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Old 3rd December 2008, 16:48   #1021  |  Link
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Hmm, no success until I tried L6 and L7 - both of which work whereas L4 and L5 don't. Not sure why.
Code:
SetMTmode(mode=5,threads=1) # start with mode=5 forAVIsource http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1067216#post1067216 
SetMemoryMax(256)  
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins-xxx\AGC.dll")  
AviSource("G:\HDTV\capt\capt-type1.08-11-30_20-39.00.avi", audio=false) 
AssumeFPS(25) 
AssumeBFF()  

original=LAST
#L1 = original.SeparateFields().HDRAGC(coef_gain=0.1, min_gain=0.1, max_gain=0.5, coef_sat=0.75, corrector=0.8, reducer=2.0, black_clip=1.0).Weave()
#L2 = original.MTi("HDRAGC(coef_gain=0.1, min_gain=0.1, max_gain=0.5, coef_sat=0.75, corrector=0.8, reducer=2.0, black_clip=1.0)")
#L3 = original.SeparateFields()
#L3e = L3.SelectEven().AGCiEmbedded()
#L3o = L3.SelectOdd().AGCiEmbedded()
#L3 = Interleave(L3e,L3o).Weave()
#L4 = original.MTi("AGCiEmbedded()")
#L5 = original.MTi("Gavino()")
#L6 = original.AssumeBFF().MTi("Gavino()")
L7 = original.AssumeBFF().MTi("AGCiEmbedded()")
#L1
#L2
#L3
#L4
#L5
#L6
L7

function Gavino(clip srcclp) { 
   return srcclp.HDRAGC(coef_gain=0.1, min_gain=0.1, max_gain=0.5, coef_sat=0.75, corrector=0.8, reducer=2.0, black_clip=1.0) 
}
function AGCiEmbedded(clip srcclp) { 
   inpclp = srcclp 
   # other processing
   inpclp=inpclp.HDRAGC(coef_gain=0.1, min_gain=0.1, max_gain=0.5, coef_sat=0.75, corrector=0.8, reducer=2.0, black_clip=1.0) 
   return inpclp 
}
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Old 3rd December 2008, 18:00   #1022  |  Link
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Curiouser and curiouser. In principle, they should all behave the same.

Perhaps it's a threading/timing problem within MTi.
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Old 4th December 2008, 07:50   #1023  |  Link
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this works too
Code:
original=LAST.assumebff()
L8 = original.MTi("AGCiEmbedded()")
L8
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Old 4th December 2008, 12:04   #1024  |  Link
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And is the failure always the same - 'Invalid arguments to function "HDRAGC" '?

That suggests that 'srcclp' is not a clip, but if that's the case I would expect 'Invalid arguments to function AGCiEmbedded' instead and the function would never be called.

What happens if you replace HDRAGC by something else?
(Perhaps even a dummy function with the same interface.)

I suspected a threading problem but I have had a quick look at the source code of Mti and it looks like this bit (setting up the parallel filter chains) is single-threaded. Can anyone familiar with the internal workings of MT shed some light on what is going on?
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Old 4th December 2008, 14:05   #1025  |  Link
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And is the failure always the same - 'Invalid arguments to function "HDRAGC" '?
yes, it is.

It sort of seems like minor data corruption or omission about remembering xFF setting when a clip variable hasn't had an explicit AssumexFF() and when it gets fed into MTi. When a clip variable has an AssumexFF() applied to it, then it seems to follow though into MTi OK.
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Old 4th December 2008, 18:41   #1026  |  Link
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What if you remove this first line:
SetMTmode(mode=5,threads=1)
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Old 4th December 2008, 22:08   #1027  |  Link
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SetMTMode() place this at the first line in the avs file to enable temporal (that is more than one frame is processed at the same time) multithreading. MTi() that creates two threads and let each thread process one frame before interleaving them.
Does this mean that MTi is the same as SetMTMode(..., threads=2) with the only difference that MTi enables mutlithreading only for the filter passed to it?

Quote:
MTsource() that are used to run source filters multithreaded.
What are source filters?
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Old 4th December 2008, 22:40   #1028  |  Link
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What are source filters?
Avisource, mpeg2source, whateversource
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Old 5th December 2008, 00:32   #1029  |  Link
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Does this mean that MTi is the same as SetMTMode(..., threads=2) with the only difference that MTi enables mutlithreading only for the filter passed to it?
No.

SetMTMode: more than one frame is processed at the same time.

MT/MTi: different parts of the same frame are processed at the same time (and then joined together).
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Old 5th December 2008, 16:00   #1030  |  Link
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@halsboss

Can you consistently reproduce your problem?
I tried (using the latest MT and special Avisynth) and was unable to do so. Everything worked as it should.

Is it possible that your failures were done with the function having an optional clip parameter?
Code:
function AGCiEmbedded(clip "srcclp") { ...
That would be an inappropriate function to pass to MTi and would produce the error you saw.
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Old 5th December 2008, 22:56   #1031  |  Link
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Hi and thanks for looking at it. Post 1021 http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?...postcount=1021 was a snipped version of the the actual script, no quotes in
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function AGCiEmbedded(clip srcclp) {
It was consistently reproducible across reboots. It's a .DV source, and the latest ffdshow codec although that shouldn't make any difference. Avisynth v 2.57 tsp MT version 5, build:Mar 1 2007. No special s/w, a fairly clean PC with the latest h/w drivers and all MS patches and Trend 2008 internet security, I'm not one for installing a lot of junk How can I edit out a 1-sec part of the .AVI to load that too ?

I'll check on the latest download of HDRAGC and try it again.

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Old 5th December 2008, 23:24   #1032  |  Link
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That's got me. It failed across reboots then. Now the script below works !! And it looks the same to me as the above. Nothing changed in the meantime except that Trend internet security updated itself and I had to recreate the script below.

I guarantee that I swapped back and forth between L5,L6 and L7,L8 etc a number of times to check it and got the error in one and not the other. I'l terribly upset about it.

Code:
SetMTmode(mode=5,threads=1) # start with mode=5 forAVIsource http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1067216#post1067216 
SetMemoryMax(256)  
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins-xxx\AGC.dll") 
AviSource("G:\HDTV\capt\capt-type1.08-11-30_20-39.00.avi", audio=false) 
AssumeFPS(25) 
AssumeBFF()  
original=LAST

#L1 = original.SeparateFields().HDRAGC(coef_gain=0.1, min_gain=0.1, max_gain=0.5, coef_sat=0.75, corrector=0.8, reducer=2.0, black_clip=1.0).Weave()
#L2 = original.MTi("HDRAGC(coef_gain=0.1, min_gain=0.1, max_gain=0.5, coef_sat=0.75, corrector=0.8, reducer=2.0, black_clip=1.0)")
#L3 = original.SeparateFields()
#L3e = L3.SelectEven().AGCiEmbedded()
#L3o = L3.SelectOdd().AGCiEmbedded()
#L3 = Interleave(L3e,L3o).Weave()
#L4 = original.MTi("AGCiEmbedded()")
L5 = original.MTi("Gavino()")
#L6 = original.AssumeBFF().MTi("Gavino()")
#L7 = original.AssumeBFF().MTi("AGCiEmbedded()")
#original=LAST.assumebff()
#L8 = original.MTi("AGCiEmbedded()")
#L1
#L2
#L3
#L4
L5
#L6
#L7
#L8

function Gavino(clip srcclp) { 
   return srcclp.HDRAGC(coef_gain=0.1, min_gain=0.1, max_gain=0.5, coef_sat=0.75, corrector=0.8, reducer=2.0, black_clip=1.0) 
}
function AGCiEmbedded(clip srcclp) { 
   inpclp = srcclp 
   # other processing
   inpclp=inpclp.HDRAGC(coef_gain=0.1, min_gain=0.1, max_gain=0.5, coef_sat=0.75, corrector=0.8, reducer=2.0, black_clip=1.0) 
   return inpclp 
}

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Old 6th December 2008, 00:05   #1033  |  Link
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That's got me. It failed across reboots then. Now the script below works !! And it looks the same to me as the above. Nothing changed in the meantime except that Trend internet security updated itself and I had to recreate the script below.
If you're quite sure about that, then it looks like the worst sort of bug - a randomly occurring one.
Memory corruption, uninitialised data, timing dependency, etc.

I doubt that the nature of your source file or even the version of HDRAGC is a factor, since the error in question is produced at 'compile-time' by the Avisynth script interpreter (no frames have yet been requested) and the evidence suggests it never gets as far as entering HDRAGC.

The problem possibly lies in the modifications to the parser for the MT version of Avisynth. Did you try Fizick's suggestion of removing SetMTMode altogether?
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Old 6th December 2008, 00:54   #1034  |  Link
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Yes, I am sure. I really can't believe it. I'll be testing it every day for a while. I'll try the setmtmode removal and see what happens. Next time I have an anomalous encounter I'll test it out on a second PC.

EDIT tried with and without setmtode, all works fine every time. Still can't believe it.

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Old 6th December 2008, 20:06   #1035  |  Link
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No.

SetMTMode: more than one frame is processed at the same time.

MT/MTi: different parts of the same frame are processed at the same time (and then joined together).
Are you sure? The first page says "MTi() that creates two threads and let each thread process one frame before interleaving them. ".
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Old 6th December 2008, 21:03   #1036  |  Link
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Are you sure? The first page says "MTi() that creates two threads and let each thread process one frame before interleaving them. ".
No, it says "let each thread process one field before interleaving them", a field of course being half a frame.

MTi is like MT, except that the frames, instead of being split in half vertically or horizontally, are separated into fields.

A very good pictorial description of the differences between SetMtMode and MT can be found here.
For MTi, the picture would be different because of what I just said, but the principle is the same.
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Old 8th December 2008, 09:43   #1037  |  Link
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Okay, I am a little unsure about posting this here, but I have discovered a "bug". The reason I use quotes is I am, again, a little unsure about the circumstances.

I originally discovered it while converting a Blu ray to DVD. I indexed the source m2ts using DGAVCindex, and created an avs file containing this:
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#setmtmode(2)
avcsource("main movie.dga")
crop(0,140,0,-140)
Spline36resize(720,480)
Notice the comment on setmtmode? This is because, when I uncomment it, and drop the file into MPC, the screen flashes a little green, starts playing the file for around 3 seconds and then I get this:


Two error windows pop up as you can see.

It took a me a little while, but I did narrow it down. It seems the problem lies with DGAVCIndex, and it partner dll. When I load a file indexed with DGAVCindex, and use Setmtmode(), I get the crash. This is immediately apparent when HD material is used.

On SD material, it is a little more isolated, but if you job around on the seek bar, it happens as well.

I do not know the exact cause of the error, or which program is at fault. So I thought I would post it here to start out.

This is on Windows XP SP3 x86, stock Q6600, 4gb ram.
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Old 8th December 2008, 14:54   #1038  |  Link
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Here's an odd thing. Run this script
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function f(clip c) {
  global n = n+1
  return c
}

SetMTMode(1, 3)
global n = 0
BlankClip()
MTi("f()")
Subtitle((string(n))
and you will find that n=4, showing the function f is called four times.

It's not surprising it is called more than once, as that is what MTi() is advertised to do, but I would expect n=2.
The result is independent of the parameters passed to SetMTMode - again, to be expected since MT is documented as always setting MT mode temporarily to 5. But removing the SetMTMode altogether produces the 'expected' result n=2.
(Calling f directly instead of via MTi gives n=1, independent of SetMTMode settings.)

If the MTi line is changed to MT("f()", k) for any integer k, the function is called 2*k times instead of the expected k.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but it's certainly surprising.
It may or may not have anything to do with the problem reported by halsboss (post #1021), but at least it shows that strange things can happen with user functions and MT/MTi when SetMTMode is also used.
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Old 8th December 2008, 17:40   #1039  |  Link
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