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

[Sharktooth]

could you give some more details? what you mean when you say "when I try to upload a video to work with" ?

[Coryu]

When I put the MeGUI and the option Tools - AVS Script Creator, Video Input post a video and do not load, I get the error:

MeGUI stopped working. And I can give Debug or Close Program.

[Sharktooth]

have you installed avisynth (2.57 or newer) and updated all the megui packages using the update feature?

[Coryu]

Thanks, the problem was that he had not updated the avisynth, had 2.0

Thank you very much for helping me with meGUI

One last thing that I can put a post TMPGEnc doubt that I am not working, and seeing that here you have helped me very fast, if I can fix it there. (The problem is that when a mp4 convert avi to the final result, the audio can be heard very badly cut and the video and slow)

[Sharktooth]

im sorry i dont use TMPGEnc.

[pihug12]

Where did you find MKVMerge 2.4.2 ?
Is it an official release ?

pihug12 :cool:

[Chumbo]

Where did you find MKVMerge 2.4.2 ?
Is it an official release ?

pihug12 :cool:
Have you ever used a search?

[Sharktooth]

@pihug12: yes it is official. you may want have a look here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120648

[ricky man]

i am wondering if i can install 32bit MeGui on the 64bit Vista or not. Or do i have to get every filter that is 64bit on it.

[tomos]

use 32-bit. works fine

for me at least :O

[Dark Guard]

Was there any reason that .avi format was removed from the "auto-encode" feature?

[Kurtnoise]

container list relies on codecs...So, if you're using x264, AVI cannot be used with it.

[Nozomi]

I use the following parameters to re-encode DiVX HDTV source 720P video (no resize or any other filter applied except adding subtitles) , it is actually modified base on Sharktooth's "Unrestricted 2pass HQ", the only modification are from:

Main
Automated 2pass -> Const Quality (save time but want good quality)
Disabled Deblocking (machine too old/slow to support in playback)
High Profile -> Main Profile
AVC Level Unrestricted -> Level 3.0

RC and ME
No. Reference Frames 5 -> 3
Trellis 2 - 1

Advanced
Macroblock Disable P4x4

" --crf 26 --level 3 --ref 3 --mixed-refs --bframes 3 --b-adapt 2 --b-pyramid --weightb --direct auto --nf --subme 7 --trellis 1 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i4x4 --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --sar 1:1 --aud --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim"

I am glad the result AVC is able to reduce ~40% in size of the original without visual quality lost, overall bitrates reduced from 3400Kb to 2000Kb but I found the encoding time is still far too slow! Is there any other enhancement you can suggest to further increase the encoding speed while maintain the good quality? I don't mind the increase in output file size but macroblocks in dark scenes and scenes with "flat" backgrounds would be my main concerns.

Also, if there is any contradiction in --crf mode to use with the above parameters please enlighten me.

Appreciated for your advices.

[poisondeathray]

Nozomi - If you enable deblocking, or increase the bitrate (lower crf), the macroblocks will likely go away

[Nozomi]

@poisondeathray, thanks, lucky that for my case I don't found any macroblock even with deblocking disabled. My question is how to have further encoding speed improvement while maintain the existing quality, I am afraid enabling deblocking would just going towards the opposite direction.

[Dark Shikari]

@poisondeathray, thanks, lucky that for my case I don't found any macroblock even with deblocking disabled. My question is how to have further encoding speed improvement while maintain the existing quality, I am afraid enabling deblocking would just going towards the opposite direction.Why did you disable 8x8dct? It gives more quality per encoding speed cost than any other option in x264.

[Nozomi]

No particular reason, I just don't know :p I see, it can only be enabled with High Profile + Unrestricted AVC Level. Thanks for the tips.

[Dark Shikari]

No particular reason, I just don't know :p I see, it can only be enabled with High Profile + Unrestricted AVC Level8x8dct has absolutely no relation to level; you don't need to set "unrestricted" to use it.

[Nozomi]

Oops, you're right, my mistake. Change to High Profile can select it, thanks!

[ufdent98]

I have actually searched a whole bunch with no luck.

Problem:
When I use autoencode to create an MP4 file with xvid encoded video and aac encoded audio, the video portion doesn't mux in.

Details:
When encoded to avi seperately, and muxed into an MP4 container, everything comes out great. It's only when using the autoencode and it creates an .m4v file that it doesn't work. It says that it muxed, but when playing only audio comes out.

Thanks, i'm sure it's something simple I'm missing.
[Information] Log
-[Information] Versions
--[NoImage] MeGUI Version : 0.3.1.1012
--[NoImage] OS : Windows Seven (6.1.0.7000)
--[NoImage] Framework used : 2.0 SP1 (2.0.50727.3521)
-[Information] Hardware
--[NoImage] CPU : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz
-[Information] Log for job8 (idx, Sean Paul - Like Glue.mpg -> Sean Paul - Like Glue.d2v)
--[Information] [2/7/2009 10:58:26 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [2/7/2009 10:58:26 AM] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\dgindex\dgindex.exe" -SD=< -AIF=<C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.mpg< -OF=<C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue< -exit -hide -OM=1 -TN=c0
--[Information] [2/7/2009 10:58:26 AM] Encoding started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
--[NoImage] Standard error stream
--[Information] [2/7/2009 10:58:26 AM] Running auto force film
---[NoImage] Film percentage: -1
--[Information] [2/7/2009 10:58:26 AM] Postprocessing
---[Information] Deleting intermediate files
--[Information] [2/7/2009 10:58:27 AM] Job completed
-[Information] AutoEncode job generation log
--[NoImage] Split Size : null
--[Information] Eliminating duplicate filenames
---[NoImage] Video output file: C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.m4v
---[NoImage] Muxed output file: C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue-muxed.mp4
---[NoImage] Encodable audio stream 0: C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue Tc0 L2 2ch 44.1 224 DELAY 0ms.m4a
-[Information] Log for job1 (audio, Sean Paul - Like Glue Tc0 L2 2ch 44.1 224 DELAY 0ms.mp2 -> Sean Paul - Like Glue Tc0 L2 2ch 44.1 224 DELAY 0ms.m4a)
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:31 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:31 AM] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Avisynth script
---[NoImage] NicMPG123Source("C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue Tc0 L2 2ch 44.1 224 DELAY 0ms.mp2")
---[NoImage] 6<=Audiochannels(last)?x_stereoce2db66d9bd34204aa5dda0f4fa81776(ConvertAudioToFloat(last)):last
---[NoImage] SSRC(44100)
---[NoImage] Normalize()
---[NoImage] return last
---[NoImage] function x_stereoce2db66d9bd34204aa5dda0f4fa81776(clip a)
---[NoImage] {
---[NoImage] fl = GetChannel(a, 1)
---[NoImage] fr = GetChannel(a, 2)
---[NoImage] c = GetChannel(a, 3)
---[NoImage] lfe = GetChannel(a, 4)
---[NoImage] sl = GetChannel(a, 5)
---[NoImage] sr = GetChannel(a, 6)
---[NoImage] l_sl = MixAudio(fl, sl, 0.2929, 0.2929)
---[NoImage] c_lfe = MixAudio(lfe, c, 0.2071, 0.2071)
---[NoImage] r_sr = MixAudio(fr, sr, 0.2929, 0.2929)
---[NoImage] l = MixAudio(l_sl, c_lfe, 1.0, 1.0)
---[NoImage] r = MixAudio(r_sr, c_lfe, 1.0, 1.0)
---[NoImage] return MergeChannels(l, r)
---[NoImage] }
--[NoImage] Commandline used: -ignorelength -lc -br 96000 -if - -of "{0}"
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:31 AM] Encoding started
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:31 AM] Encode thread started
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:31 AM] Avisynth script environment opened
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:31 AM] Script loaded
--[Information] Output Decoder
---[NoImage] Channels: 2
---[NoImage] Bits per sample: 32
---[NoImage] Sample rate: 44100
--[NoImage] Commandline: C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\neroaacenc\neroAacEnc.exe -ignorelength -lc -br 96000 -if - -of "C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue Tc0 L2 2ch 44.1 224 DELAY 0ms.m4a"
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:31 AM] Encoder process started
--[NoImage] Output from encoder via stderr
---[NoImage] *************************************************************
---[NoImage] * *
---[NoImage] * Nero AAC Encoder *
---[NoImage] * Copyright 2008 Nero AG *
---[NoImage] * All Rights Reserved Worldwide *
---[NoImage] * *
---[NoImage] * Package build date: Sep 17 2008 *
---[NoImage] * Package version: 1.3.3.0 *
---[NoImage] * *
---[NoImage] * See -help for a complete list of available parameters. *
---[NoImage] * *
---[NoImage] *************************************************************
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:42 AM] Postprocessing
---[Information] Deleting intermediate files
----[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:42 AM] Successfully deleted C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue Tc0 L2 2ch 44.1 224 DELAY 0ms.mp2.d2a
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:42 AM] Job completed
-[Information] Log for job2 (video, Sean Paul - Like Glue.avs -> )
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:42 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:42 AM] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\xvid_encraw\xvid_encraw.exe" -i "C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.avs" -pass1 "C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.stats" -bitrate 800 -kboost 100 -overhead 0 -nopacked -closed_gop -max_bframes 0 -par 1:1 -threads 1
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:01:42 AM] Encoding started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
---[NoImage] xvid_encraw - raw mpeg4 bitstream encoder written by Christoph Lampert 2002-2003
---[NoImage] Tot: enctime(ms) =26371.00, length(bytes) = 74900711
---[NoImage] Avg: enctime(ms) = 3.77, fps = 265.14, length(bytes) = 10712
---[NoImage] I frames: 116 frames, size = 13986/ 1622447, quants = 2 / 2.00 / 2
---[NoImage] P frames: 6876 frames, size = 10657/ 73278264, quants = 2 / 2.00 / 2
--[NoImage] Standard error stream
---[NoImage] Trying to retrieve width and height from input header
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Avisynth detected
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Input colorspace is YV12
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Input is 320 x 240, 29.970fps (30000/1001), starting from frame 0
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Number of frames to encode: 6992, Bitrate = 800kbps
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: xvidcore build version: xvid-1.2.1
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Bitstream version: 1.2.1
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Detected CPU flags: ASM MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 TSC
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Detected cpus = 8, threads requested = 1, threads in use = 1
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:02:09 AM] Postprocessing
---[Information] Deleting intermediate files
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:02:09 AM] Job completed
-[Information] Log for job3 (video, Sean Paul - Like Glue.avs -> Sean Paul - Like Glue.m4v)
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:02:09 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:02:09 AM] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\xvid_encraw\xvid_encraw.exe" -i "C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.avs" -pass2 "C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.stats" -bitrate 800 -kboost 100 -overhead 0 -nopacked -closed_gop -max_bframes 0 -par 1:1 -threads 1 -o "C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.m4v"
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:02:09 AM] Encoding started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
---[NoImage] xvid_encraw - raw mpeg4 bitstream encoder written by Christoph Lampert 2002-2003
---[NoImage] Tot: enctime(ms) =50794.00, length(bytes) = 23057982
---[NoImage] Avg: enctime(ms) = 7.26, fps = 137.65, length(bytes) = 3297
---[NoImage] I frames: 116 frames, size = 11551/ 1340020, quants = 2 / 2.58 / 3
---[NoImage] P frames: 6876 frames, size = 3158/ 21717962, quants = 2 / 5.67 / 7
--[NoImage] Standard error stream
---[NoImage] Trying to retrieve width and height from input header
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Avisynth detected
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Input colorspace is YV12
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Input is 320 x 240, 29.970fps (30000/1001), starting from frame 0
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Number of frames to encode: 6992, Bitrate = 800kbps
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: xvidcore build version: xvid-1.2.1
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Bitstream version: 1.2.1
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Detected CPU flags: ASM MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 TSC
---[NoImage] xvid [info]: Detected cpus = 8, threads requested = 1, threads in use = 1
--[Information] Final statistics
---[NoImage] Video Bitrate Desired: 800 kbit/s
---[NoImage] Video Bitrate Obtained (approximate): 790 kbit/s
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:00 AM] Postprocessing
---[Information] Deleting intermediate files
----[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:00 AM] Successfully deleted C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.stats
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:00 AM] Job completed
-[Information] Log for job4 (mux, Sean Paul - Like Glue.m4v -> Sean Paul - Like Glue-muxed.mp4)
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:00 AM] Started handling job
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:00 AM] Preprocessing
--[NoImage] Job commandline: "C:\Program Files (x86)\megui\tools\mp4box\mp4box.exe" -add "C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.m4v:fps=29.97" -add "C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue Tc0 L2 2ch 44.1 224 DELAY 0ms.m4a#trackID=1" -tmp "C:\Users\steve\Desktop" -new "C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue-muxed.mp4"
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:01 AM] Encoding started
--[NoImage] Standard output stream
---[NoImage] MPEG-4 Video import - 320 x 240 @ 29.9700 FPS
---[NoImage] Indicated Profile: Advanced Simple Profile @ Level 5
---[NoImage] Import results: 6992 VOPs (116 Is - 6876 Ps)
---[NoImage] IsoMedia import - track ID 1 - Audio (SR 44100 - 2 channels)
---[NoImage] Converting to ISMA Audio-Video MP4 file...
---[NoImage] Saving C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue-muxed.mp4: 0.500 secs Interleaving
--[NoImage] Standard error stream
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:01 AM] Postprocessing
---[Information] Deleting intermediate files
----[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:01 AM] Successfully deleted C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue.m4v
----[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:01 AM] Successfully deleted C:\Users\steve\Desktop\Sean Paul - Like Glue Tc0 L2 2ch 44.1 224 DELAY 0ms.m4a
--[Information] [2/7/2009 11:03:01 AM] Job completed


steve

[Nozomi]

autoencode will create originalfilename-muxed.mp4 not .m4v. Could you show the logs...

[rkalwaitis]

Im sad to see the avi and x264 option is gone. To bad.

Is anyone else having problems with the mp3 encoding.

-[NoImage] Commandline: C:\Program Files\megui\tools\lame\lame.exe --abr 96 -h --silent - "C:\Users\baba\Desktop\RocknRolla\VTS_01_1 T80 3_2ch 384Kbps DELAY 0ms.mp3"
--[Information] [2/7/2009 3:01:52 PM] Encoder process started
--[Error] An error occurred
---[NoImage] Exception message: The pipe has been ended.
---[NoImage] Stacktrace
----[NoImage] at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
----[NoImage] at System.IO.FileStream.WriteCore(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
----[NoImage] at System.IO.FileStream.Write(Byte[] array, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
----[NoImage] at MeGUI.AviSynthAudioEncoder.encode()
---[NoImage] Inner exception: null
--[Information] [2/7/2009 3:05:25 PM] Job complete

[Sharktooth]

it never existed.

[rkalwaitis]

I could make a x264 and use the muxer to make an avi file with mp3 sound. Now I can not do it anymore.

[tebasuna51]

Im sad to see the avi and x264 option is gone. To bad.

Is anyone else having problems with the mp3 encoding.

-[NoImage] Commandline: C:\Program Files\megui\tools\lame\lame.exe --abr 96 -h --silent - "C:\Users\baba\Desktop\RocknRolla\VTS_01_1 T80 3_2ch 384Kbps DELAY 0ms.mp3"...

Lame mp3 stil don't support multichannel audio, you need to downmix to stereo mix.

[Sharktooth]

@rkalwaitis: megui muxer NEVER supported muxing h.264/avc in avi. i repeat, NEVER.
there was once the avc2avi muxer tool, but it never supported audio muxing so it was removed coz it was useless and btw, avc in avi is a no go.

[rkalwaitis]

Sharktooth, Obviously I would be foolish to argue with you. Your knowledge of this issue is far superior to mine. My terminology may be poor at best as I confuse avc with x264. But I know I could take a (rawavc-264) and turn it into a avi file. Once it was an avi I could use the avi muxer to add the sound. The avc2avi muxer you talked about must of been the tool I used to turn my rawavc to an avi file. I do not understand why I can not have have avc in a avi? Wouldnt the avc to avi muxer remedy any problems? I mean why have a tool that converts avc to avi? I will read more about avc files and their taboo relationship with an avi file. Just so everyone knows, I was not trying to argue with anyone here or come across as a know it all, I have not the knowledge base to do so. My questions or comments are geniune and not meant to be offend.

Tebasuna51, Thanks for the help, Ill give it a whirl.

[Dark Shikari]

Sharktooth, Obviously I would be foolish to argue with you. Your knowledge of this issue is far superior to mine. My terminology may be poor at best as I confuse avc with x264. But I know I could take a (rawavc-264) and turn it into a avi file. Once it was an avi I could use the avi muxer to add the sound. The avc2avi muxer you talked about must of been the tool I used to turn my rawavc to an avi file. I do not understand why I can not have have avc in a avi? Wouldnt the avc to avi muxer remedy any problems? I mean why have a tool that converts avc to avi? I will read more about avc files and their taboo relationship with an avi file. Just so everyone knows, I was not trying to argue with anyone here or come across as a know it all, I have not the knowledge base to do so. My questions or comments are geniune and not meant to be offend.

Tebasuna51, Thanks for the help, Ill give it a whirl.AVC in AVI simply doesn't work properly for many reasons. But here's the kicker:

There exists no player, hardware or software, that will play H.264 in AVI--but won't play an equivalent MP4 or MKV file. However, there are many such players that will play MP4 or MKV, but not AVI, because H.264 in AVI is a broken hack.

Therefore, there is no reason ever to use H.264 in AVI.

[Kurtnoise]

I have actually searched a whole bunch with no luck.

Problem:
When I use autoencode to create an MP4 file with xvid encoded video and aac encoded audio, the video portion doesn't mux in.

open your mp4 in mediainfo and what do you see exactly ?

[rkalwaitis]

so x264 is not h264, but both can make a rawavc? Perhaps this is my confusion. Calling x264 - h264.

@tebasuna, your info helped and it worked. Thanks

[rkalwaitis]

Dark Shikari, Then I may be even more confused. Since there is no player to support h264 in avi format, then I am not talking about the same thing. Surely Megui Developers who not put anyone in that position. All I was saying is that I used to make avi files with x264 codec and the various muxing tools. AVCtoAVI AVIMuxer extra. The only reason Im certain of it is because I had to use MP3 sound for it.

It doesnt matter, MEGUI is a fine tool and I appreciate all of the hard work that goes into it.

K

[Nightshiver]

Even though the .avi container is completely out of date? Much better one's exist.

[Sharktooth]

rkalwaitis, just to clear some confusion, h.264 (also known as MPEG4-AVC or MPEG4 part 10) is a standard for video encoding. x264 is an opensource implementation of that standard.
for that reason x264 is perfectly able to produce rawavc files.
about the AVI container issues, there is no possible reason to use h.264 in avi except for editing with old softwares that do not support more advanced containers than AVI. all you get from h.264 in AVI are problems of all kinds (and that's also the reason why h.264 in AVI is not supported by anyone).
about megui, it never was able to mux the audio along with h.264 into an AVI. once it used to provide a GUI tool for avc2avi but, as i said, avc2avi is only able to mux h.264 to AVI without audio.
that said, i still provide a build of avc2avi along with a GUI in the x264 daily builds thread (direct download: http://mirror05.x264.nl/Sharktooth/x264/utils/avc2avi_r594+gui1.2.7z) but, as i just said, it cant mux the audio. actually i dont think there is any existing muxer that will mux h.264 and an audio stream to an AVI file except virtualdub(mod) along with a special and not-officially-supported build of x264 (called x264VFW) that is an ugly hacked version of x264 that produce uncompliant streams coz of Video For Windows and AVI limitations.

[rkalwaitis]

Thanks Sharktooth, you always keep me on track. Im playing around with MKVs and MP4s to see which is better. Visually they seem similar. Sorry for the confusion with the avi, x264, and H264 stuff. I think I was hung up on the x264 rawavc deal. Im really not a trouble maker, but trying to learn like everyone else. Thanks for the link.

Thanks again.
K

[Sharktooth]

mp4 and mkv are just containers. if you mux a rawavc stream in them, it will look identical.

[Nozomi]

Also, for video size > 4GB need to use mkv

[Sharktooth]

false, mkv is not the only container able to "break" the 4GB barrier. MP4, for example, has no problems with streams bigger than 4GB.

[rkalwaitis]

okay then I pick mkv, just cause the one I tried came out so nice. Also cause megui lets me just pick mkv and not have to mess with rawavc.

[Atak_Snajpera]

MP4, for example, has no problems with streams bigger than 4GB.
MP4 maybe has no problems with streams over 4gb but devices have. Even PS3 cannot play over 4gb mp4.

[Sharktooth]

that's due to a poor implementation of the mp4 splitter in the device.

[Nozomi]

mp4 container cannot embed subtitle tracks.

[Kurtnoise]

since when ?

[Sharktooth]

Nozomi, MP4 supports TTXT subtitles.

[Quatre]

I have a 1080p with AC3 mkv that does not play right in my popcorn hour (networked media tank) even after remuxing to .ts in tsMuxeR (which usually makes an mkv playable in the pch).

I have pinpointed and confirmed the problem is the file has 1 ref frame too many and that the solution is to reencode it with RipBot64, Media Coder, or megui.

i'm just wondering what would be the best and easiest of those 3 and what settings I need to set. I think i may have all 3 or at least 2 of these 3 somewhere. I remember megui requiring all these other parts as the first post shows and i htink i had it all but is there a place to get the latest version all in one with everything needed to just reencode an mkv to mkv but fixing the ref frame problem?

[magic144]

Anybody else seen this problem where auto-encode does not queue the correct container output in the job queue...
I see somebody has raised this in the bug tracker...

It always used to work fine, but now for some reason whenever I use Auto-Encode (in 0.3.1.1013), the output selected in the job queue is always .264, irrespective of whether or not I have chosen .mp4 or .mkv as the container type

I uninstalled and reinstalled 0.3.1.1006 and upgraded every component except the 5 MeGUI file components (core, data, libs, avswrapper, updatecopier), and auto-encode now encodes .mkv output jobs as before... must be something new in MeGUI itself since that version??

cheers for this great tool! hope this is a simple bug to identify/fix!
m

[Kurtnoise]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=144986

[magic144]

ahh... sorry, didn't spot that - so the behaviour's changed recently
thanks for the link/explanation

[7ekno]

Hi guys,

Just a quickie, I have been trying to work out how to import 20+ *.AVS files straight into the "Queue" section (or the input section) of MeGUI ...

Is it possible, or does each *.AVS need to be queued manually (which takes forever with processor intense scripts)?!?

If it's not possible, anybody know of an add on, or separate App that will dump multiple *.AVS files into MeGUIs "queue" file/directory?!?

Thanks in advance,
7ek

[Kurtnoise]

to reduce avisynth rendering w/ complex scripts, you can disable the video preview (in the settings)...hope this helps.

[QuadraQ]

Uh, I just tried to encode some video that I've encoded many times over the past few days as part of the testing I've been doing. Loaded it into MeGUI as always and got the message there are updates. It was a newer version of x264 (1114 I believe) so it downloaded it and installed it. I restarted MeGUI and now the first pass of encoding fails immediately with an error. Anyone else having any trouble?

I'm using the x264: Unrestricted 2pass Extra Quality script (unchanged) with a target size of 1/4 a DVD, on some 1080i Film material BFF Deinterlaced, cropped, sized to 1920 x 1080 with spline36, and minimum noise filter. Here's the script:

DGDecode_mpeg2source("C:\Users\Isaac\Videos\Test.d2v", info=3)
ColorMatrix(hints=true, interlaced=true, threads=0)
tfm(order=0).tdecimate()
crop( 6, 0, -4, 0)

Spline36Resize(1920,1080) # Spline36 (Neutral)
Undot() # Minimal Noise

Nothing really unusual and I've been doing this just fine the last few days, it wasn't until the new x264 that I ran into any problems. Where would I find the older 1113 version?