MeGUI: General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

[Sharktooth]

.net framework 2.0 and avisynth 2.5.7.
ffdshow (latest) and haali media splitter are not required but could be useful if your sources are not dvd/mpeg-2.

[Jackal1985]

You need Microsoft .NET to run Megui. ;)

That's actually what I was doing wrong. I thought I had installed it but apparently not! But now when I go to create a file, I get the file loaded up (from the D2V creator thing) press start and then the preview window that's supposed to open doesn't. I swear I read something on what to do if that happens, but now I can't find it...

[MOS-Marauder]

Hmm i was wrong.... it is not working...
MEGui encodes the Ac3, then pass 1 and after it it stops.
In the Cue it says error @ pass1 but in the Log everything looks fine.

But why ?


Marauder

Edit: he stops pass1 at 90%

[Sharktooth]

MOS-Marauder, it's not megui then... but the problem happens with the encoder that is crashing. Check your system for instabilities running memtest86 and prime95 overnight.

[MOS-Marauder]

MOS-Marauder, it's not megui then... but the problem happens with the encoder that is crashing. Check your system for instabilities running memtest86 and prime95 overnight.


Well i have done the same thing with lmx264 gui (all same settings and presets, bitrates and so on) and he finished both passes flawless.

By the way... i checked my sys when i overclocked it ;)

It was 11 hrs Primestable, then i stopped it ;) Prime95 V2.56

So its not the System.. AND... before that one Core Update everything worked fine for Weeks.

Marauder

[LeXXuz]

Ok, sorry to bring up the aspect ratio issue with anamorphic encodes again. But now it strikes me with x264. I made lots of encodes the last days. All worked just fine.

Last night however I ended up with 4 of 6 encodes with screwed up ratio settings.

What's the issue with the preview window? In some older threads I read it should stay open. So I restarted a screwed up encode with the window open. Same result.

Other workaround I read was to use resize to mod16 instead of overcrop. I really don't want to use any resizer at all, so this is no option to me.

I am curious why the --sar values use such high numbers (like --sar 6415517758424:4398046514201). Is that necessary?

Anamorphic PAL will always end up with something like 1,45xxx. I think even the 4th digit after the decimal point will hardly make a difference (compared to the 16:11 setting) on the a.r. of the picture. Maybe one or two pixels in width, if at all.

I checked my log-files and it seems that all encodes with these high values are screwed up. Possible overflow causing some kind of error? If that's the reason maybe the values for the sar-setting should be limited to 4 or 5 digits?

[NexGen76]

I'm using Megui to do my Blu-Ray AVCHD encodes but for some reason after i Demux(TsMuxeR) the BD file & install it into Megui everything looks fine far as my PQ & my main movie file i use it fine no issue watch it on my PC before & after encode.But after 14 hours of encoding my video output is pixel like crazy the whole movie to the point it unwatchable.I just started having these problem with Megui because i have used Megui & the same method & same profile before with no issue do anyone have any clue to whats going on.Thxs


AnyDVDHD- rip my BD
TsMuxeR-Demux
Megui-encode my video no audio

[Sharktooth]

Ok, sorry to bring up the aspect ratio issue with anamorphic encodes again. But now it strikes me with x264. I made lots of encodes the last days. All worked just fine.

Last night however I ended up with 4 of 6 encodes with screwed up ratio settings.

What's the issue with the preview window? In some older threads I read it should stay open. So I restarted a screwed up encode with the window open. Same result.

Other workaround I read was to use resize to mod16 instead of overcrop. I really don't want to use any resizer at all, so this is no option to me.

I am curious why the --sar values use such high numbers (like --sar 6415517758424:4398046514201). Is that necessary?

Anamorphic PAL will always end up with something like 1,45xxx. I think even the 4th digit after the decimal point will hardly make a difference (compared to the 16:11 setting) on the a.r. of the picture. Maybe one or two pixels in width, if at all.

I checked my log-files and it seems that all encodes with these high values are screwed up. Possible overflow causing some kind of error? If that's the reason maybe the values for the sar-setting should be limited to 4 or 5 digits?
the AR bug is still there and the preview window is no longer a problem.

[Sharktooth]

I'm using Megui to do my Blu-Ray AVCHD encodes but for some reason after i Demux(TsMuxeR) the BD file & install it into Megui everything looks fine far as my PQ & my main movie file i use it fine no issue watch it on my PC before & after encode.But after 14 hours of encoding my video output is pixel like crazy the whole movie to the point it unwatchable.I just started having these problem with Megui because i have used Megui & the same method & same profile before with no issue do anyone have any clue to whats going on.Thxs


AnyDVDHD- rip my BD
TsMuxeR-Demux
Megui-encode my video no audio
check your temps and hardware (for instabilities - prime95 overnight and memtest86)

[corporalgator]

I'm not sure if this is a vobsub bug or a megui bug, but I think it's megui. I haven't had it happen before the past couple days. If I have more than one .ifo file in a folder, no matter which one I select and press enqueue, it always enqueues the last one so that I have to cut any other ifos and vobs I am trying to extract subs from and paste them into another folder. Any idea why this is happening?

[Sharktooth]

coz you're doing it the wrong way.
for DVDs you must use d2vcreator first... then avs creator and load the avs as input.
:readguid:

[NexGen76]

check your temps and hardware (for instabilities - prime95 overnight and memtest86)


Can you explain that in a way for Dummy's terms.Thxs for all the work you do & a great program.Also checkout this profile that my friend Ryu made that gives great results.I would like you thought on it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?rmm0gybjotj

[saint-francis]

Can you explain that in a way for Dummy's terms.
Download this (http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/index.php?Download)program and try running it over night. Also try running this (http://www.memtest.org/)program, memtest 86+. If you have an Intel processor you could try this (http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/)program or this (http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/)one to keep your eye on the temperature of it while running you stress test. If you're using an AMD CPU I don't know what you'd use to monitor temperature.

[corporalgator]

coz you're doing it the wrong way.
for DVDs you must use d2vcreator first... then avs creator and load the avs as input.
:readguid:

:confused: But vobsubber only accepts .ifo files as input. I have already encoded the video and demuxed the audio files, and I extracted the subtitles just fine because I moved the other ifo and vob files into separate folders so that megui would stop queueing the last one in the folder.

I have an older copy of Bridge on the River Kwai. For some strange reason, the entire movie is cut into two parts but on the same side of the same disc with each of the parts having their own ifo files. So on the disk it's
vts_1_0.ifo
vts_1_0.vob
vts_1_1.vob
vts_1_2.vob
vts_2_0.ifo
vts_2_0.vob
vts_2_1.vob
vts_2_2.vob
With dvddecryptor, I had to extract each of those separately leaving me with two equal sized vob files since the movie was split exactly in the center when I extracted in ifo mode and could not do them both at once since you can only do one pgc at a time. Naturally, dvddecryptor placed them both in the same folder. This also happens if I say rip a pixar movie and the short also.

Now, I can do everything else fine, but if I load in this case vts_1_0.ifo with vobsubber in megui and click enqueue, it ignores me and enqueues vts_2_0.ifo or vts_3_0.ifo or whatever number comes last in whatever folder I am in. If I run the job all it does create vts_*_0.idx and .sub of whatever is the last ifo is in my folder.

I could just always rip to separate folders, but I was just wondering if you knew of this problem and if it's vobsubber or megui?

[Kurtnoise]

I'm not sure if this is a vobsub bug or a megui bug, but I think it's megui. I haven't had it happen before the past couple days. If I have more than one .ifo file in a folder, no matter which one I select and press enqueue, it always enqueues the last one so that I have to cut any other ifos and vobs I am trying to extract subs from and paste them into another folder. Any idea why this is happening?
it's because megui selects the IFO from the main movie, not necessary the one that you have selected. I know it's not accurate and that should be improve...

[LeXXuz]

the AR bug is still there and the preview window is no longer a problem.

Ah OK. I guess it is the size of the decimal fractions then? I re-encoded the files with the AR-values meGUI calculated but set the values manually and skipped everything but the first 5 digits. All look fine now. :)

[MOS-Marauder]

HM i still cannot use MeGui to encode my 1080p Movie....
I tried lmx264 gui but that tool dont keep my entered avg Bitrate (1 GB bigger then Bitrate calc said). (Both passes rum smoothly so why dont ME gui is doing it ?)

I saw that pass1 was finised (not at 90% - rest goes fast...)
Then there is a video.stats.temp File but not renamed to video.stats.
Thats why pass1 stops with error.
(and pass 2 cannot find its tempfile)
Whats this?

Marauder

[Dark Shikari]

HM i still cannot use MeGui to encode my 1080p Movie....
I tried lmx264 gui but that tool dont keep my entered avg Bitrate (1 GB bigger then Bitrate calc said). (Both passes rum smoothly so why dont ME gui is doing it ?)

I saw that pass1 was finised (not at 90% - rest goes fast...)
Then there is a video.stats.temp File but not renamed to video.stats.
Thats why pass1 stops with error.
(and pass 2 cannot find its tempfile)
Whats this?

MarauderIf .temp didn't get removed from the statsfile name, it means x264 didn't terminate normally.

[MOS-Marauder]

If .temp didn't get removed from the statsfile name, it means x264 didn't terminate normally.

According to Megui log it finishes normally.

Im gonna try the same thinggy now @ Vista...

Marauder

[LeXXuz]

Anybody else getting defective x264 encodes with distortions from the latest build?

I have uploaded a testfile here:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-1124260/testfile.mp4.html

The same source worked fine with an older build (pre 2014).

I am pretty sure that I can exclude any hardware failure, cause I get the same result on two completely different machines.

My x264 settings:
--crf 18.0 --level 4 --ref 4 --mixed-refs --no-fast-pskip --bframes 4 --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --weightb --direct auto --trellis 2 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8 --8x8dct --qpmin 6 --qpmax 42 --ipratio 1.1 --pbratio 1.1 --vbv-bufsize 9000 --vbv-maxrate 20000 --qcomp 0.5 --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --progress --no-dct-decimate --no-psnr --no-ssim --output --sar 64:45

Any ideas?

[MOS-Marauder]

If .temp didn't get removed from the statsfile name, it means x264 didn't terminate normally.

How can i see WHY it doesnt end properly ?

If i do the 2 passes manually it works... also other guis as mentioned in another post....

Marauder

[AMED]

Anybody else getting defective x264 encodes with distortions from the latest build?

I've been getting the same problem, it seems to be a player problem, kmplayer will get the blocking, VLC plays it fine.

Check THIS (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141164) thread out.

[juGGaKNot]

I've been getting the same problem, it seems to be a player problem, kmplayer will get the blocking, VLC plays it fine.

Check THIS (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141164) thread out.

I can confirm that. mpc/mpc-hc plays fine

[LeXXuz]

I've been getting the same problem, it seems to be a player problem, kmplayer will get the blocking, VLC plays it fine.

Check THIS (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141164) thread out.

:thanks: for calming my nerves. :D Thought I would have to re-encode a bunch of files...

[corporalgator]

it's because megui selects the IFO from the main movie, not necessary the one that you have selected. I know it's not accurate and that should be improve...

Ok, thanks :)

[MOS-Marauder]

According to Megui log it finishes normally.

Im gonna try the same thinggy now @ Vista...

Marauder



Back from Vista ;)

It encoded pass 1, renamed the Stats and somewhere in pass2 Vista crashed.

(but i guess because WMP11 playing German 70s Music *G*)

Now i started Pass 2 with this Statsfile @ XP again....


Marauder

[NexGen76]

check your temps and hardware (for instabilities - prime95 overnight and memtest86)


Done, Hardware fine & temps over 1.90GB of files i cleaned out also made a dump folder for all my temps.I just notice that before i encode video only TsMuxeR video is Pixel all to hell also before i input into Megui.So this issue isn't a Megui problem.Whats my next step.......Thxs for all the help .Could it be a codec issue i uninstaller K-Lite yesterday & installed CCCP. Or could it be this bug i read about on here that's in libavcodec?


My video looks just like his

http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bugqg7.png

[MOS-Marauder]

Done, Hardware fine & temps over 1.90GB of files i cleaned out also made a dump folder for all my temps.I just notice that before i encode video only TsMuxeR video is Pixel all to hell also before i input into Megui.So this issue isn't a Megui problem.Whats my next step.......Thxs for all the help .Could it be a codec issue i uninstaller K-Lite yesterday & installed CCCP. Or could it be this bug i read about on here that's in libavcodec?


My video looks just like his

http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bugqg7.png

I have this when i use VLC to play...

Try Media Player Classic with CoreAVC or Cyberlink Codec...

They work fine...

[MOS-Marauder]

Nice nice... No errors in Log.. but one strange thing:
I entered 10250 as Video Bitrate (Auto encode) but MeGui used 1000 !!!!!

now i give up....

Marauder

[Sharktooth]

that's not possible unless you selected "No target size (use profile settings)".
however, for all those experiencing crashes with x264, try updating to the latest build available in the auto-update server and see if it fixes the problem.

[NexGen76]

I have this when i use VLC to play...

Try Media Player Classic with CoreAVC or Cyberlink Codec...

They work fine...


My problem isn't a media player its got to be codec related because when i burn my AVCHD they are pixel like crazy but the main mts ripped file is fine until i encode it with megui or demux it with TsMuxeR.I just found out that my FFDshow is a old build from 2005.I will update to the last one 9/15/08 i hope this fix the problem.Thxs for the help & being easy with me my PC knowledge isn't on par with you guys.

[Vesi]

I'm getting this error whenever i try to make my D2V file, and as well when I load my old script, same with avsp. this happened since last update of megui, any idea why?

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5766/62444204is7.png

[LeXXuz]

I'm getting this error whenever i try to make my D2V file, and as well when I load my old script, same with avsp. this happened since last update of megui, any idea why?

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5766/62444204is7.png

Have you tried using another folder than "Documents and Settings"? Try something like C:\Movie\

[Vesi]

I have tried C:\Movie\ , still the same prob.

[poisondeathray]

Vesi - maybe you are using different versions of DGIndex? What happens when you use DGIndex manually (not through MeGUI)?

[Kurtnoise]

what is the filename of your IFO ? or at least, does this file exists in the folder ?

[Vesi]

I.m using MeGUI's DGindex, and i havn't tried it manuly.

@ Kurtnoise13: offcurse there is file in folder, this happen to me for the first time.

[Kurtnoise]

what is the filename then ?

VOBs and IFO files must begin with VTS_xx_, where xx is a digit.

[Vesi]

Vts_01_1

[Kurtnoise]

could you upload your IFO file please ?

[Vesi]

Give me 2 min.

[corporalgator]

If you update the core of megui and then click no to restart now, the update will fail. I had finished my queue for the night of batch encodes and just wanted to update and then close the program out and would start it again later when it was needed.

[Sharktooth]

that's quite normal. if megui is not restarted the .exe is "in use" and the updater cant replace megui with the newer version. just dont update while you're running jobs.

[ZZZERO]

When I choose subme 6 I don't see subme anywhere in the command line or in the log file. If I choose subme 7 or other subme levels I see the proper subme in the command line. Is this a bug? I believe I am using the most updated versions of everything

[Sharktooth]

coz subme 6 is the default and doesnt need to be specified in the commandline.

[mverta]

Here's what I'm doing: I need to encode 1 minute of original HD material (CG visual effects shots) so it can be viewed on an XBox.

For the source file, I'm rendering completely uncompressed .avi at 1920x1080, 24fps.

I'm using the Tools>AviSynth Script Creator to make an avs for the master .avi file. It previews fine in the window.

After making the avs, MeGUI converts to .mp4 just fine - it will play on the Xbox and everything. The only problem is, it only plays the first 15 seconds of the video, and then pads the remaining 45 seconds with black. The encoding process seems to go very slowly until about 50%, then it speeds up greatly.

So again, it's encoding viewable media, just not all of it!

Ideas?


_Mike

[Sharktooth]

does your avs script play without problems in a directshow media player (wmp, mpc, etc)?

[mverta]

No, it doesn't, actually. In mpc it gets to about 29 seconds and then it sort of freezes.. the progress slider at the bottom continues, but the video doesn't update. Odd...


_Mike

[darkKlor]

I've never gotten MeGUI to do a dvd->xvid rip properly for me! last nite i decided to try this guide http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/me_gui_convert_to_xvid.cfm, but in the past i've tried the official MeGUI guides.. but i cant get a 700mb file.. :@:@:@ last nite the file size in AutoEncode was set to 700mb, and i wake up and find a 485mb muxed video!! this isnt the first time either. GordianKnot always gave me either 692mb or 708mb (never 700mb), but at least it was within the ballpark. I just want my rips to come out like aXXo's do, 700-701mb. every time i try this program it just frustrates me though because yet another rip is a FAIL

[Sharktooth]

post your avisynth script, your preset... and the logfile.

@mverta: that's the problem. if your decoder cant correctly decode the lossless file, it cant be correctly encoded.