ffmpegX 0.0.9r released

[major]

v0.0.9r Dec 25, 2004
http://homepage.mac.com/major4

Further to recent reallib site changes, with this new version you are required to download a new version of the reallib binaries. The other 3 binaries (mencoder, mplayer and mpeg2enc) are the same as in version 0.0.9q and do not need to be installed again.

- Added DVD selectable subtitles encoding support for ffmpeg and mpeg2enc engine. Select a text-based subtitle file (.srt, .sub, .ssa, .smi, .rt, .txt, .aqt, .jss, .js formats are supported) in the Filters tab and encode your movie with DVD mpeg2enc (without the "Decode with mplayer" option) or with DVD ffmpeg quick preset. The subtitles will be imaged and embedded as fully selectable DVD subtitles by using the Subtitles button in your remote control (no more burning in the movie image, though you can still use burning mode by selecting "Burn" and "Decode with mplayer"). Use the "Play" button to check prior to encoding that the subtitle file is synchronized to your movie (if you need to fix the subtitle syncing, use SubSyncX).
- Improved AUTHOR tool to add DVD selectable subtitles to an existing MPG file. Load a DVD-compliant MPG file and a text-based subtitle file (.srt, .sub, .ssa, .smi, .rt, .txt, .aqt, .jss, .js) in the first two Browse.. fields, then click AUTHOR. A VIDEO_TS folder will then be authored with the subtitles embedded as fully selectable DVD subtitles by using the Subtitles button in your remote control.
- Fixed 16:9 aspect ratio support when using manual letterboxing with ffmpeg engine.
- Added DVDImg tool to create a .dmg UDF image file for burning a DVD with Disk Utility. This tool requires as input (in the first browse.. field) a folder containing a /VIDEO_TS and /AUDIO_TS structure.
- In order to lower disk space requirements, a .dmg image file is no longer automatically created at the end of a DVD authoring process (only a /DVD/ folder containing /VIDEO_TS and /AUDIO_TS folders will be created). If you want to make a .dmg image for burning with Disk Utility, you may now use the new DVDdmg tool.
- Fixed bug which sometimes led to DVD authoring with audio in track 1 instead of track 0.
- VIDEO_TS audio tracks and subtitles auto-detection does not delete other choices from the pulldown menus (it seems that this is needed for correct handling with some norwegian titles).
- Fixed some encoding issues with DivX 3, msmpeg4v1 and msmpeg4v2 with ffmpeg engine.
- The Author tool now runs in the Progress window.
- Updated to ffmpeg CVS of Dec 18, 2004.

[Hansi]

I can't download the real libs, they just forward me to real.com/help/

[major]

The link changed again! Use this link: http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/index.html?filename=20041224/all_clients-...gcc3-pb.tar.gz

[iBoy]

I cannot download the real libs either. I am just forwarded to real.com all the time. I am using the new link.

[alph]

The new link you provided here seems to lead to a newer version.

The download gives:
all_clients-helix-20041224-macos-gcc3-pb

while the installer looks for:
all_clients-helix-20041208-macos-gcc3-pb

I went ahead and changed the folder name to get the FFMPEGX installer to work.

Regards, and thx.

[alph]

iBoy,

Try starting from a new browser window. The link major posted as a correction worked for me.

http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/index.html?filename=20041224/all_clients-...gcc3-pb.tar.gz

The only issue is once you've downloaded and decompressed this, you'll need to change the folder name to all_clients-helix-20041208-macos-gcc3-pb for the installer to use it properly.

Regards

[major]

I'll try to fix this one time for all.. as apparently new versions will continue to pop out from Helix and old versions will continue to get deleted without notice. Also in this new version RealVideo works well, but RealAudio seem to not work. The version which was entirely good is client-1-1.1.5-DevRel_macos-gcc3-pb_all_clients.tar of July 19, 2004 (no longer available from the Helix site).

[iBoy]

Now the link worked. And when I renamed the folder the installation worked too. Thanks!

[major]

It may ask you for installing again when you quit and relaunch. To avoid that, I just uploaded a new version of ffmpegX. Just donwload ffmpegX again. The new version does no longer check the reallib version number, but it just checks if there is any reallib installed.

[alph]

I'm not sure if this is specific to 0.0.9r, but it's recent. It was not the case in previous versions.

When encoding to mepg2 with ffmpeg and opening the terminal, the "q=" value remains at 0.0 no mater how low the bit-rate.

frame= 100 q=0.0 size= 482kB time=3.3 bitrate=1195.3kbits/s

Thank you

[Leo the 3rd]

Ok, I'm doing a new install, but am unable to get the gcc3 file. Where can I find a copy of these lib files?

[major]

You're possibly talking about reallib. Get it from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerosx/reallib.zip?download then rename the folder as all_clients-helix-20041224-macos-gcc3-pb and install it.