EncodeHD 0.86b Released
How I got this done I have no idea. It’s been a pretty manic week what with wrapping up work for Christmas and the endless partying, but some how I’ve still managed to get a new release together :)
The big thing with this release is command-line parameters, for working into your automated processes. Additionally, you can now replace FFmpeg flags. For example, to force a video bitrate of 4000k, use “-b 4000k” in the advanced flags option. This will always override what EncodeHD thinks the bitrate should be. And to add to that, MP4Box is being used, to automatically splitting files above 4GB after encoding :)
This is probably going to be the last release until the New Year, as I’m not going to have all that much time for development until then.
Download and full changelog in the EncodeHD section!
Have a great Christmas!!
Now destroy some more liver !!
Shouldn’t it convert Videos for Zune? I am using the zune setting.
Cheers, Dan
the xvid quality can be increased, your using way way too low of a bitrate thus you lose an extreme amount of quality.
hd xvid can be done, and done with some pretty darn good quality (for xvid) but th ebitrate needs to be higher.
if you do not want to use WMV, which i totally disagree with your reason for stopping encode360, then make encodeHD usable for the xbox360. in its current state, far too much is lost using the 360 profile. ie; stereo instead of 5.1 and poor video quality for xvid.
its either that or you give us the “advanced” options to allow us to shoose our bitrates for audio and video,,,, and subtitles, like you did with encode360.
i love encode360 man, i can believe you are stopping it. wmv is still the best format for the 360 for HD content. well until 5.1+ audio is enabled for mp4.
For the last time, EncodeHD is NOT specifically for the X360, it’s for a variety of devices. It’s working brilliantly for most people. Disagree with my reasons if you feel like it, but please stop hounding me about things I can’t do anything about.
Advanced options are already there under Advanced FFmpeg flags. You need to read the FFmpeg documentation to use them. Subtitles are being worked on, but you should know I don’t respond well to “demands”.
I just have one sugestion. Sometimes, HD movies use aac 6.1 as audio and the PS3 is not able to play this audio format… Adding a transconding from aac 6.1 to acc 5.1 or dolby 5.1 could be a great idea.
Actually 5.1 in either AAC or AC3 isn’t supported in the MP4 container on PS3 yet. I have a possible solution to remux as a VOB which does support 5.1 but that’s just an idea at the moment.
Cheers, Dan
Thank you
Cheers, Dan
Thank you
jb
The XBOX 360 audio support Dolby Pro Logic II when the audio is converted is it converted to this format? I can’t find any info on this.
Also is it possible to have a merge button. If I have 5 files in the queue and I select the “Merge” button then all the files will be compressed and converted into 1 MP4 file. Again if the software does this please let me know. Right now I have to use VOBmerge to merge all VOB files first then use your program to convert them.
I would be helpful if I had the ability to adjust some settings. Like bitrates (I know this can be set with “Advanced options” but I not well versed with ffMpeg settings to do this.
Also to have the ability to Deinterlace, Denoise, DeBlock, Decomb, Detelecine.
I hope this will give you ideas that will create a better program
Thank you;
Raymond
I’m not sure about the pro-logic stuff, but I believe the rest is do-able with the Advanced Settings, and maybe a bit of AVS.
I’ll look in to the specifics for you.
been using encodeHD think it is great, nice job Dan!!
Quick question, I am trying to encode for my xbox 360 and selecting the correct output type in the driop down list however when i come to play the converted files on my xbox 360 media centre extender i am getting an error saying no codec found.
looking through forums it does not look like MCE2005 supports the H.264 format but the latest versions of MCE does, will a simple uprade to Vista solve this problem??
also with regard to the output, can i assume that if the file being input is HD with 5.1 audio then the output file will maintain the same quality??
thanks again.
Regards
Thanks;
Raymond
-b 4000k (Note I did not use quotes) and the video’s bitrate is still 1300k. I must be doing something wrong. I have EncodeHD version 0.86 Beta.
Thank you;
Raymond
One question, I am trying to encode files for the PSP. What settings or advanced flags do you recommend? I have been searching google, but haven’t found any answers.
Cheers, Dan
By default the PSP supports MP4 and h.264 @ 480×272 or lower resolution. (with recent firmwares)
It also supports 2 higher resolutions as well, 720×480 and 640×480. Apparently, the two larger sizes need to be encoded with CABAC entropy encoder (whatever that means).
I hope this helps !!
Thanks a lot for creating another easy to use program, I’ve been finding the .h264 conversion scene pretty daunting lately (demuxing and .avs scripts don’t like me, even after many hours of trying).
I’ve thrown a lot of different mkv files at it and it’s handled each one with ease, so no bugs to report yet!
Really appreciate your hard work.