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Title:	MeGUI H.264 Conversion Guide
Description:	A guide on how to use MeGUI to encode H.264 (MP4) files, using DVD conversion as the main example
Author/Publisher:	DVDGuy
Ease of use:	Intermediate
Software Used:	MeGUI, Nero Digital Audio Decoder/Encoder, x264
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Page 3 of 7: D2V Creator

Step 3: D2V Creator

For more information on all the settings of MeGUI, please refer to the MeWiki website.

This step will use MeGUI's D2V Creator tool to create a D2V file needed for MeGUI/AviSynth to handle MPEG-2 files. This step is required only for MPEG-2 files - all other types of inputs do not require a D2V file and can be loaded straight into AviSynth and therefore, you can skip this step and go to the next page/step (Step 4: AviSynth Script Creator).

Start MeGUI. I like to first clear the job queues of previously finished jobs. This is optional, but it might help to make things clearer. To do this, click on the "Queue" tab and then click on the "Clear" button.

From the "Tools" menu, select "D2V Creator". In the "Video Input" section, load the first VOB file of the movie titleset (the rest of the files in the set will be loaded automatically). You will get an error message about not being able to find DVD Decrypter generated info files, this is fine (as we did not use DVD Decrypter's IFO mode) and press "OK" to skip this error.

Select which audio track(s) to demux - you can select more than one track if you want the encoded file to have multiple audio tracks. Alternatively, you can just select the demux all the tracks and then choose the correct audio track(s) later on.

The default save directory is the same directory as your loaded DVD VOB files - change this if you want to. Select both the "On completion load files", "and close" checkboxes and press the "Queue" button. You are now returned to MeGUI - click on the "Queue" tab and press the "Start" button to start the D2V creation. When processing has finished, the status of the queued job will read "Done" and the created D2V file will be loaded into the AviSynth Script Creator ready for the next step. This can take a while, so please be patient - the status window's progress bar may not move, but don't worry, DGIndex is working.

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Article Navigation:

Page 1: Introduction and Installation
Page 2: DVD Ripping
Page 3: D2V Creator <--
Page 4: AviSynth Script Creator
Page 5: Video Encoding Options
Page 6: Audio Encoding Options
Page 7: Cutting, Bitrate Calculator and AutoEncode

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Excellent guide! The only problem I have with this approach is that you can't control the output resolution very efficiently (meGUI reports 16:9, but outputs the video in 4:3 anyway, and if manually resized the output is skewed anyway) and the output video is extremely washed out compared to the original. I played back the resulting mp4-file in Quicktime, VLC and other players and it's the same on all, blacks are grey. The entire picture has a LOT of brightness.

Thanks, I've been trying to learn how to use this tool. There is a doubt in using autoencode: I'm not sure the profile I chose is used or not. for example, in the main input interface, I chose MKV as container and then the video profile. But when I press autoencode, the window pops up did not show any chosen profile while the container is MP4 as default... It feels the the settings in main input interface are ignored?

Astro_Toy: Rest assured that the profile settings are being used. However, you do need to separately select the container (MKV, MP4) since this setting is not part of the profile.

I keep getting "error" for audio when I start the encoding. Any ideas? I tried .mkv & .mp4 & I tried both the 5.1 audio track & the 2.0 track from my DVD.

Check your application routes in settings, Had that same problem encoding with NeroAAC and it was because I didn't have right route to the codec. Hope this helps. :-)

I'm getting this error:"C:\Program Files\megui\tools\x264\x264.exe: unknown option -- nal-hrd" when I encode using the SA Blu Ray profile. I made up my own blu ray profile without the --nal-hrd option. It is running now but I have to wait another 9 hours for it to finish (I have a crappy 1.8 GHz Athlon PC) and see if the result is any good. In the meantime, can you point me to any fix to this error?

Sibenik: That profile works for me. Are you using the latest version of x264 as updated through the MeGUI updater (as opposed to downloading the latest x264.exe from the official site)? Try that if you are still getting this error.

ok i keep getting an error when trying to use the avisynth creator it is a " Unable to render the file. You probably don't have the correct filters installed." all of the options are greyed out other than the Video input the avisynth which is set at "*scratchpad*" with the config button available and also the video output is available. I've followed this tutorial but it doesn't address this issue but i might have missed something. Any thoughts guys?

Roguecat: Sounds like you don't have the right filters installed. Make sure you are able to playback the file in Media Player Classic, and it is highly recommended that you use ffdshow, as it works very well with Avisynth