VC-1 Encoder SDK - Professional released

[Kurtnoise]

I believe it's the same package as the previous one in fact...

http://kurtnoise.free.fr/index.php?d...3_20080308.zip

[buzzqw]

thanks Kurtnoise13!

but can you remove the prompt at end encoding (avi2avs.cpp, line 73)

thanks!

BHH

[Kurtnoise]

sure...I'll upload a new build tonight.


http://kurtnoise.free.fr/index.php?d...3_20080312.zip

[buzzqw]

thanks!

BHH

[buzzqw]

another bug

if encode to vc1 the framerate is respected, if i encode to wmv (wmv video+wma audio) the framerate is fixed to 15

BHH

[Nic]

@buzzqw:
You're persistent been a while since I looked at this thread.

Just tried encoding some 5.1 audio, worked fine for me. You do, of course, need an appropriate 5.1 audio profile/prx file. Did you create one? (use GenProfile.exe from the WMV SDK or similar)

The encoder sdk 1.1 file that kurtnoise pointed out is exactly the same version of the SDK from December. So no need for a new build with it.

"if i encode to wmv (wmv video+wma audio) the framerate is fixed to 15" <--- Not sure what you mean by that, always seems to work fine here...Please post your commandline.

Still can't figure out how to do telecine. I can of course set the TFF/RFF flags, but what do I set the framerate to be in ConfigProps? What do I set the timestamps to of the video samples when I call EncodeFrame? Maybe the MS guys can point me in the right direction...

-Nic

[buzzqw]

if you create a wmv (audio+video) even if your use -framerate 25, the resulting wmv , analyzed with avinaptic or mediainfo will report 15fps

if you do a raw vc1 file, specifing -framerate 25, the framerate reported by avinaptic or mediainfo is 25

about profile.. i use WMProEdt.exe .. but will try with genprofile

also.. seems i am unable to build a pure vbr profile.. but il will study genprofile profiles

thanks Nic

BHH

[Nic]

@buzzqw: But the file doesn't play back at 15fps, it's just those apps reporting that framerate. Strange that they do, must be reading it from somewhere. Will try to see how to set that.

-Nic

EDIT:
Easy Fix. Framerate wasn't being set in the mediatype.

[buzzqw]

thanks Nic!

i will try to do 5.1ch wmv, and will report any errors

(thanks again!)

BHH

[M10]

I appreciate everyone's work with this application!

I have a fairly specific question. Has anyone been able to use the "-aspectratio" line successfully with AVS2ASF?

Per the documentation, they want: [-aspectratio] <aspectratioindex> <aspectratiowidth> <aspectratioheight>. If aspectratioindex=15, then you can specify aspectratiowidth & aspectratioheight. Specifying an "aspectratioindex" alone doesn't seem to be recognized when wmv's played by wmv or xbox. However, when I enter:

"-aspectratio 15 40 33" I get an error stating that "40" is an unrecognized command...as if it is not parsing the input correctly. Any thoughts?

[Nic]

Well spotted M10. You should get a job doing QA in MS

        m_dwPixIndex = 0;
        .....
        else if (!wcscmp (L"-aspectratio", m_ppArgv[i]))
        {
            // Pixel aspect ratio.
            i++;

            // Convert the argument to a number.
            DWORD dwPixIndex = wcstoul(m_ppArgv[i], NULL, 10);

            // 15 means "Aspect width and height transmitted"
            // Update the w and h based on command line args.
            if (m_dwPixIndex == 15)
            {
                i += 2;                  
            }           
        }

Spot the bug? I'll release a fix sometime.

-Nic

[anrque]

I have tried this numerous times and feel like I'm missing something. I have the VC1 SDK installed, I installed the WM11 SDK and finally i Installed the platform SDK that has all of the DShow extras. I installed VS 2008 as well and "think" I have all the run-time components I need. I have AVISynth 2.5.7 installed but I continue to get this error after running the example.bat:
Also, I am trying to run this in XP Pro 32 SP2.

C:\AVS2ASF>AVS2ASF -i Test.avs -o ElementryStream.vc1 -framerate 25 -rate 1200 -profiletype 2 -bframes 2 -maxkeydist 6 -vbv 300000 -peakrate 2000

*************************************


VC-1 AVS2ASF v0.3 Encoding Sample


Original Sample AVI2ASF code Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
All rights reserved.
Avisynth, YV12 & Raw support added by Nic.


*************************************

Encoding in ES (Elementry Stream) mode

Failure in CVC1EncASF::set_advancedProps
error = -20
Failure in CVC1EncASF::Init
hr = 0
VC1 SDK Error = -20

Final error code: -20
Total elapsed time in seconds = 0.000000

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Mike

[Kurtnoise]

@benwaggoner: Is there somewhere a tool to check the BD/HD-DVD compliancy for VC-1 Elementary Streams ?

[benwaggoner]

Originally Posted by Kurtnoise13

@benwaggoner: Is there somewhere a tool to check the BD/HD-DVD compliancy for VC-1 Elementary Streams ?

Nothing freely available that I know of.

[ACrowley]

Originally Posted by anrque

I have tried this numerous times and feel like I'm missing something. I have the VC1 SDK installed, I installed the WM11 SDK and finally i Installed the platform SDK that has all of the DShow extras. I installed VS 2008 as well and "think" I have all the run-time components I need. I have AVISynth 2.5.7 installed but I continue to get this error after running the example.bat:
Also, I am trying to run this in XP Pro 32 SP2.

C:\AVS2ASF>AVS2ASF -i Test.avs -o ElementryStream.vc1 -framerate 25 -rate 1200 -profiletype 2 -bframes 2 -maxkeydist 6 -vbv 300000 -peakrate 2000

*************************************


VC-1 AVS2ASF v0.3 Encoding Sample


Original Sample AVI2ASF code Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
All rights reserved.
Avisynth, YV12 & Raw support added by Nic.


*************************************

Encoding in ES (Elementry Stream) mode

Failure in CVC1EncASF::set_advancedProps
error = -20
Failure in CVC1EncASF::Init
hr = 0
VC1 SDK Error = -20

Final error code: -20
Total elapsed time in seconds = 0.000000

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Mike

Same Error here.

So far i can remeber it was caused by -profiletype 2

[M10]

Originally Posted by Nic

Well spotted M10. You should get a job doing QA in MS

        m_dwPixIndex = 0;
        .....
        else if (!wcscmp (L"-aspectratio", m_ppArgv[i]))
        {
            // Pixel aspect ratio.
            i++;

            // Convert the argument to a number.
            DWORD dwPixIndex = wcstoul(m_ppArgv[i], NULL, 10);

            // 15 means "Aspect width and height transmitted"
            // Update the w and h based on command line args.
            if (m_dwPixIndex == 15)
            {
                i += 2;                  
            }           
        }

Spot the bug? I'll release a fix sometime.

-Nic

Thanks, Nic. I look forward to the fix! I need to get the aspect ratio settings working before I can move my encodes to the new codec.

[HookedOnTV]

I get:

Bad AVS/AVI format - Has to be YV12!

my avs file has a line:

ConvertToYV12()

[benwaggoner]

Originally Posted by HookedOnTV

I get:

Bad AVS/AVI format - Has to be YV12!

my avs file has a line:

ConvertToYV12()

I think it actually has to be IYUV.

[HookedOnTV]

I'm not getting anywhere. Trying to encode the included sample script (as suggested by executable) and get nothing but errors. I have WMP11, WMEncoder 9, VC1ProSDK, WMFSDK11, AVISynth 2.57. I get:

Bad AVS/AVI format - Has to be YV12!
Failure in CAVIFileReader::Init
hr = 80044066
Failure in CVC1EncASF::InitFileReader
hr = 80044066
Encoding in ASF mode

Failure in CVC1EncASF::Init
hr = 80044066
VC1 SDK Error = -90

Final error code: -90
Total elapsed time in seconds = 0.000000

[HookedOnTV]

Problem fixed. I couldn't successfully compile the sample from the SDK and once I got the service pack for Visual Studio installed it fixed both.