Virtualdub External Encoder feature.

[jairovital]

I'm still using h264 encoding, through vfw and ffdshow versions inside vdub, but I'm quite decided to move to VP9 encoding after read of this page.

So, the next step is to find out the correct string to put on ExternalEncoder (ffmpeg) using Youtube recommendations, both, for audio and video (multiplexer).

Anyone?

[racer-x]

I'm pretty sure a VP9 preset is included in my package. Just edit the parameters to suit your needs.

[jairovital]

I'm pretty sure a VP9 preset is included in my package. Just edit the parameters to suit your needs.

Are you talking about the first post?
I could not find VP9 there.

Trying to use Google Encoding Guide, I got an error at the begining of the encoding process:
"The video encoding process has prematurely exited with an error code of 1 (0000001). Check the log for possible error messages".

I looked for log files, but found none.

The parameters was:

-i rawvideo -c:v libvpx-vp9 -pass 1 -b:v 1000K -threads 1 -speed 4 -tile-columns 0 -frame-parallel 0 -auto-alt-ref 1 -lag-in-frames 25 -g 9999 -aq-mode 0 -an -f webm /dev/null "%(tempvideofile)"

And the .vdprof is attached (renamed to TXT, because Videohelp refused correct extension).

[racer-x]

I don't feel like messing with the 2-pass settings you posted earlier. This 1-pass does work, I just tested it. It is quality based and is currently set @ 5000k. Audio is set at 128k Vorbis. It gets muxed into .webm. You'll need the latest ffmpeg and you'll have to edit the path to ffmpeg.

[jairovital]

Yes, I tested your profile and it does work.

But the mess I did were my attempts to use the Google settings, as described at that link.
I put the same parameters, to follow the Best Quality (Slowest) Recommended Settings.

-i rawvideo -c:v libvpx-vp9 -pass 2 -b:v 1000K -threads 1 -speed 0 -tile-columns 0 -frame-parallel 0 -auto-alt-ref 1 -lag-in-frames 25 -g 9999 -aq-mode 0 -c:a libopus -b:a 64k -f webm out.webm

Is there a way to reuse above settings, adjusting where it needs, and put it to work?

[racer-x]

Sure, I got it to work. But the encoding speed is stupid slow and the quality is questionable. My settings are much better....

Copy and overwrite the commands in the VP9 v1 encoder:

-f rawvideo -s %(width)x%(height) -r %(fpsnum)/%(fpsden) -i - -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v 1000k -threads 8 -speed 0 -tile-columns 0 -frame-parallel 0 -auto-alt-ref 1 -lag-in-frames 25 -g 9999 -aq-mode 0 -f webm "%(tempvideofile)"

You're on your own now, this is too boring for me......

[jairovital]

You're on your own now, this is too boring for me......

Got it.
That's OK.

[poisondeathray]

zeranoe's ffmpeg builds are still at libvpx 1.3. I haven't compared quality, but speed is definitely faster in 1.4

[DarrellS]

There's always the vpxenc.exe encoder. It does vp8 and vp9...

32 bit = http://download708.mediafire.com/x07osyjjw69g/3sd9rr33x3e1hwu/vpx-1.4_x86_20150404.7z
64 bit = http://download2049.mediafire.com/hi8vw1d3tp8g/wj9czojjc9jfmcb/vpx-1.4_x64_20150404.7z

Here is a thread at doom9 with a lot of info.

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=165839&highlight=vpxenc

Here is my vp9 two pass vdprof using vpxenc.exe and oggenc2.exe encoders. Just change the txt extension to .vdprof

[jairovital]

DarrellS, I tested your profile, but I don't know about .stat file your are refering on it.
And I'll take a look at doom9 threads.

[racer-x]

I got around to trying out vpxenc.exe. After editing the script,it worked, but with problems. It reversed the color channels, so RGB was converted to BRG. After reversing the color channels in Virtualdub, it got close, but not exact. It is much faster though....

I'll wait till Zeranoe implements vpx 1.4 in ffmpeg.

[jairovital]

DarrellS.

I'm confused about your .vdprof file, as said my on question here.

I guess you did not see my post yet.

What is and where is .stat file?

[poisondeathray]

libvpx 1.4 is compiled in zeranoe's ffmpeg builds now

[racer-x]

DarrellS.

I'm confused about your .vdprof file, as said my on question here.

I guess you did not see my post yet.

What is and where is .stat file?

The .stat file is created on the first pass and is saved in the output folder. The stat file is then used for the 2nd pass to help with encoding.

[racer-x]

libvpx 1.4 is compiled in zeranoe's ffmpeg builds now

Excellent. I downloaded and tried it out. It is about 3x faster than the old version (1.3). The quality is great even at very low bitrates and no weird color channel problems like with vpxenc. I now deleted vpxenc out of my system.

Here is a quick 4k example encoded @ 1300 kb/s:

[DarrellS]

I don't do two pass encoding myself and I don't do vp9 since it is so slow but it is my understanding that you have to do two pass with vp9. The stats file is created by the first pass and is needed for the 2nd pass to encode the stream.

[racer-x]

I don't do two pass encoding myself and I don't do vp9 since it is so slow but it is my understanding that you have to do two pass with vp9. The stats file is created by the first pass and is needed for the 2nd pass to encode the stream.

You don't have to do two-pass encoding with VP9. I prefer 1-pass encoding such as the example video I posted above.

[DarrellS]

That has changed from the earlier version. Another reason I gave up on it since I could not get single pass encoding to work. It's been a long while since I've tried to use it.

[masster]

racer-x
Could you post again your latest external encoders preset? That is, if you didn't update constantly your first post of this topic.
Thank you.

[racer-x]

Well here is the latest one I have saved. Mind you that these are the encoding settings that I like to use, you may have other preferences. You'll need the encoders and you'll have to edit the paths to those encoders....

[Nologic]

Howdy,

A few comments for you racer-x.

For your profile section...why not prefix (A, M, V) instead of numbers or not being prefixed at all. This would allow some sort of sorting to happen...if I recall correctly.

So maybe you would have something like:
A AAC [Nero] (192kb)
A AAC [Nero] (256kb)
A AC3
A DTS
A MP2
A OGG
A WAV
M FFmpeg (MPEG-TS)
M FFmpeg (VP9)
M MKVmerge
M MP4Box (AVC)
M MP4Box (HEVC)
V AVC (DVDA-24p)
V AVC (DVDA-60p)
V AVC (HQ)
V AVC (I-Frame)
V AVC (Web)
V GIF
V HEVC [DivX]
V HEVC [x265]
V Mpeg-2
V Mpeg-2 (I-Frame)
V ProRes (LT)
V ProRes (MOV)
V ProRes (Normal)
V VP9

Okay maybe a little anal...but I think it would look cleaner..and it might help in your trouble shooting as you go along...since you should be able to find stuff just a small bit faster.

Now another thing I noticed is if you leave the beginning of "program" path blank:
"program": "Bin\\x264\\x264-10bit.exe",

VitualDub will fill in the first part with it's own path. So it may turn into:
C:\Program Files\VirtualDub\Bin\x264\x264-10bit.exe

However there is a short term bug...when first Importing the VDprof file, it's path will be prefixed instead of VirtualDub's...until you restart VirtualDub...then it's path is then correctly prefixed. Course this bug wouldn't pop up if the VDprof file was Imported from VirtualDub's own path...rather than else where on ones system.

This makes things slightly more universal.

So one could have a folder structure like:
Bin\AACGain\
Bin\FFMpeg\
Bin\FHGaacEnc\
Bin\DivX\
Bin\Levelator\
Bin\MKVToolNix\
Bin\MP4Box\
Bin\NeroAAC\
Bin\Qaac\
Bin\Subtitle Edit\
Bin\x264\
Bin\x265\

Then one could package external tools for fairly easy deployment...given they would just have to be dumped into VirtualDub's path...then importing the VDprof file...would make things golden. As it wouldn't matter if things ended up in ether:
C:\Program Files\VirtualDub\
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\VirtualDub\

[racer-x]

To each their own. everyone organizes their work area to suit them. You are free to rename them anyway you want to help you find them.

[Nologic]

Well I went through and made my little changes...look things over and see if you want to adopt what I did or not.

Thanks by the way for all the effort thus far and sharing it with us.


My Revisions #1:
Renamed Profiles
Used Generic Pathing
Used Generic Descriptions in Sets & Profiles
Updated Sets with Renamed Profiles
Renamed Sets
Changed HEVC Sets to using 256kb AAC
Exposed ProRes v2
Sorted Sets & Profiles

My Revisions #2:
Combined "M FFmpeg (MPEG-TS~M2V)" & "M FFmpeg (MPEG-TS/MOV)" into "M MPEG-TS" by using basic VDub Macro's
Renamed "M FFmpeg (VP9)" to "M WEBM" and used basic VDub Macro's
Renamed "M MKVmerge" to "M MKV"
Combined "M MP4Box (AVC)" & "M MP4Box (HEVC)" into "M MP4" by using basic VDub Macro's
Added -new command argument to "M MP4" to overwrite prior file if exists
Updated "YouTube" description with generic info
Set all the Muxer OutputFileNames values to empty strings
Added complete MOV Muxxer "M MOV"
Renamed "A OGG" to "A Vorbis"
Added VBR & CBR variants of the following Audio Encoders
- AAC (FDK, FHG, Nero, Qaac)
- MP2
- Opus
- Vorbis
Removed Nero AAC 256K Profile
Changed the Naming Scheme for Audio Profiles
Changed Sets to reflect changes to Audio Profile Naming Scheme

My Revisions #3:
Removed MKVToolsNix
Removed MP4Box
Removed Divx H256
Removed NeroAAC
Removed TooLAME
Made Video Only + Audio/Video Muxxers
FFMpeg now handles all Muxxing
Slimmed down Audio Profiles, it's ether VBR or CBR
VBR = @~192K the "~" denotes VBR
CBR = @256K
Removed Elemental Streams Set
Removed YouTube Set
Added LAME MP3
Added AVI Muxxer
Added OGG Muxxer
Removed -level #.# from AVC encoders
Revised AVC encoder profiles to be based on ether Animation or Film, and 8bit vs 10bit
Added HEVC 16bit profile (x64 only)
Added Theora


Okay I've attached encoder collections, based on if you are x86 or x64.

I'd highly suggest backing up your current External Encoder Profile.

Extract one of the collections into your VirtualDub folder.

Then in the Bin folder you'll find a batch script that removes your current External Encoder settings from Vdub. This may require executing as Admin.

Then import the VDprof like normal...and everything should be ready to go.

This setup shouldn't require you to edit anything to get it working. At worst you may have to restart Vdub if you imported the VDprof from anywhere but you Vdub folder.

[yonkiman]

I'm posting my Virtualdub External Encoder preset along with a quick tutorial on how to use it.

That was a GREAT help! As someone who only occasionally has to work with video, but has to do complex processing with it when he does, a guide like this really helps.

If a picture is worth 1000 words, your video saved me at least 1000 minutes of googling and trial and error!

Thanks!
Fred

[racer-x]

I'm glad you found it useful....

[PeterNL]

Very nice, that external encoder feature.
Have it working for X264 but I'm not able to render to MPEG2/AC3.
Also, it appears that no one ever uses interlaced because in the different ext. enc files I'm missing a TFF,BFF or PROG parameter....

So, how to add this to the following MPEG2 encoder command line?

			"MPEG2": {
				"name": "MPEG2",
				"program": "ffmpeg\\ffmpeg.exe",
				"commandArguments": "-f rawvideo -s %(width)x%(height) -r %(fpsnum)/%(fpsden) -i -vcodec mpeg2video -target pal-dvd \"%(tempvideofile)\"",
				"outputFilename": "%(outputname).m2v",

Thanks in advance for your help

[Nologic]

I found a few references, but you'll have to do your own research.

-flags +ildct+ilme+loop -ildctcmp satd -cmp satd -subcmp satd -mbcmp satd -mbd rd -top 1
-flags +ildct+ilme -alternate_scan 1 -top 1
-flags +ilme+ildct -alternate_scan 1 -top 0

So:

"commandArguments": "-f rawvideo -s %(width)x%(height) -r %(fps) -i - -c:v mpeg2video -flags +ildct+ilme -alternate_scan 1 -top 1 -target pal-dvd \"%(tempvideofile)\"",

For top frame first...

And:

"commandArguments": "-f rawvideo -s %(width)x%(height) -r %(fps) -i - -c:v mpeg2video -flags +ilme+ildct -alternate_scan 1 -top 0 -target pal-dvd \"%(tempvideofile)\"",

For bottom frame first...
You might want to check out this thread for more of an idea.

[PeterNL]

@nologic:

Wow! Thanks! Works like a charm...

I had that "flags ilme" in my command line before but VirtualDub was complaining about "file does not exist".
Probably I made a syntax-error.

Thanks again for your help!

Peter

[BUDA20]

Hi, I been trying without success to adapt NVEncC as an external encoder for VirtualDub.

NVEncC is used by StaxRip to encode HEVC and H264 using nvidia GPUs
(I think is using a pipe from AVS)

Maybe someone with more experience than I can figure out how to do it.

thanks in advance.

[sneaker]

--raw --input-res %(width)x%(height) --fps %(fpsnum)/%(fpsden) -i - -o "%(tempvideofile)"
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