Can't encode using ZarxGUI

[Qyot27]

Well, using the x264.exe provided by Zarx264gui 2.0 and the lossless file posted on dropbox, I can't replicate this. It encodes the video and audio, and the output file is fine. I also tested with my own build and it doesn't have problems with it either. I tried using --demuxer avs like Zarx sets up, I tried just letting the internal FFMS2 handle it, no input problems at all.

What decoder is being used for PCM? Windows' native one, ffdshow, LAV Filters, etc.? Then again, I'm using XP. Maybe there's some issue that's underlying this on newer versions of Windows.

[Kain-x-spirits]

Same problem as aimo since i've re-installed my codecs (with itunes and new quicktime too).
It shows a ffms error on zarxgui ("couldn't create the video source"). But it works when i chose mkv as container.
And it seems like my directshowsource doesn't work either on avisynth script (i dunno if it's related to the problem).

Everything worked fine before the new install tho

[Kain-x-spirits]

Ha yeah, and it only occurs when i try to encode a lagarith, huffyuv or UTvideo. Uncompressed files works fine. <_<

[Qyot27]

Well, it definitely shouldn't be interfering with FFMS2 (by that I mean the internal one in x264, not the AviSynth or VapourSynth plugin). And the reason I keep saying this is that the only part of Quicktime that's relevant to these builds of x264 is the audio encoding functionality - and that relies on the exact same SDK as qtaacenc and qaac, so if they work, I can't really see how it would make x264 stop working, since it doesn't rely on anything else that Quicktime should be touching (problems like what I guess below notwithstanding; but that would only affect AviSynth input, not x264's internal copies of LAVF or FFMS2). And the SDK has remained the same for the past few years - if something stops working with it, it'd actually be Quicktime, but it wouldn't impact anything else.

I'm starting to think that what Quicktime/iTunes might have done is somehow mess with Media Foundation, and that's impacting being able to use DirectShow and VFW codecs - the solution to which is probably to either reinstall said DS and VFW codecs, or to use the Filter Priority thing that I know Vista/Win7 users needed at one time. It would also seem to explain why it doesn't seem to be doing anything here (even granted that I'm still on iTunes 10.5 - but I am using Quicktime 7.7.2, which is the latest version of Quicktime)...XP doesn't have Media Foundation.

[Qyot27]

Okay, an idea.

Copy and paste the following into Notepad and save the file with a .bat extension:

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x264 --preset veryslow --tune animation --crf 18 -o "%~n1.mp4" %1
pause

If you want a quick-and-dirty test, just change the preset from 'veryslow' to 'ultrafast'.


Now put the .bat file and the file you're trying to convert in the same folder as x264 (you could also just add x264's folder to the system PATH or copy x264.exe to C:\Windows and then run the .bat from wherever the original video file is, but I'm trying not to get complicated here). Drag and drop the .avi onto the .bat. The Command Prompt will pop up and x264 will encode the video. When it's finished, right click on the Command Prompt's title bar, choose Select All from the Edit menu, and when everything's selected, press Enter. Paste this log info into your reply so we can see what it's doing.

Also, I'd recommend trying to play the output file with mplayer. Download the latest one from here (the ones marked i686 are 32-bit, the x86_64 ones are 64-bit):
http://mplayer2.srsfckn.biz/

Just drag and drop the output video file onto mplayer2.exe and see if it plays.

[Qyot27]

Gah, triple-post. I didn't realize something about that .bat I gave above. If you run that as-is, it'll try to write the output .mp4 to your User/Name folder rather than the current one. This should fix that:

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set cwd=%~dp0
x264 --preset veryslow --tune animation --crf 18 -o "%cwd%\%~n1.mp4" %1
pause

[Kain-x-spirits]

That didn't work this way either.

Here's the log info

Spoiler :

C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2>set cwd=C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2\

C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2>x264 --preset veryslow --tune animation --crf 18 -o "C:
\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2\\Lossless - Aimo - Track 14.mp4" "C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui
2\Lossless - Aimo - Track 14.avi"
ffms [info]: 1280x720p 0:1 @ 24000/1001 fps (vfr)
ffms [info]: color matrix: undef
audio [info]: opened qtaac encoder (AAC-LC VBR: 63, quality: medium, samplerate:
48000hz)
resize [warning]: converting from bgra to yuv420p
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.2 AVX
x264 [info]: profile High, level 5.0
x264 [info]: frame I:3 Avg QP:18.79 size: 58149
x264 [info]: frame P:109 Avg QP:21.99 size: 27830
x264 [info]: frame B:133 Avg QP:25.05 size: 8161
x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 26.5% 10.6% 15.9% 16.3% 4.1% 7.3% 8.6% 6.
5% 0.0% 4.1% 0.0%
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 58.3% 20.1% 21.6%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 8.6% 7.0% 6.6% P16..4: 17.4% 5.0% 6.5% 1.3% 1
.3% skip:46.3%
x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 1.5% 0.4% 0.3% B16..8: 22.9% 5.1% 4.3% direct:
1.9% skip:63.5% L0:50.7% L1:43.5% BI: 5.8%
x264 [info]: 8x8 transform intra:29.2% inter:29.3%
x264 [info]: direct mvs spatial:95.5% temporal:4.5%
x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 25.9% 46.6% 38.8% inter: 5.3% 11.4% 9.1%
x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 80% 13% 4% 3%
x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 17% 8% 37% 8% 15% 4% 5% 2% 4%
x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 18% 9% 22% 10% 21% 5% 4% 4% 7%
x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 63% 17% 17% 4%
x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:0.9% UV:0.0%
x264 [info]: ref P L0: 55.6% 5.6% 12.9% 6.5% 4.3% 3.4% 2.6% 1.4% 1.2% 1.
2% 1.6% 1.0% 0.9% 0.7% 0.6% 0.4%
x264 [info]: ref B L0: 72.1% 9.8% 5.8% 2.4% 3.0% 2.4% 1.6% 0.9% 0.5% 0.
3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
x264 [info]: ref B L1: 91.5% 8.5%
x264 [info]: kb/s:3361.27

lavf [info]: end of file reached

C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2>pause
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[Qyot27]

I really don't like the idea of distributing non-free binaries, but to test this issue it seems to be necessary, so I'm only going to leave this up for about a day.
x264_r2216+729.7z
Test the x264.exe (or even x264-10bit.exe) with the above .bat and see if it works. Since the log hints that it might be a problem in lavf, I made sure that component was up-to-date as of less than an hour ago. L-SMASH is only in the same state as the last sync with the main repo, which means a month ago.

[Kain-x-spirits]

Still doesn't work.

Spoiler :

C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2>set cwd=C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2\

C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2>x264 --preset veryslow --tune animation --crf 18 -o "C:
\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2\\Lossless - Aimo - Track 14.mp4" "C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui
2\Lossless - Aimo - Track 14.avi"
ffms [info]:
Codec : lagarith
PixFmt : bgra
Timebase : 1001/0
Duration : 24000:00:00
ffms [info]: 1280x720p 0:1 @ 24000/1001 fps (vfr)
ffms [info]: color matrix: undef
audio [info]: opened qtaac encoder (AAC-LC VBR: 63, quality: medium, samplerate:
48000hz, 2112 priming samples)
resize [warning]: converting from bgra to yuv420p
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.2 AVX
x264 [info]: profile High, level 5.0
x264 [info]: started at Tue Oct 16 14:12:34 2012
[0.4%] 1/245 frames, 0.251 fps, 181.45 kb/s, 0.92 KB, eta 0:16:14, est.size 226.
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[97.6%] 239/245 frames, 8.328 fps, 3375.9 kb/s, 4.01 MB, eta 0:00:00, est.size 4

x264 [info]: frame I:2 Avg QP:20.46 size: 43209
x264 [info]: frame P:112 Avg QP:22.30 size: 27555
x264 [info]: frame B:131 Avg QP:24.90 size: 7891
x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 29.0% 9.8% 11.0% 13.1% 8.2% 9.8% 8.6% 6.
5% 0.0% 4.1% 0.0%
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 62.5% 18.6% 18.9%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 10.6% 5.7% 6.4% P16..4: 18.3% 5.2% 7.0% 1.2% 1
.1% skip:44.4%
x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 1.4% 0.5% 0.3% B16..8: 22.3% 4.8% 4.2% direct:
2.1% skip:64.4% L0:48.6% L1:45.3% BI: 6.2%
x264 [info]: 8x8 transform intra:24.6% inter:31.4%
x264 [info]: direct mvs spatial:94.7% temporal:5.3%
x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 24.7% 44.2% 36.3% inter: 5.5% 11.7% 9.2%
x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 82% 12% 4% 2%
x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 12% 9% 36% 9% 17% 4% 6% 3% 4%
x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 17% 9% 23% 10% 22% 5% 4% 4% 6%
x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 63% 16% 16% 4%
x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:0.9% UV:0.9%
x264 [info]: ref P L0: 55.9% 5.7% 13.3% 5.9% 4.6% 3.3% 2.0% 1.8% 1.1% 1.
2% 1.4% 1.2% 0.6% 0.8% 0.6% 0.6%
x264 [info]: ref B L0: 73.1% 9.7% 5.5% 2.1% 3.1% 2.1% 1.5% 0.9% 0.5% 0.
3% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.3%
x264 [info]: ref B L1: 91.9% 8.1%
x264 [info]: kb/s:3293.10

lavf [info]: end of file reached

C:\Users\KXS\Zarx264gui2>pause
Appuyez sur une touche pour continuer...

[Kain-x-spirits]

Double-post : I've uninstalled every apple software, and install quicktime and avisynth again and now everything works well o_o