AutoMen (Mini Mencoder Gui) 3.3 



AutoMen it 's a multi pourpose encoder gui built on Mencoder. AutoMen can encode avi/mkv/mp4/mov/vob/mpeg/vro/ts/dvr-ms... in other video formats

English referring thread on Doom9 -> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1018336
Italian referring thread on DivXMania ->  http://www.divxmania.it/index.php?showtopic=10054

AutoMen is developed by buzzqw


AutoMen con output this video formats

Installation

AutoMen needs several applications to work properly : mencoder.exe, mplayer.exe, mp4box.exe, lvlchange, mediainfo, and the MKVToolnix.
Newer build of mencoder can be downloaded from Sherpya Site http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
MP4Box , Kurtnoise13 build's on http://kurtnoise.free.fr/index.php?dir=mp4tools/
MediaInfo is used in command line mode, take it from http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
Mkvtoolnix is used for mkv muxing (optional) or for the passthrough features. The Passthrough is used for converting mkv (h264+audio) to PlayStation3 compatible format without encoding.  http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/downloads.html

On Program Path is possible to specify the path of varius application. Be sure to save settings and exit  changing path.

The "full" package will contain all needed software BUT MKVToolnix

Loading Input file

Simply drag & drop the file on window. After few seconds the sliders will be valorized. 

How to Encode




After dropping input, please select the output file type (a).

Select theVideo Resize (b). You can let AutoMen autocrop and resize, keep original, or enlange.

On Final Size slide is possible to select how big the final size of movie (audio+video) will be. Hint: use the arrow for fine tuning

On Video Quality (d) select the number of pass and the quality of encoding. More pass, more quality. More the slider is right more quality you got.
The first 6 tic is single pass encoding, the 7/8/9/10 are 2 pass encoding. For XviD/FF4/MP4/PS3 there are 4 additional tic used for pure quality encoding
Using Quality Encoding the Final Size will be ignored

Audio Quality (e) is to use for selecting audio bitrate

Other Options

The D button is the "dumpstream" feature of mplayer. Copy an url link (mms/rtps...) in clipboard and hit the D, the stream will be downloaded locally.
The P button is to Play the file. The resolution is those selected on Video Resize
Check the Shutdown  for shutdown at end of encoding
The Thread check is for allowing MultiThreading encoding. By default isn't supported since not all mencoder build have this feature
You can also select if movie is to deinterlace, to decimate..
QueueIT is used for queueing the encoding

Advanced Settings



There are several options to tune. All these options are not needed to set manually. Leave it as is if you don't know what to do.
You can select the resizer.
You can manually set the crop values. All crop values must be valorized. If you don't crop at right (as example) put 0.
If you don't set values, AutoMen will autocrop (if requested).
You can also set the Height, if not set the value will be automatically computed basing on width and aspect ratio.
It's also possible to ask an automatic crop detection (Detect Crop) and have a Preview of  the crop values inserted
You can set the encoding mode for Lame, constant bitrate or average bitrate mode. You can also set the sampling frequency (SSRC).
You can tune the encoding priority and select the level of denoise to apply, from light denoise to severe denoise (for very grain movies)
You can choose to delete temporary files at end of encoding.
The Manual Bitrate have priority on bitrate computed by Final Size. Here you can write the video bitrate to use in KiloBytes (like 1000 for 1024000 bps).
You can also use this value as CQ/CRF (1-31 for xvid, 1-51 for x264) to use for Quality Based encoding.
The Split Size is used only for MP4 and PS3 encoding

Program Path



Here AutoMen will show you the path of varius needed software.
AutoMen suppose all software present in its path, if different you can set here the path of varius application.

Start Encoding

Simple click Start. The final file will be named as input file plus _automen.avi/mp4/mkv...
If input file is named "Holiday at Haway.mpeg" the resulting file name will be "Holiday at Haway_automen.avi"

Passthrough - Get PS3 file without encoding

Only if the video is already X264/H.264, AutoMen will propose to remux the file in MP4. Only the audio, if needed wil be encoded.



If you answer YES the passthrough will start and after few minute you will have your mp4 file, if NO the re-encoding will start

Warning: no guarantee is given for passthrough compatibility with PS3

Source Code and License

The sourcecode is in PureBasic 4, avaiable on request. AutoMen is a FreeWare application. No guarantee is given on it's fuctionality or use.