Anri-chan 3.3 (June 5, 2011)

2010-07-03 07:13:52 pm

Quote from Heidman:

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

You can change the parent directory.

Look in program files\anrichan3.2\ for the file ini.bat. Open this in notepad. The code looks like:

Code:

REM -- DO NOT SET FOLDER PATHS IN PROGRAM FILES\ --

REM Change directory where project folder is saved.  
REM No backslash. Set to E: for example. If blank, saves to desktop.
SET project_parentdir=

REM Change directory where Anri-chan rips DVDs.
REM No closing backslash. Set to E:\AnrichanMPEG for example.
SET dvdripto_parentdir=C:\AnrichanMPEG

REM Advanced mode currently enables:
REM  - Rip specific title numbers
SET advanced_mode=false

You want to put a value for project_parentdir.

Heidrage

2010-07-03 07:25:40 pm

Willing to teach you the impossible

Would a proper value be "e:\"

Edit: nvm, I read what it said. Thanks

bmn

2010-08-21 03:29:39 pm

Yoyoyo.

I know that Anri adds a border in necessary to ensure that the width is a multiple of 4 and the height is a multiple of 2. May be a recent thing, but x264 requires that the height also be a multiple of 4. My capture card is strange and captures to 720x486, and without cropping the video myself it breaks Anri during video encoding with that error.

ballofsnow

2010-08-21 03:47:07 pm

Which version of Anri?

This is on Anri 3.2, which uses x264 r1352:

bmn

Edit history:

bmn: 2010-08-28 03:20:28 pm

bmn: 2010-08-28 03:13:51 pm

2010-08-28 03:12:40 pm

I didn't get that quite right before.

I'm using AVS 2.6 so not sure if it's something that 2.5 does differently or a bug, or if 2.5 acts the same way.

The input is 486 interlaced. When encoding an NMF, the error's on the line

Code:

converttoyuy2.mvbob.converttorgb32

Code:

ConvertToYV12: Interlaced image height must be a multiple of 4

It happens when mvbob does a YV12 conversion when separating the fields on line 91 of mvbob.avs.

ballofsnow

2010-08-28 03:32:07 pm

Maybe:

Code:

mvbobpadheight = last.height % 4
addborders(0,0,0,mvbobpadheight)
converttoyuy2.mvbob.converttorgb32
crop(0,0,0,mvbobpadheight*-1)

Cosmos

2010-11-14 06:12:00 am

Hey guys

I was encoding with anrichan 3.1 while the encoding of MQ and LQ files went perfect, there was an error message about the HQ and the following message popped up:
avis [error]: unsupported input format (DIB )

Now i understand it could be a problem with the resolution of the source files, but i dont understand why it doesnt have any problems with the LQ and MQ....

Does this mean i have to reencode the source files to a other resolution? the resolution now 724x480

any help would be appriciated!

ballofsnow

2010-11-14 12:14:21 pm

Same thing happens in 3.2?

Cosmos

2010-11-15 10:49:39 am

Quote from ballofsnow:

Same thing happens in 3.2?

Yes, but i solved the problem, it seems that my resolution 724x480 made the error, i used virtual dub to change the resolution to 720x480, after this i tried again with anrichan and it worked.
Why my resolution was 724 in the first place? i dont know... and still dont understand why it worked with the LQ and MQ and not the HQ..

But it finally works :p

TheVoid

2010-12-25 01:11:09 am

Recently I thought about 2 possible options.

1. A pause option. Would this possible, and would this actually be really useful? I was thinking it could be useful if you wanted to go play a game or something (Which I think doesn't work well when the encoding is going, too CPU intensive) but I'm not really sure if you can halt the process...

2. An auto shutdown when the encoding is done. This should be possible, right?

Just some thoughts.

ballofsnow

2010-12-25 10:28:44 am

Quote from TheVoid:

Recently I thought about 2 possible options.

1. A pause option. Would this possible, and would this actually be really useful? I was thinking it could be useful if you wanted to go play a game or something (Which I think doesn't work well when the encoding is going, too CPU intensive) but I'm not really sure if you can halt the process...

Maybe in Anri 5 (GUI), which who knows if that'll ever happen, to be honest. The current interface is too clunky for stuff like that.

Quote from TheVoid:

2. An auto shutdown when the encoding is done. This should be possible, right?

Can be done easily. It'd be one more question but default to not shutting down so the user just hits one more enter keystroke, or answers y and hits enter if they do want it to shutdown.

nate

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nate: 2010-12-25 04:48:17 pm

2010-12-25 04:48:05 pm

can't you just manually set the priority of the encoding process(es) to idle using taskman or something?

edit: you meaning the user.

Sinochek

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Sinochek: 2011-01-14 03:17:29 pm

2011-01-14 03:14:06 pm

I'm using Anri-chan 3.2 for encoding and here is my problem - LQ and MQ are encoded with the correct bitrates, but HQ bitrate is alot lower than it should be(see screenshot). With which settings can I improve my bitrate?

what is "QP"?

Tranquilite

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Tranquilite: 2011-01-14 03:29:59 pm

2011-01-14 03:28:29 pm

QP min is a value used by the encoder when determining the quality of the produced video (I think), the warning is saying that the target bit rate is more than the encoder thinks it needs. You don't need to worry about this, however, because SDA places focus more on quality than size.

nate

2011-01-14 10:41:19 pm

this is probably the #1 faq.

Tigger77

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Tigger77: 2011-01-25 08:32:39 am

Tigger77: 2011-01-25 08:32:05 am

Tigger77: 2011-01-25 08:30:40 am

Tigger77: 2011-01-25 08:30:12 am

2011-01-25 08:29:36 am

I survived MIKE-Fest 1

I got a Problam when trying to encode on my laptop (Win-7 Home)

http://img97.imageshack.us/i/anri.png/

The line is german it says: ECHO can not be worked on this place syntactical

I tried to make a sample and that is working.

I attach the job anri produce on this post

thanks for help

EDIT: got the pic in the post thumbsup

Attachment:

job_ZELDA_LADX.bat

Tigger77

2011-02-04 12:03:30 pm

I survived MIKE-Fest 1

OK I tryd it on my other PC (where it was always working)
The same error comes up
BUT if I enter the settings (D, f, one) manually it works so I guess it something in the database , I used the z005 settings

btw what is the right D, and f for this one because my encodet now jumps up and down

nate

2011-02-05 11:33:35 am

thank you for troubleshooting this for me! i found the problem.

for games that have "N/A" for D, e.g. link's awakening, SET d= is missing in dfnd_data.bat:

Code:

IF [%s%]==[z005] (
CALL :out_info Selected "Zelda - Link's Awakening, The Legend of for Game Boy"
SET f=1
SET twod=y
SET dfnd_set=y
)

i believe the error occurs here (in :savesettings in anri.bat):

Code:

ECHO>> "job_%PROJNAME%.bat" SET d=%d%
ECHO>> "job_%PROJNAME%.bat" SET f=%f%

because %d% is the empty string, it finds the ECHO on the next line, which is a syntax error. i am not 100% sure about this. it is also possible that the error is elsewhere, in e.g. :script_buildfiles, but i am 100% sure that the problem is that %d% is not set, because i can avoid the error by manually hacking SET d=4 into dfnd_data.bat.

in order to solve this in the short term (and maybe the long term too), i have changed the script that translates http://speeddemosarchive.com/kb/DF into dfnd_data.bat to write SET d=4 if D is "N/A".

tigger77, if you answer yes to the question "Do you want to update Anri-chan's games database?", it should fix the problem. but for the jumping up and down, you may need to use "Check for bobbing (picture jumping up and down)". don't forget to answer yes to the Game Boy? question. thanks.

thank you for troubleshooting this for me! i found the problem.

for games that have [url=http://speeddemosarchive.com/kb/DF]"N/A" for D[/url], e.g. link's awakening, SET d= is missing in dfnd_data.bat:

[code]IF [%s%]==[z005] (
CALL :out_info Selected "Zelda - Link's Awakening, The Legend of for Game Boy"
SET f=1
SET twod=y
SET dfnd_set=y
)[/code]

i believe the error occurs here (in :savesettings in anri.bat):

[code]ECHO>> "job_%PROJNAME%.bat" SET d=%d%
ECHO>> "job_%PROJNAME%.bat" SET f=%f%[/code]

because %d% is the empty string, it finds the ECHO on the next line, which is a syntax error. i am not 100% sure about this. it is also possible that the error is elsewhere, in e.g. :script_buildfiles, but i am 100% sure that the problem is that %d% is not set, because i can avoid the error by manually hacking SET d=4 into dfnd_data.bat.

in order to solve this in the short term (and maybe the long term too), i have changed the script that translates http://speeddemosarchive.com/kb/DF into dfnd_data.bat to write SET d=4 if D is "N/A".

tigger77, if you answer yes to the question "Do you want to update Anri-chan's games database?", it should fix the problem. but for the jumping up and down, you may need to use "Check for bobbing (picture jumping up and down)". don't forget to answer yes to the Game Boy? question. thanks.

ballofsnow

2011-02-05 01:39:56 pm

Yep, a bug when d is not set.

Nothing wrong with those 2 echo lines. It'll just write "SET d=" without quotations into the file.

The problem is anything like this:

IF %d%==1

Which evaluates to the following if d is not set:

IF ==1

A syntax error. That's me forgetting to enclose it with quotations, or any character really. Should be:

IF "%d%"=="1"

Which evaluates to the following if d is not set:

IF ""=="1"

Not a syntax error.

Caleb Hart

2011-02-20 03:54:42 pm

SDA Represent!

I have looked through the guide for Anri-chan, and I still don't understand. The only thing I want to do is convert my vob files to Mpeg or whatever, just so I can edit them. I am sure it's simple, but can anyone help me here?

nate

2011-02-20 10:39:45 pm

the mp4 anri gives you isn't really a good format for editing. unfortunately if you don't have a technical background i don't really know what to recommend on that. if you want to get started using avisynth and something like virtualdub for editing then the first half of this guide is for you:

http://speeddemosarchive.com/kb/AviSynth

otherwise i'm sure vegas or something will take the vobs.

Caleb Hart

2011-02-21 08:59:53 pm

SDA Represent!

Alright, I'll give that a go. Thanks nate.

Caleb Hart

2011-02-22 03:10:31 pm

SDA Represent!

Just got it working the way I need it to. Thanks nate, and everyone else.

Schwaumlaut

2011-03-22 07:48:59 am

So if Anri-chan fails after encoding the NMF, is it possible to resume encoding the x264 file without having to reencode the NMF? If so, how? Thanks!

Schwaumlaut

2011-03-23 09:11:11 am

I figured out a kludge; I started a new project and used the NMF avis as the segments for the new, progressive scan project. Seems to work okay.