4.0.24 (rc1):
- Merge with ffmpeg 4.0 series. vgtmpeg should now be more compatible with 4.0+ ffmpeg
- Versioning scheme now makes it easier to identify upstream ffmpeg branch. {ffmpeg_ver}.{vgtmpeg_rev}
- DVD/bluray urls no longer needs explicit output mapping. Default, titles, video and audio tracks are selected. This fixes common error “Output file #0 does not contain any stream” when not specifying mapping
- libx265/libx264/libvpx updated to latest versions
- libfaac AAC encoder dropped in favor of the much higher quality fdk-aac. Use encoder ‘libfdk_aac’ to use this aac encoder
- 32bit binaries have been deprecated for all platforms

2.2.38
- Merge with ffmpeg 2.6.x series. In particular, this version is merged and compatible with 2.6.1
- Download links to older versions are now provided on the site and should be used when compatibility with older versions is required

2.0.35
- fixed bug that was disabling keyboard interaction while in ffmpeg mode

2.0.34
- added h265 encoding support with x265
- added vp9 encoding support and libvpx-vp9
- vgtmpeg now comes with 384 codecs and 270 formats by default without extra libraries. see ‘vgtmpeg -codecs’ and ‘vgtmpeg -formats’ for actual list
- this version is merged off ffmpeg version 2.5.4
- now compatible ffmpeg version is reported in command line. System integrators can use this to gauge ffmpeg compatilibity.
- vgtmpeg does no longer need explicit ‘-map’ command line settings to map intput streams to output streams. Defaults are provided if not indicated.
- updated libdvdread to 5.x series and released vgtmpeg version in github http://github.com/concalma/libdvdread-vgtmpeg
- miscellaneous bugfixes

Enjoy

2.0.35
- fixed bug that was disabling keyboard interaction while in ffmpeg mode

2.0.34
- added h265 encoding support with x265
- added vp9 encoding support and libvpx-vp9
- vgtmpeg now comes with 384 codecs and 270 formats by default without extra libraries. see ‘vgtmpeg -codecs’ and ‘vgtmpeg -formats’ for actual list
- this version is merged off ffmpeg version 2.5.4
- now compatible ffmpeg version is reported in command line. System integrators can use this to gauge ffmpeg compatilibity.
- vgtmpeg does no longer need explicit ‘-map’ command line settings to map intput streams to output streams. Defaults are provided if not indicated.
- updated libdvdread to 5.x series and released vgtmpeg version in github http://github.com/concalma/libdvdread-vgtmpeg
- miscellaneous bugfixes

However the lack of 64bit browsers has been a challenge to go 64bit. Things are getting better though, and with today’s release of Chrome on 64bit for Windows, albeit only on the dev channel for the moment, you can now use 64bit on Windows. 64bit Chrome OS X is still missing though. Hopefully it will come online soon.

There are many benefits about running goDromo Media Transcoder on 64bit, the main one being performance. In our tests 64bit gMT is about 15-20% faster than the 32bit counterpart. You can check the support page to know more about 64bit mode but you can always check the task manager on Windows 8 to see if gMT/vgtmpeg is running in 64 bit mode.

vgtmpeg screaming through a transcode at 64bit speeds on Windows 8.1

Happy 64bit Transcoding!!

For a video editor like VirtualDub where precise frame access is crucial, all file formats that use inter frame compression (most of them these days) are sort of a pain point. The editor has to gain precise access to random frames in the file, whose intra/IDR/GOP frame structure is not known a priori. The input file plugin has to go through a bunch of hoops to provide this functionality many times with unexpected or undesirable results.

For this reason sometimes is not a bad idea to simply convert your media assets to some sort of uncompressed intra frame compressed media file, like an AVI file with uncompressed YUV/RGB video and uncompressed audio. Fear not, I just tinkered the AVI Converter by adding a new preset that does just that. It will take any media input including DVD and BluRay folders and output a big fat uncompressed AVI file. Beware the files will be huge specially if you are dealing with HD video. To use it just select the ‘to AVI Uncompressed ‘ preset. Also because gMT is running at native speeds is wicked fast and a great way to give your new SSD drive a great workout.

Here is screenshot of Windows 8.1 task manager running on a Samsung SSD 840, 317MB/s, not too shabby for a web app.

Use the AVI Converter/Decompressor here

Download VirtualDub here

version 0.8.6

•  Multiple transcode sessions per app. Just press on + and add as many transcode sessions as you may wish

This was easily our most requested feature. Until now you could only transcode one file/DVD/Bluray at a time. From now one you can do unlimited parallel transcode sessions right in your browser. Deleting an ongoing session is as simple as pressing the trashcan icon on the right.

•  Live preview of videos being transcoded

You get a live image preview of the image being processed on the converter.

•  Streamlined interface
•  Better support for Bluray and DVD folders. Many more input and output formats
• You can know select output folders per every session of transcode
• multiple bug fixes

goDromo Media Transcoder converting two videos simultaneously with previews turned on

The Nexus Converter is the first profile that has been updated to the new version but we expect to update the existing current converters soon. Stay tuned!

- fixed report duration from DVD parsing. some DVDs were reporting wrong length
- libdvdread messages are now only seen when set logging to verbose
- fix important issue with some DVDs where a whole cell would be skipped
- DVD urls are not reported with / slashes
- speed improvements when opening DVDs with lots of titles (30+)
- libvpx bumped up to 1.0.0
- bluray now much richer with chapters, language on audio tracks

Bluray input is now vastly improved and much more integrated into vgtmpeg/ffmpeg. For example metadata available in Bluray like chapters, language tags is now passed to the output format (mp4,mkv..) if the format allows it. This was available before on DVD inputs too.

vgtmpeg 1.4.62 has been synced up with the lastest version of ffmpeg which now includes a native bluray folder parser. vgtmpeg’s seems however to more featured. This release contains both bluray parsers so you can use whichever one you please.

As always this release comes precompiled and ready to use for Windows, MacOS X and Linux and available in intel versions for both 32 and 64 bit. That’s a total of 6 platforms! phew

Drop me a line if there are any issues.

Get it here now

> vgtmpeg -i bd://path_to_bd?title=5 outfile

You can learn more about how to use bluray urls and download vgtmpeg in the project homepage

There is more though…

Xvid 1.3.2 seems to support multi-threaded encoding so I spent sometime making sure that threading support was enabled in all platforms. They also seem to have some hand assembly done for both x86_32 and x86_64 so speed should be pretty decent across the board.

Another interesting addition in vgtmpeg 1.2.11 is that now the audio metadata found in the IFO files of the DVD is passed through to the stream metadata architecture of libavformat. This has nice side effects:

• some output muxes, like mp4 and mkv will now fill in correct language information straight from the DVD on the respective audio output tracks. I’ve tried this with VLC and seems to work well.

You can learn more and download vgtmpeg in the project homepage

And last but not least,

Happy Christmas to everybody