Megu IV: The Official Akiba-Online DVD Encoder (v0.05)

[Rollyco]

Megu IV \MEH-goo-eye-vee\, noun
An easy, portable version of MeGUI preconfigured for deinterlacing and encoding NTSC DVDs at the highest possible quality level.
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Megu IV has been configured to use the state of the art deinterlacer, TempGaussMC (TGMC). There are only a handful of people using this technology in the porn/idol DVD ripping scene. Please search the U-15 IV Torrents forum for recent uploads by myself, Inca, or Snakeboy, if you want to see an example of what TGMC is capable of. It is nothing short of amazing.

Capabilities

• Stable and very detailed video output using the best available techniques (motion compensated gaussian blur-based deinterlacing and clustered, neurally networked edge directed interpolation.)
• Chapters are created automatically and have perfect timecodes, unlike official MeGUI builds.
• Perfect aspect ratio autodetection. Official MeGUI builds ALWAYS produce output video that is 3% horizontally stretched.
• High quality video encoder settings always result in the same quality for all of your DVD encodes.
• Anamorphic video output (720 pixel width) with aspect ratio signalling.
• Your choice of MP3 or AAC audio.
• Your choice of MP4 or MKV container.
• No messy configuration required, just 11 clicks and you're off to the races.
• It's portable and doesn't require installation.

System Requirements

• An SSE3-capable multi-core CPU (the more cores the better! TGMC is slow.)
• Windows XP/2003 or higher
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher (for example .NET 3.5). You probably already have it installed.

Known Issues

• If you mount a DVD (.ISO or disc) without extracting/ripping it to your hard drive first, you will get an error and your output video won't have chapters.
• Please don't use MeGUI update, this is a custom build and is not compatible with the official sources.
• Megu IV is EXTREMELY SLOW. a one hour idol video could possibly take you 9 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!

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 should extract it to the harddrive. If you don't, you will get an error and automatic chapter creation won't work.

Step 3: Choose your OneClick profile

• You have 4 options available:
  1. "[IV] Best Quality" - If you care about quality and have a fast enough CPU, this should be your first choice.
  2. "[IV] Faster Encode" - Uses slightly worse deinterlacing options for a noticable speed boost. Use this only if encodes are taking too long.
  3. "[IV] Smaller Filesize" - Uses a higher x264 CRF value, which results in a somewhat smaller filesize (but somewhat worse quality.)
  4. "[IV] Smaller Filesize & Faster Encode" - Only choose this if your CPU is slow and you need the smaller filesize. The worst option of all four, but still better than 99% of DVD rips you see in the wild.

Step 4: Put a checkmark on Advanced Options.



Step 5: Open the Advanced Config tab.

Step 6: Choose your Working Directory

• This is where your final output will be saved on your hard drive.

Step 7: Choose a descriptive Project Name.

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

Step 8: Switch to the Encoder Config tab.

Step 9: Choose your audio format - MP3 or AAC.

• If you're not sure, choose MP3. It's compatible with a wider variety of devices.

Step 10: Choose your container format - MKV or MP4.

• If you're not sure, choose MP4. It's compatible with a wider variety of devices.
• AVI will never be available, so don't ask.

Step 11: 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. Megu IV 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 Megu IV back to it's default settings by deleting the "Sandbox" folder located in the same path as your Megu IV executable.
• The video encoder in Megu IV runs in one-pass "CRF" mode. "CRF" mode means your output quality will always be the same for every DVD. The drawback? You do not have precise control over the final output filesize. However, you can choose any of the "Smaller Filesize" OneClick profiles.

Download Megu IV v0.05 (source code available)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H27K8O3E (Megu IV.exe, 16.55 MB)

[Rollyco]

Reserved.

Anyone want to translate this guide into Japanese?

[Rollyco]

Reserved.

Anyone want to translate this guide into Chinese?

[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.