fast first pass takes several hours. For example, my current rip took 07:22 for first pass and will take approximately 22:00 for second pass (it's still in progress, x264 shows eta 02:37, 88% complete). If i decide to reencode this movie (for example, quality is not good enought), this feature will save me whole 7 hours!
Feature itself isn't complex. Just don't perform first pass and assume, what .stats-file already exists in tempdir.

Encoding a movie 50 hours, sorry but I don't take such scenarios into acount. StaxRip is designed for users who want encoding to be simple, quick and painless. If you can endure 50 hours, you might as well then endure to copy the command line from the log file to the shell which takes you 5 seconds.

Sirber

17th January 2006, 21:44

Encoding a movie 50 hours, sorry but I don't take such scenarios into acount. StaxRip is designed for users who want encoding to be simple, quick and painless. If you can endure 50 hours, you might as well then endure to copy the command line from the log file to the shell which takes you 5 seconds.:goodpost:

Doom9

17th January 2006, 21:52

StaxRip runs fine but it CRASHESQuite a contradiction in itself wouldn't you agree? But since it's open source, I suppose you could compile it on your machine. But if it has any dependencies on Windows components, that might be different on a 64 bit Windows. And then there's the problem that the 64 bits of the current software are rare and often a bit shaky.. not all filters are available, etc. Right now, video encoding and 64 bit should be considered an experimental playfield.

wiak

18th January 2006, 05:24

stax i have another question
can you add a option to download all needed software? automatic? :)
right now i i/we have to go to the tool and click download etc..

stax76

18th January 2006, 17:18

can you add a option to download all needed software?

I'll take a look at it, gets requested quite often.

0.9.2.5 (2006-01-18)

new: Forced Film is automatically applied if NTSC sources are at 95% film.
new: Added setting to launch all applications with minimized window like AutoGK does.
change: Some changes required to reset all settings and projects. It's the first time this was required for StaxRip and hopefully the last time.
change: Improved error handling.

wiak

18th January 2006, 23:28

I'll take a look at it, gets requested quite often.

0.9.2.5 (2006-01-18)
i have now Visual Basic Express, .Net Framework 2.0 (x64)
and can you tell me how to compile it to x64? :)
i can compile to 32bit but not x64 as i dont have to right settings

stax76

18th January 2006, 23:54

I don't know too much about 64 bit stuff and if .NET assemblies have to be recompiled, I would say no. I was reading Integer/int is always Int32 don't matter if it's .NET 32 or 64 bit. Sounds stupid but that's what I was reading. Simply recompiling would much likely not work however because there are probably XP x64 related bugs.

bratao

19th January 2006, 00:33

Maybe change int for int64 ???
i dont have a 64 system too

klicker4546

19th January 2006, 01:01

Stax, I'm really happy about the improvements made to Staxrip! Great tool!

:)

I'll take a look at it, gets requested quite often.

0.9.2.5 (2006-01-18)

Gehenna

19th January 2006, 10:34

Hi Stax,

Will sharktooth`s X264 profiles likely to be intergrated into StaxRip in the very near future ?
I think i remember seeing a thread stating that its on your `To-Do` list.
Thanks

stax76

19th January 2006, 10:46

There are quite a few things left on my to do list but currently I want to step a little bit back from developing and do more testing and if I decide to more developing again it will first and foremost be more basic stuff. Did you try to make some profiles yourself, it's really not too hard.

LRN

20th January 2006, 00:50

I think, i should remind you to look at http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=101813 for x264 video profiles

wdmalik

20th January 2006, 20:48

I want to request a feature, when I give the input files path the software goes through a quick step though DGINDEX and extracts the info and audio files etc, i want to choose the path where these files are extracted, currently these are extracted to the same folder, unfortunately for me i am mostly short on space in the drives where i placed the ripped files, so if it is possible plz do it, a dialog box asking the files path after input file selection step will do
Thnx in advance :)

stax76

20th January 2006, 21:01

@wdmalik

Using another directory don't fit in my design (see help under Options/Preparer) and also does not fit to one of my main goals with StaxRip which is simplicity having everything in a single directory. Since StaxRip currently is not scriptable or extendable you can't do much other then use DGIndex by hand and then open the created files in staxRip. A little help might be to launch DGIndex from the 'External Applications' dialog or you could customize the main menu to launch DGIndex.

mulrich

21st January 2006, 10:06

Using another directory don't fit in my design (see help under Options/Preparer) and also does not fit to one of my main goals with StaxRip which is simplicity having everything in a single directory. Since StaxRip currently is not scriptable or extendable you can't do much other then use DGIndex by hand and then open the created files in staxRip. A little help might be to launch DGIndex from the 'External Applications' dialog or you could customize the main menu to launch DGIndex.

Then, can it at least delete the temporary files used when it's done using them?

stax76

21st January 2006, 11:39

Then, can it at least delete the temporary files used when it's done using them?

What temporary files?

LRN

21st January 2006, 16:07

ac3, dts, 264, srm, log, txt (chapters), avs, stats

Also...

---------- Second Pass Encoding Statistics ----------

Start time: 13:04:36
End time: 15:00:46
Duration: 1:56:09
Speed: 2 fps
You should think about date-time comparison, not only time comparison. THIS rip took 25:59:09, not 1:59:09 :)))

Also...There's no info in log for compressibility check. I'm really courious about commandline for it.

Also...
-add "blah:\blah-blah-blah.mp4:lang=bla"
must be
-add "blah:\blah-blah-blah.mp4:name=SomeName:lang=bla"
Maybe because of this there's no labels for these audio tracks in "Navigation" menu in MPC.

dumbas..

21st January 2006, 17:05

Firstly bit neew to this so be gentle!

Staxrip - App looks great and just this thing for startup idiots like me with MP4. Tired of Nero Recode2 Need adventure!

Installed all required apps - forced them so the required ARE there.
Can do Avi to MP4 (!?) oK
DVD to MP4 no good - DGIndex runs to completion.
Then get this error

"Failed to load source"
5314
Help!

stax76

21st January 2006, 18:31

ac3, dts, 264, srm, log, txt (chapters), avs, stats

I consider these as small and medium and also they might still be needed for remuxing if something went wrong. StaxRip supports 20 apps and soon more, I cannot take care of everything so once a rip is done everything has to be cleaned by hand.

You should think about date-time comparison, not only time comparison. THIS rip took 25:59:09, not 1:59:09 ))

Thanks, I think I can change this.

Also...There's no info in log for compressibility check. I'm really courious about commandline for it.

Log is only encoding atm (I should extend it), comp check is same as encoding but using -crf 18

:name is not supported for audio, I don't see how this is useful though if it's requested frequently I might have to add it.

@dumbas

You could use something like ImageShack

dumbas..

21st January 2006, 21:34

@dumbas

You could use something like ImageShack[/QUOTE]

Sorry Staxrip , should have also given more info
Avisynth to blame? But don't see how (DuMb as .... !)

D2V, avs and ac3 files all present. Not sure what I am doing wrong.
Files from freshly ripped DVD via DvD_Decrypter. Plays OK from dir. Vob File 998MB.
AVS:
MPEG2Source("C:\Documents and Settings\...\Documents\DVD\VTS_01_1.d2v")
Crop(0,0,-0,-0)
BicubicResize(512,416,0,0.5)

Guidance much appreciated.

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/3866/failed9kr.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

stax76

21st January 2006, 21:43

Please send a bug report, in the main menu use 'Help/Send Bug Report'.

Edit: Thanks for sending the bug report, the reason why it don't work is unknown so far. StaxRip checks all possible AviSynth related misconfigurations but didn't find something. The only known reason is moving the d2v file after it was created which breaks things because the d2v file contains absolute path information. Didn't the preview pop up showing a AviSynth error? This showed likely MPEG2Source not found which normally should not happen because StaxRip already checked the configuration is OK. You can of course try to load the plugins manually, right-click the source filter, select edit and add this line on top:

LoadPlugin("C:\MY PROGRAMS\VIDEO\DVD Rebuilder\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\DGDecode.dll")

Normally plugins are auto loaded but this seem to not work on your system for some wicked reason, I got quite a few reports about that but so far nobody found the reason.

rozemab

22nd January 2006, 15:05

Stax,

How I do I know if Staxrip is using my Nero AAC encoder? I noticed in the besweet directory a Nero dll. Is the Nero encoder a function of besweet or something staxrip needs to specify in the cli command?

Looking at the cli (using belight and your logfile) I could not see a difference in the command between FAAC and Nero. In belight it is a user prompt to tell it to use Nero AAC. I could not tell if there was a similar prompt within staxrip.

thanks,

Brian

stax76

22nd January 2006, 15:20

StaxRip uses -bsn for BeSweet and that means always Nero I think so it uses the Nero dll's found in the BeSweet dir so you have to copy your dlls to the BeSweet dir. IIRC FAAC is some other not so popular encoder, I don't think it can be used with the same command line but who knows. I'm not very familiar with BeLight.

mistik69

23rd January 2006, 03:49

what is the best way to update to new version of staxrip?
btw, staxrip is a great app, kudos!

vladlp

23rd January 2006, 12:46

Thanks a lot for good program. But just one question, Are you planning to add support for custom avs plugins? As I understand not it just possible to use plugins which is predefined in StaxRip

stax76

23rd January 2006, 14:49

what is the best way to update to new version of staxrip?

You can overwrite the old files with new files or:

define your settings, install and download directory in the settings dialog. If you use directories outside of the StaxRip directory nothing is saved then within the StaxRip directory and you simply can replace the entire directory.

But just one question, Are you planning to add support for custom avs plugins? As I understand not it just possible to use plugins which is predefined in StaxRip

Please read the help under filters.

vladlp

23rd January 2006, 14:59

Stax,
Sorry, probably my question was not very clear. How to add filters I have read, but there are no filed with full path to necessary dll for this filter...

stax76

23rd January 2006, 15:23

Please read the AviSynth docs regarding auto loading of plugins. When StaxRip downloads plugins it will save them in the plugin directory of AviSynth and AviSynth will auto load all plugins in the plugin directory.

In the 'External Applications' dialog select a plugin and the choose 'Tools' in the main menu of the 'External Applications' dialog and then select 'Open directory of the application'. This will open the plugin directory with windows explorer were you put your dlls and they will be auto loaded.

You still can use manual loading using LoadPlugin function as filters are fully customizable, auto loading is imho a much better solution.

stax76

23rd January 2006, 17:02

I've added support for cutting that works with any encoder and muxer:

http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/StaxRip_Hotfix.zip

dumbas..

23rd January 2006, 20:52

@stax

1. Removed Avisynth and re-installed into c:\program files\ (frankly, did this to be tidy, rather than have it in a subdir of another app.)

2. was reading this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=106189

"You must have a YV12 decoder on your system, to support AviSynth input into MeGUI. Download and install the Helix YUV codecs, and you should have no problems."

So downloaded YV12decoder, installed, rebooted. All systems go!

All worked OK:)

I'm no expert by any means, (Has been, small drip under pressure maybe!) but it worked. Any one explain why?

Perhaps this will help the 'others' with this type of problem that you mentioned in your reply?

? should ensure the staxrip user has the YU12 codec loaded?

Can now load my NAS with files.

Thankx for your help previously..

?not so Dumbas.... ? :)

stax76

23rd January 2006, 21:31

If there wasn't a YV12 decoder StaxRip should suggest installing one, I'm suspecting there was a decoder but one that does not work correctly. I'm still researching at this topic, thank you to report back!

stax76

24th January 2006, 00:21

0.9.2.6 (2006-01-24)

new: Added cutting support working with any encoder and muxer. Removed VirtualDubMod cutting.

mistik69

25th January 2006, 00:10

stax, How critical is it to rip dvd in IFO mode instead of file mode?

stax76

25th January 2006, 00:49

stax, How critical is it to rip dvd in IFO mode instead of file mode?

Never tried it and I know only little about the structure of a DVD. There are no special requiremens however but simply the files created by DGIndex are opened.

mistik69

25th January 2006, 01:37

I'll let you know Stax. I inadvertently ripped a dvd in file mode with decrypter instead of ifo mode, but dgindex seemed to go through it with no problem. Its encoding right now. Ill see how it turns out. I know autogk always said to rip in IFO mode and I saw that you said to do so too in your guide. I never really came across a reason why in any of the forums. I figured you might know.

davidlt

25th January 2006, 06:48

Hi,
I`m looking for tutorial, how to rip DVD to x264...
Here are some problems, I want to use container mp4 or mkv, so mp4 doesn`t support AC3 sound, mkv, says thats doesn`t support RAW sound and, with AVI container nothing, it doesn`t work too. So I can`t rip anything and use AC3 sound... Maybe someone could help me?..

P.S. stax, if you one day decide to make StaxRip mutilanguage, write me. I want to translate in to Lithuanian...