RealAnime 4 - unsuported source (.avi)

[Jim Ford]

RealAnime looks just the job for what I want to do - produce short compact video clips with the minimum of effort in understanding the nitty-gritty of video!

I've downloaded and installed the main executable and 'Power Pack', but when I try to process an avi file I get the message 'Analysis failed: unsupported source (.avi).' I'd be gratefull for any ideas as what the problem might be (N.B.: checking the list of tools installed, I notice that AviSynth is not in the list - although it was installed).

(My machine is a Sempron 3000+ with 1Gig of Ram. O.K. not a Pentium 4, but probably fast enough)

Jim Ford

[Sirber]

In RealAnime, right click on your source and press Info. Get the text and post it here, but be sure to remove the filenames.

[Jim Ford]

Thanks for the quick reply, Sirber! Here is the info from right-clicking on the file in RealAnime (I've removed the filenames, replacing them with a * - but why?)


General
Count : 170
Kind of stream : General
Count of video strea : 1
Count of audio strea : 1
Count of text stream : 0
Count of chapter str : 0
Count of image strea : 0
Complete name : *.avi
Folder name : *
File name : *.avi
File extension : avi
File size : 40407040
File size : 38.5 MiB
File size : 39 MiB
File size : 39 MiB
File size : 38.5 MiB
File size : 38.54 MiB
Format : AVI
Format : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Extensions : AVI
Overal BitRate : 8949510
Overal BitRate : 8950 KBps
PlayTime : 36120
PlayTime : 36s 120ms
PlayTime : 36s 120ms
PlayTime : 36s 120ms
PlayTime : 00:00:36.120
Codecs Video : XviD
Audio codecs : AC3
App_Muxing : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)

Video #0
Count : 168
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream : Video
StreamKindID : 0
Codec : XVID
Codec : XviD
Codec/Info : XviD project
Codec/Url : http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml
Bit rate : 8747760
Bit rate : 8748 KBps
Width : 704
Height : 528
Aspect ratio : 1.333
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 25.000
Frame rate : 25
FrameCount : 902
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.941

Audio #0
Count : 168
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream : Audio
StreamKindID : 0
Codec : 2000
Codec : AC3
Codec/Info : Dolby AC3
Bit rate : 192000
Bit rate : 192 KBps
Channels : 2
Channels : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48000
Sampling rate : 48 KHz

Thanks again: Jim Ford

[Sirber]

AC3... This is fixed in dev version. Will work in next release. In the meantime, you can merge it in MKV and add the MKV in RealAnime, then it will work.

note: "unsupported source" has no link with your hardware :)

[Jim Ford]

AC3... This is fixed in dev version. Will work in next release. In the meantime, you can merge it in MKV and add the MKV in RealAnime, then it will work.

note: "unsupported source" has no link with your hardware :)

Again, thanks for the quick reply, Sirber!

I'm not sure what you mean by 'merge it in MKV' - I'll have to do a search.

Also, what's the issue with hardware other than Pentium 4?

Jim Ford

[Jim Ford]

O.K. - I've found mkvmerge and stuffed the avi file through it, creating a mkv file almost the same size as the avi. I then passed this mkv file to RealAnime. It all started looking good, but finished up with an error 'Encoder error #-1 (x264)', with no file output. This seems to be a permissions problem, as running as an admin it runs to completion. (I can't see why it should be a problem, as I set the RealAnime directory to full access for users.) When the run is completed, even though I set the Container to 'MPEG-4(.mp4)' the output is a mkv file!

Jim Ford

[Sirber]

Open RealAnime.log if it exists, in "C:\Program files\RealAnime 4\"
and look why it fails.

if it doesn't exists, I will need your file (MKV or AVI).

[Jim Ford]

A log 'x264_2pass.log' gets created in RealAnime 4\output (but RealAnime did 3 passes!). The log is full of stuff like (81Ks worth!):

#options: 704x528 fps=25/1 cabac=1 ref=8 deblock=1:1:1 analyse=0x3:0x133 me=umh subme=5 brdo=0 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=0 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 chroma_qp_offset=0 slices=1 bframes=3 b_pyramid=1 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=2 wpredb=1 bime=1 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 pass=2 bitrate=368 ratetol=1.0 rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' qcomp=0.60 qpmin=10 qpmax=51 qpstep=4 cplxblur=20.0 qblur=0.5 ip_ratio=1.40 pb_ratio=1.30
in:0 out:0 type:I q:32.00 itex:91643 ptex:0 mv:34423 misc:4662 imb:1452 pmb:0 smb:0;
in:3 out:1 type:P q:34.00 itex:1096 ptex:18479 mv:7205 misc:1164 imb:76 pmb:1022 smb:354;
in:2 out:2 type:B q:35.00

It doesn't mean anything to me!

The original avi file is 39.46 Meg and after passing through 'Matroska GUI' it's just 20 bytes smaller. After this file is passed through RealAnime it comes down to 1.78 Meg (still matroska though - even though I asked for mp4)

BTW, I've had a look on Wikipedia about matroska files (which are new to me) and whilst it may be the future, it's not much good if I want others to play files on a standard Windows Media Player.

Jim Ford