Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

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Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby Zarxrax » Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:54 pm

I just released a new version of zarx264gui: http://amvhell.com/stuff/zarx264gui/
Let me know if you find any problems, otherwise, this version will probably go in the new amvapp.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby Cannonaire » Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:44 am

Huzzah! I'll try this right away since I've been having trouble with 1.32.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby ngsilver » Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:02 pm

Didn't realize there was a 1.32 release. I'll grab this when I get home and give it a whirl. I'll also test the level settings as well since I own all of those devices to see if they do in fact work or not.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby mirkosp » Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:26 pm

The 4.1 should be fine, but for the 3.0 baseline for iphone, resolution should be taken into account... and I have no clue what the resolution is.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby ngsilver » Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:39 pm

Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

So the resolution sounds variable to me.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby Cannonaire » Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:11 pm

Happy to report I'm not having issues with this like I did with 1.32!
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby ExSphere » Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:40 pm

Works much better than the previous zarx I had.

As far as the settings (quantizer, advanced settings ) what should I put it at? I just recently rendered out my video from premiere as a "none" so it's completely uncompressed with the audio in the avi file.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby Zarxrax » Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:10 pm

The default settings are the defaults because they are the answer to the question "what should i put the settings at".
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby ExSphere » Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:37 pm

I noticed some blocking on darker areas of my footage but I guess it's just supposed to happen with compression.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby Zarxrax » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:32 pm

Lowering the quantizer might help that, at the expense of making the file larger.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby mirkosp » Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:36 am

Adjusting the aq-strength will help too. Tune animation defaults to 0.6, but try having like 0.8 and keep increasing until they disappear. If you start talking 1.5, you might just want to lower the crf instead, though.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby Phantasmagoriat » Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:45 am

If adjusting the aq-strength doesn't help, you can always tweak specific segments of your video with zones, from the Command Line dialogue:
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--zones 2899,2963,q=17/3678,4180,q=16

Something like this will make frames 2899-2963 get encoded with a lower quantizer of 17, and 3678-4180 get encoded with an even lower quantizer of 16, or whatever you want. You can add more zones too, as long as you separate them with a slash. Of course, if there are a lot of zones, this method would get annoying.

Also double check that it's not the original file. In that case you would need to use avisynth.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby Kawatta-kun » Sat Nov 20, 2010 10:18 am

I installed it, but the .exe is nowere to be found =/ .
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby Kawatta-kun » Sat Nov 20, 2010 10:19 am

And still using 1.16 cause it's the one who never gave me trouble.
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.33 - Sept 29

Postby mirkosp » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:00 pm

You just unpack the zip and doubleclick on the Zarx264gui.exe to run it. There is nothing to install.
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