Anri-chan 3.3 (June 5, 2011)

JaggerG

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JaggerG: 2010-05-05 10:44:17 pm

2010-05-05 04:08:29 pm

Jumping Turtle

Alright bmn it doesn't appear to ever create a _temp audio file at all, but I did get a couple of those files from vdub earlier in this ghetto attempt. Before it finishes encoding the video I decided to rename the audio file as ..._temp and renamed the audio-only mp4 so that it doesn't interfere (if the temp is used to create another file, it's likely gonna be renamed to ...audio2 or something).

Second pass of HQ finishes in about 5 hours 20 minutes. Any predictions?

EDIT: Okay yeah I'm dumb. I didn't think about this until the end, but I think the actual problem is that 7's permissions, not simply the fact that the original audio file isn't there. Even if I open anri-chan as an administrator, it still opens up vdub and can't create an audio file, so if I can't fix the permissions I'm gonna have to compress the audio by myself.

Actually once I fix the permissions I'm gonna go ahead and skip steps. I have a separate audio track I'm planning to mix into it, so maybe I can mix the audio tracks and trick anri into muxing THAT into the video instead. (and no it's not for an sda submission, I realize edited video not submittable)

Alright bmn it doesn't appear to ever create a _temp audio file at all, but I did get a couple of those files from vdub earlier in this ghetto attempt. Before it finishes encoding the video I decided to rename the audio file as ..._temp and renamed the audio-only mp4 so that it doesn't interfere (if the temp is used to create another file, it's likely gonna be renamed to ...audio2 or something).

Second pass of HQ finishes in about 5 hours 20 minutes. Any predictions?

EDIT: Okay yeah I'm dumb. I didn't think about this until the end, but I think the actual problem is that 7's permissions, not simply the fact that the original audio file isn't there. Even if I open anri-chan as an administrator, it still opens up vdub and can't create an audio file, so if I can't fix the permissions I'm gonna have to compress the audio by myself.

Actually once I fix the permissions I'm gonna go ahead and skip steps. I have a separate audio track I'm planning to mix into it, so maybe I can mix the audio tracks and trick anri into muxing THAT into the video instead. (and no it's not for an sda submission, I realize edited video not submittable)

ballofsnow

2010-05-06 02:33:35 pm

Anri should be writing to a folder on your desktop without the need for elevated privileges...

Is vdub creating the wav file? Or is it the nero encoder that's messing up?

There is an alternate method to feed audio to the nero audio encoder which bypasses vdub and its intermediate wav file. Anyone remember good 'ol bepipe? (nate Tongue

) I'm thinking of coding it in as a backup to vdub.

nate

2010-05-07 09:45:17 am

yeah can do that. they'll have to install the .net framework though. i actually use bepipe by default because i don't like encoding an entire 6+ hour run and having it delete what it just encoded because it can't find the audio because the .wav went over 2 gig and was rejected by nero. it's a pita sometimes - it has weird timeouts and shit, like if i'm encoding too many things at once it will just fail and then it's the exact same situation as if i were dumping a wav for a 6+ hour run. windows, you know. very difficult to get anything done but turns out it's basically impossible to get anything done without windows so here we are.

one day ...

ballofsnow

2010-05-07 10:28:01 am

I wasn't aware bepipe needs .net framework. Do you know which one, 1.1, 2.0, 3.5? I suppose because of this requirement bepipe should be the backup to vdub for anri users.

nate

2010-05-07 10:29:20 am

yeah no idea ... i always just install 3.5 because i guess it has backward compatibility for the others.

ballofsnow

2010-05-07 10:37:48 am

I'll do some testing when I get a chance (vmware is nice Smiley

).

3.5 actually doesn't include 1.1. I ran into this one day when installing some old software.

nate

2010-05-07 12:17:28 pm

ok well it definitely works with 3.5.

ballofsnow

2010-05-09 11:18:34 am

vdub pixel shift window is in. 1 pixel and deflicker questions are removed, but the function still sets the deflicker and onepixel variables depending on answer. Will look like:

nate

2010-05-09 11:25:33 am

what about the alternate one pixel bob?

ballofsnow

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ballofsnow: 2010-05-09 12:36:25 pm

2010-05-09 11:37:22 am

?

The one with strobe fix? I can add it, no problem, just need the code for it. Smiley

edit- Does 1 pixel bob take into account TFF vs BFF? I converted that alex kidd sample back into an interlaced lagarith video and it seems to be bottom field first. In this case, 1 pixel bob is only working if I set it to adjust the even fields instead of the odd fields.

edit- maybe: GetParity ? Interleave(SelectEven,SelectOdd.Crop(0,0,0,last.height-1).AddBorders(0,1,0,0)) : Interleave(SelectEven.Crop(0,0,0,last.height-1).AddBorders(0,1,0,0),SelectOdd)

nate

2010-05-09 04:33:22 pm

well strobe fix is good to have too but meant the one that transplants from the different location. starting to see it more and more lately. not sure if it's new encoding chipsets or what.

Code:

function nate_1_pixel_bob_fix(last) {
converttorgb32
clip1=SelectEven.Crop(0,0,0,last.height).AddBorders(0,0,0,0)
clip2=SelectOdd.Crop(0,0,0,last.height-1).AddBorders(0,1,0,0)
Interleave(clip1,clip2)
nate_strobe_fix
converttoyv12
}

function nate_alternate_1_pixel_bob_fix(last) {
converttorgb32
clip1=SelectEven.Crop(0,0,0,last.height-1).AddBorders(0,1,0,0)
clip2=SelectOdd.Crop(0,0,0,last.height).AddBorders(0,0,0,0)
Interleave(clip1,clip2)
nate_strobe_fix
converttoyv12
}

function nate_strobe_fix(last) {
croppy=2
Crop(0,0,0,last.height-croppy).AddBorders(0,0,0,croppy)
Crop(0,croppy,0,0).AddBorders(0,croppy,0,0)
}

ballofsnow

2010-05-15 01:41:14 pm

Ok.

Lawyer Dog

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Lawyer Dog: 2010-05-17 02:54:03 pm

2010-05-17 10:43:43 am

Having an odd issue with Anri-chan, it worked fine at first and now inexplicably it won't. I got the IQ and HQ encodes finished and then forgot about getting the others finished for a while, and when I came back a week or so later to finish it I am getting this error.

Using Windows 7 64-bit. All the folders and file locations are the same, and opening the videos manually in virtualdub or any other program works, as does encoding them in h.264. Same resolution and framerate for all files, they were all from a single Fraps record. Reinstalling/restarting did nothing, same error in 3.0 and in 3.1.
Trying to load the verifysource avisynth script gets me this error in virtualdub.

EDIT: Found the problem, I had to reinstall ffdshow.

nate

2010-05-17 04:48:02 pm

wild ... never seen anything like that before. good you were able to figure it out though.

d_arnold07

2010-06-05 02:31:06 am

Quote from ballofsnow:

To-do list
- Find workaround to Anri/AviSynth's inability to append a large amount of files

what is this limit exactly? I was trying to encode a run that was ~4hs (made up of 74 parts) and it mustve failed muxing at the end because everything else was fine. Anri came up with an error as follows:

Quote:

Error: could not parse wav file
isomedia import - track ID 1 - video (size 856 x 480)
unkown input file type
error importing 100>HQ)audio.mp4. Requested url is not valid or cannot be found

Sorry that it isnt more specific - I shouldve taken a screenshot. But i have attached the log file that was created (title log 1)

I tried finding a workaround myself by joining all the files together losslessly and then tried to encode it again with anri-chan but it ended up failing with the muxing part (came up with the same error message I think). Attached its log file as well - titled log 2.

atm i am successfully converting the run into 2 parts

Attachments:

log 1.txt

log 2.txt

ballofsnow

2010-06-05 10:11:25 am

If you saw x264 encoding the video, then it's not the avi limit. And there is no exact limit, it depends on your system.

If it failed at the nero audio encoding part, it's probably due to length.

Quote:

Changes in 3.2 (not yet released)
- bepipe audio encoding as backup to vdub+nero

If you want to try the fix and not wait for 3.2:
- Open up "\program files\anrichan3.1\anri.bat" in notepad
- Find the following block of code, it shows up twice, under :2pass and :ipod

Code:

"%anri_dir%%vdub%\vdub.exe" %1 /i "%anri_dir%audioout.vcf" "%2_temp.wav"
"%anri_dir%neroAacEnc.exe" -br %4 -lc -if "%2_temp.wav" -of "%2_audio.mp4"

- Replace with:

Code:

"%anri_dir%bepipe.exe" --script "DirectShowSource(^%~f1^)" | "%anri_dir%neroAacEnc.exe" -br %4 -lc -if - -of "%2_audio.mp4"

TheVoid

2010-06-05 10:25:26 am

I was just wondering, is it possible to implement a kind of auto-update feature? I've seen in some posts that others were still using an older version. I'm not sure if it's possible considering this thing is basically one big batch file (Right?), so then I guess it would need an additional executable to check for a newer version. Don't know if it's really necessary but the idea just popped up in my mind.

ballofsnow

2010-06-05 10:49:49 am

It's possible. Anri already connects to SDA to update the DF list, so the tools are there. Added to the to-do list.

nate

2010-06-05 01:41:11 pm

probably best way is to retrieve a text file with just the version number and check whether that > the current version number. you have access to that directory on the server right? so you can just update that file when you put out a new version. should be trivial.

d_arnold07

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d_arnold07: 2010-06-05 11:21:05 pm

2010-06-05 11:15:34 pm

i tried the fix ballofsnow mentioned but it didnt turn out successfully. I dont need to convert the run at this moment in time so I'll wait for future versions of anri-chan before attempting to convert it again. However, I'll post the error that appeared and the error log for reference. Also added my anri.bat file so you can see if i added the fix correctly.

Anri-chan error:

Attachments:

anri.bat

log_6253782.txt

ballofsnow

2010-06-06 10:25:54 am

Corrupted data in the video mp4... When I see cases such as this, the first thing I look at is the Fraps codec. It's not a very reliable codec, many people have had problems because of it.

You're not going to like this, but I suggest creating new lossless files using the Lagarith codec and encoding those in Anri.

1. Open C:\Program Files (x86)\anrichan3.1\VirtualDub-1.9.7\VirtualDub.exe
2. Drag a file into the window
3. Video -> Compression
4. Lagarith lossless codec -> configure
5. Mode: RGB (default) or YUY2
6. Click OK twice to get back to main window
7. File -> Save as AVI

ballofsnow

2010-06-13 02:43:33 pm

Download: Anri-chan 3.2

Changes in 3.2
- NMF to work around Anri/AviSynth's inability to append a large amount of files
- Combined avi individual and automatic input. One less question, and ability to mix folder or file input.
- Vdub window for pixel shift. Added deflicker alt and one pixel alt.
- Change name of finished folder to projectname_finished. (for nate)
- fixed: bepipe audio encoding as backup to vdub+nero when encoding long runs
- fixed: incorrect resize on low resolution input for D4 progressive.

andrewg

2010-06-13 03:30:45 pm

Hi! I'm andrewg!

testing...

Tranquilite

2010-06-27 11:30:33 pm

Quote from ballofsnow:

Changes in 3.1
- fixed - mono input causes problems when joining the statID

This is a bit old, but holy cow! where was I when Anri-chan 3.1 came out. I had the hardest time getting my Keen run to encode with mono audio. I think I had to manually add in another channel of silence withAudacity so that anri would process it correctly, followed by setting nes=y in the batch file...

Oh wait, I see 3.1 was released after I submitted my run. Well good to know that that was fixed.

Heidrage

2010-07-03 03:44:05 pm

Willing to teach you the impossible

Any chance of being able to specify where the work/final folder would be created?

It puts it on the desktop, not a big deal, but my C drive is rather small and I cant make an NMF file for the really large videos or when I wanna make IQ and XQ. My E drive is plenty big enough for it though.

Just a thought