MeGUI: General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

[SacredCultivator]

@Alf: Thanks, okay shall disable that and not touch the custom command line, since nurbs mentioned, the switch basically turns it back on, which is useless with mb-tree.

[Zhelkus]

It might seem odd to say this in the middle of a need_help/help_offered discussion but I only wanted to bring it out in case it helps. You see, I've been using MeGUI for a very long time now and just yesterday I thought of running UPX on the entire directory just for kicks to see what happened.:p I was amazed when it scraped off more or less 50MiBs from all the EXEs and DLLs.

Yeah I know, this sounds largely like a typical viagra ad... :D. It's just a suggestion, running UPX on all the update files could save up a lot of bandwidth. It's just like saving GIFs as PNGs, or running PNGOUT on PNGs, or using 7zip instead of ZIP or RAR.

I honestly don't know if you cover the expenses of your webspace, but if you do then compressing those files can definitely save up some dollars/pounds/euros. :helpful: Not to mention lessen the time to download them.

I have a hunch this isn't the thread for this tho...:confused:

[SacredCultivator]

In regard to the --b-pyramid normal... Will there be a patch/update that makes it so when you enable "Keep some B-Frames as reference", it can automatically input either normal/strict? Or will the option be removed as a whole? Since currently it is 'useless' since it inputs only "--b-pyramid" which doesn't allow for encoding and produces an error.

[Kurtnoise]

http://megui.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/megui/megui/trunk/packages/?view=log&sortby=log

[goglay]

Hello, I have been trying to upmix my 2 channels wav audio source to 5.1 (tried many different codecs, nero, vorbis..) but keep on getting the same error on the soxfilter (I have downloaded to placed in Avisynth's plugin folder)

Here is a picture of the log

http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss272/gatsu66/soxfilter.png

[tebasuna51]

Hello, I have been trying to upmix my 2 channels wav audio source to 5.1 (tried many different codecs, nero, vorbis..) but keep on getting the same error on the soxfilter (I have downloaded to placed in Avisynth's plugin folder)

Here is a picture of the log

More interesting than picture is the text log with avs script.

Maybe you have also the Normalize activated and Sox can't support a two pass process.

[goglay]

I have tried taking off the normalize option, but still the same error
here is the avs log

[Error] Log
-[Information] Versions
--[NoImage] MeGUI Version : 0.3.1.1056
--[NoImage] OS : Windows XP Professional x86 SP3 (5.1.196608.2600)
--[NoImage] Latest .Net Framework installed
-[Information] Hardware
--[NoImage] CPU : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
-[Error] Log for job5 (audio, VTS_02_1 Ta0 48K 16bit 2ch.wav -> VTS_02_1 Ta0 48K 16bit 2ch.mp4)
--[Information] [2009/10/24 07:06:49] Started handling job
--[Information] [2009/10/24 07:06:49] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Avisynth script
---[NoImage] RaWavSource("E:\VIDEO\VTS_02_1 Ta0 48K 16bit 2ch.wav")
---[NoImage] 2==Audiochannels(last)?x_upmixR110b69cff40b40daac41b30a2e528c51(last):last
---[NoImage] Normalize()
---[NoImage] return last
---[NoImage] function x_upmixR110b69cff40b40daac41b30a2e528c51(clip Stereo)
---[NoImage] {
---[NoImage] Front = mixaudio(Stereo.soxfilter("filter 0-600"),mixaudio(Stereo.soxfilter("filter 600-1200"),Stereo.soxfilter("filter 1200-7000"),0.45,0.25),0.50,1)
---[NoImage] Back = mixaudio(Stereo.soxfilter("filter 0-600"),mixaudio(Stereo.soxfilter("filter 600-1200"),Stereo.soxfilter("filter 1200-7000"),0.35,0.15),0.40,1)
---[NoImage] fl = GetLeftChannel(Front)
---[NoImage] fr = GetRightChannel(Front)
---[NoImage] cc = ConvertToMono(stereo).SoxFilter("filter 625-24000")
---[NoImage] lfe = ConvertToMono(stereo).SoxFilter("lowpass 100","vol -0.5")
---[NoImage] sl = GetLeftChannel(Back)
---[NoImage] sr = GetRightChannel(Back)
---[NoImage] sl = DelayAudio(sl,0.02)
---[NoImage] sr = DelayAudio(sr,0.02)
---[NoImage] return MergeChannels(fl,fr,cc,lfe,sl,sr)
---[NoImage] }
--[NoImage] Commandline used: -ignorelength -q 0.6 -if - -of "{0}"
--[Information] [2009/10/24 07:06:50] Encoding started
--[Information] [2009/10/24 07:06:50] Encode thread started
--[Information] [2009/10/24 07:06:50] Avisynth script environment opened
--[Information] [2009/10/24 07:06:52] Script loaded
--[Information] Output Decoder
---[NoImage] Channels: 6
---[NoImage] Bits per sample: 32
---[NoImage] Sample rate: 48000
--[NoImage] Commandline: C:\Program Files\megui\tools\neroAAC\neroAacEnc.exe -ignorelength -q 0.6 -if - -of "E:\VIDEO\VTS_02_1 Ta0 48K 16bit 2ch.mp4"
--[Information] [2009/10/24 07:06:53] Encoder process started
--[Error] An error occurred
---[NoImage] Exception message
----[NoImage] SoxFilter: (filter) Could not restart filter:
----[NoImage] filter: Unable to make high filter
---[NoImage] Stacktrace: 於 MeGUI.AviSynthAudioEncoder.encode()
---[NoImage] Inner exception: null
--[Information] [2009/10/24 07:23:44] Job completed

[chainring]

Just wanted to report that the latest MeGUI (0.3.1.1056) installed on a fresh XP SP3 system with the latest ffdshow tryouts and AviSynth 2.5.8 was giving me fits. It was fully updated from Kurtnoise's server (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/MeGUI/). Once done creating the AviSynth script, it would go back to the main window and attempt to open the preview window with changes applied, but an error window popped up with many different lines of errors. I selectively commented things out in the AVS script until I got to "Yadif(order=-1)"; commenting it out did the trick. I noticed Yadif is 1.6.0.0, so I downloaded Yadif 1.7.0.0 from Fizik's site, put it in the appropriate directory in MeGUI and all is well.

The actual error looked quite a bit like this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1333124#post1333124), but with even more, err, vomit. :) If need be I could get an actual screen shot.

[tebasuna51]

I have tried taking off the normalize option, but still the same error
here is the avs log

...
--[NoImage] Avisynth script
---[NoImage] RaWavSource("E:\VIDEO\VTS_02_1 Ta0 48K 16bit 2ch.wav")
---[NoImage] 2==Audiochannels(last)?x_upmixR110b69cff40b40daac41b30a2e528c51(last):last
---[NoImage] Normalize()
---[NoImage] return last
...


The Normalize() is there.
Maybe isn't your fault.
Try with BeHappy.

[Taurus]

Just wanted to report that the latest MeGUI (0.3.1.1056) installed on a fresh XP SP3 system with the latest ffdshow tryouts and AviSynth 2.5.8 was giving me fits. It was fully updated from Kurtnoise's server (http://kurtnoise.free.fr/MeGUI/). Once done creating the AviSynth script, it would go back to the main window and attempt to open the preview window with changes applied, but an error window popped up with many different lines of errors. I selectively commented things out in the AVS script until I got to "Yadif(order=-1)"; commenting it out did the trick. I noticed Yadif is 1.6.0.0, so I downloaded Yadif 1.7.0.0 from Fizik's site, put it in the appropriate directory in MeGUI and all is well.

The actual error looked quite a bit like this (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1333124#post1333124), but with even more, err, vomit. :) If need be I could get an actual screen shot.

Read thishttp://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1332445#post1332445
This might be the reason why yadif fails on your end.
Better read th whole page :p

[chainring]

Read thishttp://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1332445#post1332445
This might be the reason why yadif fails on your end.
Better read th whole page :p
Ah, thanks for that. Even with 1.7 solving the immediate problem, it's good to know where the problem(s) may lie.

Summary:
AviSynth 2.5.8 doesn't correctly pass the CPU flags, but 2.6 is good.
Yadif 1.6 doesn't always detect the correct CPU flags, so either set manually through "opt = ", or try Yadif 1.7.

I have a Core Duo 2.16 (Yonah), and it does not support SSSE3, only up to SSE3. Not sure of the difference though...

[goglay]

The Normalize() is there.
Maybe isn't your fault.
Try with BeHappy.

Thanks for spotting that for me tebasuna, is there a way to remove it in MeGUI?

I have tried upmixing in BeHappy (Vorbis, NeroAAC), but the output file always appears to have some random static noise, not sure why.

[Kurtnoise]

Thanks for spotting that for me tebasuna, is there a way to remove it in MeGUI?
uncheck the case in the audio config...




@all: now megui.org is updated...So, no need anymore to use /kurtnoise.free.fr/MeGUI/ as update server. I'll remove the files in a couple of days.

[[ReX]]

After updating to 0.3.1.1057, MeGUI damaged all my x264 profiles and I can't even reinstall Tx264 (says that all of them can't be loaded and the Preset Importer window is empty) or STx264 (MeGUI crashes). :confused:


Then I tried to delete the update cache and reinstall again. Got the same result with STx264 and looks like Tx264 is not even in the update server anymore.

Edit: I did delete the profiles folder to be sure as well, same thing happened.

[goglay]

uncheck the case in the audio config...

it has been unchecked, that is why we were discussing about it, as tebasuna has stated, the normalize option is there even when I leave it unchecked.

[floz23]

;1337964']after updating to 0.3.1.1057, megui damaged all my x264 profiles and i can't even reinstall tx264 (says that all of them can't be loaded and the preset importer window is empty) or stx264 (megui crashes). :confused:


Then i tried to delete the update cache and reinstall again. Got the same result with stx264 and looks like tx264 is not even in the update server anymore.

Edit: I did delete the profiles folder to be sure as well, same thing happened.

:( me too!

I am on Vista Business x64

[detmek]

+1 for profiles. I also had a problem updating mkvmerge from original server. It wont download it. I went back to kurtnoise server and it worked.
P.S. I can not set b-adapt 2 when --preset medium or --ref to 3 when --preset slow

[SacredCultivator]

Drats for the profiles not working ><

---
EDIT:
Tried creating a new one, and it won't save the settings.

If it helps, Win7 64-bit

[Alf Bundy]

With XP, it does save my profiles settings. But I have to select them from within the x264 conf dialog.
If i select them from the MeGUI main window, my specific restrictions (for Bluray) are not applied.

And I noticed that Preset Slower sets "subme 10" while Placebo sets "Subme 9".


edit : Well no, custom profiles are not saved properly.
Value for rc-lookahead are saved, but not value for ref-frames.

[SacredCultivator]

Ahh.. nvm, I see what you mean Alf, if you select it after clicking on 'config' it is 'saved correctly', but if you select it from the main window, it gets reset.

Hopefully that can be fixed.

[msaadn]

After updating megui to the latest version, its unable to understand the profiles stored and asks whether to delete them or not. Clicking on no doesn't make a difference, it still deletes them. This is a problem.

EDIT:
I manually edited two lines in a profile and then it worked.
<MixedRefs>true</MixedRefs> ---> <NoMixedRefs>false</NoMixedRefs>
&
<BFramePyramid>false</BFramePyramid> ---> <BFramePyramid>0</BFramePyramid>

[rtjnyoface]

I was unsure if this should go in a different forum or not but I suppose the issue is with megui in some fashion. I haven't been able to find any real reason why this would be happening. On to the issue.

XP Pro SP3
Megui rev 1056
Dgindex 1.5.5
Source: Planet Earth series Ocean deep dvd.

Make a .d2v file, open it in megui's avisynth creator. Input DAR is set correctly as 16:9 (1.88...). Now, after I encode the file the output file is set at 4:3 (1.5). What in the world changed in between encoding and file output? On top of it I've lost about half the film. When I play the file about half of it plays correctly and then near the middle of the film it gets very screwy. I can't forward through the movie past the screwy point. I've remuxed with mkvtoolnix and set the correct DAR but it doesn't fix the film cut/screw up and I would still like to understand what the heck went on. I don't wish to do this for the other 10 or so in the series.

Any suggestions? Any information requested will be provided.

[XCyber]

;1337964']After updating to 0.3.1.1057, MeGUI damaged all my x264 profiles and I can't even reinstall Tx264 (says that all of them can't be loaded and the Preset Importer window is empty) or STx264 (MeGUI crashes). :confused:


Then I tried to delete the update cache and reinstall again. Got the same result with STx264 and looks like Tx264 is not even in the update server anymore.

Edit: I did delete the profiles folder to be sure as well, same thing happened.

me too
Help!:confused:

[SacredCultivator]

@msaadn: Yup, that did the trick for me as well.

Although not being able to select the Profile from the Main Window still blows.

[msaadn]

@rtjnyoface: I think you should post it under the Avisynth usage forum.

Regarding the new megui

Ok even after manually editing those 2 lines there is a huge problem, when you click on config of your own profile, you see the settings of the scratchpad.....

@SacredCultivator: Selecting the profile is working for me so I can't really tell whats wrong.

[rtjnyoface]

@msaadn

I've done so. Thanks for the suggestion even though I'm unsure if the issue would be with avisynth. This happens regardless of the script filters.

[SacredCultivator]

@msaadn: Hmm.. If you select the profile from main window... And then select "config", it'll have "scratchpad" settings, unless you select the profile from the Config Window.

[Alf Bundy]

Is AAC encoding working for you with 1057 ?

I tried AC3 and WAV as input, and with and without "force decoding via directshow", but it always fails with error :

[Error] An error occurred
- Exception message: Abnormal encoder termination -1066598274
- Stacktrace: à MeGUI.AviSynthAudioEncoder.encode()
- Inner exception: null


And may I ask why extension .AAC is not available anymore ?
My .MP4 (video) are played with MPC-HC, while my .AAC (audio) are played with Winamp.
Now they both have the same extension, so I will have to demux raw AAC from MP4 container for my "audio only" files. :(

[msaadn]

@rtjnyoface: I'm not sure myself. I think its best if you ask a moderator.

@SacredCultivator: Guess what. I decided to force reinstall the core file, and I get reverted to 0.3.1.1051.

[SacredCultivator]

@Alf Bundy: Hmm... I just did a .wav as input with Nero AAC and that works for me.

[stax76]

Good idea not to support AAC as it's raw data not containing meta data like if it's SBR, I've removed AAC support from StaxRip as well and further expect and output M4A instead of MP4 making it clear the file contains only a audio stream.

[rtjnyoface]

@msaadn

Ha. Of all the time I've spent here I've never asked a mod a question. I don't even know how :).

[terrypku]

I just updated my Megui to 0.3.1.1057, and it can not load my x264 profiles! How to fix it?

[Alf Bundy]

... and output M4A instead of MP4 making it clear the file contains only a audio stream.
True. I should go to sleep now, it's 3.00am here.
I take my dumb question back.

@ SacredCultivator : You're right, NeroAAC works fine.

Only WinampAAC is broken (at least for me).

[msaadn]

@rtjnyoface: Lol, Just PM one of them.

@terrypku: We don't exactly know either. Tried a few tweaks but it didn't work well.

[terrypku]

Oh~
Then maybe the next update will fix it. Hope it's coming soon...

[Inspector.Gadget]

@Kurtnoise: will you be preserving the stable vs. development distinction for the update servers hosted on megui.org now that you have access again? Thanks.

[tebasuna51]

I have tried upmixing in BeHappy (Vorbis, NeroAAC), but the output file always appears to have some random static noise, not sure why.

I can't recommend the upmix methods, I always preserve the original data, but if you want ...

Forget the BeHappy/MeGUI methods and try with:
GUIDE: Converting stereo to 5.1 surround for FREE by UrsaMtl (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=105684)

[aegisofrime]

Just updated to the latest .1057, along with it's other accompanying files. It's now having trouble loading the profile .xml files saying "blah blah.xml" cannot be loaded, delete? What gives?

[SacredCultivator]

@aegisofrime: It's mainly due to the changes made fromt he Revisions of the x264 if I'm not mistaken, as coding got reworked/coded so that causes conflicts with Presets that involved those changes...

Just got to hope a fix for this is released soon, as there is another bug with it in selecting Profiles from the Main Window as well.

[aegisofrime]

@aegisofrime: It's mainly due to the changes made fromt he Revisions of the x264 if I'm not mistaken, as coding got reworked/coded so that causes conflicts with Presets that involved those changes...

Just got to hope a fix for this is released soon, as there is another bug with it in selecting Profiles from the Main Window as well.

Thanks for the reply. I hope it gets fixed as well. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to affect actual encoding, just annoying in that I have to set the settings manually. I think I might just rollback to 1056, I'm not sure how 1057 is better anyway.

[prOnorama]

Just updated to the latest .1057, along with it's other accompanying files. It's now having trouble loading the profile .xml files saying "blah blah.xml" cannot be loaded, delete? What gives?

Same problem here + MeGui doesn't even load anymore + crash report to MS

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8229/megcrash.png

[ACrowley]

Thank you!

Would i still would like to see is:

-M2TS Support (calculator)
-x264_x64 Support

EDIT
Problems! Megui doesnt save Setttings:

i create a own Profile with preset very slow. Then i change the Ref Frames to 5 and Bframes to 3 and some other Things.
Evertime i leave the x264 Settings Page the Options are gone and back to default. Its not saved.
Ofcourse i press update when i create a profile :)

[LeXXuz]

Same problem here + MeGui doesn't even load anymore + crash report to MS


Same here. Despite that messages I get warnungs that a lot of my profiles from the 1056 are somwhat bad/corrupted and MeGUI ask to delete them.

[szabi]

Hi

One more post about lost profile since I updated megui.

I reinstalled megui and updated from here http://megui.org/auto/stable/ which is not so up to date.
But it is the last correct when profiles worked.

I hope this issue will be solved soon.

Bye
szabi

[aegisofrime]

Gah, probably better to roll back to 1056. 1057 is more or less broken :(

[szabi]

I am using 1056 now, but x264 version is r1183.
It is outdated due to persent version is r1310.
Also several attached program is getting outdated.

Now I trying StaxRip which is more up to date, but my favourite is megui.
Perhaps I check which program can be updated from here: http://kurtnoise.free.fr/MeGUI/
MeGui core, data, libs and x264 can remain old but others can be updated.

Bye
szabi

[[ReX]]

@aegisofrime: It's mainly due to the changes made fromt he Revisions of the x264 if I'm not mistaken, as coding got reworked/coded so that causes conflicts with Presets that involved those changes...

Just got to hope a fix for this is released soon, as there is another bug with it in selecting Profiles from the Main Window as well.

I don't think that's x264's binary fault, I was already updating it manually and it worked fine in the previous build.

[Jeff Flowerday]

"Mostly Film" & "Film"

Megui analyze comes back wanting to us Film. DGIndex indicated 98.xx percent film.

In these cases I've been running it in Mostly Film mode anyway. I think I'm seeing some stutter on some panning shots, I'm wondering if this is the reason?

[Inspector.Gadget]

DGIndex tells you how the stream is flagged (always), MeGUI will tell you what's actually in the content (except in weird cases). At 98.xx % film, it's generally safe to force film in DGIndex and not do any field matching or decimation in Avisynth. Try this, and if you don't get any ugly artifacts (usually because the non-film sections are all-black GOPs at the beggining or end or are actually progressive content flagged as interlaced), you're fine.

If you're seeing an intolerable amount of combing, then don't force film in DGIndex and let MeGUI's AVS creator handle it in "Mostly Film" mode using blend decimation.