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

[Selur]

a. Hybrid log never really mentioned the dependencies
b. all the tools Hybrid supports are listed under: http://www.selur.de/licence
c. a bit outdated since the ppa are not all there anymore, but it lists all the linux tools:
[Info] Hybrid&dependencies for Ubuntu

so they must be available in the Linux repositories

I can nearly guarantee that you won't find all in repositories. (especially if you want recent versions)

[omelette]

a. Hybrid log never really mentioned the dependencies

Just found & deleted Hybrid's hidden-folder - this seems a pretty comprehensive list to me.

Hybrid: homepage
Forum: public forum
Regarding problems please read: needed infos
Donate: via PayPal
The following essential tools are missing:
- ffmpeg (needed for flv input, raw audio handling and decoding/encoding) - lsdvd (needed for dvd analyis) - mkvinfo (needed for mkv stretched audio stream detection) - delaycut (needed to fixed delays and error in audio streams) - mediainfo (needed for analysis) - mkvmerge (needed for mkv creation and tagging) - tsMuxeR (needed for pgs extraction and Blu-ray/AVCHD structure creation) - MP4Box (needed for mp4 handling) - mencoder (needed for audio/Xvid encoding, dvd/file decoding) - mp4fpsmod (needed for audio filtering) - mkvextract (needed for mkv stretched audio stream detection) - telxcc (needed to extract Teletext as .srt) - mplayer (needed for preview and dvd/file analysis) - FrameCounter (needed for analyse raw avc/vc-1/mpeg-4 part2 input)
-> Hybrid will probably not work properly.
You need to:
- specify where to find the tool(s) (Config->Tools)
- save settings (Config->Defaults->Save->GlobalModel and hit 'Selected')
- restart Hybrid
tsMuxer can't be used -> disabling 'generate structure'
Finished initialization, finished after 2.327s

...b. all the tools Hybrid supports are listed under: http://www.selur.de/licence
c. a bit outdated since the ppa are not all there anymore, but it lists all the linux tools:
[Info] Hybrid&dependencies for Ubuntu

I can nearly guarantee that you won't find all in repositories. (especially if you want recent versions)

That's a pity. Apart from Arch Linux, Hybrid's Linux support would appear to be at best, patchy. I'll probably stick with using Wine-Hybrid so, which so far, works fine.

[Selur]

Yup it's a pity, but there doesn't seem to be enough linux folks with enough motivation&knowledge to build and maintain Hybrid packages. (I really don't have the time and knowledge to do so.)

this seems a pretty comprehensive list to me.

Yes, but it doesn't mention the optional tools, those are just the requirements.
Here's a more complete list: x264, x265, MPlayer, Mencoder, MediaInfo, mkvtoolnix, delaycut, tsMuxeR, FFmpeg, NeroAacEnc, oggenc, flac, aften, sox, FrameCounter, lsdvd, MP4Box, FLVExtractCL, dcaenc, mp4fpsmod, telxcc, vpxenc, kvazaar, BDSup2Sub++, lame (+fdkaac if ffmpeg supports it)

[omelette]

Ok, good info. One more question, is Hybrid 2014.06.13.1 free of the dependency-check bug that the current version suffers from?

[Selur]

Better info, in ~30min a new version should be out. (uploading and building the mac version takes it's time)
argh, need to recompile the linux builds,..

[omelette]

Just downloaded & installed Hybrid 2014.07.10.1 and am sad to say it has exactly the same dependency-check bug - no x264, no sound (sox missing)!!! ;(

Hybrid: homepage
Forum: public forum
Regarding problems please read: needed infos
Donate: via PayPal
Current defaultOutputPath: is empty!
Set it under Config->Path
No sox binary found -> disabling audio support,...
->disabling qaac support since 'Apple Application Support' is not installed,...
tsMuxer can't be used -> disabling 'generate structure'
Finished initialization, finished after 1.936s

[Selur]

strange,..
Is x264&co present on your system?
Please call Hybrid from a terminal and pipe the stderr&stdout output together into a text file and post that file here.

[omelette]

I presume so - it's the Windows-binary I downloaded, installed under Wine. I'll try installing it on XP, but if past experience is anything to go by, the result will be exactly the same.

[Selur]

Okay, if you are using wine, make sure to uninstall any previous Hybrid version. (also delete the settings during deinstallation)

[omelette]

Yes, I made sure that Hybrid was uninstalled first. I have just installed it on XP (having uninstalled the old version first) and the same problem persists - no x264, no audio.

[Selur]

I will try to reproduce it.

[Selur]

I can reproduce the problem on XP, strange thing is, if I set a default output path, enable DebugOutput level 9, save it as default and hit 'Config->Tools->Clear tool ...' the tools get detected according to the debug output, but they are still not show.

[omelette]

I have just tried running Hybrid (simply typing 'Hybrid.exe') from the terminal under XP - I get no output at all at the terminal, errors or otherwise. It just starts Hybrid.

[Selur]

That's normal, that's Windows. GUI applications are not ment to output stuff to stdout/console.

[Selur]

btw. seems to be a Windows XP only issue, at least it doesn't happen for me on Win7&8
-> looking into it

[omelette]

I'm not having much luck here. With the expectation of fixing the sound problem with my video-encodes, I've Just downloaded Hybrid 2014.6.13.1, only to find that version won't even run on either Wine or XP - run from XP, I get an error saying "MF.dll not found". I think I'll wait till you confirm that you've fixed it - less stressful.

[Selur]

Found the problem, a bracket closed to early which caused Hybrid to drop all detected version infos, which then caused it to remove those versions on XP.
-> will send you a test version in a few minutes (need to run some tests first)

[Selur]

@omelette: send you a PM with a link to a version which should hopefully fix all tool detection issues on XP, please report back if it works once you had the time to test it.

[omelette]

Yeeaahhhh, it works!!!

Apart from the "disabling avisynth support" at start-up, everything seems to work fine - including the all-important replacing-audio-track! Now I can get to work - thanks!

[Selur]

Regarding the avisynth support and wine, read: http://forum.selur.de/topic345-info-avisynth-under-wine-on-debian-based-systems.html

[omelette]

I don't know if you can do anything about this but I've just run into a problem when processing just audio with Hybrid. It extracts the audio fine from the video, it then goes 'caching' the extracted-audio - everytime, it gets to 99.xx% and hangs, but without a CPU-load! For instance, it currently shows "99.79% cached by sox", and goes no further. BUT this only happens with Wine - with XP is doesn't happen. Just thought I'd mention it in case it could be fixed at your end. This is the one & only problem I've come across when using Hybrid with Wine.

[Selur]

Need, a debug output so even know what's happening.

[omelette]

Need, a debug output so even know what's happening.

Debug output, level 4 attached.

[Selur]

That's a report no debug output. -> read http://www.selur.de/support

[omelette]

Oops, sorry about that. Here it is.

[Selur]

looks all fine, 1st Hybrid starts the main-call:

"C:\PROG~FBU\Hybrid\ffmpeg.exe" -y   -threads 2 -f sox -i - -c:a libvo_aacenc -b:a 64k -ac 2 -ar 48000 "C:\users\omelette\Temp\iId_3_aid_0_DELAY_-43ms_20_23_33_6110_02.aac"

and receives a 'Main call started,..'-signal, it then starts the helper2-call:

"C:\PROG~FBU\Hybrid\sox.exe" --multi-threaded --ignore-length --temp "C:\users\omelette\Temp" --buffer 524288 -S -t sox - -b 16 -t sox - remix -m 1v0.3694,3v0.2612,5v0.3694 2v0.3694,3v0.2612,6v0.3694 norm

and receives a "Helper call 2 started,.."-signal, then it starts the helper-call:

"C:\PROG~FBU\Hybrid\ffmpeg.exe" -y -threads 2 -loglevel fatal -i "C:\users\omelette\Temp\iId_3_aid_0_DELAY_-43ms_20_23_33_6110_01.ac3" -ac 6 -ar 48000 -f sox -

now the helper should decode the input, pipe the decoded input to sox, which then should filter the content and pipe the filtered content to the main call which does the encoding.

Try if it helps to disable sox mutilthreading (Config->Internals->Handling->Multithreading for sox), may be that interferes with wine somehow,...

[omelette]

Thanks for having a look at it. I tried altering the sox-multithread setting and it had no effect. So I guess this is a Wine bug - won't be the first! I can work-around it by doing the video-encoding on Wine, audio-extraction on XP, and finally recombine the two on Wine again - would be nicer to do them all on Wine (which is much faster than VB-XP) but it's better than a poke in the eye.

What could I run from the command-line under Wine in order to reproduce this caching-problem? A one-liner to show the problem were I to submit a bug-report to the Wine Developers. I don't think telling them to install Hybrid and try it would go down too well.

Edit: I've just tried re-coding audio-only with Hybrid 2014.4.2.1 and there it crashes during the sox-caching.

[Selur]

What could I run from the command-line under Wine in order to reproduce this caching-problem?

you can simply combine the calls via pipe to get a one-line call:

"C:\PROG~FBU\Hybrid\ffmpeg.exe" -y -threads 2 -loglevel fatal -i "C:\users\omelette\Temp\iId_3_aid_0_DELAY_-43ms_20_23_33_6110_01.ac3" -ac 6 -ar 48000 -f sox - | "C:\PROG~FBU\Hybrid\sox.exe" --multi-threaded --ignore-length --temp "C:\users\omelette\Temp" --buffer 524288 -S -t sox - -b 16 -t sox - remix -m 1v0.3694,3v0.2612,5v0.3694 2v0.3694,3v0.2612,6v0.3694 norm | "C:\PROG~FBU\Hybrid\ffmpeg.exe" -y -threads 2 -f sox -i - -c:a libvo_aacenc -b:a 64k -ac 2 -ar 48000 "C:\users\omelette\Temp\iId_3_aid_0_DELAY_-43ms_20_23_33_6110_02.aac"

(1st part decodes 5.1 ac3 to pcm, 2nd part downmixes 5.1 to stereo and the last part encodes the pcm stereo audio to aac)

Edit: I've just tried re-coding audio-only with Hybrid 2014.4.2.1 and there it crashes during the sox-caching.

1. not clear on what environment you are getting that crash
2. without a debug output there is nothing I can say about the problem.

Cu Selur

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I don't have to register to another forum to be able to search.

forum.selur.de doesn't prohibit anonymous readers from searching the forum, so no need to register to use the search.
Only reason to register there is if you want to post there. (Downloading, reading, searching is all allowed to everybody,..)


Cu Selur[/QUOTE]
I simply didn't find what I was looking for.

Thanks for your work, Selur.

[Selur]

I simply didn't find what I was looking for.

Because of that you stated that you would have to register to search?
-> Might be a language problem, but I don't really get that.