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molitar
27th July 2009, 17:27
Ok is their any good converters with good selection of profiles? I want to give up on megui it does not work for me. Even when I manually take the logged command line and paste into a command prompt window it does not run. Doesn't even report errors I think some of the command line switches are not recognised. I need a good alternative that is going to work. Converts audio but will not convert video with either xvid or x264. I even exited Japanese regional to see if that was the problem but still the same results.
[P]ako
27th July 2009, 17:51
Give Avidemux a try.
Adub
27th July 2009, 18:10
It sounds like you have other problems. MeGUI is just a gui that generate the commandline and executes it. If that is not working, then you are not fully setup for encoding.

However, if you want to try another gui, give HDConvertToX a look.
molitar
27th July 2009, 23:50
It sounds like you have other problems. MeGUI is just a gui that generate the commandline and executes it. If that is not working, then you are not fully setup for encoding.

However, if you want to try another gui, give HDConvertToX a look.

Ok will do.. because I can convert just fine using virtdubmod and it works. But I was after the profiles that supposedly make steps easy and efficient.. but I see no real error in the error logs and I had followed the steps for the megui tutorial and what I have is..

All the log shows.. I will show you my avs and dv2 script but the error log is nil.

VTS_01_1.avs
DGDecode_mpeg2source("C:\Downloads\VTS_01_1.d2v", info=3)
ColorMatrix(hints=true, interlaced=true, threads=0)
tfm(order=1).tdecimate(hybrid=1)
#crop
#resize
#denoise


VTS_01_1.d2v
DGIndexProjectFile16
1
C:\Downloads\VTS_01_1.VOB

Stream_Type=1
MPEG_Type=2
iDCT_Algorithm=6
YUVRGB_Scale=1
Luminance_Filter=0,0
Clipping=0,0,0,0
Aspect_Ratio=4:3
Picture_Size=720x480
Field_Operation=0
Frame_Rate=29970 (30000/1001)
Location=0,0,0,2ab12
stax76
28th July 2009, 01:47
Could be a AviSynth problem since two different encoders fail, can you load the avs scrips in VirtualDub? You could try RipBot264 as it's the most beginner friendly GUI.
molitar
28th July 2009, 01:57
Could be a AviSynth problem since two different encoders fail, can you load the avs scrips in VirtualDub? You could try RipBot264 as it's the most beginner friendly GUI.

Yes and I load it perfectly fine with Virtdub. It just seems the command line software is not working. Any idea why that would be? I tried to manually use the command line and nothing happens.

c:\Program Files\megui\tools\xvid_encraw>xvid_encraw.exe -i "C:\Downloads\VTS_01_1.avs" -single -bitrate 700 -smoother 0 -nopacked -closed_gop -par 1:1 -threads 1 -avi "C:\Downloads\VTS_01_1.avi"
xvid_encraw - raw mpeg4 bitstream encoder written by Christoph Lampert 2002-2003

Trying to retrieve width and height from input header
xvid [info]: Avisynth detected

nothing appears to happen. BTW I am using XP Pro Sp3 not Vista.
stax76
28th July 2009, 02:09
Maybe you don't have a YV12 decoder, in ffdshow go to VFW Configuration > Codecs > Raw Video > YV12
molitar
28th July 2009, 02:28
Maybe you don't have a YV12 decoder, in ffdshow go to VFW Configuration > Codecs > Raw Video > YV12

Ok tried that.. no go.
stax76
28th July 2009, 02:53
It seems you don't try hard enough find a solution. :rolleyes:
molitar
28th July 2009, 03:47
Ok I tried dual booting to Vista.. it works in Vista.. same exact setup. So seems to be a problem with XP Pro Sp3. Any ideas now?
stax76
28th July 2009, 04:12
Sure, this should help: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96137