HydrogenAudio

Thanks, looks very promising. So it can transcode video as well? How about audio contained in video (I'm new to video btw). Anyways will play around with it when I get a chance. Have to format and reinstall Windows first (sigh).
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Hi Optimus. I have a question: Is it possible to an option to wrap the HE-AAC file into an MP4/M4A container via either MP4Box or MP4creator? So you can transcode to mp4 in one step? Might be worth a try.

Any chance of including support for the LC AAC Winamp encoder?
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MP4Box is a console program isn't it? If so, it will not be difficult to integrate it. Could u provide me with some info on MP4Box (mainly about its command line usage)?

MP4Box [option] input [option]

mp4box -add <infile> -sbr <outfile.m4a>

MP4Box [option] input [option]

 -h general:          general options help
 -h hint:             hinting options help
 -h import:           import options help
 -h encode:           encode options help
 -h meta:             meta handling options help
 -h extract:          extraction options help
 -h dump:             dump options help
 -h swf:              Flash (SWF) options help
 -h crypt:            ISMA E&A options help
 -h format:           supported formats help

 -nodes:              lists supported MPEG4 nodes
 -node NodeName:      gets MPEG4 node syntax and QP info
 -xnodes:             lists supported X3D nodes
 -xnode NodeName:     gets X3D node syntax

 -version:            gets build version

General Options:
 -inter time_in_ms    interleaves file data (track chunks of time_in_ms)
                       * Note 1: Interleaving is 0.5s by default
                       * Note 2: a value of 0 disables interleaving
 -flat                stores file with all media data first, non-interleaved
 -frag time_in_ms     fragments file (track fragments of time_in_ms)
                       * Note: Always disables interleaving
 -out filename        specifies output file name
                       * Note: By default input (MP4,3GP) file is overwritten
 -tmp dirname         specifies directory for temporary file creation
                       * Note: Default temp dir is OS-dependent
 -nosys               removes all MPEG-4 Systems info except IOD (profiles)
                       * Note: Set by default whith '-add' and '-cat'
 -isma                rewrites the file as an ISMA 1.0 AV file
 -ismax               same as '-isma' and removes all clock references
 -3gp                 rewrites as 3GPP(2) file (no more MPEG-4 Systems Info)
                       * Note 1: some tracks may be removed in the process
                       * Note 2: always on for *.3gp *.3g2 *.3gpp
 -brand ABCD          sets major brand of file
 -ab ABCD             adds given brand to file's alternate brand list
 -rb ABCD             removes given brand from file's alternate brand list
 -cprt string         adds copyright string to movie
 -chap file           adds chapter information contained in file
 -rem trackID:        removes track from file
 -new:                forces creation of a new destination file
 -rem trackID:        removes track from file
 -lang [tkID=]LAN:    sets track language. LAN is the ISO 639-2 code (eng, und)
 -delay tkID=TIME:    sets track start delay in ms.
 -split time_sec      splits in files of time_sec max duration
                       * Note: this removes all MPEG-4 Systems media
 -splits filesize     splits in files of max filesize kB.
                       * Note: this removes all MPEG-4 Systems media
 -splitx start:end    extracts a new file from start to end (in seconds)
                       * Note: this removes all MPEG-4 Systems media


Hinting Options
 -hint:               hints the file for RTP/RTSP
 -mtu size:           specifies MTU size in bytes. Default size is 1500
 -copy:               copies media data to hint track rather than reference
                       * Note: speeds up server but takes much more space
 -tight:              performs tight interleaving (sample based) of hinted file
                       * Note: reduces server disk seek but increases file size
 -multi [maxptime]:   enables frame concatenation in RTP packets if possible
        maxptime:     max packet duration in ms (optional, default 100ms)
 -rate ck_rate:       specifies rtp rate in Hz when no default for payload
                       * Note: default value is 90000 (MPEG rtp rates)
 -mpeg4:              forces MPEG-4 generic payload whenever possible
 -latm:               forces MPG4-LATM transport for AAC streams
 -static:             enables static RTP payload IDs whenever possible
                       * By default, dynamic payloads are always used

MPEG-4 Generic Payload Options
 -ocr:                forces all streams to be synchronized
                       * Most RTSP servers only support synchronized streams
 -rap:                signals random access points in RTP packets
 -ts:                 signals AU Time Stamps in RTP packets
 -size:               signals AU size in RTP packets
 -idx:                signals AU sequence numbers in RTP packets
 -iod:                prevents systems tracks embedding in IOD
                       * Note: shouldn't be used with -isma option

 -sdp_ex string:      adds sdp string to (hint) track ("-sdp_ex tkID:string")
                      or movie. This will take care of SDP lines ordering
                       * WARNING: You cannot add anything to SDP, cf rfc2327.
 -unhint:             removes all hinting information.

Suppported raw formats and file extensions:
 NHNT                 .media .nhnt .info
 MPEG Audio           .mp3
 ADTS-AAC             .aac
 MPEG-4 Visual        .cmp .m4v
 H263 Video           .263 .h263
 AVC/H264 Video       .h264 .h26L .264 .26L
 JPEG Images          .jpg .jpeg
 PNG Images           .png
 AMR(WB) Audio        .amr .awb
 EVRC Audio           .evc
 SMV Audio            .smv

Supported containers and file extensions:
 AVI                  .avi
 MPEG-PS              .mpg .mpeg .vob .vcd .svcd
 QCP                  .qcp
 OGG                  .ogg
 ISO-Media files      no extension checking

Supported text formats:
 SRT Subtitles        .srt
 SUB Subtitles        .sub
 GPAC Timed Text      .ttxt
 QuickTime TeXML Text  .xml  (cf QT documentation)

Supported Scene formats:
 MPEG-4 XMT-A         .xmt .xmta .xmt.gz .xmta.gz
 MPEG-4 BT            .bt .bt.gz
 VRML                 .wrl .wrl.gz
 X3D-XML              .x3d .x3d.gz
 X3D-VRML             .x3dv .x3dv.gz
 MacroMedia Flash     .swf (very limitted import support only)


MPEG-4 Scene Encoding Options
 -mp4:                specify input file is for encoding.
 -def:                encode DEF names
 -sync time_in_ms:    forces BIFS sync sample generation every time_in_ms
                       * Note: cannot be used with -shadow
 -shadow time_ms:     forces BIFS sync shadow sample generation every time_ms.
                       * Note: cannot be used with -sync
 -log:                generates BIFS encoder log file
 -ms file:            specifies file for track importing

Chunk Processing
 -inctx file:         specifies initial context (MP4/BT/XMT)
                       * Note: input file must be a commands-only file
 -outctx:             specifies storage of updated context (MP4/BT/XMT)


Meta handling Options
 -set-meta args:      sets given meta type - syntax: "ABCD[:tk=ID]"
                       * ABCD: four char meta type (NULL or 0 to remove meta)
                       * [:tk=ID]: if not set use root (file) meta
                                if ID is 0 use moov meta
                                if ID is not 0 use track meta
 -add-item args:      adds resource to meta
                       * syntax: file_path + options (':' separated):
                        tk=ID: meta adressing (file, moov, track)
                        name=str: item name
                        mime=mtype: item mime type
                        encoding=enctype: item content-encoding type
                       * file_path "this" or "self": item is the file itself
 -rem-item args:      removes resource from meta - syntax: item_ID[:tk=ID]
 -set-primary args:   sets item as primary for meta - syntax: item_ID[:tk=ID]
 -set-xml args:       sets meta XML data
                       * syntax: xml_file_path[:tk=ID][:binary]
 -rem-xml [tk=ID]:    removes meta XML data
 -dump-xml args:      dumps meta XML to file - syntax file_path[:tk=ID]
 -dump-item args:     dumps item to file - syntax item_ID[:tk=ID][:path=fileName]


Extracting Options
 -raw TrackID:        extracts track in raw format when supported
 -raws TrackID:       extract each track sample to a file
                       * Note: "TrackID:N" extracts Nth sample
 -nhnt TrackID:       extracts track in nhnt format
 -single TrackID:     extracts track to a new mp4 file
 -avi TrackID:        extracts visual track to an avi file
 -qcp TrackID:        same as '-raw' but defaults to QCP file for EVRC/SMV
 -aviraw TK:          extracts AVI track in raw format
                      $TK can be one of "video" "audio" "audioN"


Importing Options

File importing syntax:
 "#video" "#audio":   base import for most AV files
 "#trackID=ID":       track import for IsoMedia and other files
 ":dur=D":            imports only the first D seconds
 ":lang=LAN":         sets imported media language code
 ":delay=delay_ms":   sets imported media initial delay in ms

 -add file:           add file tracks to (new) output file
 -cat file:           concatenates file samples to (new) output file
                       * Note: creates tracks if needed
 -keepsys:            keeps all MPEG-4 Systems info when using '-add' / 'cat'

All the following options can be specified as default or for each track.
When specified by track the syntax is ":opt" or ":opt=val".

 -dref:               keeps media data in original file
 -nodrop:             forces constant FPS when importing AVI video
 -packed:             forces packed bitstream when importing raw ASP
 -sbr:                backward compatible signaling of AAC-SBR
 -sbrx:               non-backward compatible signaling of AAC-SBR
                       * Note: SBR AAC cannot be detected at import time
 -fps FPS:            forces frame rate for video and SUB subtitles import
                       * For raw H263 import, default FPS is 15
                       * For all other imports, default FPS is 25
 -mpeg4:              forces MPEG-4 sample descriptions when possible (3GPP2)
 -agg N:              aggregates N audio frames in 1 sample (3GP media only)
                       * Note: Maximum value is 15 - Disabled by default

Does this utility support FLAC to AACPlus v2 encoding? I didn't see FLAC as a source file format for audio?
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The general cmdline is:

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MP4Box [option] input [option]

I just found that MP4Box will remove PS part from AAC. The resulting MP4 will be detected as HE-AAC without PS (by foobar2000).

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The general cmdline is:

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MP4Box [option] input [option]

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I can play Helix AACplus files in iTunes.
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  1) Is there any chance you could implement drag-and-drop? It would be nice to be able to select a group of files/directories in the explorer, and simply add them to Menc.

  2) What about an option to encode a group of files as a single track, with chapters? (Or even a way to encode a WAV/Cue sheet pair, so that the CD-Text was transferred to appropriate indices?) Might be wishful thinking, but it would be nice.

  3) Currently when transcoding from a FLAC file, if there is silence at the end of the file, it will be truncated in the resultant AAC. When transcoding from WAV the actual length of the original audio is preserved. Would it be possible to optionally include the appropriate amount of silence when transcoding from FLAC?

  4) The method used by the AudioCoding.com "in_mp4" Winamp plugin - hosted at RareWares - for converting AAC to MP4/M4A seems to preserve PS data. (At least, TCPMP on my cell phone still recognizes and plays the PS content!) Perhaps, since you are using a Winamp plugin for the actual encode, you could pair that with the AudioCoding plugin to accomplish conversion/tagging?

in_mp4 is a input plugin isn't it? It can do conversion?
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Convert to MP4

You can convert this file to MP4 if you like. This does not involve
re-encoding, only the container format is changed. Advantages of
MP4 files are that they are playable by a lot more players and they
will have a lot of support in the future.

Thanks for the tool. Another request here for drag & drop. Also, any chance of adding wavpack support?
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hi,

nice app, thx for your efford. heres an issues i noticed regarding recursive transcoding:

switched recursive to on in settings
input c:\mp3
output c:\aac
if input folder doesnt got subfolders, it works just fine. but if it does it just skips all files and says encoding complete

c:\mp3\1\2\3\test.mp3 should give c:\aac\1\2\3\test.aac, maybe its a destination folder issue

regards
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Greetings! aacPLUS v2 encoding not working on WinXP SP2. It is giving me the error aacplus encoder cannot be opened. I tried uninstalling winamp. But still the same error. Helix encoding works.

Error: Error starting AACplus encoder
Error: AACplus encoder failed to start

Then I tried on another computer with WinXP SP1 and it works there.

Please kindly provide some solution as soon as you can.  

It would be great if you can include the VP6.2 video codec and combine it with aacPLUS v2 audio to give the Winamp video NSV file. I think winamp are still not supporting vp7 in nsv. on2 vp7 and aacplus v2 combination would be the best quality in the world for video at low bitrates. So unfortunate that macromedia flash did not include vp7 and aacplus v2 support in their version 8.
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Error in 0.2.2 is:
Error: Error starting AACplus encoder
Error: AACplus encoder failed to start

I'm developing this tool on WinXP SP2 and has not experienced your problem. Please check the settings for AAC+ encoding, for example, if you choose Parametric Stereo and set the bitrate over 48kbps, AAC+ encoder will deny to work. I will add more specific messages in the future to indicate which error it is.

hi,

switched recursive to on in settings
input c:\mp3
output c:\aac
if input folder doesnt got subfolders, it works just fine. but if it does it just skips all files and says encoding complete

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Optimus,do you planning to include(in some newer build) the future version of Nero AAC codec,which is arrive on the market in late October.
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Greetings Optimus! I installed the new version 0.2.5 and still the same error while starting aacPLUS v2 encoding:

"Error starting encoding. This may due to incorrect encoding settings."

I also tried in another computer where it worked for a few times previously and now it has started giving the same error.

I do not know what is wrong. I have sent you the menc.dat file. I hope this will help to solve the problem. Is any other software which I have, clashing with MEnc or the aacPLus dll? I had problems with the Winamp Transcoder plugin which crashed Winamp and had to reinstall Winamp to make it work. I have uninstalled it now but maybe it has left some registry entry somewhere.

Is anyone having the same problem or is it working well for everyone else? 
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hi,

switched recursive to on in settings
input c:\mp3
output c:\aac
if input folder doesnt got subfolders, it works just fine. but if it does it just skips all files and says encoding complete

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This bug is fixed in 0.2.5
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thx for the update, working fine now. any plans for implementing an option to keep the subfolder structure input->output?
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hehe ok, so here you go:

i need an option to keep the subfolder structure input->output

what about aac+v2 mp4 container and on top of that mp3 idtag-> mp4 tag? any plans/ideas?

regards
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Brilliant tool! Very convenient, thanks a lot! Appreciated.
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thx optimus, much appreciated
first few transcodingtest worked like a charm with multiple subfolder levels.

regards
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What do

"Error starting external program specified in the command line"

errors mean?

I'm trying to transcode a vob to xvid+lame in a matroska container...
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"Error starting external program specified in the command line":
unfortunately,i get the same exactly message,
but with any kind of video i'm trying to transcode...
As soon as it finishes the audio encoding part,
it flames out this message and doesn't continue in video encoding...
XP sp1,english,Intel,MEnc 0.2.5+powerpack,if that helps...
has it got maybe to do with the specific mencoder build?
To be honest,i didn't try replacing it with a different "build"...

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What do

"Error starting external program specified in the command line"

errors mean?

I'm trying to transcode a vob to xvid+lame in a matroska container...
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Please change the value of "Preference" -> "Overall" -> "Utilities" -> "Matroska Toolskit Directory" to "mkvtools\". This is because in the latest update, I changed its default value from "mkvtools\" to "tools\" (as I'm adding support for mp4box and decided to put it in the "tools" folder) but in the powerpack the matroska toolkit is still in the "mkvtools" folder. Will fix it in next powerpack release.
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After checking, I found this prompt is given during encoding video. This occured when it mencoder cannot be started, would please check the path of mencoder (whether it correctly points to mencoder) and maybe better paste here the command line generated.
Is everything okay when not applying the build26 update?
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"Error starting external program specified in the command line"

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Multichannel support would be a great improvement.
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Not work under Windows 98?
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Still no video encoding with version 2.6...
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Not work under Windows 98?
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No it doesn't, at least for any operations relying on mplayer (which is used as audio decoder), as named pipe is used during the decoding process. I will later implement using Winamp input plugin as decoder, at that time, Windows 98 will be suppported.
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Well, as I said, I'm trying to transcode a vob file
into an avi or mkv, using xvid and lame. I haven't
changed anything from the standard configuration...

Audio encoding starts normally, an mp3 is generated
but when the error occurs, the process is terminated
and the mp3 is deleted.

That's all there is to it, really...
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1)Tried 2 different mencoder builds on two different PCs,
one athlon-based and one intel-based-video encoding didn't start.
But got both of them working by trying Jetpower's simple 'hack':
moving mencoder.exe in the same dir as menc.exe...
then changing the MEncoder Path from it's default:"mplayer\mencoder.exe" into  "C:\Documents and Settings\***\Desktop\MEnc 0.2.6\mencoder.exe"...
this worked like a charm,for both .avi or .mkv-Thanks,Jetpower!
Note:I had previously tried changing the default path into
"C:\Documents and Settings\***\Desktop\MEnc 0.2.6\mplayer\mencoder.exe",
but that didn't work either...

2)I didn't manage to get mp4Box working,maybe i did something wrong...
tried transcoding an .avi containing xvid/ac3 to .mp4(xvid+mp3),
then to .mp4(xvid+aac)...audio encoded well,video said ok...
and right at the moment when the whole data should be piped out to mp4box,
it crashed with this message:
Error signature,AppName: mencoder.exe,AppVer: 0.0.0.0,
ModName: mencoder.exe,ModVer: 0.0.0.0,Offset: 0057f02f
All temp files deleted and an empty(zero bytes) .mp4 file left.
I've uploaded a .zip containing a printscreen of the console during the crash,
also included the appcompat.txt:
http://rapidshare.de/files/5444770/mp4boxcrash.zip.html (http://rapidshare.de/files/5444770/mp4boxcrash.zip.html)

Hope i was helpful!
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Is it by any chance unable to locate xvid?
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Could you also make MPEG-2 encoding work? It's seems to be very good in Mencoder lib.

Now I noticed that the slider for Fixed Quantizer is misleading as lower quantitizer values in Xvid mean better quality. The slider in xvid options suggests otherwise.

Anyway, a very nice app. Also I finally got an up-to-date mplayer build with OSD  .

I tried with the old "official" mencoder 1.0-pre6,mingw build,dated 23-Dec-2004:
got "Unknown suboption lavf",then i saw this in MPlayer's manual,Chapter 8.1.11:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-...-dvd-mpeg4.html (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4.html)
Optimus,sorry for my ignorance,
is the libavformat library also responsible for exporting out to .mp4?
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Could you also make MPEG-2 encoding work? It's seems to be very good in Mencoder lib.

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No problem I will add MPEG encoding soon.

Anyway, a very nice app. Also I finally got an up-to-date mplayer build with OSD...  .

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I remember I have built mplayer with OSD   
And the included mplayer is applied with a patch by me, to support using Winamp DSP plugins as audio filter. (and there is an option for this in MEnc in "audio filters" )

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I remember I have built mplayer with OSD   
And the included mplayer is applied with a patch by me, to support using Winamp DSP plugins as audio filter. (and there is an option for this in MEnc in "audio filters" )

Previously, I got an optimized mplayer build from here (http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/mplayer) but it did not have OSD somehow  .
DSP plugins can be very useful indeed! Later processed audio will be played in all media players, not only in your special mplayer  .
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nice work! but 2 minor problems:

winamp input plugins are scanned, mp3 support detected, but i get "no matching input plugin found" when encoding mp3's

subdir structure again:
c:\Test 7inch\Test-7_Inch_one\
c:\Test 7inch\Test-7_Inch_two\

selecting "c:\Test 7inch" as input folder gets <out>\one\ and <out>\two\

also when theres just one file c:\1\2\test.mp3 and selecting c:\1 as input folder it doesnt write to <out>\2\test.acc but <out>\test.aac

regards
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Nice, but are you sure you want to go for LAME 3.98a2?
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This is a bug I found right after I packaged and uploaded the powerpack.   And I fixed it and uploaded again right after that. You are just downloading during that 3 minutes... Please take trouble to download again. 
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Nice, but are you sure you want to go for LAME 3.98a2?
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I simply update the lame source tree with CVS and build it. What's wrong with 3.98a2?
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Nice, but are you sure you want to go for LAME 3.98a2?

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Nice, but are you sure you want to go for LAME 3.98a2?

For now alphas and betas are pretty close, as John33 said in this post (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=15&t=37162&hl=&view=findpost&p=327637): Lame 3.98a1 was/is the same as Lame 3.97b1.
And Guruboolez mentioned  here (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=16&t=37277&hl=athaa++sensitivity&view=findpost&p=328808) that main difference of Lame 3.98a2 is --athaa-sensivity switch.
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redownloaded and its the same, so got the latest pack on my first download. both bugs are there. notice how the folderstring gets cutted from "Test-7_Inch_one" to "one"

've just tested with menc.dat u sent me. Everthing is smooth. At this time I still cannot figure out what's going wrong on your system. I will try testing MEnc on more systems to see if there is the same problem.

've just tested with menc.dat u sent me. Everthing is smooth. At this time I still cannot figure out what's going wrong on your system. I will try testing MEnc on more systems to see if there is the same problem.

Cheers to you Stanley! The new version 0.2.7 build 81 works. At least the encoding has started. I hope it gets completed.

I am encoding a 16-bit wav to aacplus v2 ps at 24 kbps but I cannot see the progress bar. It is still showing Encoding in MEnc.exe while in the Console Window it shows Winamp Encoder plugin closed. It has opened earlier. So is it still encoding because this has taken a lot of time?
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Is there any way live audio AAC+ 3GPP streams can be created with these tools?

Or only batch processed output?
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Is there any way live audio AAC+ 3GPP streams can be created with these tools?

Or only batch processed output?
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What utility or encoder can produce this kind of file?
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You said when using mp4box to pack .aac in mp4 container that it wasn't putting PS info in correctly.  Is this just a tag that isn't showing up right or is the PS data actually not being packed into the mp4 container(to clarify, is the PS data stripped out)?

Someone in another post was talking about another way to pack into mp4 container.  I didn't quiet understand what the person was talking about, but is this solution automated in your app?  Think it had to do with some Winamp plugin. 

Pretty much is there a work around if indeed mp4box is corrupting or stripping the file of PS data before putting into mp4 container?
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Does menc support AAC (and aac+ / aac++) cutting?

If not is very difficult to implement this function?

Because i searched but i didn ' t find aac cutter with cue support.
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You said when using mp4box to pack .aac in mp4 container that it wasn't putting PS info in correctly.  Is this just a tag that isn't showing up right or is the PS data actually not being packed into the mp4 container(to clarify, is the PS data stripped out)?

This issue no longer exists with the latest version of mp4box as well as the mp4box included in the powerpack.

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Someone in another post was talking about another way to pack into mp4 container.  I didn't quiet understand what the person was talking about, but is this solution automated in your app?  Think it had to do with some Winamp plugin. 

Pretty much is there a work around if indeed mp4box is corrupting or stripping the file of PS data before putting into mp4 container?
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That is a working way, but I've not implemented interface with foobar components in my program and mp4box is the only MP4 container utility with CLI I know about up to now.
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There are 2 things I noticed.  One is that for some reason when you select Resample in the Audio Filters that it isn't resampling to 44,1000 Hz(it stays at 48khz, atleast with he-aac .v2).  The other is a minor visual quark, it doesn't even mater to me personally, but just thought I would say something about it.  On the AAC+V2 config tab on right side, if you notice the slider control is being clipped a little.  I'm sure you know all ya have to do is move it up a little and the label above to balance it back out visually.

Hi, optimus 你好~

I am trying to convert mp3 to aac, but the tag in mp3 isn't transfer to aac file.  I am just curious if MENC support that?
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Optimus, please please help. Now it says it is encoding and I also get the message encoding completed but the aac output file shows 0 kbps. I don't know why this is happening. It takes it's time while encoding and says encoding completed still I don't get the file. Of course some times is gives the same error: "Error starting encoder".
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Is it possible to have this tool hosted in Rarewares? Maybe it's just me, but I seem to be having trouble downloading from the cosoft.org address. Thanks.
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Hi,

how do I enable subtitles with your patched mplayer ?

With so called G.Tiesi build, everything works out of the box:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php (http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php)
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Optimus, please please help. Now it says it is encoding and I also get the message encoding completed but the aac output file shows 0 kbps. I don't know why this is happening. It takes it's time while encoding and says encoding completed still I don't get the file. Of course some times is gives the same error: "Error starting encoder".
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What decoder and encoder r u using and what type of file are transcoding?
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The MPlayer decoder does not work. I get the some error like disable runtime in mplayer. So I tried the Winamp input plugin decoder. I am trying to convert pcm wav files (16 bit 44 KHz) to aacPLUS v2 24 kbps. In the dos prompt it says winamp input plugin decoder open and also winamp aacplus encoder open and shows encoding but the final file is still 0 kbps. I think it looks like a decoder problem. Please help.
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Unhandled exception at 0x4eae1853 in menc.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x726a1a94.

wmvcore.dll!4eae1853()  
  wmvcore.dll!4eae149e()  
  wmvcore.dll!4eae0cba()  
  wmvcore.dll!4ead2f5c()  
  wmvcore.dll!4ead2ece()  
  wmvcore.dll!4ea7574e()  
  ntdll.dll!7c821de4()  
  wmvcore.dll!4ea7536b()  
  wmvcore.dll!4ea90eb0()  
  wmvcore.dll!4ea75f61()  
  wmvcore.dll!4ea47339()  
  wmvcore.dll!4ea47eff()  
  wmvcore.dll!4ea436c1()  
  in_wm.dll!01105dcf()  
  in_wm.dll!01106a78()  
  in_wm.dll!01106b4c()  
  in_wm.dll!010f7c46()  
  in_wm.dll!010f55f4()  
  in_wm.dll!010f1f4c()  
  kernel32.dll!77e4245b()  
  kernel32.dll!77e424b7()  
  menc.exe!00403d50()  
  menc.exe!00403d60()  
  menc.exe!00405cbf()  
  menc.exe!004066e9()  

I use the 0.2.7 build 179, and the WinAmp (v5.1 Surround Edition) plugins for en/decoding
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Is it possible to have this tool hosted in Rarewares? Maybe it's just me, but I seem to be having trouble downloading from the cosoft.org address. Thanks.
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I would like to, but how?
At this time, u may try downloading from the mirror site.

btw to all: tag transferring is under development after i found some really useful stuff 
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# .\mplayer\mencoder.exe "C:\videos\taistoi01.avi" -o D:\WUTemp\taistoi01.avi -of avi -ovc null -oac copy -mc 0 -noskip -audiofile D:\WUTemp\menctemp1760.mp3

MEncoder dev-CVS-051008-20:22-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron D Northwood/Xeon Prestonia/Gallatin (Family: 15, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
Option ovc: Unknown suboption null

Exiting... (error parsing cmdline)

Optimus, am I right when it appears mEnc can have APE as input but it isn't mentioned in the opening post?
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I'm trying to transcode DivX/AC3 to DivX/MP3, using stream copy and Lame. There's a problem with the -ovc switch but as I don't speak mplayer/mencoder natively, I don't know what's the matter.

Speaking of other bugs, I never succeeded in outputing a single MP4 file. Mencoder crashes or mp4box says there's errors in file type. I meanly try with xvid or divx (mpeg4 like) and aac+v2 or helix or faac. Damn...

Please try setting container format to "Default", and choose a proper video codec.

MP4 container now only works for audio only transcoding. I haven't yet found a workaround for this.

Hi,

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Please try setting container format to "Default", and choose a proper video codec.

I don't want to reencode the video, just the audio. Isn't it possible? Setting container to Default yields to the same error.

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MP4 container now only works for audio only transcoding. I haven't yet found a workaround for this.

Too bad... I make my mind that MEnc would be the perfect tool to transcode video clips or films in MP4 format for my phone.

AiZ
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Optimus, am I right when it appears mEnc can have APE as input but it isn't mentioned in the opening post?
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Yes, that is because I haven't yet tested with APE input, though I've included in_ape.dll in the package.
Now I'm announcing that APE input is working and also in the latest PowerPack (build 211), encoding to APE (for CD ripping or transcoding from other lossless formats, e.g. WMA lossless, FLAC etc) has become possible.
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To transcode audio only from a video file, set "Video Codec" to "None" and set "Container format" to "Default" and choose whatever audio encoder u want to use.

As for MP4, I will look for a solution. And I'm going to add more features for mobile transcoding.

thx optimus, the WMA (lossless) files don't crash MEnc anymore,

but I just can't get the tag transfer to work. I've enabled it in the settings, but the tags still don't appear in the resulting files. I've tested it with mplayer as decoder, lame as encoder (mp3 -> mp3 transcoding); mplayer shows the right tags in the console, but the lame.exe call doesn't have the tag parameters.

Superlexx
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Arf!

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To transcode audio only from a video file, set "Video Codec" to "None" and set "Container format" to "Default" and choose whatever audio encoder u want to use.

I need to clarify. 
I have an AVI file with video encoded in DivX and sound encoded in AC3. What I want is to keep the video stream as is (i.e. no transcoding) and reencoded the audio stream in MP3, then I'll have an AVI file with the original video and sound in MP3 format.

I hope I won't be kicked...  

Using build 220, when I try to encode an AVI file (from a VOB) with Xivd and Lame VBR, it says: "The selected container format does not support the selected audio format".
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And ".zip" is missing at the end of your link for the 220 build...

No audio encoder (-oac) selected. Select one (see -oac help) or use -nosound.

Hello,

Just nothing. When I try to encode MP4 files (video+audio), and yes I know it doesn't work  , there's a little problem in your mencoder script. It's shown on the console :

Code: [Select]

No audio encoder (-oac) selected. Select one (see -oac help) or use -nosound.

If the audio is encoded before the video and it generally is, mencoder doesn't need audio data, hence the need of the '-nosound" switch. Or perhaps you want a different behaviour of scripts...

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hi optimus,

build 221 crashes with WMAL again
and now I have tag.exe in the tools folder, but the tags still don't get tranferred (tag.exe can read them in the source mp3 files if I call it in the command prompt).

and your CVS isn't up-to-date either...
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sprintf(buf,"tools\\Tag.exe --nocheck \"%s\"",filename);

menc.cpp, line 96 should be

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sprintf(buf,"tools\\Tag.exe --nocheck \"%s\"",filename);

otherwise no tags will be transferred from files that have blanks in the path or filename.

Too bad tags.exe can't write IDv2 tags...
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@optimus: Have you removed Helix
producer from the latest version?
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a minor problem:

right after MEnc has been started, menc.info.tags.valid is false, so CLameMP3::GenCommand() doesn't put "--tt $(Title) --ta $(Artist) --tl $(Album) --ty $(Year) --tn $(Track) --tg $(Genre) --tc $(Comment)" into the command line string so for the user it looks like the tags won't be transferred. Maybe you should add and evaluate a "bool forGUI" parameter to the GenCommand() methods...
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,Oct 16 2005, 01:58 AM]lame.exe -r -x -k --priority 1 -q 3 -s $(SampleRate) --tt $(Title) --ta $(Artist) --tl $(Album) --ty $(Year) --tn $(Track) --tg $(Genre) --tc $(Comment) --vbr-new -V 5 $(AudioInput) $(DestFile)


Since i haven't found any option to enable/disable it, I should ask why is -k being used?
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Tag should support ID3v2.[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=334069")

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sadly, Tag can only read and remove ID3v2 tags (as stated in the [a href="http://www.neilpopham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Tag.txt]Tag.txt[/url])
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Keep up the good work.

Like the new splash too.  You do it yourself or a friend help ya out?  Reason I ask, is don't know many folks who are artistic and also programmers. 

Did you have someone draw the different stuff for you and layer it or did you use some kind of clipart collection?  If so, really need to find a place to get some stuff myself(if collection that is).

You can PM me or whatever.
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Dunno if some or all of these requests have already been mentioned
but are you considering any of the following for the future?

- Musepack encoding
- Helix mp3 encoder support

- Drag'n'drop

- "Transcode with MediaCoder" in context menu (Windows integration)

- Avisynth scripting

- Video demuxing

What does this mean? Extract video stream from container?

I just want to keep this program totally "green".

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What does this mean? Extract video stream from container?

Yep, extract video, audio, subtitles, lyrics etc. from a container.

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I just want to keep this program totally "green".

Well, I guess context menu integration will be redundant once
you implement drag'n'drop.

Another idea:
- Adjustable audio-video offset (relative delay)
(like VirtualDubMod does)

Thanx again
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I just want to keep this program totally "green".

Finally implemented drag-n-drop! Thanks to this nice tutorial (http://www.catch22.net/tuts/dragdrop.asp)! Get the update here (http://cosoft.org.cn/download.php?g_u_n=menc&f=MediaCoder-0.3.0-build381.zip&file_id=7103).
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I just want to keep this program totally "green".

In that case, I would love if you could distribute an archive rather than an installer ;-)
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Anyway, only AAC and APE files are tagged with Tag.exe.[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=335374"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

nice work as always!

a tag-mapper would be nice, eg id3v1->ape, idv2->mp4 and so on
when transcoding mp3 to aac and wrapping it up in mp4 it tags the aac with an id3 and imports into mp4 afterwards
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Hi,

thank you optimus for the great software.

I have one question.

I want to transcode my whole music collection to AAC+ V2, but i find it difficult to choose output folder again, i mean the songs are allready arranged in collections, so is there anyway that i can choose destination folder to be "same as input folder" and "delete original files after conversation. Is there any way that if this is not possible you to implement it. It would be very usefull for large set of files.

Keep up the good work, and i send you a lot of greetings from Bulgaria.
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A Win9x version released. The limit is that MPlayer source is disabled.

EDIT: PowerPack updated. The installer will install different version on NT and 9X system.
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A Win9x version released. The limit is that MPlayer source is disabled.

EDIT: PowerPack updated. The installer will install different version on NT and 9X system.
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Excellent job on rolling out the Windows 98 version!  Transcoding to AACPlus is excellent.  Looking forward to the final build later so I can experiment with Lame and Ogg as well.  WavPack-to-AACPlus is working great!

Many thanks for your great tool - its a real winner.
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Hello Optimus,

I have 6,020 MP3 songs encoded at 320k. Will your program (recommended to me on this forum)  allow me to reencode to
160k MP3 in 1 (very long) session ? Will all tags remain including album art ?

I need this for Ipod usage.

If no then your opinion on the best method to do such would be valued.

Regards
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Optimus, for some reason, your Mediacoder powerpack 0.30 version, build 505, don't work. Precisely, I can't encode Wav audio files and any other audio files. Mesaage is: Nothing has been transcoded.

Fix that ugly bug soon, previous 0.28 were good.
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@optimus: I am currently working on substituting the tag.exe with a PHP script (which uses getID3), currently my script it is able to read the ID3v1, ID3v2 and the ASF tags (and also convert the UTF-16LE encoded ASF tags to ASCII, adding other tag formats should be easy). Writing tags (getID3 can write ID3v1, ID3v2, APE, Ogg Vorbis comments and the FLAC comments, see http://getid3.sf.net (http://getid3.sf.net) for more details) shouldn't be a big deal too, I'm going to complete this tomorrow.
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Optimus, for some reason, your Mediacoder powerpack 0.30 version, build 505, don't work. Precisely, I can't encode Wav audio files and any other audio files. Mesaage is: Nothing has been transcoded.

Fix that ugly bug soon, previous 0.28 were good.
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What Windows are you using?
Please open the console window (Preference -> Overall -> General -> Show Console Window), and paste me the output information .
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I am very mad, even newest build 537 won't work.Program refuse to encode any audio or video file.
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I am very mad, even newest build 537 won't work.Program refuse to encode any audio or video file.
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Please, first choose File -> Revert All Settings, and then choose MPlayer as source. If it still doesn't work, please choose Wave/PCM File as source.
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Found also something:

When "Winamp Input Plugin" is selected as a source, then selecting the plugins properties button (right from the source drop-down list) closes the program.

Otherwise plugins and audio encoding works...
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Found also something:

When "Winamp Input Plugin" is selected as a source, then selecting the plugins properties button (right from the source drop-down list) closes the program.

Otherwise plugins and audio encoding works...
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Are you using Windows 98? This is a bug on that platform.
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No XP Pro sp2 (english version), MediaCoder is 0.30 b537 and Winamp plugins
from 5.11
Bug is repetable every time and didn't exsist with previous version (505 ?).
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There is one thing you can do to help to find what is going wrong. All winamp input plugins are in "codecs" folder. Please try having only one plugin in that folder each time you run MediaCoder, and see which plugin causes problem, or simply each one does.
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It was Nullsoft's own in_mp3.dll 
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Hi,

How can the WMA encoder be used?

I've allready installed de Windows Media Encoder program.

I've noticed that Media Encoder uses the cscript.exe program  but i can't find it anywhere.
I've pointed the path o the Windows MEdia Encoder in "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Components\"

Can you help?

My main use of this format is for hearing audio files in my PocketPC, until I can find a AAC+V2 player that works.  
I'm using version 620.

Thanks for a terrific tool! 
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Here (http://cosoft.org.cn/download.php?g_u_n=menc&f=MediaCoder-0.3.1-build628.zip&file_id=7123) is an update that fixes this issue.
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Here (http://cosoft.org.cn/download.php?g_u_n=menc&f=MediaCoder-0.3.1-build628.zip&file_id=7123) is an update that fixes this issue.
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Thanks Optimus, working now!

You're being God to me! 
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Hi,

    First, thanks for this software : a great and well thinked soft.

    But when i try to transcode a .avi file to a ogg-xvid .mkv, there allways has been an error because if i try to transcode "blabla.avi", mencoder create into the temp dir 2 files : "blabla.ogg" and "blabla.avi.avi".

Then when mkvmerge search for the temp files, to mux them, it looks for "blabla.ogg" and "blabla.avi" but he don't found "blabla.avi" and then there is an error.

I think that the prob is here :
.\mplayer\mencoder.exe $(SourceFile) -o nul -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -nosound
.\mplayer\mencoder.exe $(SourceFile) -o $(TempFile).avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts

.mig.
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Hi,

    First, thanks for this software : a great and well thinked soft.

    But when i try to transcode a .avi file to a ogg-xvid .mkv, there allways has been an error because if i try to transcode "blabla.avi", mencoder create into the temp dir 2 files : "blabla.ogg" and "blabla.avi.avi".

Then when mkvmerge search for the temp files, to mux them, it looks for "blabla.ogg" and "blabla.avi" but he don't found "blabla.avi" and then there is an error.

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The main download site is painfully slow for me.
I have yet to succeed in downloading the 0.3.1
Powerpack. Is there a possibility of providing a
faster mirror?
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Thanx for finding out the bug. Fixed it. Get update here (http://cosoft.org.cn/download.php?g_u_n=menc&f=MediaCoder-0.3.2-build650.zip&file_id=7132)

btw: The new version has got more powerful output file naming capability. Check out Settings -> Overall -> Tagging & Naming.
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menc.exe - 应用程序错误
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"0x0220f750" 指令引用的 "0x0220f750" 内存。该内存不能为 "read"。


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Optimus, do you plan to include newest Nero AAC HE/AAC v2 codec from newest Nero Burning Rom 7.0.1.2.If yes, when.
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i've just test mediacoder powerpack .32, but it always crashes when i try to expand menu or move the window with the following message.

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menc.exe - 应用程序错误
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"0x0220f750" 指令引用的 "0x0220f750" 内存。该内存不能为 "read"。


要终止程序,请单击“确定”。
要调试程序,请单击“取消”。
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this computer is a public one in a university, with win2000 professional (chinese), direct x 9.0c, P4 2.8G with 256MB DDR, and a restore card.

any idea?

regards,
MeteorRain
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http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/ (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/)

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http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/ (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/)

On that page it is mentioned mediacoder can convert to VCD/DVD compliant files, but no mentioning is made of the possibility to encode to MP2 or AC3 audio. I assume this is possible anyway? If so, which encoders?
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Optimus, here we go again!!! Your 0.32 build 671 won't encode at all h.264 video from AVI uncompressed source, Mediacoder report Nothing to transcode.

Please fix that bu very soon, it's very strange.
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One more question for you, Optimus. I downloaded yesterday Windows Media Encoder because I want to transcode my audio to WMA.

Can you tell me which files and from which folder are used for this conversion to WMA.Path to my Windows Media Encoder is " C:\Program Files\Windows Media Components\Encoder ".

Which files I must to copy from this folder,and where in Mediacoder sub-folders.Give me a exactly directions.
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I have a request:

Your build of mplayer is excellent. It is the only one I have found where CPU usage is on par with the official build, and it is up to date, and it is the only one that can properly decode some of my H264 video.

However, the OSD is missing from it. I am not talking about the fancy GUI OSD, but the basic one drawn in the overlay.

Could you please compile it in?
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EDIT: PowerPack also updated, OSD support is built into MPlayer

aacenc32 -vbr normal -profile "LC" -lowpass 20000 -highpass 20 -zs -artist "$(Artist)" -album "$(Album)" -title "$(Title)" -track "$(Track)" $(SourceFile) $(DestFile)

This program absolutely sucks. I have just installed it, tried to recode many songs files and videos, not ONE of them works.

Love this tool!

Anyone get Nero_Fends (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=31783&st=25) to work in the CLI portion yet?  I'm using the following as the CLI Options:

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aacenc32 -vbr normal -profile "LC" -lowpass 20000 -highpass 20 -zs -artist "$(Artist)" -album "$(Album)" -title "$(Title)" -track "$(Track)" $(SourceFile) $(DestFile)

On another topic, a great feature would be the ability to set the encoder type per group of files.  Say I drag/drop 10 files & want to encode them as both AAC & FLAC, I would see an additional column (encoder type), & I'd have the oportunity of selecting the encoder per group of files.  A new button could be added right next to START called QUE ENC.
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Great program. Keep the good work.

I didnt read all the posts, so apologies if im saying have been already said by someone else.

When I transcoded some mp3 albums to AAC v2, some tags just disappeared in the final AAC files. Is this normal? They were all 1d3v1.
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This program absolutely sucks. I have just installed it, tried to recode many songs files and videos, not ONE of them works.
Waste
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This program absolutely sucks. I have just installed it, tried to recode many songs files and videos, not ONE of them works.

Well, a possibility exist there is something wrong with your setup or you? Most options that I use work as expected and resulting encodes are fine.
I personally think MediaCoder is a great tool, and it gets only bettter and better thanks to hard and persistent work of optimus.
Anyway, thank you for your contribution to H.A. community through your insightful post.

Edit: Just checked the latest version and indeed there seem to be problems with video transcoding. eg. Xvid with mp3 works, but H.264 is not. However in MediaCoder build 603 both are ok.
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I have now tried 6 different videos and not ONE has yet encoded. Rubbish
And now tried monkey's audio transcoding to ANY format, also doesnt work.
LOL just tried to transcode Coldplay - Fix you from monkeys audio to mp3 @ 128, just get total noise! hahaha!
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Optimus ~ you rock, that was quick!  Just to let you know, I tried a 24 bit file at first by accident & it didn't work.  I got a .aac file that was all static.  I does work with 16 bit files...outputting out a .m4a file.  Anyway to control the output extension type?

Thanks again! 
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Ok i am trying to transcode an MPEG video with mpeg2 audio, to xvid+mp3. just errors out saying nothing has been transcoded.
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Man, I've stated that this is a free software totally written by me in my leisure time (the period of time you when you are drunk or sleeping). The main purpose of this software is to fulfill my own needs (and it certainly can), and never yours! Whether it works in your place or not, or whether it just formats your whole hard disk, is none of my business! Keep away from this thread! [a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=339716"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Currently 24-bit audio is not supported. As I lack certain of audio source to test. If you have such samples, you can send me and I will let it supported.[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=339719")

C:\Program Files\MediaCoder\mplayer\mencoder.exe "H:\Downloads\alt.binaries.mpeg.video.music\Alice Deejay - Back In My Life.mpg" -o "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\Alice Deejay - Back In My Life.avi" -of avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts me_quality=6:quant_type=h263:vhq=4:gmc:trellis:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:bitrate=600 -oac copy -mc 0 -noskip -audiofile C:\DOCUME~1\James\LOCALS~1\Temp\Alice Deejay - Back In My Life.mpg.mp3

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C:\Program Files\MediaCoder\mplayer\mencoder.exe "H:\Downloads\alt.binaries.mpeg.video.music\Alice Deejay - Back In My Life.mpg" -o "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\Alice Deejay - Back In My Life.avi" -of avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts me_quality=6:quant_type=h263:vhq=4:gmc:trellis:chroma_me:chroma_opt:hq_ac:bitrate=600 -oac copy -mc 0 -noskip -audiofile C:\DOCUME~1\James\LOCALS~1\Temp\Alice Deejay - Back In My Life.mpg.mp3

Thats the console output. Sorry about sounding like a troll, anyway, ill try and help better now. Here is the screenshot too, and if there is anything else you need, ill be glad to oblige.
Thankyou

Screenshot (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=1788)
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Currently 24-bit audio is not supported. As I lack certain of audio source to test. If you have such samples, you can send me and I will let it supported.[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=339719")

There are 24bit FLAC files on the Internet Archive. Just pick some shows from this [a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%2224bit+flac%22+%22show+details%22+site%3Aarchive.org]Google query[/url]. Hope that helps.

Edit: Refined query to omit forum posts.
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I dont think it was the path to mencoder as when i moved the source file and renamed it, it worked, so isnt it the path to the source?
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I dont know weather this is just my setup or something that can be fixed:
My CPU is 3.9ghz + HT, but using HT makes mediacoder only use Max 50% of the cpu (because it is only using half) but turning the HT off, makes it use 100%.

The program is very good, and works amazingly well.
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".\codecs\lame.exe" -r -x -k --priority 1 -q 9 -s 44100 --tt "Fix you" --ta "Coldplay" --tl "X & Y" --ty "" --tn "4" --tg "" --tc "CRC : 0288BE93" --vbr-new -V 5 "-" "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\04 - Fix you.mp3"

Ok, just tried it, and got the same result. APE->MP3 just produces noise. Here is the console output:

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".\codecs\lame.exe" -r -x -k --priority 1 -q 9 -s 44100 --tt "Fix you" --ta "Coldplay" --tl "X & Y" --ty "" --tn "4" --tg "" --tc "CRC : 0288BE93" --vbr-new -V 5 "-" "C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\04 - Fix you.mp3"

Just tried it with OGG too, and get exactly the same result
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Just noticed something interesting, if i dont encode the file, but just press play  in mediacoder, i just get noise there too, so it looks like mplayer's fault.
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yes it can, but mediacoder wont play/encode it with winamp input plugins selected
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its okay, iv done it. Mediacoder now still wont play the file, just produces noise, but it does encode it with winamp input plugnis
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yeah i know, just saying.  Nero AAC doesnt work yet does it
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One more question for you, Optimus. I downloaded yesterday Windows Media Encoder because I want to transcode my audio to WMA.

Can you tell me which files and from which folder are used for this conversion to WMA.Path to my Windows Media Encoder is " C:\Program Files\Windows Media Components\Encoder ".

Which files I must to copy from this folder,and where in Mediacoder sub-folders.Give me a exactly directions.
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Simply install Windows media encoder and Mediacoder should be ready to transcode to WMAs.

ps: I use this function myself to transcode my music collection to WMA to listen with my portable audio player.
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[span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%']So, please provide me download link for that file, cscript.exe. I won't download each time powerpack, because I have a painfully slow dial-up connection to internet[/span]
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[span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%']So, please provide me download link for that file, cscript.exe. I won't download each time powerpack, because I have a painfully slow dial-up connection to internet[/span]
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EDIT: Here are 2 files I tested with.
sample-fox.mpg sample-discovery.avi

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[span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%']So, please provide me download link for that file, cscript.exe. I won't download each time powerpack, because I have a painfully slow dial-up connection to internet[/span]
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This program has been made by someone in their OWN TIME. why should they have to PROVIDE you with a working link? they are not your slave you know. If you are sick of your rubbish connection, UPGRADE!
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EDIT: Here are 2 files I tested with.
sample-fox.mpg sample-discovery.avi

Checked to see if it now ok (tested with MC b703). Both your files behaved the same:

H.264+MP3 -> MP4 container = crash (unknown software exeption) w/ nothing has been transcoded message
H.264+Helix AAC+->  MP4 container = same crash

H.264+MP3 -> Matroska = OK
H.264+Helix AAC+ -> Matroska = OK

H.264+Helix AAC+ -> AVI = Nothing has been transcoded message (can it be muxed?)

H.264+MP3 - > AVI = OK

Creating Divx4/5 avi's with mp3 seems ok, but the file produced seems to have no index file, and also the audio index is corrupt. the fourcc of the avi is also incorrect. is there anything i can do to change this?

By the way, thankyou very much for your time and effort into this program. it is an amazing thing and works amazingly well. thankyou so much!
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You may try setting container format to "default" (I guess you are setting it to "AVI") to see if it solves this problem.
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You may try setting container format to "default" (I guess you are setting it to "AVI") to see if it solves this problem.
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No i was using default, but avi does the same too.
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It is possible that I haven't transferred all tags. Currently transferred tags are: artist, title, album, track, genre, year and comment. What tags are you losing?

I have 2 more feature requests:

1) How about a <source> folder option for the Output Folder?

2) Can you add the actual number for the compression levels for FLAC like all the other encoders?

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It is possible that I haven't transferred all tags. Currently transferred tags are: artist, title, album, track, genre, year and comment. What tags are you losing?

From a 13 songs album, 2 of them were transcoded without the genre and track tag fields.
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About AAC+ audio in AVI ontainer? I know that you said this is impossible, but I really like to see AAC+ sound in AVI container.

Can you do it in the near future, Optimus.

BTW, have you seen Megatron lately, Optimus?
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About AAC+ audio in AVI ontainer? I know that you said this is impossible, but I really like to see AAC+ sound in AVI container.

Can you do it in the near future, Optimus.

I will try. Actually I would like to see this happen very much. 

Alex Noe is the reference in this matter, and if you would like to implement it, I can only suggest you refer to his excellent Avi-Mux GUI (http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~noe/Video-Zeug/AVIMux%20GUI/).
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Alex Noe is the reference in this matter, and if you would like to implement it, I can only suggest you refer to his excellent Avi-Mux GUI (http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~noe/Video-Zeug/AVIMux%20GUI/).
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There is no CLI version of avi-mux, isn't it?
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optimus: what would be a good commandline for mencoder for xvid+faac.avi which can than be repacked to xvid+faac.mp4 via mp4box?

curently iam trying this 2pass:
1st
mencoder promo_iam.avi -o NUL: -nosound -vf scale=512:384,harddup -sws 9 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=500:nopacked:nogmc:noqpel:nocartoon:bvhq=0:max_bframes=0:pass=1
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mencoder promo_iam.avi -o promompeg4pass2_AACaudio_nobframes.avi -oac faac -faacopts br=128:mpeg=4 -vf scale=512:384,harddup -sws 9 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=500:nopacked:nogmc:noqpel:nocartoon:bvhq=0:max_bframes=0:pass=2

(but there seems to be a faac problem of some sort when trying to mp4box -add.)

mediacoder 0.3.2 seems to suggest '-oac faac -faacopts br=128:mpeg=4:object=0:tns' which wont work at all, mencoder returns error like 'object >=1'.
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It is possible that I haven't transferred all tags. Currently transferred tags are: artist, title, album, track, genre, year and comment. What tags are you losing?

From a 13 songs album, 2 of them were transcoded without the genre and track tag fields.
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Can you find out which 2 of them have this issue, and give me the console output when transcoding these 2 songs.
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Strange, nothing appeared at the console window after the procces.
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Strange, nothing appeared at the console window after the procces.
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Did you open the console window before starting transcoding?
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Optimus, I have 2 issues with encoding FLAC with the latest build.  I get a really loud click at the beggining of the file.  I tested it against the FLAC front end & I didn't get any clicks with that one.  The other issue is that I don't get any tags in FLAC....but I do with the FLAC Front end program.  Thoughts?
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Strange, nothing appeared at the console window after the procces.
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Did you open the console window before starting transcoding?
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Yep. I going to open it again and see what happens in the middle of processing.
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Can someone explain to me how to tag my files trancoding from FLAC (with full tags) to AAC (m4a), using the "Nero AAC" in Media Coder? My file encode's correctly, but the tag info is blank in my m4a files. I have no problems (full Tags) when I use FAAC and iTunesEncode. Thanks.
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Can someone explain to me how to tag my files trancoding from FLAC (with full tags) to AAC (m4a), using the "Nero AAC" in Media Coder? My file encode's correctly, but the tag info is blank in my m4a files. I have no problems (full Tags) when I use FAAC and iTunesEncode. Thanks.
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Files produced with Nero AAC encoder aren't tagged, as I haven't seen any tagging related interface of Nero AAC Encoder. In this case, they need manually tagged afterward, but currently tagging m4a files is not implemented.

EDIT: I found a MP4 tagger [a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12075]here[/url]. I will try to merge it into MediaCoder.
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Introduction
MediaCoder (http://base.3322.org/mediacoder/) is an open source audio/video batch transcoder, putting together many excellent audio/video softwares from the open source community into one friendly GUI. On video side, MEncoder is used as back-end, which provides support for nearly all known video compression and container formats as well as rich and useful video filtering features (e.g. post-processing, 3D de-noise). On audio side, MPlayer and Winamp input plugins used as decoders, various encoders integrated, MediaCoder can simply batch transcode among any known audio formats, with tags transferred, file names generated, and even performing audio filtering (e.g. resample, normalize) on the fly.

Supported source formats: MP3 (Lame), OGG/OGM (Vorbis), AAC, MusePack, FLAC, WavPack, APE, WAV, CUE sheet, WMA/WMV/ASF, RealMedia (rmvb), AVI, MPEG1/2 (MPG/DAT/VOB), QuickTime/MOV, MP4, Matroska and any other formats supported by Winamp input plugins
Supported target audio formats: [Lossy] MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, LC-AAC (iTunes, Nero AAC Encoder, FAAC), HE-AAC/Parametric Stereo (CT, Helix),  MusePack, WMA [Lossless] FLAC, WavPack, APE, WMA Lossless, WAV
Supported target video formats: H.264, Xvid, DivX 4/5, MPEG1/2, MS-MPEG4, H.263 etc.
Supported target container formats: AVI, MPEG, Matroska, MP4 (audio only)

Download
Please visit the download page (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/download.htm) to get the latest PowerPack and update.
Click here (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/download/MediaCoder-0.3.2.exe) to download MediaCoder PowerPack directly.
Click here (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/download/mediacoder-latest.zip) for the latest build and here (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/download/mediacoder-w9x-latest.zip) for the latest Win9x build.
You may also check for latest update at the project release page (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151884).

Links
Official website:
http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/ (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/)
Project site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediacoder (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediacoder)

To-do List
0. 24-bit to 16-bit/24-bit transcoding
1. multi-channel support
2. mobile transcoding features (wizard)
3. better MP4 format support
4. demux function (extract audio/video stream from a container)

Screenshots
(http://proemulator.sourceforge.net/menc/mediacoder.png)
Transcoding FLAC files into HE-AAC/Parametric Stereo

Source Code
You can checkout the code from SourceForge CVS.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mediacoder login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mediacoder co -P mediacoder

Download source code directly here (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/download/mediacoder-src.zip)
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Thanks for the link to the source code.

I've now fixed everything that was stopping me from using this great app.

I've also added in another stage post-AACPLUSv2 encoding where the AAC stream is now converted from MPEG2-AAC into MPEG4-AAC using Nic's AACPATCH too. Got the naming to work too.

Lurveleee!!

Now I just wish this was written in .Net, using C is like going back a 1000 years and also growing a ponytail and a beard! lol j/k

Theres also a number of areas in the code where the shell calls are not managed well, this can cause the application to stop responding, when a junk file is thrown at it for instance.

Off to bed now, been up all night!
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hey optimus!

thankyou for making such a fantastic tool. it has made my life a thousand times easier. i cant thank you enough!

now that the sucking up is complete, i have a couple of questions for you. MUAHAHAHAHA

anwyays, why is it that when i try to re-encode an mp3 file that is say 100mb in size and about 70mins long (dj mix) to an ogg file, it stops encoding at approximately 40% of the file?? this only happens using the winamp input plugins as the source. everything is fine using mplayer as the source. why im asking this is because when i first used mediacoder  when it was in 0.2.8 revision, everything was fine with the winamp input plugins.
have u changed the in_mp3.dll or whatever? it doesnt seem to be working snmoothly anymore.
ive installed the latest winamp v5.112 so ill maybe just copy the in.dll file to mediacoder and see whetgher that corrects the problem...but it seems as though the input plugins of past revisions are more stable.

my last question is this. what are the chances of you implementing support for sonys ATRAC3plus encoder/decoder? personally i think this would be and absolutely genius move on your part!

i really dont know enough about .dll files etc to tell you exaclty what files you would need to even begin to try and implement the ATRAC3plus support, so if you would have the time and patience of figuring that part out as im not competent, it would be much apprecitated!

oh, and the oggenc.exe that you use for mediacoder is a slowe, non SS2 enhanced version. there is an oggenc made by Lancer that is twice as fast as the regular oggenc and on par/faster than aac2plus encoder.

keep up the great work bud!

I just tried TG.exe and it works perfectly with the MP4 container too!

* Use the existing TAG for MP3's etc and TG for MP4 sources and MP4 containers.

* Can you remove the -SBR option you have hardcoded for MP4Box commandline? And add the following switches as checkboxes in the MP4Box settings node:

-mpeg4
-packed
-hint
-ocr
-rap
-ts
-size
-idx
-isma
-new
-lang xxx       (where xxx = language such as ENG)
-sbr
-keepsys


Put ocr/rap/ts/size/idx as child nodes for hint as they are configuration options for hint.

Also add a list of languages as a drop down 3 letter abreviated list, I believe there is a MPEG4 standard list somewhere over on MPEG4IP docs.

Dont forget to change destination filename extenstion to .MP4 or .M4A on MP4Box destination filename. Put the option in the MP4 container settings to allow users to select between different output filename extensions (just makes life easier for iPOD users too)

Cant wait for the next version!!!!

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What's going on, Optimus.You release 0.33 version of Mediacoder.What is new.
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Hi Optimus, good to see you're back on the case, MediaCoder will be a legend as time goes by!

I would love to co-work on this project, but I'm totally uncomfortable with basic C. Why not do a poll? supporting both Linux and Windows will limit your abilities to really take advantage of Windows frameworks, plus a few of the dependancies of the project are already windows only, so I reckon you should keep it windows? thats where a sizeable chunk of the userbase is anyway.

I will be extremely interested in co-working on a .Net C# application, it will make things very interesting, but at the same time you can still utilize C for libraries where you want total performance and control, but making the GUI .Net will make coding easier and also allow us to implement tonnes of feature fairly easily.

Have a coffee and think about it... and I suppose if people want to branch off a version to work on Linux, they can still use Mono anyway...

SXS
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Talking about C#, I have switched to a new company, where C# is the main development tool. Though I don't know much about C# before, I will be surely using it in future.   And some time ago, I was planning to design a wizard to make MediaCoder easier to use for people other than advanced users. I was thinking of using a more effiecient GUI development tool other than the mechanism I am currently using and .Net is one choice. So I think it might be a good idea to firstly development part of MediaCoder in C#/.Net (the wizard maybe). This takes serveral factors in to consideration, one is my limited experience with C#/.Net and that I need time to get used to the new tool, the second is to keep the existing work (rebuilding everything from ground will take much more efforts). The third, might not be so important, is that I am still in favor of languages that can be compiled into machine code directly. 
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How about this, if you can start by making the existing C/C++ core code into modular libraries but continue to use the existing GUI code, I can then work with your libraries alongside and develop a .Net gui, that way it doesnt impact on Mediacoder directly and we effectively seperate the application layer from the interface layer (gui). I will develop the GUI to also be modular so that others can create plugins to utilise the GUI in applications such as dbPowerAMP, EAC etc etc.



So put all your functions into actual DLL with interfaces, and then re-work your existing GUI code to make calls to your DLL. Once you have that done, I will then take the code as is and develop a .Net C# interface, we'll include it into the Visual Studio solution on sourceforge, and then meanwhile you can get aquainted with C# and eventually move onto the C# gui, but at least you will have the core functions in a DLL which will make it much more easier for others to use the DLL in other platform compatible GUI's?

What you think? Good idea?

I too come from a background of assembler 286/386, I remember the days when the double word registers appeared, I would spend hours optimizing code and play with bit masks and XOR techniques to improve the efficiency of my graphics code back in the dos days..... nowadays its all high level development, not even programming anymore, but hey, at least we can get a job done a lot quicker with likes of .Net, and thats the crucial bit, as long as we keep the code clean and optimised and modular, the sky's the limit!
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If I convert an MP3 that is around a 100MB, it gets halfway and then just continues to the next one, so only transcodes 50% odd of the original file..... any ideas??

Plus, I have also noticed another bug, if the directory structure is very long, meaning aaaa/vbbbbbb/ccccc/.........../xyzxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.mp3, mediacoder falls over. Looking at the code, I notice the char array is limited to 1024 chars, this causes an overflow when it tries to create the commandline to pass to the shell function.

Also, my other idea was to break up the processing into a chain system that is fully configurable by user? So that adding plugins via a simple scripting feature could be achieved? This would make mediacoder more adaptable by pro-end-users to utilise the huge number of commandline apps and dlls? flexibility and modularity is key, mediacoder will be king if it has a flexible scriptable chain-processing functionality, I would recommend keeping all functions as in loading winamp plugins and loading mencoder/mplayer plugins as a configurable chain system, so that when I start on the C# gui I am able to provide a chaining system, the core DLL should be a set of functions with inputs and outputs and control parameters, no application driving logic should be held in there, this way we can effectively have an interface layer (gui) and an application layer and a facade on-top of underlying functions, all process co-ordination can take place in the application layer.

So basically, you will end up with your C++ GUI and application code in one exe, and all the underlying functions will be available in the mediacoder DLL. This way there will be no hardcoded limitations on how we can utilise the functions in our application layer.

I am also interested in implementing VirtualDub plugin support for video cleaning/effects/transformation.... so once we have a modular design, then anything is possible because by implementing a scriptable chain system (drag-n-drop to amateur users) the sky is the limit!

I've already started on the initial design of the GUI, I can get on with setting up the design of the GUI to incorporate batch file processing, scheduling, etc etc.... and hopefully once you have modularised your functions, I can start on the application layer to utilise the functions and build from there... I've got some experience in GDI+ and I'm hoping to integrate a virtual graphic representation of a chain hook up system, similar to graphedit too.... this is going to be fun!!!!

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Optimus, I have 2 issues with encoding FLAC with the latest build.  I get a really loud click at the beggining of the file.  I tested it against the FLAC front end & I didn't get any clicks with that one.  The other issue is that I don't get any tags in FLAC....but I do with the FLAC Front end program.  Thoughts?
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Which format are you transcoding from?
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I've fixed this bug, but I can't make a release as I'm still working on the new arch, so that the code will be better organized, easier to reuse, and will support more video encoders, like ffmpeg etc. Please stand by.
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Optimus, I'm back, been busy with other things, I've PM'd you my SF account. Hopefully from next week I'll be able to start full-on...
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Optimus, I'm back, been busy with other things, I've PM'd you my SF account. Hopefully from next week I'll be able to start full-on...
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I've added you into the dev group on sf.
Next week the new arch will be ready. There will be a DLL with C interface to do all kinds of transcoding jobs. I've spent lots of time on it...

btw: C# app is able to use a C-interface DLL, isn't it?
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Installed latest MediaCoder (0.3.3) and on launch I recieve the message:
Current version is 0.3.3. build 791...latest version is 0.3.3 build 792.
Get it from http:/mediacoder.sf.net/download.htm
When I click OK, the MediaCoder splash screen displays but then disappears without launching MediaCoder.  
I can't find build 792 at sf.net, and installing the earlier versions (0.3.2) is no better - it shows the splash screen then refuses to launch.  
Please can someone advise me what might be wrong?
BTW, I'm using Windows XP Professional.
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Optimus, I'm back, been busy with other things, I've PM'd you my SF account. Hopefully from next week I'll be able to start full-on...
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I've added you into the dev group on sf.
Next week the new arch will be ready. There will be a DLL with C interface to do all kinds of transcoding jobs. I've spent lots of time on it...

btw: C# app is able to use a C-interface DLL, isn't it?
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The .Net framework can use unmanaged dll's. Although I would recommend creating managed dll's. But no problem, once the full package is up, I can create a wrapper for .Net interoperability.
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404 error.
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it works! very nice, now, does it work with nero 7 dll's?
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why does it seem that none of the versions work quite properly? version i was previously using couldnt transcode from musepack, newer version fixs that, but now i cannot encode from pcm files
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I'm new to Mediacoder. I'm trying to convert my .ape files to .wave with a cue sheet.
I'm choosing CLI for converting to wave. I get an error message saying "failed to launch CLI encoder" Do I need to download other plugins? Any ideas? Or is there another way I can convert .ape files to a audio CD? I have NERO 6.3. Thankful for any help! 
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Encoder options button does not work... for several releases now.
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Optimus, can you, please, give a link so I can download file ofr.exe
Thank you.

What is ofr.exe? Can you explain?
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Setting the "Working" folder in the Preferences makes MediaCoder
hang on my PC.

Will reproduce possible bug again tomorrow, really need some
shut-eye right now...

:-)
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Optimus, why don't you compress .dll file. I scaned your .dll file and PeID 0.93 says " nothing found ". Compress it with aspack 2.12 or PECompact 2.67c.

http://www.aspack.com (http://www.aspack.com)  and  http://www.bitsum.com/pec2.asp (http://www.bitsum.com/pec2.asp)
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http://www.aspack.com (http://www.aspack.com)  and  http://www.bitsum.com/pec2.asp (http://www.bitsum.com/pec2.asp)[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=348625")

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http://www.aspack.com (http://www.aspack.com)  and  http://www.bitsum.com/pec2.asp (http://www.bitsum.com/pec2.asp)[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=348625")

Both are comercial and expensive. Go with UPX:

[a href="http://upx.sourceforge.net]http://upx.sourceforge.net[/url]
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# ".\mplayer\mplayer.exe" "C:\videos\taistoi01.avi" -quiet -vo null -vc dummy 15 -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=\\.\pipe\mpdata3860

MPlayer dev-CVS-051207-22:39-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron 4 Northwood; Pentium 4 EE/Xeon Prestonia,Gallatin (Family: 15, Stepping: 9)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.

Playing C:\videos\taistoi01.avi.
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO:  [DIV3]  576x320  24bpp  25.000 fps  972.6 kbps (118.7 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: Nandub v1.0rc2
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
AC3: 2.0 (stereo)  48000 Hz  256.0 kbit/s
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: dummy
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
Using MMX optimized resampler
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564944.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
Video: no video
Starting playback...

Hello,

Sorry to bother you but setting the output framerate other than Default doesn't work. And if you can, please add 10, 12 and 12.5 in the selectable framerates (12.5 is half PAL framerate). Thanks !

@Optimus:

How about enabling removal of a file (or a selection
of files) from the list with the use of the 'Delete' key?

And do you intend to add the uber-fast Helix mp3
encoder to the available encoders? It would be handy
for those portable transcoding needs.

It would also be nice if all (or at least the most important)
encoder settings were available at the right-hand side
of the GUI. e.g. Musepack and Optimfrog settings are
accessible only through the 'options' tab or via the settings,
where as LAME, Helix, FLAC, APE, etc have their own tab.

Thanx
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I only put encoders with several options on the right side panel, just because I'm lazy to add a dialog for every one of them.   (no dialog for Helix MP3 encoder yet)

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I only put encoders with several options on the right side panel, just because I'm lazy to add a dialog for every one of them.   (no dialog for Helix MP3 encoder yet)

no dialog for Helix MP3 encoder yet?

Unforgivable! 

Just kidding of course, I really appreciate the way you
respond to ppl's suggestions!

Thanks a lot! 
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optimus,

In what way do you tag m4a, mp4 songs? What I mean is in ID3v1.1/ID3V2/ apev2 or from itunes or other formats?
thanks
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thanks, optimus. another question: in what way you extract tagging information from others file during transcoding, such as from mp3->m4a or from wma->m4a?
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@optimus:

According to the Helix mp3 encoder help:

"M[mode]   Select encoding mode: mode-0 stereo=0 mode-1 stereo=1 dual=2 mono=3."

correct switches for stereo mode selection are:

-M0, for simple stereo
-M1, for joint stereo
-M2, for dual channel
-M3, for mono encoding

The currently set switches are:

-Mmode-0
-Mstereo=0
-Mmode-1
-Mstereo=1
-Mdual=2
-Mmono=3

...which of course don't work, and are consequently ignored
by the encoder.

Plz fix it when u feel like it
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There is a bug that crashes mediacoder when using several encoders (lame mp3, itunesencode, etc.).
Fixed it, also with the realaudio file ext issue! Update here (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mediacoder/mediacoder-0.3.4-build1080.zip?download)
As for the mp4 tagging issue, the only solution is to find a better mp4 tagger utility. 
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There is a bug that crashes mediacoder when using several encoders (lame mp3, itunesencode, etc.).
Fixed it, also with the realaudio file ext issue! Update here (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mediacoder/mediacoder-0.3.4-build1080.zip?download)
As for the mp4 tagging issue, the only solution is to find a better mp4 tagger utility. 
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Hi Optimus,

I downloaded the new build 1080 and iTunesencode is working great, Thanks!

Nero though, is not working too well. Mediacoder goes through the encoding process and creates the m4a file, but it is unplayable, and still no tags. Even the "Optimize MP4 Layout" in "MP4 Utilities" in foobar2000 produces an error message. My Nero encoder works fine within Nero itself, and with foobar2000, and Nero Frontends.

Thanks for looking into this!
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There is a bug that crashes mediacoder when using several encoders (lame mp3, itunesencode, etc.).
Fixed it, also with the realaudio file ext issue! Update here (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mediacoder/mediacoder-0.3.4-build1080.zip?download)
As for the mp4 tagging issue, the only solution is to find a better mp4 tagger utility. 
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Hi Optimus,

I downloaded the new build 1080 and iTunesencode is working great, Thanks!

Nero though, is not working too well. Mediacoder goes through the encoding process and creates the m4a file, but it is unplayable, and still no tags. Even the "Optimize MP4 Layout" in "MP4 Utilities" in foobar2000 produces an error message. My Nero encoder works fine within Nero itself, and with foobar2000, and Nero Frontends.

Thanks for looking into this!
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I guess the tagger damaged the file. (the tagger I used claims that it only tags itunes mp4 files).
Can you try removing or renaming mp4-tg.exe in tools folder, so that it won't be called, and see if the result file playable.
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Hello,

There's a very little bug in the mencoder script when setting the output framerate. You should use "-ofps" instead of "-fps", because mencoder keep all the frames hence a slowdowned video not in sync with audio and longer. Ideally, you should use "-fps <input file framerate> -ofps <desired ouput framerate>" but I don't know if you can/want determine the framerate of the input file before lauching mencoder...

Some news about more efficient MP4 encoding ?  


AiZ
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still no nero 7 support?
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No, have u seen any front-end for Nero 7 encoder in CLI or providing source code?
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As for MP4, currently mp4 with various audio formats and xvid and divx video should be ok, but still have problem with H.264. The mp4 tagger is also not so well. If you have any finding, please post here.

If I remember correctly, MP4Box only accept XviD encodings. When I choose MPEG-4 (DivX4/5), MP4Box says that "Video format FMP4 not supported", for example.
Then, if I use Xvid, video on my mobile looks like only I frames are displayed (not really sure, just guessing...). Do you know the XviD settings corresponding to strict MPEG4-SP ? Which profile do match ? Perhaps it's time to rename your profiles to something more understandable...
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No, have u seen any front-end for Nero 7 encoder in CLI or providing source code?
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[a href="http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=102966]http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=102966[/url]
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Just to offer compliments...
I used it last night to try out Helix AAC and that worked fine.  Just now, I converted APEs to FLACs and tags got transferred without messing around.
Most remarkable is how logical, intuitive and clean the interface is.
I'm really looking forward to when I can use this with Ivan Dimkovic's latest codecs (kudos to you, also, Ivan!).  I unzipped the bundle he gave Roberto into the MediaCoder codecs folder, but nothing happened.
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I just found the codec can work with MediaCoder. You need to make a setting, go Settings -> Audio Encoders -> Nero AAC Encoder -> Nero Plugin Folder, set it to the folder which contains that 4 dlls.

Hi,

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I just found the codec can work with MediaCoder. You need to make a setting, go Settings -> Audio Encoders -> Nero AAC Encoder -> Nero Plugin Folder, set it to the folder which contains that 4 dlls.

Well, I've tried this two or three days ago and even with the last build (1132), it still doesn't work. I've erased mediacoder.cfg and mediacoder.ini, same error : "Error start audio encoder". Sometimes it says that it can't find libmmd.dll and aacenc32.dll. Strange...


AiZ
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I guess I've found the cause for this. Try copying libmmd.dll to Windows' system folder. It should solve the problem. You only need to do so on system with Nero 6 installed.
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I guess I've found the cause for this. Try copying libmmd.dll to Windows' system folder. It should solve the problem. You only need to do so on system with Nero 6 installed.

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There is a bug that crashes mediacoder when using several encoders (lame mp3, itunesencode, etc.).
Fixed it, also with the realaudio file ext issue! Update here (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mediacoder/mediacoder-0.3.4-build1080.zip?download)
As for the mp4 tagging issue, the only solution is to find a better mp4 tagger utility. 
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Hi Optimus,

I downloaded the new build 1080 and iTunesencode is working great, Thanks!

Nero though, is not working too well. Mediacoder goes through the encoding process and creates the m4a file, but it is unplayable, and still no tags. Even the "Optimize MP4 Layout" in "MP4 Utilities" in foobar2000 produces an error message. My Nero encoder works fine within Nero itself, and with foobar2000, and Nero Frontends.

Thanks for looking into this!
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I guess the tagger damaged the file. (the tagger I used claims that it only tags itunes mp4 files).
Can you try removing or renaming mp4-tg.exe in tools folder, so that it won't be called, and see if the result file playable.
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I did exactly as you said, and voila, the encoded file played perfectly. The problem was in fact, MP4-tg.exe. I guess the search is on again for a new command-line mp4 tagging utility.
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I have a newer version of tg.exe (v0.33) and renamed and replaced mp4-tg.exe (v0.32) in the tools dir and foobar doesn't lock up on me anymore and shows full tags. It's from the same author dated a day later. 2003-08-10.

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I guess I've found the cause for this. Try copying libmmd.dll to Windows' system folder. It should solve the problem. You only need to do so on system with Nero 6 installed.
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Nero7 AAC encoder has some kind protection against using it from third-party software more then X times! You must have a little reverse engineering expirience to detect and disarm it 
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I have a newer version of tg.exe (v0.33) and renamed and replaced mp4-tg.exe (v0.32) in the tools dir and foobar doesn't lock up on me anymore and shows full tags. It's from the same author dated a day later. 2003-08-10.

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That's good. Give me a link to get it.
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I have a newer version of tg.exe (v0.33) and renamed and replaced mp4-tg.exe (v0.32) in the tools dir and foobar doesn't lock up on me anymore and shows full tags. It's from the same author dated a day later. 2003-08-10.

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That's good. Give me a link to get it.
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Hi Optimus,

This URL is for Version 0.38: [a href="http://users.rcn.com/rpritz/tgutf.zip]http://users.rcn.com/rpritz/tgutf.zip[/url] and it works as expected with Nero 6.
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There is no parametric stereo for Nero HE- AAC in version of 16 dic. Only SBR.
Helix AAC doesn't work here

Very comfortable  tool.
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I have a newer version of tg.exe (v0.33) and renamed and replaced mp4-tg.exe (v0.32) in the tools dir and foobar doesn't lock up on me anymore and shows full tags. It's from the same author dated a day later. 2003-08-10.

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That's good. Give me a link to get it.
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Hi Optimus,

This URL is for Version 0.38: [a href="http://users.rcn.com/rpritz/tgutf.zip]http://users.rcn.com/rpritz/tgutf.zip[/url] and it works as expected with Nero 6.
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It's an exe with debug info, so it's as big as 800K. I stripped its debug info and compressed it with upx and it becomes 10K.    You can download it [a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mediacoder/mp4-tagger.zip?download]here[/url].
It will come with next powerpack release.
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If I remember correctly, MP4Box only accept XviD encodings.

When I choose MPEG-4 (DivX4/5), MP4Box says that "Video format FMP4 not supported", for example.

Then, if I use Xvid, video on my mobile looks like only I frames are displayed (not really sure, just guessing...). Do you know the XviD settings corresponding to strict MPEG4-SP ? Which profile do match ? Perhaps it's time to rename your profiles to something more understandable...

Hi Optimus,

I'm not sure what's going on, but version 0.3.4 build 1148 is not working properly with Nero again. It seems that the "tools" folder is not being called. I see neither mp4box or mp4-tg in the "Audio Command"  tab when encoding is completed. Foobar2000's MP4 Optimize Layout cannot optimize the file and I have no tags at all, not even bad tags like in Version 0.32 of tg.exe

Thanks for your help and keep up the good work. :-)
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maybe mp4tags.exe from the mpeg4ip project

read this thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98018 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98018)
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Hi Optimus,

I'm not sure what's going on, but version 0.3.4 build 1148 is not working properly with Nero again. It seems that the "tools" folder is not being called. I see neither mp4box or mp4-tg in the "Audio Command"  tab when encoding is completed. Foobar2000's MP4 Optimize Layout cannot optimize the file and I have no tags at all, not even bad tags like in Version 0.32 of tg.exe

Thanks for your help and keep up the good work. :-)
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Have a try with latest Powerpack (20051218).
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also make sure you didnt #$%# up your .mp4 with tg.exe
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maybe mp4tags.exe from the mpeg4ip project

read this thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98018 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98018)
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I just found several mp4 taggers [a href="http://kurtnoise.free.fr/mp4tools/]here[/url]. Could any one have a try with all available mp4 taggers and tell us which is the best one? 
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also make sure you didnt #$%# up your .mp4 with tg.exe
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I'm planning of transcoding a couple hundred mp3s(with tags) with MediaCoder(MediaCoder-0.3.4-20051218.exe) to aacPlusv2 format wrapped in an mp4 container(with tags transferred). Will MediaCoder do the job properly or is there something I should know of before I proceed to do this? Also, how may I instruct MediaCoder to output files with a *.mp4 extension(rather than *.m4a) ? Thanks.
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maybe mp4tags.exe from the mpeg4ip project

read this thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98018 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98018)
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I just found several mp4 taggers [a href="http://kurtnoise.free.fr/mp4tools/]here[/url]. Could any one have a try with all available mp4 taggers and tell us which is the best one? 
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these are only two taggers: tg and mp4tags

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I'm planning of transcoding a couple hundred mp3s(with tags) with MediaCoder(MediaCoder-0.3.4-20051218.exe) to aacPlusv2 format wrapped in an mp4 container(with tags transferred). Will MediaCoder do the job properly or is there something I should know of before I proceed to do this? Also, how may I instruct MediaCoder to output files with a *.mp4 extension(rather than *.m4a) ? Thanks.
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i have no idea about this mediacoder tool, sorry

about .mp4 vs. .m4a. .m4a is 100% the same as .mp4, its just that apple had the strange idea of introducing this new extension...
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I would also like to propose a conditional filter for MediaCoder. For example, today I tried to convert a couple hundreds of mp3s to ogg. But I wanted to convert only those mp3s, that have at least 192kbps bitrate. So, it was very complex, cause there were all kinds of bitrates.
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A regular update is ready for download, with some bug fixes. Really busy at work this week, I'm squeezing out time to fix bugs for mediacoder. Next version XML will be used to store config data.
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Stanley, could you add an m3u playlist input support? So that we could easily add all files contained in the playlist. That'll make it easy to do the conditional transcoding. For example, I sort the mp3s by bitrate in foobar2000, save the transcode list to m3u, add it to MediaCoder!
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A regular update is ready for download, with some bug fixes. Really busy at work this week, I'm squeezing out time to fix bugs for mediacoder. Next version XML will be used to store config data.
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I just did a clean install of MediaCoder-0.3.4-20051222 and I am still getting untagged files. I have no problems with the other encoders, just Nero. No MP4Box or MP4Tags in the Audio Command Tab. Am I doing something wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Stanley, excuse me for troubling you for no reason – I missed that Load Queue function. But here's a good suggestion (in addition to putting "Delete Input Files" checkbox somewhere in the main window): set an appropriate advance value for the sliders. In other words: Ogg Vorbis quality slider, when you click it, advances by two, but it would make more sense, if it would advance by one! AAC+ Bitrate slider advances by 22, but 16 would be logical. I don't know about FAAC (by the way, FAAC's Average Bitrate option button is unselectable). HelixMP3 slider moves 30 points - 16 is logical. Don't know about WavPack. Thanks!
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This particular bug introduces an audio delay of about +100ms when transcoding videos to files containing audio streams encoded with CT's aacPlusv2. This delay is hardly noticeable, but is definitely present.[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=352640"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

you can now drag an m3u file into MediaCoder or its icon on desktop), and set the slider advances you mentioned.

Can you check enc_aacplus.exe (get link from my signature) too?
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Can you check enc_aacplus.exe (get link from my signature) too?
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dimzon, encoding a wave file into aacplusv2 with enc_aacplus.exe and muxing it with a video stream using YAMB mp4Box GUI still produces files with a +100ms delay.

Optimus, here's a another bug to keep you busy  Encoding mp3s with a samplerate of 48khz into CT's aacplusv2 produces lower-pitched and lengthier audio files. This happens when using "Winamp Input Plugins" as the "Source" option. Using MPlayer as source produces correctly pitched audio files though... This has been tested on MediaCoder 0.3.4 build 1167.
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Can you check enc_aacplus.exe (get link from my signature) too?
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Sorry to say that WMA tagging is not supported yet.
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Sorry to say that WMA tagging is not supported yet.
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Thanks for your reply.
Do have any idea if and when tags in WMA will be supported?
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Optimus, there's a small mistake in the program. For Ogg Vorbis quality settings you should use a coma instead of point (2,75 instead of 2.75), otherwise it encodes as though there's nothing after the first integer (2.75 becomes 2,00).

It's a pity to loose an opportunity to encode freely with Coding Technologies aacPlus... 3GPP is not that good.
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Yesterday AOL has sent me a mail to press me to stop bundling Nullsoft Winamp plugins and AAC+V2 encoder in MediaCoder distribution. So I have replaced all Nullsoft stuff with open source alternatives. Let's say good bye to Nullsoft. However, the interfacing code is still there. Whether using it or not is up to you (of course you need to agree the statement shown).
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Yesterday AOL has sent me a mail to press me to stop bundling Nullsoft Winamp plugins and AAC+V2 encoder in MediaCoder distribution. So I have replaced all Nullsoft stuff with open source alternatives. Let's say good bye to Nullsoft. However, the interfacing code is still there. Whether using it or not is up to you (of course you need to agree the statement shown).
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Sad news, are you really scared? Damn, who is AOL to order you to stop bundling AAC+V2 encoder in MediaCoder distribution? Please, back full support for AAC+V2 as soon as possible.
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Kostarum, haven't you read? It doesn't matter, that CT AAC+ is not bundled now, because you can easily use the one bundled with Winamp in MediaCoder.

Optimus, I tried to add cue to MediaCoder today. Here's an example of what's in the cue:

[span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%']FILE "CDImage.ape"
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "I cant't believe that you're in love with me"
    PERFORMER "Errol Garner"
    ISRC DEG730014666
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Stardust"
    PERFORMER "Errol Garner"
    ISRC DEG730014667
    INDEX 00 02:34:35
    INDEX 01 02:36:35
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Loot to boot"
    PERFORMER "Errol Garner"
    ISRC DEG730014668
    INDEX 00 05:18:42
    INDEX 01 05:20:42[/span]

MediaCoder finishes the first track, adds tags to it, but never goes on to the next track. Unless you press Stop two times. Then cancel, when it asks to overwrite the first track. And so it encodes the second track. Again freezes at the end. So you press Stop two times. Cancel two times (to skip track 1 and 2). And there it goes encoding track 3... etc
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Fixed Quantitizer is only avaliable with Xvid? What about H.264 and Mpeg-4 (DivX4/5)?
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Stanley, do you have any tips on how to use MediaCoder with Winamp 5.2 aacPlus v 1.2?  I simply replaced the codec with the newer one in the MediaCoder\codecs folder.  I'm not sure if options like MPEG2 or MPEG4 are recognized.

I actually joined your forum, but I couldn't get into any English sections where I could communicate.

My number 1 request is that the transcoding continue when one file cannot be encoded and that there afterwards be an output log file reporting which files were skipped.

[Addendum: I just installed your January 26, 2006 update and noticed that Ogg Vorvis default seems to have switched to using mplayer.  I encoded some FLACs for my iAudio X5  and was amazed to see lancer oggenc2 speeds getting to nearly 34x; before this 29x was the highest.]
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Optimus, wait a minute, AOL isn't really a owner of AAC+ codec, so I don't know why they emailed you with that stupid warning.

I propose that you continue to use AAC+ encoder, who cares what AOL said.
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realmax, is that you on the pic, or is that your girl? Pretty!

Optimus, the Resampler makes a click at the beginning of the track, when resampling from 48 to 44.1 KHz, when converting from FLAC. I also tried converting 48 KHz OGG to 44.1 KHz output. It didn't produce a click.

Converting 44.1 KHz FLAC to 32 KHz output doesn't produce a click.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, and another observation. The output produced from 48 KHz FLAC is quiter than the original. So, not only you get the click, you also have incorrect level of the output. I remember having the same problem when converting AC3 (which is always 48 KHz) to 44.1 KHz OGG. I guess it's a bug in resampling tool, used in MediaCoder.
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Hi~optimus 
Thanks for your great tool.MediaCoder is very convenient to me.
I'm from Taiwan,and I think it will be great if there is a traditional chinese version. 
Tomorrow is Chinese New Year.I think you must be very busy these days.
Sorry for my bad English.  Wish you a Happy New Year.
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It is too bad that MediaCoder doesn't come bundled with CT's aacPlus encoder anymore (yes, I am aware that you can still manually point MediaCoder to the encoder, but a bundled encoder was way more convenient and user-friendly). CT's implementation of HE-AAC v2 was the best IMHO. Anyways, does anyone know which version of MediaCoder last contained a bundled CT aacPlus encoder, and where I could download this version?
Has anyone gotten to the root of the aacPlus audio delay issue yet?
On a different note, how does one resize video output (when encoding to x264) using high quality filters like "Precise Bicubic" or "Lanczos 3"? Thanks.
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Dear Optimus,

Congratulations for making such a powerful software.  As a newbie, I am not able to work with different settings n buttons.  Are there any user guide or help topics?  I want to use your software to extract one of the channel of the audio track of a karaoke avi into mp3.  Can you teach me what settings should be made?

A thousand thanks,
william
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Dear Optimus,

Congratulations for making such a powerful software.  As a newbie, I am not able to work with different settings n buttons.  Are there any user guide or help topics?  I want to use your software to extract one of the channel of the audio track of a karaoke avi into mp3.  Can you teach me what settings should be made?

A thousand thanks,
william
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Hey, guess what. This is an application that I need, so I made MediaCoder to do it!
Follow these steps:

1. In Audio tab, check the "Split Stereo Channels" checkbox and set "Encoder" to "Lame MP3"
2. In Video tab, set "Video Format" to none
3. Drags your karaoke avi into the list, set an output folder, and click Start button.
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Dear Optimus,

Congratulations for making such a powerful software.  As a newbie, I am not able to work with different settings n buttons.  Are there any user guide or help topics?  I want to use your software to extract one of the channel of the audio track of a karaoke avi into mp3.  Can you teach me what settings should be made?

A thousand thanks,
william
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Hey, guess what. This is an application that I need, so I made MediaCoder to do it!
Follow these steps:

1. In Audio tab, check the "Split Stereo Channels" checkbox and set "Encoder" to "Lame MP3"
2. In Video tab, set "Video Format" to none
3. Drags your karaoke avi into the list, set an output folder, and click Start button.
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thanks a lot for the instruction, i did it but the mp3 is shorter and the music and singing are much faster than normal, what have I missed? I try different bitrate but it is the same abnormal sound!
William
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Dear Optimus,

Congratulations for making such a powerful software.  As a newbie, I am not able to work with different settings n buttons.  Are there any user guide or help topics?  I want to use your software to extract one of the channel of the audio track of a karaoke avi into mp3.  Can you teach me what settings should be made?

A thousand thanks,
william
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Hey, guess what. This is an application that I need, so I made MediaCoder to do it!
Follow these steps:

1. In Audio tab, check the "Split Stereo Channels" checkbox and set "Encoder" to "Lame MP3"
2. In Video tab, set "Video Format" to none
3. Drags your karaoke avi into the list, set an output folder, and click Start button.
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thanks a lot for the instruction, i did it but the mp3 is shorter and the music and singing are much faster than normal, what have I missed? I try different bitrate but it is the same abnormal sound!
William
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The sample rate of your source avi might not be correctly detected. This can be caused by many reasons.
Currently there is not a forcing sample rate function. I might add this in next release.
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Windows 98 is mostly not tested when I release. Actually I built 2 versions (one is for win9x) and packaged both of them in the installer. The installer should install different versions on detecting what system it is running on.
I've no idea about what the cause is. However, I did upgraded my NSIS (the installer maker).
Here is the latest Win9x build, u may test it and report me if it works or not.
http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/mediacoder-w9x.zip (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/mediacoder-w9x.zip)
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Application mediacoder-W9X executed illegal instruction in module MEDIACODER-W9X.EXE at 017f:00402f5f.
Registers:
EAX=0046ad2c CS=017f EIP=00402f5f EFLGS=00010293
EBX=ffff6f08 SS=0187 ESP=006bfd58 EBP=0000001b
ECX=0046afb0 DS=0187 ESI=00000000 FS=197f
EDX=0000001b ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
bites at CS:EIP:
0f 4f d6 83 78 0c 01 5e 7e 09 89 54 24 04 e9 4e 
Stack dump:
0046afb0 00403672 0000001b 0046afb0 00000000 00461c45 006bfe38 0046afb0 00406592 00461c44 0000001b bff77716 00464018 00452e2f 00461c44 7c341cd6

If your tool works fine for the planned conversion, we are considering to point all matroska users to your tool from our homepage (about 100,000 unique hits per month today). I was testing a similar tool on http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/ (http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/) , it worked fine on various MKVs i threw at it, but i dont like the guys anti-MKV attitude and the fact that only AVI can be the output.

Now, when i set up the audio to be FFMPEG codec, AC3 output, i get the following message (i am using 0.3.5. plus latest update, build 1455) :

'Failed to load FFMPEG audio codec. This is most possible that the encoder is absent'

I got the full pack, so what else could be missing ? Can there be a conflict with latest Dr DivX II from DivX Inc. , which is using (and registering) a ffmpeg.dll on my Windows ?

Thanks for a short reply, i was searching the thread for 'FFMPEG' but didnt find a similar bug report anywhere.

Christian
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org (http://www.matroska.org)
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Optimus, hurry up, fix WMA conversion problem.

And, Mediacoder have a huge bug with Windows XP SP2. Here is the log file.

Note that this is a Windows XP log file, not a Mediacoder log file.

Here it is:

could release MidiaCoder by archive pack (no install)?

软件很不错，但希望可以提供免安装版本
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Optimus, hurry up, fix WMA conversion problem.

And, Mediacoder have a huge bug with Windows XP SP2. Here is the log file.

Note that this is a Windows XP log file, not a Mediacoder log file.

Here it is:

Hey Kostarum, you can send me the log file via email.

PS. I suggest u clean up your post so that other readers can read posts with ease. 
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Well, Mediacoder build 0.3.5 1458 still won't compress from WAV or any other audio source to WMA audio format. Here is the proof:

http://img154.imageshack.us/my.php?image=l...uild14580vr.jpg (http://img154.imageshack.us/my.php?image=logfrom035build14580vr.jpg)


What can you do about this, Optimus   It's really annoying.
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mpc to anything encoding is broken, as well as wave, and in winamp input mode, mp3....actually...everything is broken, also...the program wont save your old encoding settings when you exit out!
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mpc to anything encoding is broken, as well as wave, and in winamp input mode, mp3....actually...everything is broken, also...the program wont save your old encoding settings when you exit out!
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Hi Optimus,

Thank you very much for the great tool you have produced! MediaCoder really rocks!

I just have to report a minor bug in the GUI: if the resolution of the screen is more than 1024x768, the "Settings" menu is not well displayed: the options are not visible, but you can still select them by clicking in the arrows of the bottom box which are displayed in grey, as if they were not selectable, but which work if you click on them.

Otherwise I think that the big step forward will be to set up a wizard menu with presets enabling an easier conversion for those not aware with media files conversion, such as the commercial tool of Xilisoft "3GP converter".
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Optimus, my Russian tags become scrambled in transcoded files. Previously I used Multi Frontend for transcoding, which utilised Tag v2.0.39 for copying tags and it produced no errors.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, and comment tag doesn't get transfered with MediaCoder (at least in MP3 > OGG conversion), which is also not the issue with Tag v2.0.39, that does the job great.

Perhaps switching to Tag would be a good idea? You decide.
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As for the GUI bug, I guess u r using big font schema, are you? Currently MediaCoder's GUI only looks nice with standard font size.
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Otherwise is it planned to implement the "transport stream" file format (.ts), which is very popular in hdtv files? There is actually no good and reliable tool to manage quickly and efficiently those kinds of files and that will be great if it was implemented in MediaCoder.
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Optimus, please update AAC+ V2 encoder. Winamp 5.20 official version is here, so you should use newest Coding Tehnologies AAC+ V2 codec in Media Coder 0.36
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Optimus, please update AAC+ V2 encoder. Winamp 5.20 official version is here, so you should use newest Coding Tehnologies AAC+ V2 codec in Media Coder 0.36
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It looks like that the updated AAC+ V2 encoder in Winamp supports bitrates higher than 128Kbps. But this is only available in PRO version. I will test it later and add corresponding options to MediaCoder if necessary.
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It looks like that the updated AAC+ V2 encoder in Winamp supports bitrates higher than 128Kbps. But this is only available in PRO version. I will test it later and add corresponding options to MediaCoder if necessary.
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    int bitrates[3][6] = 
    {

  {
   //he - mono,  stereo,      6ch
  8000, 64000,    16000, 128000,    96000, 213335
  },
  {
   //lc - mono,  stereo,      6ch
  8000, 160000,    16000, 320000,    160000, 320000
  },
  {
   //hi - mono,  stereo,      6ch
  8000, 160000,    96000, 256000,    0, 0
  }


    };

Optimus, I just saw that Media Coder doesn't support AC3 audio. Please, can you add support for AC3 audio( input format, not output).
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I believe nobody need stereo HE-AAC > 128kbps and 213kbps is enought for 6ch
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I found it is a REALLY GOOD converter, but have a few problems to ask

1.How to check the encoder (codec) version?

2.Error occured when trancoding OGG to the Helix format (not Helix Mp3), using default settings, but suceed when Wav-> Helix

3.More over, sometimes the sample rate of output drops to 16000 Hz instead of 44.1K
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Are there any walkthroughs out there (eg., Converting a series of VOB files to one AVI), and has anyone made a preset yet for ESS-based standalones? 
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Thanks for sharing the info, dimzon. 
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Optimus, I just saw that Media Coder doesn't support AC3 audio. Please, can you add support for AC3 audio( input format, not output).
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You mean AC3 audio as input? Which container format is your AC3 audio in? AC3 audio in MPEG container is supported (multi-channel isn't though).
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Thanks for sharing the info, dimzon. 
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the source code is included in archive and it's GPL-ed, you can use it to speedup your development a bit
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Optimus, I just saw that Media Coder doesn't support AC3 audio. Please, can you add support for AC3 audio( input format, not output).
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You mean AC3 audio as input? Which container format is your AC3 audio in? AC3 audio in MPEG container is supported (multi-channel isn't though).
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Yes, I mean AC3 Audio as input. Container is *.AC3 and Media Coder doesn't support it. Can you add support for AC3 container? It's really important to me, Optimus.
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Do u have the spec for the format you need?


ESS chipset standalones would be an XVID encode with the following caveats:  (these would make them work fine in just about *any* standalone DivX supporting player)

Absolutely NO: QPEL, AQ, Treillis, GMC
MAX consecutive B-VOPS set to 2.00
Quantizer ratio used: 1.50
Quantizer offset used: 1.00
NO PACKED bitstream (NVOPs)
Closed GOV checked
PROFILE LEVEL AS@L5
Chroma motion set
turbo checked :-)
VHQ varied from 1 - 4
MOTION SEARCH PRECISION set to 6
MIN/MAX I-B-P quantizers set to 2/31 respectively

(Did an encode of a set of VOBs, the program didn't join them, but instead gave me 4 encodes...one for each VOB.  Can this program join VOBs as one stream, or do I need to look elsewhere for that?  I couldn't find an option for that anywhere.)
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btw: what's the major difference you've found between the aac+ encoder of pre 5.12 and that of 5.20.
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• can produce MPEG4 AAC instead of MPEG2 AAC
• supports 6ch encoding
• supports LC encoding
• new aacPlusHight encoder implemented

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btw: what's the major difference you've found between the aac+ encoder of pre 5.12 and that of 5.20.
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I can't tell you nothing about quality (i don't ABX-ed) but new enc_aacplus.dll

• can produce MPEG4 AAC instead of MPEG2 AAC
  
  
• supports 6ch encoding
  
  
• supports LC encoding
  
  
• new aacPlusHight encoder implemented

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Last question: Dimzon, can you tell mne what is the difference between MPEG2-AAC and MPEG4-AAC encoder? In quality or....
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(Did an encode of a set of VOBs, the program didn't join them, but instead gave me 4 encodes...one for each VOB.  Can this program join VOBs as one stream, or do I need to look elsewhere for that?  I couldn't find an option for that anywhere.)
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Good question.
Will you be implementing reading IFO (parsing) ?
And maybe also a subtitle feature (burn in subtitles when converting a DVD --> AVI and when having a AVI and .srt or .sub files)
Would be great !!

BTW GREAT proggie !
Thanks for all your great work !
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@optimus

Seems like you perform some modifications/tweaks for 3GPP Reference encoder. Can you share this code with me (I know i can get all MediaCoder code at once but i doesn't want to read to much C++ code)
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hi,optimus
any mirrors,it seems sf is blocked here,cann't download it from sf.
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@optimus

Sorry for my double post, but please read my problem


When i want to convert an audio file and use the normalize option, then it happens something wrong.
example:
If the file fading in quietly, the volume is raised into steps, instead of a flowing transition...

Do you understand ?
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The reason why there is such an effect is that the normalization is done on-the-fly, instead of 2-pass (analysis + processing). It is possible to add a 2-pass normalization function, however this will be slow and requiring creating a intermediate waveform file. An alternative is to manually set volume gain the audio if u simply wanna raise the volume to some extent.
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A twopass routine is an good idea. Because I want to convert audio in high quality
Can you implement this function ?
There is an good sampling rate converter...<--- It can change the samplerate and normalize in single or in twopass.
http://shibatch.sourceforge.net/ (http://shibatch.sourceforge.net/)

Maybe you can use this ?

Greets
Pacemaker
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hi,optimus
any mirrors,it seems sf is blocked here,cann't download it from sf.
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SourceForge is banned in China (don't know if it is temporary or permanent). Nothing is more terrible than that! I'm very angry about this!
Luckily our company has direct data route to US, so I can still access CVS and do release at work.
I will set up a mirror for web pages, downloads and auto-update at the web space on rarewares.org.

EDIT: latest update can be downloaded from rarewares mirror site [a href="http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/dlupdate.htm]here[/url]
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Optimus, I just saw that Media Coder doesn't support AC3 audio. Please, can you add support for AC3 audio( input format, not output).
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You mean AC3 audio as input? Which container format is your AC3 audio in? AC3 audio in MPEG container is supported (multi-channel isn't though).
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Yes, I mean AC3 Audio as input. Container is *.AC3 and Media Coder doesn't support it. Can you add support for AC3 container? It's really important to me, Optimus.
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The tools on the web site looks like useful. I'll try integrating them into MediaCoder.
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I found another problem:
1. when i use MediaCoder to transcode my video from Digital cam,the soundtrack has gone
please refer to my file:  http://www.ihud.com/file.php?file=050306/1...96/DSCN0058.zip (http://www.ihud.com/file.php?file=050306/1141518896/DSCN0058.zip)
or
http://www.savefile.com/files/7342621 (http://www.savefile.com/files/7342621)

2. Error when OGG --> Helix

(p.s. tell me how to post attachments properly)
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But, but, why the hell they banned SourceForce CVS server in China? Do you know, Optimus, what's the main reason for that ugly action?
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there are corecodec.org with same features as sf
maybe migrate on it?
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