RealAnime 4 - General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

[killerhex]

whats the new prokect in your mind sirber

[Sirber]

a media player based on MPUI using mplayer

[Sirber]

Do you guys get a "crash loop" when you close RealAnime after having encoded some files?

[Sirber]

RealAnime 4.1.0 has been released.

Changelog (http://www.detritus.qc.ca/index.php?entry=entry060311-144429)
Download (http://www.detritus.qc.ca/static.php?page=static060310-005835)

Please note this is the final version of RealAnime. Updates will pop from time to time to upgrade x264 or fix bugs.
Delphi devs can get the sources (svn://svn.detritus.qc.ac/detritus/RealAnimeLE) and post patches. I will gladly evaluate them and post new versions of RealAnime.

Enjoy! :D

[Danisan]

No, I've never received a "crash loop".

[max-pain]

Any way to convert (with XviD) without B-frames?

[Sirber]

just set 0 bframes in Advanced tab.

[max-pain]

I tried that, but i always get B frames...

[Sirber]

// XviD
case setting.video_quality of
0: sCmd := sCmd + '-xvidencopts bitrate=' + setting.video_bitrate + ':' + sPass + sProfil + 'turbo:max_bframes=3:cartoon:chroma_opt:me_quality=4:vhq=2 ';
1: sCmd := sCmd + '-xvidencopts bitrate=' + setting.video_bitrate + ':' + sPass + sProfil + 'turbo:max_bframes=3:cartoon:chroma_opt:me_quality=5:vhq=3 ';
2: sCmd := sCmd + '-xvidencopts bitrate=' + setting.video_bitrate + ':' + sPass + sProfil + 'turbo:max_bframes=3:cartoon:chroma_opt:me_quality=6:vhq=4 ';
end;Seems I forgot to update that part :). Then, there's no way. Want a special build?

[max-pain]

Yes, please :D

[Sirber]

http://www.mytempdir.com/509584

[max-pain]

Thanks, it works :cool: :thanks:

[Sirber]

no prob. have fun!

[Sirber]

I've encoded 13+ files and RealAnime seems to hold nicely :)

[BoostAddict]

will there be another version where the subs will be hardcoded for profiles such as psp and ipod?

edit:
I'm trying to add in subtitles via avisynth
here's the code im using...im not very good at scripting so take it easy on me
# RealAnime 4
LoadPlugin ("C:\Program Files\RealAnime 4\avs\VSFilter.dll")
AVISource("C:\Encoding Samples\Track1.avi")
TextSub("C:\Encoding Samples\Track3.ass")

it works great :D

[anne_so78]

Where did all those resize filters go (bicubic, lanczos etc)? Which resize filter is 4.1 using by default? You haven't included any of those suggested typo corrections, have you? hmmm... The last time I calculated the bitrate using RealAnime's bitrate calculator (4, RC3) the estimate was annoyingly off-mark. RealAnime promised 698 MB, and it ended up with 703 MB !! After adding few other stuff on the cd compilation, the only way I could burn was to enable "over-burning" which I did hesitantly... I hope your bitrate calculator has been updated since...

[killerhex]

whats the best audio encoding setting to use with RV10 on RA4.1

[Sirber]

@BoostAddict

Not sure if I will add hardsub to RealAnime. I'm not investing more time on it.

@anne_so78

RealAnime 4.1 uses Bicubic. The Bitrate calculator doesn't count the Container size.

@killerhex

MKV or RMVB? For RMVB you have to stick with AAC HE. For MKV, use what you want. I suggest you use x264 though.

[anne_so78]

The Bitrate calculator doesn't count the Container size.
If it don't count the container, it ain't a bitrate calculator...

[Sirber]

It calculate the video bitrate. I don't care about container overhead.
You are free to use any other bitrate calculator or get the source and add the container overhead (MKV, MP4 and RMVB).

[killerhex]

i use mkv container with RV10 video codec

[anne_so78]

It calculate the video bitrate.
And what good is that for?
I don't care about container overhead.
Quote that within the program. Warn users that the bitrate calculator will always underestimate file sizes. Nobody wants to find that out after 36 hours of encoding. Your program outputs videos wrapped in a container. If you don't care about container overhead, maybe you shouldn't include your bitrate calculator in the program. It is very misleading ...

[Sirber]

The given bitrate fit for anime content, which is 24 minutes. Any other uses is at your discretion.

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[anne_so78]

dude, relax... I'm not pressing any charges or anything :D
just some constructive criticism :cool: ...

[Sirber]

As I said earlier, I'm not working on RealAnime anymore, except to fix bugs or update x264. Thanks.

[XH42]

A non "RealAnime" question, but does PSP support any softsub from the mp4 video files? IF it does, what are the format?
(and btw, did I hear something about this program will hardsub the extracted subtitle(s) from the source in the output from now on?)

[^_^x]

one more request: input track management
request: no audio
request: no subtitle

[Sirber]

@XH42

As far (or short ;)) as I know, handled doesn't support softsubs.

@^_^x

This could be added*, but I don't see the goal. In the meantime, chose keep track #8. If it'S not found it's not kept.

[ggab]

nice release ;)

thanks!



pS: i'll test it asap :D

[XH42]

Thanks Sirber. One more question, what resolution will RealAnime resize the video in the PSP Profile into? Will it resize it to the PSP LCD Screen Resolution (Heard it was 480x272), or will it resized it to the same as the NERO Recode 2 'PSP Profile' (320x240, 160x112. Which are not widescreen settings)?
Sorry for the extra post.

[Sirber]

RealAnime reach one of the border while keeping the AR.

iPod: 320x240
Pocket PC: 320x240 @ 12FPS
PSP: 480x272

As for PSP, width will never be more than 480 while height will nevber be more than 272. RealAnime doesn't add black borders to fill it to full rez. Please gives us some feedback if you encode something. I'm too poor to own a PSP ;)

[killerhex]

man i just encoded an anime ep


1280x720 to 640x360
Video codec:RV10
Audio Codec: AAC HE
Audio Bitrate:48kbps
Video Bitrate:368kbps
1-Pass
Quality:High
original size:350mb
output size:70mb

and its perfect

[Sirber]

1 pass? Can you post some screenshots?

[killerhex]

hol on can't take screenshots

[Sirber]

Why don't you do at least 2pass?

[killerhex]

takes too long on my comp will try it tonite

[Sirber]

takes too long on my comp will try it toniteIn 2pass mode, the first one is in "fast first pass mode", so the total encoding time in not 2x, more 1.3x. If not, then it's a bug in RealAnime 4.

[killerhex]

im trying 2pass encoding now

[^_^x]

- encode to ipod mode error, using x264, input d2v. dunno 4 other
- can you include the audio when i insert d2v project. i always take manual muxing.

[Sirber]

- encode to ipod mode error, using x264, input d2v. dunno 4 otherWhich error?
- can you include the audio when i insert d2v project. i always take manual muxing.I'll quote myself for that:
As I said earlier, I'm not working on RealAnime anymore, except to fix bugs or update x264. Thanks.

[^_^x]

i'll post tomorrow, i am not at home now.
sory, u look veryveryvery busy now ......

[Sirber]

sory, u look veryveryvery busy now ......I'm not very very very busy, I'm just not working on RealAnime anymore. So no feature add. I will soon start a new project. I already spent 3 years on RealAnime, it's time I move on.

[^_^x]

I'm not very very very busy, I'm just not working on RealAnime anymore. So no feature add. I will soon start a new project. I already spent 3 years on RealAnime, it's time I move on.

there are 2 programers realanime. why don't take realanime to other programer while you are preparing new project.

any way, i am counting on your new project. what is it?
pfuh, stupid question. write mode CLOSED.

[Sirber]

it's a media player mased in MPUI using mPlayer.

About Lain I dont know what his plans are.

[Eretria-chan]

What is actually typically required to get x264 to run at decent speeds at medium quality? Even an athlon 64 x2 3800+ (cpu utilization is typically around 95%) is not really enough, as it gives about 7-8 fps. It's currently clocked at 2.1 ghz, not near its maximum potential yet.
Wonder if it is possible to aquire the 64-bit version of x264 and merge it with RA? Although the latest 64-bit is probably old by now...

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

Well, you have 64-bit build on http://omion.dyndns.org/x264x64/452-omion.rar

[Sirber]

On my AMD64 3000+ (32bit), I get 7-8FPS in second pass at Medium.
Try the Medium quality setting. You should get 12-15FPS on your CPU.

a 64bit build will do no good if you don't have Windows XP64, Avisynth64, ffdshow64 and other 64bit apps needed to run them. Also, x264 can't use MMX in 64bit mode IIRC, so it might just run slower than the 32bit version.

[Eretria-chan]

I use default settings, but still I get around 25 fps on first pass and around 8 on second pass.
* Shrugs *
Will try again tonight...
x264 is a hungry beast :p
Oh... maybe the animeLQ filter is slowing it down! I forgot about that one. Maybe I should turn it off and see what happens. But on a high resolution, noise become so visible :/

[Sirber]

Do you still filter like crazy?

[Eretria-chan]

No, just animeLQ. That's all! I swear!
Besides, when I "filtered like crazy" was just for testing purposes.