Hybrid: Input -> x264/x265/Xvid/VP8/VP9

[Riki]

thanks, although on the hybrid encoding tests the quality did not look so good on certain frames (with thin colored lines, etc). I was hoping there were other setting involved, but I guess CRF is probably the best option for now.

[Selur]

could be a TV/PC scale or a Rec.601, Rec.709 problem but I don't know of any way to control these through ffmpeg/mencoder (or another tool besides avisynth) so I couldn't add options to modify these. (Googled a lot but didn't find anything about it on the net regarding mencoder/ffmpeg. :()

Cu Selur

[Selur]

Would anyone prefer aften for ac3 encoding over ffmpeg?
I'm thinking about adding support for an addition option to select aften as encoder, but I'm not sure if it would be useful to have some of aftens options, besides bitrate and quality available through the gui?

Cu Selur

[buzzqw]

aften!

and bitrate/channels as option is enough, aften has excellent default

BHH

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100513

*added*
- aften and oggenc support (reading progress from ffmpeg)

*changed*
- framecounter became a separate application (see first post for Download)

*fixed*
- raw avc frame counter
- mplayer not called with absolute path when doing dvd analysis
- "should be there" checks
- audio language passthrough on audio stream passthrough
- bug when raw audio passthrough and passthrough audio language were enabled

*cosmetics*
- show avc/vc1 frame counter progress in title bar

*updated*
- windows 32bit package (added oggenc, aften and framecounter)

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
Reset Defaults in Misc-Tab on first start

-> updated links in 1st post

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100515

*fixed*
- padding with ffmpeg (making sure that one multiple of 2 are padded)
sidenode: current ffmpeg build cause problems when using crop&pad together

*changed*
- using 'aften -v 2' output for progress indication instead of ffmpegs output during ac3 encoding with aften
- don't add -ss when autorcop raw video input- show number of scanned frames during autocrop

*cosmetics*
- hiding other audio options when 'ogg' is selected
- show number of scanned frames during autocrop

*updated*
- windows 32bit package (larger than before since mplayer, ffmpeg and mencoder use TLS Callbacks and I don't know a binary packer that can handle these)

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
Reset Defaults in Misc-Tab on first start

-> updated links in 1st post

[CpT]

I'm getting "Crop Crashed" using auto crop + Mplayer or ffmpeg for cropping.

Using the latest hybrid package on win7 32bit

Video changed to:
Format: AVC
Bit rate: 192
Frame rate: 23.976
Resolution: 1280x720
Interlacing: progressive
Aspect ratio: 1
Frame count: 1010

2010.05.16 - 13:38:00_100515 - selectVideoStream: 0
2010.05.16 - 13:38:00_100515 - setCurrentVideoInput: 0
2010.05.16 - 13:38:00_100515 - Crop crashed

[Selur]

Okay, I can reproduce this. Will send you a fixed version once I find the problem. :) (normal crop seems to work)

[CpT]

kk thanks, no hurries - its the weekend :cool:

[Selur]

Think I found the problem,.. :)

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100517

*fixed*
- analysing of raw audio input
- hopefully all autocrop problems

*cosmetics*
- new Hybrid icon -> thanks to FAUST

*added*
- some additional sanity-checks

*adjusted*
- avsInfo output analysis

*updated*
- windows 32bit package
sidenote: includes now an avsInfo and an avsInfo64 binary, if you want to use avisynth 64bit change to the avsInfo64 one in the Misc->Tools menu

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
Reset Defaults in Misc-Tab on first start

-> updated links in 1st post

[netcasthd]

DVD Input does not work. If you check the DVD Input box, go to a DVD folder, it will analyis the DVD video but stay grayed out. It does not give you back control.

[Selur]

Yup, it's a bug and I'm hunting it. :)

[Selur]

*updated*
- all the downloads in first post since old versions were broken
(switched aften, mediainfo and fixed some typos in Hybrid that caused the problems)
-> you should update to current version :)

[ckmox]

just a noob question is there an Framerate (FPS) option on Hybrid similar to Handbrake's Framerate (FPS) that can be set to "same as source"

im thinking of retaining the original Framerate of the source so that on sources like VFR the audio will not be out of sync

[CpT]

just a noob question is there an Framerate (FPS) option on Hybrid similar to Handbrake's Framerate (FPS) that can be set to "same as source"

In the filtering tab make sure "Scale output frame rate" isn't checked

[Selur]

and if you find a problem post it / pm me and I'll try to fix it :)
(haven't done much testing with vfr content, since I normally don't encounter it)

[ckmox]

In the filtering tab make sure "Scale output frame rate" isn't checked

ok thanks for that

and thanks for the awesome program selur this gui of yours is better than MeGUI because this is much more portable :)

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100519

*fixed*
- crash with multi subtitles
- audio tagging of raw streams on passthrough

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
Reset Defaults in Misc-Tab on first start
(not needed when updating from 100517)

-> updated links in 1st post

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100529

*changed*
- using '-vf' scale,crop,pad instead of Crop/Pad Left/Right/Top/Botton and scale in ffmpeg
(-> Hybrid needs newer ffmpeg version)
- CropView FFmpeg renamed to Avisynth

*fixed*
- audio lang tagging of raw streams
- vbv buffer from 40000 to 3000 for BD
- subtitle order

*added*
- experimental (blind) cut support
- load/save joblist options

*updated*
- windows 32bit package

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
'Reset Defaults' in Misc-Tab on first start

-> updated links in 1st post

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100529_1

*100529_1*
*fixed*
- recalc bitrate for multiple audio streams

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
'Reset Defaults' in Misc-Tab on first start
(not needed when updating from 100529)

-> updated links in 1st post

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100530

*fixed*
- mp4 muxing of he-aac reencoded material
- missing " "- around mplayer path when analysing dvd
- bug when extracting audio with ffmpeg
- audio downmix unintended switching to toMono on multiple stereo input
- ac3 in .avi analyse

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
'Reset Defaults' in Misc-Tab on first start
(not needed when updating from 100529 or later)

-> updated links in 1st post

[Selur]

For those interested, I made a Hybrid build with (experimental) Blu-ray/.mpls input support. When in Blu-ray mode, select the PLAYLIST folder, if not you can select .mpls from a blu-ray as input.
(got no blu-ray's myself but I tested with the x264 BD Demo and another BD Demo bigotti5 form the german doom9 forum authored for me and it seems to work ;))

Cu Selur

[CpT]

ooo sweet.
I have a ton of blu-ray's. When I get a min I'll test it.

[Selur]

did you find some time to test it?

[CpT]

did you find some time to test it?

I got busy with another project.

Downloading it now ;)

[CpT]

Hybrid crashed while doing the initial analysis.

[Selur]

give me a minute :) (seems like a bug I added with my last changes before compiling,..)

[Selur]

redownload, should work now (accidentally deleted a line of code on my winxp system)

[CpT]

redownload, should work now (accidentally deleted a line of code on my winxp system)

Analysis works now.
I'm setting up the rest and will test shortly. Thanks.

[Selur]

No need to thank me I'm happy that you are testing it at all. :)

[ckmox]

i got an error


Analysing finished.
Added new job with id: 09_16_33_500
09_16_33_500_01_audio: mp4Box started...
09_16_33_500_02_audio: NeroAACEnc started...
09_16_33_500_03_cleanUp: "C:\DOCUME~1\ios\LOCALS~1\Temp\a_und_aid_0__09_16_33_500_01.aac"
09_16_33_500_04_video: x264 (1 pass) encoding started...
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Slow
x264 [info]: profile High, level 4.1
C:\DOCUME~1\ios\LOCALS~1\Temp\a_09_16_33_500_04.264 too small
09_16_33_500_04_video: Processing aborted,...ERROR: C:\DOCUME~1\ios\LOCALS~1\Temp\a_09_16_33_500_04.264 is too small!

[Selur]

@ckmox: sadly, the error report you posted doesn't help me at all. No version info nothing about the configuration you used,...
from the first post of this thread:
Important info needed to fix&reproduce bugs:
1. What Hybrid version did you use?(Windows/Linux 32/64bit + versions number)
2. What did happen? If an error message came up what did it exactly say?
3. What did you do to get to the bug? (best thing is a detailed step-by-step guide so that I can reproduce the problem)
4. Debug output would be helpful. (misc->misc settings->create debug file)
5. If possible a small sample file would be great. (upload it somewhere and send me a link via pm)
All these infos might be needed to reproduce the problem and reproduction is needed to find a fix.
If you find a bug, I'll try to fix it and send you a hopefully fixed version for testing via pm.
Problem is probably related to the decoding or encoding call used, but without at least knowing how these look like I can't really fix it. :)


One general thing:
I forgot to post the windows 32bit package update in the first post on th 29th of may. ;)
-> Hybrid32bitPackage_100529 (http://www.multiupload.com/0FVE65AP0D) this might already fix the problem.

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100605

*fixed*
- autocrop not using absolute path during to mplayer
- 'cropToDar' - option
- 'noMuxAndSplit' - option
- setting chapter start time on sources without chapters
- mixup when minimizing x264 command line
- subtitle extraction from a dvd which has an unknown language
- audio preview not working for raw audio only input
- accidently changed quality when changing audio gain manually
- Hybrid not reacting when loading non-media input

*added*
- some additional resolution checks before job creation
- experimental 'Blu-ray input' (PLALIST folder) and .mpls input support (experimental since I can't test it properly due to lacking hardware&material)

*cosmetics*
- added some additional tooltips

*updated*
- windows package

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
'Reset Defaults' in Misc-Tab on first start

-> updated links in 1st post

[CpT]

The download links are broken for the below files:

Hybrid - only:
Hybrid Win32: http://www.selur.info/hybrid/Hybrid_100605.zip
Hybrid Win64: http://www.selur.info/hybrid/Hybrid_100605_64bit.zip

[Selur]

doh,... forgot to update the files on my webspace :) -> should all be wokring in about 2min ;) (links should work now)

[CpT]

The link is working now,

Testing now ;)


Edit:
Working great thus far! :thanks:

[Selur]

fixed the missing ']' in the windows package link :)

[CpT]

The only thing I noticed "not a bug" is when encoding up multiple files at once the progress bar on the jobs tab jumps quickly between the 2 encoding job's progress.
Its no big deal and its rather funny to watch... Guess I'm a bit bored atm...

This may have also been the case with previous versions I just never noticed it before.

Here's a screenshot showing the location.
http://vizmu.com/images/multi.jpg (http://vizmu.com/)

[Selur]

yup, ment to fix that for quiet some time, but always forgot to put it on my todo list -> wrote it down now (probably will look at it tomorrow, since it's nice weather here and bbq is calling :))

[SilverL]

I dont get any audio streams/audio information. Been using the last few latest versions(currently 100605). I have all applications installed and up to date. Using Linux(Ubuntu) 64bit.

This is the log. Dont know if it will be helpful.

Log Messages
analysing: /home/lomarb/Videos/RvBEdit.mp4
grabbing audio ids ...
found audio ids:
analysing audio streams...
analysing audio streams with mplayer
grabbing video ids for: /home/lomarb/Videos/RvBEdit.mp4
video ids found:
analysing video streams...

Audio changed to:
Video delay: 0


Audio changed to:
Video delay: 0


Video changed to:
Format: AVC
Bit rate: 896
Frame rate: 29.97
Resolution: 640x360
Interlacing: progressive
Aspect ratio: 1
Frame count: 2818


Audio changed to:
Video delay: 0


Video changed to:
Frame count: 2898


Audio changed to:
Video delay: 0

Analysing finished.

Also tried with an Mkv and hybrid would freeze.

[Selur]

Most of the audio analysis is done through mplayer, so it's probably a problem with mplayer or mplayers output.
Please activate debug output (Config->Misc settings->General->Create debug file) before loading the source and send me the debug file.
Also make sure you reset the default settings before using the latest version. (Config->'Reset Defaults'button)

Cu Selur

Ps.: just did a test on my Ubuntu 64bit build system -> worked fine there,...

[SilverL]

It was in fact mplayer. I put in a new ppa that uses the latest version. Its working again now. Thanks.

[Selur]

Happy to help. :)

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100607

*fixed*
- crash on close&autocrop
- parallel job: progress bar flickering

*changed*
- enable mplayer osb during preview

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
'Reset Defaults' in Misc-Tab on first start

-> updated links in 1st post

[flebber]

I was trying to encode a multi episode dvd with your latest version of Hybrid today but it was crashing before it started. I have uploaded the log file as it would be too big to display properly on the forum.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1dj1wimenwy/HybridDebugOutput.txt

[Selur]

On what OS are you using Hybrid? Fixed some bugs that might be related to your crash a few days ago and would send you my current development version. :)

[flebber]

On what OS are you using Hybrid? Fixed some bugs that might be related to your crash a few days ago and would send you my current development version. :)

Windows Xp Sp3, says its 100607. On startup i get this log.
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600

Log Messages
avcLevel value "3.2" is not present in current list
bFramePyramid value "normal" is not present in current list

X264 settingsx264 --crf 21 --level 3.2 --ref 5 --b-bias 2 --qpmin 1 --partitions i4x4,p8x8,b8x8 --me umh --subme 8 --psy-rd 0.8:0.2 --no-fast-pskip --aq-mode 2 --vbv-maxrate 0 --vbv-bufsize 0 --pic-struct --deblock 0:-1 --fps 25 --output OUTPUTFILE - 48x48

[Selur]

Hybrid ver.100614

*changed*
- icon with a higher resolution

*added*
- option to 'set default' audio/subtitle track in mkv
- video speed up option (this will change the duration of the clip)

*fixed*
- sox down-/upMix calls
- scale framerate changed speed and didn't drop/add frames when used with mencoder as decoder
- crash related to "import chapters on source change"

(you need to enable Misc in the Main-Tab to enable the Misc-Tab)
'Reset Defaults' in Misc-Tab on first start

-> updated links in 1st post

[ckmox]

just a question when i set "Tune" to "Animation" and click Apply button repeatedly is the frames and b-frames for example needed to be incremented? or its some sort of a bug? i have limited knowledge on x264 btw so im wondering about this

thanks