BENCOS - Windows and Linux batch encoder GUI

[Sirber]

is ffmpeg reliable on muxing?

Try a recent ffmpeg (download (http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/autobuilds/)), I did not get problems on my side. Please tell me if it works :)

[ckmox]

Try a recent ffmpeg (download (http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/autobuilds/)), I did not get problems on my side. Please tell me if it works :)

still broken for me :( here is what i used


Automated FFmpeg 32-bit Windows builds made by Ramiro Polla.

FFmpeg revision: 25249
SwScale revision: 32401

Build date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:05:27 -0300

[Sirber]

still broken for me :( here is what i used

hum... so far I only tested x264 + aac in mkv and mp4, works fine, and vp8 + ogg in webm/mkv and it works fine too.

[Fidelix]

Sirber,
Please, could you show me the command line settings that RealAnime uses for enhAacPlusEnc, mencoder and mplayer when using the "HIGH" quality setting?

[Sirber]

Sirber,
Please, could you show me the command line settings that RealAnime uses for enhAacPlusEnc, mencoder and mplayer when using the "HIGH" quality setting?

you can see them in the sources:
http://code.google.com/p/bencos/downloads/list

[Sirber]

small update: BENCOS_20101105.exe (http://code.google.com/p/bencos/downloads/detail?name=BENCOS_20101105.exe&can=2&q=#makechanges) changelog (http://code.google.com/p/bencos/wiki/changelog)

[Sirber]

Little todo:

* add WebM (ffmpeg: VP8 + vorbis)
* add Nero AAC encoder (as a separate download)

[Alex_080]

Thanks Sirber for small update of Bencos....waiting for ur full new version of Bencos.
Is it true that Realanime gives better results thank Bencos?
From my tests i see RA gives good result than Bencos ...i don't know why but it gives.

[Sirber]

RealAnime 6 was a fork of BENCOS because I had issues running BENCOS in Vista with UAC enabled, and it is now ~4 years old. It used the same encoding settings as BENCOS.

[Sirber]

erm the source code is so ugly.. lol

[Sirber]

new home: http://code.google.com/p/bencos/

[Sirber]

beside "resize", which other filters do you people use?
saving that space I might do a "all in one page" instead of 3 tabs.

[Sirber]

well... looks like I'm in for a lot of code change :)

http://code.google.com/p/bencos/wiki/todo

[Sirber]

new untabbed interface will look like this:

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/382/bencos20101106.png

[Alex_080]

Hi Sirber

In bencos high setting r..reframes and bframes are both 5 is it good? i think increasing reframes gives better result like 8.

what about psy_rd and aq value for anime?

when i encoding some anime with realanime 6 i see the edges are smooth and looks good..but with bencos it not looks good even with higher setting.(without resizing)

Is the new Bencos can encode dual audio file?

[Sirber]

Hi Sirber

In bencos high setting r..reframes and bframes are both 5 is it good? i think increasing reframes gives better result like 8.

what about psy_rd and aq value for anime?

when i encoding some anime with realanime 6 i see the edges are smooth and looks good..but with bencos it not looks good even with higher setting.(without resizing)

I'll doublecheck RA6's settings. Currently the "new" bencos uses the presets files found with ffmpeg. I'll have to look about "psy_rd" and "aq". It's been a while since I played with x264 :)

Is the new Bencos can encode dual audio file?

Currently no. I added a track selector using the input language. I guess I could recode them all too..

adding on todo (http://code.google.com/p/bencos/wiki/todo)

[Alex_080]

Hi Sirber
In new bencos if possible can u add an option by which one can encode only video without audio...means one can disable audio while encoding.

One request Sirber please add some required filters which are good for anime encoding.

[flebber]

Just to clarify are you going to use ffmpeg or ffms2 with bencos?

[Sirber]

Hi Sirber
In new bencos if possible can u add an option by which one can encode only video without audio...means one can disable audio while encoding.

bencos is ment to be a "finalware", not a "middleware". There are other tools for that matter.


One request Sirber please add some required filters which are good for anime encoding.

beside "resize" I'm not sure what would be useful. Since it's not a DVD ripping application, the source should be already filtered.

Just to clarify are you going to use ffmpeg or ffms2 with bencos?

ffmpeg directly.

[Sirber]

the first working dev build! :D

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4797/bencos20101107.png

Download:
http://code.google.com/p/bencos/downloads/detail?name=BENCOS_20101107_dev.exe (sources (http://code.google.com/p/bencos/downloads/detail?name=bencos_src_20101107.7z))

Changelog:
http://code.google.com/p/bencos/wiki/changelog#2010-11-07_dev

Notes:
* only tested with 1 file in queue
* old bencos "High" mode is now ~ "x264/slow"
* it expects a source with video and audio stream.
* stop button doesn't work yet
* ipod profil might work if you select AAC-LC

[Alex_080]

Thanks Sirber for new dev version of bencos.
I will try this today.

[Alex_080]

In audio bitrate i m not found 32kbs. (Codec:AAC-LC)
I face an error.
Error:File for preset 'C:\Program Files\Bencos\presets/libx264-veryslow_firstpass.ffpreset' not found

[Sirber]

In audio bitrate i m not found 32kbs.
(Codec:AAC-LC)

AAC LC doesn't go bellow 64kbps, and at 64kbps it sounds really crappy. Best use AAC HE+PS or Vorbis.


I face an error.
Error:File for preset 'C:\Program Files\Bencos\presets/libx264-veryslow_firstpass.ffpreset' not found

my bad, forgot to add the presets to the installer.. :o

[edit]

please redownload the installer :)

[Sirber]

"slower" takes ~2h30 to encode a ~24m clip on my Phenom II X3, while with old bencos at "High" it would take ~35 minutes.

[Alex_080]

dev version working!:)
New Bencos is slower than both RA and old bencos..i think it is due to use of b_adapt=2 .In RA and old bencos it is 1.
Can u add the RA high setting profile?
In video section are u going add source types like anime, movies etc.

[Sirber]

dev version working!:)
New Bencos is slower than both RA and old bencos..i think it is due to use of b_adapt=2 .In RA and old bencos it is 1.

the slower the better ;)


Can u add the RA high setting profile?


RA6's code:

// Source Type
case cboVSourceType.ItemIndex of
0: sOptSourceType := 'deblock=0,0:bframes=2:frameref=2:'; // Generic
1: sOptSourceType := 'deblock=1,1:bframes=5:frameref=5:'; // Anime and Toons
2: sOptSourceType := 'deblock=-2,-1:bframes=3:frameref=4:'; // Movies
3: sOptSourceType := 'deblock=-3,-1:bframes=3:frameref=3:'; // Sports
4: sOptSourceType := 'deblock=-1,0:bframes=5:frameref=3:'; // DV Captures
end;
sOptTmp := '-of rawvideo -ovc x264 -oac pcm -o ' + sVideoOut + ' -x264encopts ' + sOptSourceType + 'threads=auto:b_pyramid:nofast_pskip:nopsnr:bitrate=' + txtVBitrate.Text;

// First pass (fast!)
sV1 := sV + sOptTmp + ':pass=1:turbo=2';
// Profiles (slow!)
case cboVQuality.ItemIndex of
0: sV2 := sV + sOptTmp + ':pass=2:8x8dct:weight_b:mixed_refs:me=umh:bime:partitions=all:subq=6:brdo:trellis=1 ';
1: sV2 := sV + sOptTmp + ':pass=2:8x8dct:weight_b:mixed_refs:me=umh:bime:partitions=all:subq=7:brdo:trellis=2 ';
end;
sV2 := sV2 + ' -nosound '; // remove sound from seocnd pass
sTempFiles.Add(sVideoOut);


some of the options are deprecated (at least bime IIRC). bencos (old and new) use better settings.

In video section are u going add source types like anime, movies etc.

not sure, currently I only use the presets that comes with ffmpeg. I could add a "custom" preset if a user-made file "libx264-custom.ffpreset" is found.

[Sirber]

nnnice! I have the softsubs in the outputed mkv :D

[Alex_080]

It is nice and easy to use for different source if u add source types like anime, movies.so if possible please add this in future.

[Sirber]

It is nice and easy to use for different source if u add source types like anime, movies.so if possible please add this in future.

I would have to double the entries for movie/slow, anime/slow, etc. :(

[Alex_080]

Is it possible add two tabs likes one tab contains sources like Anime, Movie etc. and other tab contains profiles like slower, slow, normal?so that we can choose what we want.

[Sirber]

Is it possible add two tabs likes one tab contains sources like Anime, Movie etc. and other tab contains profiles like slower, slow, normal?so that we can choose what we want.

would be possible, but no. I think the presets are good as is.

[Sirber]

found a bug:

* merge will fail if the output file already exist. fixed in dev build.

[Alex_080]

Are the values of psy_rd and aq really affect the quality in anime encoding?
I want to know is it ok with psy_rd=1.00:0.00 and aq=1:1.00.

[Sirber]

Are the values of psy_rd and aq really affect the quality in anime encoding?
I want to know is it ok with psy_rd=1.00:0.00 and aq=1:1.00.

I don't know, best ask in AVC forum. :(

[Sirber]

I'm testing the encoding queue. might have a release tomorrow if it works.
changes since the last dev release:

* added subtitle support (soft, to Matroska only)
* added new icon/logo
* added presets: "faster", "fast" and "medium"
* updated container/codec selection:
** x264/PC locks to MKV :
** x264/iPod to MP4 and AAC-LC
** WebM to WebM and Vorbis
** fixed: start / stop button
* fixed: merge fails if output file exists

[Sirber]

from time to time ffmpeg "hang" at 100% CPU merging files and stop responding :S

[Alex_080]

Today i download your new dev version but Avira antivirus detect it as TR/Dropper.Gen

I visit and search some AVS forum and i found that for anime encoding psy_rd= 0.6 and aq= aq=1:0.60 are suitable values.

[Sirber]

a virus in which file? MSSE finds nothing here.

[Alex_080]

Avira Antivirus detects it as Malware.

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8428/virusa.jpg

[Sirber]

... false positive. I only added the ffmpeg presets to the installer...

[Sharktooth]

avira is well known to detect TONS of false positives.
however, false positives apart, is one of the "best" antiviruses (even the free version).

[flebber]

Added an MKV file and hit start. Got this error though.

C:\Program Files\Bencos\ffmpeg.exe -an -y -threads 8 -i "C:\Rip\Source\FAWLTY_TOWERS_PROP2_DISC2\title05.mkv" -vb 268k -vcodec libx264 -passlogfile "C:\DOCUME~1\Family\LOCALS~1\Temp/bencos/video.mp4" -pass 1 -fpre "C:\Program Files\Bencos\presets/libx264-slower_firstpass.ffpreset" "C:\DOCUME~1\Family\LOCALS~1\Temp/bencos/video.mp4"

FFmpeg version SVN-r25680, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Nov 6 2010 04:07:01 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libgsm --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libvpx --disable-decoder=libvpx --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --target-os=mingw32 --enable-avisynth --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --cc='ccache i686-mingw32-gcc' --enable-memalign-hack
libavutil 50.32. 6 / 50.32. 6
libavcore 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0
libavcodec 52.94. 3 / 52.94. 3
libavformat 52.84. 0 / 52.84. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 2 / 52. 2. 2
libavfilter 1.56. 0 / 1.56. 0
libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0
Unable to find a suitable output format for 'Files\Bencos\ffmpeg.exe'

[Sirber]

Added an MKV file and hit start. Got this error though.

I have no clue.. what OS are you on? Did the old bencos work?

[flebber]

Windows XP sp 3. yeah the old bencos worked.

[Sirber]

new release: download (http://code.google.com/p/bencos/downloads/detail?name=BENCOS_20101108_dev.exe&can=2&q=) changelog (http://code.google.com/p/bencos/wiki/changelog#2010-11-08_dev)

[Sirber]

Windows XP sp 3. yeah the old bencos worked.

just to be sure, would it work if you install it to "C:\bencos"?
mine is at "C:\Users\sirber\Documents\My Dropbox\prog\bencos\out" and works (on w7)

[flebber]

Just installed latest dev release to C:\Bencos and it is now working

[Sirber]

Just installed latest dev release to C:\Bencos and it is now working I'll try to encapsulate the ffmpeg.exe path in " " and give you a special build tonight to test.

[Alex_080]

new dev version working :)
one request Sirber..can u make a profile for anime encoding. I know given profiles are good but i need one special for anime.
I need slow one like these values
ref=8, subme=8, deblock=1:1:1, fast_pskip=0, bframes=3, b_pyramid=2, b_adapt=2, aq=2:0.50, psy_rd=0.60:0.00, rc_lookahead=50

[Sirber]

new dev version working :)

installed in the default folder?


one request Sirber..can u make a profile for anime encoding. I know given profiles are good but i need one special for anime.
I need slow one like these values

like I said earlier, I'll add the possibility to have your own custom ffpreset file, so you'll be able to encode the way you like.