AutoMen (Mini Mencoder Gui) 6 beta 06/10/2010) [Archive]

dansus

28th July 2007, 11:59

Thanks for 09.

No change on the black bars and sync.

D:\TV Recordings>"C:\Documents and Settings\Daniel\My Documents\Encoding\Automen
\mencoder.exe" -vf harddup,crop=0:0:0:0,harddup,hqdn3d,scale -zoom -xy 704 -sws
9 -priority idle -o "D:\TV Recordings\Video_aut
omen.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1612:pass=1:turbo:max_bframes=2:bquant_
ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=2:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trelli
s:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -nosound "D:\TV Recordings\Tour de France Highligh
ts (2007-07-23).dvr-ms"
MEncoder dev-SVN-r23237-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ (Family: 15, Model: 55, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Setting process priority: idle
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x4dc076b4
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 2
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 1
VIDEO: [DVR ] 0x0 0bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:6 fourcc:0x20525644 size:0x0 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
xvid: using library version 1.1.2 (build xvid-1.1.2)
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale]
Opening video filter: [hqdn3d]
Opening video filter: [harddup]
Opening video filter: [crop w=0 h=0 x=0 y=0]
Crop: 0 x 0, 0 ; 0
Opening video filter: [harddup]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Pos: 0.0s 2f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
Pos: 0.0s 3f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
Pos: 0.1s 4f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
Pos: 0.1s 5f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
Pos: 0.2s 6f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
Pos: 0.2s 7f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...

ect

Pos: 1.0s 27f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
VDec: vo config request - 704 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 10 -> 9
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 10 -> 9
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuv420p to yuv420p using MMX
2
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance s
caling
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance
scaling
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (YV12
like)
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: 704x576 -> 704x396
videocodec: XviD (704x396 fourcc=44495658 [XVID])
xvid: par=1/1 (ext), displayed=704x396, sampled=704x396
xvid: bitrate setting is ignored during first pass
xvid: 2Pass Rate Control -- 1st pass

1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16:9.
Pos: 1.1s 29f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16:9.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.n 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16:9.

1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 360.2s 9007f (11%) 17.79fps Trem: 62min 1115mb A-V:0.000 [3080:0]

buzzqw

28th July 2007, 12:47

do you have a sample (dvr-ms)where is easy to spot synch issue ?

if possible i want help... but the main work is done by mencoder...

NJJ

dansus

28th July 2007, 14:24

heres a couple of clips to play with, the sync issue is less severe with the shorter clips.

Also i noticed that it decided to cut 10mins off the end of an hour vid. :confused:

Thanks.

TDF.clip.dvr-ms (http://momupload.com/files/42743/TDF.clip.dvr-ms.html)

TDF.clip2.dvr-ms (http://momupload.com/files/42745/TDF.clip2.dvr-ms.html)

microchip8

28th July 2007, 16:03

Just a few suggestions...

I see you use these parameters for mencoder

-vf harddup,crop=0:0:0:0,harddup,hqdn3d,scale -zoom -xy 704

it would be much better if you use

-vf crop=0:0:0:0,hqdn3d,scale=704:-2,harddup

buzzqw

28th July 2007, 16:22

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen11.exe

on your long sample i have perfect synch :)

when input is dvr-ms is now used demuxer 35

BHH

buzzqw

28th July 2007, 16:29

@froggy1

about harddup... i have read that is better to keep harddup as first filter

and for scale=704:-2 i will look around for usage!
thanks

BHH

microchip8

28th July 2007, 16:43

@froggy1

about harddup... i have read that is better to keep harddup as first filter

and for scale=704:-2 i will look around for usage!
thanks

BHH

from the MEncoder man page

Only useful with MEncoder. If harddup is used when encoding, it will force duplicate frames to be encoded in the output. This uses slightly more space, but is necessary for output to MPEG files or if you plan to demux and remux the video stream after encoding. Should be placed at or near the end of the filter chain unless you have a good reason to do otherwise.

Remember that mencoder processes filters in reverse order, eg if you place

-vf scale=512:384,harddup

it will first open the harddup filter then the scale filter. If you place...

-vf harddup,scale=512:384

it will first open the scale filter then the harddup one

buzzqw

28th July 2007, 16:56

ouch.. thanks!

wait for a quick update!

BHH

microchip8

28th July 2007, 17:20

Regarding your crop issues. I would do something like this...

1) detect the length of the input source with mplayer and export the output to a file...

mplayer input_file -identify -vo null -frames 1

2) When running mplayer with the -identify option it prints the video length. Look for the ID_LENGTH= line

3) Now to detect the exact and correct cropping values you run mplayer for ~15 frames with the -sstep option with you give to -sstep ID_LENGTH/15 , eg

mplayer input_file -vf cropdetect -nosound -vo null -frames 15 -sstep ID_LENGTH/15

this will force mplayer to detect the crop values at various positions in the video. I use this approach for a very long time now inside one of my Linux script and it has never failed to give me incorrect crop values.

Your approach in detecting the crop value for ~6 seconds is flawed as during these 6 second there can be only dark/black frames which will lead to incorrect crop values...

Here's my Linux shell code on how I do it, might help you a bit if you understand Linux shell programming ;)

mplayer "$sourcetype" $device $vid -identify -vo null -frames 1 2>/dev/null > $CONFIGDIR/cropdetect
VLENGTH=$(grep "^ID_LENGTH" $CONFIGDIR/cropdetect | cut -f '2' -d '=' | cut -f '1' -d '.')
GETCROP=$(mplayer "$sourcetype" $device $vid -vf cropdetect -nosound -vo null -frames 15 -sstep $(($VLENGTH/15)) -nocache 2>/dev/null | tr '\r' '\n' | grep "crop=" | tail -1 | awk '{print $9}' | sed 's/crop=//g; s/).//g')
rm -f $CONFIGDIR/cropdetect

buzzqw

28th July 2007, 17:51

i already use id_lenght when mediainfo fails :)

thanks for the headup about sstep, i have tryed some years ago.. and was broken

my Kudos! :thanks:

update http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen12.exe

fixed: crop detection is now very similar to autocrop for avisynth (will analyze all movie for better analysis)
fixed: harddup usage
fixed: -zoom usage (now is scale xxx:-2 )

a very big thanks froggy1!

BHH

P.S our dataware house is linux/sun based ... so i know a little of burn shell ;)

microchip8

28th July 2007, 20:05

no problemo ;)

dansus

28th July 2007, 20:27

11 did the trick, good sync, crop working, nice quality and twice as fast as 8-10.

12 was fast too, quality ok, sync ok... crop bad. Black bars are back.

11 will work for me.

Thanks for your speedy responses and efforts.

ps mediainfo dies on 11 + 12.

buzzqw

28th July 2007, 21:58

mediainfo failed even before... but i haven't added any message ;)

try this update http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen13.exe

fixed: modified the new algo of cropping with dvr-ms
fixed: better mp4 muxing

tell me if crop problem are gone

BHH

dansus

28th July 2007, 23:04

The crop is fine with 13, but now its spitting out tiny files.

I tried with two sources, i set the output to 60mb and 250mb, I got a 10mb and 55mb file. I retested with 11 and that seems ok.

Strange.

buzzqw

29th July 2007, 07:52

i have encoded the long sample (77mb) to xvid with 2 pass (7' tick) aiming for 30MB and i got a 30.5MB final file

are you using what quality level and what profile ?

BHH

Schrade

29th July 2007, 09:07

try this update http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen13.exe

I'm getting a 404 on that...

buzzqw

29th July 2007, 09:51

thanks! fixed

retry the download

BHH

killerhex

30th July 2007, 00:22

is there an option for hardcoding subs to the video

dansus

30th July 2007, 01:37

i have encoded the long sample (77mb) to xvid with 2 pass (7' tick) aiming for 30MB and i got a 30.5MB final file

are you using what quality level and what profile ?

BHH

Xvid, 7 or 8, cant remember for sure, Autocrop only.

It seems to be inconsistent, happens sometimes but not every time.

On a side thought, is it possible to make the size slider more sensitive, its really hard to get certain sizes ie it jumps from 29 to 59mb.

Be great to be able to manually type in the number.

thanks.

glb

30th July 2007, 02:00

On a side thought, is it possible to make the size slider more sensitive, its really hard to get certain sizes ie it jumps from 29 to 59mb.

Be great to be able to manually type in the number.

thanks.

Just click on the slider and then use your keyboard arrow keys.

dansus

30th July 2007, 02:03

edit. fixed.

dansus

30th July 2007, 02:04

Just click on the slider and then use your keyboard arrow keys.

Ahha !

Thanks.

buzzqw

30th July 2007, 07:31

update http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen14.exe

added possibility to specify Final Size

@killerhex

no.. i don't know (well haven't researched too much) how mencoder handle subs...
i am open to suggestions/hints/tips

@dansus
Be great to be able to manually type in the number.

done... download the update 1.4 :)

Keep forgetting to ask, the drop down box, is that to tell it what it is or what i want it to be?
from the drop list you must select if your movie is
none = progressive or no need to deinterlace
Progressive NTSC (29.97->23.976) = mencoder must convert to 23.976 from 29.97 (decimate)
Interlaced = and mencoder will deinterlace (i used this options on your sample)
Telecine= and mencoder will telecine it
Mixed progressive and telecine AND Mixed progressive and interlaced are hybrid preset for soft telecine and deinterlace

BHH

microchip8

30th July 2007, 10:09

no.. i don't know (well haven't researched too much) how mencoder handle subs...
i am open to suggestions/hints/tips

MEncoder by default hardcodes subs. You have to select the sub you want with the -sid option where this option is a number. You can also alternatively choose the anti-aliasing method with the -spuaa option

if you want to dump subs, then use mencoder with the -vobsubout option, eg

mencoder dvd://1 -sid 5 -vobsubout subtitle_file_name

you have to use -sid with -vobsubout when dumping subs to select which one to dump

BTW, I checked the mencoder docs again, you were right, the harddup filter should be placed at the beginning, sorry for mistake, so use....

-vf harddup,scale=512:384,blablabla

buzzqw

30th July 2007, 12:51

update 1.5 LINK on first post

fixed harddup
better bitrate handling
better use of denoise
better handling of unknow source

BHH

dansus

30th July 2007, 19:50

update http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen14.exe

added possibility to specify Final Size

BHH

Sweeet, thanks.

gonwk

6th August 2007, 00:36

Hi buzzq,:)

Just FYI ...

I just saw your application and was playing around with it ... and I noticed the following using a short VOB test clip:

1) I think the "MPEG2" application on "AutoMen GUI" does not work. It encodes and it shows the file size getting larger but at the end of conversion ... the converted file size goes to "ZERO" !?!?!:confused:

2) The MP4 conversion ... works fine as far as Video and Audio decoding ... but when it is muxed up the final AVI ... the Audio does not play back. BTW, this conversion yielded the BEST Video ... however, I don't care for H.264 since currently is not playable on stand-alone dvd players.

3) The .WMV conversion yields an "Unrecognizable" output ... since Windows Media Player or VLC can not play it back and it gives me error.

4) I tried the XviD ... and it worked Good. It did gave a AVI output that it was playable and sound & video were fine. However, even with Quality set at 10 (Max) ... the output Video was so, so.

I did not try the other stuff.

Thanks,
G!:thanks:

dansus

6th August 2007, 02:03

mencoder keeps crashing with dvr-ms input now, was stable all week so i imagine its more to do with the source, but seems strange as im using the same cap card.

I converted it to mpeg2 and encoded to xvid but the output was unplayable and avi fixers would only produce a file that was 75% of the original length, so i guess it got corrupted around that point.

buzzqw

6th August 2007, 07:18

@gonwk

i hope you have used latest version

1) think the "MPEG2" application on "AutoMen GUI" does not work

here is working well. so.. tell me what quality you have used and audio bitrate. also, from dos box launch mpeg2.bat and look at any errors

2) The MP4 conversion ... works fine as far as Video and Audio decoding ... but when it is muxed up the final AVI
the final file is the MP4 , the AVI is the file made by mencoder!

3) The .WMV conversion yields an "Unrecognizable" output
again... what quality preset ? and what audio ?
here the wmv is perfectly playable with mpc

4) However, even with Quality set at 10 (Max) ... the output Video was so, so
what bitrate ??? (look at xvid.bat)

@dansus

look here
...\My Videos\TV R
ecordings\Encoding\F1.2007.Round11.Hungary.Race.mpg

isn't a dvr-ms files! since its extension is .mpg i don't use the special "-demuxer 35" option!

rename to dvr-ms and retry! :)

BHH

dansus

6th August 2007, 16:13

oops, sorry that was the wrong log.

dansus

7th August 2007, 03:08

So im having trouble with this cap. Its outputing an unplayable xvid with the dvr-ms and mpeg versions.

I was wondering if you can tell whats going wrong from the log.

"Cannot seek backward in linear streams! Seek failed" is new to me.

C:\Documents and Settings\Dan\My Documents\My Videos\TV Recordings\Encoding>"C:\
Documents and Settings\Dan\My Documents\Encoding\Automen\mencoder.exe" -vf yadif
,harddup,crop=672:544:16:16,scale=704:-2,hqdn3d -sws 2 -priority idle -o "C:\Doc
uments and Settings\Dan\My Documents\My Videos\TV Recordings\Encoding\F1.2007.Ro
und11.Hungary.Race.edit_automen.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1909:turbo:m
ax_bframes=2:bquant_ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=1:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chr
oma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -af volnorm=2 -oac mp3lame -la
meopts aq=5:cbr:br=160 "C:\Documents and Settings\Dan\My Documents\My Videos\TV
Recordings\Encoding\F1.2007.Round11.Hungary.Race.edit.mpg"
MEncoder dev-SVN-r23237-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ (Family: 15, Model: 55, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Setting process priority: idle
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x0
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 704x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 15000.0 kbps (1875.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:704x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
xvid: using library version 1.1.2 (build xvid-1.1.2)
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [hqdn3d]
Opening video filter: [scale w=704 h=-2]
Opening video filter: [crop w=672 h=544 x=16 y=16]
Crop: 672 x 544, 16 ; 16
Opening video filter: [harddup]
Opening video filter: [yadif]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 704 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
MP3 audio selected.
VDec: vo config request - 704 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 7 -> 6
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 7 -> 6
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv420p to yuv420p using MMX
2
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance s
caling
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance
scaling
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (YV12
like)
[swscaler @ 00B21FF0]SwScaler: 672x544 -> 704x392
videocodec: XviD (704x392 fourcc=44495658 [XVID])
xvid: par=1/1 (ext), displayed=704x392, sampled=704x392
xvid: CBR Rate Control -- bitrate=1909kbit/s
Pos: 0.0s 2f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:-0.004 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16384:9122.
Setting audio delay to 0.048s.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16384:9122.
Setting audio delay to 0.048s.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.n 0mb A-V:-0.008 [0:0]
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16384:9122.
Setting audio delay to 0.048s.

1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 0.8s 22f ( 0%) 21.34fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:-0.084 [0:160]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 1.2s 32f ( 0%) 20.78fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:-0.084 [1297:160]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 2.0s 51f ( 0%) 20.47fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:-0.083 [1320:160]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos:1060.9s 26522f ( 0%) 19.56fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:-0.055 [1745:160]

:thanks:

buzzqw

7th August 2007, 07:05

could you link a sample (30 seconds) of this mpeg ?

i want analyze it

thanks!

BHH

dansus

7th August 2007, 16:49

sample1.mpg (http://momupload.com/files/44069/F1.Race.sample3.mpg.html)

thanks.

edit: ive just started again it with the latest mencoder build and im not getting the same errors in the log (Cannot seek backward in linear streams!).

I let you know how it turns out.

buzzqw

7th August 2007, 19:35

sorry pal .. but using mplayer linked on oss site i don't get your problem

i have used ff4, 640 autocrop, quality 7, lame 96, interlaced, automen 1.5

and i got a great intro of F1

BHH

dansus

7th August 2007, 23:15

Yeah, i had the same thing. I made three samples from beginning, middle and the end and they all work but if i put the whole file in it breaks. (4.5gigs)

There must be a small fault somewhere thats buggering it up and i havent found it in my samples. Anyway, i tried the latest mencoder build and it worked just fine, it was 6fps faster too on my 1 pass, q6.

While im here, is it possible to get better deblocking on the best one pass setting? (6)

I use Xvid, autocrop only, quality 6, lame 160, interlaced, automen 1.5.

ps if you want the whole file to try, pick up the tor (http://www.racing-underground.com), its pretty fast at the mo.

buzzqw

8th August 2007, 07:10

try this build http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen16.exe

on 6 quality, the overall quality should be better BUT , obviusly, a little slower

if your report will be positive i will promove this build to official build

one more suggestion: try the ff4 , is a very great codec (perfectly playable with ffdshow)

thanks!

BHH

dansus

8th August 2007, 16:07

Slower? you weren't kidding, 40% slower. Quality is a touch better, but not really noticeable. I think i would need a better quality source before the benefits are seen, 3500kbps mpeg2 isnt the greatest and car racing is notoriously difficult to encode with detail.

FF was 5% faster than before and yes the quality is good but im not sure if its playable on a standalone player.

I would say keep six as it is and have the old 6 as the new 5.

-

buzzqw

8th August 2007, 16:23

ok... this is a little faster the previus and a bit more quality

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen16a.exe

BHH

dansus

8th August 2007, 19:40

Ok, so ive led you down the garden path a bit here. On checking the original its got macro blocking and mencoder is just faithfully reproducing it. Only way round it is maybe some smoothing filter.

I use two pass for archive and the one pass for 0-day stuff so the extra quality isnt worth the loss of speed and i will stick with 1.5 for now.

I will find some quality vobs to play with and let you know how 1.5 compares to 1.6/a.

thanks for your efforts.

dansus

9th August 2007, 20:25

Me again.

Ive finally manged to upgrade my system to a dual core (AMD) and im getting the 50% cpu thingy with Xvid.

I upgraded to Xvid 1.2.x and set threads to 2 with no joy, i can see both cores and x264 works at 100%. I was wondering if you had set xvid to 1 thread in your scripts.

Otherwise any tips on improving cpu usage?
-

buzzqw

9th August 2007, 22:21

i set thread auto to x264 (options supported), but with xvid the standard mencoder build seems lack support...better, even if i set thread to 2 (thread=2) is used inly one core and the other is near sleeping (~30% usage)

i tryed downloading lates celtic druid build and the result is near the same :(

also upgrading the vfw build of xvid has nothing to do with xivd 's mencoder

i will search some optimized mencoder build...

BHH

dansus

9th August 2007, 23:17

i will search some optimized mencoder build...

BHH

Sweet.

:thanks:

dansus

17th August 2007, 23:03

Ive been doing the split file in two trick, which is ok to a point.

Did you say you were getting 65% with two threads (100+30%). Thats better than the 50% im getting at the mo. Are you releasing a two thread version? Would do it myself but cant seem to find the code line.

any luck with finding an optimized mencoder?
-

buzzqw

18th August 2007, 09:40

Hi dansus!

try this build http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen17.exe
and use the latest build from here (look at cpu)

http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/mplayer/

in this new build i added a check "Thread" if checked it will enable the threads parameter in mencoder

it's optional since many mencoder build i tested don't supported this switch (with CelticDruid build crash if used with FF4)

hope "quicker" news!

BHH

dansus

18th August 2007, 16:18

Thanks. I gave it a go and while it using more cpu (65-70%), but the fps is less than 15 at 50% cpu, which im using at the mo.

So im guessing your using the later script for the Xvid one pass, is it possible to get a 17a with settings from 15 with thread mode.

While im here, ive been checking out the wmv encodes but its not making a file that plays in WMP 11.

thanks.

buzzqw

18th August 2007, 16:42

done

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen17a.exe

i checked all wmv quality ticks and all where playable in Media Player classic ... what mencoder build are you using ?

BHH

dansus

19th August 2007, 21:37

Phew, mad day of encoding.

Im seeing a cpu increase of 30% and a fps increase of between 2-10%, so its some improvement.

Im using this version http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/mplayer/mplayer2007.07.20.Athlon-64.7z for testing. I can see the first frame of WMV with WMPC but it wont play.

buzzqw

19th August 2007, 22:15

on new build is changed the options for wmv mux. previusly was needed to add "i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames" for wmv muxing.. now NO :mad:

... i would like to know if is a "definitive" change or not..

BHH

dansus

19th August 2007, 23:26

So if i use an older version, it should be ok?

buzzqw

20th August 2007, 08:50

yes, the wmv encoding is ok with the build linked on first page

with the new build of mencoder are "broken" wmv and flv

BHH

dansus

21st August 2007, 23:26

I tried with the build you recommended, but wmv still not playable.

Also with this build, target size is off in Xvid. wanted 700mb, got 500mb.

Using 17a.

[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551946:128]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551946:128]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..255
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551947:128]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551950:128]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551951:128]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..255
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551953:128]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551954:127]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551954:127]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551954:127]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..2551884:127]
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..255
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..255
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..255
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..255
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..255
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..255
[wmv1 @ 00CAACE0]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -255..255
Pos: 642.3s 16062f (23%) 38.47fps Trem: 22min 663mb A-V:0.025 [1885:127]

TheRyuu

22nd August 2007, 00:32

Also with this build, target size is off in Xvid. wanted 700mb, got 500mb.

It's normal.
Taken from the divx "why do I get undersized file" sticky (same applied to xvid though).

Once you get a file that is more than say 50MB under your target filesize, there's a very big chance the movie is 'maxed out'. This means that the codec has used every bit you gave it and has produced a file that is at the maximum quality, and therefor maximum filesize, and it just can't make it any bigger.

Sorry, I can't help you with your other problems though.

buzzqw

22nd August 2007, 08:34

@dansus

i tested the OSS build of mencoder with your dvr-ms files and IS broken

while on standard mpeg is working...

btw i have done an update http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen17b.exe

added possibility to add audio to huffy export
compatible with recent mencoder build, for wmv and flv removed "-lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames" options

BHH

dansus

22nd August 2007, 21:26

I gave 17b a go with mpeg, but the cmd box crashes instantly with OSS build.

With this (http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/mplayer/mplayer2007.08.19.7z) build, it encodes but isnt playable.

:(

buzzqw

22nd August 2007, 21:42

i suppose to wait for a more stable mencoder build

...

btw i am seriusly thinking about an FFmpeg gui.. but there are a lots of options.. :eek:

don't know is better to add only the "most inportant" or all... and how handle over 500 switch in a gui... :devil:

BHH

dansus

23rd August 2007, 01:19

Yeah, FF drives me nuts with all the settings.

Sometimes you just want a simple way, so maybe a gui with only the most important options would be the way to go. You can always add more later.

If wmv is working for you, it must be a prob my end. I will try to pin it down and let you know.

Would it be possible to get a 60sec mpeg clip that worked for you?

:)

blizard

30th August 2007, 08:23

Hi, Buzz!

Something doesn't work as it should when I use AutoMen. It breaks when I want to keep original size on capture I transcode from MPEG2 to AVC+AAC (MP4). It just write mp4.bat and stop.

It have worked to some degree before with autocrop 656, but then mp4create.exe doesn't work to re-mux into mp4 container. I took those part that I could use and put into YAMB instead and then let it create a new MP4 with both sound and video. That worked until now.

So I have two problem. Why doesn't mp4create.exe work as it should to demux and remux into container and why doesn't it work to keep original size work without any other action then to transcode work?

Bat file show every part for autocrop and re-size to be zero, so it must have to be something that doesn't respond well to keep those setting.

dansus

13th September 2007, 00:22

Buzz, ive got a C2Q now. Any chance i could get an 4 thread version on Xvid?

thanks.

buzzqw

16th September 2007, 10:01

@ALL
please update to latest mencoder build (OSS build) link in first post, is a lot more stable!

also the 1.7b is already multithread optimized, just check Thread

BHH

EEPROM

18th September 2007, 20:56

Hi Buzz',
with precedent build of mencoder; the cpu(Intel E6600) worked at 70 - 75 %; but with latest mencoder build (OSS build) the cpu worked as single core(50%).
In both cases, i've used AutoMen 1.7b
What happens?

Thanks for your job!!! and continuous development

buzzqw

19th September 2007, 07:26

autmen is just a gui that create and launch bat (make simplified...).

Is mencoder that do the hard work and use the cpu. I am sure that mp4 (x264) is multithreaded, but avi (xvid) not so much...

if you want more speed and cpu use i suggest to search and use a mencoder build optimized for speed and for your processor

the build of mencoder linked is not the fastest but the more stable :)

BHH

EEPROM

19th September 2007, 12:08

Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation.
But i don't see a specific build for Core2Duo, but only for P4 or another site for Pentium-M
Where i find a specific buid for my configuration?

Thanks a lot

buzzqw

19th September 2007, 15:58

well.. p4 build should be enough.. but if i found a c2d build.. i will tell you :)

BHH

EEPROM

19th September 2007, 16:25

no word, only "Grazie".... :)

EEPROM

5th October 2007, 16:23

I think i have found a bug:
When i set the resolution to:"Original Size" and press start, all the settings are respected to the final movie, but if i want to convert multiple files(QueueIT -> Start all Jobs!)strangely all files converted have as resolution 656 width.
It's a bug o what?
Thanks for future interesting!

P.S.
Core: 1.7b
Input File: .vob (single)
Codec: XviD
VidQuality: More Quality (10) = Less Speed 2Pass
AudQuality: Lame 128

buzzqw

6th October 2007, 13:35

thanks for the bug!

fixed!

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen18.exe

BHH

EEPROM

6th October 2007, 16:24

Thanks to you!

buzzqw

11th October 2007, 13:40

added a full new package with latest mencoder (and mplayer)
AND working on multicore!

link in first post!

BHH

weaver4

11th October 2007, 18:05

buzzqw: Like the program. Since I keep my files on a media center I don't really care about filesize. I would rather tell the software I want a fair/good/great/fantastic picture, set the width and let it run. Any way to do that?

buzzqw

11th October 2007, 19:43

@weaver4

actually not.. you must use both final size and video quality sliders

i can think 4 more quality tick that work on quantitizer ...

i will check :)

BHH

EEPROM

11th October 2007, 20:33

Hi Buzz,
With your latest mencoder build, my Core2Duo work at 50%.
I will use "old" relase of mencoder(dev-SVN r23833-4.2.0).

P.S.
For your test, use AMD X2 or Intel C2D?

buzzqw

12th October 2007, 07:13

have you checked the thread button ?

... btw i have a prescot, i will wait peyrin cpu for next pc

BHH

EEPROM

12th October 2007, 11:55

have you checked the thread button ?
BHH

Yes....:confused:

buzzqw

12th October 2007, 13:11

update 1.9

ADDED: for xvid, ff4, mp4 added Quality Preset (as tick 11,12,13,14) Fair, Good, Great, Fantastic (suggestione by weaver4)

i open to suggestion how to improve the presets :)

BHH

amirkhan

12th October 2007, 22:05

thankyou very much for this tool, both automkv and megui crash after sometime encoding on my PC (XP64bit), I've narrowed it down to the fact that they cant seem to load mpegsource.dll

this tool works fine and produces much better results for me (as i use x264) than i get with xvid and the other tool that works fine autog. knot.

buzzqw

12th October 2007, 22:09

glad you like it!

as usually any feedback is more then welcome :)

BHH

amirkhan

12th October 2007, 22:23

glad you like it!

as usually any feedback is more then welcome :)

BHH

Well _THIS_ time I thought I wouldn’t be part of the silent majority ;-)

Anyway, the ONLY issue I had is after it finished I was left with the mp4 file (that wouldn’t play). An aac, and a .264 file. I muxed the .264 file and the aac file with mkvmerge (from mkvtoolbox) and the end result is a nice tasty mkv file that plays without issue. Result! :-)

I still had the avi file with the XVID codec encoded with autogknow and I compared it with this encode (produced with Automen). The Automen encode is noticeably sharper, thanks to the use of 264 I suspect at a bitrate of ~1500kbps (its a 6:45 capture from DVB).

Keep up the good work :-D

buzzqw

12th October 2007, 23:10

Anyway, the ONLY issue I had is after it finished I was left with the mp4 file (that wouldn’t play)

well that's strange since the mp4 should be the final muxed file..

are you sure you have the correct splitter installed ? (like haali media splitter .. or use vlc or nero showtime)

have you used the new presets or the size slider ?

BHH

amirkhan

14th October 2007, 12:40

well that's strange since the mp4 should be the final muxed file..

are you sure you have the correct splitter installed ? (like haali media splitter .. or use vlc or nero showtime)

have you used the new presets or the size slider ?

BHH

I used the sliders, where are the presets?. the rar i downloaded had no docs :-(

Anyway tried to convert another file and 1st pass is OK but second pass fails.

Here is what happens When i edit mp4.bat and start from second pass.

The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 10 -> 9
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 10 -> 9
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuv420p to yuv420p using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (YV12 like)
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: 704x576 -> 704x406
x264 [warning]: width or height not divisible by 16 (704x406), compression will suffer.
x264 [info]: using SAR=705/704
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 SSSE3
x264 [error]: different number of B-frames than 1st pass (3 vs 16)
x264_encoder_open failed.
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
Seek failed
MEncoder Sherpya-SVN-r24762-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x0

There is NOTHING playing with the video file so is the same file on both passes. Its a DVB-C capture that has run through videoredo plus to clean any bad bits.

buzzqw

14th October 2007, 14:18

amirkhan

14th October 2007, 15:07

the preset are in automen 1.9

download the rar and update with 1.9

the slider for quality preset are present in xvid/mp4/ff4 and are the last four

i am unable to give assistance on mencoder but if you upload a small sample to test.. i can verify too :)

BHH

Will get 1.9 (I'm on 1.8)... could you include an about page in the app, or perhaps put the verson in the titlescreen so we know what version we are on?.

As for a sample, i'll try and re-create the issue with a smaller file, if i'm able I'll upload it. current "big" file is 13 gigs :-)

edit: I see in 1.9 version is now in title bar :D
edit2: Just tried a 78MB portion from the start with 1.9 without issue. Now testing full file on fastest encoding.
Also would it be possible to have a seperate output dir for those of us who have more than 1 HDD and want to reduce amount of disk trashing?

buzzqw

14th October 2007, 16:47

amirkhan

14th October 2007, 20:20

@amirkhan
plase try this build http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen20.exe

launch it and then close it

you will found a file named automen.ini open it in notepad and edit the path to mencoder.exe path, mplayer.exe path... and destination path

if NO path is specified then the exe are supposed to be in automen folder and the destination folder is the same as input folder

BHH

Thanks, downloaded and testing.

Btw on fastest encoding 1.9 has finished without crashing.

Testing the new version on "great" quality setting x264+AAC. will update tomorrow (~313mins per pass) afer the encode is done (13 gigs takes a while) :-)

edit:

Job started source file is on d:\temp I can see encoded file is being created on c:\temp (as i specified as output) :)

amirkhan

15th October 2007, 17:06

OK back from work and its finished.. will have to re-encode though :-(

Didnt realise that when you choose "great" from the Video quality, the final size slider is ignored. Its created me a 7GB+ file when I wanted 4GB :-)

I thought it (Video quality) was used in combination with final size to control number of passes etc. Still the important thing is the encode finished.

The other odd thing is the muxed mp4 file and the .avi file dont play in VLC with audio. Its not a problem at all as i use MKVMERGE and the output from mkvmerge plays fine (with audio).

On with the recode :-)

buzzqw

15th October 2007, 19:45

about mkvmerge ... i will think something (i am used too mkv) :)

BHH

buzzqw

16th October 2007, 09:15

update to 2.1 link in first post

ADDED support for external application. on start automen will create a file named automen.ini
set in this file the path where is mencoder,mplayer,mp4muxer,medianfo and mkvmerge
ADDED support for muxing with mkvmerge, if path is set automen will allow to mux in mkv

BHH

amirkhan

16th October 2007, 17:06

hrm, overnight encode crashed :-(

lucky, I can test new version. Encoding started again. Unfortunate that the process does not log to a file to help find why it crashed, still on with the encode(s) :)

edit:

Btw default path ("mkvmerge =" ) is not made in .ini file, I guessed it (and set it) and now mkvmerge button can be checked (it was ghosted).

weaver4

16th October 2007, 18:34

Buzz,

I have always found this thing about size, quality and encoding speed to be a little difficult for beginners to understand. For size you want to use two pass and with a set quality you can use one pass; Encoding speed vs Quality has little impact on quality...etc.

Since the first thing you know is if you want to hit a particualr size I think a better interface would be something like this:

http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=encodermi5.jpg

Love this program.

amirkhan

17th October 2007, 18:13

Ok last encode = PERFECT :-)

I think the reason its hard for (new) users with this program is because there is no context (read baloon) help in the app; or a help file. I'm not complaining has its free.

Thanks again for the app!

buzzqw

17th October 2007, 19:03

i must admit that a little tutorial should be needed..

but since i had a family, a busy work, autmen and automkv to develop, answer in this and other 2 forums, and i am a Moderator on another one forum ... ... AND last but not the least english isn't my first (or second too...) language... ... i suppose that manual must wait

or are there some volunters? ;)

btw, thanks all for your kind words. Very appreciated!

BHH

amirkhan

17th October 2007, 23:05

well I've started on a manual. I have to be honest though its hard to write a manual when you need a manual yourself :-D

Anyway I'll upload the start soon (its too rough right now) and perhaps someone could fill in the gaps.

buzzqw

18th October 2007, 07:05

feel free to ask any question or doubt!

thanks!

BHH

amirkhan

18th October 2007, 17:20

Here is what I have. Perhaps people can add to the help and as a community we can work on it?.

I stole the doom9 css, hope thats OK :-)

Ruvil

20th October 2007, 01:04

Hi!
I just found automen and i LOVE it, it does almost everything i want, do you think it would be possible to add the option to encode in VBR/ABR (-lameopts abr:br=128:ratio=50 or something similar) and maybe include the option to change priority to normal/high/whatever you want (-priority normal)?
Of course i could edit the .bat file automen creates to encode vbr audio and change priority(thats what i do now) but that does not make automen "auto" :/

/Ruvil

buzzqw

22nd October 2007, 13:13

@Ruvil

thanks! .. check the update :)

@ALL
update to 2.2
ADDED: possibility to specify priority (using automen.ini)
ADDED: possibility to specify abr/cbr/vbr in lame (using automen.ini)
ADDED: MANUAL! a big thanks to amirkhan
link http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/index.html

i am a dumb regarding html.. so please someone edit the index.html, mail me it and i will reupload the correction !

link in first post

BHH

amirkhan

23rd October 2007, 12:39

buzzqw

24th October 2007, 12:13

now i have added PS3 support (job near complete), with possible of "pass through" in case of mkv (avc+audio)

i also have substitued mp4creator for mp4box

possible update tomorrow (after test on my new ps3 :) )

Schrade

25th October 2007, 02:47

Nice, buzzqw! I might be getting a PS3 soon too :) I've been wanting one since they came out but might be able to afford it in a couple of weeks.

That'd be really helpful with that passthrough feature.

buzzqw

25th October 2007, 10:20

Update AutoMen 2.3 link in first post

changed muxing for mp4 : now using mp4box
added: possibility to specify if temporay file must be delete (yes/no) in automen.ini
added: lvlchange for passthrough PS3

added: passthrough for PS3
In case of mkv or mp4 with mpeg4-avc or h.264 automen will offer the possibility to do a passthrough
i cannot guarantee perfect playability in this case.

BHH

machser

25th October 2007, 19:07

is it possible to say use the source file and transcode to all available formats in AutoMen ?
Something like a multiple output of one source video or to implement a transcoding queue ?

buzzqw

25th October 2007, 19:55

transcode to all available formats in AutoMen

:eek: no, not possible... and would be usefull ???

the queue is already present... just hit queueit button

BHH

buzzqw

26th October 2007, 19:59

update do 2.4

fixed quality encoding for PS3

BHH

buzzqw

29th October 2007, 14:31

update to 2.6

better support for playstation 3
better support for autocrop and no crop with "problematic" input file
fixed long path

BHH

dansus

29th October 2007, 23:35

Wow, you have been busy lately.

Love this app, really helps to knock my rips out fast and i find the quality with mencoder xvid is much better than pure xvid.

All it lacked was quad core compatibility, but will test this new build and see how it goes.

Thanks for your efforts.

dansus

29th October 2007, 23:48

Ok, thought i would start clean. Downloaded 2.3 and loaded up an mpeg2 to xvid.

All i get is a flash of a box then nothing, its producing a bat file.

I tried placing pthread.dll in the same folder but no joy. Any ideas what 'appening guv?

dansus

30th October 2007, 00:00

I updated to 2.6 and its seemed to have solved the problem, what ever it was.

On xvid 25% cpu as before but now at 22fps compared to 45fps with an older mencoder build and quality looks the same on a single pass, Q6.

Is anybody getting 100% cpu on a dual core/ C2Q with any mencoder build?

--

buzzqw

2nd November 2007, 13:29

update to 2.8

big changes!

is now possible to specify crop, resizer, denoise, split, lame options, encoding priority, clean temporary files and programs path

BHH

Dkruskie

2nd November 2007, 20:32

Trying this out. I can everything to work except the mpeg2, it makes the bat file then nothing happens. I checked the bat file and its empty.

buzzqw

2nd November 2007, 22:33

@Dkruskie

thanks ! fixed

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen28a.exe

BHH

Dkruskie

3rd November 2007, 03:43

Thanks buzzqw, working great now :)
I have a question would it be possible to add a option of 23.976 to 29.97 in the drop down for mpeg2?

buzzqw

3rd November 2007, 10:14

update to 2.9

added "change fps to 29.97" (need optimization, aka suggestion is more then welcom)
varius optmization to code (automen.exe is 2kb less ! :) )

BHH

Dkruskie

3rd November 2007, 12:18

Thanks buzzqw.
Did a small encode and change fps to 29.97 not working. Fps were still at 23.976.
In the video resize slider if I pick a resolution of 352 with adding cropping of 16,72,16,72, I get a final resolution of 352x244. Is there a way to get a resolution 352 x480?

Thanks
David

DIEGO7-5

3rd November 2007, 13:00

Hi buzzqw!
I just love the way this little program develops :-) Is there a chance that you will include lame encoding to 44.1kHz? I am backing up a very old tv show that has an annoying very high pitched sound in almost all episodes. When i encode to Lame in 44.1Khz using AutoMKV, the annoying sound is gone. It would also be great if i could choose if i want to normalize the audio or not. Just some suggestions, keep up the great work!

buzzqw

3rd November 2007, 14:46

Update to AutoMen 3.0

added possibility to enable/disable audio normalization
added possibility to change ssrc. Attention ! lame bitrate is tied to particular sample rate value

@Dkruskie

what is the original ar ?... mencoder will automatically scale to correct aspect ratio
you will need manual set of ar.. must wait another update :)

about fps... check in mpeg2.bat is -ofps 30000/1001 is present.. also try with 3.0 version

@DIEGO7-5

:)

BHH

Dkruskie

3rd November 2007, 14:57

buzzqw

3rd November 2007, 15:10

@Dkruskie

624/352=1.772

352/244=1.444 (yea.. the crop values...)

BUT

352/480=0.733

so it is a problem of ar (and not only)
your image will be "deformed" passing from 624/352 to 352/480

i can check in mencoder how to force ar.. but in this case .. are you sure of what doing ?

BHH

Dkruskie

3rd November 2007, 15:19

Usually I resize through avisynth
LanczosResize(320,336,0,0,624,352)
AddBorders(16,72,16,72)
to have 352x480 to make 1/2 dvd res

buzzqw

3rd November 2007, 15:25

ok... now i have understud..

actually isn't possible.. maybe in a future update :)

BHH

buzzqw

3rd November 2007, 15:55

@Dkruskie

try this build

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen30a.exe

in advanced settings is possible to specifu the height.

Not setting it will bring an automatic resize by mencoder

BHH

Dkruskie

3rd November 2007, 19:52

Thanks buzzqw.
After doing multiple tests, I concluded its better to let mencoder do the resizing when setting the width and cropping and change fps to 29.97 I can still set dvdlab pro to accept non dvd sizes so no worries here :)

dansus

6th November 2007, 01:33

Hi buzz,

In testing mencoders x264 against pure x264, i notice that generally its a lot darker when using mencoder.

Is that mencoder thing or is it addressable through your settings?

buzzqw

6th November 2007, 12:43

@dansus

no.. you can open the bat to check.. but i suppose that you ffed x264 with a avs.. and in avscould be present colormatrix.. or other color conversion ?

BHH

weaver4

9th November 2007, 19:36

I really like automen, but there is one thing I wished it would do and that is to give me a status bar to let me know what it is really going to do something like.

Input - 1:36; Video - XviD - Single Pass Q = 3; Audio - mp3 - cbr 128kbs

I find myself always wondering what it really is going to do when I say "Start"

Thanks for the great program.

buzzqw

9th November 2007, 20:59

i am working on

i hope a new build for tomorrow :)

BHH

weaver4

9th November 2007, 21:40

As long as you are working on it I also noticed that my last video was:

Video: XVID 640x258 29.97fps [Video 0]
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 128Kbps [Audio 1]

Any chance you could do IVTC and get the framerate to 24?

buzzqw

9th November 2007, 22:32

just select "Progressive NTSC" in deinterlace box

BHH

weaver4

10th November 2007, 00:06

just select "Progressive NTSC" in deinterlace box

BHH

How did I not see that!

buzzqw

10th November 2007, 10:52

update to 3.1 link in first post

added: detect crop button
added: preview crop
added: multi track audio selection. If a file contain more then one audio track is possible to select wich one to encode
added: preview (crop or the P button) now play the selected audio track
added: status bar with encoding info

BHH

EEPROM

10th November 2007, 12:33

I think i have found a bug in crop module(preview); i have tested two mpeg files and result is the same: every value set in the "crop box" will ignored in preview box.

P.S.
DVD Structure(for encode) is supported by AutoMen?

weaver4

10th November 2007, 13:36

buzzqw: Since I overlooked something so obvious yesterday I want to check to see if I was missing something else.

When I have a group of Linked Vob files I have been using VobMerge to make one large vob file out of it before I drop it on your application. Is there another (better) way?

Thanks,

buzzqw

10th November 2007, 13:55

@EEPROM AND @weaver4

I think i have found a bug in crop module(preview)

it's working, BUT all crop value must be set. Set 0 for not crop, but set it

DVD Structure(for encode) is supported by AutoMen?
When I have a group of Linked Vob files I have been using VobMerge to make one large vob file out of it before I drop it on your application
actually it's only support one file as input
so i suggest to rip to a single big vob

i will look how with mencoder is possible to "concatenate" input files

BHH

EEPROM

10th November 2007, 14:47

@EEPROM AND @weaver4
it's working, BUT all crop value must be set. Set 0 for not crop, but set it
BHH

I haven't set only Height value.
That is the problem?

buzzqw

10th November 2007, 14:58

update 3.1a http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen31a.exe

added support for concate input file
NOTE: the file must end (before extension) with _1, _2, _3,_4 ...
so it's ok aaa_1.vob, aaa_2.vob , aaa_4.vob
a file named aaa3.vob would not be "chained"

@EEPROM
the height could or not be set, not matter
this is a working crop
EDIT: please try this build

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/Clipboard01.png

BHH

EEPROM

10th November 2007, 15:26

With new version, the problem is solved.
Thanks!!!

weaver4

10th November 2007, 16:52

@EEPROM AND @weaver4

it's working, BUT all crop value must be set. Set 0 for not crop, but set it

actually it's only support one file as input
so i suggest to rip to a single big vob

i will look how with mencoder is possible to "concatenate" input files

BHH

Thanks, unfortunately the two methods I use to rip are DVDFab and CloneDVD do not rip to a single VOB file. But using VobMerge is not a big deal.

buzzqw

10th November 2007, 17:26

@weaver4

latest version add support for concatenating files

BHH

weaver4

11th November 2007, 16:07

I tried the concatenate feature and my 1:51 minute's movie was only 38 minutes long. Have not watched it to see what is missing, but a quick look looks like the beginning and end are there.

buzzqw

11th November 2007, 16:16

you can open the bat encoding and look at input files name

BHH

weaver4

11th November 2007, 19:34

Here you go; looks like it was one and zeven that it encoded.

=================================================

"D:\Downloads\AutoMem\mencoder.exe" -vf harddup,crop=720:352:0:64,scale=640:-2,hqdn3d -sws 2 -priority idle -o "VTS_01_1_automen.avi" -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=20:threads=auto:frameref=3:bframes=2:deblock:direct_pred=auto:level=41:partitions=none:me=hex:me_range=8:subq=5:chroma_me:mixed_refs:brdo:bime:trellis=0:weight_b:nr=0 -af volnorm=2 -oac faac -faacopts br=128:mpeg=4:object=1 -channels 2 "E:\aa-Rips\Pap\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB" "E:\aa-Rips\Pap\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_7.VOB"
"D:\Downloads\AutoMem\mplayer.exe" "VTS_01_1_automen.avi" -dumpaudio -dumpfile "VTS_01_1_automen.aac"
"D:\Downloads\AutoMem\mencoder.exe" "VTS_01_1_automen.avi" -o "VTS_01_1_automen.h264" -of rawvideo -ovc copy -nosound
"D:\Downloads\AutoMem\mp4box.exe" -add "VTS_01_1_automen.h264" -add "VTS_01_1_automen.aac" -fps 29.970 "VTS_01_1_automen.mp4"

buzzqw

11th November 2007, 20:27

Update to 3.2 , link in first post

fixed autoloading (thanks to weaver4)

BHH

buzzqw

12th November 2007, 11:38

update to AutoMen 3.3 link on first post

new full package AutoMen33_full.rar
update the manual
added possibility to specify bitrate or crf

BHH

blizard

14th November 2007, 09:55

Thanks for your work BUZZQW on AutoMen! :D

I just wonder which version of MPLayer/MEncoder I need when I have Athlon64 dual core CPU to get the fastest transcoding? Will Run Time Detection that is part of standard package for AutoMen be enough or will it be better to change MENcoder to any of Celtic Druids compilation? Could that cause problem and do I need to add pthread.dll in the same folder as AutoMen to be able to use both cores?

buzzqw

14th November 2007, 10:04

avdw

14th November 2007, 12:10

Is there any way to know what Video Quality preset keep the resulting encoded file standalone compatible ?

Or is there any way we can switch off the QPEL and GMC options in these profiles ?

Hobbe

14th November 2007, 13:09

Thanx buzzqw for a great program!

Can i make a request?
if so.. A button for audio copying in xvid mode would be nice and AC3 encoding settings.. :cool:

Thanks again!!

buzzqw

14th November 2007, 14:16

@avdw

no xvid profile use packed bitstream, gmc, qpel, custom matrix

for looking at encoder settings you must open the xivd.bat

@Hobbe

First of all Welcome to the Forum!

... i will look.. but i cannot promise ! ;)

BHH

blizard

14th November 2007, 14:30

Is there any way to know what Video Quality preset keep the resulting encoded file standalone compatible ?

Or is there any way we can switch off the QPEL and GMC options in these profiles ?

AutoMen (which is MENcoders GUI) produce a file with the name like XVID.bat or MP4.bat depending on what profile that are picked when file made to transcode. These bat file can be edited and changed (save before exit) in notepad (best editor, that will open by itself in most cases for bat files on windows) and you just have to double click it to activate transcoding with your new setting.

All lines in bat file are the same that you would have to enter manually in command mode from Windows, so it is no difference to each command you will find for MENcoder on any site that have a guide for what those option will do.

Go to MPlayer's site or google for it to find out all option for MENcoder.

blizard

14th November 2007, 14:41

Update to 3.4

fixed manual bitrate
added possibility of specify fps muxing for mp4

@blizard

thanks for your kind words!

i suggest you to use Shrpya builds http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php , use the mencoder build for your processor! these builds not need pthread

about multithread , read the manual, for mp4/x264 it's ok.. but for xvid.. isn't working well

BHH

I replaced Shrpyas build with Celtic Druids latest (mplayer2007.11.04.Athlon-64.7z) and added pthread.dll to get it working. It seem to work faster with Xvid encoding then with Shrpya and to be at the same speed with H.264 encoding. For some reason that build in AutoMen 33 did not run very well in Xvid profile (~15 FPS vs ~33 FPS) on one 2 min test file which was encoded in MPEG PS.

avdw

14th November 2007, 15:44

Just some simple observations :

1) AutoMen "Detect Crop" suffers from the same disease as AutoMKV's and Auto Gordian Knot's "AutoCrop" , they crop too much, thus cropping away movie content. (2 programs that do CROP correctly and thus respect full movie content are avi.NET & StaxRip)

For example : AutoMen (also AutoMKV and AutoGordianKnot) suggest as Autocrop these values :

(left,right,top,bottom) : (20,12,70,74)

while manually observing in VirtualDubMod Cropping, these are the values that crop all black & preserve the movie completely : (and YES, these borders are consistent throughout the full movie)

(left,right,top,bottom) : (16,8,70,68)

..... So, with all these tools, there is something SERIOUSLY WRONG !

2) Setting a Target size of 700MB results in a final AVI which is 711MB and thus does NOT fit on 1 CD.

3) (Probably due to MEncoder) Why does the final AVI file contains tµhat much junk ?

buzzqw

14th November 2007, 16:28

@Hobbe

DONE!
in next update will be possible to copy audio for XviD and FF4 output (check is present in advanced settings)

@avdw

use the manual crop and use the preview

So, with all these tools, there is something SERIOUSLY WRONG !

i am waiting your tool or your suggestion how to fix it

2) Setting a Target size of 700MB results in a final AVI which is 711MB and thus does NOT fit on 1 CD.

what preset you used ?

Why does the final AVI file contains tµhat much junk ?

don't know. mencoder to it all

BHH

avdw

14th November 2007, 16:35

@avdw

use the manual crop and use the preview

OK, that seems like the only trustable solution here. Too bad you have to open/close the Preview "movie" a couple of hundred times....

i am waiting your tool or your suggestion how to fix it
Seriously, I dunno, I thought there were so many different tools avaliable that do it correctly ? StaxRip's method works correctly. MeGUI's autocrop works too (A miracle, since it's about the only thing about it that DOES work)

what preset you used ?
"More Quality (7) = Less Speed 2Pass"

buzzqw

14th November 2007, 16:49

mplayer way for detectcrop and megui/automkv AND even staxrip is very similar

every program will analyze some frames (picked all along the movie) and will detect crop

i "may" suppose that et start/END of your file there are some strange black bars...

EDIT: maybe i found your cause of oversize.. please try this build http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen34a.exe

BHH

blizard

14th November 2007, 17:15

Just some simple observations :

1) AutoMen "Detect Crop" suffers from the same disease as AutoMKV's and Auto Gordian Knot's "AutoCrop" , they crop too much, thus cropping away movie content.

[...]
..... So, with all these tools, there is something SERIOUSLY WRONG !

First of all, just because something look black at your screen doesn't mean that it is really black in the digital world. There are different level of compression for colour (YV12, YUY2 etc) and it is also possible that some noise are involved which might confuse MPlayer in what cropping value that will work best. Then it is possible that there is a logo or subtitle that is interfering with black vs film border. In other words, it is better to make sure that you crop the correct picture.

2) Setting a Target size of 700MB results in a final AVI which is 711MB and thus does NOT fit on 1 CD.

AVI container do have an overhead which might be part of the problem as MENcoder was designed to work with AVI containers from the very beginning and not MP4 or any other containers of today. That is why you will also see all this "junk" in target folder after MENcoder have first made sound and audio encoded material directly into an AVI container and then need to de-mux it into another container after transcoding are finished.

AVI overhead (http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/2005-November/002067.html)

3) (Probably due to MEncoder) Why does the final AVI file contains tµhat much junk ?

avdw

14th November 2007, 21:31

EDIT: maybe i found your cause of oversize.. please try this build http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen34a.exe

BHH

Same problem.

buzzqw

14th November 2007, 22:05

thanks for your test

i will reckeck bitrate computing

BHH

avdw

14th November 2007, 22:12

thanks for your test

i will reckeck bitrate computing

BHH
Hi buzz,

Perhaps you could check AutoMKV too, it suffers from the same problem ;)

blizard

15th November 2007, 08:27

Buzz,

Is it possible to make a profile that would play in my cell phone with 320 x 240 display? It is an Sony Ericsson P1i and should handle both MP4 and 3GP containers with Xvid and AAC sound. From MediaInfo I get this info for a file that work in my phone. It might be better to use a lower FPS to save some work load during play back of file, but it looks good on display. I would prefer stereo for AAC LC sound as this file seem to be mono (only one channel).

I have tried to change PSP and make use of Xvid profile without any luck. Would be great if you could help me out of this.

:thanks:

General #0
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Kind of stream : General
StreamKindID : 0
Count of video streams : 1
Count of audio streams : 1
Count of text streams : 0
Count of chapter streams : 0
Codecs Video : MPEG-4 Visual
Audio codecs : AAC LC
Complete name : P:\svt071114aktuellt21.mp4
Folder name : P:
File name : svt071114aktuellt21
File extension : mp4
Format : MSNV
Format : MPEG-4
Format/Info : Sony PSP
Format/Family : MPEG-4
Format/Url : http://www.sony.com/
Format/Extensions : mp4
Codec : MSNV
Codec : MPEG-4
Codec/Info : Sony PSP
Codec/Family : MPEG-4
Codec/Url : http://www.sony.com/
Codec/Extensions : mp4
File size : 170284377
File size : 162 MiB
File size : 162 MiB
File size : 162 MiB
File size : 162 MiB
File size : 162.4 MiB
PlayTime : 1800133
PlayTime : 30mn 133ms
PlayTime : 30mn 133ms
PlayTime : 30mn 133ms
PlayTime : 00:30:00.133
Bit rate : 756763
Bit rate : 757 Kbps
StreamSize : 401071
StreamSize : 392 KiB
StreamSize : 392 KiB
StreamSize : 392 KiB
StreamSize : 392 KiB
StreamSize : 391.7 KiB
Encoded date : UTC 2007-11-14 20:58:19
Tagged date : UTC 2007-11-14 20:58:19

Video #0
Count : 74
Count of stream of this kind : 1
Kind of stream : Video
StreamKindID : 0
ID : 1
Codec : MPEG-4V
Codec : MPEG-4 Visual
Codec/CC : 20
Codec settings/BVOP : No
Codec settings/QPel : No
Codec settings/GMC : 0
Codec settings/GMC : 0
Codec settings/Matrix : Default
PlayTime : 1800133
PlayTime : 30mn 133ms
PlayTime : 30mn 133ms
PlayTime : 30mn 133ms
PlayTime : 00:30:00.133
Bit rate : 691308
Bit rate : 691 Kbps
Bit rate mode : VBR
Width : 320
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240
Height : 240 pixels
Aspect ratio : 1.333
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 29.970
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
FrameCount : 53950
Resolution : 8
Resolution : 8 bits
Interlacement : PPF
Interlacement : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.300
StreamSize : 155555839
StreamSize : 148 MiB
StreamSize : 148 MiB
StreamSize : 148 MiB
StreamSize : 148 MiB
StreamSize : 148.3 MiB
Encoded date : UTC 2007-11-14 20:58:19
Tagged date : UTC 2007-11-14 20:58:19

Audio #0
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Count of stream of this kind : 1
Kind of stream : Audio
StreamKindID : 0
ID : 2
Codec : A_AAC/MPEG4/LC
Codec : AAC LC
Codec/Info : AAC Low Complexity
Codec/CC : 40
PlayTime : 1790933
PlayTime : 29mn 50s
PlayTime : 29mn 50s 933ms
PlayTime : 29mn 50s
PlayTime : 00:29:50.933
Bit rate : 64000
Bit rate : 64 Kbps
Bit rate mode : CBR
Channel(s) : 1
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 24000
Sampling rate : 24 KHz
SamplingCount : 42982392
Resolution : 16
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 14327467
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StreamSize : 14 MiB
StreamSize : 14 MiB
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Encoded date : UTC 2007-11-14 20:58:19
Tagged date : UTC 2007-11-14 20:58:19

buzzqw

15th November 2007, 09:10

blizard

17th November 2007, 03:30

update to 3.5 , link in first post

fixed: bitrate computing now take overhead in account
added: copy audio for XVID and FF4 profile

@blizard

actually i use this "profile" for my Nokia E65
"mencoder.exe" -vf harddup,crop=720:432:0:72,scale=320:-3,hqdn3d -sws 2 -priority idle -o "_aaa_automen.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=552:pass=1:turbo:max_bframes=0:vhq=1:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:bvhq=1 -nosound "_aaa.vob"
"mencoder.exe" -vf harddup,crop=720:432:0:72,scale=320:-3,hqdn3d -sws 2 -priority idle -o "_aaa_automen.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=552:pass=2:max_bframes=0:vhq=1:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:bvhq=1 -nosound "_aaa.vob"
mplayer "_aaa.vob" -quiet -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast:waveheader:file=audio.wav
normalize.exe audio.wav
enc_aacPlus.exe audio.wav audio.aac --cbr 64000 --lc
"mp4box.exe" -add "_aaa_automen.avi"#video -add "audio.aac"#audio -keep-all -fps 25.000 "_e65.mp4"

i must use enc_aacPlus.exe because audio done by mencoder isn't fully compatible ..

anyway i am looking for a new way to handle profiles (but it's a long term project)

BHH

Where can I find enc_aacPlus.exe? I can only find different references to outdated storage places and I don't wish to install winamp, if that is possible to avoid.

So far I have mange to get a Xvid encoded picture to show after forcing output in resize of 320:240 (didn't work with 320:-2) in your profile for Xvid.bat. It seems to be that sound is not working when encoded in MEncoder. I can play this video on all other player on my computer (FFDSHOW/VLC w FFMPEG), so I think there is some limits to how my phones capabilities to decode AAC work. H.264 doesn't work well at all, but did show some jumpy picture with a podcast that was encoded in H.264, so my phone should be able to use some features of H.264 as long as it is light on resources to decode.

All those expriments was done with MP4 container.

I will try out your setting from nokia later, but for now it seem to be that I only need to get sound to work.

Thank you for your effort to help me in finding out these matter.

Dkruskie

17th November 2007, 04:09

Where can I find enc_aacPlus.exe? I can only find different references to outdated storage places and I don't wish to install winamp, if that is possible to avoid.

You can find it here
http://www.box.net/public/c1mrbbcq7g
I googled it and it was on the bottom of the first page

buzzqw

17th November 2007, 09:49

you can find enc_aacPlus.exe, enc_aacplus.dll and nscrt.dll in \exe\besweet folder of automkv

BHH

buzzqw

19th November 2007, 13:13

update to 3.6

fixed preview of telecined film
fixed manual bitrate with some audio settings
added option to force 4cc to DIVX for FF4 encoding, so the avi will be SAP compatible

BHH

weaver4

19th November 2007, 16:56

added option to force 4cc to DIVX for FF4 encoding, so the avi will be SAP compatible

Very cool!

Dkruskie

19th November 2007, 17:14

update to 3.6

fixed preview of telecined film
fixed manual bitrate with some audio settings
added option to force 4cc to DIVX for FF4 encoding, so the avi will be SAP compatible

BHH

Thanks buzzqw :)

buzzqw

19th November 2007, 17:23

:thanks: to all!

it's my pleasure!

BHH

bowo

20th November 2007, 14:19

Hello,
Thanks for all this great work
'Know that it exist a queue but trying to encode all my HI8 files (actually in mpg) in divx...
Do you thing it'll possible to select a txt file (inluding the name of all the files to encode), then select parameters (sames for all the files) then click a DoIt button and Automen encode all the files ?
I Ask this because i have 2800 files :-)

Thanks for all

BoWo

buzzqw

20th November 2007, 14:31

@bowo

First of all Welcome to the Forum!

.. 2800 files ??? ouch.. actually not possible

i can search a simply way (already have some ideas).. but.. don't know when will be applied

BHH

weaver4

24th November 2007, 21:38

I am having a problem where automem won't run at all.

I am single pass mp4. With the progressive filter.

Here is the command line from mp4.bat file and the result:

"C:\Tools\AutoMem\mencoder.exe" -ofps 24000/1001 -vf harddup,crop=720:352:0:62,scale=640:-2,hqdn3d -sws 2 -priority idle -o "D:\Movies-H264\VTS_05_PGC_01_1_automen.avi" -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=18:threads=auto:frameref=3:bframes=2:Deblock:direct_pred=auto:level=41:partitions=none:me=hex:me_range=8:subq=5:chroma_me:mixed_refs:brdo:bime:trellis=0:weight_b:nr=0 -aid 128 -af volnorm=2 -oac faac -faacopts br=96:mpeg=4:object=1 -channels 2 "D:\aa-Rips\Transformers.PGC\VTS_05_PGC_01_1.VOB"

D:\Movies-H264>"C:\Tools\AutoMem\mencoder.exe" -ofps 24000/1001 -vf harddup,crop
=720:352:0:62,scale=640:-2,hqdn3d -sws 2 -priority idle -o "D:\Movies-H264\VTS_0
5_PGC_01_1_automen.avi" -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=18:threads=auto:frameref=3:bf
rames=2:Deblock:direct_pred=auto:level=41:partitions=none:me=hex:me_range=8:subq
=5:chroma_me:mixed_refs:brdo:bime:trellis=0:weight_b:nr=0 -aid 128 -af volnorm=2
-oac faac -faacopts br=96:mpeg=4:object=1 -channels 2 "D:\aa-Rips\Transformers
.PGC\VTS_05_PGC_01_1.VOB"
MEncoder Sherpya-SVN-r25088-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Step
ping: 13)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Option lavfopts: Unknown suboption i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b
_frames
Warning unknown option lavfopts at line 48
Option lavfopts: Unknown suboption i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b
_frames
Warning unknown option lavfopts at line 60
Option lavfopts: Unknown suboption i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b
_frames
Warning unknown option lavfopts at line 72
Option lavfopts: Unknown suboption i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b
_frames
Warning unknown option lavfopts at line 97
Option x264encopts: Unknown suboption Deblock
Setting process priority: idle
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xffff0000
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x480 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [hqdn3d]
Opening video filter: [scale w=640 h=-2]
Opening video filter: [crop w=720 h=352 x=0 y=62]
Crop: 720 x 352, 0 ; 62
Opening video filter: [harddup]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 6 -> 8
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 6 -> 8
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 7 -> 6
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 7 -> 6
[swscaler @ 00D73510]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv420p to yuv420p using MMX
2
[swscaler @ 00D73510]SwScaler: using 8-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance s
caling
[swscaler @ 00D73510]SwScaler: using 8-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance
scaling
[swscaler @ 00D73510]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (YV12
like)
[swscaler @ 00D73510]SwScaler: 720x352 -> 640x264
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

Exiting...

D:\Movies-H264>

avdw

24th November 2007, 22:07

This is some real funny command-line !:o

buzzqw

24th November 2007, 22:44

update 3.7 http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen37.exe

FIXED: Deblock (with D capitalized). only happen on 1 specific profile ) thanks to weaver4
ADDED: Support for List of file.
Drag and drop a file.txt with your file to encode (do this by dir /S/B *.vob > list.txt for example) and the same settings will be applied to all files (suggestion by bowo)

BHH

weaver4

25th November 2007, 00:10

Works now, thanks!

How about a cq mode for wmv?

buzzqw

25th November 2007, 11:25

for wmv8 it is supported ..but i was able to play it only with mplayer :confused:

please tell me if you are able to play this file http://www.64k.it/andres/data/w/_aaa_automen.wmv (1.41mb, encoded at CQ 3)

thanks!

BHH

KnoKo

26th November 2007, 16:18

Hi buzzqw!
Thanks for this nice app. I'm using it for re-encodes for the PS3 and it works great with AutoMen.

But the PS3 doesn't play subtitles until now, so only hardcoded subs would work.

A PS3-Profile with hardcoded (burnt in) subs would be great for AutoMen!

MEncoder by default hardcodes subs. You have to select the sub you want with the -sid option where this option is a number. You can also alternatively choose the anti-aliasing method with the -spuaa option
...

buzzqw

26th November 2007, 17:36

@KnoKo

added in todo list

(cannot give any date for release!)

best regards

BHH

KnoKo

27th November 2007, 17:47

@KnoKo

added in todo list

(cannot give any date for release!)

best regards

BHH

Grazie mille :thanks:

bowo

27th November 2007, 20:04

busta.rhymes

5th December 2007, 00:07

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Hi... I am new to the Forum and very interested in the Subject making AVC Mp4 from MKV

- Howcome when I select PS3 or MP4 he makes me an AVI and not a MP4 Container?
I tried it a couple times and I never get an MP4 file or anything. Playstation 3 dosnt take AVI or?
Is there a way to choose mp4 container?

- When I play the PS3 or MP4 files with Media Player Classic (K-Lite Codec Pack) or Windows Media Player I dont get any sound or Picture.
What codecs are needed to play the PS3 files on Windows PC?

- Is there a way to set picture quality to stick with the source quality? That option would be nice.

- Is there Dolby Digital or AC3 sound support for PS3 or MP4 files?

- When I want to make a wmv the file is invalid.

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

buzzqw

5th December 2007, 08:27

first of all i suggest to read the manual

Howcome when I select PS3 or MP4 he makes me an AVI and not a MP4 Container?

the final file is named xxx_automen.mp4

(remember that for passthroug is needed the mkvtoolnix.. again.. read the manual)

What codecs are needed to play the PS3 files on Windows PC?

media player classic , ffdshow tryout, haali media splitter

Is there a way to set picture quality to stick with the source quality? That option would be nice.
just use the preset quality GREAT

Is there Dolby Digital or AC3 sound support for PS3 or MP4 files?

NO

When I want to make a wmv the file is invalid.

need more info (like what preset and what player used)

BHH

busta.rhymes

5th December 2007, 11:35

first of all i suggest to read the manual

the final file is named xxx_automen.mp4

(remember that for passthroug is needed the mkvtoolnix.. again.. read the manual)

BHH

I never get that final mp4 file. I always get a file named testaudio.avi or something like that. Is he not finishing the job correctly?

buzzqw

5th December 2007, 13:26

more info ? :sly:

like input file
output settings
error on screen

BHH

busta.rhymes

5th December 2007, 16:11

It is an HDDVD rip to MKV x264
And my setting are so that I have no quality loss.
I get no errors. But I dont get my finished file either.

buzzqw

5th December 2007, 17:16

hddvd rip ? mean vc1 codec ?

don't know if mencoder is fully able to decode

BHH

busta.rhymes

5th December 2007, 17:21

No it is a hddvd rip with avc x264 codec.
But thats not the problem.
Its a MKV x264. He should be able to hanlde that or?

buzzqw

5th December 2007, 17:34

yes , should be able

try selecting xvid as output

and report back

BHH

busta.rhymes

5th December 2007, 21:10

Well he asks me if i want to remux without reencoding beacause the file already is x264.
I say yes and the I get a testaudio.avi whiich dosnt work.

When I reencode I get a working file.

Oh ... And yes xvid works great.

buzzqw

5th December 2007, 22:24

be SURE to set the mkvmerge path in "program path" panel, also where is located mkvmerge must be present also the mkvextract.exe (usually c:\program files\mkvtoolnix)

BHH

busta.rhymes

6th December 2007, 00:29

Ok Thx. I didnt have MKVtoolnix installed. Sorry for me not reading the manual.

Thx allot for the help bro.

Now it works and i have a functional mp4 file.

But I still got some errors during the process. Heres a screen.
Is this normal?

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/9382/errorsvn0.jpg

busta.rhymes

6th December 2007, 00:58

If a mkv has more than one Audio Track. How do I tell him which one to use. And how do I tell him to leave away subtitles and so on.

buzzqw

6th December 2007, 01:48

But I still got some errors during the process. Heres a screen.
Is this normal?

well.. no, but mencoder is trying it's best :)
crc error it's related to audio a52 (mean ac3 dolby audio), so. could be some problem in your audio file

If a mkv has more than one Audio Track. How do I tell him which one to use. And how do I tell him to leave away subtitles and so on.

the selection of audio track is now aviable only if re-encoding.
If you use the "passthrough" features will be take the first audio track only
The subtitle track is actually ignored, and so not extracted or remuxed

BHH

busta.rhymes

6th December 2007, 02:24

Thx buzzqw

busta.rhymes

6th December 2007, 03:13

Well it looks like the mp4 file plays on the PC but my Playstation says inkompatible file.

Like I said. I am working with a avc x264 MKV file with AC3 sound.

The PC now plays the output file without problems but strangely the ps3 wont eat it.

I have set automen not to reencode the filem when I reencode the file it works on PS3 but the
quality is not very good anymore you can see square fragments and the colors are not so good.

Here are my settings:

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5598/settingsrd4.jpg

buzzqw

6th December 2007, 08:15

@busta.rhymes

as i said in manual, the passthroug features don't guarantee perfectly playable file (i have a ps3 too, and know it..)

only reencoding guarantee the "playability"

BHH

busta.rhymes

6th December 2007, 10:16

yeah but howcome when I reencode he makes my file 9gb big instead of the original 8?

buzzqw

6th December 2007, 10:35

"fantastic" preset ??? ;)

just use great or fair...

BHH

busta.rhymes

6th December 2007, 14:35

"fantastic" preset ??? ;)

just use great or fair...

BHH

But then quality will be even worse or?

buzzqw

6th December 2007, 15:42

i use the GREAT preset, is near trasparent for quality

BHH

blizard

29th December 2007, 01:34

What do you, buzz, recommend for a rather dark anime in H.264 to set in AutoMen (MP4)? I have until now been using mostly quality: good or something around 6-7 for first pass option. Two pass option seem to me a bit unclear if it is worth the time as I want only to compress it so it will not take too much storage space until I have time to watch it and then delete it on my harddisk.

Source is a MPEG2 video (8000 kbit/s) and MP2 audio in 384 bit/s in Program Stream container.

By the way, thanks for great tool like these GUI, Buzz and Happy New Year to you!

____
I have only a Athlon64 X2 4200+@2200 MHz, so it isn't the fastest transcoding...

buzzqw

29th December 2007, 08:13

blizard

29th December 2007, 15:38

well AutoMen isn't know for offers very options and tweaks :rolleyes:

anime ususally need more ref frames to get a smooth playback...

i will try this:
launch a at video quality 9
stop the encoding
open the mp4.bat
delete the first pass
on second pass change: "bitrate=" to crf=18, delete the pass=2
then relaunch

just to play a bit :)

BHH

Thanks, Buzz.

I run Caspar the Ghost (I have already transcoded that Keana anime I mention above from yesterday by now and deleted sources MPEG2) to see how it might work for future reference. As now it show a FPS around 7, so it isn't very fast and it skipping frames more then when I used Quantizer setting "Good" (CRF=18). (That anime transcoded at around 30 FPS with less skipped frames and it didn't look to bad, except for some scene where there was many small movement at once - explosion and dust/sky against a black universe with stars and many star ship going to pieces. That scene must be rather hard to encode for x264 encoder.)

My computer must be too weak to use those setting as 7 FPS will take a lot of time to finish transcoding.

I notice that you don't use CABAC very often, is there a reason to avoid CABAC? Is trellis a better option then CABAC? I have read and re-read MPLayer guide for MENcoder setting, but still feel a bit confused how these setting work out together. Both a supposed to handle movement, but in different way. Partition is meant to analyse pattern and it is a pay off between those capabilities in how CPU intensive those are during encoding and decoding. Your recommendation had a more a complex partition among other. Would that help to use another partition for anime or scene with many movement at once with Quality Good encoding?

____
By "tweaks" I mean that you can always open a batch file to make changes after you have created basic setting for which run once and stop the process and simply re-run it from there with new changes. It save some time to hand write all batch file from scratch each time and give a good example of what will work for beginners like me. :cool:

buzzqw

29th December 2007, 17:04

for skipped frames.. have you tryed "Progressive NTSC" or "Telecine" options ?

anime have a lots of static scenes and usually more ref frames allow to "bind" frames (both complex and static) more proprely

anyway i must say that i am not a anime encoder, so take this info with a grain of salt

about cabac.. most options are at default. Cabac is triggered only when the "packing" can be useful (ie: squeeze the most quality)

BHH

ricardo.santos

31st December 2007, 11:19

Hi buzzqw!

I use Automen mainly to create FLv's, i noticed that upon plyback of the flv's, it starts to play well and as soon as it finds "spoken audio" theres an audio surge/spike, the volume is pumped up after that bit.

I know its hard to explain.... have alook at these videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB4QBcdMsNQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwGcCEW0wII

there's always a audio spike as soon "someone talks".

buzzqw

31st December 2007, 11:32

i know.. it's the way mencoder normalize the volume..

if normalize isn't needed you can de-check from advanced settings "Normalize Volume"

just for fun.. please try this build http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen37-ricardo.santos.exe and let be checked the "Normalize volume"

thanks for your test

BHH

ricardo.santos

31st December 2007, 13:06

Hi and thanks for your response.

i tried the "custom build" and i cant hear the "spike" with normalizing checked.

Automen version 3.7:
http://www.ricardosantos.com.pt/automen/automen_3_7.flv

Automen custom build:
http://www.ricardosantos.com.pt/automen/automen_custom.flv

buzzqw

31st December 2007, 15:35

as mencoder manual say the previus normalize fuction should be better then the actually.. :confused:

but i have report from other users about problems with volume.

so i will take the "ricardo.santos" build as official :)

update 3.8 link in first post
Changed Normalize Audio Fuction (thansk to ricardo.santos)

BHH

busta.rhymes

5th January 2008, 18:56

Hi, its me again.

Now I want to make a mpeg2 file for ps3 out of my mkv.
What can I set to leave the quality very goot.

buzzqw

5th January 2008, 19:02

jsut select a 2 pass encoding and goes up with bitrate

BHH

busta.rhymes

5th January 2008, 19:20

When I do that I get a 0KB curupted file.
Tried it with 2 MKV files.

Here my settings:

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/1363/unbenanntsi4.jpg

Alfeuss

6th January 2008, 10:40

any ideas? thx.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

G:\>ps3

G:\>"F:\Videos\!Apps\AutoMen\mencoder.exe" -vf yadif,harddup,crop=-704:-464:714:474,scale=720:-2,hqdn3d -sws 2 -priority idle -o "G:\14s-sample_automen.avi
" -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=20:threads=auto:frameref=3:bframes=2:deblock:level=41:direct_pred=auto:partitions=b8x8:me=hex:me_range=4:subq=5:chroma_me:mixe
d_refs:brdo:bime:trellis=0:weight_b:nr=0 -af volnorm=1 -oac faac -faacopts br=128:mpeg=4:object=1 -channels 2 "F:\Videos\!!!!!Test Files\14s-sample.vob"
MEncoder Sherpya-SVN-r25513-4.2.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

The w option must be >= 0: -704
Option vf: Error while parsing crop parameter w (-704)
Error parsing option on the command line: -vf

Exiting... (error parsing command line)

G:\>"F:\Videos\!Apps\AutoMen\mplayer.exe" "G:\14s-sample_automen.avi" -dumpaudio -dumpfile "G:\14s-sample_automen.aac"
MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r25513-4.2.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Playing G:\14s-sample_automen.avi.
File not found: 'G:\14s-sample_automen.avi'
Failed to open G:\14s-sample_automen.avi.

Exiting... (End of file)

buzzqw

6th January 2008, 11:05

@busta.rhymes

maybe mencoder is unable to decode your files
try with autoff (ffmpeg)

@Alfeuss
big problem of crop
check the crop values.. or edit manually

BHH

Alfeuss

6th January 2008, 11:58

that did it. I had a couple of vob that did that. guess it had trouble detecting auto crop. thx. just opened the file in dr divx to get the crop values needed.

busta.rhymes

7th January 2008, 00:11

Got a link to autoff?

Atak_Snajpera

7th January 2008, 00:43

next time use searching ok?
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=129697

Alfeuss

7th January 2008, 07:56

Just an observation that if your batch encoding AVC files the batch stops at each file to ask if you want to remux. you have to be there to click yes/no.

buzzqw

7th January 2008, 09:10

... for ps3 qequing ?

maybe...

i will look at this

BHH

tongyang

18th January 2008, 16:20

I have a feature request, but before I do, I wanted to say it's a great tool for me! I have been transcoding some of my anime files into PS3 compatible xvid files, and it helped me learn a lot of the parameters of mencoder itself.

Now, I would like to request...

1. AVISynth mode (activated by a check box) - all you need to do is to automatically create a file with the .avs extension with DirectShowSource("filename"); and then use that file as the input to mencoder.

It's simple enough for me to create the file manually, but when you're doing upwards of 20+ episodes at once.... it gets tedious^^;

Oh, the reason I want this is that this is the only way to hardsub mkv anime files with embedded .ass subtitles.

2. Have a place to force the audio sample rate

For some reason when converting some files, mencoder complains the sample rate is too low, and I had to manually add "-srate 48000" to divx.bat...

3. Can the default of the video size be "original size"? The settings in the first two tabs can't seem to be saved...

Thanks in advance!
:thanks:

buzzqw

18th January 2008, 16:28

mencoder should be more reliable then directshowsource...

but i will look

2. Have a place to force the audio sample rate

already present in advanced settings

Can the default of the video size be "original size"? The settings in the first two tabs can't seem to be saved...

no.. can't be saved

i can suggest even to "play" with AutoFF :)

BHH

tongyang

18th January 2008, 17:41

mencoder should be more reliable then directshowsource...

Problem is mencoder itself can't do mkv with embedded fonts/subtitles. It will transcode but you don't get the subtitles. Using AVIScript is the only way I know of right now. Thanks for taking a look at it.

Will try with autoFF when I go home tonight :)

blizard

20th January 2008, 00:51

I found a bug in AutoMEN 3.8. You can see that it lack a colon between crf and threads (marked in bold). This happen only when I choice Quality Great, all other Quality Encoding have went well.

"G:\AutoMen\mencoder.exe" -vf harddup,crop=704:448:8:70,scale=720:-2,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -sws 2 -priority idle -o "C:\Work in progress\Black Mask_automen.avi" -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=16threads=auto:frameref=3:bframes=2:deblock:direct_pred=auto:level=41:partitions=p8x8,b8x8:me=hex:me_range=12:subq=5:chroma_me:mixed_refs:brdo:bime:trellis=0:weight_b:nr=0 -oac faac -faacopts br=144:mpeg=4:object=1 -channels 2 "K:\Redigering\Black Mask.mpg"
"G:\AutoMen\mplayer.exe" "C:\Work in progress\Black Mask_automen.avi" -dumpaudio -dumpfile "C:\Work in progress\Black Mask_automen.aac"
"G:\AutoMen\mencoder.exe" "C:\Work in progress\Black Mask_automen.avi" -o "C:\Work in progress\Black Mask_automen.h264" -of rawvideo -ovc copy -nosound
"G:\AutoMen\mp4box.exe" -add "C:\Work in progress\Black Mask_automen.h264" -add "C:\Work in progress\Black Mask_automen.aac" -fps 25.000 "C:\Work in progress\Black Mask_automen.mp4"

tongyang

20th January 2008, 05:53

Actually I found a similar error today... when you use the advance option to set the sample rate, the 2nd pass will fail because the option will become "-srate 48000-oac mp3lame" (there needs to be a space between 48000 and -oac)

buzzqw

20th January 2008, 09:48

@blizard AND tongyang

fixed! thanks

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen40.exe

BHH

Leeloo Minaï

21st January 2008, 14:00

I have found a little bug in the 9th video quality profile (copy from the batch file generated by automen) :

first mencoder line
:bframes=32:

second mencoder line
:bframes=3:

Mencoder does well first pass, but not the second one, i guess we should have bframes=3 for the two passes :)

buzzqw

21st January 2008, 14:31

ops.. fixed thanks!!

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen41.exe

BHH

Spreeni

3rd February 2008, 20:37

hi buzzqw,

thanks for your nice prgramm. I like the option to manually select if the clips should be deinterlaced or not. This is a feature I miss in many other programms - they do it almost all automaticly.

The only thing that is difficult for me in AutoMen 4.1 is the handling of the queue. I'm used to do it like in AutoGK: work on a job, do the settings (crop etc.), have a preview and then put it in the queue. This does only work in AutoMen for the first job. if I work on the second job and want to control the crop-settings by a quick preview I always see a preview of the first job in the queue.

I'm only able to get a preview of the second job if I put this one into queue, use the P-button and cancel the preview of the first shown job. This is not very comfortable even if you cannot delete a job of the queue-list.

Is there a simple way to make this easier?

Thanks again for your work!

Spreeni

buzzqw

3rd February 2008, 22:20

thanks Spreeni, i will check!

and about

like the option to manually select if the clips should be deinterlaced or not. This is a feature I miss in many other programms - they do it almost all automaticly.
you can do the same thing in automkv :)

BHH

buzzqw

4th February 2008, 12:54

update to 4.2 http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen42.exe

now preview is based on what file is "selected" on queue window

also update a new full package http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen42_FULL.rar

BHH

Spreeni

4th February 2008, 12:58

thanks buzzqw for your fast reply.

you can do the same thing in automkv

I will have a look at this, thanks.

Spreeni

Spreeni

4th February 2008, 20:29

Hello Buzzqw,

now preview is based on what file is "selected" on queue window

thank you for this change, the handling of a bunch of queue-jobs is now a bit easier. By the way, is there a way to delete one job out of the list? Is the queue connected to a batchfile witch maybe can be edited?

Unfortunately there seems to be a bug in the preview of the main window. If I drag an mpeg-file into it and try to get a preview (P-button or crop-preview) the command-window gets up and vanish and no mplayer appears. If this job is then put into queue, there is missing the filename for this job and of course no preview is shown, too. Encoding is also not possible - I think it's because of the missing filename.

If I put a job into queue without doing a preview before, everythings working normal (encoding and queue-preview).

Spreeni

glb

4th February 2008, 21:26

now preview is based on what file is "selected" on queue window

I would personnally prefer to be able to do a preview before queueing the file.

Spreeni

4th February 2008, 23:17

I would personnally prefer to be able to do a preview before queueing the file.

This was my idea, too. I think the best way would be to separate the preview from main-window and queue-window. This would mean you would have a button for previewing selected files in the window of the queue and another button in the main-window witch shows the actual job. So you have divided the two functions - this would be the cleanest way.

buzzqw

5th February 2008, 08:14

update to 4.3
http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen43_FULL.rar
http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen43.exe

is a file on queue is selected the preview is on this file, if no file on queue is selected the preview is based on actual input file

BHH

Spreeni

6th February 2008, 21:17

Yes, this seems to be the optimal solution. Everything's working. Thank you!

buzzqw

8th February 2008, 09:11

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen44.exe

added you "YouTube Optimized" check, thanks to ricardo.santos

BHH

ricardo.santos

8th February 2008, 10:36

Thanks a million Buzzqw!!!! :)

Worlds first tool doing that

EDIT: any chance of constraining the bitrate to 345? (Audio+video)

buzzqw

8th February 2008, 10:57

yes, it' possible.. but i prefer leaving choice to users

anyway you see the bitrate in status bar :)

BHH

jult

11th February 2008, 23:05

any chance of constraining the bitrate to 345? (Audio+video)
Should be 345 to 349 kbit/s (A+V). For audio and YouTube I would go with LAME MP3 at -v8 or -v9 with 44.1 kHz joint stereo. Lame mp3 is actually superior to many others at 90-110 kbit/s.

This is an example .bat file I use, with mencoder, to create FLV for YouTube:
"c:\base\v\automen\mencoder.exe" "e:\input.avi" -o out.flv -mc 0 -ofps 25
-srate 44100 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=2:q=8:aq=0:mode=1:lowpassfreq=17200
-ovc lavc -of lavf -lavfopts format=flv -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=246:keyint=200:
mbd=2:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3:predia=4:dia=4:preme=2:vpass=1

"c:\base\v\automen\mencoder.exe" "e:\input.avi" -o out.flv -mc 0 -ofps 25
-srate 44100 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=2:q=8:aq=0:mode=1:lowpassfreq=17200
-ovc lavc -of lavf -lavfopts format=flv -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=246:keyint=200:
mbd=2:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3:predia=4:dia=4:preme=2:vpass=2(all should be just two long lines of course)

My sources are usually raw RGB bitmap avi, or huffYUV lossless YV12 avi, and
already scaled to 448x336 resolution. Audio is also stereo pcm 44.1 kHz/16 bit already.
Here's an example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DYbibozTnWk (349 kbit/s a+v bitrate flashvideo)

The things you need to change per video:

audio demands:

q=8 can also be q=7 (higher bitrate) or q=9 (even lower audio bitrate)
lowpassfreq=17200 can also be raised when using q=7,
and lowered to 15500 for q=9 (for example), still better than FM Stereo!

video demands:

-ofps to your preferred framerate (mind the -mc 0 setting!)
vbitrate and keyint can be adapted to your taste as well.

dat720

27th February 2008, 02:45

Hi,
first of all awesome work i love this GUI, i use it for all encoding work now *damn microsoft and their flakey Xbox 360 avi support* anyway....

one issue ive noticed is version 4.4 crashes with the crop detect option all versions have worked corectly up untill this one not sure if anyone else is having the issue, to try and correct i downloaded the 4.3 full release and placed the 4.4 exe in the same dir and same result :confused:
Machine specs are:
Vista Ultimate
Pentium D 3.2GHz
2.5GB Ram

a couple of request's i have is add more settings to the ini file... ie threads, video quality, audio quality, and maybe normalize volume, i absolutely hate normalized audio

is it also posible to add a aspect ratio drop down listing all common aspects and maybe auto aspect?

keep up the good work and hope to see some more improvements

buzzqw

4th March 2008, 10:20

@dat720

First of All Welcome to the Forum and sorry for the late answer!

in the same dir and same result
.. so it's a problem of mplayer.. not automen.
i can suggest to try some http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/mplayer/ builds.. till you found the correct one (and report IT!)

ie threads, video quality, audio quality, and maybe normalize volume, i absolutely hate normalized audio

theads have a reason only for xvid.. other codecs (mpeg4/x264) are already smp optimized..
about normalization you can deactivate it in advanced settings.. other settings is to set every time

is it also posible to add a aspect ratio drop down listing all common aspects and maybe auto aspect?
by default automen will autoaspect always, BUT since you can specify width/height.. you can resize as you want

now development is stopped, but as always i am open to suggestion

i can glady suggest to try some advanced like AutoFF (look at my sign)

BHH

dat720

4th March 2008, 20:49

http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/mplayer/mplayer2008.02.06.7z this build fixed my issue's thanks for the info

to use this build you must put pthreadGC2.dll in the automen directory

microchip8

4th March 2008, 20:58

now development is stopped, but as always i am open to suggestion
BHH

why has development stopped? you made too many GUIs and can't keep track/manage them ? :p

buzzqw

4th March 2008, 21:56

the project has reached the final stage.. just it

... maybe tomorrow i will publish the 4.5 with the possibility to select AR for encoding... :D

BHH

buzzqw

5th March 2008, 17:14

update 4.6 http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen46.exe

added: no odml option
added: possibility to specify aspect ratio

BHH

dat720

7th March 2008, 04:24

thanks for that, your a champ :)
i still dont see extra ini settings but i guess i can live with that :)
i'll try out a few movies and let you know how it goes i dont spose theres a chance of adding a ipod profile?

automen is too good you should'nt stop dev :)

what's the chance of getting the source code?
i know nothing about programming but it's never too late to learn, ive become great at modifying *personalising* exsisting code weather its java html or others, but couldnt write somthing like that from scratch

again good work

dansus

31st March 2008, 23:43

Hello again, i have a request or two...

No audio option

AC3 audio

and QPel option.

thanks for this app, its great.

Goldbaas

9th April 2008, 15:54

with automen, how are you ment to know which audio file to use? is the default one that comes up English or is the PID number for English 128 or 129?

buzzqw

9th April 2008, 17:57

sorry for late answer!

what's the chance of getting the source code?

i will upload tomorrow the source code (is in PureBasic http.//www.purebasic.com )

@dansus

maybe no audio.. other options i think is out

@Goldbaas

you must know the pid.. BUT if you use the Preview button you will ear the selected pid!

BHH

buzzqw

12th April 2008, 04:39

here is the source code

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMenSRC46.rar

BHH

zubair4148

15th April 2008, 07:46

AutoMen Is Great Thanks For It.

dat720

22nd April 2008, 07:09

anyone had a look at the code?
i was hoping to open the code with purebasic compile it and run for a start.... then go about my way making changes, unfortunetly i have no formal experience in programing and am very lost, i get errors when trying to compile and just cant get anywhere

buzzqw

22nd April 2008, 07:17

@dat720

i am a newby too at programming, just 2 year of self learning.
Put PureBasic is easy to read and understund, please post (pm) or on purebasic forum your problem.

BHH

dat720

22nd April 2008, 07:25

#BufferLength
#MEM_DROPFILES = 10
#WideCharLen_=#MAX_PATH*4
#shut

[16:18:33] [COMPILER] Line 47: Constant not found: #MAX_PATH

this is one of them i figured that changing it to a number is ok, but if this is your source why does it give errors

dat720

22nd April 2008, 08:07

never mind, i hadnt uninstalled the demo version before i installed my registered copy, it compiles well now, tho is there any chance of getting the source to version 4.6?

buzzqw

22nd April 2008, 13:00

update link to Source 4.6

thanks for pointing it out!

BHH

mckiejohn

26th May 2008, 00:16

This may have aready been covered, but is there a way that I can keep te 6 channel audio during the enoding process? I'm using Automen to re-encode some Blu-ray and HDDVD files I have, and always the finished movie only has two audio channels, even though the original source has 6.

Could someone please help?

buzzqw

26th May 2008, 12:16

try with "copy audio" or using faac audio use an high quality preset

BHH

hartford

29th May 2008, 04:58

I attempted to change a VFR video to CFR.

The original was 704x528; the result was 656x438.

The video was Divx50.

I don't understand why it was resized.

I'm using all of the latest programs cited in your first post.

buzzqw

29th May 2008, 07:17

automen will autoresize to correct proportion, regardless of no resize requested

for a pure NON resize, set ORIGINAL in Video Resize, then in advanced settings, set all crop values to 0, and write in height the correct height

BHH

hartford

30th May 2008, 03:06

My fault.

I didn't realize that the left slider determined size.

This app does fix the VFR problem.

Much thanks.

Slifer

12th July 2008, 21:36

blizard

16th July 2008, 05:18

Been using this program for a long time and now i have a problem.
When using the mp4 option, everything goes exactly as it should. However, when the result file is created, it just dissappears. Gone.

I have no idea why this is happening, and it doesnt happen with any other encodes by the program, just the mp4's. Any ideas ppl?

Im using Vista btw, which may be the prob i guess ;)

I suppose that you haven't seen that you can set different folder (look for program path) in AutoMEN for where each part like MENcoder, MPlayer, MP4box and destination folder among some other folder path that might be needed? Make sure that all those are set where you have each of those executives and that your destination folder is set to show extension for files, so you can be sure that you work with the correct file. (Windows XP have the option to hide extension.)

When you make use of AutoMEN as GUI, it actually first create a batch file (look for a file with the extension .bat in the same folder as you have set to create your intermediate files which are given name ending with "automen" - all batch file can be open with notepad.exe -standard windows text editor- don't double click it as that will run the batch file, only mark and use right click on mouse to bring up option/commands for how to open this file, pick "edit" in the list). When you have opened your batch file you will see each step in the processing of your file. It might be that the last step which involve mp4box.exe (=>MP4 muxer; to create an MP4 container which is then filled with audio and video from those step earlier) is corrupt in some way.

YAMB (http://yamb.unite-video.com/documentation.html) which is a GUI for MP4box.exe can also be used as long as AutoMEN let MENcoder create an AVI with desired encoder from MENcoder (can be x264 encoder options (command start with -x264encopts) or xvid (command start with -xvidencopts) for video in MP4 and FAAC (command -faacopts) to create AAC audio, then make use of MPlayer to demux both audio and video stream from AVI container. With YAMB it is a rather easy process to use AVI container (no need to remux audio and video as individual streams; raw) and the documents for YAMB explains it rather good. You can also find link to GPAC project which should give you a better understanding for how to set commands in MP4box.exe.

Commands and setting for MPlayer and MENcoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html). This link help you to understand what is going on in your batch file. To save some time, read up on how you can use -nosound or -copy during transcoding.

If nothing of all that I wrote above will be of any help, then you must post your batch file here and explain your steps more accurate as it is impossible to think of what could make your file disappear.

You should also be able to see how the process are running from a command window in the background (this might depend on how you have set command window to operate in general), so you can see what is happening from you start your batch file until the last step where you have your MP4 file.

Found out that YAMB author haven't added how to use mp4box.exe on his site, so here (http://gpac.sourceforge.net/doc_mp4box.php) you have the link to GPAC which give a more complete set of setting for mp4box.

Slifer

27th July 2008, 23:10

Is there a way to add subs with this program?

BTW, fixed the mp4 prob

buzzqw

1st October 2008, 14:35

hi all!

here the new automen 5.0

big changes!

first of all i added preset.txt file to change preset...
anyone can update and change this file for updating encoding with automen

this will allow power users (and export that want to share knowledge) to greatly add new preset and encoding, allow adding new rows

next update will be automen 5.1, for linux!

BHH

gonwk

1st October 2008, 18:23

Hi buzzqw,:)

THANKS!

G!:thanks:

gonwk

1st October 2008, 18:34

Hi folks,

I always have a such a difficult time finding a download for

mencoder.exe / mplayer.exe / mp4box.exe

When I go to the website that is MPlayer home page or the OSS-NetFarm ... I never know which download I need ... confusing as heck.:confused:

Is there a URL that points in a "dummy-proof" way to a MEncoder.exe and MPlayer and so forth!:confused:

Thanks,

G!:)

buzzqw

1st October 2008, 19:22

latest package is full

anyway i usually use the mplayer-rtm-svn build http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mplayer-win32/MPlayer-rtm-svn-27323.7z?modtime=1216380899&big_mirror=0

BHH

gonwk

7th October 2008, 00:15

latest package is full

anyway i usually use the mplayer-rtm-svn build http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mplayer-win32/MPlayer-rtm-svn-27323.7z?modtime=1216380899&big_mirror=0

BHH

Hi buzzqw,

THANKS Man ...BLess your Heart!

G!:)

kurdi

15th October 2008, 22:16

Hi,
I think the UI implementation you have for AutoMen is BRILLIANT!

I would like to review it in my software review site:
www.freewaregenius.com (6000 visitors+ per day).

However, for some reason in my conversions the colors are completely off. (I tried a couple of Xvid settings including 2-pass Slow).

Also, how do I choose an MP4 container? I am assuming there is a way?

Thanks!

buzzqw

16th October 2008, 07:44

@kurdi

Hi kurdi , thanks for your kind words!

However, for some reason in my conversions the colors are completely off. (I tried a couple of Xvid settings including 2-pass Slow)
what player are you using ? i got not problem (and this is the first time i read of this problem) on my conversion..
may i suggest to update your ffdshow/media player classic or use the excellent SMPlayer

automen is for simplicity and automation.. so .. container is bound to codec.. xvid=avi, x264=mp4
no possible (actually) to change it

BHH

Ahmed28

25th October 2008, 13:28

Wow, very nice, but in the tutorial, it doesn't explain about auto joining outputs and subtitle, does them supported ?

kurdi

28th October 2008, 08:09

buzzqw,
I am using The KMplayer
I do not think it is a player issue, as I noticed that the colors on the converted video are just fine if I do not resize, but get messed up when I resize (to a larger size).

The video I was converting is 700 megs, but I cut a 100 meg chunk and uploaded it here. http://www.divshare.com/download/5686650-dde

Thanks.

buzzqw

28th October 2008, 13:46

with other player got the same issue ? (try media player classic and VLC)

if yes, there is a bug of mencoder

BHH

kurdi

29th October 2008, 22:56

You're right. It was a player issue with KM Player. The colors are just fine when I played using WMP.

Expect a review on my site very soon. Within the next 48 hours!

buzzqw

30th October 2008, 08:29

btw you can try using a "better" suited resizer for upscaling (on advanced settings, like lanczos)

BHH

PoloZ7

8th November 2008, 17:22

The program is well, lacking only one thing that would be more than one audio track to keep

Glorioso

16th November 2008, 15:11

Is there a way to hardcode subtitles?

buzzqw

16th November 2008, 15:56

no, actually subs isn't supported

BHH

Glorioso

16th November 2008, 22:29

no, actually subs isn't supported

BHH
No? I converted a MKV with subtitkes and AutoMen hardcoded them...:confused:

buzzqw

16th November 2008, 22:34

maybe the sub is hardcoded in mkv too ?

BHH

Glorioso

16th November 2008, 22:54

maybe the sub is hardcoded in mkv too ?

BHH
No, there are in the MKV but they are not hardcoded.

Duppie

21st November 2008, 07:09

buzzqw, great tool. Thanks

I just have one question:

Is it possible to add in automen.ini default settings which I always use like "Audio Quality = 128", "Video Preset to use", "Select Resizer = 9 Lanczos", etc.

I know it sounds like I am lazy, but I do a lot of transcoding using this great tool and I always have to set these setting again.

buzzqw

21st November 2008, 08:40

@Duppie

download the 5.1 :)

BHH

Duppie

21st November 2008, 08:51

Perfect, Thanks buzzqw :)

It works fine.
Sorry, I dont want to waste your time but for "Audio Quality = 128", I just add this to automen.ini? Or do you have to recompile?

buzzqw

21st November 2008, 09:13

doh!

please redownload the 5.1

BHH

Duppie

21st November 2008, 09:21

Many Thanks :):)

Duppie

21st November 2008, 09:28

buzzqw it will be great to have all options in the automen.ini "AutoMEN default parameters" file in a future release. Thanks again for a great tool.

arapkadri

23rd November 2008, 21:44

Thank you very much buzzqw:goodpost:
Thanks for everything:p;):):p

ihatecomputers

28th November 2008, 11:35

Hi sorry to ask a silly question and I'm sure it's already been covered but I haven't a lot of time to read through all the posts so I'll just ask my question.
(You are talking to a newbie please so dumb it down as best you can) I started this program because I'm trying to convert an AVI file for a 8GB mp4 player. Now I have done it before on this device on another computer which was slower and more useless than this one and it worked fine but everytime I go to encode something on this computer it comes up with 'No mencoder found on path please close AutoMen and edit automen.ini for specify path'

Okay so I changed all the paths in to ini to the AutoMen50_Full folder yet it still doesn't work, please help?

p.s I'm on Vista but this happened on XP too

buzzqw

28th November 2008, 13:22

Hi ihatecomputers and Welcome to the Forum

first of all make sure you have mencoder and mplayer in the same folder as automkv.exe

delete the automen.ini

relaunch automen.exe

BHH

ihatecomputers

28th November 2008, 16:08

thank you so much for the reply. I just looked through my folder and I don't have that exe file do I have to download that one on its own?

Atak_Snajpera

28th November 2008, 16:29

I just looked through my folder and I don't have that exe file do I have to download that one on its own?
Have you read first post???

ihatecomputers

28th November 2008, 17:25

Yes but that doesn't say anything about automkv.exe or did I read it wrong?

buzzqw

28th November 2008, 18:34

if have downloaded the update, launch the automen51.exe ...

BHH

flebber

29th November 2008, 18:16

I was using automen to convert vob to xvid, it is still working but I received this in the log.

The selected video_out decoder is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list
eg -vf spp.scale instead of -vf spp.

Should I be doing that, and if so how ?

buzzqw

29th November 2008, 18:38

don't warry.

just check your final file

BHH

ihatecomputers

2nd December 2008, 15:27

Sorry for being a pain and thank you for being so patient. I can't seem to get the files to convert for use on my mp4 player.

Now this is the file I converted on my old computer

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b273/jodiesaunders/testing.jpg

Now what settings should I use on the MEncoder to get my files to work? Because I've tried converting using all the options heh but I remember having more options than this one. I must be doing something wrong.

dansus

8th December 2008, 17:17

Hi buzz, any chance you allow for setting the profile, would like to use H@4.1 ect.

Thanks

buzzqw

8th December 2008, 17:31

@dansus

with new automen the "encoding" settings is stored in profile.txt
just open the profile.txt, search your encoding settings, and change level to what you prefer (you should found "level=xxx")

BHH

dansus

8th December 2008, 17:42

Nice one, thanks.

:)

dansus

8th December 2008, 17:46

Spoke too soon, i can see

\X264 1 pass Slow\ -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate:threads=auto:frameref=6:level=41:bframes=2:deblock:direct_pred=auto:partitions=p8x8:me=hex:me_range=16:subq=5:chroma_me:mixed_refs:brdo:bime:trellis=1:weight_b:nr=0

I see level=xxx which is set to 4.1, do i need extra syntax to set level to High?

buzzqw

8th December 2008, 18:56

high level is set automatically by mencoder if using "high" parameters (like more partitions)

BHH

microchip8

8th December 2008, 22:11

high level is set automatically by mencoder if using "high" parameters (like more partitions)

BHH

partitions will not change the level. to go from main to high level, use 8x8dct

blizard

9th December 2008, 07:32

Why do you use MP2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1_Audio_Layer_II) for your audio in a MP4 container? In most cases you should use something else for audio that is within MPEG-4 standard as to what is recommended like some version of AAC (read more here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding)) (LC AAC to HE AAC, and Low Complex AAC should be working on most new devices at 128 kbit/s).

MEncoder should be able to use FAAC to get AAC audio, which AutoMEN does if you set it to do a transcoding of audio.

I find it odd that you use 22 FPS as most device either support 15 FPS (30 FPS from original speed - NTSC) or 24 or 25 FPS would also work at least for PAL countries. Try to see if less FPS can be used and use instead more bits for each frame (from 300 kbit/s and up some, but not more then max 600 kbit/s depending on processing power of device). Remember that you can use different setting for Xvid encoding which might use bit rate as a limit (constant rate) or as a measure of quality (quantizer mode), there are also average bit rate mode for two pass. You need to use constant bit rate to tell encoder that it should not give too much bit rate for some frames as that could be a problem when device do only have a limited decoding power in hardware.

Changing FPS to a lower FPS might slow down encoding speed a little and you have to find what work with your video. Some video need more FPS even on a small display, other doesn't give a large visual difference from source material. There is no one-size-fit all. The only limit are your hardware and how it decodes xvid compatible material according to MPEG-4 specifications.

In MP4BOX.exe which is part of AutoMEN for creating a MP4 container, you should be able to set FPS speed. I think you need to set it for both video and audio to the same FPS.

nnezz

1st February 2009, 14:52

It chokes on certain .mov files. I have quicktime alternative installed, and they convert fine using realmedia producer. Mov not supported, or do I need to change something? I'm trying to convert to x264.

buzzqw

1st February 2009, 15:42

try to update the mplayer to latest version

also check the "win32 codec" package on mplayer site

BHH

weaver4

2nd February 2009, 16:23

Buzz,

I like this tool. Mencoder is the best when it comes to audio/video sync.

Rather than:
X264 1 pass Quality Slow
X264 1 pass Quality Normal
X264 1 pass Quality Fast

wouldn't it be better to say:
X264 1 pass Quality Low
X264 1 pass Quality Medium
X264 1 pass Quality High

Like you do for Xvid.

I would use these:
X264 1 pass Quality Poor (crf=24)
X264 1 pass Quality Average (crf=22)
X264 1 pass Quality Better (crf=20)
X264 1 pass Quality Exceptional (crf=18)

buzzqw

2nd February 2009, 16:53

done simply update the profile.txt

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/profile.txt

BHH

weaver4

2nd February 2009, 17:19

Thanks, very cool.

awd_guy

28th February 2009, 04:22

I've given up on almost every other GUI's audio sync abilities to handle my ReplayTV MPG video and so far AutoMen is working great!

I really like the interface. Very clean, tight and functional. It is what SUPER and STAXRip should be.

What do the different Interlace/frame rate settings do? Did I miss a post somewhere on them? I skimmed most of this thread.

I am used to using yadif and was looking to use it and maybe mcdeint but don't see them even though I believe they are supported by Mencode (Or at least MPlayer).

And what does Progressive NTSC (29.97->23.976) do different than change framerate to 23.976?

What if I want to deinterlace and change framerate?

Thanks again for a great tool.

buzzqw

28th February 2009, 07:22

Hi awd_guy and Welcome to the Forum!

thanks for your kind words :)

Mencoder is able to apply a wide range of video filters , and most of them, ragarding deinterlace is listed here.

Selecting "Interlaced" mencoder will apply a YADIF deinterlacer
"Progressive NTSC" and "Change Frame rate..." will differ because of "pullup,softskip" filters missing in change framerate, in other words if you have a progressive ntsc (29.97) and want IVTC it to 23.976 , it's a lot better selecting Progressive NTSC... :)

feel free to suggest any idea!

BHH

awd_guy

28th February 2009, 19:18

I have actually lurked for many years, but I had to thank you for something that actually correctly handles audio. I know it is non-standard, but have you tried VBR MP3?

What yadif setting is "interlaced"(1:1, 3:1, other)? Is there a way to tweak it or add mcdeint? I admit to wanting to play with some of the different settings from http://guru.multimedia.cx/deinterlacing-filters/ on different sources.

Right now, I am focused on NTSC captured (ReplayTV)and MiniDV/digicam imported MPEG sources, so all the film based DVD information out there doesn't help much.

Now If only I could find a decent Freeware/open source GUI authoring tool that handled PIP well I would be set. :) I shoot in-car road course video and overlay the rear facing camera in the top of frame as a virtual rear view mirror. My ancient copy of Movie Edit Pro 11 is almost painful to use and won't work on my faster Vista machine.

awd_guy

1st March 2009, 00:44

Couple issues. (Running 5.0Full + 5.1 update)

Play/Preview doesn't work from either basic or Advanced tab. Mplayer starts and then about 5 lines down displays something in red but the dos window disappears before I can read it and I can't hit pause at the right time. Any way to log this or keep it from closing so I can read the error? Mplayer works fine from the command line or drag and drop the same file. Detect Crop fails as well, but with a "Mplayer is unable to detect correct crop value", but that may just be that it is full screen 720x480 mpeg.

Since "video resize" resets every file I load, I decided to try List/text file mode.

I fed it a dir /S/B *.mpg list of 11 files RS21-31 and it flashes a bunch of dos windows and returns without doing anything. xvid.bat only has a doubled up version of the last file in it.

"C:\Program Files\AutoMen\mencoder.exe" -vf yadif,harddup,crop=0:0:0:0,scale=720:-2,hqdn3d -sws 2 -aspect -priority idle -o "C:\Video\AutoMen\RS31_automen.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1200:pass=1:max_bframes=2:bquant_ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=4:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts aq=8:cbr:br=64 "D:\DVArchive\Local Guide D\RS31.mpg"
"C:\Program Files\AutoMen\mencoder.exe" -vf yadif,harddup,crop=0:0:0:0,scale=720:-2,hqdn3d -sws 2 -aspect -priority idle -o "C:\Video\AutoMen\RS31_automen.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1200:pass=2:max_bframes=2:bquant_ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=4:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts aq=8:cbr:br=64 "D:\DVArchive\Local Guide D\RS31.mpg"

Sibi

3rd March 2009, 16:13

Hi buzzqw,

Thanks for the excellent tool!

I am not able to open one of the .ts file, during that time AutoMen is not responding and hangs simply. Please note that I am able to open the same file and do the encoding with AutoMKV and autoX264.

Could you help on this.

buzzqw

3rd March 2009, 17:43

@awd_guy

thanks, i will look at it

@Sibi

please try to update the mplayer builds with one from autox264

anyway i will check automen detection against more evoluted autox264

BHH

buzzqw

4th March 2009, 09:34

Update automen to 5.3 (full package)

fixed listed input
better file detection
update preset

BHH

machser

5th March 2009, 12:40

I have a mkv-file with a mpeg2-videostream, 2 ac3-audiostreams and 3 subtitles in it. I just wanted to re-encode the video stream to xvid, but leaving all the audio and subtitles unchanged in the new resulting mkv-xvid file, but as you can imagine AutoMen or I didn't do the task well enough, so please tell me if I did something wrong or how to do it right...thanks in advance.
BTW: The mkv-file was made by MakeMKV. So I'm looking for a solution for re-encoding just the video, is AutoMen capable of doing the job just right ?

lagarjj

9th March 2009, 20:23

Hi buzzqw:
Two questions: Using Automen 5.3 in avi to mpeg2 produces a strong noise in the final video. Another, I have problems encoding an avi (DVX5) to mpeg2, Automen remains still, but mencoder appears working in processes list of windows.
P.D.: Excuseme for my bad english language

eliw12

1st July 2009, 08:14

Hi,
I am using this tool from early days, thanks a lot for it. In 5.3 I got output without audio. Converting from DVD format to Xvid-mp3 avi. Dont have time to deeply investigate, but it is a case on not only one PC.

buzzqw

1st July 2009, 09:29

Hi eliw12

please try updating mencoder (from sherpya site's)

also.. i need some more information like a screenshot of error of mencoder

BHH

Ryo94

2nd July 2009, 02:04

All links to mencoder in sherpya's site are dead (I get error 404), does anybody knows any alternative site where to get the latest build of mencoder?

Schrade

2nd July 2009, 06:23

All links to mencoder in sherpya's site are dead (I get error 404), does anybody knows any alternative site where to get the latest build of mencoder?

Here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/files/ (I just trimmed the URL)

Ryo94

2nd July 2009, 11:15

Thanks Schrade!

Ryo94

9th July 2009, 22:42

Hi buzzqw,

Any chance that automen display the current height at the bottom after the automatic crop&resize?
http://i28.tinypic.com/fum0ee.jpg

Just to have a reference in case I need to correct the height.

buzzqw

10th July 2009, 08:24

feel free to download automen 5.4

BHH

Ryo94

10th July 2009, 16:49

Thanks for the update but that's not what I was talking about, I didn't explain it very well.
Although is logic that if it say "input frames" the stat bar display the original W/H of the file like in automen 5.4 I was asking for "output frames" :p and that automen update that output W/H like it does with the audio when you move the "audio quality" slider and the output bitrate is updated below.
For example, I have a video of 720x576, after open it automen automatically crop & resize the video to a width of 656, now how do I know the output height?, how do I know the output AR?, could be 656x368, 656x304, 656x272...
Could be possible something like this?:
http://i32.tinypic.com/6jq440.jpg

MysticE

31st August 2009, 20:06

If I choose X264 I keep getting a 'js32.dll not found error' noting MP4BOX. A search here has not turned up anything.

Could this be a system error?

buzzqw

31st August 2009, 21:02

may i suggest to try the new beta 6 ;)

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen6_beta.rar
then update with -> http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen_beta.exe

BHH

killerhex

1st September 2009, 22:45

how does it handle subtitles inside an .mkv

buzzqw

2nd September 2009, 07:05

automen will simply ignore it
in "Filters" you can specify is subtitle must be copied or ignored (only for mkv input)
BHH

flebber

2nd September 2009, 13:59

Seems to be reversing input size into crop values for this vob.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2559/3881382202_0b47cdf309.jpg

Vob details from mediainfo
General
Complete name : C:\Rip\Source Video\RHCP\FullDisc\RHCP\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_1.VOB
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 142 MiB
Duration : 3mn 38s
Overall bit rate : 5 465 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Duration : 3mn 38s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 864 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 7 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.469
Stream size : 126 MiB (89%)

Audio #1
ID : 128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Duration : 3mn 37s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Video delay : -80ms
Stream size : 4.99 MiB (4%)

Audio #2
ID : 129 (0x81)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Duration : 3mn 37s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Video delay : -80ms
Stream size : 4.99 MiB (4%)

Text #1
ID : 32 (0x20)
Format : RLE
Format/Info : Run-length encoding
Video delay : 1s 600ms

Text #2
ID : 33 (0x21)
Format : RLE
Format/Info : Run-length encoding
Video delay : 3s 880ms

Text #3
ID : 224 (0xE0)-DVD-1
Format : EIA-608
MuxingMode : MPEG Video / DVD-Video
MuxingMode_MoreInfo : Muxed in Video #1

Menu

buzzqw

2nd September 2009, 14:16

isn't a matter of revers... it's autocrop in mplayer that is unable to find crop values

you must manually set it

BHH

Ryo94

8th September 2009, 01:15

I've the same problem with the autocrop in v6, autocrop in v5.4 works fine with the same video,
http://i29.tinypic.com/335b9sp.jpg
aren't both version using the same autocrop? why v6 is unable to detect crop values and v5.4 can do it without problems?

buzzqw

8th September 2009, 07:08

please redownload automen_beta.exe should be more accurate on crop detection (aka more frames analyzed)

BHH

Ryo94

8th September 2009, 18:32

Thanks buzzqw, now autocrop works fine :)
Now I've 2 doubts,

1. If I enter a desired filesize the bitrate is adjusted automatically, but if I enter a desired bitrate manually the filesize is not adjusted to this new bitrate.
2. Once I set all the parameters I press encode and nothing happen, this is what the log says
Option vf: -sid doesn't exist.
Error parsing option on the command line: -vf

Thanks in advance for any help.

buzzqw

8th September 2009, 19:50

please post the full command line (copy it from queue)

BHH

Ryo94

9th September 2009, 00:16

"H:\AutoMen6_beta\mencoder.exe" -demuxer lavf -ofps 24000/1001 -vf pullup,softskip,harddup,crop=496:544:24:16,scale=656:512,-sid 1001 -o "F:\#Music Videos\automen_The Metalheadz - Inner City Life.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=2583:max_bframes=2:bquant_ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=2:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -aid 1 -af volnorm=1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=192 -channels 2 -lavdopts threads=2 -lavcopts threads=2 -passlogfile "H:\AutoMen6_beta\automen_statsfile.log" "F:\#Music Videos\The Metalheadz - Inner City Life.mpg" 2>"H:\AutoMen6_beta\automen.log""

microchip8

9th September 2009, 00:21

@Ryo94

There should be a space between the scale filter and -sid 1001
also, after the scale filter, the comma shouldn't be there

Ryo94

9th September 2009, 00:54

Thanks froggy1! As you say, it works if I replace the comma by an space between the scale filter and -sid 1001.
Anyway that little error in the command line is generated by AutoMen.

microchip8

9th September 2009, 01:02

buzz will fix it, I'm sure ;)

Just wanted to provide you with a working solution until he fixes it.

buzzqw

9th September 2009, 07:16

thanks, fixed

download the beta exe

about size using manual bitrate: i haven't implemented the reverse calculus ..., if someone use a manual bitrate must be already know the final size ;)

BHH

Ryo94

9th September 2009, 08:55

Thanks a lot buzzqw!

if someone use a manual bitrate must be already know the final size

Partially agree, because one user can indiscriminately enter a bitrate of 3200 kbps (no matter the resolution of the output video) because he knows that will produce more or less a good quality picture not contemplating the final size, then when the encoding is finished he gets an oversized file with a QF of 600. There are a lot of users out there doing this, the calculation of the size could act as a warning (like it is the calculation of the bitrate when you enter the size)

But let supose that every user cares about the size and that manually enter a bitrate knowing the final size, if he knows both, why this user will prefer to enter the bitrate and not the size?. What's the point of allow to enter the bitrate then? :confused:
At least the reverse calculation (like it's implemented in Staxrip) will make the bitrate edition more logic from an informative and aesthetic point of view.

Anyway the new AutoMen really rocks :thanks:

Best regards.

killerhex

18th September 2009, 11:47

When the new beta analyzes any of my mkv with the AVC codec it reads as mpeg2?

buzzqw

18th September 2009, 12:09

here is ok.. could you post a fragment of this mkv ?

BHH

killerhex

18th September 2009, 12:32

I dont know how to cut a part of a mkv to upload here. but i have no problems encoding and the quality comes out great? that about the only thing got me confused>

buzzqw

18th September 2009, 12:43

automen say mpeg2 when mplayer report mpeg2 as video codec.. :confused:

anyway it's only an information...

BHH

killerhex

18th September 2009, 12:44

yea the app works great

buzzqw

18th September 2009, 14:38

update the beta exe

added a better support for dvd input
better support for crop for dvd input

BHH

killerhex

19th September 2009, 06:50

do the encoders in the beta automaticly use MMX/2 SSE/2/3 and cache64 options

buzzqw

19th September 2009, 07:18

yes, mencoder will use it when avaiable

BHH

buzzqw

22nd September 2009, 08:47

update automen beta

automatic crop on loading file
more deeply autocrop
added support for handbrakecli

BHH

buzzqw

24th September 2009, 07:33

update automen
better support for handbrakecli
some gui layout change when users select handbrakecli

BHH

paolo1983

29th September 2009, 21:42

As you said, I'm trying automen...

I have many questions, but I haven't found a tutorial here or on Italian forum...

1) I select .ifo file , then under select pgc I find all titles, should I just select longer one ?

2) Then I see a cmd windows that disappears after some big green squares on my screen

3) Then I click autocrop, but values remains 0, even if in preview I see something that can be cropped

4) Under audio track I don't see language names, but only codes... How can I select Italian, English, etc...

I'm very confused, I imagine you could not have time time for explain me all, but if there is a tutorial please post link :-)

thank you again :-)

buzzqw

1st October 2009, 14:39

1) you usually the langer the better ;)
2) green squares :confused: ? post the mplayer.log and automen.log in automen folder
3) make sure you use latest beta
4) i know. but most probably will not implemented

BHH

paolo1983

21st October 2009, 16:48

Sorry, I'm very late...

However

1)green squares are "artifacts" when starting to play movie, they are not IN the movie.. something like buggy video driver or something else...

2) progress % stays always to 0% ...

3) selecting language looking for their codes in the dos window is possibile, but not "easy".. however, this can be done :-)

4) a strange thing that has happened me is that I selected 1500MB and had a output file of 860mb..

5) Is it possible to select more than one audio track?

another nice thing would be visual crop, like hdc.
But I can imagine this is "the little brother", it cannot have ALL features :-)

keep up the good work

Tukmol

2nd November 2009, 10:59

buzzqw's AutoMen encoder is so far the best x264 encoder that my laptop can use. it uses less resources compared to handbrake.

i just encountered a audio problem. i used the x264 format, 2 pass with my desired file size and ar. it resulted with no audio but when i used the 1 pass setting it had an audio.

now the question is, why is this happening?

thanks.

buzzqw

2nd November 2009, 11:11

Hi Tukmol

i need the "queue" bat for understanding the problem

please add your work to queue and post here

thanks!

BHH

Tukmol

3rd November 2009, 23:44

unfortunately i erased all data about the project. i just went back to using the1 pass x264 setting. THANKS for replying though. but btw i'm a noob in this.. wher can i get the queue bat anyway just in case next time i'll encounter this i'll let you know.

EpheMeroN

6th November 2009, 23:45

I ripped a dvd disc to my hard drive to one single VOB file for conversion to XviD format.

AutoMen detected the movie at 90+ minutes, but when the encode finished, the resulting XviD file was only 16 min. in length.

Anyone else experiencing this? I am using the latest beta (downloaded and installed today).

buzzqw

7th November 2009, 08:56

post the batch file
automen should be able to concatenate all vobs...

BHH

EpheMeroN

7th November 2009, 18:30

post the batch file
automen should be able to concatenate all vobs...

BHH
It's just one single vob file. I had it not split them during the ripping phase.

Also, maybe something is wrong on my end? Because every single GUI I've tried from the forums is failing me. AutoMKV only encoded a few min. like AutoMen did. ASXGui failed at 50%, etc etc. I'm only on an XP SP3 install with not much software installed besides Office and freeware video programs. I'm at a loss.

As for posting a batch file, I'm trying to re-create the encode issue, but now AutoMen won't even encode. When I hit "encode" the screen flashes and nothing happens. Going to reboot and try again.

buzzqw

7th November 2009, 22:51

corrupt vob ?
try demuxing and remuxing with rejig

BHH

EpheMeroN

8th November 2009, 18:22

corrupt vob ?
try demuxing and remuxing with rejig

BHH
Okay. I did what you suggested. This time it encoded but only 40+ minutes worth. I used the default 1 pass XviD Balanced preset. I'm at a loss here.

Here's that batch log you requested:

"C:\Documents and Settings\User1\Desktop\AutoMen6_beta\mencoder.exe" -demuxer lavf -vf harddup,scale=624:352,hqdn3d=1:1:1 -sid 1001 -o "D:\ONE_WEEK\VIDEO_TS\automen_VTS_02_1.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=4316:max_bframes=2:bquant_ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=2:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -aid 1 -af volnorm=1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128 -channels 2 -lavdopts threads=3 -lavcopts threads=3 "D:\ONE_WEEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_1.VOB" "D:\ONE_WEEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_2.VOB" "D:\ONE_WEEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_3.VOB" "D:\ONE_WEEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_4.VOB" 2>"C:\Documents and Settings\User1\Desktop\AutoMen6_beta\automen.log"

buzzqw

8th November 2009, 20:30

EpheMeroN

8th November 2009, 21:32

just some information:

can you confirm that there are only 4 vobs ?
"D:\ONE_WEEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_1.VOB" "D:\ONE_WEEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_2.VOB" "D:\ONE_WEEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_3.VOB" "D:\ONE_WEEK\VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_4.VOB"

and all there vobs are correct and accessible ?

could you post the "C:\Documents and Settings\User1\Desktop\AutoMen6_beta\automen.log" ?

thanks!

BHH

Confirmed there are only 4 vobs that ReJig created from the remux. All 4 vobs are also playable and the 4 time lengths of the vobs combined equals the correct total movie length.

The AutoMen log was too large to fit in a post here so I uploaded it to PasteBin. Hope that'll suffice.

The log is here: http://pastebin.com/m5009c369

buzzqw

8th November 2009, 22:06

try builing only 1 file

also.. there are too much duplicate frames
maybe is to apply decimate ? (film pattern)

BHH

EpheMeroN

8th November 2009, 22:16

AutoMen doesn't do auto-IVTC?

I had an original single VOB file that DVD Decrypter outputted.

I just tested my original single VOB rip using the latest AutoGK and it encoded the entire movie. However, it was only 380mb in size when I specified 800mb.

I'm going to go the manual route with an AviSynth script, and manual 2-pass setup in VDub and see what happens...

buzzqw

9th November 2009, 08:09

automen don't auto deinterlace

just select on deinterlacer list the FILM preset

BHH

buzzqw

9th November 2009, 09:23

update automen beta

try to auto detecting FILM pattern
some minor and cosmetic fixes

BHH

mike23

9th November 2009, 11:46

When I open AutoMen v6.63 to (re-) encode a movie then on the "Summary" tab there are (among others) two values (resp. entry fields):

- Video bitrate
and
- ....keep in .... MB

So the user can enter both values at the same time.

From my point of view this is nonsense:
The user can either determine the bitrate. Then the final size is open or the user can fix the desired final size then it is up to the encoder to chose the appropriate bitrate.

So how can AutoMen handle both key values at the same time?

Or in other words: If the user enters values in both entry fields: Which one has priority?

Mike

buzzqw

9th November 2009, 11:57

Video Bitrate has always priority

also .. when you edit the final size, the bitrate is re-computed, WHILE if you edit manually the bitrate the final size will not change

in this way users can simply specify the final size.. and power users can specify bitrate

BHH

feeling_enhancer

10th November 2009, 07:45

Hi I recently tried to convert a BRrip movie of 600 Mb MKV Movie to 700 Mb AVI Movie. But the conversion wont start. I dont know whats wrong but it wont start. I get the following :

Automen (Notepad) : o audio encoder (-oac) selected. Select one (see -oac help) or use -nosound.

Mplayer (Notepad) : Creating config file: D:/AutoMen6_beta/mplayer/config
MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r29319-4.5.0 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing F:\Video\Movies\Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince.mkv.
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=eng
[mkv] Track ID 1: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 0, -slang eng
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1
ID_SID_1_LANG=dut
[mkv] Track ID 2: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 1, -slang dut
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=2
ID_SID_2_LANG=pol
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 2, -slang pol
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=3
ID_SID_3_LANG=rum
[mkv] Track ID 4: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 3, -slang rum
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=4
ID_SID_4_LANG=tur
[mkv] Track ID 5: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 4, -slang tur
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[mkv] Track ID 6: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_LANG=und
[mkv] Track ID 7: audio (A_AAC), -aid 0, -alang und
[mkv] Will play video track 6.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x534 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=F:\Video\Movies\Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince.mkv
ID_DEMUXER=mkv
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=534
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.3970
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=MP4A
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=24000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=9211.01
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=2
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=faad
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 534 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 2.40:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.3970
VO: [null] 1280x534 => 1280x534 Planar YV12
A: 0.1 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.064 ct: 0.000 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0

Exiting... (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF

Please rectify me and tell me where the problem is.

buzzqw

10th November 2009, 08:21

post the make report (in program path panel)
also try updating mplayer/mencoder -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/files/MPlayer%20and%20MEncoder/revision%2029851

BHH

feeling_enhancer

10th November 2009, 10:03

AutoMen v6.103.1006 report

Input File: F:\Video\Movies\Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince.mkv ( F:\Video\Movies\Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince.mkv )

Input File: Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince.mkv
Video Codec :h264
Width: 1280; Heigh: 534
Framerate: 23.976; Framecount: 220843; Duration(sec): 9211
Aspect Ratio: 2.3970

Resized resolution: 640 / 272
Crop Values : 0:2:0:4

Encoding With: XviD
Container: AVI
Encoding Mode: 1 pass
Video Bitrate: 363
Denoise Level: Super Light
Resizer : 2 bicubic

Don't copy subs: On

Audio Track: none
Audio Codec: MP3 Audio
Audio Bitrate: 256
Audio Channels: 2
Audio Mode: cbr
Audio Normalize: On

Start Queue ->
"D:\AutoMen6_beta\mencoder.exe" -vf harddup,crop=1280:528:0:2,scale=640:272,hqdn3d=1:1:1 -sid 1001 -o "F:\Video\Movies\automen_Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=363:max_bframes=0:vhq=0:me_quality=3:nochroma_me:nochroma_opt:nohq_ac:notrellis:nolumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=0 -lavdopts threads=2 -lavcopts threads=2 -passlogfile "D:\AutoMen6_beta\automen_statsfile.log" "F:\Video\Movies\Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince.mkv" 2>"D:\AutoMen6_beta\automen.log"
-> End Queue

Here it is as you requested. I updated the Mplayer and Mencoder. But result is same.

buzzqw

10th November 2009, 10:26

ok, got it
the problem is due to no audio track selected

please redownload the AutoMen_beta.exe

BHH

feeling_enhancer

11th November 2009, 04:06

Hey I downloaded it, but you know I have to manually select the audio track. Automen didnt do it by itself. So i figure it has to be done Manually.

One more thing My MKV File already contains subtitle hardsubed so when I tried to convert it to AVI. To my horror the subs is not visible in the converted AVI file whether the option in Filters is ckecked or not. Subtitle wont copy only.

And one more thing Automen wont select the best Video Bitrate by itself. We have to do manually and when we do it manually the converted file comes out much larger exceeding 700 mb. What do I do.

Please Help.

buzzqw

11th November 2009, 07:37

yes, you must select the audio track

the latest beta has some option for copying textual subs

automen cannot know the "best" bitrate (or resolution) you must set it

BHH

feeling_enhancer

12th November 2009, 04:47

Yeah I Did but the final output size exceeds 700 mb and sometimes reaches between 750-800 mb. I want to know how can I keep to only 700 mb. Please help no.

And my coversions look slightly blur, how can I make it sharp or crystal clear sort of. Please help.

buzzqw

12th November 2009, 08:51

use more bitrate (rise the final size)
use 2 pass

BHH

feeling_enhancer

13th November 2009, 04:29

I tried several way to copy the Subtitle track from the MKV file to the converted AVI file but no matter what I do it wont come. I do select the subtitle track in the "Audio" and the then uncheck the "Dont not copy subs from input file" in "Filters" but still then the subtitle wont come. I guess you need to fix this.

buzzqw

13th November 2009, 09:49

try the new build
it has some change on subs handling

BHH

feeling_enhancer

13th November 2009, 18:15

I used the latest AutoMen v6.103.1006. But couldnt fix the subtitle problem thats why I consulted you. I converted the same MKV file in to AVI using Automen 5 and result is good. But why does Automen v6 is having problem.

buzzqw

13th November 2009, 19:49

subs can be copied only if textual

automen 5 use a different approach , even more.. automen 5 was wrong when copy subs..

BHH

feeling_enhancer

14th November 2009, 08:53

This is funny, when Automen 5 can copy subs from the same MKV file to AVI, why cant Automen 6.

As per subs coming wrong in Automen 5 they come slightly big but atleast they come. But in version 6 no matter what I do it wont come only.

Dude you need to check it out.

buzzqw

14th November 2009, 09:45

autome 5 was able(forced) to copy graphical subs (idx/sub)
automen 6 is able to select textual subs (srt), but ignore graphical one's

BHH

feeling_enhancer

14th November 2009, 15:55

Then How do I select the SRT file to hardsub it in the converted AVI file.

buzzqw

14th November 2009, 16:32

subs must be already muxed in mkv input file..
then.. you can select it on sub list

BHH

feeling_enhancer

15th November 2009, 06:37

Okay here is the real deal.

My MKV file which I'm trying to covert it to AVI file has already got subs muxed in it. But when I convert the subtitled Muxed MKV file to AVI file through Automen v6. I dont find subs in the Converted AVI file.

I do select the subs in the "subtitle track" under "Audio". Then I uncheck the "do not copy subs from input file" under "Filters". when everything I do is correct then there has to be some problem with the software.

You should try out yourself.

buzzqw

15th November 2009, 08:21

please provide a sample of your mkv, so i will able to replicate the issue

you can split it with neuron2 excellent DGSplit

BHH

buzzqw

25th November 2009, 09:44

update automen

BHH

TRF

25th November 2009, 16:53

Hello buzzqw, I've got Automen working via wine on linux, any chance of getting it native ??? ... (it uses common things for linux mencoder, mp4box and mkvmerge) only sound encoding may be problematic ...

buzzqw

25th November 2009, 17:30

Hi TRF

when possible i will compile it for linux

BHH

terrymx

26th November 2009, 13:52

He might do it if you donate some money.

buzzqw

27th November 2009, 08:06

i hope saturday to get some spare time to check compilation under linux

BHH

buzzqw

29th November 2009, 10:56

added link to linux build (first post)

BHH

buzzqw

1st December 2009, 10:22

update automen

now automen don't hang waiting mencoder to exit
faster crop
some layout changes
better construction of batch

BHH

Hotaxis

11th December 2009, 19:33

Hi Dear buzzqw And THX,

If I choose MP4 format, I keep getting << mp4box.exe - application Error >>.

Could this be a system error?

And i used Last AutoMen.

http://www2.pic-upload.de/11.12.09/ebfolbulc3wv.jpg

buzzqw

11th December 2009, 22:30

please try updating the mp4box build (just unzip on the same folder as automen)

BHH

CommonMortal

16th December 2009, 20:37

Hello, please excuse me if this has been already mentioned.

AutoMen works very well for me. But, i usually use fixed target size, 2 pass x264. When i want to shrink a bigger mkv to fit to DVD5 and i choose "no resize" and "copy audio", i usually get wrong file size.

Maybe you could look into that. I think it has to do with the fact that when at first, it tries to automatically choose a lower resolution. When i choose not to resize (uncheck allow resize), i suspect that it doesn't calculate the new bitrate well or something like that.

buzzqw

18th December 2009, 09:10

the problem is in copy audio.
automen don't know audio size.. and so the final size is wrong

@all

update full package
better handling of ffmpeg/handbrakecli/avisynth
some bug fixings

BHH

CommonMortal

18th December 2009, 09:43

Thank you! Merry Xmas! :thanks:

mike23

25th December 2009, 19:16

I want to re-encode an *.mkv movie to an Xvid *.avi file
After spefying the settings on the "Summary" tab I went to the "Video" tab.

As I found out ALWAYS the "Allow resize" checkbox is enabled by default.

Why?

What is better: Allowing resize or not for the encoding mentioned above?

Mike

mike23

27th December 2009, 11:05

post the make report (in program path panel)
also try updating mplayer/mencoder -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/files/MPlayer%20and%20MEncoder/revision%2029851

BHH

Does that mean I can simply download the newest mplayer and mencoder and replace the files in the AutoMen installation directory?

Which of the archive packages on page

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/files/MPlayer%20and%20MEncoder/revision%2029851

contain the pre-compiled binaries for WinXP?

Mike

buzzqw

28th December 2009, 09:23

I want to re-encode an *.mkv movie to an Xvid *.avi file ......
What is better: Allowing resize or not for the encoding mentioned above?

Usually reencoding file could be useful for reducing size or width/height or codec...
just use the resize and codec you prefer

Does that mean I can simply download the newest mplayer and mencoder and replace the files in the AutoMen installation directory?

yes!

just use this
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/files/MPlayer%20and%20MEncoder/revision%2029851/MPlayer-rtm-svn-29851.7z/download

BHH

Schrade

28th December 2009, 10:06

Using Automen 6 beta I am getting errors when trying to create an MPEG AVC encode with AAC audio. It's failing due to mp4box not supporting AAC in .avi.

Here's the error it spits out:

C:\Apps\AutoMEn>"C:\Apps\AutoMEn\applications\mp4box.exe" "C:\automen_MVI_0012.mp4" -add "C:\automen_MVI_0012.avi"
H264/AVC Video format not supported in AVI - please extract to raw format first
Error importing C:\automen_MVI_0012.avi: Feature Not Supported

mike23

28th December 2009, 19:52

When will there be an own forum (not only ONE thread in a forum) for AutoMen software ?

buzzqw

29th December 2009, 08:43

update automen_beta.exe

now when selecting XviD+AAC (in avi or mp4) AutoMen will switch to handBrakeCLI

BHH

Ryo94

1st January 2010, 20:41

When resizing, It's possible for Automen to keep the PAR 1:1 and therefore also de original DAR? Everytime I resize a video I get the output with a different PAR & DAR, this dowsn't happen when I use Virtualdub's or avisynth's resizing.

The latest version of automen (v6.123.1226) can't open the following avi file,

http://depositfiles.com/files/ldd14j4xe

http://i47.tinypic.com/21ee7l.jpg

http://i47.tinypic.com/29l0fb6.jpg

No problems with previous version (tested with v6.94.959)

http://i47.tinypic.com/x52t7m.jpg

Happy new year to everyone! Best wishes ;)

azmoth

5th January 2010, 13:12

Congratulations on AutoMen tool.:thanks: I started using it after having trouble with AutoMKV where my files kept coming out under or oversized and would not allow remixing of say soundtrack 128kb into bigger one 192kb using lame. The said, audio would come out blank if original untouched mp3 source was not used in its original mixed format. Handbrake allows a remixing too from source mp3 track like yours does. I have remixed 128kb 44.1hz source to 192kb 48hz sampling with AutoMen no problem. With AutoMen the problems Ive had with video crashes are not really there. My file usually come out around 10mb under which is an advantage using 2 pass xvid high quality preset.

Do you plan to incorporate default plugins like AutoGK uses eg remove grain, to improve video? Thanks again.

P:S What is the force "no use of ODML avi" feature and its benefits? Cheers!

buzzqw

5th January 2010, 16:19

@Ryo94

please post the mplayer.log 2and automen.log

@azmoth

Welcome to the Forum!

AutoMen use mencoder as main encoder and so it's limeted in video filters. Anyway Mencoder offers a great denoiser HQDN3D and this is used in AutoMen.
in Filters you can set the Denoise Level

ODML is to use only when your avi are greater then 2gb. Most SAP (stand alone player), expecially the older one's, cannot read avi with ODML index

BHH

azmoth

5th January 2010, 21:47

Thankyou very much buzzqw, that explains why my hardware player Pioneer does not play 2gb plus files(which must have used ODML index in avi file due to specific encoding tool default options/2gb size I used at that time.) It plays 1.99gb encodes fine, so for now I will not go over 2gb and use ODML index. I have moved totally in any case to AutoMen for all encoding now!

Ryo94

7th January 2010, 01:26

@Ryo94

please post the mplayer.log 2and automen.log

Automen log say
"""" no se reconoce como un comando interno o externo,
programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable.

Translation

""""It's not recognized as an internal or external command,
program or batch file.

That's all, mplayer log is empty.

BTW, I now realize that the last version doesn't work at all (not only with avi file), I cannot open ANY file, when I try to do it I get the message "there is some problem analizing your file, now automen will retry with different demuxer"

buzzqw

7th January 2010, 20:45

download the FULL package and retry

BHH

Ryo94

7th January 2010, 21:51

Thanks buzzqw, now it works :)

azmoth

8th January 2010, 14:31

Buzzqw which version mp4box is used in AutoMen last stable or developer's build?:thanks:

buzzqw

11th January 2010, 08:32

MP4Box - GPAC version 0.4.6-DEV (build 1 - Aug 28 2009) - compiled by Kurtnoise

BHH

azmoth

18th January 2010, 19:06

Thanks. I have had a few problems with AutoMen lately. It previews an xvid based avi okay and closes no problem, but when you press encode the program crashes and closes. It has happened 3 times now with differing files. Also it previews H264 based file but does not encode. Stumped me a bit! Codec problem?

buzzqw

19th January 2010, 09:18

update new full package

several change under the hood (more clean code)
update encoding applications (mencoder/mplayer/x264...)

BHH

buzzqw

20th January 2010, 13:44

automen use mencoder, how ffdshow is is involved ?
it also use xvid builded in mencoder

BHH

Betaman2k

30th January 2010, 12:58

little question

i wanna use the orginal audio codec ( dts )
i click the COPY AUDIO, now i get my orginal DTS Audio without reencode ?
regards
Betaman2k

buzzqw

30th January 2010, 13:47

Hi Betaman2k and Welcome to the Forum

if mencoder is able to extract your dts tracks, it will copyed (mencoder is able to extract not to encode to dts format)

BHH

Betaman2k

30th January 2010, 14:58

thx

ok i tested now your tool, i wanna reencode only the video ( x264 ; 2 pass ; mkv ) and not the audio ( dts orginal )

Betaman2k

30th January 2010, 18:05

hmmm
ist that correct

Pos: 857.1s 20558f (14%) 9.02fps Trem: 228min 9311mb A-V:0.000 [10478:0
Too many video packets in the buffer: (320 in 33598379 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.

alot of spam now ( but works ) x264 ; 2pass and mkv

[mpegts @ 03bc8c40]MAX_READ_SIZE:5000000 reached
[NULL @ 00cc80c0]start time is not set in av_estimate_timings_from_pts
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[mpeg1video @ 00e6f960]removing common factors from framerate

buzzqw

30th January 2010, 20:11

just some problem on parsing/decoding file

check the final file just to be sure

BHH

Betaman2k

31st January 2010, 07:48

now finished

Video = 100 % Ok

Audio = missing sound

my config for AUDIO ( Copy Audio ) orginal DTS Audio

buzzqw

31st January 2010, 09:36

if so mencoder was unable to copy it.

try this: go in filter panel and select "Use handbrakecli for encoding"

then retry encoding

thanks

BHH

Betaman2k

31st January 2010, 10:13

ok i used handbrakecli for encoding, now handbrakecli crashed, no job :(

now i testet that

My OS: Windows 7 ; 64 Bit
Encode: x264 = mkv ( 2 pass, extreme qualty ) 28 GB moviefile
Audio: Copy Audio ( my DTS audio )
Filters: Avisynch ( only for x264 )
Movieplay time: 124 minutes

u get feedback ~ 8 hours

buzzqw

31st January 2010, 10:22

that's a pita

try updating mencoder build -> http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

BHH

Betaman2k

31st January 2010, 11:33

all files are broken for me ( 32 bit )

my system windows 7 64 bit

buzzqw

31st January 2010, 13:59

you can for sure use mencoder 32bit

BHH

azmoth

3rd February 2010, 11:53

Right, I had similar problems with audio missing etc. Formatted my laptop, reinstalled XP and now everything works fine with Automen. That K-Lite mega codec pack screwed up my system mega even at default install.

Just one question can Automen work with avi as a source eg say, re-encoding xvid to xvid? In my system NOT!
I do this sometimes for reframing a 4.3 to a 16.9/improving video with filters etc in AutoGK or Handbrake. In AutoMen using Mencoder the program closes immediately straight after encoding. Thanks.

buzzqw

3rd February 2010, 12:11

thanks azmoth

please redownload automen6 beta exe

BHH

Tukmol

4th February 2010, 13:53

BUZZQW i have been using your app encoding tv record. the raw file is mpeg2 and i use x264 mp4 encode settings and yet file extension is avi? the output quality is beyond excellent.
http://lookpic.com/i/552/IfOJhOy0.gif
http://lookpic.com/i/72/nlEvrh2O.gif
http://lookpic.com/i/165/PAvovkVP.gif
http://lookpic.com/i/952/VyZ53LFh.gif
http://lookpic.com/i/158/uORDiELE.gif

azmoth

4th February 2010, 19:08

Best tool out there, without a doubt. Even Better than AutoGK!

buzzqw

10th February 2010, 13:54

thanks to you azmoth

without you help and log the issue will not be resolved.

thanks

BHH

Tukmol

12th February 2010, 16:30

my question was not answered yet.. sorry to ..:(

buzzqw

12th February 2010, 16:52

and i use x264 mp4 encode settings and yet file extension is avi
mencoder is quite buggy on making mp4 files.

automen will force mencoder to encode to .avi then will mux the .avi in mp4

in latest version (download automen beta exe) i added some sanity check about this

BHH

locotus

12th February 2010, 16:58

Hi, Buzzqw:

I couldn't get Automen to load vobs files from dvdrips, just says vobs failed. I haven't change anything or configure anything
aside the output.

buzzqw

12th February 2010, 17:04

@locotus

make sure you have installed the full package and update automen beta exe

and please post the Make Report in "Program Path" (after loading your ifo file)

BHH

locotus

12th February 2010, 21:32

Here's the file:
AutoMen v6.137.1326 report

Input File: dvd://1 -dvd-device "C:\New Folder\MainMovie\NORTHTOALASKA\VIDEO_TS" ( C:\New Folder\MainMovie\NORTHTOALASKA\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO )

Input File: VIDEO_TS.IFO
Video Codec :
Width: 720
Heigh: 480
Framerate: 29.970
Framecount: 219231
Aspect Ratio: 1.7778
Duration(sec): 7315

Resized resolution: 640 / 352
Crop Values : :::

Encoding With: XviD
Container: AVI
Encoding Mode: 1 pass
Video Bitrate: 651
Denoise Level: Super Light
Resizer : 2 bicubic

Mencoder for Encoding

Audio Track: ID_AUDIO_ID=128
Audio Codec: MP3 Audio
Audio Bitrate: 128
Audio Channels: 2
Audio Mode: cbr
Audio Normalize: On

Start Queue ->

-> End Queue

buzzqw

12th February 2010, 21:54

ok, now please post the mplayer.log in automen folder

BHH

locotus

12th February 2010, 22:21

Mplayer log:

[15:27:57] hb_init: checking cpu count
[15:27:57] hb_init: starting libhb thread
HandBrake svn3036 (2009121901) - MinGW i386 - http://handbrake.fr
2 CPUs detected
Opening C:\New Folder\MainMovie\NORTHTOALASKA\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB...
[15:27:57] hb_scan: path=C:\New Folder\MainMovie\NORTHTOALASKA\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB, title_index=0
[15:27:57] scan: trying to open with libdvdread
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.1.3
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: failed to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
[15:27:57] dvd: not a dvd - trying as a stream/file instead
[15:27:57] file is MPEG DVD Program Stream
[15:27:59] add_audio_to_title: added AC3 audio stream 0x80bd
[15:27:59] add_audio_to_title: added AC3 audio stream 0x82bd
[15:27:59] scan: decoding previews for title 1
[15:28:00] scan: audio 0x80bd: AC-3, rate=48000Hz, bitrate=384000 Unknown (AC3) (4.0 ch)
[15:28:00] scan: audio 0x82bd: AC-3, rate=48000Hz, bitrate=192000 Unknown (AC3) (2.0 ch)
Scanning title 1 of 1...
Scanning title 1 of 1...
Scanning title 1 of 1...
[15:28:00] scan: 10 previews, 720x480, 23.976 fps, autocrop = 56/60/0/0, aspect 16:9, PAR 32:27
[15:28:00] scan: title (0) job->width:720, job->height:304
[15:28:00] libhb: scan thread found 1 valid title(s)
+ title 1:
+ stream: C:\New Folder\MainMovie\NORTHTOALASKA\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
+ angle(s) 0
+ duration: 00:18:48
+ size: 720x480, pixel aspect: 32/27, display aspect: 1.78, 23.976 fps
+ autocrop: 56/60/0/0
+ chapters:
+ 1: cells 0->0, 0 blocks, duration 00:18:48
+ audio tracks:
+ 1, Unknown (AC3) (4.0 ch) (iso639-2: und), 48000Hz, 384000bps
+ 2, Unknown (AC3) (2.0 ch) (iso639-2: und), 48000Hz, 192000bps
+ subtitle tracks:
+ 1, Closed Captions (iso639-2: und) (Text)
HandBrake has exited.

buzzqw

12th February 2010, 22:42

@locotus

the make report and log is ok (audio, framerate, frame number are ok)

but please post the make report with queued job

what is the error message on encoding ?

BHH

locotus

13th February 2010, 00:14

I just couldn't make it start, Buzzqw.

buzzqw

13th February 2010, 08:09

I just couldn't make it start, Buzzqw.

post the queue , thanks

BHH

locotus

13th February 2010, 12:36

Sorry for the delay, here's the file:

AutoMen v6.148.1373 report

Input File: dvd://1 -dvd-device "C:\New Folder\MainMovie\ZANE_GREYS_WAGON_WHEELS\VIDEO_TS" ( C:\New Folder\MainMovie\ZANE_GREYS_WAGON_WHEELS\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO )

Input File: VIDEO_TS.IFO
Video Codec :
Width: 720
Height: 480
Framerate: 29.970
Framecount: 101389
Aspect Ratio: 1.3333
Duration(sec): 3383

Resized resolution: 640 / 480
Crop Values : :::

Encoding With: XviD
Container: AVI
Encoding Mode: 1 pass
Video Bitrate: 1563
Denoise Level: Super Light
Resizer : 2 bicubic

Use AviSynth (only for X264)

Audio Track: ID_AUDIO_ID=128
Audio Codec: MP3 Audio
Audio Bitrate: 128
Audio Channels: 2
Audio Mode: cbr
Audio Normalize: On

Start Queue ->
"C:\Automen\applications\x264.exe" "C:\Automen\automen.avs" --preset ultrafast --bitrate 1563 --output "C:\New Folder\MainMovie\ZANE_GREYS_WAGON_WHEELS\VIDEO_TS\automen_VIDEO_TS.avi"
"C:\Automen\applications\mencoder.exe" -lavdopts threads=1 -lavcopts threads=1 -mc 0 -noskip -aid 128 dvd://1 -dvd-device "C:\New Folder\MainMovie\ZANE_GREYS_WAGON_WHEELS\VIDEO_TS" -ovc frameno -af volnorm=1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -channels 2 -of rawaudio -o "C:\New Folder\MainMovie\ZANE_GREYS_WAGON_WHEELS\VIDEO_TS\automen_VIDEO_TS.mp3"
-> End Queue

buzzqw

13th February 2010, 14:29

so you are using x264 with avs

open the automen.avs with virtualdub
what's the error ?

(hint don't use x264 as encoder/decoder with dvd input, use mencoder)

BHH

locotus

13th February 2010, 14:38

Encoder selection has only two posibilities, 1-Use Avisynth(Only for x264) and 2-Use x264 as demuxer and encoder, I don't see
anything else, either couldn,t find where to change to mencoder.

buzzqw

13th February 2010, 16:20

use mencoder with dvd input.
use handbrake/x264 with other input BUT rember that you need avisynth installed for avs processing

BHH

azmoth

17th February 2010, 19:13

I checked DVD sources and they work fine with Mencoder. It previews okay. Just remember select 1st VIDEO_TS and to accept correct PGC.
Remember mencoder program won't work on encrypted sources!

locotus

17th February 2010, 21:03

Thanks, Asmoth. I downloaded aumenten 5.0 and it work perfectly. But still got the problem with 6-beta. Seems that there was a change, from V5.0 to V6-beta, to the open file dialog and now there's only one ifo file to select, so i couldn't be messed up.
All dvd's are ripped with DVDshrink.

buzzqw

18th February 2010, 08:22

yes, the 5.x version allow selecting all ifo, BUT the 6.x allow selecting only the video_ts.ifo

BUT this will bring the same result!

mplayer analyze the dvd structure in the same way, you should not find difference on listed pgc

BHH

azmoth

18th February 2010, 19:14

Locotus, if you are sill having trouble with your file try out a trial of DVDFab. They give you 30 days trial, maybe that will work on your file. Sometimes and I full identify with this: you get a problematic file and nothing seems to work, especially if only one ifofile or whatever is causing problem.

**DVDshrink does not remove all deliberate problem sectors and is outdated a bit. Try above file I mention.

locotus

18th February 2010, 19:41

I'll give it a try and let you know.

buzzqw

22nd February 2010, 10:34

update linux build (same version/code as windows)

BHH

azmoth

26th February 2010, 11:50

Thanks for message Buzzqw. I tested new GUI build and bug is now fixed.

buzzqw

26th February 2010, 12:21

thanks azmoth

yes, i fixed the automen ini issue

BHH

azmoth

2nd March 2010, 18:38

AutoMen handled an xvid(avi container/mp3 sound) source okay today:file came out spot on. Tested same source with HDC.
HDC could not parse file and audio was not copied. Tested twice and failed both times. Posted you logs buzzqw.

buzzqw

4th March 2010, 08:39

thanks azmoth

you have mail :)

BHH

feeling_enhancer

8th March 2010, 02:25

I used the latest Automen V6.157.1427
I'm happy to see that the Subtitles in Automen has been fixed but in the output file....the Subtitles are double then their original size. I believe this needs to fixed.

Second thing I tried resizing the video file but to my horror it wont get resized. in Automen Video settings I checked Allow Resize then I set the Aspect ratio to 1.7778 then give the new resolution to 640*352. But the converted file had some different resolution and the Aspect ratio also didnt work. Please fix it ot please tell me how to Resize.

buzzqw

8th March 2010, 09:05

subtitle size should be fixed, please update automen

the resize works, that's sure (or at least when using mencoder or handbrake)

post the queue (or the make report)

BHH

buzzqw

8th March 2010, 13:05

just post it without the crop blob...

BHH

mike23

13th March 2010, 18:37

For two different *.mkv video I used Automen to rencode them to an Xvid(2-pass)/AVI with my own
bitrate resp. size (1200MB).

Automen encodes the original *.mkv but the target AVI video is MUCH smaller that I specified!

The result videos got a size of approx 650 MB resp 880 MB.
Similar difference in bitrate.

So why are my value presets not recognized by Automen?

Mike

socks

17th March 2010, 01:50

Hi Buzzqw

I only recently worked out the cause but since Automen6 I have found that no audio is not included whenever any vobs are used as the source when I set the frame pattern to interlaced. The audio is fine if I set the frame pattern to progressive, but anything else causes the problem to occur.

I've found the same results on other installations and when using newer (and older) versions of mencoder. I think it may be a bug.

Many thanks for all your work on this fantastic app.

buzzqw

17th March 2010, 08:54

@mike23

post your queue
also.. analyze the resulting avi with avinaptic, maybe you have saturated
you can try using a faster preset, usually works better

@socks @ALL

thanks, fixed

update automen, here the full changelog

fixed CRF + 1 Pass not starting encoding
fixed missing default encoder
fixed detection of ffh264, lagarith, mjpeg, ffdivx,ffvc1 codec
fixed some layout compatibility with linux
fixed size of embedded subtitle (when reencoding from mkv and using mencoder)
added more tips
fixed detection of audio when dealing with IFO/DVD input
added detection of dvd subs

BHH
BHH

azmoth

24th March 2010, 22:25

I do not know what Buzzqw did with his last build of AutoMen but it sure solved all my DVD opening/encoding problems 100%. At last works for me Thankyou for your continued support Mr Buzzqw!

buzzqw

25th March 2010, 08:29

thanks for your kind words azmoth :)

i have uploaded a new full package

changelog

added possibility to disable multithread
fixed missing automatic output for theora output
fixed 2 pass encoding with ffmpeg2theora (missing stats declaration)
fixed use of lavf demuxer with interlaced source
added support for ffmpeg.exe encoder

BHH

chourmovs

26th March 2010, 17:17

thank you i try it :thanks:

buzzqw

26th March 2010, 20:06

mencoder support HQDN3D an high quality denoiser, and AutoMen support it too

in filters you can select the Denoise Level, from Super light to Severe

should be better then automkv removegrain

BHH

chourmovs

30th March 2010, 04:13

thank you i try it :thanks:

Always the same issues regarding DTS stream copy in a xvid odml avi
On certain file, i get a lot of skipping frames (to keep sync if I've well understood) whatever the interlaced option i use and it make final video with unbearable little skips

I've tested different additional options such as noskip , -mc=0 , pullup ...etc without any success
About this, a great and easy automen improvement would be the ability to save queue list... :)

by the way, what is strange with mkv container from witch my DTS track is taken is that if i extract it and put it side by
side with H264 track from the same mkv, their lenght is not the same and i don't know how haali media splitter manage with this but it's surely the cause of my problem :(

Any suggestion

buzzqw

30th March 2010, 07:21

hi chormovs

two more try:

first of all redownload the full package

1) try Handbrakecli encoder.

in automen go to filter panel and select handbrake
should be less picky about deinterlace

2) try with ffmpeg

BHH

azmoth

30th March 2010, 12:34

chourmovs make sure you have deleted any previous configuration settings then go to Handbrake and save settings. Worth a try!

chourmovs

31st March 2010, 18:33

Hi guys, i'm getting mad

hi chormovs

two more try:

first of all redownload the full package

i did this

1) try Handbrakecli encoder.

in automen go to filter panel and select handbrake
should be less picky about deinterlace

maybe but i can't select avi container with handbrakecli, witch is my main goal

2) try with ffmpeg

do you mean ffmpeg2theora in option panel of automen ?
same problem, i want to make avi, not ogm

chourmovs make sure you have deleted any previous configuration settings then go to Handbrake and save settings. Worth a try!

i did this but what do you want me to do with handbrake ?

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buzzqw

31st March 2010, 18:58

latest full package has ffmpeg as encoder too...

BHH

chourmovs

31st March 2010, 19:16

latest full package has ffmpeg as encoder too...

BHH

my mistake, i applied updated exe to the latest full package :)
thx buzzqw

buzzqw

1st April 2010, 11:24

don't worry.

feel free to report any problem

BHH

socks

2nd April 2010, 01:28

Hi BHH

I've run into an issue when opening connected vobs. When selecting the first vob of a sequence, the other vobs are opened automatically but the framecount/duration appears to be based on just the first vob, making the bitrate calculation too high.

Also, is there a way to save a default value for the manual width setting?

buzzqw

2nd April 2010, 07:18

I've run into an issue when opening connected vobs. When selecting the first vob of a sequence, the other vobs are opened automatically but the framecount/duration appears to be based on just the first vob, making the bitrate calculation too high.

it's a know problem. AutoMen can count correct frames/duration if ifo is selected, BUT if using joined vobs mplayer can't understand the framecount.

sorry pal, this will not be fixed.

and width isn't a saved value

BHH

socks

2nd April 2010, 11:18

Thanks BHH

No worries. Sorry, I didn't realise it was a known issue.

chourmovs

2nd April 2010, 17:22

don't worry.

feel free to report any problem

BHH

hi get this with ffmpeg

[matroska @ 01638110]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 48.00 (48/1) -> 24.00 (24/1)
Input #0, matroska, from 'movie.1080p.mkv':
Duration: 02:13:35.04, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0(fre): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x816, PAR 1:1 DAR 40:17, 47.62 fps, 24 tbr, 1k tbn, 48 tbc
Metadata:
title : Video
Stream #0.1(fre): Audio: dca, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, s16
Metadata:
title : French DTS
Output #0, avi, to 'movie.1080p.AVI':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4 (hq), yuv420p, 1680x720 [PAR 120:119 DAR 40:17], q=2-31, 3 kb/s, 90k tbn, 24 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: 0x0000, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 64 kb/s
Codec type mismatch for mapping #0.0 -> #0.1

i get this type of error the two times i tried with audio copy option

but ffmpeg interested me so i tried avanti and your old autoffmpeg without any success
with avanti i get audio delay that i can't adjust (because of DTS track)

chourmovs

2nd April 2010, 17:25

Indeed, do you think there is a way for me to do what i want ?

buzzqw

3rd April 2010, 07:08

chourmovs your file is against rule 6.
i cannot help on this

BHH

chourmovs

3rd April 2010, 07:27

edited sorry

after further try, i noticed that doing the job with HDconverttox in sequential with ffmpeg to copy audio, xvidenc and avimuxgui worked for me

maybe there's a way to make it with automen too

anyway, thank you for those tools, i've a way to do the job now

azmoth

4th April 2010, 18:09

I think there is some confusion with the update: the full new package states 6.171.1530 build after extraction, but just downloading the update exe from link it shows 6.169.1516, exe needs changing. Thanks.

buzzqw

4th April 2010, 19:53

tahnks azmoth

i'll check Thursday

BHH

buzzqw

6th April 2010, 08:16

done

BHH

3p0c

7th April 2010, 12:48

He buzz,

For I have tried all sorts of logs for windows and linux ( i'm full linux since 1 year from now on ) I can easely say that automen is the best for linux.

Thought, I don't really understand how can you reencode a DVD using the .ifo file.

When i choose the 1 VTS, automen says that he will append all VTS that follow it ( eg: VTS1 VTS2 etc...) but it only encodes the first VTS... Strange.
And if I use the IFO file, automen crashes at the start of the encoding. So I tried another solution that consist to rip the bigger VTS and encode it with automen...

But I think the best should be to do a 'normal mirror ripping' of the dvd, and simply open the IFo file for automen encodes the movie.

Thanx you for your job and keep up the good work ;)

buzzqw

7th April 2010, 14:29

i am now unable to test on linux the dvd input..
BUT i have uploaded a updated linux build (same version as windows)

could you please try updating automen and retry ?

thanks

BHH

3p0c

7th April 2010, 16:54

BUT i have uploaded a updated linux build (same version as windows)

could you please try updating automen and retry ?

BHH

No problems, if I can help, I will ;)

But when you talk about update, you mean the update of windows under wine with linux build of mencoder , x264 etc?

Thanks

3p0c

7th April 2010, 17:10

I tried with the update of the windows build using wine environnement, and linux's builds of mencoder but still didn't work.

The fact is that automen ddoesn't recognize the number of frames...

buzzqw

7th April 2010, 19:44

i mean pure linux build , the one linked in first post

when processing dvd input only if you select the ifo you will got the number of frames accurated

otherwise only the first vobs is analyzed

BHH

3p0c

7th April 2010, 22:06

I agree with this. But in the end, the encoder crashes if I input with IFo file.

I tried 3 things : - input with IFO file, all the frames are recognize; but whatever the encoder, automen crashes at the very start of encoding.
- Select the first VOB files. A box appears wich it says that it will append all the next vobs that follows it. But in this case, automen only encodes the first vob.
- and the last, i ripped my dvd for in final, have only the biggest title. In this case, automen scan well the vob, with the good frames and all, but the only problem in this is that i lost IFO file... Eg for my subs and all...

Anyway, thanx again for your good job, i know it's hard for you.

3p0c

7th April 2010, 22:17

shame on me, i didn't have the latest version... It's strange 'cause I downloaded the version only 2 days ago, and I tried 2 minutes ago and i went on versio 6.152.1390 to 6.176.1594.

I'll try tommorow and tell you if it works or not.

Cheers, good night all.

buzzqw

8th April 2010, 07:05

if you got a crash or encode only one input
please post the queue and the make report!

BHH

3p0c

8th April 2010, 11:44

Again a crash with latest version of automen.
I tried to input with IFO file.

Here is the queue:

"/usr/bin/mencoder" -vf crop=720:568:0:6,scale=640:352,hqdn3d=1 -o "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS/automen_VTS_04_0.avi" -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=803:pass=1:threads=auto:frameref=10:bframes=12:deblock:direct_pred=auto:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=esa:me_range=24:subq=8:chroma_me:mixed_refs:trellis=2:weight_b:nr=0:turbo -lavdopts threads=2 -lavcopts threads=2 -passlogfile "/home/epoc/automen6_x86414/automen_statsfile.log" -nosound dvd://4 -dvd-device "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS"
"/usr/bin/mencoder" -vf crop=720:568:0:6,scale=640:352,hqdn3d=1 -o "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS/automen_VTS_04_0.avi" -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=803:pass=2:threads=auto:frameref=10:bframes=12:deblock:direct_pred=auto:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=esa:me_range=24:subq=8:chroma_me:mixed_refs:trellis=2:weight_b:nr=0 -aid 129 -af volnorm=1 -channels 2 -lavdopts threads=2 -lavcopts threads=2 -passlogfile "/home/epoc/automen6_x86414/automen_statsfile.log" dvd://4 -dvd-device "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS"
"/usr/bin/mkvmerge" -o "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS/automen_VTS_04_0.mkv" --default-duration 0:25.000fps "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS/automen_VTS_04_0.avi"

3p0c

8th April 2010, 12:17

And this is the mplayer log

MPlayer SVN-r30945-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team

Playing dvd://4.

Playing /media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.IFO.
.IFO detected. Redirecting to dvd://
ID_DVD_TITLES=9
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_CHAPTERS=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_CHAPTERS=3
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_CHAPTERS=18
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_CHAPTERS=4
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_CHAPTERS=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_CHAPTERS=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_8_CHAPTERS=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_8_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_9_CHAPTERS=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_9_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=18.360
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_LENGTH=8.360
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_LENGTH=189.680
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_LENGTH=6375.640
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_LENGTH=1935.920
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_LENGTH=518.400
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_LENGTH=425.200
ID_DVD_TITLE_8_LENGTH=701.760
ID_DVD_TITLE_9_LENGTH=290.560
ID_DVD_DISC_ID=FB79286BF0D18AB569C20BBE572934EE
There are 9 titles on this DVD.
ID_DVD_CURRENT_TITLE=4
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: fr aid: 128.
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
ID_AID_128_LANG=fr
audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: zh aid: 129.
ID_AUDIO_ID=129
ID_AID_129_LANG=zh
number of audio channels on disk: 2.
subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: fr
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=fr
number of subtitles on disk: 1
CHAPTERS: 00:00:00,00:06:30,00:13:14,00:19:09,00:28:03,00:35:06,00:41:18,00:48:07,00:55:29,01:02:15,01:07:22,01:12:16,01:17:09,01:23:45,01:29:53,01:35:20,01:39:14,01:44:52,
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 9300.0 kbps (1162.5 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.IFO
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=9300000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=6375.64
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=18
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffmpeg2
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=192000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffac3
Starting playback...
ID_AUDIO_ID=129
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7778
VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
[mpeg2video @ 0x8a98480]concealing 1530 DC, 1530 AC, 1530 MV errors
A: 0.4 V: 0.3 A-V: 0.115 ct: 0.000 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 [J

Exiting... (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF

buzzqw

8th April 2010, 12:19

Again a crash with latest version of automen.
I tried to input with IFO file.

Here is the queue:

automen is able to analyze the file and prepare a queue

then you start the queue AND automen crash ?

or mencoder crash ?

BHH

3p0c

8th April 2010, 16:36

In fact, I start the queue, mencoder starts a bit, and then stops ( maybe around 5 minutes after it starts)

buzzqw

8th April 2010, 16:41

so isn't automen crash BUT mencoder ?

if so try to update mencoder/mplayer

BHH

3p0c

8th April 2010, 16:47

But i also tried on windows and the same thing happend...

3p0c

8th April 2010, 16:50

For info, I have compiled myself the latest build of mencoder / mplayer from the official svn, I also have ps3mediaserver ( that uses mencoder ) and all is good with it.

I really don't understant what happend with this damned IFO file.

But I repeat again, I have the solution to rip the dvd by the ' biggest title mode', and then automen works. But the problem is that I don't have subs support due to the fact that I have no IFo files

3p0c

8th April 2010, 17:02

I maybe have a response but not sure, I have disable thread support of mencoder into automen, and it seems to be ok.

Anyway for me because I have compiled myself the MT- build of mencoder, so the multithreading is working anyway :cool:

But i will wait for the end of the encoding and then confirm the fact.

buzzqw

8th April 2010, 19:02

i will gladly wait for your response :)

BHH

3p0c

8th April 2010, 20:34

i will gladly wait for your response :)

BHH

Too much honor :p

A good new, it works now! But the solution where into 2 pieces.
I explain; the first thing is that since I've downloaded the last version, mencoder launches well, so that's ok. ( at least after desactivate the MT option in automen )

But there was a problem anyway, mencoder never did the second pass!
I searched, I searched again, and I found... The trick was into the second job in the queue ( I mean the second pass of mencoder ). I don't need sound with my encoding, so stupidly I selected 'no audio' option.

But when you choose this, automen doesn't write the 2 pass well... Watch at those lines behind, you'll understand what I want to say ;)

1st Job:

"/usr/bin/mencoder" -vf crop=704:574:8:2,scale=640:496,hqdn3d=1 -o "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS/automen_VIDEO_TS.avi" -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=1313:pass=1:threads=auto:frameref=1:bframes=0:nodeblock:nocabac:direct_pred=none:partitions=none:me=dia:me_range=4:subq=1:nochroma_me:nomixed_refs:trellis=0:nr=0:turbo -passlogfile "/home/epoc/automen6_x86414/automen_statsfile.log" -nosound dvd://1 -dvd-device "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS"

2nd job:

"/usr/bin/mencoder" -vf crop=704:574:8:2,scale=640:496,hqdn3d=1 -o "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS/automen_VIDEO_TS.avi" -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=1313:pass=2:threads=auto:frameref=1:bframes=0:nodeblock:nocabac:direct_pred=none:partitions=none:me=dia:me_range=4:subq=1:nochroma_me:nomixed_refs:trellis=0:nr=0 -aid 128 -af volnorm=1 -channels 2 -passlogfile "/home/epoc/automen6_x86414/automen_statsfile.log" dvd://1 -dvd-device "/media/Multimedia/THE_KILLER_VI/VIDEO_TS"

and finally; this is the error message that mencoder displayed at the very start of the 2 pass:

MEncoder SVN-r30945-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
There are 9 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: fr aid: 128.
number of audio channels on disk: 1.
number of subtitles on disk: 0
success: format: 2 data: 0x0 - 0xbd7000
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 7000.0 kbps (875.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x576 fps:25.000 ftime:=0.0400

No audio encoder (-oac) selected. Select one (see -oac help) or use -nosound

I'm sure you understood now, automen informs well the 1er pass but not the second in case of the 'no audio' option selected.

I hope that those informations will help you out ;)

buzzqw

9th April 2010, 13:22

should be fixed

please update automen6_x86
BHH

3p0c

9th April 2010, 20:01

thanks but there is something strange from the link about the linux build.

Yesterday I've downloaded the 6.176.1574 et today the 'update' downgraded to 6.173.1571.

Anyway, thank you very much for your hard work buzz.

If you want, I can make a package (.deb or .rpm) for the linux users including the mencoder-mt and automen.

buzzqw

9th April 2010, 21:49

it's ok as is

the latest linux package was build on a "spare" machine, simply compiling latest source
the last package (the actual one) is build on my "build" pc

BHH

3p0c

10th April 2010, 10:36

Ok that's work fine now.
No problems anymore about the -nosound option in the 2nd pass.

Nice work

buzzqw

10th April 2010, 12:40

thanks 3p0c

BHH

3p0c

11th April 2010, 16:03

It's a pleasure Buzz.
But just a question, why don't you contact Ubuntu's admins to put automen in repositories?

I repeat myself again but automen is the best mencoder gui I know for both windows and linux platforms...

Maybe only Megui should be not too bad, but for Linux, automen is the best so far...

buzzqw

12th April 2010, 07:52

thanks for your kind words 3p0c

but on linux there are a lots of mencoder gui

i don't know if AutoMen will "fit" on Ubuntu rules for repository..

BHH

3p0c

12th April 2010, 20:41

Sure it will!
You don't add any tierce programm to it, your programm is open source, and you work freely since 7 years as I have seen.

You have all the qualities to be on linux, and specially on Ubuntu.

For the other apps on linux, I do'nt know any better gui to mencoder than automen.

I tried handbrake, avidemux and all of other ( those last are not based on mencoder, i know :p )

anyway, the video transcoding is my passion since 7 years from now, and I can told without wood tongue that automen is the best so far.

It's not for your pleasure that I say that, it's beacause it's the truth.

Anyway, if you need help, I'm here and all the ubuntu community too.

Sincerly, 3p0c

3p0c

14th April 2010, 11:42

I have another request Buzz about the audio stream in automen.

Can you add the aid near the ID. At my sense, it's better to have the language that the mplayer's ID . The both would be appreciated too!

A little as you did for the subs stream.

Thanks a lot

zygo

14th April 2010, 12:08

gday buzz

have been trying to run automen on an ubuntu linux (server edition) with some strange results. as the server is headless i run automen via tightvncserver & fluxbox which has worked well for other programs but with automen, even tho it runs, i get no response when i click on anything (including trying to close it).

is there a list of dependencies anywhere?? (obviously i am missing 1)
what other programs need to be installed??

cheers :)

zygo

buzzqw

14th April 2010, 12:15

@3p0c
i'll check

@zygo
afaik should be needed: gtk2 library, xterm, mplayer/mencoder

BHH

feeling_enhancer

18th April 2010, 18:04

I like this software so much, that I easily get disappointed when its unable to perform as expected. I tried converting to FLV files to AVI using the latest Automen but It couldnot convert the FLV files to AVI properly.

What happened is that the output file video image runs very fast while the audio is stable. Please fix this and help us to convert more nicely.

And one more thing, Subtiles cannot be resized. Can this be fixed too.

buzzqw

19th April 2010, 08:32

What happened is that the output file video image runs very fast while the audio is stable. Please fix this and help us to convert more nicely.

i can only guess the mplayer doesn't detect the correct framerate. check in gui the value reported

about subs : update automen, the size is now 5% (from 4%) of video

BHH

feeling_enhancer

19th April 2010, 09:14

I did as you suggested but the output video is still the same. Video plays fast while the audio is same.

NO difference could found either in subs.

buzzqw

19th April 2010, 09:31

I did as you suggested but the output video is still the same. Video plays fast while the audio is same.

so.. how would be a automen bug ? maybe a mencoder bug ?
you can try using handbrakecli or ffmpeg

mencoder support txt subs and .sub/idx sub
i don't know how mencoder handle sub in flv ..
and.. how subs are embedded in flv ???

BHH

feeling_enhancer

19th April 2010, 12:06

Ok I'll try handbrake and ffmeg...

My friend....about Subtitles it is not related with Flv. I'm converting a mkv file to avi file and it was related to that.
Yeah one more thing....can Automen mux subtitles for the files that dont have subtitles hardsubbed in it. Like if there is an option for selecting a .SRT file and merging it with the output file. That would be great.

azmoth

19th April 2010, 18:36

The bit of report missed below:

Audio Normalize: On

Start Queue ->
"C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\AutoMen6_beta\applications\mencoder.exe" -vf crop=720:576:0:0,scale=624:352,hqdn3d=1 -sws 9 -o "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\test.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=721:max_bframes=2:bquant_ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=4:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=192 -af volnorm=1 -channels 2 -lavdopts threads=2 -lavcopts threads=2 -passlogfile "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\AutoMen6_beta\automen_statsfile.log" dvd://1 -dvd-device "G:\DVD's\Customize\test\VIDEO_TS"
-> End Queue

[/CODE]

azmoth

19th April 2010, 18:41

Also your slider has problems too. Slide to "slower" and it reverts back to "balanced" upon reopening,
but slider is still at end and shows "balanced" using xvid.

buzzqw

19th April 2010, 19:14

@azmoth

i hope you noted that now audio report language.... :p

try without specifing the resizer

Also your slider has problems too. Slide to "slower" and it reverts back to "balanced" upon reopening,
but slider is still at end and shows "balanced" using xvid.
can you explain better ?

BHH

buzzqw

20th April 2010, 07:49

Anyway here goes slider bug?:
fixed, update automen

could you upload a sample with your failing encoding ? (just to test)

BHH

buzzqw

20th April 2010, 11:47

RPCRT.dll

are you working on remote desktop?

n command box it says "warning MV's not available."I tested some more of my dvd's and same happens.

not to worry

Regarding slider is slower better than extreme for encoding?

quality is a personal taste.. just try yourself and judge on time/quality

BHH

Koby

27th April 2010, 07:33

For some reason whenever using AutoMen to encode movies that were ripped from DVD using DVDShrink.. when setting to x264 .mp4 and aac for audio.. it fails to encode/copy the audio and the final product after encode is done has no audio. So I've been just muxing the audio from the vob into the file using mkvmerge.

Marshy

30th May 2010, 17:10

My problem is similar to previous posts.
Can't get Automen to work on dvd's using Mencoder in XP too. I open the source accept the pgc thingy. There's
no preview(it closes) and the autocrop feature warns of aspect error. When use the xvid codec encoding starts and then stops almost instantaneously. Shame really because other built in encoders work great. Cheerio.

buzzqw

31st May 2010, 07:19

hi Marshy

please load your file, set encoding as you want, then go in "Program path" and click on Make Report
post here the file

thanks

BHH

Marshy

31st May 2010, 11:30

Report. Thanks.

AutoMen v6.1568.240 report

Input File: dvd://1 -dvd-device "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\FILM\VIDEO_TS" ( C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\FILM\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO )

Input File: VIDEO_TS.IFO
Video Codec :
Width: 720
Height: 576
Framerate: 25.000
Framecount: 140050
Aspect Ratio: 1.7778
Duration(sec): 5602

Resized resolution: 640 / 352
Crop Values : 0:0:0:0

Encoding With: XviD
Container: AVI
Encoding Mode: 1 pass
Video Bitrate: 780
Denoise Level: Super Light
Resizer : 9 lanczos

Mencoder for Encoding

Audio Track: audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 129
Audio Codec: MP3 Audio
Audio Bitrate: 128
Audio Channels: 2
Audio Mode: cbr
Audio Normalize: On

Start Queue ->
"C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\AutoMen6_beta\applications\mencoder.exe" -vf crop=720:576:0:0,scale=640:352,hqdn3d=1 -sws 9 -o "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\FILM\VIDEO_TS\automen_VIDEO_TS.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=780:max_bframes=2:bquant_ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=4:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -aid 129 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -af volnorm=1 -channels 2 -lavdopts threads=2 -lavcopts threads=2 -passlogfile "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\AutoMen6_beta\automen_statsfile.log" dvd://1 -dvd-device "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\FILM\VIDEO_TS"
-> End Queue

Marshy

31st May 2010, 11:33

Audio Normalize: On

Start Queue ->
"C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\AutoMen6_beta\applications\mencoder.exe" -vf crop=720:576:0:0,scale=640:352,hqdn3d=1 -sws 9 -o "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\FILM\VIDEO_TS\automen_VIDEO_TS.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=780:max_bframes=2:bquant_ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=4:me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:trellis:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -aid 129 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -af volnorm=1 -channels 2 -lavdopts threads=2 -lavcopts threads=2 -passlogfile "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\AutoMen6_beta\automen_statsfile.log" dvd://1 -dvd-device "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\FILM\VIDEO_TS"
-> End Queue

[/CODE]:thanks:

Marshy

31st May 2010, 11:36

MPlayer Sherpya-MT-SVN-r30945-4.2.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team

Playing dvd://1.

Playing C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\FILM\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO.
.IFO detected. Redirecting to dvd://
ID_DVD_TITLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=20
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=5602.400
ID_DVD_DISC_ID=5B7DF3D0198DBC4E12BFCB9C77414C06
There are 1 titles on this DVD.
ID_DVD_CURRENT_TITLE=1
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 129.
ID_AUDIO_ID=129
ID_AID_129_LANG=en
number of audio channels on disk: 1.
subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=en
number of subtitles on disk: 1
CHAPTERS: 00:00:00,00:05:31,00:12:10,00:15:26,00:19:02,00:24:52,00:28:57,00:33:27,00:39:12,00:43:55,00:50:56,00:54:16,01:00:43,01:05:44,01:08:43,01:13:56,01:17:09,01:19:47,01:23:18,01:30:10,
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=129
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 7700.0 kbps (962.5 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\FILM\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=7700000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=5602.40
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=20
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffmpeg2
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=448000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffac3
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7778
VO: [directx] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
[:thanks:

buzzqw

31st May 2010, 12:04

what kind of cpu do you have ?

download from this page http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php the "best" build of mencoder for your cpu (unzip and put in application folder)
maybe your problem are due to cpu incompatibility...

BHH

Marshy

31st May 2010, 12:10

My CPU is Intel Core Duo T5500 1.66GHz. I used link, no success with other builds, but some good news for me::cool: I redownloaded main Automen file using 6.171.1530 build and previews WORKS with autocrop functioning as it should! Could be something in later builds causing a bug.

Encoding is still buggy. Mencoder works a few seconds then stops:mad:. I must try out an older version of Mencoder to see if issue disappears e.g replace 6.171.1530 exe. Thankyou for help.

:thanks:

Tdr

9th June 2010, 13:22

Hi buzzqw,

excuse my english, not often used since scool

I use automen for quite a time, starting with 3.3. The produced files (mostly XVID with mp3) work well on my ELTA 8848. I also like the look of the new gui.

Is there any plan to install a function, for thew starting and ending point of the encoding in a file? I guess, mencoder offers this function? This is the only function, i am missing so far.

Thanks a lot and keep going on.

Tom

buzzqw

9th June 2010, 14:58

Hi Tdr

do you mean the EDL (edit decision list) ?

if so.. i can look at it

BHH

Tdr

10th June 2010, 08:11

Hi buzzqw,

thanks for the quick reply, I am speaking of this mencoder function:

-ss <time>
Seek to given time position. (Start encoding here)
EXAMPLE:
-ss 56
Seeks to 56 seconds.
-ss 01:10:00
Seeks to 1 hour 10 min.
-endpos <[[hh:]mm:]ss[.ms]|size[b|kb|mb]>
Stop encoding at the given time or byte position.
EXAMPLE:
-endpos 56
Encode only 56 seconds.
-endpos 01:10:00
Encode only 1 hour 10 minutes.
-endpos 100mb
Encode only 100 MBytes.

Can you make an special Tab?
I could open the file with MPUI, note the time I want to encode and put it in the fields in the Tab.

Thanks
Tom

buzzqw

10th June 2010, 08:13

afaik SS option isn't well working on windows build of mencoder...

do you use sherpya build's or others build ?

BHH

Tdr

10th June 2010, 09:08

Hi buzzqw,

I think its Sherpya, but I havent used this function by myself. I just was looking in the docs, if mencoder offers this function, because it would helpfull for me.

What is meant by "isn't well working on windows build of mencoder"?

I did - 5 Minutes ago - a test with an old GUI (Mencoder GUI by Milan Vondra), there You can edit the command line. It worked well.

Thanks
Tom

markanini

15th June 2010, 04:56

Could you add SPP, USPP and PP7 filters from mencoder/mplayer in your GUI, buzzqw?

Marshy

15th June 2010, 18:35

I cant get GUI to work with dvd or preview using Mencoder. Handbrake and other options preview, encode. Anyone else with this problem?

Also: There's a GUI bug with shutdown option. It does not work if you enable it.

EnderEOC

25th June 2010, 17:09

I just tried this soft to convert a mkv i had trouble playing on my home cinema.
It worked fine !!!
Thank you so much for making it :)

There's some things i don't get though. When i open the mkv with media info, it says 23.810 fps for 23.09min. Since i needed to replace the subtitles, i extracted the stream, edited the sub then used mkvmerge.
I had to manually set the fps but when i put 23.810fps, it's out of sync. I have to select 24000/1001 for it to be perfect.
Then i need to use AutoMen to convert the audio from AAC to MP3 and it shows 23.976fps for the same duration. Weird....

I'll have to try see if it can convert VC-1 to AVC, if it does it'll be awesome :D

edit : It would be great if when you convert a video, the software could keep the font in attachment for the subtitles :/
I have to reuse mkvmerge after to attach the font file.

Marshy

4th July 2010, 11:59

The autocrop feature is not working correctly??? in the top and bottom parameters. With a 720:480 3:2 apect, cropping comes to using a 624x352 resolution:

left 0 top 62 bottom 56 right 0

Thing is using same resolution autocrop in Handbrake program, the crop of top and bottom comes out reverse with:

0, 56, 62, 0

I have reconfirmed this with some others using auto cropping. Automen gets confused using top and bottom numbers in some aspects! Is this feature buggy or does it just use a different math system to work out crop? Despite a few bugs, thankyou for great software.

feeling_enhancer

18th July 2010, 04:16

I tried converting an MKV file to AVI but after the conversion there was no Audio... Audio file was (A_AAC), -aid 0, -alang und. which i tried to convert to CBR.

I download the lastest Automen v6.1568.240

Please Help.

feeling_enhancer

18th July 2010, 11:52

I'm here to confirm that Automen V6 is having trouble converting Audio from MKV to AVI. I tried older Automen to convert the same file of MKV to AVI and result was good. But Automen V6 Cannot convert Audio of MKv to AVI.

Please fix this problem.

buzzqw

27th July 2010, 07:18

I have reconfirmed this with some others using auto cropping. Automen gets confused using top and bottom numbers in some aspects

i need the mplayer.log in automen folder
launch automen, load your file.
next in automen folder you will see a mplayer.log (and automen.log)

I tried converting an MKV file to AVI but after the conversion there was no Audio... Audio file was (A_AAC), -aid 0, -alang und. which i tried to convert to CBR.

I download the lastest Automen v6.1568.240

Please Help.

please try download new beta package i have bundled latest mencoder

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/AutoMen6_beta.rar

Is this tool supported anymore? Maybe guy who updates it is ill or busy with other projects.

it's supported. feel free to update to latest package

BHH

BHH

Marshy

28th July 2010, 20:32

Thankyou:thanks:

MPlayer SVN-r31743-4.2.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
158 audio & 346 video codecs

Playing D:\Horror.Films\Test.avi.
AVI file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [XVID] 720x480 12bpp 30.000 fps 994.7 kbps (121.4 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: Encoder 1.0pre8-3.4.2
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=Software
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0= Encoder 1.0pre8-3.4.2
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=1
ID_FILENAME=D:\Horror.Films\Test.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=XVID
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=994696
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=30.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7793
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=6256.60
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
Opening video filter: [cropdetect=24:2]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffodivx
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7793
VO: [null] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12

The cropping data figures below YV12.. with this report were too big to put in post.

buzzqw

28th July 2010, 21:09

i need at least some line of crop.. just to understand the switch between crops value

BHH

Marshy

29th July 2010, 13:03

[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 479..0 (-vf crop=-718:-478:720:480).
And so on as above many times..
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 236..240 (-vf crop=-718:4:720:236).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 234..242 (-vf crop=-718:8:720:234).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 233..245 (-vf crop=-718:12:720:234).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 232..246 (-vf crop=-718:14:720:232).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 230..248 (-vf crop=-718:18:720:230).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 229..249 (-vf crop=-718:20:720:230).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 228..250 (-vf crop=-718:22:720:228).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 226..252 (-vf crop=-718:26:720:226).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 225..253 (-vf crop=-718:28:720:226).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 223..255 (-vf crop=-718:32:720:224).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 222..256 (-vf crop=-718:34:720:222).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 221..256 (-vf crop=-718:34:720:222).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 219..257 (-vf crop=-718:38:720:220).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 218..258 (-vf crop=-718:40:720:218).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 218..258 (-vf crop=-718:40:720:218).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 217..259 (-vf crop=-718:42:720:218).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 216..260 (-vf crop=-718:44:720:216).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 215..261 (-vf crop=-718:46:720:216).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 215..261 (-vf crop=-718:46:720:216).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 214..262 (-vf crop=-718:48:720:214).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 213..263 (-vf crop=-718:50:720:214).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 212..263 (-vf crop=-718:52:720:212).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 211..264 (-vf crop=-718:52:720:212).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 209..264 (-vf crop=-718:54:720:210).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 208..264 (-vf crop=-718:56:720:208).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 207..266 (-vf crop=-718:58:720:208).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 206..266 (-vf crop=-718:60:720:206).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 205..266 (-vf crop=-718:60:720:206).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 204..267 (-vf crop=-718:64:720:204).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 203..267 (-vf crop=-718:64:720:204).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 202..267 (-vf crop=-718:66:720:202).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 201..267 (-vf crop=-718:66:720:202).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 200..268 (-vf crop=-718:68:720:200).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 719..0 Y: 198..269 (-vf crop=-718:72:720:198).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 313..319 Y: 196..271 (-vf crop=6:76:314:196).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 280..391 Y: 193..272 (-vf crop=112:78:280:194).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 260..427 Y: 190..272 (-vf crop=168:82:260:190).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 135..427 Y: 187..273 (-vf crop=292:86:136:188).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 124..437 Y: 184..273 (-vf crop=314:90:124:184).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 115..437 Y: 181..273 (-vf crop=322:92:116:182).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 102..437 Y: 178..273 (-vf crop=336:96:102:178).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 100..437 Y: 176..273 (-vf crop=338:98:100:176).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 100..437 Y: 173..273 (-vf crop=338:100:100:174).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 99..437 Y: 169..273 (-vf crop=338:104:100:170).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 97..437 Y: 163..273 (-vf crop=340:110:98:164).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 97..468 Y: 159..273 (-vf crop=370:114:98:160).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 96..468 Y: 153..273 (-vf crop=372:120:96:154).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 94..468 Y: 148..273 (-vf crop=374:126:94:148).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 72..468 Y: 143..273 (-vf crop=396:130:72:144).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 68..468 Y: 137..273 (-vf crop=400:136:68:138).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..495 Y: 133..276 (-vf crop=430:142:66:134).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..717 Y: 128..284 (-vf crop=652:156:66:128).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 122..288 (-vf crop=654:166:66:122).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 112..288 (-vf crop=654:176:66:112).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 102..288 (-vf crop=654:186:66:102).

Marshy

29th July 2010, 13:05

[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 90..288 (-vf crop=654:198:66:90).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 76..288 (-vf crop=654:212:66:76).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 64..288 (-vf crop=654:224:66:64).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 56..288 (-vf crop=654:232:66:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 56..288 (-vf crop=654:232:66:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 56..288 (-vf crop=654:232:66:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 56..288 (-vf crop=654:232:66:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 56..288 (-vf crop=654:232:66:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 65..719 Y: 56..288 (-vf crop=654:232:66:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 64..719 Y: 56..311 (-vf crop=656:256:64:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 64..719 Y: 56..320 (-vf crop=656:264:64:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 62..719 Y: 56..320 (-vf crop=658:264:62:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 60..719 Y: 56..323 (-vf crop=660:268:60:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 58..719 Y: 56..333 (-vf crop=662:278:58:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 57..719 Y: 56..333 (-vf crop=662:278:58:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 57..719 Y: 56..333 (-vf crop=662:278:58:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 56..719 Y: 56..355 (-vf crop=664:300:56:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 56..719 Y: 56..355 (-vf crop=664:300:56:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 37..719 Y: 56..387 (-vf crop=682:332:38:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 35..719 Y: 56..410 (-vf crop=684:354:36:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 29..719 Y: 56..412 (-vf crop=690:356:30:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 20..719 Y: 56..412 (-vf crop=700:356:20:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..416 (-vf crop=720:360:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..416 (-vf crop=720:360:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..416 (-vf crop=720:360:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..416 (-vf crop=720:360:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..417 (-vf crop=720:362:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..417 (-vf crop=720:362:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..417 (-vf crop=720:362:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..417 (-vf crop=720:362:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..417 (-vf crop=720:362:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..417 (-vf crop=720:362:0:56).
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 56..418 (-vf crop=720:362:0:56).
And so as above many times until:

Exiting... (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF

I've moved to new build and preview using Mencoder does not work with DVD too. Thankyou for your time and help.

feeling_enhancer

30th July 2010, 04:19

I've using Automen for more than a year and half but I find it difficult to resize according to my desire. Resize definitely needs to be fixed. I tried resizing an 720*304 file into 640*352but it wont happen, while other software like mediacoder, it can be done easily there.

Subtitle cant be selected from the Harddisk. Why ? Automen should have the ability to manually select the Subtitle file .SRT file from Harddisk and mux in the conversion. Mediacoder software has this facility.

Can you please fix it in Automen.

buzzqw

30th July 2010, 07:17

@Marshy

your crop values are "dancing"..

this could be due to very different black bars across video.

there isn't much mplayer could do. you can try using "Do autocrop" in that case many more frames are analyzed..

@feeling_enhancer

about resized: on video panel, change aspect ratio from 2.36 to 1.85

and support for external subtitle isn't planned early

EDIT: uploaded a new automen/full and beta exe

added sanity check for missing profile.txt
fixed preview of dvd source
fixed autocrop of dvd source

BHH

Marshy

30th July 2010, 17:31

Preview works fine. Thankyou.

tipsypenguin

31st July 2010, 20:15

Thanks. I just started using this. it's a great program.

Marshy

29th September 2010, 21:59

There is a bug reversion using encode xvid with avi. If you move it to "slower" setting and save settings, close program and then reopen the setting is always showing "balanced" instead of slower.

buzzqw

6th October 2010, 08:42

new full package uploaded

new version of mencoder/mplayer
added support for external subtitle (mencoder and avisynth x264 only)
added support for denoise in avisynth x264
code optimization for resizing
fixed queue for encoding with avisyntx264
fixed encoding label when automen read settings

BHH

azmoth

7th October 2010, 15:56

:)Thanks.:)

buzzqw

8th October 2010, 10:36

thanks Azmoth

please report any problems found :)

BHH

Kaiser Bill

8th November 2010, 01:06

I've just downloaded the latest full package (06/10/2010) and have been unable to get this version (v6.1571.319) to open most VOB files, some MPG files and all .d2v project files from DGIndex. With .d2v project files it keeps saying there was some problem analyzing the file and that it will try a different demuxer, but then gives an error that it couldn't detect the number of frames so adds 9999 as a fake value. The few VOB files it has loaded have all had the wrong running time and frame count under the summery tab.

Previous version/package opens them all without problems.

Sp3kt3r

16th January 2011, 05:25

Hi ,

I'm having trouble converting to a specific file size with 2 Pass at 1750 bitrate

The supposed file size should be around 1400mb but I alway end up between 784mb and 850mb.

I tried different settings and always the same result
It is not just AUTOMEN because I'm having the same issue with HDConvertToX.

My source is a MKV file
my output is a Xvid AVI

I even try to put a freaking high bitrate like 4000kbps and I end up with an average of 1576kbps with a 1gb file.

Thx

Koby

22nd January 2011, 06:54

Every time I try to use this on Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, it says handbrake crashes.
If I try XVID, then it says mencoder crashed. I cannot encode with any format.
Any word on when it will be compatible with Windows 7?

postmike

19th February 2011, 22:32

Bug report for AutoMen6_beta.rar package.
Here is the part of the command from automen.bat file

... -vf crop=592:304:64:0,scale=320:160-sws 9 ...

There is no space before -sws option

feeling_enhancer

17th March 2011, 12:03

Update the Software ! Please !

Kaiser Bill

21st October 2011, 14:58

I'm just trying version 7 (7.690.1580) but after 42 minutes it's still analysing the file I'm trying to open in it. With previous versions it takes seconds to analyse and open the very same file.

The main GUI has 'Not Responding' in the title bar but the CPU usage is about 40% and there is a 'deleteme.avi' being created in the program directory, so is it supposed to be taking this long or has it crashed? If this is normal for this version there is no way I’m going to wait this long each time I want to convert a file, and this is only a half hour long file I’m trying to load. What will it be for a full movie.

Update: Over an hour now and it's still creating this 'deleteme.avi' file which is nearly 60MB in size. What's it doing? Version 6 didn't do this.

This is from MediaInfo for the deleteme.avi file still being created. The file I'm opening is a half hour MPEG-2 file at 720x576 so I don't know why it's upscaled it to 1280x720.

Complete name : C:\Downloads\Automen_v7_full\deleteme.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 58.0 MiB
Writing application : Lavf53.13.0

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Codec ID : FMP4
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Compression mode : Lossy

Kaiser Bill

21st October 2011, 16:03

It's finally finished analysing the file but none of the info in the summary is correct. It says the file is 1280x720 and 41 minutes long but it is in fact 720x576 and 25 minutes long.

Info from MediaInfo for original file that it's just taken over 1 hour 40 minutes to analyse. Version 6 took about 30 seconds and got all the info correct.

Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 784 MiB
Duration : 25mn 4s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 4 375 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Duration : 25mn 4s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 064 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 6 144 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.588
Stream size : 729 MiB (93%)

Audio
ID : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 25mn 4s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 224 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -80ms
Stream size : 40.2 MiB (5%)