EncodeHD 0.80 beta released!
It’s been a week since EncodeHD was launched, and I’m bloody pleased with the progress so far. A massive thanks has to go to my primary testers who have been beating the hell out of the early betas, providing feedback and helping me solve a lot of bugs and quality issues. Special mention and thanks to Schlicky for his enthusiasm and help in getting the new beta out the door.
Substantial changelog and download in the EncodeHD section!
Dan
Well done Dan, you deserve a good drink!
EncodeHD working smoothly, vob support would be nice but that would need some kind of down scaling etc…
I’m looking forward to testing it – I am a big fan of Encode360. With this one is there a way to get 5.1 audio for xbox360?
Sorry for asking but what about subtitles? Can u add this? I mean convert plus adding ‘hardsub’ to video?
Hey Mark – this is something I am actively working on with Dan, using the Advanced Flags option he has kindly implemented.
I have a test AVS Script, just got to work out how FFMPEG is going to handle it.
I get the error that it is unable to decode 6 channels at 48000hz to 2 channels at 48000 hz. Trying to re-encode a matroska file.
Has the error log been sent to Dan matey ?
Not yet Joshua, but he may work on that when everything else is sorted.
Thanks Geoff, I guess I’ll stick with Encode360 until then.
do we have a source for what advanced flag options we have at our disposal?
it’s great to offer it but offering something with no explanation is a rather mute point dont you think?
You have to look in to the FFMPEG Documentation. It’s mainly the start of things to come, hence no EHD documentation.
I had a video that was out of synch by about 15 seconds. Audio before the video, and add this to the Advanced Flags ‘-async 50′ bought it completely in line.
I’ll also be using it for AVS Scripting.
As Shlicky says, these are FFmpeg options and not something I’m going to document, since there’s literally hundreds of them. You shouldn’t be going near this unless you really know what you’re doing.
It is a shame that Microsoft does not support AAC 5.1 audio. That is the only thing that stops me using this program more. It would be great if 5.1 audio will eventually work with Xbox360 as the encoding time is so much faster than with Encode360.
Aww… I’ve been looking for a tool that is so bloody simple yet still does the job. Wonderful app, you surely deserve a donation
Many thanks for you kind words JezdziecBezNicka,
Keep the feedback coming !
dan i dont know if you know it or not, i imagine you do but here is a super basic mkv to mp4 with DTS and AC3 sound bat file.
this does not say if its 5.1 though
http://www.elgholm.se/utils/mkv2mp4/
the DTS and AC3 bat files are the 1st 2 download links.
we need atleast 5.1 dan.. mp4’s are pretty worthless in the home theater area if they are just stereo.
i am not sure why you say that MP4 doesnt support 5.1 when it clearly does when using AC3.
you can pretty much make an mp4, avi, mkv, wmv do just about anything you want,
Thanks v_lestat, worth looking in to – thanks for the link, but 2 scripts and 7 tools to convert MKV to MP4 ????
I can do it with 4 lines of AVS Scripting and one tool.
Still, I’ll take a look. Thanks again.
Had a look – and it’s shit…
I suggest if it does what you need it to do, continue using it.
Would be nice if you posted some positive’s for a change.
V_Lestat,
The tool you mentioned is only for remuxing existing H.264 content from MKV to MP4. It dumps the AC3 or DTS streams as stereo WAV and then re-encodes it as AAC into the MP4. This method is actually slower than EncHDs which doesn’t have the interim WAV process. It’s also strictly for MKV, has no UI, does no re-encoding from different formats and most importantly for you, produces STEREO audio, not 5.1.
5.1 AC3 Passthrough IS already available in EncodeHD, for the AppleTV, since Apple chose to support this. The X360 DOES NOT SUPPORT 5.1 AC3 in the MP4 container. You can read this for yourself in the X360 Video Playback FAQ:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/05/09/spring-07-video-playback-faq.aspx
If you have a gripe about this, please feel free to contact Microsoft and complain to them. However, no amount of negativity towards EncodeHD is going to change this.
If you have found some other tool that works well for you, then by all means, use it. You aren’t being forced to use EncodeHD. But being consistently negative without any constructive feedback isn’t very helpful. EncodeHD isn’t useless – otherwise I wouldn’t be getting a lot of positive feedback and consistently large amounts of downloads.
Dan
Dan,
Great job as usual. I really appreciate the effort that you put into this free app. I have a MKV file that has two audio tracks. Is there a way to select a specific audio track in EncodeHD? The program defaults to the 1st selection which in this case is Dutch. Thanks again and have a good holiday.
Hey. Actually, as of 0.86b, yes I think so!!!
it requires using the advanced ffmpeg flags. I think it’s the -map command. You can find info on ffmpeg flags if you Google it. Probably something like -map 2:1 which maps the 3rd stream to being the 2nd. I’m on my iPhone at the moment so I can’t verify this.
Cheers, Dan
Get those drinks going my friend !