meguIV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v1.0.1.1)

[Rollyco]

meguIV \MEH-goo-eye-vee\, noun
Specially designed for idol and AV DVDs; meguIV is a portable one-click version of the MeGUI DVD encoder preconfigured with state-of-the-art deinterlacing & carefully tuned presets. Now you can finally see the pimples on your favorite AV starlet's ass.
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Because high quality output is guaranteed, usage of meguIV entitles you to use the [HQ] thread tag on Akiba-Online. To see all of the meguIV encodes released on Akiba-Online so far, click here: http://www.akiba-online.com/forum/search.php?prefixchoice[]=meguIV&sortby=threadstart&do=process.



Capabilities

• No messy installation or configuration required, just double-click the .EXE to start.
• Sharp, clean, and detailed video output every time.
• Your choice of MP4 or MKV container.
• Your choice of MP3 or AAC audio.
• Anamorphic video output (720 pixel width) with aspect ratio signalling.
• Chapters are created automatically and have perfect timecodes (official MeGUI builds do not).
• Perfect aspect ratio autodetection (official MeGUI builds have 3% horizontal stretching).
• Multithreaded deinterlacing (TempGaussMC) to take advantage of multi-core systems.

Changelog
v1.0.1.1:

• Fix: messed up package.

v1.0.1.0:

• Fix: x264 (video encoder) not starting on 64-bit systems.
  
• Fix: The first upload of 1.0.0.0 was the wrong build. To be safe, please upgrade.

v1.0.0.0 (Fixed version uploaded April 20th, 2010):

• Upgraded MeGUI, TempGaussMC, and x264.
• Video output is sharper and cleaner now (see attached screenshots).
• 30-50% speedup! Medium-quality presets are not needed anymore.
• About 25% smaller output video filesizes.
• New pre-rendering step requires 15-25GB free space for temp files.

System Requirements

• Windows XP/2003 or higher
• 15-25GB free space for temporary files that are created during encoding.
• An SSE3-capable multi-core CPU (the more cores the better! The deinterlacing used in meguIV is very demanding.)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher (for example .NET 3.5). You probably already have it installed.

Instructions



Step 1: Press the One-Click button.




Step 2: Choose your Input .VOB file.

• This file should be the first .VOB file of your DVD's titleset. It will be something like VTS_01_1.VOB. That highlighted number must be 1, not 0, or anything else.
• If you have an .ISO file, you must extract it to the harddrive with WinRAR or 7-Zip. If you don't, you will get an error and automatic chapter creation won't work.
• You can also change the Output File path on this screen, if you like.

Step 3: Put a checkmark on Advanced Options.




Step 4: Open the Advanced Config tab.

Step 5: Choose your Working Directory

• Choose a path for the temporary files. They will be deleted when the encoding job completes.
• You must have 15-25 GB of free space available in this partition.

Step 6: Choose a descriptive Project Name.

• The output filename will automatically use whatever you enter here.

Step 7: Switch to the Encoder Config tab.

Step 8: Choose your audio format - MP3 or AAC.

• If you're not sure, choose AAC. It's higher quality.

Step 9: Choose your container format - MKV or MP4.

• If you're not sure, choose MP4. It's compatible with a wider variety of devices.
• Leave the "Device Type" option on "Standard".

Step 10: Click Go! to put your new job in the Queue and automatically start it.



Notes

• It's perfectly safe to have MeGUI, AviSynth, or anything else installed on your system. meguIV is completely isolated it it's own "Sandbox" folder, and does not interfere with your own existing software.
• If you change settings or otherwise break things, you can revert meguIV back to it's default settings by deleting the "Sandbox" folder located in the same path as your meguIV executable.
• Please don't use MeGUI update, this is a custom build and is not compatible with the official sources.
• meguIV is very slow: a one-hour idol video could possibly take 7 hours on a 3.1Ghz Core 2 Duo (Conroe). An equivalent Core 2 Quad will cut that time in half. If you have a Core i7, lucky you!

Download meguIV v1.0.1.1 (meguIV.exe, 34.5MB)
to re reuploaded

Download meguIVit 1.0.0 beta-4 (courtesy of Vitreous)
http://www.mediafire.com/?42bxj5t0c0nv25k
more infos about that release: http://www.akiba-online.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1906485&postcount=883

[Rollyco]

Reserved.

Anyone want to translate this guide into Japanese? Your translation will be featured on the front page of Akiba-Online for millions of viewers to see!

(The changelog does not need to be translated, so that will save you a little bit of work.)

[Rollyco]

Reserved.

Anyone want to translate this guide into Chinese? Your translation will be featured on the front page of Akiba-Online for millions of viewers to see!

(The changelog does not need to be translated, so that will save you a little bit of work.)

[Inca]

This looks very cool. I'm testing on Vista 32 bit now.

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Getting errors about not finding plugins. It's assuming all my dll files are in D:\bin\megui\tools\...

My dll's are in C:\program files\megui\tools, but when I go to settings>program paths, it's not listing some of the folders that my dll's are in, although I can see them through regular Megui.

Looks like creating the path in my D drive and copying the dll's are fixing the plugin errors one by one, though.

will continue testing...

[Rollyco]

Hm, that's not good. The package contains all necessary AviSynth plugins and MeGUI tools. If you're having to point to your externally installed plugins and tools, it's misconfigured somewhere.

What DLLs are you talking about? Avisynth plugins? Can you be more specific?

[Inca]

Sorry I meant exe not dll

As soon as I hit GO, it errored out with:

Exception message: Calling setup of processor failed with error 'Required file 'D:\bin\megui\tools\dgindex\dgindex.exe' is missing.'


So I changed the program path of dgindex.exe to where it was on my C drive. Went thru the steps again and it demuxed properly, then added all the remaining jobs and errored out again on the first one with:

Exception message: Calling setup of processor failed with error 'Required file 'D:\bin\megui\tools\nero\neroAacEnc.exe' is missing.'


So I go to program paths>audio>neroaacenc and point it to my local neroaacenc.exe, I go thru the steps again and after it encodes the audio, i get:

Exception message: Calling setup of processor failed with error 'Required file 'D:\bin\megui\tools\x264\x264.nl.r1173.exe' is missing.'



So yeah, I'm having to point to my external tools, and I imagine it will have similar errors with the avisynth dll's.

will test more tomorrow.

[Rollyco]

I uploaded v0.03, I hope that fixes your path problems. (Make sure you delete the "Sandbox" folder if you upgrade the .EXE in-place.)

[maggit]

Originally Posted by Rollyco

Reserved.

Anyone want to translate this guide into Japanese?

Try: http://translate.google.com/ this will translate text or an HTTP address.

[Rollyco]

The idea was for a fluent speaker to translate it. Machine translations are terrible.

[daredemonai]

Eek! I started a Japanese translation, but came to a grinding halt when I hit, "motion compensated gaussian blur-based deinterlacing and clustered, neurally networked edge directed interpolation." I don't even know what that means in English. I can only say that it blurred and pretty much deinterlaced my own neural network. Mind if I skip the technical stuff and just translate the "how to" portions?

Also, are there many Japanese users contributing rips to AO? It seems to me that most of the Japanese members are contributing photos (or nothing at all). But things may look very different from the mods' side of the screen. I'm guessing a Chinese translation is more urgently needed.