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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    @IcemanZ: Looking at your recent rips, a couple of suggestions if you're going for absolute best quality (post belongs here with us tech-heads) - Contrast is poor in many DVDISOs. Brightness range for DVD is supposed to be 16-235, but it is often more like 24-255: not enough darks, and...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Yes you should get the same result. Just note that One-click auto-crops any black borders it finds and does very minor resizing that may be necessary as a result.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Settings like Quality+3 are for the x264 encoding only. You can see the x264 settings chosen by pressing the "Config" button next to the "Video Profile" on the One-Click "Encoder Config" tab. QTGMC quality/speed settings are mainly controlled by "Preset" on the One-Click "Custom Processing"...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    About 10 minutes after the sun goes supernova. x64 version would be unstable since there is no stable x64 avisynth. It is possible to get it to work, but rather a matter of luck. Wouldn't want all the support queries. But I have something equivalent that I have been using recently: running...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    If you want a fixed bitrate then switch from CRF mode to Automated 2-pass in the x264 settings. Or you could set a particular filesize on the "General" tab of the One-Click process. Either way you will get one extra processing pass. Progressive - Post Processing does nothing special in it's...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Not tried it, but you should be able to put extra processing like hard subs just before the line that contains "...Distributor()...". Just don't trim the start if you intend to do this. By default, progressive post-processing will do nothing other than re-encode your content with x264. You...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Is it maybe a problem in the source? Or perhaps DSS2 is not delivering frames correctly - source filter problems can lead to randomly occurring visual issues. Or it's a bug in QuickTGMC but a very, very rare one... If you see the problem again then it would be helpful to post a snippet of the...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Thanks for the detailed information, glad you got it working. The image is showing some kind of chroma ghosting. Video images are split into luma (brightness) and chroma (color). The chroma is stored at a lower resolution as it is generally less visible except in extreme cases such as this...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Never tried VC-1 streams so I can't help you with that except to say that if you can play it in MPC then DirectShowSource should work (or DSS2). Using QuickTGMC( preset="Fast" ) or whatever will be fine provided you can get the source to load. Can usually skip other processing for blu-rays.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    What did you do out of interest? I would have suggested starting an encode, stopping it and editing the avs to change the source filter, then restarting.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Then it's the source or dgindex. Try getting the latest dgindex. Try FFVideoSource instead of DGDecode_mpeg2source. Try redownloading the file.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    There must be more than one glitch because it's out by several minutes by the end, not just 35 seconds. Extracting the ISO should be trivial, it's just an archive. Doesn't seem likely that would go wrong. I just use 7zip. Could be a corrupted download. VLC can quickly recover from a corrupt...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    That's just strange. Ignoring the actual playing time first, the differences between the three extractions are a little inconsistent. Not sure exactly what you did about drop frames there, but the differences there a bit like look like the effect of drop frames, just a few seconds over the DVD...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    A quick look and I see nothing unusual about the IFO files. I have a possible explanation though: if one of the VOBs is corrupt or partial (through downloading or actually incorrect on the DVD) then the indexing step will skip over the missing/broken parts leaving you with a playable but...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    I can't tell you anything about DVD cells, but I have often seen chapters at or beyond the end of the playable time. They seem to be ignored at playback. Very frequent is a single chapter point at the very end of the video. You say the "play all" reports 1:18, but does it actually play video for...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    OK, I see. I was dizzied by all the tests you reported. Only interesting issue I've seen regarding that APPCRASH was a user who had mixed up 32 and 64 bit dlls (System32 for 64-bit, SysWOW64 for 32-bit). Suspicion with start up problems is Xenocode or missing dependencies. Which are related...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    You said you got exactly the same error on Win7 and XP, but those errors are quite different. The second error is a Xenocode one. Rollyco used Xenocode to build MeguIV so it was a portable application, not requiring installation. A quick look shows that Xenocode is not officially supported under...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Just to confirm, original MeguIV and MeguIVit 0.2.1 and 1.0b3 all use exactly the same executable, just different sandbox folders (deleted of course between trying different versions). So you're saying if you delete the 0.2.1 sandbox then unzip the 1.0b3 one, then the program crashes before you...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    shank and I worked out some solutions to common problems, which shank kindly summarized here. Try those two steps.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Glad to hear it. One of my major goals of MeguIVIt was to make 60fps rips more reasonable for rippers. The more 60fps content that gets out there, the more people see the quality and so the more rips that are made 60fps - a self-fulfilling circle that gradually raises the quality of everything...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    - Confusion about terms core and thread. Your CPU is made up of 6 physical cores. I.e. a core describes the hardware of your CPU. Threads or processes (similar concepts for a non-developer) are different instances of a program running at the same time on your CPU. I.e. a thread describes running...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Yes - as resolutions and processing become more extreme, you tend to get CPU under-utilization. I think there are two factors: - More disk access, threads stall waiting for the disk I/O - Threads stall waiting for each other. This is hard to explain: If thread 1 and thread 2 try to do the same...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Despite my software development know-how I'm not much of a hardware fanatic, so others may have better advice for your specific system. However, for efficient performance MeguIVit needs: - 4 or 6 cores, 6 is not that much better due to the threading issues endlessly discussed above. - As high a...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    If pre-render makes things crash then disk access is the problem because pre-render writes 20x more data to the disk. Certainly disk access is sensitive when pre-rendering - writing large files to the same disk as the rip output can cause crashes. Maybe it's the disk you're writing to or other...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Follow the instructions in this post for re-encoding at a different resolution. However, the lowest resolution x264 presets in MeguIVit are for 360p. That might work, but as I guess it's for playback on a small device there may be limitations on the settings you can use (e.g. bitrate, reference...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Threads don't get attached to cores so there's no need to pick values related to your number of cores. Experiment until you find the highest value that is consistently stable. I know 11 threads is best for me on defaults but it may be lower for you. Any content that is interlaced can naturally...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Also consider reducing the thread count, as less threads means less likelihood of a crash. With Main Threads set to Auto, you get 12 threads on a 6 core machine. Try reducing it to 10 or 8 for stability. For performance, you want to set the number of threads such that you just hit 100% CPU. If...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Yes, I've had a few people observe that multi-threaded QTGMC (the core of MeguIVit) is a tougher stress test than Prime95. It's because it accesses much more memory and hits the harddrive continuously as well as the intense CPU activity. I'm quite proud ^^ Glad to hear that you sorted it out...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    shank: Now that sounds like the standard multi-threading crash. Occurs randomly. Now as you have a 6-core machine the system will be defaulting to 12 threads. That might be too many, so try reducing the Main Threads to 8 (or to 1 again to confirm whether this is multi-threading related). But as...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    I have been able to consistently reproduce that blank dialog crash myself, with just 1 thread. That means it may not be to do with threading [although it is certainly to do with avisynth or its plugins regardless of the error message blaming something else]. I've attached an updated avisynth.dll...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Sorry that was my mistake. I forgot about a bug that I have since fixed in my current development version. Let's fix it on your version: - Run MeguIVit, and go into One-Click - Select the "Advanced Config" tab - Next to the "Avisynth Profile" you should see "[Vit] Custom Processing", then a...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    That 17KB Mencoder isn't the real executable, it's a kind-of placeholder for the real file, which is extracted when you run MeguIVit. You shouldn't replace that small file. Delete your sandbox and start again. - A first thing you can try: when setting up a One-Click rip go to the "Encoder...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Just an alert to those who use mkvmerge manually, which came up after a problem with one of CMoarIdols rips. [Edit:] They introduced header compression (also called header stripping) into mkvmerge in about version 4.5. It is switched on by default. But this feature causes some hardware...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Next version, which I'm part way through, allows you to save presets, which answers the first question. I haven't considered batch processing. As each rip takes a long time, it doesn't seem a major priority. I'm not sure how a batch process would help you if you get a crash... However, work...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Follow up post from isityours's Tomoe re-encode. You might want to re-encode a rip to make it easier to play or make it work on a particular hardware device. You might reduce the resolution, or perhaps to use Fast Decode x264 settings on a 1080p rip. You can do this easily in the latest MeguIVit...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    That seems slow. Are you using a suitable preset? "Super Fast" is where to start, there isn't so much need for precision on such high resolutions. Typically you need better and better presets the more you intend to upscale. As you don't usually upscale HD, then you can use the faster presets...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Ah, HD. You may run out of memory without pre-render - forget your system RAM, Avisynth is a 32-bit app and can only use 2Gb in normal circumstances. You will almost certainly need to cut down the number of threads in the "Custom Processing" tab. Maybe main threads 4 and sub-threads 1.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    You should get an identical output in fact (unless you use the non-deterministic setting of x264, which nobody does). Use pre-render only if it's faster or suits your workflow for some reason.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    This is fine, it means that a problem was found and fixed during indexing of the VOB files. Probably a DVD authored out of spec or something? Whatever it is, it's not too uncommon and I've never had any problems when it happens. ____ Inca: There's something screwy with your setup if you...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Have you tried merging the VOBs into one big VOB then extracting the audio from that? VOB parts aren't intended to be worked on individually.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    I'm not sure what exactly what you mean. Maybe you're trying to do this: ... v = FFVideoSource( videofilename ) a = FFAudioSource( audiofilename ) AudioDub( v, a ) ... Can use whatever source filters you want in that script, and the audio source can be a video that contains audio...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Yes, you can do that. After the main first pass video encode starts, go to the MeGUI main window and hit the "Queue" tab. Scroll to the end. You can see the tasks yet to be processed are shown with a mode of "Waiting". Select these tasks and press "Delete". Out of curiosity, what do you want...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    It's probably much simpler than that. At the same time as working on MeguIVit I have been developing the next QuickTGMC. I have been experimenting with different techniques for fps interpolation because I am going to put that functionality into QuickTGMC. The method in MeguIVit 1.0 beta3 was...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Also try MeguIVit 1.0 beta3. It can correctly handle a much wider range of sources.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    OK. I figured that case was covered. I'll fix it.
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Yes, you must identify each part that you wish to encode (some .m2ts files contain menus or other non-video data - easy to see by the filesize or use BDInfo). Then mkvmerge or easier, just make separate rips (e.g. main + bonus) Where an m2ts has audio it should appear as "PCM" when you drag...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    This is a good idea and works fine with MeguIVit. I've never come across VOBs like this, but looks like I've been lucky...
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    Yes, that's exactly how it should work. So what happened there is a puzzle. - Did it crash maybe? And you are looking at a partial intermediate AVI rather than the final MKV? - Is there something odd about the ISO? In MeguIV(it) go to the menus, "Tools->File Indexer", and drop your first VOB...
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    We're back!

    Thanks for all the effort Rollyco!
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    meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

    I don't know what settings you are using, so hard to judge. However, that is a fairly weak machine compared to the more frequent rippers, so your result may be normal. You can speed up the first pass by simply adjusting the "Preset" at the top of the "Custom Processing" tab. Only you can...