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Old 12th January 2015, 19:19   #1001  |  Link
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Thanks so much for the info...so if converting audio to FLAC16 or FLAC24 (or any other audio like AC3_5.1_640) from any DTSHDMA source...it will actually be converting from the DTS core, not the HD codec. Thus making all conversions rather pointless?
Pointless from the perspective of preserving the dtshdma stream. But there are other use cases where core dts to flac might be useful. For example, someone wishing to convert to a fully freetard format would have to ditch the dts for something "free" and flac would be a good choise for that.
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Old 12th January 2015, 22:42   #1002  |  Link
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Truhd yes
dtshdma not yet. There is a decoder in progress. But progress is slow.
I have the arcsoft dts decoder that I use with eac3to...is there any way to incorporate that in vidcoder?


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Old 12th January 2015, 22:44   #1003  |  Link
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Pointless from the perspective of preserving the dtshdma stream. But there are other use cases where core dts to flac might be useful. For example, someone wishing to convert to a fully freetard format would have to ditch the dts for something "free" and flac would be a good choise for that.
Yeah, that makes sense. I was thinking only of keeping the lossless high quality audio data, I really am amazed at how bad (compression) both DTS and Dolby are...compared to a free codec.
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Old 13th January 2015, 04:29   #1004  |  Link
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Does we need to install both? VidCoder + Handbrake?
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Old 13th January 2015, 06:51   #1005  |  Link
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Does we need to install both? VidCoder + Handbrake?
No. VidCoder is self contained (& includes the necessary Handbrake files, like hb.dll).
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Old 13th January 2015, 14:15   #1006  |  Link
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No. VidCoder is self contained (& includes the necessary Handbrake files, like hb.dll).
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Old 14th January 2015, 04:09   #1007  |  Link
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I've been converting my movie files with TrueHD to FLAC16 using vidcoder and want to verify the channel maps are correct. I've noticed when analyzing FLAC files with mediainfo, it simply says:

Channel(s) : 8 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits

Where the original files with TrueHD say:

Channel(s) : 8 channels / 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, Back: L R, LFE / Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits

Is it safe to assume they are mapped properly and/or is there a way to check?
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Old 5th February 2015, 07:10   #1008  |  Link
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Released VidCoder 2.0 Beta:

The Beta train continues! I've switched to a different versioning scheme: The major number increases for each stable HandBrake version and the minor number increases for each Beta release and bugfix release.

* Added pickers! Pickers let you automatically choose titles, audio, subtitles and destination, as well as automatically queue or start encodes when a source is loaded. While encoding presets customize how a file is encoded, pickers control what is included in the file and where it goes. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see added to the Picker window.
* Added a collapsible left panel to the Encoding Preset window, to switch presets quickly.
* Changed window placement to open new windows dynamically in open areas rather than in preset locations.
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Old 5th February 2015, 07:22   #1009  |  Link
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Add codec packs for h264 Yify small encodes

I lurk at the Vidcoder site and have it installed. Recently I saw some tips (2013 I guess) on the secrets of making small encodes to Handbrake.

The how-to includes some codecs to load via a Handbrake option. How is that handled in the Vidcoder releases?

Please explain how to open those installation options in Vidcoder.

Also if you could critique the article for accuracy, it would help this novice avoid useless techniques:

https://ericolon.wordpress.com/2013/...or-any-device/
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Old 6th February 2015, 03:10   #1010  |  Link
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Any chance you could raid the powerful filter set from the discontinued AutoMKV?

In particular I'm looking for MVDegrain3 and FRFun7 (those two are an awesome tag-team combo on grainbomb films, though I would of course not be adverse to anything newer).
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Old 6th February 2015, 04:24   #1011  |  Link
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Those are both Avisynth filters so one can use them anywhere that supports Avisynth (they are not unique to AutoMKV).

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Old 7th February 2015, 00:23   #1012  |  Link
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Those are both Avisynth filters so one can use them anywhere that supports Avisynth
Which currently-maintained GUIs do?
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Old 17th February 2015, 07:10   #1013  |  Link
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Released VidCoder 2.1 Beta:

* Fixed handling of old NlMeans denoise, resolving a launch crash for some users.
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Old 27th February 2015, 16:49   #1014  |  Link
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Question about 3D, does vidcoder by default convert 3D to 2D. I loaded up my Shrek 1 3D Bluray and converted it the way I always do using a constant quality of 16. The resulting video looks excellent and is in 2D. Well on a 2D monitor and TV looks like 2D and neither player is a 3D player. The mediainfo for the mkv file has only one video source and says all the normal stuff whereas the mediainfo for the 3D stream off the bluray is definitely different. multiple video sources with the word "stereo" in there. I'm assuming the first video source is a 2D video souce (the second stereo is what makes it 3D) and therefore vidcoder just copies the first source?
mkv file
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 30mn
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Title : H.264_CQ16_1080p

Bluray m2ts file
Video #1
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 1s 1ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Maximum bit rate : 40.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Color range : Limited

Video #2
ID : 4114 (0x1012)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Stereo High@L4.1
MultiView_Count : 2
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : 32
Duration : 1s 1ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Maximum bit rate : 40.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Color range : Limited
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Old 3rd May 2015, 01:44   #1015  |  Link
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Released VidCoder 2.2 Beta:

Updated HandBrake SVN to 7149, which uses the new JSON API. This changes the way every encode setting is sent to the HandBrake core, so please kick the tires on this one!
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Old 6th May 2015, 15:10   #1016  |  Link
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I'd like to use Vidcoder to burn subtitles to a MP4 by NOT converting the video and audio tracks. Ofc the video track needs to be modified but I dont want it to be more compressed or converted in any way because it is as good as it is.
Is this possible with Vidcoder? I did not find any option just to copy the video and audio tracks. Thanks.
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Old 6th May 2015, 15:39   #1017  |  Link
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You can not "burn" (hardsub) subtitles without recompressing video. You can mux subtitle (softsub) without recompressing video. But for that you will need mp4box, not VidCoder as VidCoder (or HandBrake) does not support video passthrough.
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Old 16th May 2015, 19:35   #1018  |  Link
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Released VidCoder 2.3 Beta:

* Scan progress now shows up on the taskbar icon.
* Added ability to hibernate when completing an encode.
* Preview encode progress bar now correctly reflects total progress and does not reset when doing a subtitle scan or a 2-pass encode.
* Updated HandBrake core to SVN 7170.

* Fixed a bunch of things broken in the JSON API conversion
** Fixed bitrate, quality and compression picking for audio tracks.
** Fixed automatic subtitle selection.
** Fixed reported crash on encode progress update.
** Fixed DXVA decoding.
** Fixed crash when batch-encoding with an audio picker.
** Fixed odd progress reporting for encodes with foreign audio search.
** Fixed the "fast decode" checkbox not getting persisted.
** Fixed the encoding preset for QSV not getting persisted.
* Fixed crash on stable -> beta upgrade when there are no sub-directories in the stable app folder.
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Old 18th May 2015, 00:11   #1020  |  Link
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A new feature suggestion: Add PAL<>NTSC (25fps<>23/976fps) retiming options with two checkboxes (for video and audio). This will re-encode audio to the new time and re-stream video (if also checked) to the desired frame-rate. (Including video-restreaming would save users an additional step with MKV Merge.)
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