[guest0815]

Originally Posted by martino

should at least mess with the CLI and not depend on any silly GUIs to find out what the heck is actually going on.</rant>

I encountered a problem when using the clis.
Using directshowsource or dss2 makes the dos-window pop up showing the commandline and doing nothing (but blocking the files for a few seconds until returning to the prompt) but they all do work when using MeGui. The same batchfiles and videos work as expected with the cli when using ffvideosource or avisource to load the videos.
It's the same for x264.exe and xvid_encraw.exe, the latter also shows "trying to retrieve width bla" and "avisynth detected" before stopping. The directshowfilters are ffdshow and xvid. A mencoder ffvhuff commandline doesn't care how the videos are opened in avisynth.

Spoiler:

for example

dss2("Raw.mp4").trim(0,100) #doesn't encode via cli but megui
ffvideosource("Raw.mp4").trim(0,100) #encodes both ways

x264.exe --crf 22 --ref 8 --mixed-refs --no-fast-pskip --bframes 16 --b-pyramid --weightb --direct auto --subme 8 --trellis 1 --partitions all --8x8dct --me umh --merange 24 --threads auto --thread-input --aq-strength 0.5 --sar 1:1 --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --output "test.mp4" "test.avs"

there's a 2pass (havent tried cq yet but I doubt that's the problem) xvid that also doesn't take dss/dss2:

xvid_encraw.exe -i "test.avs" -type 2 -o test.avi -pass1 xvid.log -bquant_ratio 100 -bquant_offset 100 -max_key_interval 250 -noclosed_gop -nochromame -nopacked -par 1 -progress 20 -quality 5 -qtype 0 -threads 3 -turbo -vhqmode 1 -imin 2 -imax 6 -bmin 2 -bmax 6 -pmin 2 -pmax 6 -zones 0,q,2,-0OC

xvid_encraw.exe -i "test.avs" -type 2 -o test.avi -pass2 xvid.log -bitrate 890 -bquant_ratio 100 -bquant_offset 100 -bvhq -chigh 20 -clow 7 -max_key_interval 250 -noclosed_gop -nopacked -par 1 -progress 20 -quality 6 -qpel -qtype 0 -threads 3 -vhqmode 4 -imin 2 -imax 6 -bmin 2 -bmax 6 -pmin 2 -pmax 6 -zones 0,w,1,-0OC

And the mencoder commandline that works with all of them:
mencoder.exe test.avs -o test.avi -of avi -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=ffvhuff:vstrict=-2:pred=2:context=1