dat720
18th May 2008, 08:51
Hi,
Sort of new to this place but have been encoding and working with video's for many years, after trying just about every gui for mencoder and not finding one i was happy with (automen was as close as i got), i decided to make my own (with VB 2008EE), so i promptly grabbed a copy of visual studio express edition and have been coding away after work and in the evenings for a few days now and have come up with something that's looking pretty good and works!!! amazing since its my first piece of useful software i've ever written (the only other things i've done are a few vb scripts and a hello world C++ program).
Anyway just thought i'd share in case anyone else was interested, heres a screen cap of the progress:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/bircoe/SC_eLAiPBMI/AAAAAAAAAbo/hIbUtViy35U/MenFro.png
It still needs allot of work and more features implemented but i'm happy so far.
Here's a feature list:
Detect's number of cores available and set's the xvid options to use threads if multiple cores are found.
Media Properties detect on load, uses mplayer -identify and allot of vb code to gather the info.
Crop Detect <= needs to be improved, but no idea on how to improve it.
Preview uses rectangle option in mplayer to show where the crop starts and ends.
Lots of mencoder options available as checkboxes or drop down's more will be added.
Video Quality options are the examples shown in the mplayer manual for both Xvid and x264, i havent added other codec's yet as these are the only 2 i use at this point, was thinking about adding mpg2 but not sure what else.
x264 (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-x264.html)
Xvid (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-xvid.html)
Settings INI file working but only 2 values are read right now they are path to mencoder/mplayer
Features to add:
Target file size calc
Better crop detect
Features i dont know how to add:
XML based profiles
Sort of new to this place but have been encoding and working with video's for many years, after trying just about every gui for mencoder and not finding one i was happy with (automen was as close as i got), i decided to make my own (with VB 2008EE), so i promptly grabbed a copy of visual studio express edition and have been coding away after work and in the evenings for a few days now and have come up with something that's looking pretty good and works!!! amazing since its my first piece of useful software i've ever written (the only other things i've done are a few vb scripts and a hello world C++ program).
Anyway just thought i'd share in case anyone else was interested, heres a screen cap of the progress:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/bircoe/SC_eLAiPBMI/AAAAAAAAAbo/hIbUtViy35U/MenFro.png
It still needs allot of work and more features implemented but i'm happy so far.
Here's a feature list:
Detect's number of cores available and set's the xvid options to use threads if multiple cores are found.
Media Properties detect on load, uses mplayer -identify and allot of vb code to gather the info.
Crop Detect <= needs to be improved, but no idea on how to improve it.
Preview uses rectangle option in mplayer to show where the crop starts and ends.
Lots of mencoder options available as checkboxes or drop down's more will be added.
Video Quality options are the examples shown in the mplayer manual for both Xvid and x264, i havent added other codec's yet as these are the only 2 i use at this point, was thinking about adding mpg2 but not sure what else.
x264 (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-x264.html)
Xvid (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-xvid.html)
Settings INI file working but only 2 values are read right now they are path to mencoder/mplayer
Features to add:
Target file size calc
Better crop detect
Features i dont know how to add:
XML based profiles