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AutoMen 6 for LINUX! (26/09/2009)

buzzqw posted 2008 Oct 30 02:40

Thanks to PureBasic cross compiling i was able to tweak automen and porting to Linux AutoMen 6 is here (beta.. as usually) mg]http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/automen%20(2).jpg[/img] http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/automen6_linux.tar.gz tested on Fedora 32bit need mencoder, mplayer, xterm BHH

disturbed1 posted 2008 Oct 30 03:01

Looks just fine on Slackware with Xfce. Nice and easy GUI, and easy enough to comfigure profile.txt. Cool, and thanks :D Doesn't support directories with spaces in them. Threads option doesn't seem to work :( Prompts for mp4creator, but doesn't need this installed to run.

buzzqw posted 2008 Oct 30 04:05

thanks for your kind words! remember that xvid isn't multithreaed on mencoder... just mpeg4 and x264 feel free to post any problems and suggestion (and i will look the "space" problem) thanks BHH

disturbed1 posted 2008 Oct 30 04:28

Xvid is multithreaded. : xvidenc (-xvidencopts)        There are three modes available: constant bitrate (CBR), fixed quantiz-        er and two pass. .............................................. snip .............................................. The following option is only available in the 1.2.x version of Xvid.        threads=<0-n>               Create n threads to run the motion estimation (default: 0).  The               maximum number of threads that can be used is the picture height               divided by 16. You can grab a multithread enabled xvid here - http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.43.0.html Just download the daily snap shot. The default in Ubuntu and other Debian based distros are not multithread enabled. Plus they have a habit of not using NASM, so it's even slower.

buzzqw posted 2008 Oct 30 04:51

and i don't provide mencoder builds.. so i must rely on user repository/packages :( you can tweak the profile and add the threads parameter BHH

disturbed1 posted 2008 Oct 30 05:17

buzzqw : and i don't provide mencoder builds.. so i must rely on user repository/packages :( you can tweak the profile and add the threads parameter BHH Has nothing to do with mencoder. It's the version of Xvid that is installed. I'm using MEncoder 1.0rc2 which is quite old. Check your man page for mencoder. If you're using an old Xvid (1.1.2/.3) specifying threads=n does nothing to it. All the way back to mencoder 1.0rc1 (Ubuntu Fiesty 7.04) : The following option is only available in the CVS version of XviD. threads=<0\-n> Create n threads to run the motion estimation (default: 0). The maximum number of threads that can be used is the picture height divided by 16. But that's for xvid. I stated the threads switch doesn't work at all ;) WIth x264, it always uses more than one core no matter if it is ticked or not. With lavc it only uses one core. This is because your profile.txt has threads=auto hard coded for x264, and negates the thread option for mpeg4.

buzzqw posted 2008 Oct 30 05:34

thanks disturbed1! learning is a never ending process! about threads disabled i will check when home thanks again! BHH

disturbed1 posted 2008 Oct 30 06:34

Perhaps, since x264, lavc, and xvid all use threads=$, that could be a variable that can be passed? But that seems like too much of a coding change. I don't know, I'm not a programmer. Considering your profiles.txt is easy to read and change, I'm just editing it by hand. I've been using your program to encode a few streams to xvid, lavc, and x264, and they all work!. Have to say I really do like it. This is a first for me, as I'm a command line junky. About the directory spaces. Read from spaces, write to no spaces works. Read from no spaces, write to spaces works. Read + write to spaces, doesn't work :cry: I even did a chmod 777 on the directory so everyone has rw on it just to make sure. : "/usr/bin/mencoder"  -ofps 30000/1001 -vf harddup,crop=720:480:0:0,scale=656:-2,hqdn3d -sws 2 -o "/home/keith/a directory with spaces/test_automen.avi" -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1682:max_bframes=2:bquant_ratio=162:bquant_offset=100:vhq=1:me_quality=6:chroma_me:nochroma_opt:hq_ac:notrellis:lumi_mask:autoaspect:bvhq=1 -af volnorm=1  -oac mp3lame -lameopts aq=7:cbr:br=96 "/home/keith/a directory with spaces/test.wmv" If I copy and paste the xvid.bat file to a terminal it runs fine.

buzzqw posted 2008 Oct 30 06:54

i use xterm to launch the encoding bat... could be this ? xterm -e "path to bat/xvid/bat" (any suggestion is appreciated!) i am too a command line guy :) but my knowledge of linux isn't to much (just installed 4 month ago) BHH

freebird73717 posted 2008 Oct 30 07:22

Buzz thanks for continuing to promote linux by porting more software over!

buzzqw posted 2008 Oct 30 07:57

thanks freebird73717! it's always a pleasure filling gap between windows and linux BHH

buzzqw posted 2008 Oct 30 15:10

update to 5.2 threads now work, added the possibility to specify threads http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/automen52 next is to fix space issue BHH

disturbed1 posted 2008 Oct 31 01:01

52 doesn't seem to work. : bash-3.1$ chmod +x automen52 bash-3.1$ ./automen52 Segmentation fault

buzzqw posted 2008 Oct 31 01:39

here is ok... maybe a corrupted file try this http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/automen52.tar.gz thanks! BHH

disturbed1 posted 2008 Oct 31 03:03

That was quick :) I can confirm that threads are working as expected for xvid, lavc-mpeg4, and x264. But not mpeg2. For wmv, threads are enabled, but, wmv encoding (and flv) only support a single thread.

buzzqw posted 2008 Oct 31 03:26

thanks for feedback disturbed1! update the link of first thread :) BHH

buzzqw posted 2008 Nov 01 10:30

update to 5.3 now path with space and file name with space will work added queue BHH

buzzqw posted 2009 Aug 22 10:23

update to automen 6 http://www.64k.it/andres/data/automen/automen6.tar.gz BHH

buzzqw posted 2009 Aug 30 06:50

update automen some fixing to queue added possibility to use ffmpeg for piping to x264 BHH

buzzqw posted 2009 Sep 26 10:57

update added a better support for dvd input automatic crop on loading file more deeply autocrop added support for handbrakecli better support for crop for dvd input some gui layout change when users select handbrakecli BHH

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