Avidemux (with emphasis on x264/h264 GUI)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

In SVN rev 2027, the XviD and x264 both have the option for two pass with average bitrate encoding. So I guess that's settles that. Of course, testing is needed.

Cool :cool: But it's not in Celtic's latest build yet...

What MPEG PS issues do you speak of? I have not had any problems.... :?

The problem is, that I want to cut MPEG-2 files I captured from TV. Those files are 12.000 kbps for video and 320 kbps / 44 Khz for audio. I set Audio and Video both to "copy" and select "MPEG PS" as output container. But AviDemux shows an error message, because my MPEG-2 file is not Video-DVD compatible. Okay, it is not Video-DVD compatible, indeed. But who cares? I'm not going to burn it on any Video-DVD. Just want to cut out a part and that's it. Unfortunately there's no way to disable that limitation. So I have to choose another container in order to force AviDemux to do the job. "MPEG-2 TS" seems to work, but doesn't allow seeking and MPlayer/MEncoder reports some sync errors. At the moment I use OGM as output for my MPEG-2 files. This seems to work with MEncoder/MPlayer, but still doesn't allow seeking. Furthermore all other players refuse to play those OGM files! Would be much better to put the MPEG-2 video into the "correct" container.

I already reported the problem on the bug tracker....

[celtic_druid]

r2028 | mean | 2006-05-31 02:09:16 +1000 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 1 line
dual pass, average bitrate for x264

I'll put a new build up.

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

Disaster, Avidemux in build 2027 lost ability to save files in MP4 container!!!

[celtic_druid]

Check the log because from recollection rev2029 or 2030 fixed that.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

2-pass, Avarage Bitrate seems to work fine :D


But I found a problem: The status window just freezes during the encoding. At the beginning it was updated about each 5 seconds and frozen in-between. But then, after about one minute, it was completely frozen and Windows added "(No Response)" to the title bar. I had to wait until the encoding was done and I had no status information at all.

Seems like the there's a problem with the GUI thread...

Any one else experienced that ???

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

Yes, I experienced that. It's very annoying.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Reported the freezing problem on the bug tracker.


I got another question: Is there a way to save my x264 settings? I see there are two buttons available "Load Defaults" and "Save Defaults". But those are grayed all the time. Am I missing something?

:confused:

[SadaraX]

But I found a problem: The status window just freezes during the encoding. Seems like the there's a problem with the GUI thread...

I just ran the test with XviD and x264, and there was no freeze... But I am running the program in Linux. So its probably the windows build....

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I want to test this (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/win32/r2031_win32.zip) build, but it doesn't work, because some DLL called "libiconv-2.dll" is missing.

I already installed latest GTK+ and Celtic's builds never asked for that DLL...

[celtic_druid]

Try: http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/temp/libiconv-2.7z

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Try: http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/temp/libiconv-2.7z

Thx :D

I'm not sure if that build fixed the freezing problem.
At least it did not freeze completely so far, but not tested very much yet.
And it still freezes for about 5sec between each update...

And that build has outdated x264 version included.
I still prefer Celtic's builds :cool:

[celtic_druid]

That build was cross compiled, not built with mingw under windows right?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

That build was cross compiled, not built with mingw under windows right?

No idea. I was just asked to test it on the bug-tracker...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

About the freezing problem:

Comment by mean (mean)
Ok, so it is coming either from celtic druid built or from your gtk
I'll close the bug as it is not one

:scared:

[celtic_druid]

Doesn't actually freeze here. Didn't test mean's build since it didn't like my libvorbisenc-2.dll. Complains about missing vorbis_analysis when that is in libvorbis-0.dll anyway not enc. Does it minimise to the systray? Mine doesn't seem to any more.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Doesn't actually freeze here. Didn't test mean's build since it didn't like my libvorbisenc-2.dll. Complains about missing vorbis_analysis when that is in libvorbis-0.dll anyway not enc. Does it minimise to the systray? Mine doesn't seem to any more.

Well, maybe "freeze" is not 100% clear.
It's just that the window gets updated every ~5 seconds.
In-between those updates, the window doesn't response at all.
This means the window cannot be moved and the button doesn't highlight when I move the mouse over it.

That's not a big problem, just a little nasty.

The main problem is, that a few times the status window was completely frozen! When this happened, I did not get any status information until encoding was done! Windows also added a "(No Response)" message to the titlebar, so I guess if I had clicked "X" then Windows would have just killed Avidemux. However the file that came out was okay.


About the "Minimze to Tray" feature:
Seems like they made it optional. There is an "Go to systemtray when encoding" option in the preferences window.

[celtic_druid]

Status updates every ~1sec here. No freezes. What I meant is that it doesn't go to the tray here even with that option enabled. It used to before the recent updates to that area.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Status updates every ~1sec here. No freezes. What I meant is that it doesn't go to the tray here even with that option enabled. It used to before the recent updates to that area.

Just checked it:
With the option enabled the Main Window is minimized and a Trayicon is created. However both windows are still present on the Taskbar.

BTW: Is there a way to save my x264 options? "Save Defaults" is grayed here all the time. Am I missing something or is this feature not available yet?

[celtic_druid]

Right. Apparently there is a tray icon or rather there is a blank space where one should be. Hovering over it shows the percentage of the job and all. Just no icon. Need to look into that. From recollection though it used to remove the windows from the taskbar.

[SadaraX]

Right. Apparently there is a tray icon or rather there is a blank space where one should be. Hovering over it shows the percentage of the job and all. Just no icon. Need to look into that. From recollection though it used to remove the windows from the taskbar.

There have been some fixes for the Icon I believe, though I cannot say for windows. If its still a problem in the latest SVN, please post about it and I will communicate it to mean.

BTW: Is there a way to save my x264 options? "Save Defaults" is grayed here all the time. Am I missing something or is this feature not available yet?

Yes, yes there is! :) I am very happy to announce that the feature of saving codec settings and filter settings as pre-defined loadable options has finally be implemented, and quite handilly I might add.

In recent builds the new "Custom" menu has been added. This allows you to define custom made preset files for ANYTHING, include video codecs, audio codecs, and audio/video filter settings (seperately or all together).

Here's an example for the video codec:
1) Open a video
2) Select the video codec you want (like x264)
3) Configure codec with the options you want
4) Save the file as a Project file somewhere....
5) Open that project file in a text editor (like vim, notepad, wordpad, etc)
6) Now you need to edit and remove whatever you do not want to be loaded as a preset
** You must leave the line that says "var app = new Avidemux();"
** If you want to keep the filters, leave the //** Filters ** section, if you want keep the video leave the //** Video Codec conf **, and so on.
7) Save the file in $HOME/.avidemux/custom with a .js as the file extention

Next time you reload avidemux, the preset option will appear in the custom menu and can be loaded

[celtic_druid]

Works fine under linux. Nice little animated icon. Ogm files still crash here though. Well actually I used the same ogm file. Suppose I should test a different one.

Ogm files working for anyone else as input?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Works fine under linux. Nice little animated icon. Ogm files still crash here though. Well actually I used the same ogm file. Suppose I should test a different one.

Ogm files working for anyone else as input?

Jupp, it crashes!

First it scanns the whole OGM but then AviDemux just crashes without any message...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

There have been some fixes for the Icon I believe, though I cannot say for windows. If its still a problem in the latest SVN, please post about it and I will communicate it to mean.



Yes, yes there is! :) I am very happy to announce that the feature of saving codec settings and filter settings as pre-defined loadable options has finally be implemented, and quite handilly I might add.

In recent builds the new "Custom" menu has been added. This allows you to define custom made preset files for ANYTHING, include video codecs, audio codecs, and audio/video filter settings (seperately or all together).

Here's an example for the video codec:
1) Open a video
2) Select the video codec you want (like x264)
3) Configure codec with the options you want
4) Save the file as a Project file somewhere....
5) Open that project file in a text editor (like vim, notepad, wordpad, etc)
6) Now you need to edit and remove whatever you do not want to be loaded as a preset
** You must leave the line that says "var app = new Avidemux();"
** If you want to keep the filters, leave the //** Filters ** section, if you want keep the video leave the //** Video Codec conf **, and so on.
7) Save the file in $HOME/.avidemux/custom with a .js as the file extention

Next time you reload avidemux, the preset option will appear in the custom menu and can be loaded

When I saved the project it just crashed.
It created a project file, but it was incomplete!

Whole file:
//AD <- Needed to identify//
//--automatically built--
//--Project: C:\moo.js

var app = new Avidemux();

//** Video **
// 01 videos source
app.load("E:/VIDEO_TS/_Video-In_20060530_020948.mpg.idx");
//01 segments
app.clearSegments();
app.addSegment(0,0,413);
app.markerA=0;
app.markerB=412;
app.rebuildIndex();

//** Postproc **
app.video.setPostProc(0,0,0);

app.video.setFps1000(25000);

//** Filters **
app.video.addFilter("kerneldeint","order=1","threshold=7","sharp=0","twoway=0","map=0");
app.video.addFilter("crop","left=16","right=12","top=2","bottom=4");
app.video.addFilter("resize","w=640","h=480","algo=2");
app.video.addFilter("msharpen","mask=0","highq=1","strength=75","threshold=15");

//** Video Codec conf **

[SadaraX]

When I saved the project it just crashed.
It created a project file, but it was incomplete!

What version of Avidemux are you running? I found that if you tried to save a project with two-pass average bitrate mode, it crashed. Mean has fixed problem (a little while ago). It works for linux, so you may need to get an updated version from the SVN.

[celtic_druid]

I put a new version up later. Got a few more packes to install before I can try cross compiling though. See if that makes any difference.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

The latest revision does now allow MPEG PS output for non-standard bitrates/samplerates. So I can use "Copy" mode plus "MPEG PS" container for my captured MPEG-2 files. That's really great, because I can cut my MPEG-2 files now! Avidemux is far the best MPEG-2 cut tool I've ever used !!!

So if you need to cut an MPEG-2 file, try Avidemux! ;)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Damn, it happened again:
AviDemux was frozen during an 6 hours encoding today :angry:
I had to kill the process :(

Falling back to MEncoder until this is fixed...

[SadaraX]

Damn, it happened again:
AviDemux was frozen during an 6 hours encoding today :angry:
I had to kill the process :(

Falling back to MEncoder until this is fixed...

Hmm, if can reproduce the problem, can you give us the console print out? It might help.

Eitherway, even more bug fixes have been added recently. We are trying to grab all of the bug reports on the tracker at the moment and fix them before the official release happens.

About the OGM files, I am not having any problems loading them. Can you provide a sample of the video that causes you problems?

[SadaraX]

Latest win32 build from Mean for everyone to test....
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/win32/r2065_win32.zip

[CruNcher]

please a resize preview option for the croop filter at least it's so hard to work with 1920x1080 stuff on lower display resolutions :(
and a Audio None option would be also great :D

[SadaraX]

please a resize preview option for the croop filter at least it's so hard to work with 1920x1080 stuff on lower display resolutions :(
and a Audio None option would be also great :D

I have added your request to the list. To save with no audio, go to the Menu: Audio -> Main Track
* Select: None

[CruNcher]

ah great didn't saw that on the first sight :) hmm how about more x264 options i miss vbv_maxbitrate and direct auto also level settings

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

What's going on with Avidemux 2.2 development, on celtic_druid site last build is very old 2049?

Can someone give me a direct download link to newest beta 2.2 build? Thank you.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

What's going on with Avidemux 2.2 development, on celtic_druid site last build is very old 2049?

Can someone give me a direct download link to newest beta 2.2 build? Thank you.

Have a look here:
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/win32/

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

Thanks, but I read on Avidemux forum that newest build is 2097? But, on site http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/win32/ newest build is 2083!!!

Where I can find really newest builds?

[celtic_druid]

Win32 was broken in 2092, at least here with the changes to ADM_avsproxy_net.cpp

Svn is actually at r2111.

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

So, can you be so nice and compile build 2111?

Thank you.

[celtic_druid]

As I said, not for win32.

[quake74]

Is this the right place for feature requests? Lately I am using a HTPC which saves in DVR-MS format. Currently I use DVRMSToolbox http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/99008.aspx to convert it to mpg and then edit that one with avidemux. Is it possible to add dvr-ms input support in avidemux?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Is this the right place for feature requests? Lately I am using a HTPC which saves in DVR-MS format. Currently I use DVRMSToolbox http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/99008.aspx to convert it to mpg and then edit that one with avidemux. Is it possible to add dvr-ms input support in avidemux?

-> http://bugs.avidemux.org/

[LoRd_MuldeR]

New Win32 builds of AviDemux available:
AviDemux v2.3 rev2235 (EXE file only!) (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/win32/avidemux_2.3_r2235_win32.zip)
AviDemux v2.3 rev2214 (including required DLLs) (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/win32/avidemux2.3_r2214_win32.zip)



BTW: Can we expect a new Celtic build now?

[celtic_druid]

Well if ADM_avsproxy_net.cpp was fixed and it has been updated to work with current x264.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Well if ADM_avsproxy_net.cpp was fixed and it has been updated to work with current x264.

The log for ADM_avsproxy_net.cpp says:

Revision 2215 - (view) (download) - [select for diffs]
Modified Thu Jul 20 19:25:17 2006 UTC (4 days, 18 hours ago) by mean
File length: 4207 byte(s)
Diff to previous 2093

merged win32 fixes

[celtic_druid]

Updated it to support latest x264, tried to build it, but it failed because spidermonkey now needs to be thread safe.

Built nspr, rebuilt spidermonkey, built avidemux and it crashes. So it could be awhile before I release a new build.

[mean]

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/win32/avidemux_2.3_r2246_win32.zip

That one (update only from rev2214 link given above) is from 2.3 branch and contains :
* Fixed avsproxy (it works here at least, win32, linux and linux64)
* Massively multithreaded DVD(lavc) encoding
* Should fix the freeze problem definitively
* Contains x264 latest version from svn, now it works in 2 passes mode on windows. I don't really know why it wasn't working.

@Celtic druid:
I had the same problem.
I rebuild libpsnr4 without too much problem for win32
I spend a lot of time to tweak js to build for win32 with proper compiler and flags and it was crashing too :)

So i took the js from firefox and rebuilt the js.dll.a and it runs fine.

JS is a pain to build. On the other hand, it works fine and allows users to easily do complicated script.

If you want i can make you a tarball with all the library+include files i use so that you can pick what is of interest for you.

If you are interested, just say it.

Thanks.

Ps: It is cross compiled form linux (build is much faster) but i believe it should work fine on windows + mingw or whatever you use as long as it is mingw/cygwin based.

[Doom9]

Massively multithreaded DVD(lavc) encodingmassively? did lavc finally get proper multithreaded support? last time I checked lavc's multithreaded mpeg4 asp encoder delivered almost no speed advantage over the singlethreaded version.

[mean]

Multithreaded because for DVD output using lavcodec based mpeg2 codec there is between 3 and 4 threads :
- One for audio (doesn't do much if you are reusing an existing audio track)
- One or two for video. Mpeg2 multithreading works well in lavcodec, albeit with a slight quality decrease
- One for the muxer

Just a warning, it is from the -dev branch and that version has probably some nasty bugs (nastier than the usual ones at least)

[celtic_druid]

Yeah it was libpsnr4. Grabed the dll from the mozilla ftp and it no longer crashes.

I have also cross compiled in the past. Didn't bother timing though. Also, not faster when you have to set it all up first.

Problem here with SDL, probably because I linked against recent svn. Could also be that I linked statically. GUI loses all text.

Tray icon still doesn't display the encoding status. Under linux I get a nice animated icon and all. Also during encoding if set to minimise to tray, there didn't used to be any windows left on the taskbar, correct?

[mean]

"Tray icon still doesn't display the encoding status. Under linux I get a nice animated icon and all. Also during encoding if set to minimise to tray, there didn't used to be any windows left on the taskbar, correct?"

I just checked, the windows are still in the taskbar
Don't know if they disappeared at one time

For the SDL vs text, no idea
I just noticed that SDL >=1.2.10 has a different behaviour at initialization time but that should be detected by the code

Just in case, the whole bin/lib/include i'm using to build win32 binaries from linux
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/win32/avidemux_libs.tgz

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@Celtic Druid

Thanks for the build, I'll do some testings ASAP.
But you forgot one required DLL file in your ZIP: libxml2.dll

And I got a question:
Why do those (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/win32/?M=D) build require all those additional DLLs like "xvidcore.dll" and "libx264.dll" and so on, while your build only reuires a few of them?