Zarx264gui 2.0 final

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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by Phantasmagoriat » Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:28 pm

Very interesting changes. Container choice is nice, and Media Info is really convenient. While I do like aac audio more, synch is a big issue for AMVs, so I think switching to mp3 is a good decision. I also noticed AviSynth's Normalize is gone, which I'm okay with since I suspect it caused problems, so I usually unchecked it anyway (before, I sometimes got a click at the beginning of my audio).

For 3 quick tests, I converted an x264+AAC.mp4, avs script, and utvideo+PCM.avi and didn't notice any problems.

One thing I noticed is it creates the "settings.xml" file in the same directory as the input. Previously it was in the same directory as Zarx264gui.exe, which I liked more since it is out of the way. It isn't a big deal, but it might confuse some people. Otherwise the program seems to work fine without any dependencies :up:
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In terms of features, I always wanted Multi-Drag-and-Drop for batch encoding so I can hit ctrl+a and process a whole folder in one shot. There's a chance all you'd have to do is wrap your program in a For Loop. If you're interested, this is what I usually do: (although it's written in windows cmd so it might not help much)

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::::::::::::: x264_MULTI-DRAG-AND-DROP ::::::::::::::::::
:: To begin, Drag file(s) onto this batch script,      ::
:: and they will be processed using the below settings ::
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@ECHO OFF
SET INPUT=%*
SET CRF=20
SET AQU=4
SET ACD=mp3
SET PST=veryslow
SET TUN=animation
SET EXT=mkv
SET TAG=_new
FOR %%I in (%INPUT%) do (
"%~dp0\x264.exe" --crf %CRF% --preset %PST% --tune %TUN% --acodec %ACD% --aquality %AQU% --output "%%~dpnI%TAG%.%EXT%" "%%~dpnxI"
)
PAUSE
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Some kind of Job Manager would be nice too (perhaps just append new jobs to a master .bat file might work?)

Also, I think the layout could be arranged/labeled a bit more intuitively to distinguish between Audio/Video features:

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    Audio: MP3(Quality)       Video: x264 (Quality)
  Quality: 4              Quantizer: 20
                             Preset: Very Slow
Container: ()MP4  ()MKV        Tune: Animation
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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by Pwolf » Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:41 pm

I've been using it a lot the past two weeks. No issues. Would be nice to have a batch feature.

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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by CodeZTM » Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:55 pm

Is there anything special I should be doing after extracting it, because I've yet to be able to get it to work in any capacity.

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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by Zarxrax » Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:39 pm

Um... what do you mean you cant get it to work? Nothing happens when you click the exe? Is there an error message? Does it come up but not encode? What?

About a job manager... that's something that I'm not going to implement, mainly because I have no idea how, and it seems like it would take a lot of time. If someone would like to take a look at the code and give it a try, I'd be more than happy to send the code your way.

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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by Pwolf » Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:55 pm

Zarxrax wrote: About a job manager... that's something that I'm not going to implement, mainly because I have no idea how, and it seems like it would take a lot of time. If someone would like to take a look at the code and give it a try, I'd be more than happy to send the code your way.
It should be easy, I wouldn't mind taking a look.

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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by CodeZTM » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:20 pm

Sorry, the latter half of my message got cut off somehow.

Anyway, I tried to load a Lagarith AVI file with .WAV as the audio [what I usually encode from] into it and encode into MP4 [I haven't altered any of the basic stuff], and it continues to give me the error message:

lavf [warning]: video decoding failed on frame 0

When using the older ZarxGui, I have no issue with it and it encodes just fine.

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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by Pwolf » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:26 pm

update your decoder.

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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by Zarxrax » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:38 pm

I believe it will actually encode if you let it continue spitting out that error for a moment.
You should also be able to put in the commandline arguments box:
--demuxer avs
And that should also work.
I might see if I can add in a special case for that, or something.

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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by Pwolf » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:48 pm

Pwolf wrote:update your decoder.
Never mind, didn't realize it was an error being spit out from zarxgui.

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Re: Zarx264gui 2.0 beta - feedback wanted

Post by CodeZTM » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:48 pm

Ok, the AVS demuxer worked just fine. Encoding well now, thank you. :)

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