MeGUI: General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

[nakTT]

I can see that the latest MeGUI has x265 encoding option. Can I put the x265 encoded video into MKV? Any idea what player that I can use to play the movie?

[LigH]

Unfortunately, mkvmerge 6.5.0 by Moritz Bunkus does not yet support HEVC video streams in MKV. There is a modified older version from DivX, but it has its own flaws.

MP4 support by MP4Box in GPAC Nightly builds is already quite reliable, instead.

Osmo4 in GPAC Nightlies (Win32), MPC-HC 1.7.1 and a current MPC-BE can play HEVC (preferably in MP4); also there is a Strongene PC HEVC/H.265 Decoder for DirectShow. See also: https://x265.cc/

[nakTT]

Unfortunately, mkvmerge 6.5.0 by Moritz Bunkus does not yet support HEVC video streams in MKV. There is a modified older version from DivX, but it has its own flaws.

MP4 support by MP4Box in GPAC Nightly builds is already quite reliable, instead.

Osmo4 in GPAC Nightlies (Win32), MPC-HC 1.7.1 and a current MPC-BE can play HEVC (preferably in MP4); also there is a Strongene PC HEVC/H.265 Decoder for DirectShow. See also: https://x265.cc/
I see, so how do I do it using MeGUI? Thanks for the reply.

One more issue I can see is that the MeGUI running x265 encoder does not seem to follow ABR(say, 300kbps) that I have set. It will usually go way below that value, even way below 100kbps.

[LigH]

@ nakTT:

I did not yet try with MeGUI, but I would assume:


Run an x265 encoding job for a raw video result
Run an MP4 multiplexing job (see "Tools" menu)

[nakTT]

@ nakTT:

I did not yet try with MeGUI, but I would assume:


Run an x265 encoding job for a raw video result
Run an MP4 multiplexing job (see "Tools" menu)

Thanks for the reply. I have managed to find the solution to mux it into mp4 earlier yesterday. But I thank you anyway. :thanks:

BTW, I have moved the question about issue with ABR to a more proper thread, Bug Reports thread.

[caiyuwei]

Megui own x265 now but it didn't let us config Andvanced Settings of x265 in x265 configuration dialog yet. Maybe next version of Megui it will be available?

[mugz]

For the first time, today MeGui reported updates available when I started the program but I'm getting an error - first it says:

Connecting to server: http://megui.xvidvideo.ru/auto/stable/ <-- is there another server besides this one I can tell MeGui to connect to?

Here is an example of the error I get:

Updating vsfilter. File 11/11.
C:\MeGUI_2356_x86\update_cache\vsfilter-3.0.0.211.7z is empty. Deleting file.
Error: Could not extract C:\MeGUI_2356_x86\update_cache\vsfilter-3.0.0.211.7z. Deleting file.
Error: Failed to download file vsfilter with error: CouldNotDownloadFile.
Update completed
Error: Files which have been not sucessfully updated: 11

[nakTT]

Megui own x265 now but it didn't let us config Andvanced Settings of x265 in x265 configuration dialog yet. Maybe next version of Megui it will be available?
I hope we can get option to see the configuration interface similar to that of x264.

[Zathor]

Connecting to server: http://megui.xvidvideo.ru/auto/stable/ <-- is there another server besides this one I can tell MeGui to connect to?
Both update servers are currently not available :(

[nakTT]

Both update servers are currently not available :(
Sorry to hear that. But its okay, we can wait.;)

[bamsebo]

Both update servers are currently not available :(

After I tried to update MeGUI and it couldn't (now I know why) I decided to exit the program and start it up again to try a second time. Unfortunately MeGUI wouldn't start even after a computer reboot. I had to delete the MeGUI folder and download the latest revision and start again. And now the "Analyse" function seems to be broken, it almost gets to the end and then complains of memory access error. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

Thanks Barry.

I found the explanation but not why it happened. When I use the File Indexer I have always used DGIndexNV but after the failed update this was not available and it defaulted to DGAVCIndex. I restored the MeGUI folder from a backup and ignored the update request and now I can select DGIndexNV in File Indexer. I have compared the two MeGUI folders, the one that works and the one that doesn't but cant find any explanation.

[Zathor]

You have to copy your license.txt in the megui\tools\dgindexnv folder.
Btw - update servers are back in action.

[bamsebo]

thanks, yes updated successfully today :)

[nakTT]

Both update servers are currently not available :(
Thanks for a very fast update for x265. The latest version at MeGUI is 0.5+554 now.:thanks:

However I just checked at x265.cc and notice that they have even latter version, x265 0.5+571. The thing is, a few hours ago the version at x265.cc is 0.5+554 (the same as what you pun in MeGUI update server). I guess the guys over there works in overdrive mode.

[nakTT]

You have to copy your license.txt in the megui\tools\dgindexnv folder.
Btw - update servers are back in action.
I noticed that this time around x265.exe (0.5+554) from MeGUI server is significantly smaller compared to the same version (0.5+554) from x265.cc. And the most importantly is that the encoding time for "Constant Quality:23 @ Preset: Very Slow" is significantly slow as well. Wonder if there is any particular reason.

[Kurtnoise]

It's because it's not the same compiler used...which build did you test exactly from x265.cc ? and what the difference in time did you have ?

[osgZach]

MeGUI 2418 - for some reason, and with this particular file when I try to encode my game audio the job will not complete when using multichannel AAC using the NDAAC profile. It ends about 6:15 into the file and says the pipe ended, with a null exception

AC3 worked fine. So then I tried a different profile for NDAAC. The only difference between the two profiles is the one failing has Adaptive Bitrate set to 192kbps, and the one I tried uses 256kbps.

Anyone got any ideas on why this one happen? Its worked fine for other files with the same recorded audio settings.

[nakTT]

It's because it's not the same compiler used...which build did you test exactly from x265.cc ? and what the difference in time did you have ?
Exactly the same build number (0.5+554) as the one from MeGUI server. The only difference is that one is from x265.cc and the other is from MeGUI Development Update Server. The encoding time for the same settings (Constant Quality:23 @ Preset: Very Slow) is longer by more than double for the one form MeGUI Development Update Server. Perhaps other could verify so that we know it is not a unique issue with me.

[Sci-Fi-Fan]

Hi all, I'm having an issue with Megui's One Click Encoder where the transcoded video is being resized even tho the checkbox to keep input resolution and disable crop/resize is checked.

I have tried reloading defaults in an attempt to reset everything to no avail.

Any help appreciated
Thanks

[Zathor]

MeGUI 2418 - for some reason, and with this particular file when I try to encode my game audio the job will not complete when using multichannel AAC using the NDAAC profile. It ends about 6:15 into the file and says the pipe ended, with a null exception
Please provide the log file.

Hi all, I'm having an issue with Megui's One Click Encoder where the transcoded video is being resized even tho the checkbox to keep input resolution and disable crop/resize is checked.
Please provide the log file, too.

[Sci-Fi-Fan]

Please provide the log file.


Please provide the log file, too.

-[Information] Log for job2 (oneclick, 00000.track_4113.264 -> )
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:47] Started handling job
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:47] Preprocessing
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:47] Processing thread started
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:47] Desired size:
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:47] Split size:
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:47] Aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.778)
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:47] Target device: Blu-ray
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:52] Enabling "Resize" as Blu-ray does not support a resolution of 0x0. Supported are 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x720, 720x576 and 720x480.
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:52] Enabling "Crop"
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:52] Force resolution of 720x576 as required for Blu-ray
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:52] Input resolution: 1920x1080
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:52] Output resolution: 720x400
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:52] Padded output resolution: 720x576
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:53] Automatic deinterlacing: True
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:31:51] Source detection

Ok it appears that the resize is being forced to maintain blu-ray compliance even tho the input resolution is full HD 1920*1080p which is Blu-ray compliant.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks

[LigH]

"does not support a resolution of 0x0" looks very suspicious.

[Zathor]

--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:47] Target device: Blu-ray
--[Information] [27/11/2013 11:29:52] Enabling "Resize" as Blu-ray does not support a resolution of 0x0. Supported are 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x720, 720x576 and 720x480.

Change in the x264 profile the target device to something else (e.g. WDTV). Also please try it once again (add the file to oneclick and start the job) and post the full log (including media information and versions) as I want to understand why there is this 0x0.

[osgZach]

MeGUI 2418 - for some reason, and with this particular file when I try to encode my game audio the job will not complete when using multichannel AAC using the NDAAC profile. It ends about 6:15 into the file and says the pipe ended, with a null exception

AC3 worked fine. So then I tried a different profile for NDAAC. The only difference between the two profiles is the one failing has Adaptive Bitrate set to 192kbps, and the one I tried uses 256kbps.

Anyone got any ideas on why this one happen? Its worked fine for other files with the same recorded audio settings.

Please provide the log file.
.


Here is an output of a logged failure, on my initial attempt


-[Error] Log for job3 (audio, Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.wav -> Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.m4a)
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:21 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:21 AM] Preprocessing
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:21 AM] MediaInfo
---[Information] File: E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.wav
---[Information] General
----[Information] Format: Wave
----[Information] FormatString: Wave
----[Information] FileSize: 1424666948
----[Information] PlayTime: 00:20:36.690
---[Information] Audio
----[Information] ID:
----[Information] StreamOrder:
----[Information] Format: PCM
----[Information] FormatProfile: Float
----[Information] FormatSettingsSBR:
----[Information] FormatSettingsPS:
----[Information] SamplingRate: 48000
----[Information] SamplingRateString: 48.0 KHz
----[Information] Channels: 6
----[Information] ChannelsString: 6 channels
----[Information] ChannelPositionsString2: 3/2/0.1
----[Information] BitRateMode: CBR
----[Information] Delay:
----[Information] Title:
----[Information] Language:
----[Information] LanguageString:
----[Information] Default:
----[Information] DefaultString:
----[Information] Forced:
----[Information] ForcedString:
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:21 AM] Trying to open the file with NicAudio
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:21 AM] Successfully opened the file with NicAudio
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:21 AM] Avisynth script
---[NoImage] LoadPlugin("C:\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\NicAudio.dll")
---[NoImage] RaWavSource("E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.wav")
---[NoImage] Normalize()
---[NoImage] return last
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:21 AM] Commandline used: -ignorelength -lc -br 192000 -if - -of "{0}"
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:21 AM] Avisynth script environment opened
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:22 AM] Script loaded
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:22 AM] Output Decoder
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:22 AM] Channels: 6
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:22 AM] Bits per sample: 32
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:22 AM] Sample rate: 48000
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:22 AM] Job commandline: C:\MeGUI\tools\eac3to\neroAacEnc.exe -ignorelength -lc -br 192000 -if - -of "E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.m4a"
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:22 AM] Process started
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:22 AM] Standard output stream
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:42 AM] ERROR: error while encoding frame
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:22 AM] Standard error stream
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] *************************************************************
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * Nero AAC Encoder *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * Copyright 2009 Nero AG *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * All Rights Reserved Worldwide *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * Package build date: Feb 18 2010 *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * Package version: 1.5.4.0 *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * See -help for a complete list of available parameters. *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] * *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:35 AM] *************************************************************
--[Error] [11/26/2013 11:43:42 AM] An error occurred
---[Error] [11/26/2013 11:43:42 AM] Exception message: The pipe has been ended.
---[Error] [11/26/2013 11:43:42 AM] Stacktrace
----[NoImage] at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
----[NoImage] at System.IO.FileStream.WriteCore(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
----[NoImage] at System.IO.FileStream.Write(Byte[] array, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
----[NoImage] at MeGUI.AviSynthAudioEncoder.encode()
---[Error] [11/26/2013 11:43:42 AM] Inner exception: null
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:43:42 AM] Job completed


Here is an output of logged success with AC3

[Information] Log for job4 (audio, Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.wav -> Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.ac3)
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Preprocessing
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] MediaInfo
---[Information] File: E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.wav
---[Information] General
----[Information] Format: Wave
----[Information] FormatString: Wave
----[Information] FileSize: 1424666948
----[Information] PlayTime: 00:20:36.690
---[Information] Audio
----[Information] ID:
----[Information] StreamOrder:
----[Information] Format: PCM
----[Information] FormatProfile: Float
----[Information] FormatSettingsSBR:
----[Information] FormatSettingsPS:
----[Information] SamplingRate: 48000
----[Information] SamplingRateString: 48.0 KHz
----[Information] Channels: 6
----[Information] ChannelsString: 6 channels
----[Information] ChannelPositionsString2: 3/2/0.1
----[Information] BitRateMode: CBR
----[Information] Delay:
----[Information] Title:
----[Information] Language:
----[Information] LanguageString:
----[Information] Default:
----[Information] DefaultString:
----[Information] Forced:
----[Information] ForcedString:
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Trying to open the file with NicAudio
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Successfully opened the file with NicAudio
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Avisynth script
---[NoImage] LoadPlugin("C:\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\NicAudio.dll")
---[NoImage] RaWavSource("E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.wav")
---[NoImage] return last
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Commandline used: -readtoeof 1 -b 384 - "{0}"
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Avisynth script environment opened
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Script loaded
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Output Decoder
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Channels: 6
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Bits per sample: 32
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Sample rate: 48000
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Job commandline: C:\MeGUI\tools\aften\aften.exe -readtoeof 1 -b 384 - "E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.ac3"
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Process started
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Standard output stream
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:05 AM] Standard error stream
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:08 AM] Aften: A/52 audio encoder
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:08 AM] Version git
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:08 AM] (c) 2006-2009 Justin Ruggles, Prakash Punnoor, et al.
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:08 AM] input format: Microsoft WAVE Floating-point 32-bit little-endian 48000 Hz 5.1-channel
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:08 AM] output format: 48000 Hz 3/2 + LFE
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:08 AM] SIMD usage: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:08 AM] Threads: 4
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:09 AM] MediaInfo
---[Information] File: E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.ac3
---[Information] General
----[Information] Format: AC-3
----[Information] FormatString: AC-3
----[Information] FileSize: 59361792
----[Information] PlayTime: 00:20:36.704
---[Information] Audio
----[Information] ID:
----[Information] StreamOrder:
----[Information] Format: AC-3
----[Information] FormatProfile:
----[Information] FormatSettingsSBR:
----[Information] FormatSettingsPS:
----[Information] SamplingRate: 48000
----[Information] SamplingRateString: 48.0 KHz
----[Information] Channels: 6
----[Information] ChannelsString: 6 channels
----[Information] ChannelPositionsString2: 3/2/0.1
----[Information] BitRateMode: CBR
----[Information] Delay:
----[Information] Title:
----[Information] Language:
----[Information] LanguageString:
----[Information] Default:
----[Information] DefaultString:
----[Information] Forced:
----[Information] ForcedString:
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:09 AM] Postprocessing
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:09 AM] Deleting intermediate files
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:44:09 AM] Job completed


Here also, is an output of a logged success with M4A when I changed the bitrate to 256kbps

-[Information] Log for job6 (audio, Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.wav -> Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.m4a)
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:06 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:06 AM] Preprocessing
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:06 AM] MediaInfo
---[Information] File: E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.wav
---[Information] General
----[Information] Format: Wave
----[Information] FormatString: Wave
----[Information] FileSize: 1424666948
----[Information] PlayTime: 00:20:36.690
---[Information] Audio
----[Information] ID:
----[Information] StreamOrder:
----[Information] Format: PCM
----[Information] FormatProfile: Float
----[Information] FormatSettingsSBR:
----[Information] FormatSettingsPS:
----[Information] SamplingRate: 48000
----[Information] SamplingRateString: 48.0 KHz
----[Information] Channels: 6
----[Information] ChannelsString: 6 channels
----[Information] ChannelPositionsString2: 3/2/0.1
----[Information] BitRateMode: CBR
----[Information] Delay:
----[Information] Title:
----[Information] Language:
----[Information] LanguageString:
----[Information] Default:
----[Information] DefaultString:
----[Information] Forced:
----[Information] ForcedString:
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:06 AM] Trying to open the file with NicAudio
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Successfully opened the file with NicAudio
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Avisynth script
---[NoImage] LoadPlugin("C:\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\NicAudio.dll")
---[NoImage] RaWavSource("E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.wav")
---[NoImage] Normalize()
---[NoImage] return last
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Commandline used: -ignorelength -lc -br 256000 -if - -of "{0}"
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Avisynth script environment opened
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Script loaded
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Output Decoder
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Channels: 6
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Bits per sample: 32
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Sample rate: 48000
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Job commandline: C:\MeGUI\tools\eac3to\neroAacEnc.exe -ignorelength -lc -br 256000 -if - -of "E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.m4a"
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Process started
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Standard output stream
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:07 AM] Standard error stream
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] *************************************************************
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * Nero AAC Encoder *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * Copyright 2009 Nero AG *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * All Rights Reserved Worldwide *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * Package build date: Feb 18 2010 *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * Package version: 1.5.4.0 *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * See -help for a complete list of available parameters. *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] * *
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:20 AM] *************************************************************
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:55 AM] MediaInfo
---[Information] File: E:\Ace Combat_AH 2013-11-26 07-41-22-567.m4a
---[Information] General
----[Information] Format: MPEG-4
----[Information] FormatString: MPEG-4
----[Information] FileSize: 34857688
----[Information] PlayTime: 00:20:36.757
---[Information] Audio
----[Information] ID: 1
----[Information] StreamOrder: 0
----[Information] Format: AAC
----[Information] FormatProfile: LC
----[Information] FormatSettingsSBR: No (Explicit)
----[Information] FormatSettingsPS:
----[Information] SamplingRate: 48000
----[Information] SamplingRateString: 48.0 KHz
----[Information] Channels: 6
----[Information] ChannelsString: 6 channels
----[Information] ChannelPositionsString2: 3/2/0.1
----[Information] BitRateMode: VBR
----[Information] Delay: 0
----[Information] Title:
----[Information] Language:
----[Information] LanguageString:
----[Information] Default:
----[Information] DefaultString:
----[Information] Forced:
----[Information] ForcedString:
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:56 AM] Postprocessing
---[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:56 AM] Deleting intermediate files
--[Information] [11/26/2013 11:52:56 AM] Job completed

[tebasuna51]

@osgZach
Channels: 6
...
...neroAacEnc.exe -lc -br 192000 ...
...An error occurred

This is normal, neroAacEnc can't encode at 192 Kb/s a 6 channel input with the LC profile.
Need more bitrate or a lower profile like HE.
Or the recommended option with AAC, use VBR with quality parameter instead fix bitrate.

Not problem with more bitrate or AC3

[osgZach]

Then why does MeGUI come with Nero AAC_dp_ NDAAC-LC-MultiChannel-192Kbps.xml ?

[Sci-Fi-Fan]

Change in the x264 profile the target device to something else (e.g. WDTV). Also please try it once again (add the file to oneclick and start the job) and post the full log (including media information and versions) as I want to understand why there is this 0x0.

As requested here is the full log for the complete transcode.

The resulting clip comes out letterboxed, tho that's probably due to the crappy resolution being forced on it.

I;m gonna take a wild stab that the 0x0 is due to the clip being MBAFF as I had no issues with another clip that was fully Progressive.

Anyways hope this helps you debug the issue.

Thanks

[tebasuna51]

Then why does MeGUI come with Nero AAC_dp_ NDAAC-LC-MultiChannel-192Kbps.xml ?

I don't know. For me all Nero AAC presets are useless. I only recommend:

<BitrateMode>VBR</BitrateMode>
<Profile>Auto</Profile>
<Quality>0.35</Quality>

and select the Quality desired, until 0.3 you get HE encode (with this low quality is recommended use QAAC encoder), with 0.35 and more LC encode.

BTW with some audio easy to compress you can obtain LC-MultiChannel-192Kbps, but without guarantee like you can see.

[kento]

Hello everybody.

I have a question , I just updated MEgui to v2418 and I get strange behavior.
I use the soft from quite a long time.
I always go the same path =>
- File Indexer
- Crop/Resize
- Save avs
- Bitrate calculator
- Queue my video encoding


For 2 days I get that when I queue :

13897

How can I have an output file with a x264 extension ?
I asked for a mp4 extension.

Mp4box is also in the job queue but I never asked for a mux after my encode :/

My settings are exactly the same since the Roman Empire so if comeone can show me the way to reset correctly my MEgui I would be glad.

[Zathor]

The included x264 build does not provide anymore the possibility to encode directly into a MP4 file. Therefore the mp4box step is necessary.

[kento]

Thank you for your reply.
I didn't read the new log file , my bad :/

[kalehrl]

I don't have Haali Matroska Splitter and Haali DSS2 installed because I don't need them.
When I start MeGUI, there is an exclamation mark shown which I would like to remove.
I can do so temporarily by right clicking the log entry and choosing 'Reset Overlay Icon'.
However, after restart, it is still there.
Is there any way to remove it permanently?

[Zathor]

Is there any way to remove it permanently?
Install it :p Beside that there is currently no way.

[aegisofrime]

Hi, I'm having a problem that is driving me crazy.

I have been trying out the new Avisynth+ on two machines, one a Windows 7 dekstop and a Windows 8 laptop. I have tried to keep everything the same as far as possible.

My problem is that on the W7 desktop, my onclick job keeps getting stuck on the "Finalizing preprocessing" step before audio encoding. I have no such problem on the W8 laptop, which completes everything successfully. I have tried to keep everything the same in my tests between the two, copying the Avisynth plugins folder from the laptop to replace the ones on the desktop. Obviously, the source file is the same in both cases.

Aborting the "Finalizing preprocessing" step crashes MeGUI. I have attached the logs in the pastebin below:

http://pastebin.com/MVD0aGWr

Thanks!

[kalehrl]

Install it Beside that there is currently no way.
I use CCCP and it doesn't provide those 2 programs.
I don't want to install any other codecs because of possible problems with CCCP with which I'm very happy.
Don't sweat, this is an unimportant, cosmetic issue for me. :)

[Abdelhachim]

Undesired resizing in One-Click
=======================

Hi everyone,

I used to use One-Click to encode my 8mm tapes with x264 in interlaced mode (TFF) so I can play them on my TV.

That works fine for me as long as I don't use cropping nor resizing (to preserve the interlaced format).

Starting from stable version 2418, I get unpleasant result when playing my encoded clip (using yadif deinterlacer).

After investigating, I found that the video was slightly resized and padded, although the "Keep Input Resolution" option was checked in the one-click config.

Bellow are fragments from the logs that confirm that (I used the absolutely the same config/preset on the 2418/2427 and 2356 versions)

2356 Log

-[Information] Log for job2 (oneclick, Clip02.avi -> )
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Started handling job
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Preprocessing
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Processing thread started
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Desired size:
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Split size:
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Aspect ratio: 5:4 (1.250)
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Input resolution: 720x576
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Output resolution: 720x576
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Automatic deinterlacing: False
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Generated Avisynth script
---[NoImage] global MeGUI_darx = 5
---[NoImage] global MeGUI_dary = 4
---[NoImage] LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\Tools\Multimedia\MeGUI\tools\ffms\ffms2.dll")
---[NoImage] FFVideoSource("D:\VideoTest\Clip02.avi", cachefile="D:\VideoTest\beul452j.n04\Clip02.avi.ffindex", threads=1)
---[NoImage] #deinterlace
---[NoImage] #crop
---[NoImage] #resize
---[NoImage] #denoise
--[Information] Eliminating duplicate filenames
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Video output file: D:\VideoTest\beul452j.n04\Clip02_Video.264
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Muxed output file: D:\VideoTest\Clip02_x264_crf15_medium_megui2356.mp4
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:27] Encodable audio stream 0: D:\VideoTest\beul452j.n04\Clip02.avi_track_1__audio.m4a
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:28] Postprocessing
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:28] Deleting intermediate files
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:00:28] Job completed


2427 Log

-[Information] Log for job2 (oneclick, Clip02.avi -> )
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Started handling job
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Preprocessing
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Processing thread started
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Desired size:
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Split size:
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Aspect ratio: 5:4 (1.250)
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Target device: Blu-ray
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Enabling "Resize" as Blu-ray does not support a resolution of 0x0. Supported are 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x720, 720x576 and 720x480.
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Enabling "Crop"
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Force resolution of 720x576 as required for Blu-ray
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Lowering output width resolution to 708 to avoid upsizing
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Input resolution: 720x576
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Autocrop values
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] left: 4
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] top: 6
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] right: 8
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] bottom: 0
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Cropped output resolution: 704x560
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Padded output resolution: 720x576
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Automatic deinterlacing: False
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Generated Avisynth script
---[NoImage] global MeGUI_darx = 5
---[NoImage] global MeGUI_dary = 4
---[NoImage] LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\Tools\Multimedia\MeGUI - Dev\tools\ffms\ffms2.dll")
---[NoImage] FFVideoSource("D:\VideoTest\Clip02.avi", cachefile="D:\VideoTest\lh2j5btt.ryu\Clip02.avi.ffindex", threads=1)
---[NoImage] #deinterlace
---[NoImage] #crop
---[NoImage] LanczosResize(704,560).AddBorders(8,8,8,8) # Lanczos (Sharp)
---[NoImage] #denoise
--[Information] Eliminating duplicate filenames
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Video output file: D:\VideoTest\lh2j5btt.ryu\Clip02_Video.264
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Muxed output file: D:\VideoTest\Clip02_x264_crf15_medium_megui2427.mp4
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:14] Encodable audio stream 0: D:\VideoTest\lh2j5btt.ryu\Clip02.avi_track_1_abkhazian_audio.m4a
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:15] Postprocessing
---[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:15] Deleting intermediate files
--[Information] [01/12/2013 02:03:15] Job completed


I also attach the complete logs for review.

13901

13902

Thank you in advance.

Abdel

[NoMention]

Abdel, I ran into a very similar problem and posted a thread about it here:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=169833


It looks like for whatever reason the "Keep Resolution" thing is not working correctly and the resulting avs script is not proper so that the encoder knows that "Keep Resolution" is not the same as a 0x0 resolution like the log points out. I have yet to see an answer to this.

[Zathor]

Can someone of you please post a sample file? I cannot reproduce it only with the log files :(

[Abdelhachim]

Can someone of you please post a sample file? I cannot reproduce it only with the log files :(

Hi Here is a link to a 3 second sample... I get exactly the same result (Undesired Resizing using One-Click in 2427 version)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5zAa6PLucxBOERvNUZmZnlyaHc/edit?usp=sharing

Many Thanks
Abdel

[Zathor]

Thanks - will be fixed in the next build.

[NoMention]

Zathor - Can you also look at my example. I've put all items I could think of as being relevant using a 45 second clip from my source file and keeping all the intermediate files.

The file is a little big (about 250MB):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B03HVu-KsKkhZzVuRVMwNUVlQUE/edit?usp=sharing

[Abdelhachim]

Thanks - will be fixed in the next build.

Thanks a lot...

[Morku]

Is there any reason we should know, why it still not Update to mkvtoolnix 6.6.0? Thanks!

[GB]

Before I did a fresh windows install, when I was encoding video with megui, at least one ffdshow tray icon showed up.

Now it's gone and my speed is reduced by 20-25% on the same avs script, same file.

I tried several versions of ffdshow, make it the default decoder, but it's still not working. I don't know exactly what merit it had before and what boxes to check during installation/configuration.

The avs script contains directshowsource loading a h264 .ts file, yadif deint and crop/resize..

I know this is a "guess what my problem is", but someone might know exactly what I'm missing.

[Taurus]

@GB
Did you enable the tray icons in ffdshow directshow video configuration?
Did you enable "uncompressed" at the codec tab?
Did yo enable h264/avc in the codec tab?
Did you try any other decoder?
Too many wild guesses...
Any codec packs installed?

[LigH]

Processing TS files via DirectShow is not recommendable anyway. The DirectShow system depends on more factors than you will know for certain.

If you remultiplexed it to MKV, you could process it with FFMS2 instead (via AVS Script Creator / Indexer).

Or even better, once it will be implemented in MeGUI: Using L-SMASH Source, based on LAV Filters: more recent than ffdshow, more reliable than FFMS2, even with multithreaded decoding

[GB]

Tray notifications are enabled.

On my previous installation I left everything default, so have I now. I don't have any other codecs installed.

Encoding with FFVideoSource (ffms2.dll) is slower with the same ammount of speed, 20-25%, again on the exact same files with the same script (the ones I was using ffms with). And still no tray notification.

I gave that example with directshowsource because I use it the most, I know it's not the best thing out there, but I care mostly about speed and as long as I don't use trim (it's not frame accurate), it results a fine encoded file. And like I said above with ffms, the speed is noticeable slower with any other decoder I use.

[LigH]

Of course, there will be no tray icons when using FFMS2, because FFMS2 does not use DirectShow, but internal decoders. But is there any advantage in seeing tray icons?

20% loss of speed only due to a different decoder is suspicious, though; I would expect the encoder (and possibly some video filters) to require most of the time, so that differences between decoders will be hardly noticable.

[jtan2000]

Regarding MeGUI - Bitrate Calculator

Is there a method I can permanently add 1.45GB to the Total File Size list instead of "select custom size" and enter that number ?

Thanks

[kalehrl]

Yes.
Go to Options - Settings and click on the square in the 'Modify custom files size values' and choose 'Select custom size...'