x264 tool not showing progress for mkv file

[LonelyPixel]

Hi there,

I'm back on my video encoding topic... forgot about it for a long time. I've previously asked (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=169965) why x264 won't show me any progress but only the number of processed frames. The problem was I gave it a raw stream, not an mkv container. I learned that I can use eac3to to get such an mkv file.

Now I do exactly that, but I still get no progress from x264. Just counting frames (see attached screenshot). When I play the mkv file with MPC-HC, it shows me how long the file is.

What's wrong again this time?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I guess x264 cannot determine the total number of frames, because it is falling back to "lavf" (libavformat) demuxer, instead of using "ffms" (ffmpegsource) demuxer. Try adding "--demuxer ffms".

(If that doesn't work, your x264 binary was probably compiled without ffms support. In that case, get a proper binary here (http://komisar.gin.by/))

[LonelyPixel]

Thank you. The demuxer was unknown, so I got a new binary. It was probably a bit outdated? (It said it was "x264 core:140 r2377 1ca7bb9".) Now it works.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thank you. The demuxer was unknown, so I got a new binary. It was probably a bit outdated? (It said it was "x264 core:140 r2377 1ca7bb9".) Now it works.

Yeah, that's like ~2 years old :eek:

(But, most important, it appears your "old" binary had been compiled without FFMS support, so it was falling back to LAVF demuxer)