New versions of MeGUI allow you to update without having to keep track of everything it depends on, which is nice. And of course there's the command-line interface. Out of those, I've only ever used MeGUI to any extent. Am I to assume i can use virtualdub to encode (with the proper files installed, of course) or is there a preferred alternative GUI floating around?Īs for using VDub to encode, it's strongly recommended not to, because many of the features that allow H.264 to achieve the much smaller sizes that it can don't like to play nice with VFW (which VDub uses to encode), even moreso than the B-frames in XviD or DivX - especially because those two are limited to 2-3 at the most, and H.264 allows up to 16, and the B-frame pyramid, and mixed references, which make for a trifecta encoding nightmare when using H.264 inside of AVI or VFW-based MKV (which is why most H.264 releases are either in MP4 or proper ISO-based MKV - both of those handle those features the way that they're supposed to).īasically, as far as GUIs go, there are several, including (remembering strictly off the top of my head here), StaxRip, RealAnime, a GTK-based one for X11, and MeGUI.

BasharOfTheAges wrote:I skimmed through the other thread and didn't find any mention of encoding methods.

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