MeGUI: General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

[Henrikx]

@sillKotscha
Only in connection with a Guide in that the name DVD DEcrypter occurs. Also in Gleitz forum the name is taboo? Why probably? Play here not the naive.

It is also forbidden in the German MeGUI Wiki,to link to Checks Wiki.
Why? DVDDecrypter = dissuasion. (Abmahnungen)
I know it exactly, I wrote the German MeGUI Wiki.
Do not come here with nonsense !

[check]

@saint francis: crf compared to abr does not change speed of x264, only the options used do.

[Doom9]

@Henrikx: Fortunately for you, I'm not only a member of the German Doom9 forum, but a supermod with access to the private forums where policy is discussed - and the policies with regards to any program to circumvent copy protection has not changed in a long time and you are incorrect.. do a simple forum search over there and you'll find plenty of references to dvd decrypter. You just may not help anybody to use it. By your logic, every German site that links to mine will get C&D'd (that's the proper term for Abmahnung).. you know very well that this isn't the case and that there's a big difference to linking to a page that lists download locations (or even starts the download), or a page, that when you browser around, you'll eventually find a link or information on how to make a backup. A link like this (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=doom9&btnG=Search)is still perfectly legal and you know it. Thus, we're done discussing!

[Spilt_milk]

http://www.imageshock.eu/img/SAVEME.jpg (http://www.imageshock.eu/?img=SAVEME.jpg)

This is a updated scenario i did everything the megui guide told me to the exact letter. I run a vista 64 bit on a 4 core dual CPU Motherboard. Basically a Supermicro H8Da3-2 with 2 x AMD Opteron 2222SE which are 3.0Ghz for each of the 4 cores. Nothing else i can say about my situition i aslo got a dvd burner with nerro on it. Tell me what does that error number mean your my last HOPE in learning how to encode h.264/MP4 as a HOBBY. I want to rip Anime Fansubs and 1.3 Gig NFL/sports Games on HDTV. No HDTV tuner card yet waiting on next check
Regards,
Spilt_milk


okokokokok

[Doom9]

Thanks for the help NOT If you need to be sarcastic (nobody owes you anything), then I'll have to stop overlooking the ridiculous size of your screenshots. You have 24h to replace them with something more suitable - it really makes no sense to take a snap of the whole screen to show that little popup.

[totya]

Hi,

if I use "auto encode" with x264, (encoding) video profile is what?

I select x264 codec and "1p good quality", but after "auto encode" I see in the queue list : video encoding : 2 pass (I think 1P only 1 pass).

[SnapCount]

I just upgraded to Xvid 1.1.3

Does MeGUI also use the upgraded codec? Im asking because in the MeGUI settings it points to a different folder which the new version of xvid didnt install anything in it.

[Sharktooth]

megui uses xvid_encraw (the command-line version of xvid) not the VFW one.

[squid_80]

megui uses xvid_encraw (the command-line version of xvid) not the VFW one.
xvid_encraw uses xvidcore.dll, same as the vfw codec.

[vanger]

How about pre-rendering job?
It's not usable to use VDubMod separate for this work.
I think many people are using MeGUI such as batch encoder...

[Sharktooth]

xvid_encraw uses xvidcore.dll, same as the vfw codec.
i meant the vfw builds are not good to be used with megui
How about pre-rendering job?
It's not usable to use VDubMod separate for this work.
I think many people are using MeGUI such as batch encoder...
im sorry, but im not sure i correctly understood what you mean

[Selur]

Is it just me or does AutoEncode no longer adjust the bitrate?
(Just waited for a x264 1080p@50fps encode to realize MeGui (0.2.6.1001) used a Datarate of 700kBit/s,...)

Cu Selur

[vanger]

im sorry, but im not sure i correctly understood what you mean

I have the same problem as:
I just updated MeGUI and the Add Pre-Rendering Job doesn't work. I get an error: Looking for job processor for job...
No processor found!
Skipping job job1-1.

[ACrowley]

any news about the TimeCalculation Bugs in Progress window ?

I mean after 24h is start counting from zero again, Remainig Time jumps around ...

greets

[Gabriel_Bouvigne]

There seems to be a little problem with audio encoding:

Starting job job1 at 13:15:46
Starting preprocessing of job...
Preprocessing finished!
Calling setup of processor failed with error Required file 'C:\Program Files\megui\tools\encaacplus\encaacplus.exe' is missing.
Looking for job processor for job...
Processor found!

There is no encaacplus.exe, but only enc_aacPlus.exe

[check]

Just change the path in the settings :)

[Gabriel_Bouvigne]

Sure, it's just that the default path is wrong...

[ryanmac3]

Updated to newest megui 0.2.5.1007 today and now everytime i try and load an avi into the avisynth script creator it causes megui to crash and this is the error code i receive when i click vew details..ive never had a problem in the past using the script creator and then using an avi for the source file

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: megui.exe
Application Version: 0.2.5.1007
Application Timestamp: 468b58e7
Fault Module Name: StackHash_2a66
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdc9
Exception Code: c0000374
Exception Offset: 000af1c9
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 2a66
Additional Information 2: 6451a58300378d3769e578402fe758f6
Additional Information 3: 205a
Additional Information 4: 950d3000e02e7a6a4a34d87b655ae806

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[Tanma]

I do not recommend updating to development versions.

I had problems before with it too.

[mitsubishi]

Since berrinam hasn't been around for a while, here is a build with the prerender job bug fixed, since a couple of people seem to need it: http://www.mediafire.com/?8ncvvuy1gjn

I also added a "Do all and close" button to the AVS cutter which will just add cuts, save the cutfile (with same name as AVS) and close without all the dialogues (provided there are no issues).

If it's worth it I'll submit patches to SF, but in the mean time get them here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ddr9logmzin

[DarkT]

Hi,

I have 2 problems with my MeGui - it's a clean install with the new computer and all - 0.2.5.1007

the 1st problem I experienced with my old computer as well - I load an avs script - the picture comes up with the "player" thingy in the middle of the video clip - and once I click on the "X" it freezes - what I do is I click on enque, exist megui, re-enter it and just hit start on the queue.

The 2nd problem - the REAL problem, is that now 99% of the times, it will hit 99.97% in the encode - and will not go any further. It drives me crazy.

Could somebody please help or refer me to somebodys post similiar to this or something? Thanks.

Edit1:

I did a search and this one guy seems to have had the same problem I'm having:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=116379&highlight=megui+stuck
I'll try to remove the VSFILTER stuff as well and see what's up, that might solve the 2nd of my problems... Though, I'm not quite certain what I'll be doing to make it work with it, since I DO need the subs attached lawl... ATM - out of my head, I am guessing I might need to add japanese to this computer - as I had it on my previous one... Speculations...

[michaelhill]

hello,

when i start megui my screen starts flickering. Also when i get the preview when creating the avisynth script, and when i press crop, the black border dont turn white as they normally do.

It happened when i installed staxrip. Staxrip was complaining about all kinds of wrong versions of programs and started downloading. It did work for me so i uninstalled it.

I reinstalled megui and did the update.
The codecs/decoders i have installed are ffdshow, coreavc and ac3filter. I have avisynth 2.5.7
Does any one know what the problem is and how i can fix it?

thanks

[Dr.Khron]

Firstly, hats off to the MeGUI team for the latest version, particularly updating the various components... its nice not having to manually download the latest versions of all the stuff. Also, its nice to have Cef's x264 build, and the new Mencoder build is sweet, too.


On to my issue: Using pre-render run with 1-pass constant quality.

I've been doing most of encoding on my work laptop, since it has multiple cores... but recently my company installed a low-level encryption software that slows the HD access a bit, so I've been running various speed tests.

One of the things I did was to run a CRF 22 encode two different ways: one with a separate pre-render run (2-part job), and one with a straight encode (1-part job).

I realize that pre-rendering won't save you time on a 1-pass job, but comparing the results was kind of shocking: the 1-part job was 4 hours shorter.

Job 1-1: 6:20:27 = 380.45 minutes
Job 1-2: 5:34:08 = 334.13 minutes

Total: 11:54:35 = 714.58 minutes

Job 2: 7:50:58 = 470.97 minutes

What accounts for this big difference?
Does it have anything to do with using CRF?

[Deckard2019]

I'm trying to use VobSubber feature with last stable release.
The problem is that MeGUI just stops because it can't find vobsub.dll in system32.
I can't find any information about this error. Any idea ?
VSFilter.dll is in the AviSynth plugins directory. But what about vobsub.dll ? Where can I download it ?

Thank you.

[M.A.V.E.R.I.C.K]

Well I Would Like Rip A DVD Movie Which Is Of 4.36GB NTSC To X264 With MKV And Keeping ND AAC As The Audio.......And After Creating The d2v Files......Which One Do U Prefer To Encode First Audio Or Video?......And Its 3CD Rip....So I Need To Split It Into 3 Equal Sizes ...I Mean 700MB X 3......How To Split It Using MeGUI......And I Also Like To Mux The Chapters And The Subtitles........Well Does .srt Sublties CAn Be Muxed? Or The Orginal SubTitle Files Is Only Recommended... .....After Muxing All Theses Stuff Will I Get 700Mb Exactly... Is There Any Chance For The File Size To Get Increased.........

[Bardez]

I opened MeGUI this morning, downloaded/installed the prompted update, and now I am getting the following error when I choose my profile:

"Sorry, the selected profile exceeds the AVC level you have specified

Maximum Bitrate is too high"

This is my profile used for encoding for PS3:
--bitrate 1000 --level 4.1 --keyint 240 --min-keyint 24 --ref 2 --bframes 3 --no-b-adapt --b-pyramid --bime --weightb --direct temporal --subme 7 --analyse p8x8,b8x8,i4x4 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --threads auto --thread-input --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --output "" ""

Now I will admit that I'm not horribly familiar with the maximum bitrate for 4.1, but this was working flawlessly before and 1000 doesn't seem all that high...

[Sharktooth]

If it's worth it I'll submit patches to SF, but in the mean time get them here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ddr9logmzin
yes, please. sice im no longer actively developing megui (until ill get better), i suppose berrinam will be happy to receive any external help.

[deets]

I opened MeGUI this morning, downloaded/installed the prompted update, and now I am getting the following error when I choose my profile:

"Sorry, the selected profile exceeds the AVC level you have specified

Maximum Bitrate is too high"

This is my profile used for encoding for PS3:


Now I will admit that I'm not horribly familiar with the maximum bitrate for 4.1, but this was working flawlessly before and 1000 doesn't seem all that high...

change VBV maximum bitrate to zero for automatic under rate control on third tab, see if that solves it?

[Bardez]

change VBV maximum bitrate to zero for automatic under rate control on third tab, see if that solves it?

D'oh! Max, not average... I can be such an idiot some times... thanks for pointing out my stupidity.

[Sharktooth]

I've updated xvid_encraw (squid_80) and xvidcore.dll (celtic druid) with the latest versions available in both stable and development megui autoupdate trees. i've did some testing and it seems it's all ok, but if you encounter any problems with those, please shout here.

[excentro]

Hello.
I'm doing Blu-ray to DVD9 1080p backups.
What profile and cqm should i use?
Thanks.

[handtruck]

When using megui's avisynth script creator or the one-click encoder, it restricts the maximum width to the width of the source.

Please look at my contributions to this thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=128712

It should explain why you should allow a width of 784 for DVD's, especially if you are encoding for standalones that do not accept an Aspect Ratio flag.

At the very least, don't restrict the width in megui!

[check]

no. What you are suggesting is upscaling, albeit for a specific purpose. Even though you feel it's the 'only way' get get full DVD quality or whatever, the vast majority of people are not encoding for standalones, and broken standalones in particular.
If you want to upsize on your own, just change the width in the script after megui writes the script. I'd encourage you to try some tests and confirm you can actually see a difference though.

[handtruck]

no. What you are suggesting is upscaling, albeit for a specific purpose. Even though you feel it's the 'only way' get get full DVD quality or whatever, the vast majority of people are not encoding for standalones, and broken standalones in particular.
If you want to upsize on your own, just change the width in the script after megui writes the script. I'd encourage you to try some tests and confirm you can actually see a difference though.

There is certainly a difference. I am not doing ANY upscaling (720x480 = 345600 pixels, 784x441 = 345600 pixels [approx]). I am correcting the aspect ratio via a resize rather than an aspect ratio flag. I feel this is the optimal solution for full DVD resolution considering the prevalent lack of support for the Mpeg-4 aspect ratio flag.
And you're right, it's not as much for the AviSynth script creator (which I can fix myself) as it is for the one-click encoder.

Anyway, I altered the code in megui myself to allow this, and recompiled.

[Sharktooth]

EDIT: oops.... wrong thread :)

[check]

There is certainly a difference. I am not doing ANY upscaling (720x480 = 345600 pixels, 784x441 = 345600 pixels [approx]). I am correcting the aspect ratio via a resize rather than an aspect ratio flag. I feel this is the optimal solution for full DVD resolution considering the prevalent lack of support for the Mpeg-4 aspect ratio flag.
And you're right, it's not as much for the AviSynth script creator (which I can fix myself) as it is for the one-click encoder.

Anyway, I altered the code in megui myself to allow this, and recompiled.
Well, you can submit the patch to sourceforge and see if a dev will take it...
You're missing the point when you compare the number of pixels between the resolutions though. 784 > 720. You are increasing the horizontal resolution, which is indeed upscaling. I also find your point about the mpeg-4 SAR being unsupported, when it seems to work fine in all cases here.

[XpresSo]

Hi
I'm new here, but this forum is amazing :)

I've a problem: megui doesn't succeed in finishing the first pass. It stays blocked about 25 frames before the end.
I didn't have this problem on my previous pc: I'm now with core 2 duo e6750, on an asus p5k deluxe motherboard, running on XP SP2.

What do you you think it could be?

I searched for this problem on the forum, but I didn't find it :'(

Thanks :)

[Sharktooth]

sorry but i have to do the usual questions:
is your CPU, RAM or any other component overclocked?
did you run any burn in tests and memory tests to ensure your system is rock-stable?
also, what version of megui and x264 are you running?

[XpresSo]

sorry not to have told you that before.

My system is very stable, I ran many tests (and nothing is overclocked yet)
My versions are the lastest, downloaded today from x264.nl and from the megui post on this forum.

I'm going to try to use directly x264.exe in command line, to see if the problem comes from x264.exe or megui.
The answer in few minutes ^^

Thanks for your interest

Edit:
Doesn't work using x264.exe, but as I use the megui command lines, I don't know...
However, it seems to work fine with autoMKV (but I prefer megui), so I don't understand.

[check]

just try this command:
x264 --no-cabac --output NUL <input.avs>
(the no cabac is for speed).
Does this finish?

[Ronin-7]

Does anyone know how to make MeGUI's Vobsubber component read the subtitles from the Stream information txt file as it seems to choke on various ones like this below;

0x20 - Subtitle - English / Normal Closed Captions - [SubPicture 01: Wide] / LBA: 3 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x21 - Subtitle - English / Normal Closed Captions - [SubPicture 01: Letterbox] / LBA: 4 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x22 - Subtitle - Dansk / Normal Captions - [SubPicture 02: Wide] / LBA: 5 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x23 - Subtitle - Dansk / Normal Captions - [SubPicture 02: Letterbox] / LBA: 6 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x24 - Subtitle - Suomi / Normal Captions - [SubPicture 03: Wide] / LBA: 7 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x25 - Subtitle - Suomi / Normal Captions - [SubPicture 03: Letterbox] / LBA: 8 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x26 - Subtitle - Norsk / Normal Captions - [SubPicture 04: Wide] / LBA: 9 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x27 - Subtitle - Norsk / Normal Captions - [SubPicture 04: Letterbox] / LBA: 10 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x28 - Subtitle - Svenska / Normal Captions - [SubPicture 05: Wide] / LBA: 11 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x29 - Subtitle - Svenska / Normal Captions - [SubPicture 05: Letterbox] / LBA: 12 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x2A - Subtitle - English / Normal Director's Comments - [SubPicture 06: Wide] / LBA: 13 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x2B - Subtitle - English / Normal Director's Comments - [SubPicture 06: Letterbox] / LBA: 14 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x2C - Subtitle - English / Normal Director's Comments - [SubPicture 07: Wide] / LBA: 15 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x2D - Subtitle - English / Normal Director's Comments - [SubPicture 07: Letterbox] / LBA: 16 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x2E - Subtitle - English / Forced - [SubPicture 08: Wide] / LBA: 17 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x2F - Subtitle - English / Forced - [SubPicture 08: Letterbox] / LBA: 18 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x80 - Audio - AC3 / 6ch / 48kHz / DRC / English / LBA: 39 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x81 - Audio - AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / DRC / English / LBA: 40 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0x82 - Audio - AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / DRC / English - Director's Comments / LBA: 42 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms
0xE0 - Video - MPEG-2 / 720x576 (PAL) / 16:9 / Letterboxed / LBA: 1 / PTS: 00:00:00.207 / Delay: 0ms

All you get is an error message and if you delete all the subtitle entries it will read it but of course no listings for subtitles. I know you could manually select which one but it would be nice to just have it work. Is there something in the txt file above that is throwing a wrench in the works ?

[rack04]

Is it just me or does "shutdown after encode" not work anymore?

[XpresSo]

just try this command:
x264 --no-cabac --output NUL <input.avs>
(the no cabac is for speed).
Does this finish?

"x264 [error]: rawyuv input requires a resolution"

Thanks for your help :)

Edit: Maybe the avs could help you :

global MeGUI_darx = 16 ---> not when x264.exe
global MeGUI_dary = 9 ---> not when x264.exe
avisource("E:\raw no audio.avi")
Lanczos4Resize(704,400)
textsub("final.ass")
textsub("opening.ass")
textsub("ending.ass")

I made it really simple to test :)

[check]

oh, you're trying to load raw YV? Possibly try encoding to a lossless format like huffyuv and try encoding from there.

[Bablu]

I'm sure I have all the plugins that it is talking about which is TVITC.dll and Yes, I do have it in my plugins folders, but It is just this damn error :
http://maxupload.com/img/721F2841.jpg

can someone please please help

[flight]

Is there a reason that MeGUI does not sync out the progress of encodes in the jobs directory? For two days now I have been trying to encode a movie using HQ-Insane which takes for ever and twice now I have had local power problems that has caused my computer to shutdown. I know I need a UPS, but for now I just have to deal with the issue. Anyway both times I know it had completed the first pass and this last time it had already written out 250MB+ of the mp4 for the movie in the second pass. But when I come back in to MeGUI it shows that that none of the jobs have completed and there is no easy way that I know of to signal that a first pass has completed so that the second pass can restart. What can I do if this should happen again so I don't waist another days work?

BTW I am running MeGUI 2.6.1001

[Selur]

if you are sure 1st pass was completed, just delete it from the queue,...

[Sharktooth]

Does anyone know how to make MeGUI's Vobsubber component read the subtitles from the Stream information txt file as it seems to choke on various ones like this below;



All you get is an error message and if you delete all the subtitle entries it will read it but of course no listings for subtitles. I know you could manually select which one but it would be nice to just have it work. Is there something in the txt file above that is throwing a wrench in the works ?
please post this to SF.net project bugtracker along with the stream info txt

[Sharktooth]

I'm sure I have all the plugins that it is talking about which is TVITC.dll and Yes, I do have it in my plugins folders, but It is just this damn error :
http://maxupload.com/img/721F2841.jpg

can someone please please help
It works here. Make sure to use the autoupdate to download the correct plugins versions AND update MeGUI too (your version is outdated).

[ditche]

Hello.

I think "QP" (confer the log) gives an idea about the final quality... True ?!? http://users.skynet.be/bk314761/smileys/082.gif
If it's the case, can you give me a value who indicates a (very ?) good quality ?
I don't believe in my eyes. :p

Sorry for my english. :p
:)