Joing Two Mkv files of different encoding settings issue work around...

[Fusionb]

Hi Community,

This is my first post on the community so would like to tentively introduce my self.. I am a newbie so please be patient. I am been on this forum reading up on the megui and I am enjoying my encoding. I have a particular senario I would like to describe with a problem I have I will try and be very detailed as not too waste any ones time

I have a lot of videos that I want to add a text overlay reference to show up at the first 30 seconds i.e Ref Ex001. To Complete this task I am going to use the following script in MEGUI:

subtitle("EX001",300,235,first_frame=000,last_fram e=400, font="arial", size=20,text_color=$ffffff)

I have tried this script and it works for me. I need to adjust font and positioning but will sort that out after.

My problem is I do not want too re-encode the entire movie as encoding will take so long as some of the files are over an hour long.

My solution to this issue was to use MKV merge and use the split function with the timecode of 30s. This will break my mkv into to files one 30 seconds long and one the rest of the mkv

My plan is too use the following script:
subtitle("EX001",300,235,first_frame=000,last_fram e=400, font="arial", size=20,text_color=$ffffff)

and re-encode the 30 section.

When this is complete I was hoping to use mkvmerge and use the "append" function to rejoin the two files. When I do this I get the following error:

Warning: The track number 0 from the file 'C:\Users\Fusion\Documents\Projects\Movie Project\Online Movie Library project\Movie to process\10 Years (2011)\Test File 2.mkv' can probably not be appended correctly to the track number 0 from the file 'C:\Users\Fusion\Documents\Projects\Movie Project\Online Movie Library project\Movie to process\10 Years (2011)\Test File 1.mkv': The codec's private data does not match (lengths: 43 and 41). Please make sure that the resulting file plays correctly the whole time. The author of this program will probably not give support for playback issues with the resulting file.


On further reading I believe the problem is that I used different encoding settings on the new 30 second intro. the size and frame rate I set to the same. Is there any way to look at the second file with media info and copy the encoding settings to re-encode the intro. Its the only thing I can think of or maybe I am totally wrong

Thanks

[aedipuss]

if they are your own videos go back and add the text in the editing phase. re-render. if they aren't yours, use selectable subs and add them to the mkv.

[Fusionb]

Thanks for the reply one off the issue I have is that if I go back to the source its a huge amount of time to re-encode plus they were from different sources, as when I was encoding I was using different settings as i was learning. Is there any way to look at the mkv and copy the encoding settings and re-encode my intro and then merge. The selectable subs is an issue as my player default setting is for subs off.

[Fusionb]

This is an example of mkvinfo report on encoded settings
Writing library : x264 core 129 r2230 1cffe9f Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=24 / lookahead_threads=4 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=2pass / mbtree=0 / bitrate=2776 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.80

[poisondeathray]

There is no program that takes the mediainfo report and applies them automatically. Take the settings (view=>text in mediainfo) and enter them manually

[Fusionb]

Ok thanks was worth a shot I must go back and do my home work and learn a bit more or re-encode from source thanks

[Selur]

There is no program that takes the mediainfo report and applies them automatically. Take the settings (view=>text in mediainfo) and enter them manually

Hybrid has an option to adjust to the MedaiInfo 'Encoding settings' for x264. (x264->Misc->Main->MediaInfo import)

[Fusionb]

Selur
Thanks for the post will have a look at that tonight and give feedback cheers

[poisondeathray]

There is no program that takes the mediainfo report and applies them automatically. Take the settings (view=>text in mediainfo) and enter them manually

Hybrid has an option to adjust to the MedaiInfo 'Encoding settings' for x264. (x264->Misc->Main->MediaInfo import)

That's handy! Nice work Selur - so many people ask for that

[Selur]

btw. I also just uploaded a small tool to convert 'Encoding settings' to 'x264 cli' called Mis2x264, so people do not need to use Hybrid if they are more comfortable with another gui just to convert the 'Encoding settings' to something more useful.

Cu Selur

[poisondeathray]

^ maybe you can submit it to the "new tools" section here so it can be mirrored in the tools list?
https://www.videohelp.com/toolsedit?newtool=1

[Selur]

will do so,..

[Baldrick]

I can't extract the mis2x264 - ver20130205.7z file. I'm using 7zip. It says that it can't open the file as an archive.

[Selur]

No clue why it's a problem, but I reuploaded the file, this time as a .zip file. (seems like 7z get broken and I don't know why)

[Baldrick]

Yep, it works fine. Mirror added - > Mis2x264