Leiming's x264 GUI Last version [AVS/Other Media to x264 & AAC in MKV/MP4]

[juGGaKNot]

a "progressive game footage" profile ? for non standard fps game footage that does not need stuff real movies do ? :)

[Adub]

Uh, what are you talking about? Did you post in the wrong thread?

[leiming2006]

Update.

2008-09-24:
(!)NOTICE: FOR X264 VER 977 OR HIGHER ONLY!
Change: Window is bigger than before to contain new options.
New: Psyrd is supported, new AQ is supported, new adaptive B-frame decision method is supported.
(!)Change: The default of direct prediction changed to 8x8.
(!)Change: The first pass of double passes is the "fast" one before, the fast first pass of double passes is the "turbo level 2" described in Mplayer's document.

[leiming2006]

http://leiming.fre3.com/2008/09/26/leimings-x264-gui-20080925/

Bug fixed: Optimal adaptive B-frame decision’s state will not be written into configure files.

[leiming2006]

Update.

[leiming2006]

update.

[Weltall]

Help me with these doubts please... But keep in mind I'm almost a total newbiee.

Could you please update the profiles with megui ones or teach how to do it? Also, could you add a delay option for audio? That's cause every little video I encode to h264/aac gets delay. I don't know about bepipe decoder (I don't know if it's a decoding problem, also I don't know if I can call bepipe a decoder), but I always have introduced ~ -150ms delay for megui (it uses ffdshow decoding, doesn't it?), then I don't get this delay. Maybe it could be AVS DirectshowSource, I'm testing yet, I never found a hint about this delay problem. Ok then, thanks in advance.

Edit.: I forgot to say, the program is randomly crashing, I'm using WXP SP3.

Edit.2: Well, I've managed to put a delay on sound with this (also could you look if my avs script is fine?):

# -----------------------------------------------------------------
# Name : Default ABatchScript Template v2
# Author : Steven van Cauter
# Movie : D:\Animes\blablabla\blablablaDVD-Rip-Episodio01.avi
# -----------------------------------------------------------------

#HERE IS WHAT I USED TO GET THE DELAY CORRECTED
DelayAudio(-0.15)

# 1) Store parameter in variable named "Clip"
Clip="blablablaDVD-Rip-Episodio01"

# 2) Set clip as DirectShowSource
DirectShowSource(Clip+".avi")

# 3) Resize to PAL square-pixel frame size
#LanczosResize(480, 280)

# 4) Convert frame rate to PAL, also adjust audio
#AssumeFPS(25, 1, true)

# 5) Restore audio sample rate to a standard rate
#SSRC(44100)

# 6)
#TextSub(Clip+".avi")


Is that right or there is another better method???

What about sound normalizing, how could I get similar megui "Increase Volume Automatically" (AutoGain) and "Improve Accuracy using 32bit & Float Computations" (ImproveAccuracy) options? Is the last option possible using BePipe? What this BePipe does anyway :( I'm so curious, I've searched but I couldn't find any thread about it, I only know it dimzon (or something like this) that created it)

Edit.3:

I have some suggestions to make too, you could make the batch file simpler and cleaner, hiding the default x264 options when they aren't changed, that should help us a lot when editing the batch file or when copying settings from Megui Sharktoot's presets. For example, --scenecut 40, -I 250 -i 25 --sar 1:1, --nr 0, --merange 16, --aq-mode 1 --aq-strength 1 --chroma-qp-offset 0, and many others... By the way, could you help me understant this: there is two x264 passes huh? Why -m, --me, -r have different values on them and 1st pass doesn't have -t at all?

Also, you could put some mux options on the more tab, for use with @mp4box.exe, for being possible to add chapters and subtitles, cause there is some files that comes with these things and we should like to keep them (in case of avi/srt or mkv/ass/srt/"txt chapter" inputs ). The only requirement should be chapters/subtitles must have the same name as input. Could you add this?

Another doubt about the way of decoding audio to encode it after. You use BePipe.exe, is this the best way (or only one) of encoding audio by command line? I mean, its like mencoder? It would be possible to use mencoder to encode video or audio, or isn't worthy?

Your applications was the best I could find so far, but I really need to know about how to correctly use delay and the other things on your software. Thanks in advance!!!

[leiming2006]

First, about the audio encoding. this GUI is designed originally for video encoding so the part of audio encoding is not so powerful.
If you feed it AVS scripts you can add delayaudio function in your AVS scripts; if you feed it other media you should edit the proper AVS presets (or AVS template) in the AVSInc folder.

And then, about the Bepipe. If there is other good ones I won't prefer bepipe. I have tried avs2wav but I get too many problems, like crashing or stopped after encoding though it has the feature normalizing audio.

The first pass: to increasing encoding speed this GUI give the first pass lower parameters. According to the research on POPGO forum, it seems to have no effect on quality. And the "fast" one is to make the first pass faster by the expanse of little quality decreasing.

It's not like mencoder. mencoder uses the internal decoder but bepipe depends on AVS totally.

Last, about the subtitle and chapter and the suggestion on default parameters. I'm taking them into consideration and maybe it'll come true in the future (at least I'll have a try).

Thanks for your interest about my program.

[byme]

I can not make it work


I do start

http://www.weepic.com/out.php/t3215_job1.png (http://www.weepic.com/out.php/i3215_job1.png)


after this screen is no longer anything

http://www.weepic.com/out.php/t3216_job2.png (http://www.weepic.com/out.php/i3216_job2.png)


sorry for my english

[NiGHTsC]

Nevermind, problem solved with PM :D
just add this in AVS
vobsub(mfn+".idx")

Thanx Leiming :D

[flebber]

HI I like the GUi. Can I ask do you have a prefered build of x264?

I ask because I downloaded two versions of x264 1063 and 996 from http://x264.nl/ but when I went to encode with your gui they ran slow quoting me times of 100hrs +.

So I copied the current x264.exe Megui is using and put that in the leiming.exe directory in place of the other versions. And normal quick encoding is back, it will take about 15 minutes at 5.2 fps (its only a small file). So this leads me to think that certain versions or build types work better. Do you have any ideas or preference ?

Quick second question how do I get the video output to be mkv by default?

[lion09503]

why is it that the audio is the only one that encodes

[DarkZell666]

why is it that the audio is the only one that encodes

Would you mind explaining a bit more clearly what you mean ?
Do you mean you have a black picture ? Or that you only have one audio track when you had two in the source video ? Something else ?

[lion09503]

what i mean is that if i insert a video to encode and start the encoding the audio is the only one that encodes and the video won't be encoded

[DarkZell666]

- What format is the source video ? (ie: xvid+mp3 in avi ? x264+aac in mp4 ? etc.)
- Do you have good codecs installed ? (ie: ffdshow-tryouts (http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/download.php) and Haali's Media Splitter (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/) ?)


Edit : it turns out you need to choose an item in the "AVS script" dropdown box to load your source file correctly.
You can add more AVS templates in the avsinc folder. I believe an extra one like this would also be helpful, since all the directshow-based scripts bundled with the app have convertfps=true with a specific fps value :

directshowsource(fs)
converttoyv12()
ConvertAudioTo16bit()

[leiming2006]

It's the last version.

[buzzqw]

It's the last version.

:(

it's sad. Any particular reason for saing last ?

i hope anyone knowing PB get the source code and work on it

thanks for your work leiming2006!

BHH

[vampiredom]

Hi -- Does anyone know of any good Blu-Ray presets for this GUI? Being new to x264 encoding, is there a way to specify interlaced vs. progressive encodes? Thanks.

[Miras]

The software allows encode the parallel on several computers?