MeGUI: bug reports and feature requests [Archive] - Page 3

prOnorama

9th December 2009, 18:16

i also confirm the --rc-lookahead issue still exists here on xp sp3 .net 3.5. what information do you need?

i made a couple more packages. to maybe make things easier. (full installer. creates shortcuts and uninstaller)

Full (all tools updated beyond current update server) (http://www.constructd.com/megui/megui1057_zathorpatched.exe)

-it does not check if previous version is installed yet, so please uninstall any old version first.
-new uninstaller completely wipes megui directory, i think this was previous behavior.

- Uninstaller does not remove Start Menu and Quick start links.

- When installed no x264 *scratchpad* profile is loaded

- (I think this is a general flaw) the x264 Bluray_example profile "cheats" by having values in the Custom Command Line which should be set by the main patched GUI, just --nal-hrd --aud should be needed.

http://thumbnails23.imagebam.com/5925/1cc6f859241981.gif (http://www.imagebam.com/image/1cc6f859241981)

quantum5uicid3

9th December 2009, 18:24

- Uninstaller does not remove Start Menu and Quick start links.

what OS? I'm not great with NSIS, but I'll have more time to learn when finals are over. :)

anybody wanna help?

http://www.constructd.com/megui/megui_nsis.zip

nakTT

9th December 2009, 19:13

Hi Zathor,

I would be great if you could update MeGUI to accommodate this change of x264. Link below:

http://repo.or.cz/w/x264.git/commit/de5beaec2078967d08da8ae2483c9f982b0ab07e

:thanks:

prOnorama

9th December 2009, 19:50

what OS? I'm not great with NSIS, but I'll have more time to learn when finals are over. :)

anybody wanna help?

http://www.constructd.com/megui/megui_nsis.zip

WinXP SP3

kool

9th December 2009, 20:41

With the newer builds the plugins will not be copied to the avisynth plugin dir. Instead they will be copied to tools\avisynth_plugins in order to use different versions without problems.

Yes, it has been updated yesterday.

Thanks, it works now.

* If you upload a newer version in post 1, should we also replace our meGUI folder or we get every change by auto update?

* Do we need to change anything in existing x264 presets, or just leave it to default and encode? "I mean best quality"

Triccotracco

9th December 2009, 21:58

I see. I have just downloaded the unpatched one.

I'm interested to know about the "faster" bit for the patched 1057. Hope you can share your experience in a little bit detail.

:thanks:

Fine is for this megui patched build & faster is for these latest x264 releases compared old one. My experience is limited because i'm using now the presets with very very little adjustments such as crf value, my target is to watch movies on mediaplayer like for example WDTV and presets now, but also Sharktooth profiles in the past works 100% for me.:)

quantum5uicid3

9th December 2009, 22:17

Hi Zathor,

I would be great if you could update MeGUI to accommodate this change of x264. Link below:

http://repo.or.cz/w/x264.git/commit/de5beaec2078967d08da8ae2483c9f982b0ab07e

:thanks:

he didn't set it up to where they disable each other within the gui since x264 did it automatically. so its already supported, just copy new x264 in and change b-pyramid to normal.

Zathor

9th December 2009, 23:13

Uploaded a new build. Today there are only two very small changes - more to come in the next days.

- [MeGUISettings] changed the development server to http://www.constructd.com/megui
- [x264Encoder] changed the --rc-lookahead command line creation

The mirror is provided by quantum5uicid3. Thank you very much!

Zathor

9th December 2009, 23:21

Thanks, it works now.
* If you upload a newer version in post 1, should we also replace our meGUI folder or we get every change by auto update?
With the new mirror provided by quantum5uicid3 it will be possible to use once again auto update. Please change your development path to http://www.constructd.com/megui. Starting with the next build it will be uploaded there.

* Do we need to change anything in existing x264 presets, or just leave it to default and encode? "I mean best quality"
It depends on how old your profiles are, which settings you changed and on your target device. I can not answer this question in general.

(I think this is a general flaw) the x264 Bluray_example profile "cheats" by having values in the Custom Command Line which should be set by the main patched GUI, just --nal-hrd --aud should be needed.

As said earlier before. With this profile I want to start a discussion about how the profile management system should work. At the moment the only way to lock or force settings is to write it in the custom command line. With the preset slider you are then able to change the speed/quality without loosing your important parameters.

kool

9th December 2009, 23:39

It depends on how old your profiles are, which settings you changed and on your target device. I can not answer this question in general.

I don't have any profile, I just downloaded your build, do I need to make any profile?

Zathor

9th December 2009, 23:47

You need to know the limitations of your target device(s) and have to change the settings accordingly. If you have only one "rule set" you will need only one profile.

kool

10th December 2009, 00:20

The error still exists after trying both new versions and + new problem I don't get Xvid profiles and x264 by update.

http://i50.tinypic.com/2dazyb4.png

http://i48.tinypic.com/2mnopc6.png

For the screen shots 2, I think it happen with each profile in encoder settings.

I don't know why it happen :confused: , Or it is problem with Win 7.
Can't get megui to work :(

Forteen88

10th December 2009, 00:23

I don't know why it happen :confused: , Or it is problem with Win 7.
Can't get megui to work :(Try running MeGUI as administrator, by right-clicking on the icon and select "Run as administrator".

kool

10th December 2009, 00:29

Run as administrator solve the problem, but do I need to do this all the time? because after I select run as administrator things work fine, but when I load megui normally I get the error back.

* The simpleresize which come with megui update, why it doesn't work under avisynth 2.5.8? when I tried, got error simpleresize is not avisynth 2.5 plugin.

wlee15

10th December 2009, 00:36

kool

10th December 2009, 00:38

OK, the error issue as been solved by right click on "meGUI > Properties > Compatibility > Tick on Run meGUI as administrator" Hope this is the right solution.

But

* I don't get x264 profiles and Xvid by update
* simpleresize doesn't work under avisynth 2.5.8
* meGUI icon doesn't show up in Win 7 taskbar.

http://i48.tinypic.com/302yy5s.png

Adub

10th December 2009, 02:01

quantum5uicid3

10th December 2009, 02:01

you should be able to get xvid profiles now

there are no x264 profiles, someone needs to make them.

simpleresize was out of date, did a clean installation and updated. issue appears resolved

you're on your own with the taskbar

nakTT

10th December 2009, 03:05

he didn't set it up to where they disable each other within the gui since x264 did it automatically. so its already supported, just copy new x264 in and change b-pyramid to normal.
Thank you for the info. Glad to know that. Will give it a try ASAP.

:thanks:

Fine is for this megui patched build & faster is for these latest x264 releases compared old one. My experience is limited because i'm using now the presets with very very little adjustments such as crf value, my target is to watch movies on mediaplayer like for example WDTV and presets now, but also Sharktooth profiles in the past works 100% for me.:)
Thanks for sharing info.

:thanks:

Aoshi101

10th December 2009, 05:45

Problem: It keeps erroring out when I try to encode. It doesn't give any error message at all. In the worker it starts the encode but not even a second later, encode stops and worker status changes to say "error". Any way to find out the error or any solution on why this problem would occur?

How to duplicate this problem: Well there's no sure way to duplicate it unless if you're running default settings on everything. I just used the basic blu ray profile that came with this developmental build provided at the beginning of this thread. I changed nothing, tried encoding in mp4 x264.

Now I'm not encode savvy but I'm willing to learn. Could it be that blu-ray type settings cannot be encoded in an mp4 container? Any other info you guys need, just ask ill post as quickly as possible. I tried several things including changing the profile, trying a different container, tried changing resolution from 1080p down to 720p, etc etc. Can't figure it out for the life of me. Ideas?

System Specs:

Windows 7 64 bit
Quad Core 2 Q6600
4 gig 1066 ram

P.S. I lurk doom9 alot for encode information, first time i had any real errors with MeGUI that wasn't already solved. I appreciate your efforts Zathor!

Zathor

10th December 2009, 06:21

Do you have an entry in the log (in the file after closing megui or located at the log tab in MeGUI)? There should/could be a more specific error message.

Zathor

10th December 2009, 06:31

Run as administrator solve the problem, but do I need to do this all the time? because after I select run as administrator things work fine, but when I load megui normally I get the error back.

During startup of MeGUI it will be detected if you have write access in the MeGUI dir. If not the program will be restarted as administartor automatically. In your case it seems to be that you have write access to the MeGUI dir and no access to the allprofiles\x264 dir. Can you please check this (create a file in both directories without UAC and post the results)

* meGUI icon doesn't show up in Win 7 taskbar.
Sorry, I can see the icon in Win7. Do you get the megui.exe icon in the explorer?

Aoshi101

10th December 2009, 08:09

Do you have an entry in the log (in the file after closing megui or located at the log tab in MeGUI)? There should/could be a more specific error message.

--[NoImage] Standard error stream: C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\x264\x264.exe: unrecognised option `--nal-hrd'

Thats the error then. Pulled it from the log, didn't even notice the log tab before (fyi me = not very observant ahaha).

Zathor

10th December 2009, 08:34

Thats the error then. Pulled it from the log, didn't even notice the log tab before (fyi me = not very observant ahaha).
You need to use a patched x264.exe which supports this feature.

Aoshi101

10th December 2009, 08:36

I thought the build you supplied was already patched for it? Everything I use currently is from the zip provided at the beginning of this thread, unless if I have to manually patch x264 exe?

Zathor

10th December 2009, 09:09

I thought the build you supplied was already patched for it? Everything I use currently is from the zip provided at the beginning of this thread, unless if I have to manually patch x264 exe?

The update server has recently changed. The new mirror is provided by quantum5uicid3 and I do not know at the moment if the x264 (build 1360 I think) is a patched one. I can check this not earlier than in ~12 hours. Which version of x264 and which mirror do you use?

Aoshi101

10th December 2009, 09:27

I use the constructd.com/megui/ address for patches and its currently set up to the 1369 techouse's vanilla build. I've seen the words "Jeebs patched" back in older versions of x264, so my guess is you can tell if its patched if it has the word "patched" in the name, or is that just for naming convention sakes.

Should I fall back to 1360?

nakTT

10th December 2009, 09:48

Lugia25000

10th December 2009, 10:29

http://www.constructd.com/megui

The new xvid encraw from alexins has many bugs. Can anyone change the encraw with the old encraw from -> http://megui.org/auto/stable/xvid_encraw-2009-05-30.zip ?
Old encraw needed aviwriter.dll.

Old xvidcore.dll and new xvidcore.dll work very fine with the old encraw.

@Zathor, big thx for the development.

My english is not so good, i hope everyone understand me.

Zathor

10th December 2009, 10:50

I use the constructd.com/megui/ address for patches and its currently set up to the 1369 techouse's vanilla build. I've seen the words "Jeebs patched" back in older versions of MeGUI, so my guess is you can tell if its patched if it has the word "patched" in the name, or is that just for naming convention sakes.

I have no access to the file at the moment but "vanilla" is most likely an unpatched version. And if you used this version and got the error it is clearly unpatched.

JEEBs builds can be found here: http://x264.fushizen.eu/
Direct link to Jeebs build with hrd:
http://x264.fushizen.eu/files/1369_hrd/x264.exe

More patches here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=130364

Aoshi101

10th December 2009, 12:29

Thanks so much for explaining it and helping me Zathor. I look foward to more possible updates to this build and hopefully if Sharktooth or Kurtnoise or any of the other MeGUI coders come back, they apply your fixes to their official build. Kudos to you bro.

quantum5uicid3

10th December 2009, 14:01

reverted back to old encraw as requested

updated to techhouse 1369 patched v2 for nal-hrd

EDIT: reverted back to unpatched 1369, im getting application errors with patched versions...

kool

10th December 2009, 14:26

You should be able to get Xvid profiles now

simpleresize was out of date, did a clean installation and updated. issue appears resolved

It works now thanks.

There are no x264 profiles, someone needs to make them.

Hope some one make them soon, because I don't know how to make them :p

During startup of MeGUI it will be detected if you have write access in the MeGUI dir. If not the program will be restarted as administartor automatically. In your case it seems to be that you have write access to the MeGUI dir and no access to the allprofiles\x264 dir. Can you please check this (create a file in both directories without UAC and post the results)

Hope I get you right by "with out UAC" I untick the option run meGUI as administrator in meGUI properties and tried to open meGUI and the result is as follow

http://i46.tinypic.com/35jxi8h.png

http://i48.tinypic.com/34t5qut.png

Sorry, I can see the icon in Win7. Do you get the megui.exe icon in the explorer?

Yes I do get the icon in explorer.

in 1th time when i install meGUI i do get both icon in explorer & taskbar, but after I restart megui I don't get meGUI icon in taskbar but in explorer it remain as normal.

JoeH

10th December 2009, 14:33

As said earlier before. With this profile I want to start a discussion about how the profile management system should work. At the moment the only way to lock or force settings is to write it in the custom command line. With the preset slider you are then able to change the speed/quality without loosing your important parameters.

After running loads (i.e. about 50) of tests quality / speed tests with the new X264, I wholly agree with you, Zathor. I think that the new profiles should NOT set the options which are set by the new "Speed" and "Tune" options in X264, and should only set options which are ignored by those but somehow necessary / helpful for a certain type of encode.

That way users can easily modify the settings based on how much time /quality they want / need, but also be assured of compatibility with the different devices or uses MeGUI offers.

Zathor

10th December 2009, 15:13

I have mirrored the current version on the first post here:
www.mirror.adubvideo.net/megui.zip

In addition, I can provide you with an ftp account on my server (unlimited bandwidth) if you would like. Just let me know if you are interested. It takes me two seconds to setup.

Thank you very much for your offer. Because quantum5uicid3 already provided a mirror we do not need an additional mirror at the moment. I will keep your offer in mind and would like to come back to you later if necessary.

livetolove92

10th December 2009, 16:09

No more x264 default setting =((
Hix, I may try to be adapt in using command line.

JoeH

10th December 2009, 17:35

After running loads (i.e. about 50) of tests quality / speed tests with the new X264, I wholly agree with you, Zathor. I think that the new profiles should NOT set the options which are set by the new "Speed" and "Tune" options in X264, and should only set options which are ignored by those but somehow necessary / helpful for a certain type of encode.

That way users can easily modify the settings based on how much time /quality they want / need, but also be assured of compatibility with the different devices or uses MeGUI offers.

I have thought this through a little more, and here is how I would propose the MeGUI "presets" work from here on out:
1. On the main screen, add a drop down menu for the "Speed" and the "Tune" options in X264. So, instead of just selecting the "preset", you would select the "preset", the "speed" and the "tune". In the case of "speed" and "tune", the first option in the dropdown would be to default to whatever is set in the "preset" you choose.
2. But, if you select, for example, "Animation" in the "Tune" dropdown, that would override whatever option is set in the preset for "Tune". The same for "Speed".
3. The included presets, then, would serve mainly to provide different "types" of encodings, such as for Blu-ray standalone, for IPod, DXVA compatible, etc.
4. There would NOT, however be duplicates for whether you want it to go fast or slow, high quality or low quality. All that can be decided at the time of encode using the two drop downs on the main menu.
5. The end result would be far fewer presets, easier to maintain, with much greater flexibility for the end user regarding speed/quality and tuning.

What do you think?

Triccotracco

10th December 2009, 20:55

Little vsfilter problem with autoupdate from:

http://www.constructd.com/megui

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8669/meguiupdateerror.jpg (http://img709.imageshack.us/i/meguiupdateerror.jpg/)

Kagain

10th December 2009, 23:10

A few profiles for those in need

Medium:
SD (DXVA-AVCHD)
HD (DXVA-AVCHD)
HD (DXVA-PS3)
HD (DXVA-Blu-ray)

Slower:
SD (DXVA-AVCHD)
HD (DXVA-AVCHD)
HD (DXVA-PS3)
HD (DXVA-Blu-ray)

Needs a x264 build patched with nal-hrd

http://www.mediafire.com/?znoqzwm2kdf

Zathor

10th December 2009, 23:19

No more x264 default setting =((
Hix, I may try to be adapt in using command line.
Sorry, I do not understand your posting. Maybe it's too late for me... Can you please explain?

Hope I get you right by "with out UAC" I untick the option run meGUI as administrator in meGUI properties and tried to open meGUI and the result is as follow

Sorry, I did not have made myself clear enough. Please copy a file with the windows explorer in the directory c:\program files\megui\allprofiles\x264 and a file in c:\program files\megui. I assume that the last one will work without prompt and the first one only if you confirm the administrative prompt. Is this correct?

I have thought this through a little more, and here is how I would propose the MeGUI "presets" work from here on out:
1. On the main screen, add a drop down menu for the "Speed" and the "Tune" options in X264. So, instead of just selecting the "preset", you would select the "preset", the "speed" and the "tune". In the case of "speed" and "tune", the first option in the dropdown would be to default to whatever is set in the "preset" you choose.
2. But, if you select, for example, "Animation" in the "Tune" dropdown, that would override whatever option is set in the preset for "Tune". The same for "Speed".
3. The included presets, then, would serve mainly to provide different "types" of encodings, such as for Blu-ray standalone, for IPod, DXVA compatible, etc.
4. There would NOT, however be duplicates for whether you want it to go fast or slow, high quality or low quality. All that can be decided at the time of encode using the two drop downs on the main menu.
5. The end result would be far fewer presets, easier to maintain, with much greater flexibility for the end user regarding speed/quality and tuning.

What do you think?
It seems to be not my day :) So I need to ask a few questions:
1) main screen = main configuration screen of the profile or the main screen?
speed = x264 preset and preset = profile?
3) so we have basic rulesets for the devices? great!

More or less this is the way I would want it to be, but everybody keep the feedback flowing!

Aoshi101

10th December 2009, 23:44

reverted back to old encraw as requested

updated to techhouse 1369 patched v2 for nal-hrd

EDIT: reverted back to unpatched 1369, im getting application errors with patched versions...

Well Zathor supplied me with Jeebs' 1369 patched and it works just fine so far. Test out Jeebs' version?

Adub

11th December 2009, 00:47

Thank you very much for your offer. Because quantum5uicid3 already provided a mirror we do not need an additional mirror at the moment. I will keep your offer in mind and would like to come back to you later if necessary.

You are certainly welcome. Just let me know if you need me.

livetolove92

11th December 2009, 02:22

Sorry, I do not understand your posting. Maybe it's too late for me... Can you please explain?

Sorry, I did not have made myself clear enough. Please copy a file with the windows explorer in the directory c:\program files\megui\allprofiles\x264 and a file in c:\program files\megui. I assume that the last one will work without prompt and the first one only if you confirm the administrative prompt. Is this correct?

It seems to be not my day :) So I need to ask a few questions:
1) main screen = main configuration screen of the profile or the main screen?
speed = x264 preset and preset = profile?
3) so we have basic rulesets for the devices? great!

More or less this is the way I would want it to be, but everybody keep the feedback flowing!

I mean the x264 profiles such as "1pass Extra Quality, 2pass Insane,...". Now it's only x264 Bluray :p.
And actually it get a problem when updating vsfilter like this http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8669/meguiupdateerror.jpg

quantum5uicid3

11th December 2009, 02:27

i put kagain's profiles on the update server as long as there are no objections and updated to jeeb's r1369 patched for nal-hrd support. it seems stable

thank you Kagain

I made an installer, it includes the latest version of megui and the contents of the update server. the uninstaller removes everything except the allprofiles directory and there's no taskbar shortcut. there's no check for previous version, it should safely overwrite any previous version, but if you do have problems, uninstall old and then install new

Installer (http://www.mediafire.com/?q2hw1zza5jn)

vsfilter prob resolved

livetolove92

11th December 2009, 03:10

Well done, mate :D. Tks so much.

kool

11th December 2009, 05:31

Thank you Zathor & quantum5uicid3 you guys did a great work :logfile:

and Zathor my problem as been fixed with quantum5uicid3 new installer, hope things go smoothly after now on :p

Triccotracco

11th December 2009, 06:45

A few profiles for those in need

Medium:
SD (DXVA-AVCHD)
HD (DXVA-AVCHD)
HD (DXVA-PS3)
HD (DXVA-Blu-ray)

.....

.....

Needs a x264 build patched with nal-hrd

testing SD (DXVA-AVCHD) profile but:

[Information] Log
--[Information] [11/12/2009 06:39:07] Started handling job
--[Information] [11/12/2009 06:39:07] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files\megui patched\tools\x264\x264.exe" --profile high --level 3.1 --preset slower --crf 20.0 --thread-input --keyint 48 --min-keyint 1 --b-pyramid strict --ref 6 --slices 4 --vbv-bufsize 15000 --vbv-maxrate 15000 --aud --nal-hrd --sar 64:45 --output "movie.264" "movie.avs"
--[Information] [11/12/2009 06:39:07] Encoding started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
--[NoImage] Standard error stream: C:\Program Files\megui patched\tools\x264\x264.exe: unrecognised option `--nal-hrd'
--[Information] [11/12/2009 06:39:07] Job completed

seems jeeb's 1369 patched not work properly. Without --nal-hrd works.

Tricco:)