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

[Selur]

With the magy vfw codec installed, Hybrid should be able to handle it, otherwise create a debug output which contains the 'Avisynth preview' call (-> enable debugoutput level 9 before pressing the aivsnyht preview button and disable it aftewards)

[Gravitator]

So the problem is not the codec magic.
Just after clicking the Close button does not become active GUI.

[Selur]

Does the preview work?

[Gravitator]

Does the preview work?

Yes

[Selur]

Then, I know how to fix it.
-> simply enforce the use of avisynth (Config->Internals->Avisynth->Always use Avisynth), Hybrid will then use AviSource which will use the vfw decoder

[Gravitator]

Still does not obeys

[Selur]

Does avsViewer close properly is you use other (non-magy) content ?
Seems to me like this is a bug in magy which doesn't properly close.
Since I remember this worked correctly with an older version I would recommend testing with an older version of the codec and not just the latest 1.0rc2.
(-> I won't look further into it, since magy simply seems to buggy atm. to be worth the effort for me.)

[Gravitator]

Other fine work; need a hard kick for a hung process in Task Manager.

[Selur]

edited my post above -> from my point of view, this is not avsViewer/Hybrids fault, this is a bug with their vfw decoder.

[Selur]

btw. for those interested: The next encoder which will make it into Hybrid is QSVEnc, which is a command line QuickSync encoder.

[Kartmadol]

btw. for those interested: The next encoder which will make it into Hybrid is QSVEnc, which is a command line QuickSync encoder.

I'm unable to start the program after installation. It complains about the lack of Kvazaar.


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[Gravitator]

I'm unable to start the program after installation. It complains about the lack of Kvazaar.

Hi Kartmadol,
Opened using 7z and retrieve the file.

[Kartmadol]

I'm unable to start the program after installation. It complains about the lack of Kvazaar.

Hi Kartmadol,
Opened using 7z and retrieve the file.

Kvazaar.exe is located on the root library of hybrid, so I can't understand this debug.... How can I solve this problem?

[Selur]

@Kartmadol: Not sure why Kvazaar is not working for some folks and works fine here.
You can use the official 0.3 from https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar/releases and simply replace the kvazaar.exe until I figure out what is causing the problem.

Cu Selur

Ps.: what OS and CPU are you using?

[Kartmadol]

@Kartmadol: Not sure why Kvazaar is not working for some folks and works fine here.
You can use the official 0.3 from https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar/releases and simply replace the kvazaar.exe until I figure out what is causing the problem.

Cu Selur

Ps.: what OS and CPU are you using?

Thank you, Now it works. But : Do we really need this backward kvazaar? Hybrid has already two other HEVC codecs.

[Selur]

@Kartmadol: DivX265 rarely get's updates, feedback from x265 developers is sparse, Kvazaar is a university project and I like it, sure it's just starting, but it's developing. (I even play with the idea of supporting f265. )

[Gravitator]

You had to extract the Kvazaar file from the installation package Hуbrid

[Gravitator]

f265 - who is it?

[Selur]

too lazy to google? -> http://www.vantrix.com/f265/ http://f265.org/

[Gravitator]

too lazy to google? -> http://www.vantrix.com/f265/ http://f265.org/

no,
who of the guys (doom9) his develops? sprouted like mushrooms

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doom9 down seems

[Selur]

Yes, there was a post about it on doom9 and yes, doom9 seems to be down atm.

[Kartmadol]

Yes, there was a post about it on doom9 and yes, doom9 seems to be down atm.

It seems mp4box had problems to generating videos which has ac3 sound (audio passthrough). It crashed.

[Selur]

Can't say much without a sample and a debug output.
1. Works fine here. (attached an mp4 with .ac3 sound which was muxed by MP4Box and can easily be extracted using mp4box).
Might be a problem with your source only.
-> My guess is your source wasn't properly muxed (may be using ffmpeg), enabling "Config->Input->Extraction->Stream extraction with ffmpeg" might help.
2. might also be a problem with the path or the file name (can't tell without a debug output)

[Kartmadol]

Can't say much without a sample and a debug output.
1. Works fine here. (attached an mp4 with .ac3 sound which was muxed by MP4Box and can easily be extracted using mp4box).
Might be a problem with your source only.
-> My guess is your source wasn't properly muxed (may be using ffmpeg), enabling "Config->Input->Extraction->Stream extraction with ffmpeg" might help.
2. might also be a problem with the path or the file name (can't tell without a debug output)

Sorry, it doesn't work on my system. So I must use the new Hybrid with ignore audio (no audio) mode.

Problem with MKV container:


I reinstalled the previous version of hybrid, there were no such problems and bugs in the previous version.

[Selur]

Something is off with your installation. Mkvmerge hasn't changed since the last release.

[Gravitator]

Привет,
Info not available for the format '*.y4m' when viewing avs. How else can save frames with a marker frame number?

[Selur]

Info not available for the format '*.y4m' when viewing avs.

y4m is raw content and requires RAWSource, which doesn't provide any 'Info'.
'Info' is only available when either ffmpegSource, dgnvsource or mpeg2source can be used.

How else can save frames with a marker frame number?

I could probably write something to display the frame number, but you could also simply:
1. enable: "Filtering->Avisynth->Custom->Add Custom content before" and select 'ending'
2. add:

ShowFrameNumber(scroll=true, x=20, y=40, font="Arial", size=24, text_color=$ff0000)

into the text-edit-box
3. preview the script

Cu Selur

[deadrats]

btw. for those interested: The next encoder which will make it into Hybrid is QSVEnc, which is a command line QuickSync encoder.

that would be great, does it support both mpeg-2 and h264 or just avc and does it allow for fine grained tuning of features or just the presets?

[Gravitator]

1. enable: "Filtering->Avisynth->Custom->Add Custom content before" and select 'ending'
2. add:

ShowFrameNumber(scroll=true, x=20, y=40, font="Arial", size=24, text_color=$ff0000)

into the text-edit-box
3. preview the script

Thanks!

[Selur]

General note regarding MPEG-2 support:
MPEG-2 support won't come unless:

• I find some decent cross plattform mpeg-2 encoder, which support stdIn
• I find enough infos about the encoder itself and about MPEG-2 overhead calculation. (I hope it's not as messy as transport stream overhead calculation.)

-> So even if QSVEnc would have supported MPEG-2 encoding, which it doesn't atm., I would not have added it atm.

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General note about QSVEnc:

• Haven't tested it that much so there are probably some bugs/problems I haven't estimated.
• Haven't had time and motivation to properly add toolTips for it's options, especially the rate control options are not that clear.
• The GUI interface of QSVEnc is relatively new, so I might rearrange and change stuff in the next few releases.
• I got no direct contact to the japanese guy (rigaya, who also is the author of x264guiEx and some other interesting stuff*) who developed it and so far no real clue where to report bugs&co if they arise, so no clue how much QSVEnc will change in the future.
• I only add QSVs hardware encoding side and not the software encoding atm. so no CAVLC, no RDO, no inter/intra prediction no mv search/precision settings.
• There already seems to be already a GUI QSVEncGUI available for QSVEnc which like x264guiEx might be interesting to some folks.

*sadly his VCEnc (AMD hardware encoding) and it's NVEnc (NVIDIA gpu encoding) are both only available as Aviutl plugins, no command line versions. Otherwise I would probably also add support for them inside Hybrid.


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that would be great, does it support both mpeg-2 and h264 or just avc and does it allow for fine grained tuning of features or just the presets?

QSVC only supports H.264 encoding and the amount of options depends on your hardware and drivers.
Depending on those you are compatible to a specific API version.
(Looking at handbrakes QuickSyncOptions, there might still be some new options that could become available in newer QSVEnc version.)

Here's the output of the commandline help from QSVEnc:

QSVEncC (x64) 1.19 by rigaya, build Mar 25 2014 23:41:23
based on Intel(R) Media SDK Encoding Sample 5,0,337,0
  avi reader: enabled
  avs reader: enabled
  vpy reader: enabled

Usage: QSVEncC.exe [Options] -i <filename> -o <filename>

input can be avi, avs, vpy, raw YUV or YUV4MPEG2(y4m) format.
when raw(default), fps, input-res are also necessary.

output format will be raw H.264/AVC ES.
when output filename is set to "-", H.264/AVC ES output is thrown to stdout.

Example:
  QSVEncC -i "<avsfilename>" -o "<outfilename>"
  avs2pipemod -y4mp "<avsfile>" | QSVEncC --y4m -i - -o "<outfilename>"

Example for Benchmark:
  QSVEncC -i "<avsfilename>" --benchmark "<benchmark_result.txt>"

Options: 
-h,-? --help                      show help
-v,--version                      show version info

-i,--input-file <filename>        set input file name
-o,--output-file <filename>       set ouput file name

 Input formats (will be estimated from extension if not set.)
   --raw                          set input as raw format
   --y4m                          set input as y4m format
   --avi                          set input as avi format
   --avs                          set input as avs format
   --vpy                          set input as vpy format
   --vpy-mt                       set input as vpy format in multi-thread

   --nv12                         set raw input as NV12 color format,
                                  if not specified YV12 is expected
   --tff                          set as interlaced, top field first
   --bff                          set as interlaced, bottom field first
-f,--fps <int>/<int> or <float>   video frame rate (frames per second)

   --input-res <int>x<int>        input resolution
   --output-res <int>x<int>       output resolution
                                  if different from input, uses vpp resizing
                                  if not set, output resolution will be same
                                  as input (no resize will be done).
   --crop <int>,<int>,<int>,<int> set crop pixels of left, up, right, bottom.

   --slices <int>                 number of slices, default 0 (auto)

   --sw                           use software encoding, instead of QSV (hw)
   --check-hw                     check if QuickSyncVideo is available
   --check-lib                    check lib API version installed
   --check-features               check encode features
   --check-environment            check environment info
   --disable-d3d                  disable using d3d surfaces
   --d3d                          use d3d9/d3d11 surfaces
   --d3d9                         use d3d9 surfaces
   --d3d11                        use d3d11 surfaces

 EncMode default: --cqp
   --cqp <int> or                 encode in Constant QP, default 24:26:27
         <int>:<int>:<int>        set qp value for i:p:b frame
   --vqp <int> or                 encode in Variable QP, default 24:26:27
         <int>:<int>:<int>        set qp value for i:p:b frame
   --la <int>                     encoded bitrate in Lookahead mode (kbps)
   --icq <int>                    encode in Intelligent Const. Qualtiy mode
                                    default value: 23
   --la-icq <int>                 encode in ICQ mode with Lookahead
                                    default value: 23
   --cbr <int>                    encoded bitrate in CBR mode (kbps)
   --vbr <int>                    encoded bitrate in VBR mode (kbps)
   --avbr <int>                   encoded bitrate in AVBR mode (kbps)
                                   avbr mode is only supported with API v1.3
   --avbr-unitsize <int>          avbr calculation period in x100 frames
                                   default 90 (= unit size 9000 frames)
   --vcm <int>                    encoded bitrate in VCM mode (kbps)

   --la-depth <int>               set Lookahead Depth, 10-100
   --maxbitrate <int>             set max bitrate(kbps)
-u,--quality <string>             encode quality
                                    - best, higher, high, balanced(default)
                                      fast, faster, fastest

   --ref <int>                    reference frames for sw encoding,
                                    default 0 (auto)
   --bframes <int>                number of sequential b frames,
                                    default 3 (auto)

   --gop-len <int>                (max) gop length, default 0 (auto)
                                    when auto, fps x 10 will be set.
   --open-gop                     enable open gop structure, default off
   --strict-gop                   force gop structure
   --scenechange                  enable scene change detection
   --no-scenechange               disable scene change detection

   --level <string>               set codec level, default auto
   --profile <string>             set codec profile, default auto
   --sar <int>:<int>              set Sample Aspect Ratio.
   --bluray                       for H.264 bluray encoding.

   --vpp-denoise <int>            use vpp denoise, set strength
   --vpp-detail-enhance <int>     use vpp detail enahancer, set strength
   --vpp-deinterlace <string>     set vpp deinterlace mode
                                  enabled only when set --tff or --bff
                                   - none    disable deinterlace
                                   - normal  normal deinterlace
                                   - it      inverse telecine
                                   - bob     double framerate

   --input-buf <int>              buffer size for input (1-16)
                                   default   hw: 3,  sw: 1
   --log <string>                 output log to file.

 settings below are only supported with API v1.3
   --fullrange                    set stream as fullrange yuv.
   --videoformat <string>         undef, ntsc, component, pal, secam, mac
                                   default: undef
   --colormatrix <string>         undef, auto, bt709, smpte170m, bt470bg
                                  smpte240m, YCgCo, fcc, GBR
                                   default: undef
   --colorprim <string>           undef, auto, bt709, smpte170m, bt470m
                                  bt470bg, smpte240m, film
                                   default: undef
   --transfer <string>            undef, auto, bt709, smpte170m, bt470m
                                  bt470bg, smpte240m, linear, log100, log316
                                   default: undef

 settings below are only supported with API v1.6
   --mbbrc                        enables per macro block rate control.
   --extbrc                       enables extended rate control.

 settings below are only supported with API v1.7
   --trellis <string>             set trellis mode used in encoding.
                                   - auto(default), none, i, ip, all.

 settings below are only supported with API v1.8
   --i-adapt                      enables adaptive I frame insert.
   --b-adapt                      enables adaptive B frame insert.
   --b-pyramid                    enables B-frame pyramid reference.
   --lookahead-ds <string>        set lookahead quality.
                                   - auto(default), fast, normal, slow

 Settings below are available only for software ecoding.
   --cavlc                        use cavlc instead of cabac.
   --rdo                          use rate distortion optmization.
   --inter-pred <int>             set minimum block size used for
   --intra-pred <int>             inter/intra prediction.
                                    0: auto(default)   1: 16x16
                                    2: 8x8             3: 4x4
   --mv-search <int>              set window size for mv search.
                                    default: 0 (auto)
   --mv-precision <int>           set precision of mv search
                                    0: auto(default)   1: full-pell
                                    2: half-pell       3: quater-pell

   --benchmark <string>           run in benchmark mode
                                   and write result in txt file.

Cu Selur