anri-chan

2011-03-20 08:22:30 am

Careful with avi. The general rule is that unless you are compressing with xvid/divx, you should not use the avi container. Use mp4 or mkv.

ballofsnow

2011-03-20 11:56:54 am

Multiple audio commentary tracks.

http://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/more_than_1_audio_commentary_track_in_anri.html

puwexil

2011-03-20 05:13:09 pm

Professional Second Banana

I'm trying to use anri-chan to encode a test run I did of a 5-hour game (captured from Dazzle using VirtualDub, Lagarith video code, and uncompressed audio), and am having similar problems to what grndino had on the last page of this thread (can encode subsections of the source video but not the whole thing). For me though, the video seems to be encoding fine, but the audio encode fails (the first attempt fails after processing in virtualdub for about 20 minutes, then shortly after the 2nd attempt begins a process called bepipe crashes) and I don't get any output video files. I've attached the encode log file, shell output, and bepipe crash info - any help would be greatly appreciated!

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ballofsnow: 2011-03-21 11:01:24 am

2011-03-21 11:00:46 am

Both vdub and bepipe failed.. interesting. We're moving to the wavi utility in the next Anri version, I'm curious to see whether it will fail as well. I attached a custom build of Anri 3.2 which uses it. Place the 3 files in the anri program directory.

If that fails, try running your video through VirtualDub with Video->Direct Stream Copy and Audio->Full Processing Mode, then go through Anri again.

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2011-03-21 04:52:08 pm

Professional Second Banana

Thanks! Starting the new encode now.

ballofsnow

2011-03-24 10:24:58 am

So.. did it work?

puwexil

2011-03-24 10:29:12 am

Professional Second Banana

The LQ/MQ encodes worked just fine with the wavi utility - thanks! HQ is only encoding at ~3 fps and is going to take a few more days. I'll let you know how that goes - last time I tried to encode a longer video (~3 hours for that one I think), the HQ failed.

ballofsnow

2011-03-24 04:59:23 pm

Ok, that's good news. Thanks for reporting back.

puwexil

2011-03-27 06:59:05 pm

Professional Second Banana

HQ encode ended up working fine - thanks! Only issue I'm still having is that if I try to do an NMF for the HQ encode, my computer will lock up shortly after that part of the script starts, and need to be hard booted to fix. Is there anything I can do to fix that? I'm running Win7 64-bit on a Core i7-860 proc.

ballofsnow

2011-04-02 04:50:03 pm

NMF is cpu intensive, which was the point, but not sure why it would lock up your computer. You're saying you have to hard boot to get nmf working, or just to get your computer "unlocked"? Does nmf even encode anything? You should see 8 separate avi files for NMF on an i7-860 (8 threads).

puwexil

2011-04-02 05:40:22 pm

Professional Second Banana

My PC would freeze and I'd have to power cycle it to regain control (ctrl-alt-del would not work). The hang/crash happens maybe 10-15 seconds after the NMF script starts, and no AVI files are actually produced. I've tried it maybe 3 times with the same result each time.

Former_Human

2011-04-08 12:41:03 pm

Quote from ballofsnow:

AviSynth MT is an improvement, but still not maxing cpu.

Any word on how much of an improvement it is? I think 15-20% would make it worth including.

ballofsnow

2011-04-09 09:32:47 am

I don't remember.

ballofsnow

2011-04-16 11:31:22 am

bmn,

Been thinking about the whole centralized avisynth code you worked on. Is there any way to still allow a user to manually change the avisynth code at the project level? It seems like with the centralized code it removes that "feature" from the user.

DJS

2011-04-20 09:56:03 am

torch slug since 2006

In anri, is it possible to remove that black border my capture card creates?

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2011-04-20 10:53:03 am

No. You could crop it out before feeding to Anri, but you'd have to make sure aspect ratios are correct, that the video dimensions are mod 4 in width, mod 2 in height, maybe some other complications that I've forgotten. Not really worth it imo.

DJS

2011-04-20 12:38:18 pm

torch slug since 2006

Quote from ballofsnow:

No. You could crop it out before feeding to Anri, but you'd have to make sure aspect ratios are correct, that the video dimensions are mod 4 in width, mod 2 in height, maybe some other complications that I've forgotten. Not really worth it imo.

Okay, so I shall just try to ignore those borders?

ballofsnow

2011-04-21 12:41:06 pm

That's what I would do, up to you really.

ballofsnow

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2011-04-22 05:06:26 pm

Anri will finally have a settings menu. Got a few in there so far.

nate

2011-04-23 02:58:50 pm

nice. cute.

ballofsnow

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ballofsnow: 2011-04-24 01:23:27 pm

2011-04-24 01:22:41 pm

Quote from ballofsnow:

Not much luck with wavi. Getting errors right off the bat. End result is audio with intermittent static noise.

Quote from BGW:

Never seen it, but that neroAacEnc is quite old. I only tested with 1.3.3.0 and 1.5.1.0. 1.3.3.0 has some related fixes I think. You might try also -ignorelength, but I didn't need it. You could also try

wavi source.avs intermediate.wav

and then

neroAacEnc -q 0.5 -if intermediate.wav -of audio.mp4

to see where the problem is. But oh well, not very important.

Quote from ballofsnow:

I also have wavi in there in place of vdub wav dump and bepipe. -ignorelength seems to be necessary on neroaacenc because it's using stdin.

Argh. Trying to get Anri 3.3 out, but ran into the wavi static problem that I thought was fixed with the ignorelength flag, so this is a setback. Possible alternative is avs2pipe.

edit - Same problem with avs2pipe, but not static, just silence. I tried BGW's suggestion of writing the temp file and it seems to work. Kind of wanted to avoid having to write the temp file, but if it's the only way to get it working, so be it. I guess neroaacenc doesn't work so well with stdin. Will stick with wavi, though I'm still skeptical; Avs2pipe may have other uses.

[quote="ballofsnow"]Not much luck with wavi. Getting errors right off the bat. End result is audio with intermittent static noise.[/quote]
[quote="BGW"]Never seen it, but that neroAacEnc is quite old. I only tested with 1.3.3.0 and 1.5.1.0. 1.3.3.0 has some related fixes I think. You might try also -ignorelength, but I didn't need it. You could also try

wavi source.avs intermediate.wav

and then

neroAacEnc -q 0.5 -if intermediate.wav -of audio.mp4

to see where the problem is. But oh well, not very important.[/quote]
[quote="ballofsnow"]I also have wavi in there in place of vdub wav dump and bepipe. -ignorelength seems to be necessary on neroaacenc because it's using stdin.[/quote]
Argh. Trying to get Anri 3.3 out, but ran into the wavi static problem that I thought was fixed with the ignorelength flag, so this is a setback. Possible alternative is [url=http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=160383]avs2pipe[/url].

edit - Same problem with avs2pipe, but not static, just silence. I tried BGW's suggestion of writing the temp file and it seems to work. Kind of wanted to avoid having to write the temp file, but if it's the only way to get it working, so be it. I guess neroaacenc doesn't work so well with stdin. Will stick with wavi, though I'm still skeptical; Avs2pipe may have other uses.

ballofsnow

2011-04-30 07:49:07 pm

3.3 will have option to change aspect ratio on an existing mp4 with a big fat warning.

puwexil

2011-04-30 08:18:19 pm

Professional Second Banana

Quote from puwexil:

My PC would freeze and I'd have to power cycle it to regain control (ctrl-alt-del would not work). The hang/crash happens maybe 10-15 seconds after the NMF script starts, and no AVI files are actually produced. I've tried it maybe 3 times with the same result each time.

Update: I recently got a new laptop with a 2nd gen Core i7, so gave NMF a try, and found that I wasn't waiting long enough when I ran it on my main PC (on my laptop, it would become completely nonresponsive for 3-5 minutes after starting NMF, then the system clock would start updating again).

ballofsnow

2011-04-30 08:32:38 pm

Ok, thanks for reporting.

rock1644

2011-05-04 06:40:40 pm

yes, a man carrying a gimp

I am having the same problem that puwexil is having. It won't make the NMF at all.

My system specs:
Core i7 860
8 GB Ram
Windows 7 64 Bit