Zarx264gui 1.3

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Zarx264gui 1.3

Post by Zarxrax » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:33 pm

As of december 9th, this is no longer a beta, so I don't need help testing it anymore. Of course, if you do encounter any problems, please let me know.

I've been working on a major update to Zarx264gui, and I'll need people to test it for bugs, as there are a large number of things that I could have screwed up.

You can get the latest 1.3 beta from here: http://amvhell.com/stuff/zarx264gui/

The main difference with this build, is that the input video is piped through avs2yuv, and if you have a 64bit OS, it should use a 64-bit version of x264. Whether you have a 32bit or 64bit system, I need your help testing this.

The 64bit version should be slightly faster (I saw a 4-5% increase on my system), but the main advantage of this build is in memory usage. In the old version, both x264 and avisynth had to share a single 2gb pool of memory. When encoding at HD resolutions, this could easily lead to out of memory errors.
If you are using a 64bit system and want to test the speed difference between the 32bit version, I have also included an old version of Zarx264gui in the package which will let you test 32bit performance.

Let me know of any bugs or unexpected results!
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.3beta (need testers)

Post by Enigma » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:19 pm

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Re: Zarx264gui 1.3beta (need testers)

Post by Enigma » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:24 pm

It runs pretty faster on my part,No problems.

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Re: Zarx264gui 1.3beta (need testers)

Post by Khameleon808 » Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:27 pm

yes , i will be all over this thx for your efforts zarx, you are the man :)

tryin out when i draft my new beta
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.3beta (need testers)

Post by xnamkcor » Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:12 am

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Starting...
Encoding Audio Stream
Channels=2, BitsPerSample=16, SampleRate=44100Hz
Done!			
x264 [info]: 256x224 @ 60.00 fps
Encoding video stream pass 1 of 2
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Slow
x264 [info]: profile Main, level 5.1
x264 [info]: frame I:13128 Avg QP:10.00  size: 19415
x264 [info]: mb I  I16..4: 41.6%  0.0% 58.4%
x264 [info]: final ratefactor: -17.91
x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 59.0% 66.2% 65.4%
x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 54% 45%  1%  0%
x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 23% 37% 17%  3%  3%  3%  5%  3%  6%
x264 [info]: kb/s:9319.23
x264 [info]: 256x224 @ 60.00 fps
Encoding video stream pass 2 of 2
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Slow
x264 [info]: profile High, level 5.1
x264 [info]: frame I:13128 Avg QP:10.80  size: 19331
x264 [info]: mb I  I16..4: 28.1%  9.9% 61.9%
x264 [info]: 8x8 transform intra:9.9%
x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 55.3% 64.7% 64.0%
x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 60% 38%  1%  0%
x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 37% 38% 20%  1%  1%  0%  2%  0%  2%
x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 25% 34% 14%  4%  4%  4%  5%  4%  6%
x264 [info]: kb/s:9278.77
Error importing C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Emulators\SNES\snes9x-1.43-improvement15.3-win32\Movies\MMXIntroCut1MSU.avi-zarx264gui-temp.264: I/O Error
Finished!
I don't get a file. I somehow got a file once, but the video freezes at 28 seconds. Is the file path too long?
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Re: Zarx264gui 1.3beta (need testers)

Post by xnamkcor » Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:16 am

Smooth move not having an edit button.

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Re: Zarx264gui 1.3beta (need testers)

Post by Zarxrax » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:56 am

WOW! The gui looks THAT ugly on your system? I thought I had finally found a color scheme that looked correct on all systems but I guess not :(

About not getting a file... I don't know what the problem is, this is something that has been happening since the very beginning. For the past half a year or so people stopped complaining about this problem, so I figured it was all fixed. But now you guys start complaining again that it doesn't output your file ><

I've never pesonally experienced the problem, and people usually tell me later "oh, it started working, don't worry about it", so I never get to the bottom of whats wrong :|

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Re: Zarx264gui 1.3beta (need testers)

Post by Bauzi » Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:34 pm

I tried it with my amv (720p version):
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=171269

My settings:
(default advanced settings)
Constant Quality 20
Very Slow
Grain

It took me: ~1:15 hours to encode with 2,6Ghz Dual Core and 4GB DDR2 (Windows 7 Ultimate x64)

195MB encode
which is good if you ask me. It looks better than my old 235MB encode (I guess it was also a constant quality encode with some changes in advance settings). It is noticeable how the encode got way better in grainy parts. The noisy/grainy parts look really sharp and definatly improved :up: Some parts looked equaly good or maybe even better.

The audio encode was in my opinion with ~1:30 (for 128kbps) for a ~5minute long video too slow. I saw way faster encodes some years ago on my 3.0Ghz single core machine. Anyway... this isn't really relevant in amv dimensions though...
You can find me on YT under "Bauzi514". Subscribe to never miss my AMV releases. :amv:

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Re: Zarx264gui 1.3beta (need testers)

Post by Zarxrax » Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:20 pm

I updated it (version number didn't change) with a few bug fixes. I think I've fixed the problem with mp4 files sometimes not being made.

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Re: Zarx264gui 1.3beta (need testers)

Post by Kisuke_Urahara » Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:17 pm

I still have two bugs with current beta:

It shows a comma where there should be a dot in the command line (fps 29,97...):
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The gui shows a message box containing: "x264[error]: an invalid argument: fps=29,97[...]" and closes.

and the following bug still seems to be present in the current version:
fixed a bug where psy-rdo settings were disabled when using the "slow" preset.
or beta3 is still not online, I'm a bit confused the change log says that the color scheme was changed in beta2 but the title bar does not show any version number.

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