AutoMen (Mini Mencoder Gui) 6 beta 06/10/2010)

[EEPROM]

Hi Buzz,
With your latest mencoder build, my Core2Duo work at 50%.
I will use "old" relase of mencoder(dev-SVN r23833-4.2.0).

P.S.
For your test, use AMD X2 or Intel C2D?

[buzzqw]

have you checked the thread button ?

... btw i have a prescot, i will wait peyrin cpu for next pc

BHH

[EEPROM]

Originally Posted by buzzqw

have you checked the thread button ?
BHH

Yes....

[buzzqw]

update 1.9

ADDED: for xvid, ff4, mp4 added Quality Preset (as tick 11,12,13,14) Fair, Good, Great, Fantastic (suggestione by weaver4)

i open to suggestion how to improve the presets

BHH

[amirkhan]

thankyou very much for this tool, both automkv and megui crash after sometime encoding on my PC (XP64bit), I've narrowed it down to the fact that they cant seem to load mpegsource.dll

this tool works fine and produces much better results for me (as i use x264) than i get with xvid and the other tool that works fine autog. knot.

[buzzqw]

glad you like it!

as usually any feedback is more then welcome

BHH

[amirkhan]

Originally Posted by buzzqw

glad you like it!

as usually any feedback is more then welcome

BHH

Well _THIS_ time I thought I wouldn’t be part of the silent majority ;-)

Anyway, the ONLY issue I had is after it finished I was left with the mp4 file (that wouldn’t play). An aac, and a .264 file. I muxed the .264 file and the aac file with mkvmerge (from mkvtoolbox) and the end result is a nice tasty mkv file that plays without issue. Result! :-)

I still had the avi file with the XVID codec encoded with autogknow and I compared it with this encode (produced with Automen). The Automen encode is noticeably sharper, thanks to the use of 264 I suspect at a bitrate of ~1500kbps (its a 6:45 capture from DVB).

Keep up the good work :-D

[buzzqw]

Anyway, the ONLY issue I had is after it finished I was left with the mp4 file (that wouldn’t play)

well that's strange since the mp4 should be the final muxed file..

are you sure you have the correct splitter installed ? (like haali media splitter .. or use vlc or nero showtime)

have you used the new presets or the size slider ?

BHH

[amirkhan]

Originally Posted by buzzqw

well that's strange since the mp4 should be the final muxed file..

are you sure you have the correct splitter installed ? (like haali media splitter .. or use vlc or nero showtime)

have you used the new presets or the size slider ?

BHH

I used the sliders, where are the presets?. the rar i downloaded had no docs :-(

Anyway tried to convert another file and 1st pass is OK but second pass fails.

Here is what happens When i edit mp4.bat and start from second pass.

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.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 10 -> 9
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 10 -> 9
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuv420p to yuv420p using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (YV12 like)
[swscaler @ 00D61F00]SwScaler: 704x576 -> 704x406
x264 [warning]: width or height not divisible by 16 (704x406), compression will suffer.
x264 [info]: using SAR=705/704
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 SSSE3
x264 [error]: different number of B-frames than 1st pass (3 vs 16)
x264_encoder_open failed.
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
Seek failed
MEncoder Sherpya-SVN-r24762-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x0

There is NOTHING playing with the video file so is the same file on both passes. Its a DVB-C capture that has run through videoredo plus to clean any bad bits.

[buzzqw]

the preset are in automen 1.9

download the rar and update with 1.9

the slider for quality preset are present in xvid/mp4/ff4 and are the last four

i am unable to give assistance on mencoder but if you upload a small sample to test.. i can verify too

BHH

[amirkhan]

Originally Posted by buzzqw

the preset are in automen 1.9

download the rar and update with 1.9

the slider for quality preset are present in xvid/mp4/ff4 and are the last four

i am unable to give assistance on mencoder but if you upload a small sample to test.. i can verify too

BHH

Will get 1.9 (I'm on 1.8)... could you include an about page in the app, or perhaps put the verson in the titlescreen so we know what version we are on?.

As for a sample, i'll try and re-create the issue with a smaller file, if i'm able I'll upload it. current "big" file is 13 gigs :-)

edit: I see in 1.9 version is now in title bar
edit2: Just tried a 78MB portion from the start with 1.9 without issue. Now testing full file on fastest encoding.
Also would it be possible to have a seperate output dir for those of us who have more than 1 HDD and want to reduce amount of disk trashing?

[buzzqw]

@amirkhan
plase try this build http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen20.exe

launch it and then close it

you will found a file named automen.ini open it in notepad and edit the path to mencoder.exe path, mplayer.exe path... and destination path

if NO path is specified then the exe are supposed to be in automen folder and the destination folder is the same as input folder

BHH

[amirkhan]

Originally Posted by buzzqw

@amirkhan
plase try this build http://www.64k.it/andres/data/a/AutoMen20.exe

launch it and then close it

you will found a file named automen.ini open it in notepad and edit the path to mencoder.exe path, mplayer.exe path... and destination path

if NO path is specified then the exe are supposed to be in automen folder and the destination folder is the same as input folder

BHH

Thanks, downloaded and testing.

Btw on fastest encoding 1.9 has finished without crashing.

Testing the new version on "great" quality setting x264+AAC. will update tomorrow (~313mins per pass) afer the encode is done (13 gigs takes a while) :-)

edit:

Job started source file is on d:\temp I can see encoded file is being created on c:\temp (as i specified as output)

[amirkhan]

OK back from work and its finished.. will have to re-encode though :-(

Didnt realise that when you choose "great" from the Video quality, the final size slider is ignored. Its created me a 7GB+ file when I wanted 4GB :-)

I thought it (Video quality) was used in combination with final size to control number of passes etc. Still the important thing is the encode finished.

The other odd thing is the muxed mp4 file and the .avi file dont play in VLC with audio. Its not a problem at all as i use MKVMERGE and the output from mkvmerge plays fine (with audio).

On with the recode :-)

[buzzqw]

about mkvmerge ... i will think something (i am used too mkv)

BHH

[buzzqw]

update to 2.1 link in first post

ADDED support for external application. on start automen will create a file named automen.ini
set in this file the path where is mencoder,mplayer,mp4muxer,medianfo and mkvmerge
ADDED support for muxing with mkvmerge, if path is set automen will allow to mux in mkv


BHH

[amirkhan]

hrm, overnight encode crashed :-(

lucky, I can test new version. Encoding started again. Unfortunate that the process does not log to a file to help find why it crashed, still on with the encode(s)

edit:

Btw default path ("mkvmerge =" ) is not made in .ini file, I guessed it (and set it) and now mkvmerge button can be checked (it was ghosted).

[weaver4]

Buzz,

I have always found this thing about size, quality and encoding speed to be a little difficult for beginners to understand. For size you want to use two pass and with a set quality you can use one pass; Encoding speed vs Quality has little impact on quality...etc.

Since the first thing you know is if you want to hit a particualr size I think a better interface would be something like this:

http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=encodermi5.jpg

Love this program.

[amirkhan]

Ok last encode = PERFECT :-)

I think the reason its hard for (new) users with this program is because there is no context (read baloon) help in the app; or a help file. I'm not complaining has its free.

Thanks again for the app!

[buzzqw]

i must admit that a little tutorial should be needed..

but since i had a family, a busy work, autmen and automkv to develop, answer in this and other 2 forums, and i am a Moderator on another one forum ... ... AND last but not the least english isn't my first (or second too...) language... ... i suppose that manual must wait

or are there some volunters?

btw, thanks all for your kind words. Very appreciated!

BHH