Avidemux (with emphasis on x264/h264 GUI)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

IIRC ffmpeg has an DTS decoder. Why does avidemux require a DCA plugin to decode DTS?

Because all encoders and decoders have been made plugins in Avidemux 2.5 :)

Also I think the official download does not contain the ARM-NB and DCA decoders due to licensing/patenting issues...

Libdca and amrnb aren’t distributed with Avidemux due to patent right issues. However, since r3091, Avidemux 2.4 can automatically detect and use these libraries once they’re installed.

[Inspector.Gadget]

Yeah, those were the plugins I tried. Is the 2.5 branch just not set up to recognize them yet?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Yeah, those were the plugins I tried. Is the 2.5 branch just not set up to recognize them yet?

I say it again: For Avidemux 2.5 you will need audio-decoder Plugins. There was no such thing for Avidemux 2.4, as it didn't use Plugins :rolleyes:

Hence the ARM-NB and DCA decoder libraries (alone) won't work with Avidemux 2.5. You need suitable Avidemux Plugins!

Also if you look at the Avidemux 2.5 source tree, you will see that there already are ARM-NB and DCA plugisn, only somebody needs to compile them ;)

[Inspector.Gadget]

Ah, now I understand: the whole architecture changed.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Ah, now I understand: the whole architecture changed.

Exactly. They moved all the encoders and decoders from the core applications to Plugins.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1115:

MinGW GCC 3.4.5-r3, vanilla:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/vy50i0ngmkw/libx264-r1115-gcc345-fprofiled.7z

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1, patched:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zvj2alwnoam/libx264-r1115-gcc433-fprofiled-patched.7z

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1, vanilla:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/gznntzwrzd0/libx264-r1115-gcc433-fprofiled-vanilla.7z

All builds: march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4629.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

LoRd_MuldeR - is there a way to use the Avidemux 2.4 audio decoder addons (DTS / AMR-NB) wth the new 2.5 SVN builds? I've tried placing the .dll files in both the root Avidemux install directory and the "Audio Decoders" folder and I still receive warnings about bad audio on files with DTS audio. The built-in support also doesn't appear to have radio boxes for DTS or AMR-NB support.

DTS and ARM-NB plugins for Avidemux 2.5 are now available:
http://avidemux.org/admForum/viewtopic.php?pid=18985#p18985

[Inspector.Gadget]

Excellent, thank you very much for letting us know!

[Faiakes]

Thanks!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4648 (2009-03-02)
http://www.avidemux.org/

Revision 4648 (02 Mar 2009)
# Updated x264 to r1115.

4648 - [qt] add plugins menu option to Qt main window
4647 - [cmake] pass extra c and ld flags to ffmpeg configure
4646 - [cmake] add more output to verbose mode
4645 - [Mov] Oops
4644 - [Mov] Correctly detect MSADPCM in mov
4640 - [plugins] fix Mac build for FluxSmooth and ResampleFps
4639 - [plugins] instruct plugin to prepare for first pass upon initialisation so extra header info can be determined earlier
4638 - [x264/xvid] employ a locale-agnostic output for numbers in settings XML
4637 - [x264] fix compilation error for GTK plugin when using a libx264 core version earlier than 65
4636 - [esd] fix link libraries
4635 - [plugin] make plugin symbols local (not global) on Unix so functions with same name don't clash
4634 - [script] add very basic dialogFactory class to ECMAScript engine
4633 - [mac] add Cocoa framework to ldflags for renderer
4629 - [mac] fix referencing of ffmpeg libs on Mac

Download Mirror #1: http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/ (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#avidemux)
Download Mirror #2: http://avidemux.razorbyte.com.au/ (http://avidemux.razorbyte.com.au/#avidemux2.5)

[Faiakes]

I'm still having trouble with converting DVD .vob files to x264 MKV or even MP4 with any of the buids past the stable 2.4.4
Is it just me? I can post specific configurations and errors if you want.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I'm still having trouble with converting DVD .vob files to x264 MKV or even MP4 with any of the buids past the stable 2.4.4
Is it just me? I can post specific configurations and errors if you want.

What does "trouble" mean? Does it crash or what? If so, what does the log say?

Also for Avidemux 2.5 troubleshooting, you may want to post here:
http://avidemux.org/admForum/viewforum.php?id=18

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1119:

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ynfaxm2hjil/libx264-r1119-gcc433-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 3.4.5-r3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/murxn2z4025/libx264-r1119-gcc345-fprofiled-core66.7z

Both builds: march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4648.

[Faiakes]

What does "trouble" mean? Does it crash or what? If so, what does the log say?

Also for Avidemux 2.5 troubleshooting, you may want to post here:
http://avidemux.org/admForum/viewforum.php?id=18OK, will post specifics there today.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4658 (2009-03-05)
http://www.avidemux.org/

Revision 4658 (05 Mar 2009)
# Updated Qt to version 4.5.0.

4658 - [core] remove unnecessary kludge now ffmpeg is fixed
4657 - [ffmpeg] change cross compilation flag to set architecture
4656 - [videnc] fix 2nd pass encoding
4655 - [swscale] increase maximum width to 4096
4654 - [win32] enable shared libgcc and libstdc++ to reduce size and memory usage
4653 - [videnc] tweak video encoder plugin api to make things cleaner
4652 - [cmake] correct linker flag variable
4651 - [ffmpeg] add CMake option to instruct ffmpeg's configure to perform a cross compilation
4650 - [i18n] remove duplicate messages from ts files during build since Qt 4.5 doesn't like it
4649 - [qt] prevent crash when clicking external filters
4648 - [qt] add plugins menu option to Qt main window

Download Mirror #1: http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/ (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#avidemux)
Download Mirror #2: http://avidemux.razorbyte.com.au/ (http://avidemux.razorbyte.com.au/#avidemux2.5)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1123:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/md2mocjjyum/libx264-r1123-gcc433-fprofiled-core66.7z

Compiled with MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1, march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 r4658.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1125:

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/y2i5nwiyyq4/libx264-r1125-gcc433-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 4.2.1-sjlj:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/2zm2zyhcjmc/libx264-r1125-gcc421-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 3.4.5-r3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jth0mymrmjh/libx264-r1125-gcc345-fprofiled-core66.7z

All builds: march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4658 -and- 2.4.4 Final.

[Faiakes]

libx264 SVN-r1125:

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/y2i5nwiyyq4/libx264-r1125-gcc433-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 3.4.5-r3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jth0mymrmjh/libx264-r1125-gcc345-fprofiled-core66.7z

Both builds: march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4658 -and- 2.4.4 Final.
May I ask what the difference is between them?

Is one of them better suited for the latest SVN builds and nother for the stable release?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

May I ask what the difference is between them?

They were compiled with different versions of the MinGW/GCC toolchain, but they should work identical.

However some people reported crashes with x264 in Avidemux (which I couldn't reproduce until now) and after some discussion it came down to a potential compiler bug.

There also is a patch to workaround the crash, but I don't currently use it. Instead I went back to MinGW 3.4.5, which hopefully is more stable than 4.3.3.

So if you encounter a crash with my MinGW 4.3.3 build, then please try my MinGW 3.4.5 build. Still waiting for feedback...

Is one of them better suited for the latest SVN builds and nother for the stable release?

Nope. At least not to my knowledge.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Added a MinGW GCC 4.2.1-sjlj build:
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1258879&postcount=1067

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1127:

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wmdw3tzmzma/libx264-r1127-gcc433-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 4.2.1-sjlj:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/0jy5mtdmnec/libx264-r1127-gcc421-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 3.4.5-r3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yodvnmayxm2/libx264-r1127-gcc345-fprofiled-core66.7z

All builds: march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4658 -and- 2.4.4 Final.

[heather]

I have been using Avidemux 2.4.3 for Win32.

Use a USB from Pinnacle to capture HD and SD TV.

Run the Saved Video (in TS) through ProjectX to clean up the errors and demux the TS file.

Next use Avidemux to REMUX the two files from ProjectX.

Next load the Remuxed file into Avidemux and do the cutting and encoding for DVD.

Trouble is that the image displayed in the Avidemux Window is always a 4X3 format and it is squashed making people look skinney.

Most of the TV Captures are 16X9. (a) SD, 720x576 16x9 (b) HD, 1440x1080 16x9 (c) HD, 1920x1080 ?

Yet I see on the download Web Site a Wide image in Avidemux.

How is this achieved? I just cant find any settings for it.

Heather

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have been using Avidemux 2.4.3 for Win32.

Use a USB from Pinnacle to capture HD and SD TV.

Run the Saved Video (in TS) through ProjectX to clean up the errors and demux the TS file.

Next use Avidemux to REMUX the two files from ProjectX.

Next load the Remuxed file into Avidemux and do the cutting and encoding for DVD.

Trouble is that the image displayed in the Avidemux Window is always a 4X3 format and it is squashed making people look skinney.

Yet I see on the download Web Site a Wide image in Avidemux.

How is this achieved? I just cant find any settings for it.

Heather

Probably your source is anamorphic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic). Avidemux shows the image as-is, without any PAR applied ;)

If you encode your video with the proper PAR value (not that there is an "as input" option) it will look correctly in a player.

You can also use the "resize" filter to convert it to the 1:1 PAR (aka "square pixels").

[roozhou]

@MuldeR
What is the difference between GCC 4.3.3 tdm and GCC 4.2.1 sjlj?
Which version of binutil are you using?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

What is the difference between GCC 4.3.3 tdm and GCC 4.2.1 sjlj?

GCC 4.3.3-tdm is taken from here, it's newer than the "official" builds:
http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/

(Also see the "usage notes" about "Dwarf-2 vs. SJLJ unwinding" on that page)

GCC 4.2.1-sjlj is taken from official MinGW site:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=241304&release_id=532062

Which version of binutil are you using?

v2.19.1 for GCC 4.x.x, v2.17.50 for GCC 3.4.5

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4685 (2009-03-14)
http://www.avidemux.org/

Revision 4685 (14 Mar 2009)

4685 - [Win32] update installer to install system scripts
4684 - [xvid] fix saving of custom matrix type
4683 - [script] add scripted PSP auto wizard
4682 - [qt] reposition Auto menu
4681 - [x264] change PSP config xml to only include tags that are different to x264 default
4680 - [x264/xvid] make all schema elements optional
4679 - [x264] fix loading of idc level
4678 - [auto] remove internal auto wizards from Qt interface
4677 - [script] exclude svn folder from installation of system scripts

Download Mirror #1: http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/ (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#avidemux)
Download Mirror #2: http://avidemux.razorbyte.com.au/ (http://avidemux.razorbyte.com.au/#avidemux2.5)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1128:

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/xi5dlk1lmwo/libx264-r1128-gcc433-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 4.2.1-sjlj:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmjmmctf5jz/libx264-r1128-gcc421-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 3.4.5-r3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yjjdzu5mmy5/libx264-r1128-gcc345-fprofiled-core66.7z

Cross-compiled from Ubuntu:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zgzn1zh5gli/libx264-r1128-cross-gcc421-core66.7z

All builds: march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4685 -and- 2.4.4 Final.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1129:

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dzjgomkt2jm/libx264-r1129-gcc433-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 4.2.1-sjlj:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/f1oqndjonvn/libx264-r1129-gcc421-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 3.4.5-r3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wzim0rgzwqw/libx264-r1129-gcc345-fprofiled-core66.7z

All builds: march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4685 -and- 2.4.4 Final.

[roozhou]

v2.19.1 for GCC 4.x.x, v2.17.50 for GCC 3.4.5

Well 2.18 and 2.19 sometimes produce broken EXEs for me. (always for MPlayer)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Well 2.18 and 2.19 sometimes produce broken EXEs for me. (always for MPlayer)

Hmmm, broken in what way exactly? My libx264 builds seem to work correctly...

[roozhou]

Hmmm, broken in what way exactly? My libx264 builds seem to work correctly...

Broken in aligned SSE instruction.
Well, this only appears in EXEs while DLLs are OK.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Broken in aligned SSE instruction.
Well, this only appears in EXEs while DLLs are OK.

Guess I'd have encountered a crash, if that was the case with my libx264 builds...

[IceManZ]

Is there a simple way to import AVC video profiles in avidemux x264 control panel (ie: Sharktooth ones) ?

Thanks a lot for all your constructiv answers :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Is there a simple way to import AVC video profiles in avidemux x264 control panel (ie: Sharktooth ones) ?

Thanks a lot for all your constructiv answers :)

MeGUI's profiles are cannot be imported into Avidemux directly.

Anyway, these "profiles" are simply collections of x264 settings. So you can simply look what x264 settings are used in a specific MeGUI profile and then choose the very same settings in Avidemux' x264 dialog. Then you can even save these settings as a Avidemux script, so you don't need to set them up manually every time...

[IceManZ]

Thanks a lot for your fast answer LoRd_MuldeR.

I try to "map" the settings between MeGui profils and avidemux x264 settings and it's really disturbing. I can't find always the same terms / words.

As Sharktooth's profiles, Do you know if any user has made available their tries in "mapping" settings ?

Thanks a lot for your time.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I can't find always the same terms / words.

Anything your are missing in particular?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1130:

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jvl0hxdwzhv/libx264-r1130-gcc433-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 4.2.1-sjlj:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tmdm5nwzumc/libx264-r1130-gcc421-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 3.4.5-r3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qynhyly2zjr/libx264-r1130-gcc345-fprofiled-core66.7z

All builds: march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4685 -and- 2.4.4 Final.
Updated pthreads library, latest changelog entry: 2009-mar-19.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1134:

MinGW GCC 4.3.3-tdm-1:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tnof2oqnmzw/libx264-r1134-gcc433-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 4.2.1-sjlj:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tm3mymhj0ey/libx264-r1134-gcc421-fprofiled-core66.7z

MinGW GCC 3.4.5-r3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/4mmruttklnz/libx264-r1134-gcc345-fprofiled-core66.7z

All builds: march=pentium2, fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4685 -and- 2.4.4 Final.

[Yobbo]

Lord Mulder when you post up these "libx264" builds, what am I meant to do with them?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Lord Mulder when you post up these "libx264" builds, what am I meant to do with them?

Replace the old DLL's in your Avidemux folder? :p

(You may want to make a backup of your old files first though...)

[Yobbo]

Thanks!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

libx264 SVN-r1136:

libx264-r1136, MinGW GCC 4.3.3, optimized for Core 2 (http://mplayer.somestuff.org/misc/libx264/libx264-66-r1136M-gcc433-core2-fprofiled.7z)
libx264-r1136, MinGW GCC 4.3.3, optimized for K8 (http://mplayer.somestuff.org/misc/libx264/libx264-66-r1136M-gcc433-k8-fprofiled.7z)
libx264-r1136, MinGW GCC 4.3.3, optimized for Pentium 2 and later (http://mplayer.somestuff.org/misc/libx264/libx264-66-r1136M-gcc433-pentium2-fprofiled.7z)
libx264-r1136, MinGW GCC 4.2.1, optimized for Pentium 2 and later (http://mplayer.somestuff.org/misc/libx264/libx264-66-r1136M-gcc421-pentium2-fprofiled.7z)
libx264-r1136, MinGW GCC 3.4.5, optimized for Pentium 2 and later (http://mplayer.somestuff.org/misc/libx264/libx264-66-r1136M-gcc345-pentium2-fprofiled.7z)

All builds are fprofiled. Tested with Avidemux 2.5 SVN-r4685 -and- 2.4.4 Final.
The patches used for my builds can be found at this (http://mplayer.somestuff.org/misc/libx264/patches/) location.

[fxtech]

good bye P3 legacy ! thank a lot for the core 2 opt version !

[LoRd_MuldeR]

good bye P3 legacy ! thank a lot for the core 2 opt version !

Just to make it clear:
1. The "Pentium 2" builds will run on any MMX capable processor (P2/K6 and later). x264 requires MMX anyway, if it was compiled on an MMX capable machine, which is the case here.
2. Don't expect too much from compiler optimizations! Anything above "-march=pentium2" only gives very minor speed-up, if at all. I'll make "Core 2" builds anyway to be sure.

[Pulstar]

Hello LoRd_MuldeR, is it possible to use AVIDemux to encode standard VCD2.0 videos? LAVC is a VBR lib so it cannot be used, and whenever I use MPEG2ENC it crashes the program. I tried using filters to predefince the proper height/width to no avail. Here's the log..

Looks like FRAME_NTSC
resize by x

New X x Y = 352 x 235

Resized to : 352 x 232, add black border 0 x 8**saving:**
Output format:4
MPEG family
[Bridge] Going to time 0
3gp Go to time succeeded chunk :0 time ask:0 time get:0
[Bridge] Starting with time 0, shift 0
[Bridge] Ending with time 0, sample 0
[Bridge] Going to time 0
3gp Go to time succeeded chunk :0 time ask:0 time get:0
[Bridge] Going to time 0
3gp Go to time succeeded chunk :0 time ask:0 time get:0
[Lavcodec] Creating Lavcodec
[Lavcodec]Incoming : fq : 44100, channel : 2 bitrate: 224
[Lavcodec]Lavcodec successfully initialized
X*CD: Using VCD PS

Using mpeg2enc encoder (VCD)
Detecting NTSC format
[mpeg2enc]Encoding MPEG-1 video
[mpeg2enc]Horizontal size: 352 pe
l[mpeg2enc]Vertical size: 240 pel
[mpeg2enc]Aspect ratio code: 12 = 1:1.1250 (4:3 NTSC for 720x480/352x240 images)
[mpeg2enc]Frame rate code: 4 = 30000.0/1001.0 (NTSC VIDEO)
[mpeg2enc]Bitrate: 1151 KBit/s
[mpeg2enc]Field order for input: none/progressive
[mpeg2enc]New Sequence every 790 Mbytes
[mpeg2enc]Assuming non-video stream of 230 Kbps
[mpeg2enc]Search radius: 16
Using default unmodified quantization matrices
[Mpeg2enc]Using MMX quant non intra
[Mpeg2enc]Enabling mmx motion search
[Mpeg2enc] MMXE motion
[Mpeg2enc] SSE idct/fdct
[Mpeg2enc] MMXE predict
opt->enc_height2 :240 opt->enc_width: 352 opt->enc_height2:240

Mpeg2enc Encoder , w: 352 h:240 mode:2Opening mplex muxer (C:\Documents and Settings\Pulstar\Desktop\p1.mpg)
PacketQueue Mplex audioQ created
PacketQueue Mplex videoQ created
mplex type is :1
creating slave thread
[Muxer Slave Thread] Creating job & muxer
output file created
Init ok
[AudioThread] Starting
[VideoThread] Starting
audio done (MP2), creating video bitstream

Any help would be appreciated :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hello LoRd_MuldeR, is it possible to use AVIDemux to encode standard VCD2.0 videos?

What's wrong with the "Auto" -> "Video CD" wizard ???

LAVC is a VBR lib so it cannot be used

That statement doesn't make any sense to me...

[Pulstar]

It still crashes using the auto wizard after encoding a few frames. As for what I meant, Nero 8 complains that the video isn't encoded in 1050kbps CBR using LAVC (it uses a variable bitrate for encoding videos)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

When VBV is used the encoder will restrict the VBR encoding to the specified buffer size in order to ensure compatibility to hardware players.
So if you select the correct buffer size (40 KB for a Video-CD), you should get compatible stream...

[Brazil2]

How do you set psy_rd in Avidemux ? Is it even possible ?
It seems to be automatically used depending on the settings but I always end up with psy_rd=1.0:0.0 and I can't find a way to change this.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

How do you set psy_rd in Avidemux ? Is it even possible ?
It seems to be automatically used depending on the settings but I always end up with psy_rd=1.0:0.0 and I can't find a way to change this.

There is no option to change the Psy RDO and Psy Trellis settings in Avidemux yet. So the defaults will be used.
Anyway, if you lower subme to 5 (or even lower), then Psy RDO will be disabled, as Psy RDO requires subme 6 (or above).
If you build x264 yourself, you can easily change the defaults in x264_param_default() in "common\common.c".