CLI Encoder question

[jacobacci]

I recently upgraded CLI encoder to Version 6 and installed the Opus Codec.
Now I am getting the attached error message when I try to convert a file.

Replacing .ext by .opus in C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\CLI Encoder\encoder.txt makes the message go away. Does it solve the underlying problem too?

[Spoon]

Re: CLI Encoder question

You need to do much more than that to configure the CLI encoder, you need to specify the encoder and command line (how opus expects the input and output file). See the help file for the CLI encoder.

[jacobacci]

Re: CLI Encoder question

Thanks Spoon, please bear with me.
I am aware of that. I had worked on the encoder.txt file for qaac.exe a while back, which was quite a learning curve

https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?28626-QAAC-CLI-Encoder-errors&p=150458&viewfull=1*post150458

However the Opus encoder seems to be different. The installation file at Codec Central seems to contain everyting needed. It creates the C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\Opus Folder and puts opusenc.exe there. It also creates C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\opus.dll and C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\opus.ico.
What it does not create is the C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\Opus\encoder.txt
Creating C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\Opus\encoder.txt (first three lines) does not make the initial CLI error message go away.
What confuses me is why the generic encoder.txt in C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\CLI Encoeder needs to be modified. That location seems to be a generic one and not related to a specific coded. Why would the information regarding Opus need to go there. Why not the information regarding mp3 (Lame), which also does not have an ecoder.txt file in C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\mp3 (Lame).
The tutorial is not really clear on this issue, as it covers a specific (musepack) case.
Just don't want to screw anything up.
Thanks a lot

[jacobacci]

Re: CLI Encoder question

After installation of the Opus codec with the installation file from Codec Central, the user interface of Opus works, after the initial CLI Encoder error message is clicked away. The encoder also encodes correctly. So the codec seems to work without C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\Opus\encoder.txt (as does mp3 (Lame)).



If I put a generic first three lines

[codec[
.ext
encoder.exe

into C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\CLI Encoder\encoder.txt, the initial CLI Encoder message goes away and everything seems to work fine