AMVsimple/Zarxgui alternative for compression including avs?

[Anicsi]

I downloaded and tried to install ffmpeg via PlayonMac

Unless PlayOnMac has some utility to deal with 7z archives, it probably didn't install it at all. The error message probably was because it doesn't understand the archive isn't an installer.

Ah, no, actually after I had downloaded the file from that Zeranoe page you linked, I unpacked it with StuffitExpander. It gives me a folder with a bunch of different folders inside again. In the 'bin' folder, there are the different .exe files. So when I said i tried installing it, I selected the ffmpeg.exe file in the playonmac assistant to install on play on mac. But that resulted in the error message of it having crashed. I tried it like 5 times, with re-downloading the static build 3 times.

I don't really know where to go from here. I have now the unpacked folders... like this:



How do I actually have to install it?

The way you'd make sure it can use the one under PlayOnMac is to make sure that ffmpeg.exe sits somewhere on the Wine %PATH% (if you have it presented to you as drive C:\, put it in C:\WINDOWS). Then using the above command as an example, the only difference would be (bolded):

wine ffmpeg.exe -y -i "Documents/inputfile.avs" -c:a libfaac -q:a 100 -c:v libx264 -crf 20 -preset slower -tune animation "Documents/outputfile.mp4"

I tried now just moving the ffmpeg.exe file alone on that path, the only windows path i could find was in my playonmac drive path. But there are a bunch of other directories before that. It'd be something like this: /Users/annawuki/Library/PlayOnMac/wineprefix/AMVpack/drive_c/windows

So of course the command wouldn't work. And don't i need to keep also all the other files inside that built?

I reaaaaaaaaally don't get this. I'm so sorry. But I really have to get this working, each time I see how amvsimple messes up the quality, I die a little inside

[Qyot27]

Ah, no, actually after I had downloaded the file from that Zeranoe page you linked, I unpacked it with StuffitExpander. It gives me a folder with a bunch of different folders inside again. In the 'bin' folder, there are the different .exe files. So when I said i tried installing it, I selected the ffmpeg.exe file in the playonmac assistant to install on play on mac. But that resulted in the error message of it having crashed. I tried it like 5 times, with re-downloading the static build 3 times.

If the PlayOnMac Assistant assumes an .exe file is an installer, then that's where the problem lies. Those are the programs themselves. You just copy the files to the destination folder normally.

So of course the command wouldn't work. And don't i need to keep also all the other files inside that built?

The other files can be safely disregarded. You only really need ffmpeg.exe.

[l33tmeatwad]

If you are planning on using FFmpeg through Wine (PlayOnMac), then just FYI, I am adding a simple GUI that allows you to encode through that in the next revision of AMVpack, I'll be releasing it around Tuesday.

[Anicsi]

Ohhh okay, sorry, now I get the problem! Alright, I moved it again, it gives me the same terminal error as before, I think maybe I copied it to the wrong directory or I have to change the command, but I don't really know how that would be...

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Annas-MacBook-Pro:~ annawuki$ wine ffmpeg.exe -y -i "Documents/06 poets dani lossless.avs" -c:v libx264 -crf 20 -preset slower -tune animation -c:a libvo_aacenc -b:a 320k "Documents/danipartfinaltest.mp4"
-bash: /Applications/Wine.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wine: No such file or directory

And the directory i copied it to is:

Spoiler :

[Anicsi]

If you are planning on using FFmpeg through Wine (PlayOnMac), then just FYI, I am adding a simple GUI that allows you to encode through that in the next revision of AMVpack, I'll be releasing it around Tuesday.

Oh, okay, that's awesome. I don't really care how, AMVsimple is just giving me shitty outcome with all the time I put into the avisynth scripts to make it look nice, and the amvsimple compression basically takes me back to where I started It's much appreciated!

[l33tmeatwad]

If you are planning on using FFmpeg through Wine (PlayOnMac), then just FYI, I am adding a simple GUI that allows you to encode through that in the next revision of AMVpack, I'll be releasing it around Tuesday.

Oh, okay, that's awesome. I don't really care how, AMVsimple is just giving me shitty outcome with all the time I put into the avisynth scripts to make it look nice, and the amvsimple compression basically takes me back to where I started It's much appreciated!

I'm removing that and adding in a new GUI that shares the FFmpeg executables with Zarx264gui, so it should give you the same output.

[Anicsi]

Great, i'll wait for that update