[HEVC] x265.EXE: mingw builds

[LigH.de]

Result of last week: x265 1.2+239-eb983d29c11a supports the embedding of encoding options and is supposed to speed up encodes on some AMD processors (amount yet untested).

[Selur]

supports embedded encoding options = supports embedding encoding options
also the general clean-up and removal of unneeded checks and functions should also bring a minimal general speed-up
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all in all the last week was mainly code cleaning.

[LigH.de]

So there is x265 1.2+289-b78d4dc01e2c with exposed 2-pass CLI parameters. Issues with VBV are known. There is no "turbo 1st pass" yet.

[Selur]

question is: could 'turbo' be done manually? What parameters could be lowered during 1st pass?

[DarrellS]

So there is x265 1.2+289-b78d4dc01e2c with exposed 2-pass CLI parameters. Issues with VBV are known. There is no "turbo 1st pass" yet.

Is there any way that you can post your builds on VideoHelp instead of Mediafire which has been known to be an untrusted website since I bought my first computer back in 2000?

[El Heggunte]

^ STOP using Chrome , problem solved

Seriously, man, Google has been very-good at giving us false alarms.
And its very-first product, the search engine, keeps sucking more and more each day -_-

[El Heggunte]

FWIW:

commit 66ed815 == better document configuration options of --vbv-init

commit d3e2e48 == fix crashes in vbv with 2 pass 0_o

[DarrellS]

^ STOP using Chrome , problem solved

Seriously, man, Google has been very-good at giving us false alarms.
And its very-first product, the search engine, keeps sucking more and more each day -_-

Chrome has been safer for me than Firefox. I use Chrome for my trusted sites and use Firefox with scripting and cookies turned off for other sites. I have two gmail addresses. One is my ISP email which I only give to certain people and the other is for everyone else incase I get spammed which is very rare for me nowadays. Facebook and youtube both are run by Google so it makes sense for me to use Chrome as my browser.

BTW, the last warning I got before the one above was from Avast. Pop ups are bad enough but when sites go to the trouble of using pop unders where users aren't aware that there is another page under the one they're viewing then that site can not be trusted.

[LigH.de]

For the users who would like more privacy with a Chromium browser core (no usage tracking, built-in ad block), there is SRWare Iron.

Especially MediaFire is known to me as rather fair, compared to other free webhosters, using less-in-amount and less-annoying ads, and even hardly any throttling for small downloads. There may be people who abuse free hosting services to upload malware. That doesn't make the whole site as such fraudulent.

Remember what happened to No-IP when Microsoft became responsible for filtering malware spreading domains: The filter didn't work as expected when Microsoft became the owner of all No-IP hosted domains and tried to redirect unsuspicious DNS calls, so more or less all dynamic DNS domains previously handled by No-IP became unavailable. Eventually, Microsoft transferred the domains back, and seems to cooperate now with the No-IP staff to filter malware spreading domains. Both sides insulted each other for not cooperating in the meantime (No-IP not filtering earlier on their own; Microsoft not even asking No-IP to do so), making the "boarding" of No-IP a court decision. A quite stupid one, IMHO. Judges are not always able to understand the meaning of their decisions completely...

Back to business. x265 developers have been active into the weekend, it appears. There is x265 1.2+327-00c127bd42e7 now.

[El Heggunte]

@Ligh: thanks for the up-to-date build, some hours ago I probably screwed my MSYS environment while trying to compile the
latest twolame , and I'll need some time until I upgrade from GCC 4.8.1 to GCC 4.8.3...

@DarrellS: I strongly recommend both Pale Moon and Seamonkey with a custom hosts file + NoScript + AdBlock. Also, a decent lightweight firewall is infinitely preferable to Avast or any other antivirus...

Me, I'm still waiting for the day that some good-intentioned programmer releases a Webkit browser WITHOUT AN exceedingly-happy INTERFACE.

[LigH.de]

Guess why I still have Opera 12.x; after 15 it lost every feature that made it a useful all-in-one "internet suite" and became "Yet Another Chrome Clone".

[DarrellS]

@DarrellS: I strongly recommend both Pale Moon and Seamonkey with a custom hosts file + NoScript + AdBlock. Also, a decent lightweight firewall is infinitely preferable to Avast or any other antivirus...

Me, I'm still waiting for the day that some good-intentioned programmer releases a Webkit browser WITHOUT AN exceedingly-happy INTERFACE.

I have a modem with a built-in firewall. I tried Zonealarm Suite but it was a nightmare. I use Avast antivirus, Adblock+ and I have a custom hosts file. I also use Malwarbytes, SuperAntiSpyware, No-Ads and Peerblock.

[LigH.de]

I believe your "modem" is in fact a DSL "router" which acts as firewall simply by its router job. That, and your OS' firewall, are all you need, if you avoid software from suspicious sources. The more protection software you run, the more certainly they will harm each other.

I don't know about SAS; but I guess it is similar to Spybot S&D, supporting passive protection like hosts file and browser integrated risk zones. Regarding Malwarebytes, avoid the "free PRO trial", either buy a license or don't use resident tools (that will nag you over and over), on-demand scans once in a while are enough here.

[Selur]

Since this is the browser&security discussion thread: RequestPolicy is a nice browser addon for FireFox.

[staging area]

Image quality of video using x265 1.1+88 is much worse than 1.1+45, do not know what the problem is (I’m useing Google translation )
See pictures（abr 2048k preset medium）
x265 1.1+45

x265 1.1+88

[Selur]

@staging area: use the latest version, both versions you mentioned are quite old

[El Heggunte]

@staging area: use the latest version, both versions you mentioned are quite old

Exactly, use a build as recent as this one

commit a967898 == rc: fix crash in 2 pass for faster preset (ultrafast - faster)

[staging area]

I failed in 1.2+366，so i could just use 1.2+305，The quality doesn't seem as good as 1.1+45

[Attachment 26653 - Click to enlarge]
1.2+305

origin

[vhelp]

post the command line parameters you used in the x265.exe encoder.

[Selur]

I thought his problem was solved since 1.1+45 was his 'good' one,...

[staging area]

post the command line parameters you used in the x265.exe encoder.

Job commandline: "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\MeGUI_2502_x86\too ls\x265\avs4x265.exe" --x265-binary ".\x86\x265.exe" --bitrate 2048 --frame-threads 2 --output "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\EasyAVS\Battlefiel d 3 - Caspian Border_0.hevc" "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\EasyAVS\Battlefiel d 3 - Caspian Border.avs"

program --bitrate 2048 --frame-threads 2 --output "output" "input"

[vhelp]

post the actual x265 parameters, not a front-end gui's joblist. it looks to me that only --birate was used.

using the latest x265 builds, use the presets for starters.

http://x265.readthedocs.org/en/default/cli.html?highlight=#cmdoption--preset

also, have a look at the full command line usage.

http://x265.readthedocs.org/en/default/cli.html

[staging area]

post the actual x265 parameters, not a front-end gui's joblist. it looks to me that only --birate was used.

using the latest x265 builds, use the presets for starters.

http://x265.readthedocs.org/en/default/cli.html?highlight=#cmdoption--preset

also, have a look at the full command line usage.

http://x265.readthedocs.org/en/default/cli.html

thanks

[staging area]

post the actual x265 parameters, not a front-end gui's joblist. it looks to me that only --birate was used.

using the latest x265 builds, use the presets for starters.

http://x265.readthedocs.org/en/default/cli.html?highlight=#cmdoption--preset

also, have a look at the full command line usage.

http://x265.readthedocs.org/en/default/cli.html

thanks
I use [program --preset fast --bitrate 2048 --frame-threads 2 --output "output" "input"]
instead of [program --bitrate 2048 --frame-threads 2 --output "output" "input"]
and the quality become better

[LigH.de]

A single-pass bitrate ABR encoding has the worst quality anyway. The least useful configuration for "quality tests".

[staging area]

1.2+305
I tried
[program --bitrate 2048 --frame-threads 2 --b-adapt 0 --output "output" "input"]
and
[program --bitrate 2048 --frame-threads 2 --bframes 0 --output "output" "input"]
both have the same quality as 1.1+45

[Gravitator]

Used x265_1.2+366-a9678988dda2 (x64) - In the frames get slices of the future.
Original sample > park_joy (mega.co.nz).

[Selur]

In the frames get slices of the future.

b-frame = bi-directional frame
=> it's ment to have references to upcoming and previous frames inside a GOP, that's why coding and preview order are different things,....
Either I totally don't get what you want, or you should read up on how MPEG compression in general works and what the difference between the individual frame types is.

[Gravitator]

In the frame № 91 (B) got a slice of the frame № 99 (B).

[Selur]

And? As long as they are both in the same GOP that's normal, Frame number 99 might even have references to frame number 91. (b-pyramid allows b-frames to reference other b-frames otherwise b-frames are not allowed to reference other b-frames iirc.)

a. Coding and display order are different things!
b. b-frames are ment to have references into the past and future (when looking at the display order)