MeGUI: General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

[Kurtnoise]

run pass 1 before pass 2...

[ckmox]

run pass 1 before pass 2...

thanks i just select "automated 2 pass" on the encoding mode and it work :)

[pcjco04]

Small bug in the OneClick dialog :

When clicking on OneClick profile "Config" from the One Click Encoder panel, the "OneClick configuration dialog" shown after doesn't set the "AutoCrop" check button.
But when switching profiles directly in the "OneClick configuration dialog" , the "AutoCrop" value is set.

[pcjco04]

Small bug in the Avisynth script creator :

When checking clever anamorphic, the combo on the right (Resize to mod16,...) becomes sensible but the value used in this combo should modify some values in the Crop&Resize frame (for example "Resize to mod16" make "Resize" check button grey,...).
In order to make these changes you must yourself re-select "Resize to mod16" to make these changes in the Crop&Resize frame.

[Sharktooth]

pcjco04: dont report bugs in this thread. there is a bugtracker on megui project page on sourceforge.

[rapscallion]

This seems to happen whenever I muxe a HD ts /VC-1 stream to a *.mt2s.
When I load the avs script into Megui, instead of the video preview, I receive the error:

"Direct Show Source: render file, the filter graph won't talk to me, avs script line 1."
Line 1 is the dir path to the m2ts file.

I googled this and the only answer I could find was to uninstall and reinstall ffdshow.
Didn't change the error for me so any help would be appreciated.

BTW, everthing works fine with Blu-ray source, just not the HD DVD's.

[buzzqw]

be sure in ffdshow VC-1 decoder is set to WMV9 and not libavcodec
also.. be sure to have installed wmp11

BHH

[molitar]

Help! I try to encode a video and it shows window.. immediately closes window.. and queue shows error.. but I can see no error in logs preventing it from converting.

[Information] Log
-[Information] Versions
--[NoImage] MeGUI Version : 0.3.1.1051
--[NoImage] OS : Windows XP Professional x86 SP3 (5.1.196608.2600)
--[NoImage] Framework used : 2.0 SP1 (2.0.50727.3053)
-[Information] Hardware
--[NoImage] CPU : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
-[Information] Log for job2 (video, VTS_01_1.avs -> )
--[Information] [7/27/2009 4:41:13 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [7/27/2009 4:41:13 AM] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files\megui\tools\x264\x264.exe" --profile high --pass 1 --bitrate 1000 --stats "C:\Downloads\VTS_01_1.stats" --level 4.1 --ref 1 --no-mixed-refs --b-adapt 2 --no-weightb --direct auto --deblock 1:1 --subme 2 --trellis 0 --partitions none --vbv-bufsize 50000 --vbv-maxrate 50000 --me dia --thread-input --aq-mode 0 --sar 1:1 --output NUL "C:\Downloads\VTS_01_1.avs"
--[Information] [7/27/2009 4:41:14 AM] Encoding started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
--[NoImage] Standard error stream
--[Information] [7/27/2009 4:41:14 AM] Job completed

[rapscallion]

be sure in ffdshow VC-1 decoder is set to WMV9 and not libavcodec
also.. be sure to have installed wmp11

BHH
Thank you ! That did the trick (also,I was running wmp9).

[Kurtnoise]

Help! I try to encode a video and it shows window.. immediately closes window.. and queue shows error.. but I can see no error in logs preventing it from converting.

[Information] Log
-[Information] Versions
--[NoImage] MeGUI Version : 0.3.1.1051
--[NoImage] OS : Windows XP Professional x86 SP3 (5.1.196608.2600)
--[NoImage] Framework used : 2.0 SP1 (2.0.50727.3053)
-[Information] Hardware
--[NoImage] CPU : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
-[Information] Log for job2 (video, VTS_01_1.avs -> )
--[Information] [7/27/2009 4:41:13 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [7/27/2009 4:41:13 AM] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files\megui\tools\x264\x264.exe" --profile high --pass 1 --bitrate 1000 --stats "C:\Downloads\VTS_01_1.stats" --level 4.1 --ref 1 --no-mixed-refs --b-adapt 2 --no-weightb --direct auto --deblock 1:1 --subme 2 --trellis 0 --partitions none --vbv-bufsize 50000 --vbv-maxrate 50000 --me dia --thread-input --aq-mode 0 --sar 1:1 --output NUL "C:\Downloads\VTS_01_1.avs"
--[Information] [7/27/2009 4:41:14 AM] Encoding started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
--[NoImage] Standard error stream
--[Information] [7/27/2009 4:41:14 AM] Job completed
megui uses an heuristic method to prevent you to transcode such files. That's cool, isn't it ? :cool:



/me runs away...:stupid:

[Ramir Gonzales]

Perhaps instead of trying to be funny, looking at your code, because it has become 1 giant buggy mess lately could make things better. Look at all the MeGui related error reports around, the bugs are everywhere.

[Kurtnoise]

why are you posting here ? you even don't know how to read a user bug report...

[Gruelius]

I get crashes when it tries to mux, im on win7 x64 rtm.

[molitar]

Ok is this a bug with the latest MEGUI? I am not able to encode at all using XP Pro SP3 but I can when I dual booted into Vista 32bit Sp1. Any idea what might cause this? Newest MEGUI not compatible with XP?

[Kurtnoise]

I get crashes when it tries to mux, im on win7 x64 rtm.
which container ? with what kind of streams ? more details please...

Ok is this a bug with the latest MEGUI? I am not able to encode at all using XP Pro SP3 but I can when I dual booted into Vista 32bit Sp1. Any idea what might cause this? Newest MEGUI not compatible with XP?
megui works flawlessly on XP...Maybe you need to reinstall Avisynth 2.5.8 + the latest FFdshow try-outs + the latest Haali Media Splitter.

[molitar]

Ok I am not sure what made it work.. I uninstalled Sp3.. I uninstalled megui, Corecodec, community codec pack, windows 9 media encoder, dvix, xvid, avisynth and ac3. I than restarted.. and reinstalled the avisynth, community codec pack, ffdshow and was finally able to get the converter to run.

[Kurtnoise]

CCCP includes FFdshow...no need to install it twice.

[seb37_2]

Hi,
Sorry for my bad english and (maybe) my stupid question^^
I use megui and x264 to make mp4 (best encode i ever seen for the moment).

I have 2 questions :

- it's possible to reduce the processor using when i play a simple mp4 h264 ? (i mean when a computer read a mp4, offline or online, the processor work very hard i maybe there is a way to reduce that ?). that's depends maybe the bitrate use ?
- I don't understand the sytem of "keyframe"... Canwe change the number of keyframe with Megui ? (or avs script?). What is the rule ? i read that we must insert 1 keyframe every 5 second (so if my video make 1 minute, i just need 12 keyframe ?). there are a difference for the keyframe between progressive download and streaming ? (more keyframe for streaming ?).

Thanks by advance for this information :)

[Gruelius]

which container ? with what kind of streams ? more details please...


megui works flawlessly on XP...Maybe you need to reinstall Avisynth 2.5.8 + the latest FFdshow try-outs + the latest Haali Media Splitter.

Xvid Video
Mp3 ABR audio

AVI container.

*log part*

[Information] Log for job4 (mux, kernleak.avi -> kernleak-muxed.avi)
-[Information] [30/07/2009 9:10:22 AM] Started handling job
-[Information] [30/07/2009 9:10:22 AM] Preprocessing
-[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\avimux_gui\avimux_gui.exe" "C:\Users\Julius\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp379E.tmp"
-[Information] [30/07/2009 9:10:23 AM] Muxing started
-[NoImage] Standard output stream
-[NoImage] Standard error stream
-[Information] [30/07/2009 9:10:29 AM] Postprocessing
-[Information] [30/07/2009 9:10:29 AM] Job completed

What happens is windows comes up saying that the program has crashed, after i accept it and windows closes it megui continues on with its other tasks

[masterisaa]

hello, this is my story.... (again)........

someday i had downloaded i video(mp4)..... and i used to know the fps by wmpc. but this file, there was no fps on it
so i said no problem, i will use changeFPS and nothing will be wrong. but the problem happened, there was an unacceptable delay for the subtitle (sub and audio goes together but not with the picture).

now, i use two methods with my video subtitling, the 1st compressing the video and the sub using megui.
and the 2nd joining that video with another two videos and the sub (avisynth script) then compress it with megui.

but neitherone did work (alway delay).

so this is my code

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

video1= aviSource("video1.avi", audio=true).BiCubicResize(1280,720)
video1= changeFPS(video1, 23)
video2= DirectShowSource("video2.mkv", audio=true).trim(0,17740)
video2= changeFPS(video2, 23)
video3= aviSource("video3.avi", audio=true).BiCubicResize(1280,720)
video3= changeFPS(video3, 23)
video4= DirectShowSource("video2.mkv", audio=true).trim(17740,36919)
video4= changeFPS(video4, 23)

video1 ++ video2++ video3 ++ video4

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\VSFilter.dll")
TextSub("video2.ass")

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

please respond to me

and just to notice, the avs file works perfectly in wmpc, megui (the screen i mean), vdubmod, and the screen of aegisub.
but not after compressing.

hope you have the answer.

[shemoiu]

When I open MeGUI, the screen of my pc blink very fast for many times alternating a black screen and Desktop. The cursor of mouse transform on a white small quadrate. At the left top you can see a prompt line. After that the interface of the program open, but when i try to open a file
show this message

OS: Windows XP SP 3
K-Lite Codec Pack (last version)

Quad Q6600
GeForce 9600 GT
2 GB DDR

sorry for my english



http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/2629/avisynth.jpghttp://img56.imageshack.us/img56/avisynth.jpg/1/w342.png

[flebber]

When I open MeGUI, the screen of my pc blink very fast for many times alternating a black screen and Desktop. The cursor of mouse transform on a white small quadrate. At the left top you can see a prompt line. After that the interface of the program open, but when i try to open a file
show this message

OS: Windows XP SP 3
K-Lite Codec Pack (last version)

Quad Q6600
GeForce 9600 GT
2 GB DDR

sorry for my english



http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/2629/avisynth.jpghttp://img56.imageshack.us/img56/avisynth.jpg/1/w342.png

Uninstall k-lite codec pack, install ffdshow and haali media splitter. Then test your avisynth install.

[Kurtnoise]

What happens is windows comes up saying that the program has crashed, after i accept it and windows closes it megui continues on with its other tasks
you mean AvimuxGUI or megui ? which OS did you use ?


- it's possible to reduce the processor using when i play a simple mp4 h264 ? (i mean when a computer read a mp4, offline or online, the processor work very hard i maybe there is a way to reduce that ?). that's depends maybe the bitrate use ?
bitrate, yes, and the settings used too...

- I don't understand the sytem of "keyframe"... Canwe change the number of keyframe with Megui ? (or avs script?). What is the rule ? i read that we must insert 1 keyframe every 5 second (so if my video make 1 minute, i just need 12 keyframe ?). there are a difference for the keyframe between progressive download and streaming ? (more keyframe for streaming ?).
Open the compressor configuration form, goes to the 2nd tab and change the min GOP size according to your desire.

[nakTT]

Its been a while since I receive the last update (x264 latest version and other update) for MeGUI. Is there any issue with the update server or is it just me?

:thanks:

[Kurtnoise]

It seems that Sharktooth has taken a break or something that's why you don't have any updates from the server. Meanwhile, you can update it by yourself (download & replace the old build by the new one). but if you do that, I'd say that to manage correctly the latest x264, you have to use the latest megui build from svn trunk. I can provide you a build if you want...

[nakTT]

It seems that Sharktooth has taken a break or something that's why you don't have any updates from the server. Meanwhile, you can update it by yourself (download & replace the old build by the new one). but if you do that, I'd say that to manage correctly the latest x264, you have to use the latest megui build from svn trunk. I can provide you a build if you want...
Will the build from svn trunk that you have be compatible with existing MeGUI update server?

:thanks:

[Kurtnoise]

if you don't use the latest x264 features, yes...

[nakTT]

if you don't use the latest x264 features, yes...
I would definitely love to use the latest two options/features in the encoding setting. Anyway, thanks for offering me help.

:thanks:

[Kurtnoise]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1310844#post1310844

[namus]

I have a DVD ripped with ripit4me, demuxed with DGIndex and avisynth script created with megui.

I wanted to do a 1 CD (700 MB) encode. I did 128 kbps MP3 encode for the audio and the filesize came to 57.6 MB. Then I used the bitrate calculator and the video bitrate came to be 1093 kbps. But when I use these settings and encode using the "XviD: 2 pass HQ (HomeTheatre)" preset, the output video size always comes close to 500 MB! Hence the muxed file size would be much lower than the target 700 MB.

This problem never happened when I did 700MB X264 encoding in megui or 1400 MB XviD/DivX encoding in virtualdubmod long ago. But since I never did 700 MB XviD in megui, I wanted to know whether it's a known bug, or I am doing something terribly wrong?

Thanks for any guidance. :)

[nakTT]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1310844#post1310844
Many thanks, mate.

:thanks:

[SacredCultivator]

Not sure if this was asked... For some reason I'm using Win7 and meGUI doesn't seem to update at all.. I instlaled the latest version and can't update thigns as it shows that 1051 is still the latest and not 1052

[m3mbran3]

I'm on Vista and have the same problem. Latest version can be downloaded from sourceforge. I'm guessing it is a separate process adding the update files somewhere which has not been done yet, I'm sure it will though.

[SacredCultivator]

^Welleven when I had 1051, it wouldn't update either... And I'm sure the 1052 should be on that update list... But nothing showed up.. so I dl'ed the 1052 installer, but the updater still show 1051 as latest.. So not too sure if I was just doing something wrong or what.

EDIT:
Oh right,.. for my OS, I forgot to mention, 64-bit (Not too sure if that makes a difference)

2nd EDIT:
Nvm, does 'problem' relate to This Post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1310709#post1310709)?

[Kurtnoise]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1311067#post1311067

[SacredCultivator]

^Kurtnoise: Thanks ^^

[m3mbran3]

I found some encoding settings I like that use the --preset and --tune properties of x264, is it possible to create a blank megui encoder settings template and just paste the settings I use in the Custom Command Line section?

I would still like to use megui's Queue system but megui does not support preset or tune yet. I'm guessing it would probably be much easier just to manually configure all the settings to match that of the preset and tune in x264.

edit: I just manually set the parameters to match and it was probably quicker than writing the original post.

[Kurtnoise]

click me (http://www.mediafire.com/file/ttmhmd5tmay/MeGUI_20090803.zip)

[m3mbran3]

thanks Kurtnoise. I like the way you have implemented it.

Only problem is that all options still have settings. i.e. if I select Placebo setting (subme=10) I still need to enter a subme value in the configuration. Perhaps either a. adjust subme selection based on --preset or have the option to leave it blank so that it just uses whatever the preset suggest. Of course this is true for other settings as well.

[Kurtnoise]

yes...it's the next step.

[Keiyakusha]

This is just me, or after setting and AQmode2 in x264 configuration dialog if we open this settings again megui will set AQmode 1?
And about Turbo option. Now it should add "slow firstpass" to commandline when unchecked, or no?

[Kurtnoise]

This is just me, or after setting and AQmode2 in x264 configuration dialog if we open this settings again megui will set AQmode 1?
with the last release or with the last build 2 posts above ?

And about Turbo option. Now it should add "slow firstpass" to commandline when unchecked, or no?
that's the plan...and there will be also new things. ;)

[Keiyakusha]

with the last release or with the last build 2 posts above ?
With both... If I set AQmode2, its saved to .xml preset files but still if I open settings, it's became mode1...

[Kurtnoise]

ok...found why. Will be fixed for the next release.

[Kurtnoise]

yes...it's the next step.
see post #4559

Don't forget to backup the current one first...

[Keiyakusha]

If I set Advanced settings checkbox, I also need to change tunings from default to something else. Otherwise advanced options don't change the commandline. Is that how it should be? Also I don't understand how megui presets works now. If I set one, it turns off Advanced settings so I can't adjust them or at least see full commandline.

[Yoshiyuki Blade]

If I set Advanced settings checkbox, I also need to change tunings from default to something else. Otherwise advanced options don't change the commandline. Is that how it should be? Also I don't understand how megui presets works now. If I set one, it turns off Advanced settings so I can't adjust them or at least see full commandline.

Yeah it's a tad confusing at the moment, but I'm liking the direction of this :)

I have a suggestion, but I'm not sure how to properly describe it. Can the "Advanced Settings" checkbox be enabled regardless of the preset to allow further tuning? For example, right now, if I choose Preset Slower and Tune Animation, the command line will look like:

program --preset slower --tune animation --thread-input --output "output" "input"

But say if I hit "Advanced Settings," I'll be able to see all the individual adjustments that these specific presets/tunes did. And if I change a setting that diverges from the preset/tune I just specified, it'll simply add it to the end of the command line. For example, lets say I choose Preset Slower, Tune Animation. But now I go to Advanced Settings and change subme to 10 and aq-strength to 0.8. It'll look something like:

program --preset slower --tune animation --thread-input --output "output" "input" --subme 10 --aq-strength 0.8

x264 automatically prioritizes individual settings over the preset and tuning.

[Kurtnoise]

yeah, that I had in mind but apparently, it doesn't work as expected. Need more coffee...

[Yoshiyuki Blade]

Ah I see. But many thanks for your continued hard work :)

[daWsOn_s]

Problem, I did this a lot of other times and it worked.

I'm downconverting to stereo an ac3 5.1 audio track, when the process starts it eats all the RAM up and when there's no more it kills itself saying in the log that the memory is corrupted. If i keep all the channels so no downconverting it goes smooth. It's like it tries to save the temp WAVs to the RAM for the encoding. the exe which eats all the ram is megui.exe, is this a new bug or my problem?

this is the script

NicAc3Source("D:\THE_RING\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_1 T80 3_2ch 448Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3")

########################################
# [DSP: Resample SSRC - SlowDown 25->23.976]
########################################
SSRC(last, (AudioRate()*1001+480)/960).AssumeSampleRate(AudioRate(last))