Encode360 2.0b5 Released

26 December 2006 21 Comments

All,

I’m semi-pleased to release a new beta of Encode360. I say semi-pleased, because I’ve implemented a couple of nifty new features that are bound to please a number of people. I’m semi-unhappy, because I didn’t manage to get everything in here that I would’ve liked to. I’ve gone ahead and released anyway, as I was under pressure to resolve a number of outstanding bugs.

One of the key aspects of this beta is the scrappage of FFMpeg. It’s no longer required. Instead, I’m using a very impressive bit of code called MediaInfo which is specifically designed to gather vasts amount of info about different media formats. FFMpeg really was just a stop-gap until something better turned up, and I’m glad to say MediaInfo is doing an impressive job on discovering the details of nearly every file format I throw at it. However, there’s no telling what new problems might be introduced as a result. I haven’t had any, but someone else might. I’ll tackle issues as they arise. Just remember, this is a beta Smile

One of the niceties I had planned was DVD Ripping, provided you had DVD Decrypter installed. The problem with this is, DVD Decrypter is heavily out of date and doesn’t support a lot of newer DVD encryptions. In order to overcome this, you need something like AnyDVD to work around encryption, and then still use DVD Decrypter to pull out the relevant video / audio streams. I also still haven’t figured out the details of ripping a TV series instead of a movie.

If someone would be willing to help on this aspect of it, I’d be grateful for the help.

As always, Encode360 is DonationWare, and what with this being a one-man development project, it’s eating into vast amounts of my time for what at times seems to be a very thankless job. Additionally, this site has seen enormous traffic over the past few weeks, so I’ve had to up my hosting package, which incurs a direct cost on me. So if you feel that the app is worth it, please donate something and keep the project alive. You’ll feel better about yourself I promise Smile

Changelog and download link are in the Encode360 section

Tags: enc360

21 Responses to “Encode360 2.0b5 Released”

Moose 26 December 2006 at 9:50 pm #

What about using DVDFab Decrypter in place of DVD Decrypter?

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Dan 26 December 2006 at 10:44 pm #

DVDFab Decrypter doesn’t give the flexible CLI options that DVD Decrypter did.

I’ll keep investigating tho…

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amdboomer 27 December 2006 at 6:00 am #

does this release support dual core encoding like M$ windows media encoder 9 does
thanks for all the hard work

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atif 27 December 2006 at 11:19 am #

Im having problems running the exe file. I get this error when i run it:

“Encode360 2.0 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”

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Dan 27 December 2006 at 12:24 pm #

amdboomer: since WME is used as the backend, I think dual core is supported. Will have to verify though.

atif: it sounds like you don’t have Windows Media Encoder installed.

Dan

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Shady 27 December 2006 at 1:49 pm #

I installed the new beta and can’t get any file to encode. every time i click on encode, i get these errors:

[ERROR] Encode/funcEncode_BuildProfile/SetupAudience: Der Einstellung fÃ¼r die Videobildrate ist ungÃ¼ltig (something like wrong bitrate setting or so)

and then

[ERROR] Encode Events/subEncode_ProcessFiles: Error building encoding profile.

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atif 27 December 2006 at 2:02 pm #

Well now im getting another error .. When i try to encode a file it says this:

[Error] Encode/funcEncode_BuildProfile/SetupAudience: Windows Media does not support the audio format with the selected Bitrate. Valid bitrates are:
kbps

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Atif 27 December 2006 at 2:04 pm #

Lol .. Shady and me getting the same problem

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TNT 27 December 2006 at 2:17 pm #

I get the same error

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rav64 27 December 2006 at 3:01 pm #

Yeah, I’m having the same problems here too.

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BitJunky 27 December 2006 at 7:39 pm #

How about
http://www.ripit4me.org/

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Dan 27 December 2006 at 9:40 pm #

BitJunky: Ripit4me uses DVD Decrypter, and it’s not automatable through CLI.

Dan

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Sacrilego 28 December 2006 at 12:53 am #

Dan, about the multiple cpu/core thing, I just tried it now and it only uses 1 cpu core. I think you have to specify the number of threads.

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Mike 28 December 2006 at 6:52 pm #

Check out AutoMKV. It uses dvdfab express through the command line (does show a window however). It could be an option afterall

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PLEZZHELP 15 January 2007 at 12:53 pm #

I realy need this program…i installed it and all of the programs need to run the program….but when i click on encode360 it just says â€œEncode360 2.0 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.â€….and double checked to make sure i had all programs needed it just want work help please

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nuw 15 January 2007 at 5:26 pm #

dose it always encode so slow..supaslow

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noob360 16 January 2007 at 11:08 am #

i just installed it and everything…and encoded the first movie for my zune and it looks like instead of upgrading the way the way the movie looked it downgraded the movie…do i have the setting on wrong or somthing

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clueless 17 January 2007 at 11:24 am #

i can’t seem to get the program to convert any of my AVI files

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hdtv360 30 January 2007 at 2:24 pm #

Awesome program creates very high quality hd mkv, ts,xvid etc to wmv transfers with no quality loss and 5.1 audio easier to use than wm encoder and much much better than procoder 2 that has way to many settings to change for each file encode360 does it all for you! only minor flaws so far is that it has crashed on 2 occasions 85% into encoding a movie with no explanation why just says encode360 needs to close blah blah do you want to send a report? grr but hopefully there is a fix for this issue?

Great work keep encode360 going!!!

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