Proposal for a Mencoder gui

[buzzqw]

Hi all

this is a long term project, and now i only completed the first stesure of the gui (:eek: how many gadget...)

http://www.64k.it/andres/data/Varie/tab6_0.01.exe

this is the first alpha ofthe gui, and before i lost many and more hours coding i would like to know

1) is the approach correct ?
2) is worth an interest ?
3) some options are missing ? (i have take out some of most obscured or useless switch)


For your interest
1) i know that many/most tooltips are missing
2) i haven't polulate the drop down list
3) the desing is vaguely based on SimpleDivx
4) no, and no queue support . to many switch to remember

thanks to anyone will comments

BHH

[smok3]

to me it seems like lots of this guis have a wrong ordering of things, how about:

1. make my encoding settings first (save to a file/preset/template)
2. make my avs template (should be easily editable just before i click encode)
3. select files / click encode with 1. and 2.

this would look like this in cli:
encoder.exe listoffilestoencode.txt or file.avi path\to\encodingTemplate path\to\avisynthTemplate bitrateVideo bitrateAudio

gui could make a droplet with those settings or similar.

(well in case of mencoder, you could just output .bat files i guess?)

[buzzqw]

the main problem with mencoder is the big list of possible options

for sure i can drop near 95% of options and take only the most used/usefull, but this is not the pourpose

the avs support will be limeted as input file, no possibility to edit/modify

encoder.exe listoffilestoencode.txt or file.avi path\to\encodingTemplate path\to\avisynthTemplate bitrateVideo bitrateAudio

this is already possible with mencoder since support presets...

would you prefer a parser of xml ?
quite easy, just build the input/output, select the preset, start

... ok.. some volunter to build preset ? :rolleyes:

BHH

[smok3]

the main problem with mencoder is the big list of possible options

for sure i can drop near 95% of options and take only the most used/usefull, but this is not the pourpose
of course not, otherwise we would not need a gui :)

would you prefer a parser of xml ?
parser, you allready have human readable file (avisynth).

this could just work, minimum example:

avisource("film.avi")
wavsource("film.wav")
audiodub(a,b)

replace film.avi and film.wav at run time, and thats it (at least it does work fine for my batch scripts)

[DIEGO7-5]

I would really like to see this project become "alive" :-) I think you´ve got everything in there that makes sense. i like the idea of having a "delogo" filter very much since i was always missing it in AutoMKV for my TV-Captures. Saving presets would of course be great once you have found the right settings for your encode. And an explanation of filter values and what they do to the video would make sense.

Can´t wait to get my hands on a working version. Keep up the great work BHH!

Best Regards,

Diego

[YouDontKnowMe]

looks very nice.... hope you will release a working version...

[Kurtnoise]

why reinvent the wheel ?

[YouDontKnowMe]

because this is a cyber-wheel with a lot more features ^^ If all developer would be thining like you we would be encoding with virtualdub mod for the rest of our lives :P

[Kurtnoise]

wtf...do you know how many mencoder GUIs there are today ?

[Atak_Snajpera]

I agree with Kurtnoise13 in 100%. Instead of making another GUI for Mencoder I would focus only on AutoMKV. First of all change main icon to something nicer because now it looks very odd. I think also name should be changed.

It looks like you have plenty of time.

[buzzqw]

@kurtnoise

no, please list some mencoder gui for windows with plenty of options
thanks

BHH

[Kurtnoise]

it was ironic...:rolleyes: but there is probably a list on mplayer/mencoder website.


Anyway, "plenty of options" is the no-way to go. Believe me...Nobody use or will use all of them.

[buzzqw]

uhmm.. ok got it:p

.. now i am working on a ffmpeg gui.. but no problem.. i will not post about it :rolleyes:

BHH

[YouDontKnowMe]

so do you mean this project is dead?.... very sad.... I really would like to have a working full version of this... looks quite interesting..

[bond]

uhmm.. ok got it:p

.. now i am working on a ffmpeg gui.. but no problem.. i will not post about it :rolleyes:

BHHgimme gimme. ffmpeg has far more containers supported than mencoder, eg a working mp4 muxer :D

[check]

Why create two GUIs for mencoder and ffmpeg? Better to create a single GUI that can use them in tandem, for far better functionality. You can pipe data back and forth between the two apps depending on which one you want to use for a particular task.

[buzzqw]

well.. now i start with ffmpeg, and then with mencoder+ffmpeg
the work is in progress

but as i said i a long project term.

so this thread can be closed.

BHH