UMM - Uber MME Muxer

UMM is used to simplify the batch processing of video and image sequences that are output by Q3MME (Quake 3 Movie-Maker Edition) and Reflex.
It allows you to mux all of the output into .avi files with audio (when available).

Official UMM binaries

Grab them here.

Installation

UMM requires .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile at a minimum to to run.
If the link doesn't work, seach for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile (Standalone Installer).

UMM requires MEncoder, which is part of the free and open source MPlayer video player package.
It doesn't need any installation, you can extract it anywhere (even in Program Files or Program Files (x86)).
Only the version described as for 32-bit Windows will work with VFW codecs, so you should grab that one.
You can find the Windows builds here.

If you want to use a VFW codec (like Lagarith, for instance), you have to copy the .dll file(s) to $(MPlayer_folder)\codecs and make sure you have the 32-bit version of MEncoder.

UMM itself creates a Config.xml settings file right next to the executable so it's best to:

1. Have UMM in its own folder, so that Config.xml stays with the executable.
2. Not have UMM in Program Files or Program Files (x86)

Once you have UMM and MEncoder extracted into their respective folders:

1. Open up UMM.exe and navigate to the Settings tab.
2. Under General Settings, make sure you fill in the MEncoder Path text box with the file path to your MEncoder.exe.

Typical UMM usage scenario

The typical day-to-day usage scenario for UMM, assuming it's been set up properly:

1. Render some demos with q3mme or Reflex.
2. Drag'n'drop the content of q3mme's capture folder or Reflex' replays folder into UMM.
3. Click Go!.
4. If necessary, move and/or rename some of the output .avi files to their final location.
5. You can now import the video files into your preferred video editing tool and work on that cool movie of yours.

Supported input formats

Input format	File name	COP[1]: off	COP[1]: on	CODEC used	Audio?
1) Single .avi file	$(final_name).avi	Same	Custom	Color	If available
2) Folder with .avi file(s) + optional .wav	$(final_name).avi	Parent	Custom	Color	If available
3) Folder with image file(s) + optional .wav	$(final_name).avi	Parent	Custom	Color	If available
3) a) if matches (.depth..$(ext))	$(final_name).depth.avi	Parent	Custom	Monochrome	No
3) b) if matches (.stencil..$(ext))	$(final_name).stencil.avi	Parent	Custom	Monochrome	No
4) Reflex replay folder
4) a) colour output	$(demo_name)_time($time)_color.avi	Parent	Custom	Color	No[2]
4) b) depth output	$(demo_name)_time($time)_depth.avi	Parent	Custom	Monochrome	No[2]

1. COP: Custom Output Folder — see Output all files to this foler under General Settings
2. As of now (November 12 2015), Reflex doesn't output audio files yet

All output files (marked as $(final_name) above) are named according to the File Naming Rules settings.

Notes about the Reflex support in UMM:

1. The Reflex replay folders that UMM accepts are the ones at the root of the Reflex "replays" folder $(ReflexRoot)\base\replays.
2. The image sequences that Reflex outputs don't have leading zeroes in their names and MEncoder doesn't understand natural sort order for input. UMM will rename the files to add leading zeroes.
3. Reflex doesn't have audio output support (yet). If that changes and you don't see a new version of UMM with Reflex audio support, feel free to let the author know.

Settings

Video CODEC	Description
Raw	This will actually transform the input into a color-space/codec of MEncoder's choosing.
Copy	This will tell MEncoder to leave the data untouched whenever possible. Note that .tga inputs will create MTGA (Motion TGA) outputs and .png inputs will create MPNG (Motion PNG) outputs.
Lagarith	Use the Lagarith lossless codec: this codec only supports RGB(A) and YUV color spaces.
Lavc	Use a codec supported by the libavcodec library.

Monochrome Video CODEC

• The same explanations as for the Video CODEC settings above apply, except...
• Those settings are only used for depth/stencil image sequences.
• Q3MME: Depth sequences are those including the string ".depth." in the image file names.
• Q3MME: Stencil sequences are those including the string ".stencil." in the image file names.

Input and output FPS

If In is the Input Frame Rate and Out the Output Frame Rate, we have the following 3 possible scenarios:

Scenario	What to do or look out for
Out > In	This should never happen, render at the desired frame-rate instead.
Out = In	It's all good.
Out < In	This is usually used to have shorter blur traces. Make sure the input value is an integer multiple of the output value: In = n * Out, where n is an integer

Contact

GitHub user: mightycow
GitHub project page: ubermmemuxer

myT @ QuakeNet on IRC
myT @ ESR

Thanks

The Q3MME developers
The MPlayer/MEncoder developers
entik
farnish
santile

License

The entire source code in this release is covered by the GPL.
See COPYING.txt for the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.

Uber MME Muxer (UMM) is Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Gian 'myT' Schellenbaum.