StaxRip is the oldest (since 2002), most feature rich and flexible encoding GUI.
General¶
- Personally if I need to encode a particular audio track I use EAC3To (not Handbrake) then mux those external audio tracks back in with the source video (MKV Merge works well). Every audio track is then set to AutoPassthru and every format in the Audio Default page has been ticked to allow passthru.
- Download UsEac3to GUI here Download Eac3to and More GUI here, main eac3to gui.The GUI may be reported as a virus in some antivirus programs but it is NOT. Download HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Stream Extractor here, extract streams using eac3to.
- Support for a wide variety of formats and tools.
- Batch Processing, can not only be used for encoding but for any task like remuxing,demuxing or AviSynth/VapourSynth script generation.
- Cut/Trim feature, for MKV output it works even in Copy/Mux mode, no re-encoding required.
- Minimal user interaction required due to rich configuration and automation features.
- Macro system to be used in scripts and command lines, this enables a design that allowsto change any setting at any time which is much more flexible and powerfull than a designthat requires to perform one step after another.
- The job list can be processed with multiple StaxRip instances in parallel for maximumperformance using modern CPUs.
- Video and multiple audio tracks can be processed in parallel for maximum performance with modern hardware.
- Support for an unlimited amount of audio and subtitle tracks.
- Automatic and manual update check.
- Powerfull media info using the worlds best media info frontend MediaInfo.NETwhich includes a folder view to show media info for a folder in a grid view.
- Powerfull media preview using the worlds best media player mpv(.net).
- Support via forum and issue tracker.
- Easy to use and feature rich crop dialog with hardware acceleration.
- Auto crop.
- Powerfull resize and aspect ratio related features with auto detection.
- Thumbnail generation tools.
- Full access and control to underlying tools with full support forcommand line and script editing to leverage the full potential of the tools.
- Container and hardcoded subtitles.
- Clean and easy to read log file and dedicated log file viewer to easily navigate the processing steps.
- Video comparison tool to compare video frames in a tab view.
- The processing window can be minimized to the system tray.
- For all essential console tools such as x265 and mkvmerge there is a built-in command line previeweither directly integrated in the dialog or via menu showable.
Tool Management¶
- Powerfull tool management dialog.
- 200 tools included.
- Tools are searchable.
- Custom paths can be defined or removed.
- Custom paths can be defined using the powerfull search and index tool voidtools Everything.
- Tool overview either as CSV file opened in (MS) Office or using PowerShell Out-GridViewwhich supports a powerfull search and filter feature.
- Feature to open the folder of a tool or start the tool including console tools showing the help.
Help¶
. fixed: 'eac3to source movie.mkv' demuxed video instead of muxing to MKV. negative edit now begins at the specified runtime instead of ending there v2.85. Microsoft activesync download. using 'eac3to source video.h264' doesn't demux audio/subtitle tracks, anymore. using 'eac3to source movie.' demuxes video, audio and subtitle tracks.
- For every tool the help file or help page can be shown in the Apps management dialog and also in the main menu under Help.
- The Apps management dialog provides easy access to tool websites and download sites.
- Tooltips.
- Context help via right-click, for x264 and x265 the context help has a local and a online version,for all video encoders the console output help can be shown via context help and with console look and feel.
- Customizable assistant.
Preprocessing¶
- Preprocessing steps such as demuxing is fully customizable with custom command lines.
- Demuxers: mkvextract, MP4Box, ffmpeg, eac3to.
- Demuxing GUI for mkvextract, MP4Box, ffmpeg and eac3to to define which tracks should be demuxed.
- Automatic demuxing mode to automatically demux everything.
- Automatic indexing with DGIndex, DGIndexNV, ffms2 and L-Smash-Works.
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Projects, Templates, Profiles¶
StaxRip is the oldest (since 2002), most feature rich and flexible encoding GUI.
General¶
- Personally if I need to encode a particular audio track I use EAC3To (not Handbrake) then mux those external audio tracks back in with the source video (MKV Merge works well). Every audio track is then set to AutoPassthru and every format in the Audio Default page has been ticked to allow passthru.
- Download UsEac3to GUI here Download Eac3to and More GUI here, main eac3to gui.The GUI may be reported as a virus in some antivirus programs but it is NOT. Download HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Stream Extractor here, extract streams using eac3to.
- Support for a wide variety of formats and tools.
- Batch Processing, can not only be used for encoding but for any task like remuxing,demuxing or AviSynth/VapourSynth script generation.
- Cut/Trim feature, for MKV output it works even in Copy/Mux mode, no re-encoding required.
- Minimal user interaction required due to rich configuration and automation features.
- Macro system to be used in scripts and command lines, this enables a design that allowsto change any setting at any time which is much more flexible and powerfull than a designthat requires to perform one step after another.
- The job list can be processed with multiple StaxRip instances in parallel for maximumperformance using modern CPUs.
- Video and multiple audio tracks can be processed in parallel for maximum performance with modern hardware.
- Support for an unlimited amount of audio and subtitle tracks.
- Automatic and manual update check.
- Powerfull media info using the worlds best media info frontend MediaInfo.NETwhich includes a folder view to show media info for a folder in a grid view.
- Powerfull media preview using the worlds best media player mpv(.net).
- Support via forum and issue tracker.
- Easy to use and feature rich crop dialog with hardware acceleration.
- Auto crop.
- Powerfull resize and aspect ratio related features with auto detection.
- Thumbnail generation tools.
- Full access and control to underlying tools with full support forcommand line and script editing to leverage the full potential of the tools.
- Container and hardcoded subtitles.
- Clean and easy to read log file and dedicated log file viewer to easily navigate the processing steps.
- Video comparison tool to compare video frames in a tab view.
- The processing window can be minimized to the system tray.
- For all essential console tools such as x265 and mkvmerge there is a built-in command line previeweither directly integrated in the dialog or via menu showable.
Tool Management¶
- Powerfull tool management dialog.
- 200 tools included.
- Tools are searchable.
- Custom paths can be defined or removed.
- Custom paths can be defined using the powerfull search and index tool voidtools Everything.
- Tool overview either as CSV file opened in (MS) Office or using PowerShell Out-GridViewwhich supports a powerfull search and filter feature.
- Feature to open the folder of a tool or start the tool including console tools showing the help.
Help¶
. fixed: 'eac3to source movie.mkv' demuxed video instead of muxing to MKV. negative edit now begins at the specified runtime instead of ending there v2.85. Microsoft activesync download. using 'eac3to source video.h264' doesn't demux audio/subtitle tracks, anymore. using 'eac3to source movie.' demuxes video, audio and subtitle tracks.
- For every tool the help file or help page can be shown in the Apps management dialog and also in the main menu under Help.
- The Apps management dialog provides easy access to tool websites and download sites.
- Tooltips.
- Context help via right-click, for x264 and x265 the context help has a local and a online version,for all video encoders the console output help can be shown via context help and with console look and feel.
- Customizable assistant.
Preprocessing¶
- Preprocessing steps such as demuxing is fully customizable with custom command lines.
- Demuxers: mkvextract, MP4Box, ffmpeg, eac3to.
- Demuxing GUI for mkvextract, MP4Box, ffmpeg and eac3to to define which tracks should be demuxed.
- Automatic demuxing mode to automatically demux everything.
- Automatic indexing with DGIndex, DGIndexNV, ffms2 and L-Smash-Works.
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Projects, Templates, Profiles¶
- AviSynth and VapourSynth video filter plugins that are not included can be used by adding custom filter profiles.
- Customizable video filter profiles that can be enabled via context menu.
- Project system that automatically saves encoding settings for a particular source file.
- Previously encoded projects can be found in a Recent menu to encode them againwith different settings, encoded audio and video of previous runs can be reused or overwritten.
- Project templates for different types of sources, a startup template can be defined to customaize the startup settings.
- Profile system for video filter profiles, video encoder profiles, audio encoding profiles,muxing profiles, filter setup (full script) profiles.
- Project options used by projects and project templates and also separate global settings.
Video Processing¶
- Video editing using classic AviSynth and next generation VapourSynth, both equally well supportedand everything like QTGMC just works out of the box effortlessly.
- Large amount of included AviSynth and VapourSynth plugins, overall 200 tools incuded.
- Code editor to enable full control over AviSynth and VapourSynth,everything that is possible with AviSynth and VapourSynth is also possible with StaxRip.
- Code preview to preview the code generated for AviSynth and VapourSynth.
- Built-in hardware accelerated video preview and preview via mpv(.net) and MPC-BE/MPC-HC.
- Built-in script info to show script parameters like framerate andadvanced script preview using various external tools like AVSMeter.
- External AviSynth (.avs) and VapourSynth (.vpy) scripts can be opened/imported.
- Automatic import of (VUI) color metadata.
- Full high bit depth and HDR support.
- Compressibility check.
- It can be customized which source filters should be used for different formats.
Encoding¶
- Hardware encoding for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA.
- All classic and modern video encoders are fully supported: XviD, x264, x265, Rav1e, SVT-AV1, NVEnc, QSVEnc, VCEEnv, ffmpeg.
- Audio encoders: eac3to, qaac, fdkaac, ffmpeg.
- Popular encoders such as x265 and NVEnc have almost 100% GUI supportmeaning allmost all available command line switches are supported.
- Video encoder dialogs are searchable to quickly find options in a drop down and search field.
- Video encoder dialogs have a command line preview, this preview has a contextmenu that allows to quickly find GUI options for command line switches.
- Generic audio and video command line based encoder to integrate any encoder that isn't already built-in.
- Parallel audio video encoding.
- Parallel junk encoding for x265.
Muxing¶
- MKV output using mkvmerge.
- MP4 output using MP4Box.
- ffmpeg supporting various container formats.
- Copy/Mux modes for audio and video plain re-muxing without encoding.
- Cut/Trim feature for MKV output that works even in Copy/Mux mode, no re-encoding required.
Power User¶
- Event Command feature that allows to assign custom commands to various eventsfor instance to execute custom command lines on given events.
- Scriptable via PowerShell.
- Customizable main menu and context menus.
- A PowerShel terminal can be shown with support for the new Windows Terminal,this terminal has a special environment for easy access of included consoletools, all macros are available as environment variables in thisterminal and in all features that allow to define custom command lines.
Installation¶
- 100% Portable, nothing has to be installed.
- Installed AviSynth or VapourSynth can optionally be used instead of the included.
User Interface¶
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- Pixel perfect High DPI scaling.
- Large amount of customized GUI controls and elements.
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This is something that has bugged me for a while now and it seams many of you don't know how to handle AC-3 audio, without the need to transcode to lossless (FLAC, DTS-HD MA,PCM) after it was synced. In order to sync an AC-3 audio track to a new source, just use eac3to to edit the AC-3 audio. A long time ago zeropc showed me this technique, which he was teached by jj666. Now the method itself wont be always perfect, but the tracks I've heard so far or even edited myself are pretty good. Most of the time you wont even notice a thing. Editing an AC-3 audio track needs to be done in 32ms frame window. This means the audio sometime wont be synced down to the level you might want it to be. It usually drifts between 2ms to 31ms. Nothing the average listener will notice
How do you edit an AC-3 track with eac3to?
It's rather simple
1. transcode the AC-3 to WAV and import into your audio tool of choice and sync it to the new source
2. keep notes of the editing timecodes (hours|minutes|seconds|milliseconds) and delays you needed in order to sync the audio - I recommend to work with multiple track lines
3. create the proper cmd lines for eac3to to edit your original AC-3 audio so it will synced
use the initial delay if needed
eac3to source.ac3 target.ac3 +/-value
then use your editing timecodes + delay values
eac3to movie1.ac3 movie2.ac3 -edit=0:10:00.000,100ms
eac3to movie2.ac3 movie3.ac3 -edit=0:45:43.123,-54ms
and so on
eac3to will add silence if you add -silence at the and of the command line if required
eac3to movie3.ac3 movie4.ac3 -edit=0:50:00.000,50ms -silence
If you don't use the -silence cmd, eac3to will loop the audio for the given delay. so experiment what would work better for the edit.
If the original AC-3 audio has a DialNorm Flag and you want to keep it (I always did keep them), make sure to use -keepdialnorm cmd at each cmd line
eac3to movie3.ac3 movie4.ac3 -edit=1:05:00.450,24ms -keepdialnorm
You can create a batch file and after a few minutes you'll get a synced and transcode free audio file.
I hope this little guide will help you on your future projects, as I believe you shouldn't always transcode unless it's absolutely needed.
How do you edit an AC-3 track with eac3to?
It's rather simple
1. transcode the AC-3 to WAV and import into your audio tool of choice and sync it to the new source
2. keep notes of the editing timecodes (hours|minutes|seconds|milliseconds) and delays you needed in order to sync the audio - I recommend to work with multiple track lines
3. create the proper cmd lines for eac3to to edit your original AC-3 audio so it will synced
use the initial delay if needed
eac3to source.ac3 target.ac3 +/-value
then use your editing timecodes + delay values
eac3to movie1.ac3 movie2.ac3 -edit=0:10:00.000,100ms
eac3to movie2.ac3 movie3.ac3 -edit=0:45:43.123,-54ms
and so on
eac3to will add silence if you add -silence at the and of the command line if required
eac3to movie3.ac3 movie4.ac3 -edit=0:50:00.000,50ms -silence
If you don't use the -silence cmd, eac3to will loop the audio for the given delay. so experiment what would work better for the edit.
If the original AC-3 audio has a DialNorm Flag and you want to keep it (I always did keep them), make sure to use -keepdialnorm cmd at each cmd line
eac3to movie3.ac3 movie4.ac3 -edit=1:05:00.450,24ms -keepdialnorm
You can create a batch file and after a few minutes you'll get a synced and transcode free audio file.
I hope this little guide will help you on your future projects, as I believe you shouldn't always transcode unless it's absolutely needed.
