yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ba-C-eK:
projection

Please correct a mistake with parsing path of folders. Folders beginning with #,!,_, etc. the program are not perceived :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
The file you are trying to encode is damaged. Other files should be fine.

This is quite odd. I will test today in the evening, and fix it if I can reproduce it.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jooyyy:
thanks.

it's useful.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eXodusN:
projection's, I can do a russian localization
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I have tested it with #, ! and _.

The program works correctly in all of these cases.

Both for input and output.

Perhaps your folder is hidden - then it won't be displayed.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Russian:

Spasibo za predlozhenije pomoshi, no ya i sam prekrasno govorju po russki.

Esli o4en nuzhdajeshsya, mogu zdelat'.

Pomoemu po anglijski tozhe ok... koro4e skazhi, esli o4en nado.

Kstati, neho4u obizhat, no v budushem kidaj mne prosto po russki v privat soobshenije, esli shtoto ho4esh skazat - ya dumaju nam obeim tak leg4e budet :)

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English:

Thank you, but I can perfectly speak russian myself, if you want, I can translate it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eXodusN:
Projection, Udivlen. Prosto na mnogo priyatnee budet, esli sabj budet na russkom, da i nekotorie ludi na forume prosjat

Po povodu problemi, kotoruyu ya ne mog opisat' po-angliyski: inogda konvertirovannoe video beretsja, kak budto kvadratikami, prshodit napojenie, osobenno pri peremotke, ne poymu s chem eto svjazano.

Na 4pda.ru (krupneyshiy rossiyskiy forum po PDA) ochen' prosjat sdelat' 2 veshi - obrezka video (nu eto mnogo raz govorii) i opcional'no 2-pass bitrate, togda na 100% otpadet neobhodimost' drugih konverterov

Ot sebja: hotelos' bi imet' vozmojnost' dobavljat' filmi v ochered' v processe kodirovaniya (hotja bi, kogda kodirovanie na pauze) - ochen' nujno

Spasibo
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Ya vsju zhizn ispolzoval 2-pass.

Sorry for russian...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I have made a new version (v 1.15).

I removed a hack, which I used before to keep A/V sync.

Let me know if A/V sync starts drifting badly with this version.

I quickly encoded some videos, and A/V sync was ok. But let me know.

Regarding smoothness of playback.

I have now messed with encoding settings and encoding/testing for 2 hours. The video is sometimes slightly jerky even with really low bitrate settings.

There is nothing that can be done about this. There are only two things that can cause this:

a) Bad multitasking of the CPU. Try closing all programs (TF3D? didn't help me though).

b) Crap video driver.

Somehow I suspect both are the case. But anyway, what I mean is that the settings are as good as they can be. I can not improve smoothness further.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
A nice thing to add would be a stream copy of audio/video. I have some videos, which play fine, but the audio is AC-3 encoded :(. So it would be cool to copy the video stream and just re-encode the audio.

Maybe it would be cool to specify a whole directory as input. I have some video files in some subdirectories and I have to specify them as input separately.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Play fine in what?

I doubt in album...

If you pay me to do it, I can make you a microgui for that.

Otherwise, don't be lazy and run mencoder yourself :)

No offence, just your request is way too personal.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
In Coreplayer. I figured out that "normal" movies play just fine and smooth in CorePlayer. By "normal" movies I mean something like that:

Video: XVID 640x272 25.00fps 880Kbps [Video 0]
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 129Kbps [Audio 1]

I reach something like 110% in CorePlayer and the FPS is something around 24.7, so even if there are some frames dropped, the playback is very fine and smooth.

Unfortunately CorePlayer isn't able to deal with AC-3 (mainly for license reasons), and TCPMP is quite useless on the HD.

No problem at all, I will try to write my own GUI for it ;).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Sure, do so.

Adding a such option to my GUI would confuse the hell out of people. And I want to keep things simple, and not reliant on 3rd party software (coreplayer).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
Ok, but what is about the possibility to add a directory as input. The program then has to scan this directory (including all sub-directories) for videos and put it then in the list. Maybe this would be useful for more people ;).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ngocluu:
Play with subtitle.

Does anyone know how to play .mp4 files (converted from this Blackstone converter) with subtitles (.srt file)? I tried to play with default player of HD and Windows Media Player but no subtitle shown. :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Neil_Slaesh:
Projection,

Thanks so much for making this application, as soon as I've set up a paypal account, I'll send a donation your way.

I know on the first page you say that you should view videos through Album, but they are also viewable (and just as smooth) through windows media player, however they are listed as songs rather than videos - does anyone know how to make WMP put them in the correct category?

Sorry if this has been addressed, but my search-fu is weak

Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
This isn't possible. For now there is only one possible solution: Hardcoding the subtitle into the video.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ahlok_hk:
Is there any easy steps/program to "hardcode" subtitle into the video?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ^Rook:
Hi Projection,

If one wanted to watch movies from ones DVD-collection on the HD... But one cannot use your program to encode DVD's directly... What step should one add to get the best end-quality on the PPC ?

In other words: what source-format is best for input into your program and what ripping-software would you suggest to get this format :confused:

Regards,

Rolf :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
Not with this gui (yet).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I think it's not a high priority either.

If you have a bunch of files selected for encoding in a single directory, then you can just press ctrl+a....

If you have torrented series... well... yes... I guess...

I'll add it to future feature list.

Thank you, it will be very much appreciated.

Can't help you there. Personally, I just use resco file explorer to find the video I need to play.

I hate WMP's interface.

I am going to make a little fix tonight, and you should be able to encode them directly...

Any progressive or 3:2 telecined video should work I think.

I'll tweak my fps detection tonight some more for better A/V sync on DVD's.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
Just another feature request: I am about to convert a few episodes of my favorite series. I want to do this over night, so it would be cool if my computer could shutdown after finishing the last job. A checkbox or something like that would be enough and would be really useful (at least for me).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwill:
great gui as i finally got a video to play smoothly with no lag on my fuze!! one question though, on most movies that i get their in a widescreen format or something other than fullscreen. on a lot of encoders there is an option to change the aspect ratio to 4:3, 16:9 which will make the video fullscreen on the phone instead of widescreen. is there a way with your encoder to accomplish that or ensure it always forces the video into fullscreen. once again, THANKS SO MUCH!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frederikk:
I think you should let the option for not resizing the video. I made a test on a file which resolution was lower than VGA or WVGA, and it played ok in windows media player. So no matter to get higher size on the video than it is, and the upscaling is ok. Moreover, it should increase the speed of the encoding process...

Just my point of view. Of course you can open your file with media info, and put the same resolution as it is in the "custom" resolution, but it heavier if youo want to encode several files having different resolutions.

Ciao

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frankencowx:
does it not like to convert .wmv files? those arent working for me =/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwill:
you have to select something though, correct? and i just chose the 640x480 since i have vga screen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Look...

There is no way to "change" the aspect ratio, besides either losing part of the image or stretching the image.

Both methods are bad, because in the first case you lose stuff on the sides and in the second case you stretch the image badly.

You do understand this right?

I will add a "crop to aspect" option eventually, but it will be off by default.

No offence, but.

No s*** sherlock.

It never ever upscales the video when resizing. It only shrinks it down, if either of the dimensions is too big to display and calculates the other dimension using the aspect ratio of the video.

WMV files work fine here.

Post a log, without it, I can't do anything.

I wrote this in bolded red, I don't know how else I can do it, so people pay attention to it in the first post.

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Christer, thank you for your donation, it is very much appreciated!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwill:
understood and just wanted to make sure. personally, i have no problem with them in widescreen as they dont lag now. so, thanks again and great application:D donation sent for all the hard work on it as well. 75444598NE055592X
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Thank you! Every bit helps :)

That "crop to aspect" function has been requested a lot.

I will make a bugfix release tonight (there have been a couple of issues), and I'll see what I can do about the cropping.

I know how to do it already since a while... just takes some effort.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sakky:
now converted only in .avi?

i must play video with coreplayer? :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wordsmith9091:
Projection -- You're sounding sorta frustrated in some of those recent posts where you're answering things that seem obvious or have been asked before. Just wanted to let you know we all really appreciate your work, and are grateful for it. This app's really handy, and I'm sure the coming versions will be even better.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwill:
that would definitely be cool. even without it, the app is awesome and gets the conversions right:D so, the crop to aspect would actually make the entire "viewable" part of the video 640x480 so you get no bars at top or bottom?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frederikk:
Ok sorry... i thought the size given in the gui ( SD or HD ) was the actual size of the final video. Because in fact most people will use it for standard videos like tv shows, music videos, etc... i mean i think.

Ciao

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
No. The avi is only an intermediate file.

The .mp4 file is in the output folder you specified.

If you have an error, post log.

Thank you, and I know...

I don't expect anyone to read everything, but before asking they could at least read the three first posts.

Yes, but the tradeoff is that you will lose some parts of the picture. So you will not see what is going on in those parts. I personally dislike that. That is why it has not been implemented yet. But I guess I have to give in for the greater good.

SD or HD is for the INPUT video. What you are ENCODING.

If you encode HD video, then you have probably 800x450 resolution, so you need more bitrate than for dvdrip!

I guess I need to write some "manual" for this thing...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnpatcher:
What is about my suggested shutdown function? Did you just overlooked it, or is there a reason for ignoring it :p?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cx2k5:
what is the better choice for hd, vga or wvga?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tnyynt:
That depends really on your device's screen resolution. For VGA go for VGA and WVGA for WVGA.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I never turn my pc off anyway, in fact it is on UPS, so that is pretty low priority for me :P

If you mean Touch HD, then you need to use WVGA (touch hd's screen is WVGA).

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I released a new (mostly bugfix version).

If you would like to support further development, please donate!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwill:
totally got you now with the whole aspect ratio. and sorry if i was one who that asked questions that had been previously answered:D i always read AT LEAST the first posts from the original creator of the thread:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Don't worry, all is well.

Glad you understood it, it's just basic math, the harder thing is piecing it together in your head.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cx2k5:
i just tried the SEVEN POUNDS film conversion with standart settings (SD Input, WVGA) and i have a lot of freezes.

This is the Input video:

Output video:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gauner1986:
Could you maybe tell me the commands you are using for the specific part-programs like mencoder and mp4box? I'd like to make a linux script out of it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackthekayman:
this program is very nice, I hope subtitles support will be added soon ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ankjain:
problem of full screen

hi everybody,

i am currently having Xperia and wanted to convert one DVD of Speed II .it is in the .vbs format. with the resolution of 356*480 something.

but when i convert the DVD, the maximum resolution i get is the same. that is it doesnt change into wvga resolution hence i dont get full screeen movie.

please help me as in my country, DVDs are in parctice and they all use .vbs format.

thanks in advance

ankjain
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ngocluu:
I hope subtitles will be supported in next releases. :o
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
No offence, but instead of posting huge useless screenshots, you should read post #2 in the thread, which tells you to attach log in bolded red.

In theory it is quite easily possible to make the program work on linux.

It is written using TCL/TK, which is supported under linux.

So if you like, you can port the program instead.

If you are interested, then please let me know in PM.

If not, then just download the program, run it in virtualbox with -debug option and look inside the log. All command lines are there.

Read at least a couple of posts before you post. This has been addressed multiple times!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cx2k5:
wrong reply sorry.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MobileXMan:
Is it possible to convert a dvd directly without converting in an avi before?

What files i have to select, the *.ifo?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I don't know much about the DVD format.

But you probably need to decrypt the DVD first...

If you have VOB file, you can probably convert that directly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wolfs44:
I would like to convert from DVD 2, 3 or more vob-files to one mp4-file.

Is a Join-Function possible?

wolfs44
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Join them yourself using proper software for that.

This is a one-click encoder, not a media studio or a DVD ripper!

Be sensible.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pureheart:
Just download YAMB from here http://www.videohelp.com/tools/YAMB and from the Editing menu select the option to join mp4!

It works like a charm!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wolfs44:
@pureheart,

thanks a lot for link.

wolfs44
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Thanks pureheart :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kiukiu:
Hi there, this is my first time trying to encode a video. I've hit an error and have no idea on what to do. Please advise. Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackthekayman:
is it possible to have a jobs task list to convert several files without manually select everyfiles?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Does that happen with all videos or only this particular video?

EDIT: I think I have found the cause. Will make a fix tonight

What do you mean?

Do you mean reading files to convert from a .txt file?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gauner1986:
Ah thanks.. saw that myself now. I'm not so skilled in C++-programming, otherwise i would have done it (Just wanted to make a quick script). But i'm considering to make a Java version (when my exams at the university are over)

Another problem: The file isn't playing fluidly in Windows-Media-Player or the panels.. There are MANY frames dropped.

Any suggestions how to debug or confirms for this? I'm an Xperia user.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
I told you, I wrote the UI in TCL/TK.

I don't see where C++ is involved.

Also, Java is really not the right tool for this job at all. It would be a pain to code something like this in Java.

Trust me, I hold a SCJP Diploma ;)

Basically, this GUI is a script.

As TCL is a scripting language.

It's just wrapped with an interpreter and upx-ed. The source is not even obfuscated, so if anyone wanted to, they can recover it, without hacking at all.

Again, you can have the source, and you can adapt it to linux.

Should be a matter of changing hardcoded executable paths only.

Perhaps you'll need to change some "\\" to "/", but that's it.

Can't do anything about it.

At least on the HTC Touch HD, the frames are dropped due to botched video output on the device.

If you make a 100kbit file and play that back full screen exactly the same happens.

So it's either:

1) Video driver being bad

2) Multitasking delay being bad

Also, to clarify. There are no frames dropped.

You can't drop frames when decoding h.264, not possible. They are just "concatenated" and change in packs of 2-3.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gauner1986:
Mh.. But for me it's not watchable. It's 3 fps max (Maybe i expressed myself a bit unclear)

So maybe it's also that i don't know much about TCL/TK.. But if i see it right.. Your program just executes other programs in a specific order.. So where's the problem doing that in Java? Should not be a performance issue.

Yeah.. but maybe I could give it a try (at least i have a good linux knowledge). I'll send you a pm with my e-mail address.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
You do NOT use a hammer to screw in a screw.

I have many years of Java coding experience. Java is really not the right tool for the job.

The question is not about performance at all. Java's performance is very, very good - contrary to what most people think.

TCL's performance is about 30-35x slower than Java in most microbenchmarks. But it is about 10 times easier to code a native cross-platform GUI in TCL/TK than in Java.

It is 5 times easier to execute commands and parse output.

And it takes a lot less effort, since in a tool like this you do NOT care about OOP, you do NOT care about a virtual machine, you do NOT care about type safety, hell you do NOT even need types, and most of all you do NOT care about the performance of a GUI tool that reads stdout and stderr.

I understand that you are just studying and have learned java etc, but it's NOT the right tool to do what essentially is a bash script.

Anyway, this is offtopic, if you wish to discuss this particular issue, do so in PM.

Then you are either running something in background or using the wrong player.

You should be using Album or WMP... if that doesn't work and you are not running anything in background, perhaps your ROM has stripped directshow drivers.

I have had many people test this with Xperia, and it worked perfectly fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cx2k5:
attachment below...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Don't see anything out of the ordinary, besides some frame duplication, but that's expected.

Try other videos too.

You also should have SD TuneUP.cab installed from tnyynt.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cx2k5:
just installed sd tuneup, but no great changes after that. still freezes, even on "overbook entertaiment" presentation..maybe it will be good for other films or music videos... will try.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackthekayman:
no, I mean to have a convert list (such a playlist) to encode many files without manually do the operation ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Err.

You are asking for a feature that is already implemented then.

What playlist? What stops you from adding MANY files to the encoder right now and encoding? Why are you doing it 1 file at a time?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackthekayman:
yes my fault, multiple files import is yet implemented, sorry :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jandre:
I was looking the log to understand the commands, and I have a doubt.

After the 3 pass of MEncoder (2 for video and 1 for audio), we obtain 2 files: video.264 and audio.avi.

I know how to get video.mp4 from video.264 with MP4Box, but ¿How do you obtain Audio.acc from audio.avi?

Regards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
3rd pass is muxing.

Audio is encoded in 2nd pass...

Now for a workaround audio will be encoded in 1st pass as well, as there was a bug in mencoder that degrades video quality.

Oh and... mp4box, google it.

Basically:

1st pass = 1st pass video + encode audio

2nd pass = 2nd pass video + encode audio (i know, 2x encode audio, but it is needed until mencoder is fixed in SVN)

3rd pass = muxing.

At the end of 2nd pass we get video.avi, that contains audio and video, now we only need to extract them and remux them into mp4. That is done by mp4box.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jandre:
You are right. I was using the 1.14 version, who maked it in 4 steps.

I'm also programmer as you, and i'm curious.

I suppose to crop video, you will use mediainfo to get the size of the video, and after that, you will use the param -crop in MEncoder.

Regards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edhunter:
i projection you have done a great job whit this great tool i already encoded lots of movies when you plan to put support for subtitles?

thanks f
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Better to get it using mplayer.exe -identify I think.

I don't trust mediainfo that much.

But yes, you are correct.

Soon(tm)...

I work on the program almost every evening after work.

For me the most important is to have the basic features as good as they can get before adding more features.

I strongly believe into stability before adding bloat. So once everything works satisfactory, I can add stuff like subtitle support and autocrop.

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Also, thank you Antonio for your donation!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bogdatov:
What seems strange to me is that when I encode movie with encoder ... no (!!!) audio, but smooth video in Album ... and good (!!!) audio with choppy video in CorePlayer. I tried to play SAME file with Album and CorePlayer.

I really like encoder's video result, but NO audio :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JohnQ:
everything works great! fantastic!!!

last thing to wait is adding subtitles! thanks mate!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ngocluu:
I tried to play with Album player, no audio. But using WMP, the video and audio result is perfect. :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kiukiu:
Seems to be happening to most of the DVDRip files. I tried opening the file in WMP and it will first say that it's aquiring Codec but everything plays nicely. When i try to covert it, it'll hit the muxing issue. I opened the log file to have a look, and it says cannot initialize video driver. How so? Anyway, attached is the log file for another dvdrip file that I tried.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] projection:
Something is wrong with your system.

Please post this to the mencoder-users mailing list with the exact command line parameters you are using (take them from the log).