Looking for Alternative to MeGUI

[CubDukat]

I have been using MeGUI several years for encoding TV episodes to Blu-Ray compatible H.264 m2ts files, but now I only use it for encoding 720p material that I have to break down to 23.976 fps. I've shifted the majority of my encoding over to TVMW6 because it can do hardware-accelerated encoding, but I can't use, say, the AVS files generated in MeGUI to encode 720p with the necessary decimation to get 23.976 fps footage in TVMW6 because that capability appears to have been broken.

What I'm trying to find is a program similar to MeGUI that will allow me to convert 720p/59.94 footage to 720p/23.976 footage to be burned to Blu-Ray. As much as I like MeGUI, it would seem that it has more or less been abandoned and isn't in development anymore. Naturally I would prefer a free solution like MeGUI, but if that is not possible, a non-free option would do.

I thought I heard that someone had managed to encode Blu-Ray compatible files using Handbrake, but I don't know if that's the case. If anyone has, how would I set up Handbrake to do that?

[sneaker]

Can't use HandBrake for that. And MeGUI isn't dead, switch to the development update server (in settings). That said, I don't understand why you want to convert 720p60 to something else anyways as that resolution/fps is fully BluRay compatible.

[CubDukat]

Can't use HandBrake for that. And MeGUI isn't dead, switch to the development update server (in settings). That said, I don't understand why you want to convert 720p60 to something else anyways as that resolution/fps is fully BluRay compatible.

Wow, I didn't know that 720p/60 was official. Good to know. Mainly I just do it out of force of habit, as I was doing the conversion that way when I was using DVDs. I'd decimate, then have TVMW5 encode it as 480i. But that was when it could take AVS files...

The main reason I want to go over to TVMW6 is the hardware acceleration. MeGUI all but ties up my entire system, and it's especially flaky when it comes to encoding streams from SyFy, FX, and the other channels Comcast has switched over to H.264. I have to use the Auto Encode option instead of One-Click because it doesn't like the AVS that gets generated for the audio stream. For some bizarre reason, it wraps the AC3 file in an AVS, and One Click doesn't like that...

[CubDukat]

Craziest thing just happened. I just tried loading an AVS file into TVMW6 just for the hell of it, and the video portion actually opened!

I wonder if it's not because I followed your suggestion to update MeGUI using the development server. It updated just about every single thing in the program, and I wonder if it was that older version of AVISynth that had problems.