RealAnime 4 - General Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

[Sirber]

Sorry, these features aren't easy to implement and to GUI. Surely it will confuse the end user and I will get tons of unauthorized email saying my software suck :)

You can still get the source and mod your own GUI.

[siddharthagandhi]

Hey man none of my files encode at all. I tried every single codec and every single setting, it doesn't work. It doesn't even create an output file.

[^_^x]

Sorry, these features aren't easy to implement and to GUI. Surely it will confuse the end user and I will get tons of unauthorized email saying my software suck :)

You can still get the source and mod your own GUI.

yeach, i do think so. n more suck when the video have subtitles.

[Sirber]

Hey man none of my files encode at all. I tried every single codec and every single setting, it doesn't work. It doesn't even create an output file.Wanna cry with me in a dark corner? Unless you tell me more detail that's all I can do.

[siddharthagandhi]

What kind of detail do you want? There's nothing much to say, it just starts encoding and then stops.

However, this only occurs with Xvid and x264, not with RV10

[Sirber]

what does RealAnime.log say? What does the bottom of RealAnime say?

It's easier to cry ;)

[^_^x]

yale, yale .....
don't cry sirber. i'll sing a song for you

[siddharthagandhi]

....something really weird is going on...it didnt work...then i installed java newer version...checked back five minutes later and it did work !?@??# wth?

[Sirber]

RealAnime does not use java. Nothing use java :sly:

[anne_so78]

So you resumed development afterall huh?:D

[Sirber]

no, resolving bugs, that's all :sly:

What we are developing now is xAnime.

[Eretria-chan]

What's this 4.2 version thingie spawned somewhere on the forum?

[Sirber]

Fixed:
* Some more Access Violation
* Version information in the containers

Updated:
* x264 rev 504
* Yamb 1.6

www.detritus.qc.ca

[DJ_Izumi]

Your installer for 4.1.2 is failing it's own checksum and refuses to install. Can you upload a non-borked version to be downloaded?

[Sirber]

Redownload, maybe you got it while I was still uploading it. How big is your file?

[Eretria-chan]

Works for me. Your downloaded file is borked.

[DJ_Izumi]

You're right, I only had 5mb or so.

Next time upload, then announce. :P

[Sirber]

Next time upload, then announce. :PUsualy, people don't get the file 5 minutes after I announced :p Takes 2-3 days. Be less quick next time :sly: ;)

[DJ_Izumi]

Usualy, people don't get the file 5 minutes after I announced :p Takes 2-3 days. Be less quick next time :sly: ;)
Total coincidence, really. I was just like 'Hrm, I want to encode this Lagarith file to x264... What idiot proof GUI's do I know?' So I went to RealAnime and downloaded the latest version posted.

[Eretria-chan]

Encoding error:

[2006-04-21 : 16:12:55] : ***** Encoding Audio to .AAC (BeSweet) *****
[2006-04-21 : 16:12:55] : "F:\RealAnime 4\besweet\BeSweet.exe" -ssrc( --rate 44100 ) -azid( -s dplii -L -3db ) -core( -input "G:\w00t\Mina videoklipp\Anime\Videos\2x2=Shinobuden\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.avi" -output "F:\RealAnime 4\temp\audio.aac" ) -dimzon( -dllname WA_aacPlus.dll -cbr 48 -mode 4 -mpeg4 ) -ota( -g max )
[2006-04-21 : 16:12:55] :
[2006-04-21 : 16:15:58] :
[2006-04-21 : 16:15:58] : [00:00:00:000] Initializing...
[2006-04-21 : 16:15:58] : [00:47:24
[2006-04-21 : 16:15:58] :
[2006-04-21 : 16:15:58] : ***** ERROR *****
[2006-04-21 : 16:15:58] : Encoder error #-1073741819 (BeSweet)
[2006-04-21 : 16:15:58] :

Source info:

General #0
Count : 167
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream : General
StreamKindID : 0
Count of video strea : 1
Count of audio strea : 1
Count of text stream : 0
Count of chapter str : 0
Complete name : G:\w00t\Mina videoklipp\Anime\Videos\2x2=Shinobuden\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.avi
Folder name : G:\w00t\Mina videoklipp\Anime\Videos\2x2=Shinobuden
File name : 2x2=Shinobuden - 01
File extension : avi
File size : 103335936
File size : 98.5 MiB
File size : 99 MiB
File size : 99 MiB
File size : 98.5 MiB
File size : 98.55 MiB
Format : AVI
Format : Audio Video Interleave
Extensions : AVI
Overal BitRate : 578063
Overal BitRate : 578 Kbps
PlayTime : 1430097
PlayTime : 23mn 50s
PlayTime : 23mn 50s 97ms
PlayTime : 23mn 50s
PlayTime : 00:23:50.097
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1 (build 2366/release)
Codecs Video : XviD
Audio codecs : MPEG1/2 L3

Video #0
Count : 36
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream : Video
StreamKindID : 0
Codec : XVID
Codec : XviD
Info : XviD project
Url : http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml
Bit rate : 509063
Bit rate : 509 Kbps
Width : 640
Height : 480
Aspect ratio : 1.333
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 23.976
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
FrameCount : 34288
(Pixel*Frame) : 0.069

Audio #0
Count : 35
Count of stream of t : 1
Kind of stream : Audio
StreamKindID : 0
Codec : 55
Codec : MPEG1/2 L3
Info : MPEG1 or 2 Audio Layer 3
Url : http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/index.html
Bit rate : 56000
Bit rate : 56 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 24000
Sampling rate : 24 KHz
SamplingCount : 34322328

What's wrong? :confused:

[Sirber]

Sampling rate : 24 KHz

not supported by BeSweet and AAC codec. You need 44KHz or 48KHz.

[Eretria-chan]

Ugh. That is a pain. I don't have the codecs nor the programs nor the patience to actually convert and recompress the sound and remux it again.

[Sirber]

a fast way would be to make an AVS out of it. RealAnime will upsample the audio then it will work.

This will be automatic in xAnime ;)

[Eretria-chan]

I repeat: I don't know anything about AVS. If you suggest anything concerning it, please post an example on HOW to do it.

[Sirber]

Source: c:\001.avi
Script: c:\001.avs
DirectShowSource("c:\001.avi")
save and drop 001.avs in RealAnime

[Eretria-chan]

I'll try that...

[Sirber]

Is it working?

[Eretria-chan]

Ah, I had a lot of operations running a little while ago, pretty much being unable to use RA. I will test now.
By the way, it is hard to manage your current list because your GUI is so tiny. You could maybe add something to allow expanding the GUI, open another window perhaps, or remove the directory paths. Also allow re-ordering of the list. I had to clear the list so that I could put the avs-file on top to try it.

EDIT:

[2006-04-21 : 21:29:34] : ***** Encoding Audio to WAV file (avs2wav) *****
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:34] : "F:\RealAnime 4\\bin\avs2wav.exe" "G:\w00t\Mina videoklipp\Anime\Videos\2x2=Shinobuden\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.avs" "F:\RealAnime 4\temp\audio.mp4.wav"
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:34] :
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : avs2wav v1.0 by Jory Stone <jcsston@toughguy.net>
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : Input: G:\w00t\Mina videoklipp\Anime\Videos\2x2=Shinobuden\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.avs
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : Output: F:\RealAnime 4\temp\audio.mp4.wav
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : Scanning for Audio Stream...
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : Found Audio Stream
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] :
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : Writing WAV Headers...
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : Scanning...
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] :
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : Took 11.03 seconds for the writing pass
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] :
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : ***** Encoding Audio to .AAC (BeSweet) *****
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] : "F:\RealAnime 4\besweet\BeSweet.exe" -ssrc( --rate 44100 ) -azid( -s dplii -L -3db ) -core( -input "F:\RealAnime 4\temp\audio.mp4.wav" -output "F:\RealAnime 4\temp\audio.aac" ) -dimzon( -dllname WA_aacPlus.dll -cbr 48 -mode 4 -mpeg4 ) -ota( -g max )
[2006-04-21 : 21:29:46] :
[2006-04-21 : 21:32:50] :
[2006-04-21 : 21:32:50] : [00:00:00:000] Initializing...
[2006-04-21 : 21:32:50] : [00:23:41:315] transcod
[2006-04-21 : 21:32:50] :
[2006-04-21 : 21:32:50] : ***** ERROR *****
[2006-04-21 : 21:32:50] : Encoder error #-1073741819 (BeSweet)
[2006-04-21 : 21:32:50] :

So, no, it didn't work.

[Sirber]

what if you run "F:\RealAnime 4\besweet\BeSweet.exe" -ssrc( --rate 44100 ) -azid( -s dplii -L -3db ) -core( -input "F:\RealAnime 4\temp\audio.mp4.wav" -output "F:\RealAnime 4\temp\audio.aac" ) -dimzon( -dllname WA_aacPlus.dll -cbr 48 -mode 4 -mpeg4 ) -ota( -g max )" by hand?

[Eretria-chan]

Why, yes, it works actually.
EDIT: Isn't it supposed to be "Donate Now" instead of "Register Now" in the about dialog? You're donating, not registering.

[Sirber]

Well, it's some kind of registration, since no one donate. Being registred, you can email me questions, else you get spamed :D

[Eretria-chan]

Okay, I see! I don't know if you should fix that previous problem. I'll encode without the audio and mux later.
EDIT: 8 minimum and 15.83 peak!

[Sirber]

The Access Violation of BeSweet, can't do much about that I'm affraid :(

xAnime will not use BeSweet, so it will always work.

[Eretria-chan]

Another error:

[2006-04-21 : 22:43:22] : ***** Merging file to MKV (MKVMerge) *****
[2006-04-21 : 22:43:22] : F:\RealAnime 4\mkv\mkvmerge.exe --title "Encoded with : RealAnime 4.1.2" -o "E:\Anime\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.mkv" --language 0:und "F:\RealAnime 4\temp\video.mkv.mkv" --aac-is-sbr 0 --language 0:jpn "G:\w00t\Mina videoklipp\Anime\Videos\2x2=Shinobuden\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.avs"
[2006-04-21 : 22:43:22] :
[2006-04-21 : 22:43:24] : mkvmerge v1.6.5 ('Watcher Of The Skies') built on Dec 7 2005 18:53:31
[2006-04-21 : 22:43:24] :
[2006-04-21 : 22:43:24] : Error: The file 'G:\w00t\Mina videoklipp\Anime\Videos\2x2=Shinobuden\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.avs' has unknown type. Please have a look at the supported file types ('mkvmerge --list-types') and contact the author Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org> if your file type is supported but not recognized properly.
[2006-04-21 : 22:43:24] :
[2006-04-21 : 22:43:24] : ***** ERROR *****
[2006-04-21 : 22:43:24] : Merge error #3(Mkv Merge)
[2006-04-21 : 22:43:24] :

[Sirber]

hum... someone had that error earlier. I failed to reproduce it and his error was gone with 4.1.1.

It seems to think audio is AVS. I'll check that when I come back from work.

[Eretria-chan]

What I did:
I used your previous example to put the file into AVS. I used the command line to encode the audio, and unticked "encode audio" in RA. I encoded the avs file by dragging it and encoding it.

EDIT: I managed to successfully merge it with mkvmerge, however, so no harm done I guess. Still, nuisance.

[Sirber]

"skip audio" only work well for OGM, MKV and MP4.

What skip audio actually does it to merge the source in the output, whitout encoding it. Your AVS had audio, so RealAnime "merged it" in MKV, which failed.

Use: DirectShowSource("c:\001.avi", audio=false)
before using it in RealAnime

[Eretria-chan]

It seems to me it tried to mux the avs-file instead of the sound.

[Sirber]

When you uncheck "Encode audio", UOutput takes the audio from the source and put it in MKV. Your source is AVS and can't be put in the final MKV. So, you need to disable the audio from the source then merge manually the video encoded with RealAnime with the audio you encoded manually.

RealAnime can only get audio when "Encode audio" is not checked in OGM, MKV and MP4. It will fail (like you had) with AVS, MPEG, AVI, etc.

[Eretria-chan]

Then it seems to be that it is a limitation, or a bug, since it was trying to merge the actual video file with the encoded one.

[Sirber]

video: video.mkv.mkv
output: E:\Anime\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.mkv

no problem

[Eretria-chan]

Ummm... no.

[2006-04-21 : 22:43:22] : F:\RealAnime 4\mkv\mkvmerge.exe --title "Encoded with : RealAnime 4.1.2" -o "E:\Anime\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.mkv" --language 0:und "F:\RealAnime 4\temp\video.mkv.mkv" --aac-is-sbr 0 --language 0:jpn "G:\w00t\Mina videoklipp\Anime\Videos\2x2=Shinobuden\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.avs"

I assume the -o switch means the output file: "E:\Anime\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.mkv"
Then we see the video: "F:\RealAnime 4\temp\video.mkv.mkv"
Then we see the AVS: "G:\w00t\Mina videoklipp\Anime\Videos\2x2=Shinobuden\2x2=Shinobuden - 01.avs"

But the AVS is the input file, yes? So why is it trying to merge the input file? Had it been a normal video file, it would mix two videos in the output, no? Because it isn't extracting the audio, and it isn't refering to an external audio file, or am I misinterpreting the command line?

[Sirber]

I already explained it 2 times...
I also gave you a way to prevent that.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=816656#post816656
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=816677#post816677

[Eretria-chan]

Oh it doesn't matter...
It just happened with the first file. Just discussing the past...

[Sirber]

You could have said earlier that it was working :devil:

[Eretria-chan]

You could have said earlier that it was working :devil:
I did append an edit that I successfully muxed them.
And I posted no further complaints about this error re-occouring. Because, in fact, it hasn't. RA puffs along just fine, now.

[Sirber]

alright.

Gonna enjoy my beer and movie then. Have a nice friday night :)

[Eretria-chan]

Yes, you too! :)

[DJ_Izumi]

I'm having two issues:

1) If you enter your desired bitrate and then change how many passes, RealAnime seems to just force the bitrate to change back to 318kbps. So if I set 1000kbit, and then change from 2 pass to 3 pass, RealAnime will magically change the entered bitrate to 318kbps. This is annoying as I've already made a couple of encodes without realizing it changed the bitrate to 318kbps

2) RealAnime is muxing both the source video stream from an AVI and the encoded h264 into the same container. So if I encode a 1GB Lagarith Lossless file with RealAnime, the resulting MKV has two video streams, 1) The 1GB Lagarith 2) The h264. I have to use MKVMerge to get the undesired video stream out of the file.

[Sirber]

1) Yeah, dropdown menus change some settings. Best set the bitrate at the end, and best not use 3 pass. Near to none quality boost.

2) Show me RealAnime.log