Helix works but I specifically wanted PS at 24 kbps.

Cheers to you Stanley! The new version 0.2.7 build 81 works. At least the encoding has started. I hope it gets completed.

I am encoding a 16-bit wav to aacplus v2 ps at 24 kbps but I cannot see the progress bar. It is still showing Encoding in MEnc.exe while in the Console Window it shows Winamp Encoder plugin closed. It has opened earlier. So is it still encoding because this has taken a lot of time?

The progress bar only works when using Winamp input plugins as decoder, as I haven't yet found a way to retrieve file playback length from MPlayer.
When u see "Winamp Encoder plugin closed", and the pos/bytes no longer increase, the encoding has completed.

Just released build87, fixed the output paths bug revealed by noisehole, fixed a bug in mp4 file generating, and added a configuration window for Winamp plugins (to open it, choose "Winamp input plugins" as decoder and click the button beside).

winamp decoders are beeing used now, but im afraid the ouput path bug is still there

EDIT:
nice to have 2 decoder options, ive a mp3file that seems to be broken/incomplete and decoding it with mplayer hangs at the end of the file while decoding it with winamp plugins works just fine

transcoding 12 mp3s using mplayer takes 1:12 and winamp 1:24

Ok I tested with three or four files aacplus v2 encoding. The encoding is saying completed but the final aac file is 0 kb. Am I the condemned one to use MEnc?

Is there any way live audio AAC+ 3GPP streams can be created with these tools?

Or only batch processed output?

What utility or encoder can produce this kind of file?

the OPTICODEC-PC does.
http://www.orban.com/orban/products/codec/index.html

don't know how to implement it.

the oddsock plugin can stream in aac format but just support faac.
http://www.oddsock.org/tools/oddcastv3/

Hey Optimus, this is really nice little app you got here man. I saw this awhile back, but there was some other proggie that someone had made to convert to he-aac v2 before this one(via Winamp plugin).

Anyway, glad I tried it out. Really like you have vid encoding implemented as well.

Thanks for the hard work.


Oh yea, one question.

You said when using mp4box to pack .aac in mp4 container that it wasn't putting PS info in correctly. Is this just a tag that isn't showing up right or is the PS data actually not being packed into the mp4 container(to clarify, is the PS data stripped out)?


One other thing.

Someone in another post was talking about another way to pack into mp4 container. I didn't quiet understand what the person was talking about, but is this solution automated in your app? Think it had to do with some Winamp plugin.


Pretty much is there a work around if indeed mp4box is corrupting or stripping the file of PS data before putting into mp4 container?

This issue no longer exists with the latest version of mp4box as well as the mp4box included in the powerpack.



That is a working way, but I've not implemented interface with foobar components in my program and mp4box is the only MP4 container utility with CLI I know about up to now.

Does menc support AAC (and aac+ / aac++) cutting?

If not is very difficult to implement this function?

Because i searched but i didn ' t find aac cutter with cue support.

Cutting is not difficult to implement. After I look into cue file format, I will add cutting and cue support.

Just added WavPack support. Thanks for bryant's info. MEnc 0.2.7 PowerPack is updated to include wavpack encoder.

Some mighty impressive tool you're coming up with there, mister...

Thanks.

Buggy packaging again... If u just downloaded in 10 minutes from now, please re-download. Sorry for my carelessness. Sometimes I'm just too excited to release.

Thanks for quick response.

I hope you will have the time to keep moving this project forward, looks like it has alot of potential(actually, already very good).


There are 2 things I noticed. One is that for some reason when you select Resample in the Audio Filters that it isn't resampling to 44,1000 Hz(it stays at 48khz, atleast with he-aac .v2). The other is a minor visual quark, it doesn't even mater to me personally, but just thought I would say something about it. On the AAC+V2 config tab on right side, if you notice the slider control is being clipped a little. I'm sure you know all ya have to do is move it up a little and the label above to balance it back out visually.

BTW, it isn't a problem in the Winamp Plugin. I can resample fine to 44khz, with foobar that uses the Winamp Plugin. If bitwise there is no difference between 44khz and 48khz, then I don't guess it really matters. Just didn't know if I was wasting some bits by leaving it at that high response(I know I couldn't tell between the 2, audiably).

Audio filters are only usable when using MPlayer as audio decoder, as it's provided by MPlayer. Later I will add Winamp DSP support on both audio decoders.
And the GUI issue, thanks for reminding.

Hi, optimus 你好~

I am trying to convert mp3 to aac, but the tag in mp3 isn't transfer to aac file. I am just curious if MENC support that?

Optimus, please please help. Now it says it is encoding and I also get the message encoding completed but the aac output file shows 0 kbps. I don't know why this is happening. It takes it's time while encoding and says encoding completed still I don't get the file. Of course some times is gives the same error: "Error starting encoder".

你好啊
Tagging is to be implemented in the next steps, as it's a really handy function and isn't difficult to implement.

What decoder and encoder r u using and what type of file are transcoding?

Is it possible to have this tool hosted in Rarewares? Maybe it's just me, but I seem to be having trouble downloading from the cosoft.org address. Thanks.

I would like to, but how?
At this time, u may try downloading from the mirror site.

btw to all: tag transferring is under development after i found some really useful stuff

Tag transferring finally come to work. All supported audio formats can be automatically tagged now. The PowerPack 0.2.7 is updated. Please download and try.

Hi,

how do I enable subtitles with your patched mplayer ?

With so called G.Tiesi build, everything works out of the box:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

Add "-slang en" (en can be any other language short name) in "Preference" -> "Utilities" -> "Extra MPlayer Options"

The MPlayer decoder does not work. I get the some error like disable runtime in mplayer. So I tried the Winamp input plugin decoder. I am trying to convert pcm wav files (16 bit 44 KHz) to aacPLUS v2 24 kbps. In the dos prompt it says winamp input plugin decoder open and also winamp aacplus encoder open and shows encoding but the final file is still 0 kbps. I think it looks like a decoder problem. Please help.

Before extracting the latest PowerPack, please try removing the previous installed files (simply remove or rename the "menc" folder).
I've just packaged a new PowerPack. In the build 177, a wave/pcm file "decoder" was added for encoding .wav files.

Hello, I've tried out the tool today I find it pretty cool. MEnc crashes though when I try to transcode WMA lossless -> AAC+V2 after the operation has been completed:

call stack:

I use the 0.2.7 build 179, and the WinAmp (v5.1 Surround Edition) plugins for en/decoding

This issue has been fixed. Thanks for your information. Download the update here.

Ask this to Roberto, rjamorim in this forum. He is the Rarewares admin.

Regards,
Oki

Optimus, am I right when it appears mEnc can have APE as input but it isn't mentioned in the opening post?

Hello,

First, thanks for this great tool, optimus!

I've found a little bug. Well, exactly, it's not the first bug I encounter but this time, I've decided to say something on this forum.



(I'm using build 198)

I'm trying to transcode DivX/AC3 to DivX/MP3, using stream copy and Lame. There's a problem with the -ovc switch but as I don't speak mplayer/mencoder natively, I don't know what's the matter.

Speaking of other bugs, I never succeeded in outputing a single MP4 file. Mencoder crashes or mp4box says there's errors in file type. I meanly try with xvid or divx (mpeg4 like) and aac+v2 or helix or faac. Damn...


AiZ

Yes, that is because I haven't yet tested with APE input, though I've included in_ape.dll in the package.
Now I'm announcing that APE input is working and also in the latest PowerPack (build 211), encoding to APE (for CD ripping or transcoding from other lossless formats, e.g. WMA lossless, FLAC etc) has become possible.

Please try setting container format to "Default", and choose a proper video codec.


MP4 container now only works for audio only transcoding. I haven't yet found a workaround for this.

Hi,


I don't want to reencode the video, just the audio. Isn't it possible? Setting container to Default yields to the same error.


Too bad... I make my mind that MEnc would be the perfect tool to transcode video clips or films in MP4 format for my phone.


AiZ

To transcode audio only from a video file, set "Video Codec" to "None" and set "Container format" to "Default" and choose whatever audio encoder u want to use.
As for MP4, I will look for a solution. And I'm going to add more features for mobile transcoding.

Thanks!

Arf!



I need to clarify.
I have an AVI file with video encoded in DivX and sound encoded in AC3. What I want is to keep the video stream as is (i.e. no transcoding) and reencoded the audio stream in MP3, then I'll have an AVI file with the original video and sound in MP3 format.



Really nice! Thanks!


AiZ

thx optimus, the WMA (lossless) files don't crash MEnc anymore,

but I just can't get the tag transfer to work. I've enabled it in the settings, but the tags still don't appear in the resulting files. I've tested it with mplayer as decoder, lame as encoder (mp3 -> mp3 transcoding); mplayer shows the right tags in the console, but the lame.exe call doesn't have the tag parameters.

Superlexx

First, please check if tools\tag.exe exists. This also might be caused by a new bug.

It's really a bug! I hate bugs! Will kii it soon!

The above 2 bugs have been killed in build 220. Please update.
Please note that I've renamed this utility to "MediaCoder" to make the name easier to remember.

I hope I won't be kicked...

Using build 220, when I try to encode an AVI file (from a VOB) with Xivd and Lame VBR, it says: "The selected container format does not support the selected audio format".

And ".zip" is missing at the end of your link for the 220 build...

Bye,


AiZ

Oh my god, it's nothing but another bug. Fixed. Thanks. Update here. There r too many things to support u know.


Very strong to find this out! Also fixed.

Hello,

Just nothing. When I try to encode MP4 files (video+audio), and yes I know it doesn't work , there's a little problem in your mencoder script. It's shown on the console :



If the audio is encoded before the video and it generally is, mencoder doesn't need audio data, hence the need of the '-nosound" switch. Or perhaps you want a different behaviour of scripts...

Of course, manually adding the switch results in the crash of mencoder, whatever using mpeg4 or xvid.

Anyway, really nice tool!


AiZ

Fixed! Thanks again.

hi optimus,

build 221 crashes with WMAL again
and now I have tag.exe in the tools folder, but the tags still don't get tranferred (tag.exe can read them in the source mp3 files if I call it in the command prompt).

and your CVS isn't up-to-date either...

I will look into the bug. Just committed the latest code to CVS.

Great news: CUE support has been implemented (as source). Now APE/FLAC/WavPack + CUE can be encoded into seperate MP3/AAC/OGG files with tags automatically written. Get it the update here. (still beta, welcome bug report)
Usage: choose "CUE File" as source in "Audio Options", and add CUE file to the list, and choose a proper encoder.

menc.cpp, line 96 should be otherwise no tags will be transferred from files that have blanks in the path or filename.

Too bad tags.exe can't write IDv2 tags...