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Old 31st December 2012, 20:51   #1  |  Link
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EncodeX x264 GUI

You can view screenshots and download from HERE.

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Old 1st January 2013, 16:12   #2  |  Link
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Simple x264 Launcher and tx264 look much better than this.
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Old 1st January 2013, 22:31   #3  |  Link
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Don't work in Win32.
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Old 2nd January 2013, 01:46   #4  |  Link
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Probably compiled with VS2012 without Update-1. Either that or the "XP compatibility" option (toolset) has not been selected.

If so, the resulting binary doesn't run under Windows XP. Support for Windows XP has been re-added to VS2012 with Update-1, but still needs a special option.

(Might also be possible that the executable has been compiled as a 64-Bit binary and you were trying to run on a 32-Bit Windows)
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Indeed it was compiled with VS2012 without Update-1.
I will install the update and I'll be uploading v0.2 shortly.
In this release I have added support for "Intended output file size",
employed mediainfo.dll ,and hopefully will have resolved any issues encountered while trying to run on Windows XP.
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Old 2nd January 2013, 05:27   #6  |  Link
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Version 0.2 is now available for download HERE
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Version 0.2 work now, but with some issues:
- I can't access some buttons: CABAC, Interlaced, ...
- I can't see some boxes: # of Slices, ...

(Using a 22 inch. 1920x1080 Desktop)
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Old 2nd January 2013, 15:24   #8  |  Link
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- analysis and "Input/Output" is empty,..
- allows the usage of values that conflict with the specified profile@level
- crashed (grayed out + not responding) when I made a typo in an avisynth script I used as source
- doesn't delete temp files

missing features:
- audio can't be passed through
- drag&drop
- dvd/blu-ray/vcd input

-> you might want to add somewhere that this is alpha or pre-alpha and not beta software,...
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Old 3rd January 2013, 07:52   #9  |  Link
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EncodeX v0.3 now available for download.

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Version 0.2 work now, but with some issues:
- I can't access some buttons: CABAC, Interlaced, ...
- I can't see some boxes: # of Slices, ...

(Using a 22 inch. 1920x1080 Desktop)
v0.3 is now available for download HERE.

*In this version I attempted to correct the display issues that tebasuna51 was experiencing.
*Ability to save your current profile, limited to only 1 profile for now.
*Dragging/Dropping of the source file is now incorporated as well.
*Deletes temp files.
*Added Direct Copy Audio.

Plans to add re-size resolution support very soon.

As always, anyone who is willing to test and give feedback is more than appreciated.

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EncodeX v0.3.1 now available for download.

Added in this release:

-Ability to re-size resolution(common/custom)
-Cropping of borders.
-Improved saving and loading of user profile.
-Minor usability tweaks.

EncodeX v0.3.1 is available for download HERE.

Plans to add some controls to the "Analysis" tab in the next release.

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Solved my issues with v0.3.1.
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Old 5th January 2013, 13:25   #12  |  Link
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EncodeX v0.3.2 released!

-Added support for viewing the log file of your last encode(regardless of when your last encode was).

-More minor usability/appearance tweaks.

EncodeX v0.3.2 is available for download HERE.
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1) don't use lame .zip compression. Use .7z (ULTRA preset). 15 MB (zip) vs 10MB (LZMA)
2) why do you have to include cmd.exe in archive?
3) Why did you set form style to toolbox? Lack of minimize button.
4) why dropboxes are editable? You can type some random letters there
5) During encoding process i can not move window?! Also window is semi-transparent for some unknown reason.
6) Progress bar is totally broken
7) I can not even terminate encoding !
8) in which aspect your gui will better than x264 simple launcher or tx264 ?

This looks more like pre-alpha than beta LOL.
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1) don't use lame .zip compression. Use .7z (ULTRA preset). 15 MB (zip) vs 10MB (LZMA)
2) why do you have to include cmd.exe in archive?
3) Why did you set form style to toolbox? Lack of minimize button.
4) why dropboxes are editable? You can type some random letters there
5) During encoding process i can not move window?! Also window is semi-transparent for some unknown reason.
6) Progress bar is totally broken
7) I can not even terminate encoding !
8) in which aspect your gui will better than x264 simple launcher or tx264 ?

This looks more like pre-alpha than beta LOL.
I'd like to thank you for your feedback! I will be correcting mostly all of your concerns. I have been coding EncodeX for nearly 1 month now and it is only aimed at being an alternative to any other GUI.
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1) don't use lame .zip compression. Use .7z (ULTRA preset). 15 MB (zip) vs 10MB (LZMA)
2) why do you have to include cmd.exe in archive?
3) Why did you set form style to toolbox? Lack of minimize button.
4) why dropboxes are editable? You can type some random letters there
5) During encoding process i can not move window?! Also window is semi-transparent for some unknown reason.
6) Progress bar is totally broken
7) I can not even terminate encoding !
8) in which aspect your gui will better than x264 simple launcher or tx264 ?

This looks more like pre-alpha than beta LOL.
The problem here is not so much that this program is unusable but that the author failed to learn basics about programming in general and Windows programming in particular (Your points 3-7 clearly show this).

@S1N
How about learning programming first and then releasing your software? I don't want to discourage you but you really need at least some basics (for example understanding how message processing works in Windows or what common controls are supposed to do).

Also - another encoding gui? Really?
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5) During encoding process i can not move window?! Also window is semi-transparent for some unknown reason
This sounds like the program will call a blocking encode() function from it's main thread, which does not return until the encode is done.

If so, this will prevent the main thread from doing any "message pumping" while the encode is running and therefore the program cannot react to user input.

The proper solution is to do all lengthy work in a "background" (worker) thread, while the "main" thread continues message pumping...

(This of course requires a bit more complex logic to "update" the GUI form the background thread, because only the "main" thread may access GUI controls)
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This sounds like the program will call a blocking encode() function from it's main thread, which does not return until the encode is done.

If so, this will prevent the main thread from doing any "message pumping" while the encode is running and therefore the program cannot react to user input.

The proper solution is to do all lengthy work in a "background" (worker) thread, while the "main" thread continues message pumping...

(This of course requires a bit more complex logic to "update" the GUI form the background thread, because only the "main" thread may access GUI controls)
Background worker is now fixed .. Ability to terminate and pause encoding will follow very soon! Plans to look into the progress bar accuracy as well for the next release.
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EncodeX v0.4 released!

Available for download HERE.

-Progress bar is now deadly accurate during x264 encoding process.
-GUI is now fully functional and responsive during encoding process.
-Drop down lists(excluding bitrate and filesize) no longer allow custom user input text.
-Zip file will now be compressed LZMA, resulting in smaller file size.
-No longer including cmd.exe in zip file. (oops)
-Now includes the standard minimize button.
-Minor stability fixes.
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crash at the very begining



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-Zip file will now be compressed LZMA, resulting in smaller file size.
7zip compression is still higher (10MB vs 12MB)

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crash at the very begining




7zip compression is still higher (10MB vs 12MB)
Apparently the progress bar is a little too deadly accurate, I thought I had it sorted out. And I'll have to look into the other archiving methods. 2MB is a pretty big difference for such a small program.

Thank you for testing and reporting back so soon!
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