x264 x265 Customized Progress Text Tweaks - staxrip/staxrip GitHub Wiki

2.1.7.6 Beta introduced a new feature: x264 and x265 can be enabled to have shorter customized progress texts. This feature saves a lot of space in the progress bar if activated, and it goes well with the shipped x264/x265 mod builds by @DJATOM.

You can enable this feature in Tools > Settings > User Interface as follows: (It's enabled by default starting with 2.1.7.8.)

The default customized progress text is as follows:

As you can see, the progress text is shortened drastically. But since @DJATOM's x264 build provides a progress header as well, it remains apart from the progress text.

In order to remove this header, you need to add a (custom) x264 option --no-progress-header as follows:

<2.1.7.6>

<2.1.7.7 and above>

Show progress header is incorporated as an x264 option in 2.1.7.7, so you just need to uncheck it.

This option removes the header as follows:

The default customized progress text is as follows:

But @DJATOM provides a custom option that enables users to monitor how many frames are passed from the script to x265. You can enable it by adding this custom option --progress-readframes as follows:

<2.1.8.1 and above>

In 2.1.8.1, Progress Readframes option is incorporated for @DJATOM's x265 build.

This option provides additional information in the progress text as follows: