Anri-chan 3.3 (June 5, 2011)

2011-11-02 11:33:36 am

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Re-use nmf source videos between encoding sessions.

Unfortunately, 3.3 didn't detect that I started or finished making a NMF, and I had to make one all over again. For the record, I killed Anri (at 3:40 am cause I was really tired) when I got the message "New master file successfully created, resuming encoding in 5 seconds..."

Omnigamer

2012-02-15 07:01:43 pm

All the things

I ran into a small bug tonight where anri-chan's settings (default project directory, etc) were returned to default. I'm not sure exactly how it happened, but I'm fairly sure it was part of this sequence:

1. "Start a new project"
2. Entered a pre-existing project name
3. Previous encoding settings loaded, declined to re-use them
4. Proceeded through changing settings up to prog-scan check (t/b), but VDub could not find the source file (I had moved it)
5. Exited anri-chan, loaded it back up and paths had reverted to my desktop

Just a heads-up.

ballofsnow

2012-02-15 07:14:13 pm

Thanks. You should be able to run job_projectname.bat in the project folder.

TheVoid

2012-04-26 01:26:30 am

I just installed Anri-chan v3.3 again and started the program, then I pressed 8 for Exit and pressed enter and it said "Press any key to continue...". Why does it say that? Why not just exit right away? Smiley

ballofsnow

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ballofsnow: 2012-04-26 09:30:25 pm

2012-04-26 09:30:13 pm

Made me think of this clip from Spaceballs..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AW2xyXl2tTI#t=5s

quadrazid

2012-05-19 10:27:31 am

Svart Lyser Tronen

Is it possible to manually set the framerate of the encode? For example, I have 60fps input. Can I make Anri render with only 30fps?

TheThrillness

2012-05-19 10:59:50 am

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Quote from quadrazid:

Is it possible to manually set the framerate of the encode? For example, I have 60fps input. Can I make Anri render with only 30fps?

Set anri to F2 when encoding.

F1 = 60 fps, F2 = 30 fps (29.97 to be exact) etc

Hsanrb

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Hsanrb: 2012-06-09 10:42:26 am

2012-06-09 10:17:45 am

Oh I forgot to post this when I did it, but theres a bug with anri-chan when encoding videos with no sound (like pc games without sound.) in that you won't get the finished video file. It will encode everything, but when it goes to check the audio it doesn't have anything to attach to the video and you get nothing upon completion.

Edit: Let me clarify since theres more to it. If you try to trim a video in which the source has no audio you will get some errors spit out and end with a log with no videos.

TheVoid

2012-06-20 04:50:14 pm

How about adding at the end of it all how much time the encoding needed? I encode bigger stuff during the night and then I'm sometimes curious how long it actually took to encode the video. Quite a minor thing but perhaps nice to add.

Flip

2012-06-27 10:15:59 pm

1-Up!

Having some issues with Anri chan 3.3. First of all when I try to extract a sample and the VDub window comes up to select the starting point for my frame range, pressing any of the arrow buttons at the bottom gives the error

Avisynth read error:
CAVIStreamSynth: System exception - Access violation at 0x100123a8,
writing to 0x7dfff20

If I pick a frame arbitrarily I get a message that x264.exe has stopped working, and that Windows can't resolve it.

Anri says

Unknown input file type
Error importing sample_video.mp4: End of stream / file

and says finished. no video in the finished folder, however.

Running Windows 7 Home Edition on one of the harddrives in my MacBook. Don't know if that could be related to the issue. Let me know if I can give more information.

Heidrage

2012-06-27 10:21:42 pm

Willing to teach you the impossible

I have had a few issues with 3.3 as well. My personal fix was to use 3.2 and for what ever reason my issues went away. Give it a shot but it does not help the tec side for the amazing crew that provided us with Anri.

nate

2012-06-28 12:05:26 am

so you are trying to extract a sample from an h.264 video? i'm assuming it came from an hd capture device?

have you tried installing a new cccp?

Flip

2012-06-28 08:02:44 am

1-Up!

yeah it's a .m2ts coming from a Hauppauge PVR. I went to install cccp and it said directx wasn't up to date, so I installed/updated that and then installed cccp to no avail.

nate

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nate: 2012-06-28 09:07:37 am

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2012-06-28 09:04:53 am

wonder if the latest cccp has a borked ffmpeg/x264 or something. doesn't seem like i'm going to be able to help you much more. the good news is that hd video is generally much easier to encode than analog. you just need to know whether there are duplicate frames in the original recording to tell whether it's f2 or f3 or what. wonder if dgavcdec lets you step through one frame at a time. iirc it doesn't. does perian (quicktime x) let you open .m2ts on the mac side?

lol, thinking about it now, automatic framerate detection may be quite possible for digital stuff where it wasn't for analog because when you have e.g. an f2 hd stream every other frame is probably very close to identical.

edit again: actually you can just encode at f1 and then see in any good video player whether you have duplicate frames and then reencode at f2 or f3 or whatever if you do.

Flip

2012-06-28 09:15:00 am

1-Up!

I'll play with it some more this weekend. Something went weird with my Windows HD and everything got wiped, so I had to basically start from scratch and when I first tried using Anri I completely forgot about installing any kind of video codec or anything, so it might just be that I'm missing something on my end. At the very worst my wife's old laptop is currently collecting dust and would work fine as a designated encoding machine.

UraniumAnchor

2012-06-28 09:42:46 am

Not a walrus

For what it's worth ffmpegsource is what I used for all the AGDQ videos that were sourced from this device, and it had frame seeking through the avisynth script. It was a little tempermental at times, though.

Flip

2012-06-28 11:51:26 pm

1-Up!

Tonight it's magically working. I've done nothing different.

Not complaining.

gyth

2012-06-29 03:49:47 pm

sun spots

Aftermath

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Aftermath: 2012-07-05 12:38:50 pm

2012-07-05 12:37:53 pm

Quits halfway

Since the colorspace of the output is 4:2:0, should I even worry if my source is captured at 4:2:2 vs RGB (both options are available)?

nate

2012-07-05 01:46:37 pm

two reasons you may care:

1) if your source is interlaced. if you capture interlaced material yv12/4:2:0 you will have chroma ghosting on deinterlacing.
2) if you have reason to believe that anri (avisynth)'s colorspace conversion is superior in quality to whatever you're using to capture. i don't have much experience with this. probably the only way to know is to test both ways and compare the quality.

Aftermath

2012-07-05 02:04:22 pm

Quits halfway

Oh, sorry for not providing enough information. It's a PC capture, HDMI capture card (C127 Avermedia vs SCFH DSF). I guess I didn't realize colorspace conversions can vary in quality (makes sense though), so I'll try to capture RGB and let Avisynth handle the conversion.

Flip

2012-07-15 09:52:20 pm

1-Up!

When I encode HQ or higher and create a nmf, my resulting video has a chunk missing out of the middle. Can only assume that the nmf isn't indexing the whole video. Windows 7 w/ the newest version of Anri. Would a log file be helpful here?

nate

2012-07-15 10:52:59 pm

sure. are you running out of disk space?

TheThrillness

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2012-07-16 08:01:41 pm

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Pm'd this to nate but will post here to incase someone else knows issue.

My source is 480p 59.94 from a Virtual Console game.

Used Lagarith. In anri-chan I do the usual yes to trim but all I see is black when viewing the frames. I can see video if I press play but that is it.

Adding the file to virtualdub manually to seek works fine so the source is correct and plays back in media players fine.

I think maybe using F2 for such a slow game (nate said it is F6) causes problems cause when it was determining progressive video the whole window is black to.

Edit - Even more wacky shenanigans at foot here.

If I enable the output video pane I can frame seek in anri from the output but also if I hold left click down on an icon on my taskbar I can see video in the input pane but vanishes when I unclick...... lol

nate

2012-07-17 12:16:49 pm

just a wild guess but what happens if you disable video acceleration in the vdub settings?