Beiträge von Joe24

  • NVENC bitrate

    • 96kbps AAC confirmed working.
    • Duplicate filename behavior confirmed working.
    • I can't reproduce the different-folder bug now, even doing what I did before (Vegas destination was default Documents folder on C: drive, VoukoderPro destination was set to D:\temp). Not sure what the difference is now. Free win, I guess?


    NVENC bitrate

    • The 2 attached files are encoded using supposedly identical settings, one using Voukouder v13.0.2, and one using VoukoderPro v0.7.1.5. Both videos are 1080p and have a target bitrate of 2.5 Mbps. Screenshots of the settings used are included.
    • Water videos.zip
    • I'm not aware of any user-defined minimum bitrate setting for NVENC VBR in either Voukoder or VoPro. There are only target (average), max, and buffer bitrates. As mentioned, the max rate is being observed, but the actual output bitrate is much lower than the commanded target rate.

  • NVENC bitrate

    A few issues noticed while experimenting with Vegas Pro 20.0 and VoukoderPro v0.7.1.4:

    • NVENC VBR target video bitrate is not being observed, although the max bitrate seems to be working. This affects both HEVC and h.264. Didn't try AV1. Tried to set a target video bitrate of anywhere from 2500-512000 kbps etc., but actual output is 200-400 kbps. If 2-pass is enabled, things get even worse (< 200 kbps).
    • AAC encoding setting of 96 kb/s CBR gives 128 kb/s. Other bitrate settings seem correct. This could possibly be an issue with the MediaInfo app.
    • If Vegas' output file name and VoukoderPro's output file name are not in the same folder/drive, the render hangs.
    • If you are creating multiple output files without specifying a unique name for each file, VoukoderPro will write both streams to the same file, resulting in a corrupt file.

  • VoukoderPro - Public Beta

    No.

    voukoderproplug.dll appears in Vegas' Component list. Cleared cache and preferences using Ctrl+Shift. No change.

    File size of voukoderproplug.dll is 175 KB, is this the expected size and version (0.1.0.0)?

    Is there a way to log what's (not) going on?

  • VoukoderPro - Public Beta

    Yes, voukoderproplug.dll is listed in Components (see screenshot).

    Uninstalled and reinstalled Vegas. Flushed the plugin cache with Ctrl+Shift, deleted all preference data.

    Still nothing showing in Render As menus.

  • VoukoderPro - Public Beta

    Zitat von Vouk

    Regarding the installer: Can you test if this fixes the issue?

    • VoukoderPro is still not available in the Vegas 20 render list. Tried uninstalling, reinstalling, rebooting, etc. Tried with the default installation settings, and also tried the options to install everything.
    • VoukoderPro.aex no longer appears in the root folder.
    • VoukoderPro.prm still appears in the root folder of a bulk storage drive (drive I:) which has no role in my operating system. There are multiple bulk drives available in the system, but it prefers Drive I:. If I remove drive I: from the system, VoukoderPro.prm instead appears in the root folder of my boot drive C:.

  • VoukoderPro - Public Beta

    Zitat von Vouk

    I've added first VEGAS Pro 20.0 support to 0.7.

    Hmmm . . . Voukoder Pro isn't shown in the renderer list (see screenshot). I'm using Vegas Pro 20.0 build 411.

    Uninstalled, reinstalled. No change.

    Also found VoukoderPro.aex and VoukoderPro.prm files in the root folder of one of my bulk storage drives (I:) which was odd. They were placed there today when I installed VoukoderPro v0.7, judging from the timestamps.

    And all audio and video streams in the output test files from Scene Designer are flagged as Swedish. Even when you manually enable the language flag for each stream and set it to English etc.

  • NVENC resolution scaling (scale_cuda)

    Test function reports success with this layout. Will see how that translates to the real world when the time comes.

    Video and audio streams in output files are by default flagged as.... Swedish??? Even after manually enabling language metadata in each stream node and setting all 4 streams to English.

  • NVENC resolution scaling (scale_cuda)

    Not really a bug, more of a question . . . Am I just missing something here?

    I've been playing around with the Scene Designer a bit, while waiting for Vegas Pro functionality to arrive. Love the interface. From downloading to having more-or-less what I wanted on the screen took less than 15 minutes. Of course I'm not able to actually test the results yet . . .

    One thing I notice is that the scale_cuda video filter doesn't appear in the list of available filters. (scale_cuda is the hardware scaler function on Nvidia graphics cards.) This would be fairly important for my use-case, as I'm trying to have the GPU accept a single video stream, split this into two streams, scale one of them down to 720p resolution, then use NVENC to encode them to different formats (h.264 and h.265).

    If this chain has to send a video stream back to the CPU for software scaling, and then back to the card, there will be a huge performance penalty.

    You can see my desired scenario below, except the Scale video filter would use scale_cuda and thereby keep all the computation on the graphics card.

    PS, wildcard file naming would be helpful, especially in a case like this where both output files will be MP4 file formats with the same name from the NLE. It would be nice to be able to add a suffix to the name from the NLE, for instance "* - Blu-ray version.mp4" and "* - download version.mp4".


  • How Voukoder saved me 2 month of work

    Zitat von Steve Rhoden (Hentys)

    I am an expert....

    Not in other people's affairs, you're not.


    Zitat von Steve Rhoden (Hentys)

    Trolling, constantly looking for an argument and a fight by jumping into other user's posts that does not concern you.....

    Here we have the OP thanking the author for his work. A conversation which in no way involved you. You inserted yourself and your views on how the OP is doing everything wrong.

    So, yeah... trolling. Which is what you've been doing to multiple people in multiple forums, such as this one...

    If you don't understand why people are doing things a certain way, the intelligent approach would be to learn more about their specific use-case before opening your mouth. If they even want your help, which is unlikely.

    If you've got a workflow that works for you, that's great! So does everybody else.

  • [POLL] With which host/NLE do you mainly use voukoder?

    Zitat von Steve Rhoden (Hentys)

    What does my response to someone else have to do with you Joe24 ?

    I was not talking to you!

    I was addressing Jorge Luis on using old software, which of course will ultimately lead to errors and limitations when used in conjunction with newer technology and modern coding.

    If he wants to use old software, "ultimately" that's none of your business. I also use Vegas 12 for some things, despite owning 15 and 20. Newer is not necessarily better, and 20 is actually a real PITA for some things. Neither of us owe you an explanation of our rationale for using "old" software. Nor do the other people whom you've attempted to 'convert' in the other forums. Mind your own business.