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Old 25th October 2014, 21:54   #130  |  Link
r0lZ
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Well, I believe that my program must be accessible to everybody. I don't want to make it too difficult to understand and use. There is already a lot of options, some not obvious for a beginner. Also, x264 has excellent presets and tune options, that should be sufficient for most users. Adding all settings in a GUI is theoretically possible, but that will only be much confusing for most users. And take in mind that BD3D2MK3D sets some options automatically for you (such as --frame-packing, or the --vbv-* options if you select a specific level). It is difficult to have to disable that options in the GUI if the user selects a level, and enable them otherwise. And I don't want to encourage peoples to tick one or two options without knowing exactly what is their usage, just to check if the result will be good. Usually, that kind of experiment leads to bad images, slow encodes or bad compression. In short, I have opted for a GUI as simple as possible, but with the possibility for advanced users to specify additional options manually, if they know what they are doing.

Anyway, if you want to use the same set of options every time you use BD3D2MK3D, you can just type them once, and then use Settings -> Save Settings Now to save them permanently. (Just be sure to disable the Save Settings On Exit option, as otherwise your default options will be overwritten if you change them for a specific movie.) All options are saved, including everything that you can select via the GUI and the content of the "Additional options" field, but of course nothing directly related to the current movie, such as its title and tags. IIRC, only the global Shutdown Computer option is not saved (because it is too dangerous).

Honestly, I don't know why x264 may need almost 16GB of memory with your settings. It may be caused by the --merange parameter, but I'm not sure. I'm not at all a specialist of the x264 encoder. I can only tell you that I have only 4GB of mem, and x264 has never needed more than approximately 2GB to encode my movies (without --merange 64). You should ask your question in a forum about x264.

Don't worry for your "terrible" English. It is perfectly understandable, and anyway, English is not my native language either.
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