yua

2014-09-04 09:29:10 am

it's perceptibly different if you:

- fullscreen a video of an old school console game (which is why nes stuff that i encode has iq now) or
- watch something with small point size colored text.

there may be others i am forgetting.

for the first one, you can also encode at d1, but that is an even worse workaround, because the luma information is quadrupled.

iWO

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iWO: 2014-09-04 10:06:41 am

2014-09-04 10:03:47 am

laria fresca, vino puro ...

I understand it will be a difference in old console games but in new titles it might be unnoticeable
ed: to check whether it is a difference there would be only one way - encode in both colour spaces and then compare

iWO

2014-09-04 10:03:57 am

laria fresca, vino puro ...

does YUA or anri-chan have something like project settings save file that can be saved and loaded later?
preferably also editable for private purposes

Carcinogen

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Carcinogen: 2014-09-04 09:06:03 pm

2014-09-04 09:05:42 pm

Quote from TheThrillness:

That mp4 imported and encoded fine for me. Weird.

Quote from nate:

yeah, dropping that into yua and pressing ctrl-e encodes successfully for me.

how much free space do you have on the c drive? are you running antivirus or anything like that?

I don't encode to my main volume, I record to my SSD. But now that I think about it, have you guys tried it with the "downmix to mono" option? I needed to do that because I have to record to Mono with my Wii HDMI Adapter, so maybe that's why I'm having issues?

TheThrillness

2014-09-05 04:10:47 am

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The mono option doesn't give me a problem either.

djcj

2014-09-09 03:58:58 am

Quote from iWO:

does YUA or anri-chan have something like project settings save file that can be saved and loaded later?
preferably also editable for private purposes

You mean like custom settings for x264? No. But Anri is relatively easy to hack, as it's just a .bat script.

iWO

2014-09-15 07:51:44 am

laria fresca, vino puro ...

Quote from djcj:

But Anri is relatively easy to hack, as it's just a .bat script.

actually you're right

nate

2014-09-29 01:44:47 pm

had to move to dmg distribution for the mac version since unzipping was corrupting the gatekeeper 2 signature. changed the download link in the first post and in the kb.

CotySA

2014-10-05 04:58:48 pm

For me encoding with yua takes significantly longer than with anri-chan. Does yua encode the videos better in any way or should I just stick with anri-chan? I need the videos for Youtube. Thanks in advance.

Mystery

2014-10-05 05:19:33 pm

yua specifically targets for SDA. If you aren't submitting, then using another tool is probably a better choice. I would recommend you use handbrake. You can slide the preset value for the H264 encoder to adjust the encoding speed to your like.

nate

2014-10-06 09:12:31 am

are you encoding interlaced d1?

to answer your question, for youtube there is no significant difference.

CotySA

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CotySA: 2014-10-06 10:03:15 am

2014-10-06 10:02:36 am

I just encoded a video with Handbrake, using the default settings. It just took 2-3 minutes and the quality looks good. Would you recommend me to change some settings? I probably should check stuff like "Web Optimized"? My source files are avi and my resolution is 1024x768.

@nate: D1 was checked when I encoded.

Mystery

2014-10-06 10:10:55 am

Quote from CotySA:

I just encoded a video with Handbrake, using the default settings. It just took 2-3 minutes and the quality looks good. Would you recommend me to change some settings? I probably should check stuff like "Web Optimized"? My source files are avi and my resolution is 1024x768.

The only things I would recommend to change would be the preset and the quality. Quality is subjective, but it does affect file size. For low resolution footage, somewhere around 17-20 would be good. For high resolution (like Full HD), somewhere around 22-24 would be fine. But it really depends on how much you're willing to sacrifice quality for file size.
The preset should be set to whatever speed you're comfortable with.
I don't actually know what web optimized does. I always go with mkv (no such option there).

CotySA

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CotySA: 2014-10-06 10:14:56 am

2014-10-06 10:14:19 am

I´m fine with larger files, so I will try 24. But you wouldn´t recommend me to crop my 1024x768 video to 1024x576, right? I mean for people with a 1280x720 monitor the 1024 pixels would get stretched to 1280 and it would decrease the quality? So I guess it´s better to keep the original aspect ratio even if there are black bars on the left and right side on Youtube?

Mystery

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Mystery: 2014-10-06 10:20:22 am

2014-10-06 10:19:35 am

Generally higher values = less quality. For high resolution, the idea is that you can't make out all the fine details so easily, so you can easily pump up the crf to get lesser file size. As for cropping, no, I would not recommend that. You would be throwing away lots of information. If the source is 4:3, let it be 4:3. If you want it to be 16:9, record it in 16:9. Let the player worry about scaling and aspect ratio.

CotySA

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CotySA: 2014-10-06 01:19:03 pm

2014-10-06 01:18:15 pm

Ok, thanks.

I didn´t see an option to trim the videos in Handbrake. If I use VirtualDub to trim the source files, shall I use "Uncompressed RGB/YCbCr" or "Lagarith Lossless Codec" or doesn´t this matter? Uncompressed shouldn´t change anything as the name says but Lagarith Lossless Codec makes the files slightly smaller I´ve noticed.

I´m pretty sure it doesn´t matter which one I choose, but just to be 100% sure. Cheesy

TheThrillness

2014-10-06 01:33:19 pm

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Yes the only feature not in Handbrake is the ability to trim. Lagarith is basically Uncompressed/Lossless, so choose Lagarith. Do all your trimming in VDub and then export a Lagarith file and feed that into Handbrake with settings explained by Mystery.

Mystery

2014-10-06 05:38:02 pm

I'd recommend you first try Avidemux to do the trimming. Select copy for audio and video, then do your trimming. Trimming may be a bit limited, but it saves re-encoding.
If it does not work, then you can choose H264 for video, select an appropriate preset and crf value, just as you would in Handbrake.
Virtualdub was great for its time, but now it's mostly limited to hacks and/or avi files, neither of which are applicable here. What VD is still good for is avisynth, but since you're not using that either, I don't think you should use VD.
As for compression, you should use Lagarith or Huffyuv for VD (or x264 VFW) since it makes the file significantly smaller than uncompressed.

CotySA

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CotySA: 2014-10-07 12:50:45 pm

2014-10-07 12:48:31 pm

Avidemux doesn´t suppport avi, it doesn´t recognize my source files. Yesterday I trimmed them with VDub and Lagarith Lossless Codec and then encoded them with Handbrake on "17" and "Slow". For my 1024x768 video a low value like 17 is the correct one, did I understand that correctly?

Mystery

2014-10-07 01:13:57 pm

Avidemux does support avi.
There is no "correct" crf value. Crf stands for quality - the lower, the better quality. Use your eyes to judge the quality to find if it's acceptable for you or not. I use 17 as a guideline and SDA uses 17 for encodes, too. That doesn't mean higher values aren't possible, though. Use whatever you feel like is the best compromise between quality and filesize.

CotySA

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CotySA: 2014-10-07 03:30:52 pm

2014-10-07 03:30:28 pm

I only get a green screen when I open my avi source files with Avidemux. I´m using Avidemux 2.6 64bit.

Mystery

2014-10-07 04:57:43 pm

Perhaps it's an unsupported codec. I can't say without having a sample.

Sir VG

2014-10-23 03:49:04 pm

Fucking Weeaboo

I'm running into a weird issue with audio desync. It's happening to any runs I'm encoding that was output from my PS2 using component cables and are 480i. If I play the original files, they're fine. Encode in Yua and the audio winds up ahead pretty much right from the get-go.

Video sample and image of Yua settings attached.

Attachments:

DawnOfMana_VideoSample.mp4

dawn sampler.png

TheThrillness

2014-10-23 04:04:13 pm

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Only thing I can think of is your input frame rate is 59.94 when it should be 29.97. Try setting your capture program to 29.97 and feeding that in.

Sir VG

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Sir VG: 2014-10-24 12:56:53 am

Sir VG: 2014-10-24 12:55:49 am

2014-10-23 04:40:52 pm

Fucking Weeaboo

Quote from TheThrillness:

Only thing I can think of is your input frame rate is 59.94 when it should be 29.97. Try setting your capture program to 29.97 and feeding that in.

It's an HD recorder box, not software. There is no frame rate setting.

Edit: I opened up the file in VirtualDub and indeed it's 59.94fps. However, I can't change it in my recorder, so hopefully Yua can be tweaked to handle video like this.

(I imagine it's 59.94 because I'm using component cables with an interlaced signal.)