Encoders: don't let this be you.

[martino]

Or just search for "x264" and it'll throw you there.

[helms]

thanks for all the help

[DontAsk]

On Windows you can just enter in command prompt:

find "x264" filename

[comatose]

Or use Avinaptic ;p
It shows it from top to bottom, one setting per line, so it's easier to see.

[JediNight]

Why are people still using AVI? And H264 inside AVI at that? *brain hurts*

[Daiz]

Apparently people are still stupid enough to actually release true 120FPS encodes (as in, no NULL frames).

What's even more stupid is that these same people responsible for this said that "it doesn't play correctly in MPC, but the problem is not in the video because it plays properly in GOM Player, so you should all use this high-quality media player called GOM Player."

[felix]

Originally Posted by Kristen

If you really really wanted, you could encode it to h.264 in a .avi container and then just re-name it to filename.mkv. After all, AVI, MKV, and MP4 are just containers.

Or you could do it properly and rename the end product as actually-mkv-video.avi.
Since it's just a file association, as long as the person playing it doesn't have a retarded media player it's all ok.
The publicity doesn't really matter as long as people are using the better alternative.

Even if he plays it with retarded-videos-r-us then all the better he switches to something better.

Originally Posted by helms

Where do you type "strings filename | less" ?

Originally Posted by jfs

In a UNIX'y shell, eg. on a Linux system.
But you can use anything that opens binary files to see it, like a hex editor.

or install http://www.cygwin.com/

[neothe0ne]

Well, whatever the offending encode is, I can't imagine it being worse than what Chihiro's been doing to Zettai Karen Children and half their To LOVE-Ru Widescreen releases. It takes a lot of skill to rape the framerate of a 24fps source when your encode is also 24fps, but Zettai Karen Children which is 30fps turned into their 24fps product......

[Daiz]

Originally Posted by neothe0ne

Well, whatever the offending encode is, I can't imagine it being worse than what Chihiro's been doing to Zettai Karen Children and half their To LOVE-Ru Widescreen releases. It takes a lot of skill to rape the framerate of a 24fps source when your encode is also 24fps, but Zettai Karen Children which is 30fps turned into their 24fps product......

And let's not even start talking about the filtering used...

[comatose]

x264 - core 61 r951M 445d87e - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2008 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=0 ref=16 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x1:0x111 me=umh subme=1 psy_rd=0.0:0.0 brdo=0 mixed_ref=0 me_range=32 chroma_me=1 trellis=0 8x8dct=0 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 chroma_qp_offset=0 threads=2 nr=0 decimate=1 mbaff=0 bframes=0 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40(pre) rc=2pass
bitrate=802 ratetol=1.0 rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' qcomp=0.60 qpmin=10 qpmax=51 qpstep=4 cplxblur=20.0 qblur=0.5 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=0

[TheFluff]

Originally Posted by comatose

x264 - core 61 r951M 445d87e - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2008 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=0 ref=16 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x1:0x111 me=umh subme=1 psy_rd=0.0:0.0 brdo=0 mixed_ref=0 me_range=32 chroma_me=1 trellis=0 8x8dct=0 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 chroma_qp_offset=0 threads=2 nr=0 decimate=1 mbaff=0 bframes=0 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40(pre) rc=2pass
bitrate=802 ratetol=1.0 rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' qcomp=0.60 qpmin=10 qpmax=51 qpstep=4 cplxblur=20.0 qblur=0.5 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=0

I... what? 16 refs and merange 32, but no cabac and no mixed refs? subme 1? who in the...?

[Soichiro]

You do realize you're getting trolled, right? They edit the x264 headers in the output files.

[TheFluff]

Originally Posted by Soichiro

You do realize you're getting trolled, right? They edit the x264 headers in the output files.

Oh, was it DB?

[Soichiro]

Actually, I checked with Elecard Streameye just now, and it turns out it was just me hoping that it was a troll rather than a stupid person. It turns out that, sadly enough, there really is a group that encodes like this. There are no bframes in this entire episode.

http://ayamachi-subs.org/pics/x264fail.png

If there was a facepalm smiley on these forums, I'd use it right now. So hard.

(It's not too hard to guess what group this is, btw )

[Dark Shikari]

Originally Posted by Soichiro

Actually, I checked with Elecard Streameye just now, and it turns out it was just me hoping that it was a troll rather than a stupid person. It turns out that, sadly enough, there really is a group that encodes like this. There are no bframes in this entire episode.

<troll>
But its faster! We encode in baseline profile because then people won't complain about the episodes playing back too slow on their old computers. No-cabac, no 8x8dct, no deblock, and no bframes does have a compression sacrifice, but speed is the most important thing!
</troll>

[Soichiro]

Then why does this group also do XviD versions?

[Daiz]

Damn you, Soichiro, I was going to post about the exact same encode.

[comatose]

Originally Posted by Soichiro

Actually, I checked with Elecard Streameye just now, and it turns out it was just me hoping that it was a troll rather than a stupid person. It turns out that, sadly enough, there really is a group that encodes like this. There are no bframes in this entire episode.

http://ayamachi-subs.org/pics/x264fail.png

If there was a facepalm smiley on these forums, I'd use it right now. So hard.

(It's not too hard to guess what group this is, btw )

Hehe, but I told you on IRC I thought they were trolling me... and also verified it to my horror :/

[Heibi]

Originally Posted by Soichiro

Actually, I checked with Elecard Streameye just now, and it turns out it was just me hoping that it was a troll rather than a stupid person. It turns out that, sadly enough, there really is a group that encodes like this. There are no bframes in this entire episode.

http://ayamachi-subs.org/pics/x264fail.png

If there was a facepalm smiley on these forums, I'd use it right now. So hard.

(It's not too hard to guess what group this is, btw )

So what's the name of the show the video capture is from. I see feathers and buildings, plus "Ran..." on the aegisub block.

[Soichiro]

It's from Zettai Karen Children. The Ran file in Aegisub is unrelated.

I'll also note that this encode was 23.976 when it should have been 29.97 (and it looks choppy as hell).