StaxRip

[burfadel]

A lot of people still like to encode, I do. It's almost a hobby in a way . A good streaming player would be good though, especially if it can use madVR to maximise playback quality with maybe EVR as a fallback. For encoding you already need the source so you can watch it anyway, streaming is just convenience.

Ultimately a stream capture, temp storage as a largeish file and encode function would be handy, purely for personal use of course. Stream and save like an old analogue TV tuner card from the player, encode with Staxrip.

[Natty]

Originally Posted by stax76

interest of most people in encoding is declining it seems.

no it isnt so, 4k sources are in tons of GB. if streaming sources eat lesser bandwidth, interest may decline. prices are already competitive.

Originally Posted by stax76

This doesn't mean I'll abandon staxrip.

please, never do.

[IbrahimKh]

how to edit this default value?

[Natty]

Originally Posted by IbrahimKh

how to edit this default value?

remove that line

[IbrahimKh]

Originally Posted by Natty

remove that line

I did but it keeps coming back to default

[stax76]

I've added a short description to the FQA:

https://github.com/stax76/staxrip/wi...ttings-persist

[Yanak]

Originally Posted by Natty

any workaround?

Hi,
"MP_Pipeline" can help, i run a few things in x86-32bit mode inside staxrip x64, made a long explanation about it once, on this page here :
https://github.com/stax76/staxrip/issues/170
Might serve for your problem too, still running fine for me.

@Stax :

Hi,
i had to take a little break for various reasons, i come back and there was like 30 new releases done lmao, lot of new interesting things and fixes, you never stop man, thanks a lot for that hard work.

Had to re-do most of my profiles and settings again, exporting the settings as before did not worked this time for many of them or some things were messed up like the event commands that were all inverted.

Anyways i almost done all and i have a question for the AAC encoders :
- I used to encode audio in 384k CBR for some of my stuff, this is still possible using ffmpeg for the encoding, however after getting the needed files for the qaac and fdkaac i can not achieve this with those.

qaac is quite interesting with the piping from ffmpeg but apparently it is limited to 320k for stereo no matter if you set up a higher value ( goes higher with more channels than a simple stereo tho).

According the the documentation and if i understood correctly something i saw on one of my google searches you can somehow trick it if you set a value under 8 bits like said here :
https://github.com/nu774/qaac/wiki/E...-configuration

For CBR, ABR, and CVBR, bitrate less than 8 is taken as bits per sample. Bitrate is calculated as the following:
bitrate = bits per sample * number of channels(excluding LFE) * sample rate
For example, --cvbr 1.5 is equivalent for --cvbr 144 in case of 48kHz, 2ch.

But in staxrip the minimum i can set is 16 bits only... and trying to add this manually in the custom command option for the encoder creates a conflict of course, not sure what i can do here to experiment with values under 8bits and bypass the 320k bitrate limit in stereo mode.


fdkaac seems to work but this one doesn't keep my settings, i am not sure if it's a bug yet so i ask here first and if needed i'll make a report on github.

If i make a profile or set it to 384 like here :


It works, but only once, using mediainfo the audio ouput when i use this is 384, same if i set 512 the ouput is 512, for some reasons after the profile is loaded again or for the next encoding it reverts to another value than the 384 in profile, again not sure if i am missing something and doing it wrong here or if it' a bug, or else.

Anyways i would like to use either qaac with the piping option or fdkaac with CBR 384 bitrate, qaac i can't since i cannot trick it with a birate under 8bits as the minimum i can set is 16 bit and fdkaac is apparently not working as expected and reverting my settings and profiles... if you or someone else have any ideas please, if the fdkaac reverting is confirmed as bug i'll make a proper bug report for it.

Thanks in advance and as always thanks a lot for this great tool ( and curious to see about the player you are working on too )

[stax76]

But in staxrip the minimum i can set is 16 bits only...

I've changed it to 1.

fdkaac seems to work but this one doesn't keep my settings.

Yes it was a bug.

My new player is included, it's mostly pure mpv with dotnet addon feature.

Requirements

.NET 4.7 is required on systems prior Windows 10 Version 1703 (Creators Update)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=55170

Download

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-...ld4dzhuTC1WWWM

https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArwKS_ZUR01goCzIRemxotXY_zz-

1.6.1.1 unstable test build

• new: eac3to demuxing supports the temp files folder defined in the options (https://github.com/stax76/staxrip/issues/277)
• new: mpv replaced with mpv.net (https://github.com/stax76/mpvnet)
• new: added button to job processing dialog to show the log file (https://github.com/stax76/staxrip/issues/274)

• fix: the OneDrive link had a permission issue (https://github.com/stax76/staxrip/issues/276)
• fix: chapters were extracted even if the option was disabled (https://github.com/stax76/staxrip/is...ment-324134970)
• fix: null ref exception due to subtitle play button being enabled even if no subtitle is selected (https://github.com/stax76/staxrip/issues/273)
• fix: issue in x264 command line generation
• fix: fdkaac cbr bitrate not being saved (https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...17#post1816917)

• update mvtools2 2.7.22

[Yanak]

Hi,
awesome, downloading it now and gonna test all this, thanks a lot for the quick changes and fixes Stax, perfect as always.

Seems like i also found an issue with some video files having long names leading to some errors and files not found, already used to happen before once in a while but saw there was a fix applied for long names in one of the releases in the meantime, something is not working as it should i think, need to test more all this and pinpoint the issue then I'll report it on the tracker later in the day.

I will have to check a bit about mpv and his possibilities, and also how to store permanently some setting like borderless mode etc, using a cfg file is apparently possible so it should be fine, just need time to play a bit with this new toy. Not sure what dotnet adds as possibilities but i trust in you to bring some interesting features on this new project, will follow the dedicated thread for this

Thanks again for all.

PS: just saw there is a "x86" and "release" subfolder folder in last version, not sure if supposed to be there.

[stax76]

Hi,
mpv has a learning curve, mpv.net supports almost everything except window features because it uses window embedding in order to being able to add a classic GUI like menus and dialogs, I might be able to implement window features on request.

I worked some minuted on a x86 build, it's something I don't like much to do but I know there are quite a few people who use it so I should try to get it working some day.

[ABDO]

Originally Posted by stax76

Hi,
mpv has a learning curve, mpv.net supports almost everything except window features because it uses window embedding in order to being able to add a classic GUI like menus and dialogs, I might be able to implement window features on request

that is great news

[burfadel]

In 1.6.1.1, the down arrow for changing the position of the files in queue doesn't work. The up arrow works fine though! Not sure if previous builds exhibited this behaviour.

[fredlkrue]

Originally Posted by burfadel

In 1.6.1.1, the down arrow for changing the position of the files in queue doesn't work. The up arrow works fine though! Not sure if previous builds exhibited this behaviour.

Same problem here, and I hope the Close button comes back.

[stax76]

Originally Posted by fredlkrue

and I hope the Close button comes back.

You are on Win 7, aren't you? On Win 10 the buttons in the title bar are bigger!

the down arrow for changing the position of the files in queue doesn't work.

Yes, sorry, it was a stupid mistake on a tiny change that normally don't need testing. I uploaded a fix but there is not much changed, I need look at the github issue tracker.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-...ld4dzhuTC1WWWM

https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArwKS_ZUR01goCzIRemxotXY_zz-

1.6.1.2 unstable test build

• fix: move down item in job list was broke
  
• update: mpv.net 0.2
  
• update: Plugins_JPSDR 1.2.0
  
• update: AVSMeter 2.6.2

[burfadel]

Many custom scripts use filters included in Staxrip. If the filter isn't called in Staxrip the filter isn't loaded unless it is located in the Avisynth plugins64 folder or the person loads it manually.

Is it possible to add a loadplugin feature like currently when adding filled? All loaded plugins can be added to the same filter box segment at the top?...

[stax76]

I didn't understand the second part. When a avsi file is imported staxrip could scan it to find out which plugins it uses, that should be better then how it currently works.

[stax76]

Please test.

Requirements

.NET 4.7 is required on systems prior Windows 10 Version 1703 (Creators Update)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=55170

Download

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-...ld4dzhuTC1WWWM

https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArwKS_ZUR01goCzIRemxotXY_zz-

1.6.1.3 unstable test build

• new: GradCurve VapourSynth plugin
• new: smarter discovery of required AviSynth LoadPlugin calls
• new: FFT3DFilter AviSynth plugin
• new: mClean AviSynth+ script

[NikosD]

Originally Posted by stax76

1.6.1.3 unstable test build

• new: GradCurve VapourSynth plugin
• new: smarter discovery of required AviSynth LoadPlugin calls
• new: FFT3DFilter AviSynth plugin
• new: mClean AviSynth+ script

Just FYI and for your next build, there is a new QSVEncC v2.73 version here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...GZ5dE5lSE5mYVk

[stax76]

Thanks, I've updated it.

[Natty]

Originally Posted by stax76

Please test. [*]new: mClean AviSynth+ script

in smdegrain, set contrasharp=true and contrasharp=100 without using lsfmod (earlier without lsfmod it gave stupid errors) and didnt get errors in both the cases, currently doing a small encode with contrasharp=true.
lsb = true is giving error called "dither_lut8" though
and
where to find mclean option?