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dimtim
19th July 2009, 00:50
Everything was going smoothly with my X264 encodes, but every time I start MeGUI I check for updates and one of the recent updates caused X264 to ignore my custom SAR. I've been adding "--sar 40:33" under the Custom Command Line option in the Config tab for X264, but now when I look at the log it shows the encode started with a SAR of 1:1.

Does anybody know what to do?

Thanks
Tim
desta
19th July 2009, 01:30
In the log look at the end of the command line - does it show "--sar 40:33"? If it does, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. If you manually enter a custom sar value, it will override the default one given.
dimtim
19th July 2009, 10:13
Well I'm using MeGUI and there is a log tab in MeGUI and it says SAR 1:1 instead of SAR 40:33 so for some weird reason it is ignoring my value. I might have to switch to pure command line encoding if I can't figure this out.
Keiyakusha
19th July 2009, 13:22
It shows SAR 1:1 in log and resulting file cames up with SAR 1:1?
Or it shows SAR 1:1 in log and resulting file cames up with SAR 40:33?
Or it shows SAR 1:1 and SAR 40:33 in log and resulting file is SAR:40:33?
dimtim
19th July 2009, 23:05
It shows SAR 1:1 in log and resulting file cames up with SAR 1:1?
Or it shows SAR 1:1 in log and resulting file cames up with SAR 40:33?
Or it shows SAR 1:1 and SAR 40:33 in log and resulting file is SAR:40:33?

What is the best way to see the final output SAR?? I'm not sure what program to use.

Here is me setting the custom SAR value:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1091/settingsg.png

And here is the log with the incorrect SAR value:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/3783/logb.png
Audionut
19th July 2009, 23:20
Log at the command line being sent to x264. --sar 1:1

Looks like a problem with megui to me.

Report it in the correct forum.
Keiyakusha
19th July 2009, 23:21
dimtim
You using custom options and can't tell if they works?
SAR value added at the end of commandline. You can't see it here. Press Right mouse button --> edit text --> log
There (probably) will be 2 SAR values in the commandline. Last one is used.
dimtim
20th July 2009, 09:00
Hey thanks for the help, but I figured it out, it was actually my settings in Media Player Classic that was rendering the encoded file differently than the original file.

Thanks
Tim