MeGUI - x264/XviD/lavc/Snow encoder with MP4/MKV/AVI output & audio

[ajamils]

Ok another question. What's the best way to shrink the size of the movie without losing picture quality and surround sound (that can play on Ps3) ?

I always thought that mp4 can do that but I just converted a movie using RipBot and the output file is exactly the same size as the input file :confused:

[poisondeathray]

Ok another question. What's the best way to shrink the size of the movie without losing picture quality and surround sound (that can play on Ps3) ?

I always thought that mp4 can do that but I just converted a movie using RipBot and the output file is exactly the same size as the input file :confused:

I'll only address the 2nd question, because the 1st sort of violates forum rule #12

.mp4 is just a container. It has very little effect on file size.

File size = bitrate x running time

Your output size is the same size as your input size because you probably chose the same bitrate

[Ryu77]

usually how long does MeGUI takes to convert an average 1080p file ? Right now I'm converting a 1080p file (8GB - video only) and first pass took 9 hours and so far its been 12 hours 32 since 2nd pass is running and MeGUI shows remaining time as 19 hours and 37 mins

Is it supposed to take that long ??

As Sharktooth said... That encoding time is completely normal. The x264 codec uses complicated algorithms to produce very high quality video at efficient bitrates. You could try the "fast" Blu-ray profile instead. You still wont see huge increases in encoding speed but it may shave a few hours off the whole process.

[McCauley]

Hello,

first i want to say thank to the developers of this nice GUI!

Is there a chance that the first turbo pass can be modified? I tweaked my turbo pass according to some suggestions made in this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=135533) and i would like to use it with MeGUI instead of CLI.

Regards
McCauley

[Sharktooth]

you want faster first pass or slower with a bit more quality?

[McCauley]

Hi Sharktooth,

i want to use slower settings to tweak final quality a bit.
I'm at work atm, so i can't say you exactly what i changed, it was subme 3 instead of subme 1 and one or two other things, AFAIR.

Regards
McCauley

[cweb]

I'm not sure what's going on but the video encoding status is not moving at all. I left the software run all night and even after 10 hours it still shows blank. Following is what the status % screen is showing

Position in clip/ Total Length: ---/02:08:43
Current / Total Frames: ---/185189
Current/Projected File Size: ---/---
Processing Time: ---
Time elapsed: 10:24:18
Time Remaining: ---

This used to fine..... i don't know what happened all of a sudden :confused: :mad: :confused:
I have a similar problem right now..
I converted a brief 4000 frame videoclip without problems.
Then I decided to do a longer one.. got the result you mentioned.. something must be wrong.

[McCauley]

Hi,

i want to use slower settings to tweak final quality a bit.
I'm at work atm, so i can't say you exactly what i changed, it was subme 3 instead of subme 1 and one or two other things, AFAIR.

Any progress on that?
I looked through every .xml but didn't find where the commandline for the turbo pass is saved, could someone point me to the place where it is saved? I don't need to change it with a GUI, just replace the commandline with my own.

Regards
McCauley

[Sharktooth]

the 1st pass "commandline" is not saved. megui just save the "turbo" option status and changes the 1st pass commandline on the fly.
you cant change it manually. it needs to be changed in the code.

[rberger]

I noticed that when trying to reproduce the cmd lines from the profile xml's to use them on Linux, that some generation logic is part of the MeGUI code proper. So I ended up just copying them out of the x264 config dialog.

Anyway, to be sure to get the correct command line, I recommend choosing the profile from the droplist in the main dialog, than open the x264 config dialog, choose 2st/1nd pass accordingly and copy. The reason I'm saying that is that albeit the x264 config dialog itself also contains a profile dropdown list to choose from, it seemed that the cmd line wasn't updated accurately when picking profiles there.

[MarcioAB]

^ :thanks: so to override it i just add my own? eg: --aq-strength 0.7 --aq-sensitivity 5

Well, I think so ...

Any way, the new x264 variable adaptive Q (or VAQ) rate control is working so good over here.
MeGUI should consider to include those parms in the GUI.

Thanks

[Theliel]

they are working on 0.3 :) so patient.

[unknownsoldierX]

I get this error when I open a m2ts file in the AviSynth Script Creator. The video opens, but then this pops up.

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/9326/meguini9.th.png (http://img239.imageshack.us/my.php?image=meguini9.png)

[arrirc]

hello

I've used MeGUI for quite some time and used it quite successfully. I have last used it about 1-2 months back. As I tried to start it today, I see that it is not starting. I have even waited for 15mins, but to no effect.

I can see megui.exe in the Process List of the Task Manager and also cvtres.exe, which is incidentally consuming 50% of CPU cycles.

I uninstalled the previous version, downloaded the latest build and restarted the machine. And then I installed it again, but that also did not solve the problem at all.

Please help :confused: :(

Thank you.

[Kurtnoise]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1151017#post1151017

[arrirc]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1151017#post1151017

Ummmmmm.....sorry, but what exactly are you pointing at? Do you think that I should switch to the development build?

:confused:

I have moved this topic here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1151097#post1151097

[check]

I'd like to see the denoising options in the AVS creator revisited. I think there are newer filters that are more effective than the current set. Maybe a matrix of choices with these arrays: [Light, Medium, Heavy] & [Fast, Normal, Slow]? If the devs think an update is due for the denoising options, I will sketch up a draft set of choices and submit it as a feature request, but I wanted to see if there was interest first.

[Avenger007]

I'd like to see the denoising options in the AVS creator revisited. I think there are newer filters that are more effective than the current set. Maybe a matrix of choices with these arrays: [Light, Medium, Heavy] & [Fast, Normal, Slow]? If the devs think an update is due for the denoising options, I will sketch up a draft set of choices and submit it as a feature request, but I wanted to see if there was interest first.
Don't forget to include MC_Spuds (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=131279) as an Insanely-Slow option. :p
It's so good I think it deserves its own array (for different strengths), or even better, its own GUI. ;)

[Vesi]

I'm getting this error.

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/1493/52915411rp7.png

Edit: Problem as been solved, was using the wrong UnDot :) which was for Avisynth 2.5 alpha.

[psychosmurf]

Hi,

Anyone know if the meGUI project is accepting donations? Its a good piece of software and I asked a question on the SourceForge page just this past week and the answer was quick and solved my problem quickly and politely, despite the fact it was a problem between the keyboard and chair. I'd like to give a bit to the project.

Thx,
P

[Sharktooth]

we havent set up an account for donations yet.
however you can donate to doom9.org since Doom9 was the starter of the megui project.
link: http://www.doom9.org/donate.htm

[saint-francis]

I'd like to see the denoising options in the AVS creator revisited. I think there are newer filters that are more effective than the current set. Maybe a matrix of choices with these arrays: [Light, Medium, Heavy] & [Fast, Normal, Slow]? If the devs think an update is due for the denoising options, I will sketch up a draft set of choices and submit it as a feature request, but I wanted to see if there was interest first.

Agreed. I think that there should also be sharpening and other options. Oh, and also an MT option since just about everyone encoding video with MeGUI probably has at least a dual core processor.

[psychosmurf]

Thanks, Sharktooth!! I'm on my way. . .

[Atak_Snajpera]

Thanks, Sharktooth!! I'm on my way. . .
Haha! That was good :) Customer thanks for possibility to spend money. This is rather unusall in real world :)

[Sharktooth]

well... he is not a customer... he's just happy with megui and wants to help development.

[rack04]

I just submitted bug report to the MeGUI tracker concerning error when loading "AutoEncode". Can anyone confirm?

[psychosmurf]

That's very true; meGUI is singularly one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever used and I'm very excited about being able to help with its development. The developers do great work and money is how I can contribute.

[rack04]

Using version 0.3.0.1012 I've noticed a significant increase in efficiency using the AviSynth Script Creator. In older versions opening an MKV file containing HD DVD output from eac3to would take several minutes. Now it takes several seconds. Also "autocrop" is much faster. I dont' know what you did by kudos for the great work.

[rack04]

I just submitted bug report to the MeGUI tracker concerning error when loading "AutoEncode". Can anyone confirm?

Problem fixed in latest version. Thanks.

[Sharktooth]

Moving toward 0.3: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=841660

[Sharktooth]

New stable version is up.
Autoupdate server has been... updated and should automatically warn you.
If you encounter problems after updating, please do a clean install.

Download link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156112&package_id=174059&release_id=610828

Changelog: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=156112&release_id=610828

[Vesi]

Latest meGUI (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156112) is not possible to install.

[Sharktooth]

why not? many users have already installed it without problems

[Atak_Snajpera]

Latest meGUI is not possible to install.
Do not use Limited account. use Administrators instead!

[Vesi]

Edit: Everything is fine now. thanks alot Sharktooth & Atak_Snajpera for the replays.

[Vesi]

Any idea why during making D2V after puting the job to queue and start the job the % of making D2V progress stack on nothing? it just show % mark with out any number.

[Sharktooth]

maybe a minor bug. however does it end up creating a correct d2v file?

[MrX]

megui 0.3.0.1014
C:\Program Files (x86)\DVD\megui
With C:\megui too.

WinXP 64bit english (with all updates)

If I use update the following error occurs:
Updating convolution3dyv12. File 21/36.
Updating undot. File 21/35.
Updating fluxsmooth. File 21/34.
Updating eedi2. File 1/13.
Updating decomb. File 1/12.
Updating leakkerneldeint. File 1/11.
Updating tomsmocomp. File 1/10.
Updating tdeint. File 1/9.
Updating tivtc. File 1/8.
Updating dgdecode. File 1/7.
Updating simpleresize. File 1/6.
Updating colormatrix. File 1/5.
Updating nicaudio. File 1/4.
(see megui_error_001.JPG)

[Vesi]

maybe a minor bug. however does it end up creating a correct d2v file?

Will hard to say d2v was created right, as far i played with d2v in Avsp everything was fine, but after finished the encoding i got 200 mb undersized with these settings for 02:45:00 run time, dunno why :confused:

http://maxupload.com/img/4EC8B0EB.png.http://maxupload.com/img/021F20AB.png

[Sharktooth]

@Vesi: the d2v is ok then. The undersize often depends on codec misconfiguration by the user.

@MrX: run MeGUI as an admin.

[Vesi]

The undersize often depends on codec misconfiguration by the user.

How I have to solve this problem?

[weaker]

I just want to give a short notice about what I found strange:
I installed meGUI on a quite freshly installed XP SP3 without any .NET framework components installed. The error message meGUI gave me didn't point me to missing .NET but looked rather like a usual crash (dialog box with red-white X, "application couldn't be initialized" and a hex code IIRC c0000135). Only after a few google searches I found that with another program that error comes from missing .NET.
In the meGUI changelog I read "- (kurtnoise) removed .net framework checking for vista users during the loading. It should be fine now with all apps updated and frankly it's also to avoid to waste some time to upgrade each number indefinitely...;-)"
Perhaps it has to do with that, although I'm on XP.

[check]

weaker, I don't see what point you are trying to make with your post. I'd say MeGUI requires the .NET runtimes to work, but you seem to already know this. Is it a feature request to make the crash reason less obscure?

[Sharktooth]

How I have to solve this problem?
:search:

[Sharktooth]

I just want to give a short notice about what I found strange:
I installed meGUI on a quite freshly installed XP SP3 without any .NET framework components installed. The error message meGUI gave me didn't point me to missing .NET but looked rather like a usual crash (dialog box with red-white X, "application couldn't be initialized" and a hex code IIRC c0000135). Only after a few google searches I found that with another program that error comes from missing .NET.
In the meGUI changelog I read "- (kurtnoise) removed .net framework checking for vista users during the loading. It should be fine now with all apps updated and frankly it's also to avoid to waste some time to upgrade each number indefinitely...;-)"
Perhaps it has to do with that, although I'm on XP.
The error you receive is always the same for ALL .NET framework based apps. It's a standard message.
So, no, it does not depend on us.

[Redsandro]

First post here.
Congrats on an awesome tool!

I was wondering if it's an idea to change that "Your source is RGB and should by YUV. Do you want MeGUI to add ConvertToYV12() to your script"? [yes/no] dialog so you can choose [yes - 601/yes - 709/no], with the middle option adding ConvertToYV12(matrix="Rec709")?

Saves HD people from manually going back.

[Sharktooth]

uhm... could be an idea.
please post it in the megui feature request tracker (here (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=798479&group_id=156112&func=browse))

[MrX]

@MrX: run MeGUI as an admin.

I run it as an admin, but it doesn't work for me.
With the 3.0.1015 too.

[Redsandro]

uhm... could be an idea.
please post it in the megui feature request tracker (here (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=798479&group_id=156112&func=browse))
Thanks for the link, done that.

[Sharktooth]

I run it as an admin, but it doesn't work for me.
With the 3.0.1015 too.
dunno, it says invalid chars but i cant see invalid chars in your path.