Hybrid(Windows/Linux/Mac): Input -> x264/x265/Xvid/VP8/VP9

[Selur]

(1) Yes, Hybrid can normalize audio using sox
(2) Yes, Hybrid can extract one or multiple specific streams
(3) Yes, Hybrid can remux between containers
(4) Yes, Hybrid is encode to different audio formats, if the settings you choose is compatible with your device depends on your settings and your device.
(5) Yes, Hybrid can auto-crop and resize to a specify resolution

[enim]

Hope, Hybrid can seve as a good batcher too.
Last Q?
Why German designs are Smart SSA type?
I am curious about secret recipe or ingrediants.

[Selur]

Why German designs are Smart SSA type?

no clue when I meet a designer I'll ask him.

[Stears555]

What do you think about the implementation of x265 codec?

[Selur]

ask me again, as soon as x265 support input via std::in until then: no-go (creating humongous intermediate raw yuv files is just ugly)

[deadrats]

@Selur: would you consider adding quick sync support to Hybrid: http://babgvant.com/files/folders/random/entry21946.aspx

[Selur]

@deadrats:
short: it's planned, but QTSTranscode needs some adjustments before I support it inside Hybrid
long: already wrote with the author and I got the code to 90% ready to support it, but I'm waiting for QSTranscode to support input via std::in, see: http://sourceforge.net/p/qstranscode/tickets/4/ . I also want to support it as a decoder as soon as http://sourceforge.net/p/qstranscode/tickets/10/ is implemented.

[Stears555]

Selur,
What about the implement of Lentoid HEVC ?

[Selur]

afaik it's a directshow encoder and Hybrid does not support direct show encoders.
(or is there a command line binary for it which support input via std::in/pipe?)

-> looking at the english read me: "This encoder is implemented as a DirectShow Filter", to support this you need a tool which supports DirectShowEncoders. (Hybrid doesn't)

Also the readme states:

indicating bitstreams compatible with HM9.1

-> wouldn't recommend to use this, since current HM version is 12.0 and there have been a bunch of bugs which have been fixed since 9.1, see: here

[Stears555]

Selur discriminates the directshow! Selur is anti-directshowist!

[Selur]

@Stears555: if you write a generic c++ based (and statically compiled) command line tool which:
a. accepts raw video input video std::in
b. allows to use a DirectShow encoder and write it's output to a specific output file
c. shows a progress indication during encoding
I will support it and Lentoid HEVC direct show encoder.

[deadrats]

@Selur: would you consider adding support for the divx h264 cli?

[DarrellS]

@Selur: would you consider adding support for the divx h264 cli?

Wow, I didn't think anyone else tried to use that encoder. I may still have a copy of it on one of my backup drives. I never could get it to work in the Virtualdub external encoder so I'm not sure it supports stdin. I'll see if I can find it to make sure. I was discouraged from trying to get it to work from x264 users.


If Selur could get it to work, I would be interested in testing it. I wished that DivX Labs would've created a DivX CLI since DivX is faster than XviD.

[DarrellS]

Selur,

x265.cc has x265.exe working with stdin "-" if you want to implement it into Hybrid. I tried it in Virtualdub with external encoder and it works.

Download newest encoder at...


https://x265.cc/

[Selur]

@DarrellS: I already started on implementing support for x265 (it will take a few days to be finished), main problem is that nobody seems to know the min/max (and stepping size) values for all options. -> I asked for it here, but didn't get a reply, so only way to solve that seems to be for me to read the through the x265 source code.So may be end of next week I'll have a working x265 support assuming I find the time to read through the code and implement the necessary methods in Hybrid.


Cu Selur

[deadrats]

@Selur:

i have to give you credit, regardless of what i may think of the arrangement of the various options within your gui, little by little you are turning Hybrid into what the old blaze media pro claimed to be (but in reality was nowhere near) namely a swiss army knife style tool that can do pretty much everything the average user needs.

if you do in fact get x265 working within your app it will allow users to do a proper quality comparison between x265, divx h265, x264, xvid and vp9 (assuming i can ever get it working on my system).

i look forward to seeing your x265 enabled app.

[vhelp]

selur, i responded in the other thread, post post # 705.

with the constant changes and many builds of x265.exe and parameters, they are adding, removing and modifying them all the time. plus, there are missspellings, odd chars in the wrong places, and so on. i also saw them in the source code. the better way to put it, there is no "quality control" of this area. your app would have to change every time. this is what i was doing until i got tired of it and eventually stopped.

[Selur]

@vhelp: adjusting the program wouldn't be the problem if there was some up-to-date documentation and some usable versioning (to make sure a version is only called with the parameters it supports)-----
ARGH, my mainboard and my mainboard died on my main system -> hoping to get replacement parts on Tuesday (watercooled mainboard and passive cooled psu), so only minimal coding time till then :/

[Stears555]

Selur!
The new FFmpeg 2.1 released!

https://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffmpeg

Native support for HEVC and VP9 codecs!!!

When will you implement the ffmpeg 2.1 in Hybrid?

[Selur]

the ffmpeg version which comes with Hybrid already has hevc and vp9 support -> nothing to do,...

[Stears555]

the ffmpeg version which comes with Hybrid already has hevc and vp9 support -> nothing to do,...

But that is not the original release but a fabricated version!
Perhabs it is worse than the original.

[Selur]

might be, still next release will contain a newly checked out ffmpeg, so it will then contain ffmpeg 2.1

[Stears555]

might be, still next release will contain a newly checked out ffmpeg, so it will then contain ffmpeg 2.1

The only question is: When?

[Selur]

When I find the time, if you can't wait:

1. Start Hybrid, clear the tool infos (Config->Tools->Clear all cached tool infos), close Hybrid
2. download latest ffmpeg version from zeranoe
3. replace the ffmpeg version

Hybrid will detect the new version on it's next start.

[Stears555]

X.265, lentoid or Divx? Which is the better quality HEVC codec? What do you know about their quality?

[Selur]

from my point of view none of them should be used atm.
- x265: command line changes and breaks every few builds, so I wouldn't be surprised it it often creates non-standard conform output
- lentoid: no clue and don't care, since it's DirectShow only
- DivX265: seems like it was a one-time demo release which will never be updated (same happened with DivX264s command line encoder) + last time I checked x265 could produce better quality at the same size

[Stears555]

from my point of view none of them should be used atm.
- x265: command line changes and breaks every few builds, so I wouldn't be surprised it it often creates non-standard conform output
- lentoid: no clue and don't care, since it's DirectShow only
- DivX265: seems like it was a one-time demo release which will never be updated (same happened with DivX264s command line encoder) + last time I checked x265 could produce better quality at the same size

But I think about their picture quality, instead of their stability

[Selur]

like I wrote x265 is better then DivX265, if it works and if configured properly
lentoid: no clue and no interest

[Stears555]

like I wrote x265 is better then DivX265, if it works and if configured properly
lentoid: no clue and no interest

Will the x265 be implemented in the new version of Hybrid too?

[Selur]

not sure if x265 support will make it, since I first had some computer problems and now I got the flu (programming doesn't make fun if you sneeze every few minutes and a headache is torturing you )