MeGUI: General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

[Kurtnoise]

It's because the strings to describe this option is empty. What do you suggest ?


About your problem with the preview : I'll see what can I do...

[saint-francis]

Bump:
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1130225&postcount=2135

Please, anybody? Particularly my question about the vobsuber.

[Avenger007]

Why does MeGUI report FPS as the last "processing rate" value shown in the status window just before encoding finishes and the window closes? Is that a bug; shouldn't it calculate the total frames / time taken? This is particularly annoying when priority is set to high. :angry:

Another question, is it normal for MeGUI to increase memory usage when a filter (like MC_Spuds) is used in the script when the script is enqueued but before the jobs are run? The memory increases as the number of jobs enqueued increases and can eventually use over 500GB of RAM just by adding jobs. :eek:

[vtn54]

Muxer windows don't show correctly in the higher DPIs:

http://i30.tinypic.com/29w273n.jpg

[Kurtnoise]

@vtn54 : yes, a known bug unfortunately.

@saint-francis : VSFilter has nothing to do with the vobsubber in MeGUI. It's just an avisynth filter...

@Avenger007 : about memory increase...I think it's due to the decoding filters chain used by the avisynth filters but I might be wrong here coz I haven't seen this here.

[saint-francis]

@saint-francis : VSFilter has nothing to do with the vobsubber in MeGUI. It's just an avisynth filter...


Which is an avisynth filter? Should I put vobsub.dll in the aisynth plugin folder? There is no way to set the program path to it. All I know is that if I don't have vobsub installed the vobsubber doesn't work. But I gather that there will be a conflict between VSFilter and vobsub if I have them both installed.

[Kurtnoise]

btw, which VSFilter version do you use ? I would like to reproduce the behaviour.

[loom91]

1) What is the exact error message? If you are trying to encode with nero you need to download the aac encoder from their homepage.

2) Lots of DVDs are anamorphic. Either you resize after croping to the correct aspect ratio, or you select "clever anamorphic encoding" in the avs generator. If you just want to get rid of the black bars do the latter.

3) No idea.

Okay, selecting anamorphic encoding when autocropping significantly lessened the problem, but did not remove it. There is still a slight horizontal stretching, as you can see in the following snapshots (taken with VLC). Is this some unavoidable artifact of the encoder? (mod16 resizing perhaps?) Thanks.

Molu

[unskinnyboy]

It's because the strings to describe this option is empty. What do you suggest ?

Adaptive DCT
------------
Enables the 8x8 DCT spatial transform.

Default Value: Disabled
Recommended Value: Enabled

I4X4
----
Enables the use of 4x4 sub-partitions in predicted macroblocks, for I-frames.

Default Value: Disabled
Recommended Value: Enabled

P4X4
----
Enables the use of 4x4 sub-partitions in predicted macroblocks, for P-frames. Improves compression by about 0.5%, at the cost of encoding speed. Requires P8X8 enabled.

Default Value: Disabled
Recommended Value: Disabled

P8X8
----
Enables the use of 8x8 sub-partitions in predicted macroblocks, for P-frames.

Default Value: Disabled
Recommended Value: Enabled

B8X8
----
Enables the use of 8x8 sub-partitions in predicted macroblocks, for B-frames.

Default Value: Disabled
Recommended Value: Enabled

About your problem with the preview : I'll see what can I do...

:thanks:

[saint-francis]

VSFilter.dll is just an avisynth filter whereas vobsub.dll is more than that.

btw, which VSFilter version do you use ? I would like to reproduce the behaviour.

I'm using cccp. It uses VSFilter for subtitle playback. I'm not sure what version it is because as far as I can gather it's a patched version of 2.37. Not the clsid 2.38.

[Kurtnoise]

Well...upload your VSFilter.dll somewhere. I don't want to install this pack.

btw, I tested VSFilter.dll 2.38 from guliverkli2 project and vobsub.dll from the VobSub package available in D9 dl section and I've got no problem. No conflicts each others...

The vobsubber in MeGUI uses and calls *only* vobsub.dll.


@unskinnyboy : it will be in the next revision. Thank you...

[saint-francis]

Here (http://www.mediafire.com/?typdflrxlge)it is.
I am assuming that since VSFilter is used for playback that it will conflict with vobsub. I haven't tested this. Are people generally installing the vobsub package and using that for playback and the vobsubber in MeGUI? Maybe I should just can CCCP and use vobsub for playback.

Thanks for your time Kurtnoise13.

[Kurtnoise]

well...I tested your VSFilter.dll on Vista and I've got no problem so far. Seems like the problem is on your side.


Personally, I used to use VSFilter for playback and vobsub.dll to extract idx/sub files.

[Kurtnoise]

Here's something which is quite annoying -

You know how you could open the Avisynth script creator and crop/resize the video while having the internal video player open and remaining on top so that you can see the effects of the crop/resize as you do them? Well, this doesn't work if the main MeGUI window is maximized. If the main window is maximized, the moment you touch crop/resize, the video player stops being on top and gets minimized to the task bar. This shouldn't happen, ideally.

Can this be fixed?
If I push the video preview always on top, is that ok for you ?

[unskinnyboy]

If I push the video preview always on top, is that ok for you ?Yes, I believe that would solve the issue. Thanks.

[Kurtnoise]

*Test me* (http://www.mediafire.com/?ru2xmuy9yyw)...:)

[unskinnyboy]

The video preview issue is fixed, thanks.

But, there are other issues/gripes now:


The tooltip text I've given for Adaptive DCT is not what I see there now. The text for I8X8 has been moved to Adaptive DCT, and the I8X8 tooltip left empty.

I had made a typo in the tooltip text I had given for P4X4 - it's predicted and not predicated. I had edited my post and fixed it, but I guess you copied over the text before I could get to it. Could you please fix? Sorry about the typo.

Is the (!) needed on the top-left for every tooltip? It just bloats up the tooltip text area.

The windows seem to have become too bright now:

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2870/meguimainwindowcs0.th.png (http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2870/meguimainwindowcs0.png)

It used to have a uniform shade - the color of the buttons in the above image. Can that be brought back? This brightness hurts the eyes.

[Kurtnoise]

Is it better now (http://www.mediafire.com/?zwxwdzni1ll) ?

[unskinnyboy]

I didn't think you would get to it so fast, and in between I had to kick off an encode. At 1.xx fps, this is going to take 3-4 days. Sorry about the delay, but as soon as this is done, I'll test the new version.

[unskinnyboy]

I'm afraid I spoke too soon about the video preview being fixed. Yes, that specific issue I had earlier was fixed by setting the video preview window to remain always on top, but now err...it's always on top. If I attempt to minimize the other MeGUI windows and browse the Internet, the video preview window doesn't get minimized and remains on top of my browser. Only way is to close the preview and then reopen when needed. i.e. it's a different kind of annoyance now.

Can the preview window be auto-minimized too if all other open windows are manually minimized? Either that or provide a minimize button for the preview window. Thanks.

[Kurtnoise]

Can the preview window be auto-minimized too if all other open windows are manually minimized?

Either that or provide a minimize button for the preview window. Thanks.
well...adding a minimize button to the preview window should be more easier than the auto-minimized stuff I'm pretty sure (yes, I'm lazy...;)). I'll add it later. :)


Don't forget also the ALT+TAB...

[unskinnyboy]

well...adding a minimize button to the preview window should be more easier than the auto-minimized stuff I'm pretty sure (yes, I'm lazy...;)). I'll add it later. :)Yes, I'm sure that would be much easier :thanks:. So if you want to put up a build with all the fixes discussed so far, I could test them all together, at the next possible opportunity.

Don't forget also the ALT+TAB...How would this help? I can swap windows, alright, but the preview window is still always on top!

[unskinnyboy]

*Test me* (http://www.mediafire.com/?ru2xmuy9yyw)...:)Just noticed that Zones option is missing from the x264 config dialog in this build.

[unskinnyboy]

Is it better now (http://www.mediafire.com/?zwxwdzni1ll) ?Got a chance to look at this one. Yes, this is better now. Two things still (both mentioned earlier):

Is the (!) and the text toolTip at the top needed for every tooltip?
Zones are missing from the x264 config dialog.


EDIT: Actually two more things:

You need to add a minimize button to the preview window (mentioned earlier).
The help button on the Avisynth script creator window should be Help, and not Hel (just noticed).

[stax76]

I think the normal way would be using Form.Owner instead of top most and minimize title bar button.

[Kurtnoise]

Got a chance to look at this one. Yes, this is better now. Two things still (both mentioned earlier):

Is the (!) and the text toolTip at the top needed
for every tooltip?
well...either we keep this way or we remove everything. We cannot choose the title and icon for a particular tooltip.

Zones are missing from the x264 config dialog.
It's not my top priority to add this right now...


btw, thanks for your tests. I'll try to upload a new build this weekend.

[unskinnyboy]

well...either we keep this way or we remove everything. We cannot choose the title and icon for a particular tooltip.I propose we remove everything. We don't need titles for the tooltips, and you don't need to specify that they are tooltips either. It's self-explanatory what they are.
It's not my top priority to add this right now...Any reason why it was removed, in the first place?

EDIT: Another question - why is the maximum number of B-frames for Xvid restricted to 4, in the Xvid configuration dialog?

[anonova]

Why does the Avisynth creator choose 47:20 (2.35:1) instead of 239:100 (2.39:1)?

[toytown]

Is it possible to get a debug version of megui? I get a lot of problems with the UI freezing up on my machine (the encoding is always fine), ive already bought it up in this forum, but im guessing most people dont have the issue, so i would love to be able to somehow find what it is and fix it.

Its almost always (maybe always) caused when i click SAVE AVS or open a video/audio file, so im guessing its something to do with the FileOpen prompts.

[stax76]

Debug version don't help I think, the .NET runtime should show a dialog with the exception if the application don't handle the exception. On freeze it's more difficult, I would guess some unmanaged library causing the freeze, maybe some AviSynth plugin. You would first have to find out how to reproduce it because you write 'maybe always', that implies it's arbitrary and that makes things a lot more difficult.

[toytown]

Megui and Staxrip both give me the same issue, so it could be related to AVIsynth or something they both use as its the only 2 apps i have freezes on.

In staxrip, i can load vob files in, click a profile and add a single movie to the jobs list ready for encode (i can preview/crop etc etc). When i click on add for the second movie, it will always freeze at the "Source Files" window when i click the ADD button. To get around this, i setup 1 job, then close staxrip and then reopen staxrip and add another job.

In megui, the problem is more frequent, for instance i can click AVS script creator and import a video, i can use the resize button, and if i click save, then it works. If i click the "preview AVS script" button after making changes, then when i click the SAVE button, it normally freezes. From the main menu in Megui if i click the Input AVS script button after using AVS script generator then it will freeze.

It at first appeared to be related to clicking the fileopen/filesave boxes as these are points at which it freezes on me, like i said encoding never fails and never freezes. This is with Vista64, the exact same input files have been used on my Vista32 machine and they run with no lockups.

When Megui freezes the window comes up not responding and i get the option to check for a solution/close/wait, i get the following information

MeGUI - Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: megui.exe
Application Version: 0.2.6.1046
Application Timestamp: 47eba5a1
Hang Signature: 96c3
Hang Type: 780
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Hang Signature 1: d28aac273863aea295699031280c53fb
Additional Hang Signature 2: 7e1e
Additional Hang Signature 3: eac75c80a8782d0a722cf2b356c49b70
Additional Hang Signature 4: 96c3
Additional Hang Signature 5: d28aac273863aea295699031280c53fb
Additional Hang Signature 6: 7e1e
Additional Hang Signature 7: eac75c80a8782d0a722cf2b356c49b70

When Staxrip freezes the window comes up not responding and i get the option to check for a solution/close/wait, i get the following information

STAXRIP - Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: StaxRip.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.1
Application Timestamp: 46596e81
Hang Signature: 9d28
Hang Type: 780
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Hang Signature 1: 08655354ba4025e90c831abc70463fc9
Additional Hang Signature 2: 8b4b
Additional Hang Signature 3: b10f432476cf4d9feb2d2746290ea755
Additional Hang Signature 4: 9d28
Additional Hang Signature 5: 08655354ba4025e90c831abc70463fc9
Additional Hang Signature 6: 8b4b
Additional Hang Signature 7: b10f432476cf4d9feb2d2746290ea755

Trying to solve the problem i downloaded the source-code for Megui, even though i dont know what im doing, i did manage to get 2.6.1046 running of Megui and trying to trace the same steps i used above to make it crash would give me the following error on my compiled version.

"MeGUI encountered a fatal error and may not be able to proceed

Reason : Unable to load DLL 'AvisynthWrapper' : The specified module could not be found (Exception from HRESULT 0x8007007E) source exception : MeGUI stacktrace: at

MeGUI.AviSynthClip.dimzon_avs_destroy(IntPtr& avs)
at MeGUI.AviSynthClip.cleanup(Boolean disposing)"

So perhaps the culprit is AVIsynth somehow? I have reinstalled it several times, even going through the registry and folders to make sure its gone, but its one of the things that is common to both programs.

EDIT - It also happens on the latest build of Staxrip, i went back to using the older one because i didnt think it had a problem (as thats whats running on my 32Bit Vista).

[stax76]

If the encoding works then it it's probably not plugin related, you still could try to sweep the entire AviSynth plugin dir and just download the plugins StaxRip is asking for. If that don't work please make a bug report as described on the support (http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/support)page, if it works please put back the old plugins one by one to find out which one causes the freeze. I can add a warning for this plugin then (there are already warnings for several plugins). At which point crashes StaxRip? If it's the file browsers, than it's probably a windows or .NET bug. The code executed when you click the 'Add' button but is:


Using d As New OpenFileDialog
d.Multiselect = True
d.Filter = g.GetFileDialogFilter("Video Files", s.VideoFileTypes)
d.InitialDirectory = s.LastSourceDir

If d.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
lb.Items.AddRange(d.FileNames.Sort.ToArray)
UpdateControls()
End If
End Using


I can actually see a bug there, setting 'InitialDirectory' with a non existing directory is known to be not tolarated by .NET or the OS or by some version of it. I had a bug report for that before and it seems I missed to search the entire code for that issue or reintroduced one. Quite possible this causes file open and file save dialogs to crash in both, staxrip and megui. I've uploaded a new beta fixing this so you might try if that was the problem.

[toytown]

I've uploaded a new beta fixing this so you might try if that was the problem

Thanx, i tried the new beta and unfortunately its even worse for me. I can start the process of adding an encode, by selecting the VOB files, then clicking through the preview/crop/etc dialogs. When i get to the prompt "Click on the Next Button to add a job", i click the next button and the Jobs window appears, but all the dialogs/buttons inside are blank and the app has frozen. This happens everysingle time, so using this version for me there is absolutely no way to add a job :(.

EDIT - I was going to post a bug report, but i never get the crash files even if i use the help menu to make one, it just opens the support page in firefox

[stax76]

You said it's Vista 64, right? I think I should get such a system and run some tests.

[toytown]

Correct my Vista32 build runs the programs with no faults and is doing the brunt of my encoding....but its also my HTPC, so i would really like to move encoding back to my 64bit machine in future. Somebody else in here posted that they were running 64bit and got exactly the same issues, so it could be related to the build, or could just be a bizarre issue thats got both of us :(.

If theres anything i can do to help to find the bug i would be willing to try.

[lubczyk]

How Do I delete workers in Megui? Megui keeps making a temporary worker. I and other people constantly use the computer for internet, typing, e-mail, et cetera and I want only one job being performed at any one time.

[toytown]

I believe its
1. Click Workers Tab
2. Click Workers Summary
3. When new window pops up, click the worker you want to disable and right click abort on it, obviously if a job is there, it will be aborted. This should remove the worker from Megui

[lubczyk]

I believe its
1. Click Workers Tab
2. Click Workers Summary
3. When new window pops up, click the worker you want to disable and right click abort on it, obviously if a job is there, it will be aborted. This should remove the worker from Megui


Thank you for the help. I really appreciate it!!!:thanks:

[Seraphic-]

Hi,

What is the correct format to use "Downmix Multichannel to Dolby Pro Logic II?
I tried a six channel multi-channel WAV, but it keeps returning an error with nothing in the log for a reason.

Here is the raw multi-channel if anyone wants to try. (http://www.temp.seraphicgate.com/testwav.rar)

Thanks

[EuropeanMan]

for any NEW VERSION of MeGUI, can you PLEASE keep the bitrate calculator from version 2.5? i need to do EXACT MB encodings...not get rounded up to the next GB as it shows in 2.6 & also 3 beta version?

[NexGen76]

Hello Guys im a noob at this but is there a guide it installing Megui on Vista.This is my first time every dealing with Vista.Also what Frame server do i need 2.0 like windows? Thxs

[Atak_Snajpera]

What is your problem? You should try yourself and then ask.

[stax76]

@NexGen76

On Vista it might not be much different to XP, you might have to run it as admin because on Vista by default applications run with limited privilegs and MeGUI might have problems with that. You simply right-click the executable and select Run As Administrator. As noob it's a good idea to read some tutorials, google for megui tutorial or megui guide.

[NexGen76]

What is your problem? You should try yourself and then ask.


Because im having PC built & i will have it by this weekend thats why i ask so how can i try if i don't have the system...Simple question simple answer....



Thxs alot Stax.

[tph]

I'm getting "Job creation aborted due to invalid AviSynth script" when enqueueing a 1920x1080 avs for x264 encoding. x264 handles the file fine by adding extra lines and setting crop flags but I cannot do this through MeGUI which is a shame. The error goes away when changing to a mod16 resolution in the avisynth script.

Is there any way to use MeGUI to encode non-mod16 resolutions?

[fleon]

So I extracted the audio of an avi file with yamb but now I wanna cut it, but I dont know how can I do it, in megui there is a part named audio cutter but it ask for a cut file, and I dont have it, so how can I do it? or if it a another way apart from megui, I'll glad if someone could point me that out

[Kurtnoise]

Actually two more things:

You need to add a minimize button to the preview window (mentioned earlier).
The help button on the Avisynth script creator window should be Help, and not Hel (just noticed).

ok done...but not committed yet.


If you have some time, could you put here some tooltips for the xvid compressor settings ? I would like to update this. :)

[Kurtnoise]

What is the correct format to use "Downmix Multichannel to Dolby Pro Logic II?
I tried a six channel multi-channel WAV, but it keeps returning an error with nothing in the log for a reason.

Here is the raw multi-channel if anyone wants to try. (http://www.temp.seraphicgate.com/testwav.rar)

please, cut your wav file...only ~10Mb is sufficient.

[Kurtnoise]

Is there any way to use MeGUI to encode non-mod16 resolutions?
why would you like to do that ?

[tph]

why would you like to do that ?

Encode source material without having to crop. For example, FRAPS'ed video at 1920x1080. x264 handles this fine, I don't see the purpose of preventing it in MeGUI.