AutoMKV 0.93a - (DVD/TS/AVI/AVS to X264/XviD/WVC1 into MKV/MP4/WMV) update 30/12/2007 [Archive] - Page 34

suppperj

30th March 2007, 18:06

Let me just say that after reading 80 pages of this post I'm both completely impressed and intimidated. I understand why the forum makes neebies wait 5 days...I found most of my solutions reading through this post.

My question is a bit more basic than what I've seen on here so far. When selecting my resize option I've found that I like "autocrop" the best.

I understand that the other filters are best used for either upsizing or downsizing but my question is, why upsize or downsize at all? I understand if you're converting a video for an IPod or Zune but I'm playing my videos on a big screen TV.
Is there an advantage to resizing that I don't know about?

Would changing my CRF give me the quality I'm looking for in a 700mb file?

Sorry for being long winded. I appreciate everything you guys are doing...even if I don't understand 3/4 of it. Thanks.

Bigmango

30th March 2007, 18:22

It is already possible!

in advanced setting, check "Last line AVS script" and write ChangeFPS(20.000) or ChangeFPS(12.500) :)

BHH

:eek: thx for the tip !

Hope you'll add that small FPS gui option in the next version, for the common folks like me.

:thanks:

salman1

30th March 2007, 18:40

how to add more than just one filter using this program
i want to use removegrain and removedirt

buzzqw

30th March 2007, 19:22

@suppperj

first of all Welcome to the FORUM!

but I'm playing my videos on a big screen TV.
yep.. not all have big lcd/plasma tv and in smaller tv even the 576*xxx is ok to view

also you want quality (using the crf profile) but quality is a personal taste , opinion and for me 700mb could not be enough for many films...
Also... someone use SAP (stand alone player, divx player) and rarely sap support big resolution...

and one last hint: Would changing my CRF give me the quality I'm looking for in a 700mb file?
If you want quality IN 700 MB don't use CRF, use Encoding-MainProfile. A 2 pass profile is often the best option to get quality in determinated media size.

@salman1
i want to use removegrain and removedirt

more then simple on filter box write removegrain(mode=2).RemoveDirt()
or use whatever filter but remember to concatenate with .

BHH

salman1

30th March 2007, 20:58

also what filter can i use to get rid of video noise?

Barleyman

30th March 2007, 21:53

Ha, looks like AutoMKV has been "discovered".

Not quite as bad as being featured in /., but something like that by the new blood.

So about splitting the AutoMKV thread.. :devil: Are we waiting for 100 pages?

I put in some stuff to the "profiles" section about xvid profiles that I know something about. Feel free to document the intimidating h.264 and WMV profile pull-down selections! http://automkv.wiki-site.com/index.php/Profiles

suppperj

30th March 2007, 22:27

I'm grateful I discovered MKV. For a newbie it seems to be the best of all worlds.

So if I am one of the lucky few that can display his video on a larger screen does that mean the "autocrop" selection is best? I've been using autocrop and limiting my size to 700mb with very satisfactory results.

I'm afraid I'm missing out on better quality because I'm not resizing.

I'd take these general questions to a more general forum but I've come to trust the answers here after having been able to fix other problems based on the advice in this thread.

Barleyman

30th March 2007, 22:53

Generally speaking resize during encoding is bad, m'kay? If you care about quality, that is. 700MB is fine for about 45-60min of DVD with AC3 audio using XVID.

If you try to fit movie into as small space as possible, it's better to resize it to a smaller size than have lovely lego-blocks all over the screen due to too much compression. So quality-wise it goes:
original size + bigger file > resized + smaller file > original size + smaller file.

Cropping is usually for only the letterbox movies that have black bars on top/bottom. Typical for stuff you get from TV. Letterbox movies with subtitles need special care..

Autocrop checks little bit of the beginning of the movie (still in 0.8?) to see if it has black bars. If the movie is 16:9 (fills wide-screen tv), autocrop shouldn't do anything at all.

dlflannery

31st March 2007, 00:43

@glynor
Thanks for the tutorial on benefits of DV -- very interesting!

weaver4

31st March 2007, 01:33

I encoded a movie using XviD with MP3 last night. The audio on the movie was about 15 db lower in volume than the same movie done with AutoGK. I looked in the log and I did not see anywhere where the volume was normalized.

dlflannery

31st March 2007, 02:53

ADDED: Multi Encoder!. If a file named "flv" or "msmpeg4v2" or "mpeg2video" or "rv10" is present in automkv folder then automkv will be force to used ffmpeg.exe to these format.
How does this work? I've put files named flv and flv.flv in the folder containing automkv080.exe. But when I start to encode a .flv video (either to WMV or to AVI/XVID) I just get an error message: "No Video Sequence Header Found" :confused: DGIndex is left running and has to be shut down manually.

I've used ffmpeg (outside AutoMKV) to encode this video to WMV7 and WMV8 with no problem.

When I encode using AVS to source this file into autoMKV it encodes but there are some video and audio glitches near the end. The ffmpeg encodings do not have these problems, so it would be nice to be able force autoMKV to use ffmpeg for the encoding.

Shark_jlc

31st March 2007, 03:47

@Shark_jlc

thanks for the WIKI update!!
also remember to open the movie.avs in virtualdub and tell the error

BHH

Here is the errror. It's horrible screenshot, but here it is: http://picasaweb.google.com/shackmiscpics/Misc/photo#5047914159952217954

I'm going to try to find the duplicate dll file and retry all this.

Shark_jlc

31st March 2007, 04:24

Here is the errror. It's horrible screenshot, but here it is: http://picasaweb.google.com/shackmiscpics/Misc/photo#5047914159952217954

I'm going to try to find the duplicate dll file and retry all this.

I renamed \\AutoMKV080\exe\DGIndex\DGDecode.dll and DGIndex.exe, and then reran the dgindex you linked for me. Then ran AutoMKV and I have been encoding for 10 minutes.

So far so good!

buzzqw

31st March 2007, 08:34

@weaver4
open the mkvmaudio.avs
after the nicaudio you will see Normalize()
from my test the normalize fuction applyed before downmixing is faster but applyed after downmixing is slower and louder...

in next update i will put normalize after downmixing... even if -15db cannot be explained with normalize on

@dlflannery
STOP! i added the possibility to encode "file" and get as output flv/mpeg2... ffmpeg is used as encoder!
create the flv file (no extension)
open automkv feed your shour sample (set resize/width/disk settings. AS AUDIO CHOOSE LAME!!!, also deactivate deinterlace, set it to none) and click start
after few minuter you have a movie.flv!

BHH
after few

delacroixp

31st March 2007, 09:29

Hi,

I'm trying to shrink a movie for a mobile phone.

For this I'd like to set the FPS at 12.5 ; but there seems to be no way to set the fps in automkv ?

Could you please add this option ?

:thanks:

I second this if it is at all possible buzzqw.

I picked up a Meizu M6 (http://en.meizu.com/product_m6.asp) which plays XviD in AVI but only at 20fps & would be great if I could use AutoMKV with it as most of the other conversion software is pretty poor.

It is already possible!

in advanced setting, check "Last line AVS script" and write ChangeFPS(20.000) or ChangeFPS(12.500) :)

I'm trying to encode clips or even movies for my nephew's Nokia 6233 (http://www.3g.co.uk/3GForum/archive/index.php/t-44839.html) but can it play less-than 15fps ???
I went to the Nokia Forum (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/586585.html) but they don't mention about "less is more" ... most of my movies are @ 25 FPS so that a 12.5 FPS conversion should make for better playback...

:thanks:

:):D:eek:
Pascal

BTW
For all those looking for a shortcut to the "last page" of the AutoMKV Forum...

While on 'last page' (or any page except start-page) save to favourites... then
=> favourites...
=> right-click on "AuotoMKV - last page"
=> properties
=> change the URL page number (last 2 characters) to 999...

and you have a "dynamically changing link" to the last page...

buzzqw

31st March 2007, 10:19

delacroixp

31st March 2007, 13:08

Does mp4 support 1 channel audio ?

I've looked through all your audio options for stereo and mono and you only support 2, 6 or Auto... even for mono.

:):D:eek:
Pascal

buzzqw

31st March 2007, 13:21

:confused:

mono is selectable regardless of audio codec and audio container. Where is the problem ?

BHH

delacroixp

31st March 2007, 13:44

Sorry... double post...

:):D:eek:
Pascal

delacroixp

31st March 2007, 13:47

:confused:
Does mp4 support 1 channel audio ?

I've looked through all your audio options for stereo and mono and you only support 2, 6 or Auto... even for mono.

mono is selectable regardless of audio codec and audio container. Where is the problem ?
There's no problem getting MONO audio... but it's using up 2 channels and double the necessary space of 1 channel mono.
Mpeg 1 (http://sound.media.mit.edu/mpeg4/audio/) does support single-channel ('mono') and two-channel ('stereo' or 'dual mono') ...

I'm encoding movies for my nephew's Nokia 6233 and audio can easily use up 30 - 40% of the filesize... which is crazy...

:):D:eek:
Pascal

Shark_jlc

31st March 2007, 15:34

@ALL WMV Encoder Around

i have update the WMV profile section of wiki (thanks again to Shark_jlc, The Master of Wiki!). There are some notions about audio (in wmv) that can be very useful to understand the encoding in AutoMKV

BHH

That profiles page just grew over night with good information!! Just to let you know NX6 is responsible for a good portion of the Changelog and Barleyman is almost entirely responsible for the profiles page, except, of course, for what you just did :)

Also, and more importantly :), my encode finally finished successfully, by using the version of DGIndex you gave me, and me renaming the old dgindex dll files.

so, what does this mean about the state of the current dgindex used with AutoMKV? :/

For all those looking for a shortcut to the "last page" of the AutoMKV Forum...

While on 'last page' (or any page except start-page) save to favourites... then
=> favourites...
=> right-click on "AuotoMKV - last page"
=> properties
=> change the URL page number (last 2 characters) to 999...

and you have a "dynamically changing link" to the last page...

This is the best thing you have posted to date, delacroixp.

dlflannery

31st March 2007, 16:18

.........@dlflannery
STOP! i added the possibility to encode "file" and get as output flv/mpeg2... ffmpeg is used as encoder!
create the flv file (no extension)
open automkv feed your shour sample (set resize/width/disk settings. AS AUDIO CHOOSE LAME!!!, also deactivate deinterlace, set it to none) and click start
after few minuter you have a movie.flv!
..........
I think I understand (not sure about "feed your shour sample" :confused: ). I will try this -- assuming the "shour" is just an extra typo.

A suggestion related to ffmpeg:

As far as I can tell AutoMKV cannot source .flv directly -- only via AVS. This would be fine except (as I described in a previous post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=977357#post977357)) you can get better results encoding from .flv sources directly into ffmpeg (instead of AVS into WMcmd.vbs as done in AutoMKV). Of course ffmpeg currently will only encode to WMV7 AND WMV8 for WMV.

Would it make sense to integrate this direct-into-ffmpeg encoding into AutoMKV as an option for source types that are now only supported via AVS but can be handled by ffmpeg (such as .flv ) ?

I have only tried one-pass ffmpeg encoding to WMV. I think there is a way to do two-pass (but it really isn't important for Zune encoding).

I realize this may require very complicated logic to properly incorporate into AutoMKV and maybe it just isn't worth the effort (??).

:thanks:

buzzqw

31st March 2007, 16:44

so, what does this mean about the state of the current dgindex used with AutoMKV? :/

the huge changelog... http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=116841
but... now... don't know..

@dlflannery
As far as I can tell AutoMKV cannot source .flv directly -- only via AVS
yes, and i don't want to expand support to this file type.

actually ffmpeg is used in 2 way
1) if xvid/x264/wmvcmd.vbs fails the encoding -> ffmpeg is invoked to encode to xvid/x264/wmv
2) if flv/rv10/mpeg2video file is present .. (and from next update dv/wmv7/wmv8) the input file is taken as is and passed to ffmpeg for generating flv/rv10....

i hope to be clear.. and yes "shour" (mean anything ?) is just an extra (one more) typo!

BHH
EDIT: as is is improper since i take the width selected, the crop (or manual crop), the audio bitrate...

BixMix

31st March 2007, 18:14

@BixMix
wmv encoding. this is the key!
advanced audio settings aren't applied to wmv encoding.
Audio will ne normalized in wmv from next version!

BHH

I've experimented with the AutoMKV 0.80. I don't hear an audio change--even at Amplifydb(25)--checked or unchecked it is still "normalizing". Is volume increase still in development?

Thanks for your help.

buzzqw

31st March 2007, 19:15

@BixMix
as i already said the advanced audio setting aren't applyed in wmv

Audio will ne normalized in wmv from next version!

open movie.avs and look at end script

BHH

dlflannery

31st March 2007, 19:25

STOP! i added the possibility to encode "file" and get as output flv/mpeg2... ffmpeg is used as encoder!
create the flv file (no extension)
open automkv feed your shour sample (set resize/width/disk settings. AS AUDIO CHOOSE LAME!!!, also deactivate deinterlace, set it to none) and click start
after few minuter you have a movie.flv!
BHH,
I tried this (source = mpeg2, encoding to flv, 500 kbps video specified). It didn't work but I have figured out why: In ffmpeg_flv.bat the ffmpeg options for video (-b) and audio (-ab) bitrates are way off.

-b was 25042000 (too high)
-ab was 6000 (too low)

I substituted "-b 500k" and "-ab 64k" and the two pass encoding worked very well (320x240 output, with auto crop).

Question: The encoded file was in the temp folder, named "movie.flv". If the ffmpeg batch had run OK would AutoMKV have copied this to the final folder and movie name?

It seems like a lot of processing goes on, and a lot of files are produced (20+) in the temp folder that are not needed, including audio.mp3. Only the ffmpeg_flv.bat file is actually needed to create movie.flv.

buzzqw

31st March 2007, 19:33

(set resize/width/disk settings. AS AUDIO CHOOSE LAME!!!,

the bitrate is computed based on disk settings, the audio bitrate is taken from the value displayed (so 112 = 112000)

500 kbps video specified this value isn't parsed... mmm.. i will introduce it.. thanks!

Question: The encoded file was in the temp folder, named "movie.flv". If the ffmpeg batch had run OK would AutoMKV have copied this to the final folder and movie name?

i haven't added the "move to right folder" now , is just all in temp directory

and about intermediate file.. yes... many and more isn't needed... but this is the first start... :)

BHH

buzzqw

31st March 2007, 19:43

update 0.80a !

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMKV080a.exe

ADDED: FFmpeg.exe support to DV (create a file named "dv" in AutoMKV folder) (suggestion by dlflannery)
ADDED: FFmpeg.exe support to WMV7 (create a file named "wmv7" in AutoMKV folder) (suggestion by dlflannery)
ADDED: FFmpeg.exe support to WMV8 (create a file named "wmv8" in AutoMKV folder) (suggestion by dlflannery)
ADDED: FFmpeg.exe will control the manual specifyed bitrate (just write 500 for 500000 bitrate!) set in Advanced Settings (thanks to dlflannery)
ADDED: File created by FFmpeg.exe are moved to right folder at end of encoding (thanks to dlflannery)
FIXED: VirtualDub is now the default invoker of SoundOut in all code
FIXED: Moved Normalize() to last part of mkvmaudio.avs.It will be slower (15 minutes for analyzing the Matrix movie, against 10 before) but audio is louder
FIXED: Some improvment to ffmpeg encoding

a big thanks to dlflannery for this release !

BHH

dlflannery

31st March 2007, 20:01

the bitrate is computed based on disk settings, the audio bitrate is taken from the value displayed (so 112 = 112000)

this value isn't parsed... mmm.. i will introduce it.. thanks!

i haven't added the "move to right folder" now , is just all in temp directory

and about intermediate file.. yes... many and more isn't needed... but this is the first start... :)

BHH
BHH,
Before you released 0.80a, I did more experiments and found that if you put 64 in the audio rate (which would not be normal # for Lame -- that's why I had not tried it before) and enter a reasonable target files size in MB, it worked, i.e., I discovered what you said above. Anyway it looks like 0.80a will take care of all of this. :thanks:

dlflannery

31st March 2007, 20:35

BHH,
It works as advertised! :thanks:

I assume you still have to:
1. select Lame audio encoding
2. set interlacer to None

One tip (at least for ffmpeg encoding from mpeg2 to flv):
Do not select the AVI container -- if you do the muxer runs after the ffmpeg batch file and crashes saying "file already in use", then the "send report to Microsoft ?" message. This problem does not occur if you select MP4 container, X264 codec. (In either case the correct .flv output file was created.) I did not try with the MKV container selected.

Also: the constant bit rate you enter (Advanced Tab) is the total (audio + video) rate for this type encoding. (Different from WMV encoding.)

salman1

31st March 2007, 21:05

HI
i have LimitedSharpen.avsi but i don't no how to use with this program can some one tell me plz thx a lot

Barleyman

31st March 2007, 21:26

Added a chapter on removegrain filter.. http://automkv.wiki-site.com/index.php/Filters

delacroixp

31st March 2007, 22:53

Are there MKV muxing options that can boost colour saturation ?
I know from DivX encoding that colours are the first to go when compression is increased but they have a lovelly player that can beautifully increase 'saturation' during playback.

While encoding Band of Brothers in H264 I was so stunned with the huge decrease in filesize and even the crispy clarity that I neglected to compare to the original. Even encoding with Q22 instead of Q24 increases the colour quality substantially.
The series was totally digitally mastered and enhanced to the point that 'nothing' is natural... all the colouration has been modified.

So I did a Q18 Encode http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Q18_MKV_Thumb2.jpg (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Q18_MKV.jpg) ... comparing it to the Original http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Org_VOB_Thumb.jpg (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Org_VOB.jpg) ... and the difference is quite startling...

Perhaps there's a filter I could use that pays particular attention to colour correction ?

:):D:eek:
Pascal

nx6

1st April 2007, 00:01

BTW
For all those looking for a shortcut to the "last page" of the AutoMKV Forum...

While on 'last page' (or any page except start-page) save to favourites... then
=> favourites...
=> right-click on "AuotoMKV - last page"
=> properties
=> change the URL page number (last 2 characters) to 999...

and you have a "dynamically changing link" to the last page...

Or you could just bookmark this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113811&goto=newpost

Which is the link I get in my email when new posts are on this thread. That way you don't miss posts if more than one page worth has been added in your absence.

delacroixp

1st April 2007, 00:25

Or you could just bookmark this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113811&goto=newpost

Which is the link I get in my email when new posts are on this thread. That way you don't miss posts if more than one page worth has been added in your absence.

Looks good to me... especially if you just want to see the latest post... my link only goes to the latest page... I'm sure there's some command like goto=newpage...
When I was at varsity we only learned 'structured programming', for software that is easily maintained and modified by 'other programmers'... and the goto statement was off-limits... and so too spagetti code.

I think you've just introduced me to the real potential of the 'goto' statement...

:thanks:

:):D:eek:
Pascal

salman1

1st April 2007, 02:20

i think this program need show preview like megui

nx6

1st April 2007, 04:21

Added a chapter on removegrain filter.. http://automkv.wiki-site.com/index.php/Filters

I've been wondering where I can get more info about what the filters do. Maybe I should try reading the wiki I've been working on more. :D

I hope we eventually get all the filters listed here.

So I did a Q18 Encode (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Q18_MKV.jpg) comparing it to the Original (http://souls-online.net/delacroixp/AutoMKV/BoB01_Org_VOB.jpg)... and the difference is quite startling... see for yourself.

Perhaps there's a filter I could use that pays particular attention to colour correction ?

That's quite interesting. The difference is like night and day (pun totally intended here) :D. But that looks more like a gamma or contrast issue than a color problem. Is there a way to adjust those attributes from AutoMKV. One way to confirm is to use the adjustment filters in ffdshow on playback (the "Picture Properties" in this case) and see what you have to adjust the most to get something closer to the source material.

@buzzqw:

The option for adding a custom title to a muxxed file is located in a Muxing Options section in the Advanced Audio Settings, which makes little sense. How about moving it to the Advanced Settings tab. The Muxing Options section there has space under the "Force Muxing AR" setting (http://automkv.wiki-site.com/images/1/17/Advsetting.png).

Or, it might be better space-wise to swap the location of Muxing Options with Project Options. So it would look like this (forgive this rather crude quality mockup):

http://automkv.wiki-site.com/images/thumb/b/bd/NewAdvsetting.jpg/800px-NewAdvsetting.jpg

Barleyman

1st April 2007, 09:47

I've been wondering where I can get more info about what the filters do. Maybe I should try reading the wiki I've been working on more. :D

I hope we eventually get all the filters listed here.

I wouldn't hold my breath on that score. On the other hand, if you browse the thread you can find Buzz explaining how the idct and couple other filters work.

Earlier versions of AutoMKV actually had docs for all the filters, but they mostly go into program algorithm-style treatise and do not actually tell you where this filter would be useful.

In any case, my opinion is that if there is no reason to filter such as synthetic noise in the source, you shouldn't.

Other use of filtering is to reduce the resulting filesize while keeping "apparent" image quality but in my experience you need many iterations with short video clips to find image quality you can live with and the compressibility result isn't that dramatic. I quess filtering is most useful when you have fixed target filesize such as 350MB or something :rolleyes: With filtering the movie/episode can be shoehorned into smaller filesize without getting lovely macroblocks..

If you use CQ encoding like me to archive DVB recordings, filtering is pretty useless since I don't care if the encode is 450MB or 550MB for one tv series episode. Except for video with noise. SHIELD or Oz will produce 1.5-2x filesize and compress much slower than series without noise added.

buzzqw

1st April 2007, 09:52

@dlflannery
Also: the constant bit rate you enter (Advanced Tab) is the total (audio + video) rate for this type encoding. (Different from WMV encoding.)
Fixed in next update!
in next update the specified bitrate is used only for video!

@salman1
put limitedsharpen.avsi in \exe\filter folder
start automkv, in filter list you can write limitedsharpen()

@delacroixp
strange... try updating haali media splitter and ffdshow
also open the movie.avs, is present colormatrix at end script ?

@salman1
is in todo list (but far away..)

@nx6
i had made some adjustmen...
look here
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/2133/advancednx6fv6.th.png (http://img393.imageshack.us/my.php?image=advancednx6fv6.png)

is it ok ?

BHH

nx6

1st April 2007, 10:05

@nx6
i had made some adjustmen...
look here
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/2133/advancednx6fv6.th.png (http://img393.imageshack.us/my.php?image=advancednx6fv6.png)

is it ok ?

Yes, that is better.
Although I do notice how crowded the Project Options section is now compared to the Demuxing and Indexing Options section. ;)

That's a nice big empty space you've cleared out there on the right. Some secret feature going in there later? :D

Prospero424

1st April 2007, 10:26

A quick question:

I've noticed a remarkable speed increase when going from version .79 to .80.

I tried encoding the same exact movie using the same exact same settings (a 2-hour long 1920x1080 MPEG2 transport stream converting to a 1280-width x264 mkv using the HighQuality-Insane profile and a DVD-5 file size) and the x264 encoding time went from about 30 hours per pass to 15 hours.

I was just curious to see if anyone else had noticed this and what the reason might be.

Needless to say, I'm not complaining :)

(Athlon X2 3800+, 2x2.0Ghz)

vgiozo

1st April 2007, 10:55

nx6

1st April 2007, 18:42

I use the High-Quality Profile myself, the "Slow" one, but you must really have nerves of steel to encode using the "Insane" profile...

I've also witnessed an increase in speed...maybe the X264 encoder has been updated as well?

It's in the changelog.

v0.80: Released 29/03/2007

Added MediaInfo. AutoMKV will use it as a last resort to analyze the input file.
Added new WMCmd.vbs, which should be more stable and robust.
Added in Log file the AR reported by DGIndex will now be listed.
Added WMV WVC1 presets. These presets are 2-pass encoding (Preset_Fast_WVC1.xml, Preset_Good_WVC1.xml, Preset_Better_WVC1.xml, Preset_Best_WVC1.xml, Prest_Insane_WVC1.xml)
Added Normalize() to audio avs file.
Added FFmpeg.exe to be used as encoder, if xvid_encraw/x264/wmcmd isn't able to process input file (not on dvd input) FFmpeg will try to encode to desired codec/container/width (not autocrop sorry...). Manual crop will be parsed and applied.
Added Multi Encoder support. If a file named "flv" or "msmpeg4v2" or "mpeg2video" or "rv10" is present in AutoMKV folder then AutoMKV will be force ffmpeg.exe to use these format. This does not work on dvd or avs input.
Added VirtualDub (1.7.1) as launcher of SoundOut plug-in, which should help deal with imperfect avs audio files.
Fixed bug where MP4 was recognized as AUDIO, now is recognized as video.
Changed XviD_CQ profile so it is now a true CQ. BQuantRatio is set to 1.
Fixed bug where in X264 the -ref was applied two times.
Added new Audio setting for WMV for better compatibility with the new WMCmd.vbs.
Fixed bug preventing AACgain from working for installation paths with space (like c:\program files\automkv\... ).
Added some tuning to audio downmixing when using WMV.
Changed location of Force Mux AR control to Muxing Options, and moved Anamorphic Encoding to Aspect Ratio Options.
Changed layout of log file some.
Changed RemoveGrain.dll to RemoveGrainS.dll, for better compatability with Athlon processors. Note: If you have a more powerfull CPU delete this file and from http://home.arcor.de/kassandro/RemoveGrain.rar take the DLL version your CPU supports (RemoveGrainSSE2.dll or RemoveGrainSSE3.dll). Do the same thing with job with RepairSSE2.dll or RepairSSE3.dll.
Added some tuning to WMV bitrate calculator
Changed width option so it now sets to "Original" if profile is CRF or CQ, and user selects "Go Unlimited" for final file size.
Updated NicAudio to 2.0.0.2, DgIndex to 1.4.7 beta 17, X264 v635, and ffmpeg.exe to v8435.

Espio

1st April 2007, 19:07

Great program, but I have a few requests:

-When I go into the Advanced Audio Settings just to change one thing everything is reset which is annoying if I forget something.
-When the selected profile is changed, everything is reset, also annoying.
-After you send a job to the queue it cannot be edited.
-Also, maybe consider adding some advanced settings for Vorbis? (Mostly allowing the bitrate to be selectable instead of just a quality setting)

Otherwise this program is great, much better than AutoGK ever was.

Edit: just got a memory violation in virtual dub saying something about out-of-bounds and audio, the setting I was using was Nero AAC, CBR 128kbps, from 5.1 AC3 to 5.1 AAC (Original).

buzzqw

1st April 2007, 19:52

-When I go into the Advanced Audio Settings just to change one thing everything is reset which is annoying if I forget something.

i prefer as is, those options are for advanced users and basically shouldn't opened.
I don't think to change the behavior.

-When the selected profile is changed, everything is reset, also annoying.
several profile need special options to be triggered. while i concord that is annoying i prefer to reset all

-After you send a job to the queue it cannot be edited.
yes, queue is a bad argument, i dislike it and queue dislike me :angry:

-Also, maybe consider adding some advanced settings for Vorbis? (Mostly allowing the bitrate to be selectable instead of just a quality setting)
most option on vorbis regards bitrate management and freq. Quality is the normal and preferred way of encoding.

Edit: just got a memory violation in virtual dub saying something about out-of-bounds and audio, the setting I was using was Nero AAC, CBR 128kbps, from 5.1 AC3 to 5.1 AAC (Original).
another user reported a memory error, AT END of ENCODING, when audio was already (and well ) compressed.
Must be presen some glitch in SoundOut...

BHH