MeGUI: bug reports and feature requests

[stax76]

Originally Posted by LigH

Depending on the build options preferred by people who compiled it, there are some FFMS2.dll with standard AviSynth plugin API (LoadPlugin) and some FFMS2.dll wich AviSynth-C API (LoadCPlugin).

L-SMASH Works did have important advantages over FFMS2 for a long time; again and again for years it was documented that FFMS2 could only load MKV containers reliably, but was very unreliable loading e.g. TransportStreams, even when Haali Media Splitter was installed (which was used to load some other containers); but just recently (I believe not before this year) this dependency to Haali was removed from FFMS2, so this disadvantage is being fixed. Still, L-SMASH Works has the additional L-SMASH demultiplexer for all ISO Media containers (e.g. MP4, 3GP, MOV...) which FFMS2 does not contain, it uses now only libavformats.

I wouldn't say l-smash is generally better then ffms2, StaxRip still uses ffms2 as default, it has some issues but the same is true for l-smash, I had for instance a NTSC DVD which ffms2 could handle using the rffmode parameter but I failed with l-smash. I do not recommend at all open TS directly, maybe you can open it if it's a clean source from a camcorder and you don't use trim but if it's DVB and you use trim l-smash won't work either, the thing is almost nobody gets DVB TS right because it's hell of complex to parse.

[hello_hello]

Originally Posted by szabi

Thx for it.
So wrong FFMS2.dll plugin are downloaded by MeGUI updater?
Or meGUI script creator use wrong LoadCPlugin call?

Fortunately I used ffms for MKV so I did not realise unreliable loading.
I guess in quality no difference. Am I right?

bye
szabi

MeGUI 2566 is loading ffms2 like this for me (Windows XP):

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MeGUI\tools\ffms\ffms2.dll")

Odd.......

I'm not sure I recall MeGUI ever having used a C plugin version of ffms2, but maybe my memory is bad as I found the following in the changelog:

2439 [FFMS Indexer] automatically switch to LoadCPlugin if required
2450 [FFMS Indexer] defaults to LoadPlugin if LoadCPlugin is also possible

Maybe MeGUI is incorrectly assuming it needs to switch to using LoadCPlugin in your case, but if so, I don't know why.

Edit: I just checked all the ffms2 versions in MeGUII's update_cache folder. The only C-plugin version I have in that folder is ffms2 r809 which is dated Dec 2013. None of the ffms2 versions since then (five more recent) appear to be C-Plugins. Not that it answers your question....

[szabi]

Hi

I did try it.
Default MeGUI script was

LoadCPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\MeGUI\tools\ffms\ffms2.dll")

What did cause loading failure.
Now I did try this:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\MeGUI\tools\ffms\ffms2.dll")

There is no loading failure message, it can be loaded now however loading time almost 60 seconds but after it works.
Seems MeGUI create wrong call in script.

For me if no quality difference between L-SMASH and FFMS does not matter which used.
Thanks for all you to clarify this issue.

bye
szabi

[LigH]

The very first successful call of this script will have indexed the keyframes in the video stream, and possibly block starts in audio streams if audio processing was involved.

[szabi]

No audio process. I tried it but extremely slows down th entire process.
For this mkvextractgui is used.

[kalehrl]

Is it still necessary to have Apple Application Support installed for QAAC to work?

[LigH]

QAAC is still only a CLI frontend not containing any encoder; the Apple libraries are the place where the work is done.

You don't need to have any Apple application installed. Use makeportable to unpack the DLLs from a recent itunes6464setup.exe and place them with the qaac.exe, possibly even replace one huge DLL with a tiny dummy.

[kalehrl]

Downloaded makeportable from the same site aa qaac.
Placed the quicktime file in the same folder as makeportable.bat.
Double clicked it and it extracted the necessary files which I then copied to qaac Me GUI folder.
Works just fine

[LigH]

^ edit: link to the icudt49.dll substitute dummy (use only for a portable qaac; do not replace in a working iTunes installation if you use that!)

[Zathor]

Originally Posted by szabi

Until now for file indexing FFMSIndex was used as default without any issue.
Now MeGUI was updated (2566) and the default file indexer is L-SMASH Works.
I tried to use FFMS like before however when index file and AVSscript ready it can not be opened as input for video encoding.
AVS line 1:

LoadCPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\MeGUI\tools\ffms\ffms2.dll")

Full log file please

[Kurtnoise]

@Zathor: patches for Windows 10 detection...

[hello_hello]

Originally Posted by LigH

QAAC is still only a CLI frontend not containing any encoder...

Except for fhgaacenc.exe

[LigH]

Where is any kind of relation between QAAC and fhgaacenc?!

[hello_hello]

My mistake. I misread your post as "QAAC is still the only CLI frontend not containing any encoder..."
Which gives it a completely different meaning. I don't know why, but my bad. Sorry.

[AMED]

Has anybody managed to get KNLMeansCL working with MeGUI's OCE?

[Error] Log for job5 (video, The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.avs -> The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot_Video.264)
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] Started handling job
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] Preprocessing
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] Avisynth input script
--[NoImage] LoadPlugin("D:\MEGUI\tools\ffms\ffms2.dll")
--[NoImage] FFVideoSource("J:\Bluray Rips\Bluray\The 100 - Season 1\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv", cachefile="K:\TMP\qvm42foc.pgl\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.ffindex", fpsnum=24000, fpsden=1001, threads=1)
--[NoImage] Spline36Resize(1280,720) # Spline36 (Neutral)
--[NoImage] SMDegrain(tr=2,prefilter=4,refinemotion=true,lsb=true)
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] resolution: 1280x720
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] frame rate: 24000/1001
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] target device selected: iPhone 4S/5, iPad 3/4/mini, WDTV
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] custom command line: --aq-mode 3
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] changing --ref to 9
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] Job command line: "D:\MEGUI\tools\x264\x264.exe" --level 4.1 --preset veryslow --tune grain --crf 18 --keyint 240 --vbv-bufsize 78125 --vbv-maxrate 62500 --qpfile "K:\TMP\qvm42foc.pgl\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv - Chapter Information.qpf" --aq-mode 3 --output "K:\TMP\qvm42foc.pgl\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot_Video.264" "K:\TMP\qvm42foc.pgl\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.avs"
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] Process started
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] Standard output stream
-[Error] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] Standard error stream
--[Error] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] avs [error]: Script error: there is no function named "KNLMeansCL"
--[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] (SMDegrain v.3.1.2d.avsi, line 199)
--[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] (K:\TMP\qvm42foc.pgl\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.avs, line 4)
--[Error] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] x264 [error]: could not open input file `K:\TMP\qvm42foc.pgl\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.avs'
-[Error] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] Process exits with error: 0xFFFFFFFF (-1)
-[Information] [6/08/2015 12:00:03 PM] Job completed

If i run the MeGUI generated AVS through AVSMeter it's fine.


Running W10 Pro
FULL LOG

[LigH]

MeGUI may use its own directory of AviSynth plugins. So don't rely on autoloading from your standard plugins directory (MeGUI's AviSynth may ignore that); explititly use "LoadPlugin"!

[AMED]

I've given load plugin a go and it still fails when it tries to encode the video. It does make it though the oneclick task where is uses the same avisynth script though which is strange.

OCE task that completes

[Information] Log for job3 (oneclick, The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv -> )
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:29 PM] Started handling job
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:29 PM] Preprocessing
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:29 PM] Processing thread started
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:29 PM] Desired size:
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:29 PM] Split size:
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:29 PM] MediaInfo
--[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:29 PM] File: J:\Bluray Rips\Bluray\The 100 - Season 1\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv
--[Information] General
---[Information] Format: Matroska
---[Information] FormatString: Matroska
---[Information] FileSize: 5734446763
---[Information] PlayTime: 00:41:16.512
--[Information] Video
---[Information] ID: 1
---[Information] StreamOrder: 0
---[Information] Width: 1920
---[Information] Height: 1080
---[Information] FrameCount: 59377
---[Information] FrameRate: 23.976
---[Information] FrameRateOriginal:
---[Information] FrameRateMode: CFR
---[Information] ScanType: Progressive
---[Information] Codec: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
---[Information] CodecString: AVC
---[Information] Bits Depth: 8
---[Information] Format: AVC
---[Information] AspectRatio: 1.778
---[Information] AspectRatioString: 16:9
---[Information] Delay: 0
---[Information] Title:
---[Information] Language: en
---[Information] LanguageString: English
---[Information] Default: No
---[Information] DefaultString: No
---[Information] Forced: No
---[Information] ForcedString: No
--[Information] Audio
---[Information] ID: 2
---[Information] StreamOrder: 1
---[Information] Format: FLAC
---[Information] FormatProfile:
---[Information] FormatSettingsSBR:
---[Information] FormatSettingsPS:
---[Information] SamplingRate: 48000
---[Information] SamplingRateString: 48.0 KHz
---[Information] Channels: 6
---[Information] ChannelsString: 6 channels
---[Information] ChannelPositionsString2: 3/2/0.1
---[Information] BitRateMode: VBR
---[Information] Delay: 0
---[Information] Title: Surround 5.1
---[Information] Language: en
---[Information] LanguageString: English
---[Information] Default: Yes
---[Information] DefaultString: Yes
---[Information] Forced: No
---[Information] ForcedString: No
--[Information] Text
---[Information] ID: 3
---[Information] StreamOrder: 2
---[Information] Codec: S_HDMV/PGS
---[Information] CodecString: PGS
---[Information] Delay:
---[Information] Title:
---[Information] Language: en
---[Information] LanguageString: English
---[Information] Default: No
---[Information] DefaultString: No
---[Information] Forced: No
---[Information] ForcedString: No
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:29 PM] MkvInfo
--[NoImage] File 'J:\Bluray Rips\Bluray\The 100 - Season 1\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv': container: Matroska [title:The\s100\sSeason\s1\sDisc\s1 duration:2476512000000 segment_uid:c504b9a714d0952e7a2bb4d7ee8b3731 container_type:17 is_providing_timecodes:1]
--[NoImage] Track ID 0: video (MPEG-4p10/AVC/h.264) [number:1 uid:1 codec_id:V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC codec_private_length:195 codec_private_data:01640029... language:eng pixel_dimensions:1920x1080 display_dimensions:1920x1080 default_track:0 forced_track:0 enabled_track:1 packetizer:mpeg4_p10_video default_duration:41708333]
--[NoImage] Track ID 1: audio (FLAC) [number:2 uid:2 codec_id:A_FLAC codec_private_length:196 codec_private_data:664c614... language:eng track_name:Surround\s5.1 default_track:1 forced_track:0 enabled_track:1 default_duration:96000000 audio_sampling_frequency:48000 audio_channels:6]
--[NoImage] Track ID 2: subtitles (HDMV PGS) [number:3 uid:3 codec_id:S_HDMV/PGS codec_private_length:0 language:eng default_track:0 forced_track:0 enabled_track:1 content_encoding_algorithms:0]
--[NoImage] Chapters: 8 entries
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:30 PM] MkvExtract
--[NoImage] CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
--[NoImage] CHAPTER01NAME=Chapter 01
--[NoImage] CHAPTER02=00:02:42.662
--[NoImage] CHAPTER02NAME=Chapter 02
--[NoImage] CHAPTER03=00:10:08.941
--[NoImage] CHAPTER03NAME=Chapter 03
--[NoImage] CHAPTER04=00:17:47.191
--[NoImage] CHAPTER04NAME=Chapter 04
--[NoImage] CHAPTER05=00:24:32.929
--[NoImage] CHAPTER05NAME=Chapter 05
--[NoImage] CHAPTER06=00:30:12.477
--[NoImage] CHAPTER06NAME=Chapter 06
--[NoImage] CHAPTER07=00:35:34.006
--[NoImage] CHAPTER07NAME=Chapter 07
--[NoImage] CHAPTER08=00:40:47.069
--[NoImage] CHAPTER08NAME=Chapter 08
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:30 PM] Aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.778)
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:30 PM] Target device: iPhone 4S/5, iPad 3/4/mini, WDTV
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:34 PM] Input resolution: 1920x1080
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:34 PM] Desired maximum width: 1280
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:34 PM] Output resolution: 1280x720
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:34 PM] Automatic deinterlacing: False
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:34 PM] Generated Avisynth script
--[NoImage] LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth\plugins\KNLMeansCL.dll")
--[NoImage] LoadPlugin("D:\MEGUI\tools\ffms\ffms2.dll")
--[NoImage] FFVideoSource("J:\Bluray Rips\Bluray\The 100 - Season 1\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv", cachefile="K:\TMP\1zbguvnb.5gr\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.ffindex", fpsnum=24000, fpsden=1001, threads=1)
--[NoImage] Spline36Resize(1280,720) # Spline36 (Neutral)
--[NoImage] SMDegrain(tr=2,prefilter=4,refinemotion=true,lsb=true)
-[Information] Eliminating duplicate filenames
--[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:35 PM] Video output file: K:\TMP\1zbguvnb.5gr\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot_Video.264
--[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:35 PM] Muxed output file: L:\Conversion\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv
--[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:35 PM] Encodable audio stream 0: K:\TMP\1zbguvnb.5gr\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot - [0] English_audio.ac3
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:36 PM] Postprocessing
--[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:36 PM] Deleting intermediate files
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:23:36 PM] Job completed

Video encoding task that fails.

[Error] Log for job5 (video, The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.avs -> The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot_Video.264)
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:24 PM] Started handling job
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:24 PM] Preprocessing
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:24 PM] Avisynth input script
--[NoImage] LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth\plugins\KNLMeansCL.dll")
--[NoImage] LoadPlugin("D:\MEGUI\tools\ffms\ffms2.dll")
--[NoImage] FFVideoSource("J:\Bluray Rips\Bluray\The 100 - Season 1\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv", cachefile="K:\TMP\1zbguvnb.5gr\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.ffindex", fpsnum=24000, fpsden=1001, threads=1)
--[NoImage] Spline36Resize(1280,720) # Spline36 (Neutral)
--[NoImage] SMDegrain(tr=2,prefilter=4,refinemotion=true,lsb=true)
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] resolution: 1280x720
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] frame rate: 24000/1001
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] target device selected: iPhone 4S/5, iPad 3/4/mini, WDTV
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] custom command line: --aq-mode 3
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] changing --ref to 9
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] Job command line: "D:\MEGUI\tools\x264\x264.exe" --level 4.1 --preset veryslow --tune grain --crf 18 --keyint 240 --vbv-bufsize 78125 --vbv-maxrate 62500 --qpfile "K:\TMP\1zbguvnb.5gr\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv - Chapter Information.qpf" --aq-mode 3 --output "K:\TMP\1zbguvnb.5gr\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot_Video.264" "K:\TMP\1zbguvnb.5gr\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.avs"
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] Process started
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] Standard output stream
-[Error] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] Standard error stream
--[Error] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] avs [error]: LoadPlugin: unable to load "C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth\plugins\KNLMeansCL.dll", Proc not found. Update library version?
--[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] (K:\TMP\1zbguvnb.5gr\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.avs, line 1)
--[Error] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] x264 [error]: could not open input file `K:\TMP\1zbguvnb.5gr\The 100 - 01x01 - Pilot.mkv.avs'
-[Error] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] Process exits with error: 0xFFFFFFFF (-1)
-[Information] [6/08/2015 7:24:25 PM] Job completed

[Zathor]

2570 [HD Streams Extractor] improved language & name detection
2569                        improved internal language handling
2568 [Muxer]                removed FFmpeg Muxer from the muxer menu (regression of 2546)
2567 [Log]                  added Windows 10 support

[kuchikirukia]

Perhaps the avisynth_plugins directory should be moved out of the protected Program Files directory? You can't extract to it, and since right-click doesn't have an "open as administrator" option for Notepad you can't even easily edit an avsi in it.
I put it in my user directory and made a symlink back.

[Zathor]

Originally Posted by AMED

I've given load plugin a go and it still fails when it tries to encode the video. It does make it though the oneclick task where is uses the same avisynth script though which is strange.

Relevant error message:

LoadPlugin: unable to load "C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth\plugins\KNLMeansCL.dll", Proc not found. Update library version?

OCE calls a script internally so MeGUI is the application which is calling the AVS while in the encoding task it is the encoder. So you may have dlls in your MeGUI directory which are loaded automatically when OCE is running which are not available in your encoder directory or the KNLMeansCL.dll directory (btw. I have no clue about this "Proc not found" error). Please check if there are any dlls in your MeGUI directory (e.g. ms*.dll) which are not in any of the other two directories - if yes, try to place a copy of them there.