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Old 10th April 2008, 21:45   #2081  |  Link
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All bug reports must be in the MeGUI's Bug Tracker on sourceforge.
Otherwise they will be ignored.
If this is a MeGUI bug then I'll gladly submit a bug report. But seeing that it also happens with mkvmerge, I thought that it had to do with the .mkv container, or something that I did wrong.
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Old 10th April 2008, 22:25   #2082  |  Link
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You can put your x264 videos in avis (by using avc2avi and then muxing them) and use MPC with the internal avi splitter enabled, or you could use virtualdub to go back and forth.

Decreasing the GOP-size will indeed make your player more responsive when going back.

Thanks jmartinr. Is there a problem with seeking in mp4 and mkv containers?

What would be a reasonable gop size range?
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Old 11th April 2008, 03:44   #2083  |  Link
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If this is a MeGUI bug then I'll gladly submit a bug report. But seeing that it also happens with mkvmerge, I thought that it had to do with the .mkv container, or something that I did wrong.
in that case you should report that behaviour to the mkvtoolnix devs
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Old 11th April 2008, 04:28   #2084  |  Link
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"One Click" + no cropping?

I am trying to encode regular dvd (tv shows) with megui and use the one click encoder, but am having an issue in that I don't quite understand how to do this right.

I don't want to resize or crop (therefore I want to end up with an 853x480 video as it displays in mplayer when I play the VOBs). With AutoMKV I can do this by just selecting it's anamorphic option and telling it to use original resolution.

however, one click encoder forces me to select a resolution.

any ideas?
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Old 11th April 2008, 07:46   #2085  |  Link
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Thanks jmartinr. Is there a problem with seeking in mp4 and mkv containers?

What would be a reasonable gop size range?
There's no problem with seeking in mkv and mp4, but going back frame by frame doesn't always work. That depends on splitter, decoder (use ffdshow) and player. I just found these solutions to work.

The slower your computer is the smaller your GOP-size must be. Try it, it doesn't work really smooth and flawless.

You can download and try one of my files (with keyint 125, still quite large, I tried to keep the files small) from: http://www.nkbv.nl/sportklimmen/medi...deos/4237.html

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I am trying to encode regular dvd (tv shows) with megui and use the one click encoder, but am having an issue in that I don't quite understand how to do this right.

I don't want to resize or crop (therefore I want to end up with an 853x480 video as it displays in mplayer when I play the VOBs). With AutoMKV I can do this by just selecting it's anamorphic option and telling it to use original resolution.

however, one click encoder forces me to select a resolution.

any ideas?
The DVD resolution is 720*xxx (where xxx depends on PAL or NTSC) and it's encoded anamorphically.
So in Advanced config, select 720 as resolution and check Signal AR.
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Old 12th April 2008, 03:44   #2087  |  Link
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There's no problem with seeking in mkv and mp4, but going back frame by frame doesn't always work. That depends on splitter, decoder (use ffdshow) and player. I just found these solutions to work.
I tried your advice with avc2avi and it worked. Thanks. It would be nice to be able to frame step backwards with mkv containers as well.

Any one got a player, splitter, decoder set up that can frame step backwards with mkv containers? Or would mp4 be better.

Thanks again.

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Any one got a player, splitter, decoder set up that can frame step backwards with mkv containers? Or would mp4 be better.

Thanks again.
You can also take up the habit of going back one key frame and then frame step forward. Works with MPC (Shift Left) with its internal MP4 and MKV splitters.

If you find other solutions I would really like to know about them.
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Any one got a player, splitter, decoder set up that can frame step backwards with mkv containers? Or would mp4 be better.
It just came back to me that I did some testing with zoomplayer a long time ago. And it works/does what you want. Just 2 minutes ago I retried with an MP4 and an MKV and it works (using zoomplayer 5.01, a bit old, ffdshow and Haali Media Splitter).

I just got so used to always using MPC that I totally forgot about zoomplayer being able to do frame step backwards too.

A newer version of zoomplayer will probably be able to do the same trick.

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Old 12th April 2008, 13:08   #2090  |  Link
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Small bug I think with Kurtnoise13's build (when the B-Frames part was moved to the Main tab to introduce AQ in the Advanced tab): In the x264 configuration dialog, changes made to settings in the B-Frames section of the main tab aren't reflected in the command line display below (until you open the dialog again. The changes to the settings are saved okay.)
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Old 12th April 2008, 15:01   #2091  |  Link
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yep, i think that build was made just to show the new b-frames options placement.
dont use it for "production"
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Old 14th April 2008, 13:53   #2092  |  Link
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Did I miss an update of MeGUI 3?
There were several complaints about the unnecessary update message of MeGUI about .Net 2.0 SP1 in combination with Vista SP1 (the log page showes .Net SP1). I thought, I read something about "the next update will fix it". This was some weeks ago. As I still have 0.3.0.1004 and nothing changed in weeks, I put a bug in the bug tracker:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?fun...roup_id=156112 But the bug was closed without any comment.
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Old 14th April 2008, 16:18   #2093  |  Link
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no... still no updates.
the bug is fixed though (the stable version is just working without problems) and it will not be present in the next builds.
Remember megui 0.3.x is a developmental and unstable version while 0.2.x is stable and working.
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Old 14th April 2008, 16:26   #2094  |  Link
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Ok - thanks for the info and the fix ... I will wait then.
I just thought, that it will be fixed in 0.2.x and 0.3.x simultaneously.
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there was no 0.3.x build since it is missing some stuff (profiles refactor)
once the refactor is complete i will make new 0.3.x builds.
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I get an error during second pass encoding and I don't know why.

I am using the fully updated MeGUI 0.2.6.1046.

I input an AviSynth script which has uncompressed video and no audio.

I am using CE-Baseline profile. The only modified value is the bitrate, which I chose to be 800. It encodes the first pass just fine, but then the 2nd pass simply says "error" and it is not specific at all. Log file says nothing.

Edit: Log File

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you better post the logfile... even if you say it says nothing...
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Old 15th April 2008, 16:44   #2098  |  Link
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Hi. Im new to this program and encoding in h264 so please excuse me if this is a really stupid question. I have a DVD that i want to rencode to h264 nad keep the DD sound and mux them ino a MKV file. I have demuxed the audio and i have made the avisyth script using the editor included in MeGUI.

My problem is when im encoding the video. The first pass works fine. However the secound pass is aborted and the file is never finished. In the Queue window is just say "error" with no futher explanation. I have tried several times and it alsways end up with error, but no errormessages. The strange thing is that the encoding can runm for everything from 10minutes to 45min. Once i got to about 40% but most of the time, it end at 10-20% completion.

Am i doing somthing wrong? Can it be because im changing resolution? The orginial DVD is in 720x480. But the aspect ratio gets wacked, so im using 720x400 (16:9).

Please guys. I need some help here.

Log file say this:
Log for job job8

Job commandline: "D:\DVD\megui\tools\x264\x264.exe" --pass 2 --bitrate 3000 --stats "F:\Test\cloverfield.stats" --ref 10 --mixed-refs --no-fast-pskip --bframes 16 --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --weightb --direct auto --filter -2,-1 --subme 6 --trellis 2 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8 --8x8dct --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --sar 1:1 --progress --no-dct-decimate --no-psnr --no-ssim --output "F:\Test\cloverfield.mp4" "F:\Test\cloverfield.avs"
avis [info]: 720x400 @ 23.98 fps (121798 frames)
x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 Cache64
mp4 [info]: initial delay 2002 (scale 24000)

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End of log for job8
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Am i doing somthing wrong?
Absolutely not. I get the same error and the log file says nothing relevant. There is something wrong with the latest version of MeGUI.
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Old 15th April 2008, 18:29   #2100  |  Link
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it's not megui.
try updating x264. i just uploaded a newer version to the auto-update server.
also, if you're using vista ensure you run megui with admin rights.
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