AutoX264 (Multi Encoder GUI for X264) v.18

[buzzqw]

update the linux build (again), just some gui glitch (and fixed the Donate button ... )

But I'm confusing with a cropping. If I want to omit crop values, do I put 0 in these values or width x height? I need some clarity on this question.

yes, for NO CROP but 0 on all values

BHH

[buzzqw]

fixed muxing on No audio (both for linux and windows build)

BHH

[Selur]

@buzzqw: did you find a workaround for http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=140261 ? (strange connection between sample rate and bitrate when encoding to aac audio)

[buzzqw]

well.. i don't pass sample rate to mencoder , i let mencoder select it (or can be selected by user) (and i use only mencoder, not ffmpeg)

can you use sox as a prefilter for sampling ?

BHH

[yeye69]

How about multiple sound tracks?

[buzzqw]

autox264 can handle input file with multiple audio tracks (change pid in audio options) , BUT can output only one audio track at time

BHH

[Selur]

can you use sox as a prefilter for sampling ?

one could, but the problem is this:
say you got a stereo source with 380kBit/s@48kHz and you want a 60kBit/s@48kHz stereo aac file with you end up with 96+kBit/s instead of 60kBit/s. So the problem is that the output bitrate strongly depends on the output sample rate if you just take the sampel rate of the input (48kHz) you can't get a bitrate around 60kBit/s you always end somewhere between 80kBit/s-160kBit/s and as far as I could test it then there's no way of knowing what the output size will be.
All in all it isn't really a problem if it doesn't bother you if you get a 60kBit/s or a 132kBit/s audio output. (doesn't kill you for normal dvd encodes aiming for 1CD+ but it's really a pain if you want some low bitrate encodes for the net; that's what I needed when I stumbled over this problem. )

Haven't found a workaround for it myself and for low datarates I now use neroaacenc, just wanted to know if you were aware of the problem and may be knew a way to fix it.


Cu Selur

[buzzqw]

understud, that a pita

i will encode some sample files at different audio bitrate with autox264... just to look at audio bitrate

thanks for the input

BHH

[buzzqw]

update windows build
now autox264 propose the same input folder as output folder
when saving with extension "mkv" autox264 set automatically mux to mkv

BHH

[buzzqw]

update the windows build (later for linux)

added support for multi audio

BHH

[Mad_Martha]

Hi , thanks for this prog..

Question : How would I go about a non-cropped , Anamorphic encode to an mkv - encode at original res then use mkvmerge to set DAR ?

Problem - Have noted that even when I set the cropping to all zero , clicking anywhere on the cropping tag re-enters values into the crop fields.
(and conversely - when changing the crop fields to zero it changes the output resolution away from what was previously set)

Another problem I got is that when trying to encode - audio is processed but then everything just stops - does not get to trying to encode video , just halts after the audio.(the terminal window closes and nothing else happens)

I pasted the encode line directly into a terminal window and got the following :

mencoder -vf harddup,crop=720:576:0:0,scale=720:576,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -sws 2 -aspect 1.7778 -of rawvideo -o autox264.h264 -nosound -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=2114ass=1:threads=auto:bframes=8artitions=i4x4,i8x8,p8x8,b8x8:8x8dct:direct_pred=auto:me=tesa:subq=8:b_adapt=2:turbo=2:frameref=16:deblock=-1,-2:weight_b:me_range=32:trellis=2:mixed_refs:b_pyramid:level=4.1:ratetol=1 "/home/madmartha/Videos/Clockwork.mpg" -nosound
MEncoder 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu17 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1400MHz (Family: 6, Model: 11, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Option x264encopts: Bad argument b_adapt=2
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x2d3e804
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 6500.0 kbps (812.5 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [hqdn3d=2:1:2]
Opening video filter: [scale w=720 h=576]
Opening video filter: [crop w=720 h=576 x=0 y=0]
Crop: 720 x 576, 0 ; 0
Opening video filter: [harddup]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
[swscaler @ 0x883e3d0]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> yuv420p special converter
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

Exiting...

cheers , [MM]

[buzzqw]

you are using a very old mencoder build

MEncoder 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu17 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team

i think that these optionts are not avaiable for you
":b_adapt=2" , set the b adapt to 1
"me=tesa" , set to a lower value

(or update the mencoder build...)

BHH

[buzzqw]

update both builds (win and linux)

better ffmpeg encoding
better ffmpeg path detection
added support for NO video encoding (will encode only audio)

BHH

[Crono141]

Dumb question: Is it possible to get a PPC build for PS3 ubuntu?

[buzzqw]

i can't compile for PPC sorry

but autox264 is FOOS, so if you have a license of purebasic you can compile

BHH

[buzzqw]

update to 0.13
update both builds, windows and linux

added support for encoding with x264 (via avisynth)
added support for decoding with avisynth (and encoding with x264) , using dgavcdec, ffmpegsource, directshowsource
added support for copy audio/copy video/no audio/no video
better encoding with ffmpeg

now autox264 is a multi encoder (x264/ffmpeg/mencoder) for h264 codec!

[Selur]

added support for decoding with avisynth (and encoding with x264) , using dgavcdec, ffmpegsource, directshowsource

for windows&linux ?

[buzzqw]

for windows&linux ?

for both

if you download autox264 AND applications pack (first post) when you start the application, it will find automatically the new decoding/encoding capabilities

in case of use avisynth (dgavcdec or ffmpegsource or dss) mencoder is used only for audio encoding, while autox264 will build a minimal avisynth script (crop/resize/denoise/filtering as requested, and of course decoding with dg/ff/dss) and will encode with x264

it works for linux (under wine) too

BHH

[yeye69]

Something wrong for me with latest version, can't analyze any source file

[buzzqw]

Originally Posted by yeye69

Something wrong for me with latest version, can't analyze any source file

windows or linux ? if win..got the applications pack ?

what's source file ?

could you provide a sample ?

and last dumb question: have you hit "Analyze with..." ?

BHH