DGAVCDec 1.0.9

[klinika]

The link to the VC redist neuron posted earlier, try the SP1 update on top of it and see if that helps or not.

Good catch, but it didn't work either..

[klinika]

hello, i get same error like klinika. here is my error log

http://rapidshare.com/files/35905893/error.txt.html

Ah, of course! Dr. Watson to the rescue :p I have it disabled by default and forgot all about it.

[Revgen]

I've had no problems with this new version.

Then again I don't have any AVC source from Blu-Ray or HD-DVD.

[Guest]

Ah, of course! Dr. Watson to the rescue :p I have it disabled by default and forgot all about it.
Can you get me a Dr. Watson dump as well then, please?

[canTsTop]

here is my Dr Watson dump
http://rapidshare.com/files/36034597/Dr_Watson.7z.html

[Guest]

here is my Dr Watson dump
http://rapidshare.com/files/36034597/Dr_Watson.7z.html Thank you.

Can you please try this debug DLL and give me a Dr Watson dump using that? Thanks.

http://neuron2.net/guest/libavcodec.zip

[klinika]

Can you get me a Dr. Watson dump as well then, please?

Uh oh, well I quite suddenly decided to upgrade mobo & cpu, and no more crashing. But the FAULT text (or whatever it read) in the debug log was at the same spot. Sorry for not being able to be of further help in the issue :o I do hope it gets solved for everyone's benefit though, and more importantly, thank you for the immensely useful program!

[Guest]

Uh oh, well I quite suddenly decided to upgrade mobo & cpu What was your processor before and after, please?

[Kurth]

Any .264 file that I try to open on DGAVCIndex Alpha 6 crashes I found that the problem is the libavcodec.dll that come inside the dgavcdec100a6.zip
I copied my libavcodec.dll from the FFDshow directory and pasted it on the DGAVCIndex.exe directory and now the Alpha 6 version works fine.
The libavcodec.dll that you made have problems you should check it.

[Guest]

The libavcodec.dll that you made have problems you should check it. I guess you missed the last several posts, where I am attempting to debug libavcodec.dll. :)

[xc3ll]

neuron2, just sent u a pm w/a video snippet.

btw, I'm very interested in helping. If you could direct me as to what books/websites to go to, I would like to learn how to help out.

thx

[canTsTop]

Thank you.

Can you please try this debug DLL and give me a Dr Watson dump using that? Thanks.

http://neuron2.net/guest/libavcodec.zip

with this DLL, DGAVCIndex dont start at all, and no Dr Watsons dump
this is error

http://www.ipix.lt/out.php/i30941_error.PNG

[klinika]

What was your processor before and after, please?

Before amd sempron 2800, now intel c2d 6600.

[humanzoo666]

First of all, I would like to thank you, neuron2, for your whole work and for the great pieces of software you are giving to the community.
I have made a fresh install (unzipped to a new directory) of alpha6
and it works like a charm. I have tested with the 2 samples bundled in alpha2 archive and with a custom made x264 encode and they all work fine. I have tried a simple avs script and it works too.

P.S. I do not have ffmpeg installed on my computer and I have no other libavcodec.dll in my system directory.

[Neo Fagin]

I love this tool. It works fine on about 50% of AVC BluRay discs right now. Notably, worked for me on

0.5a worked on Identity (produced lots of ignoreable errors but worked fine)
0.6a worked on Pursuit of Happyness (produced [h264 @ 00D1700C]Internal error, IDCT permutation not set error but worked fine)
0.4a worked on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

0.6a did NOT work on

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (worked but video colors were severely distorted with a purple/green "haze")
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (same)
Freedom Writers (worked but color distortion problem occured 20 minutes in)

[Revgen]

@ Neo Faggin

Do the "not working" videos play well with ffdshow or VLC Player? Elementary streams can be played directly with VLC Player. If the problem is libavcodec, then it would be different then if the problem was DGAVCDec's.

[xc3ll]

I love this tool. It works fine on about 50% of AVC BluRay discs right now. Notably, worked for me on

0.5a worked on Identity (produced lots of ignoreable errors but worked fine)
0.6a worked on Pursuit of Happyness (produced [h264 @ 00D1700C]Internal error, IDCT permutation not set error but worked fine)
0.4a worked on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

0.6a did NOT work on

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (worked but video colors were severely distorted with a purple/green "haze")
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (same)
Freedom Writers (worked but color distortion problem occured 20 minutes in)

Neo, you say that Pursuit worked even tho you got the IDCT error... did you have to do anything special? When I get it, x264 skips the second pass, although it does seem to complete the first.

EDIT: It seems as if I can run the 2nd pass... we'll see how it turns out.

[Neo Fagin]

@ Neo Faggin

Do the "not working" videos play well with ffdshow or VLC Player? Elementary streams can be played directly with VLC Player. If the problem is libavcodec, then it would be different then if the problem was DGAVCDec's.

None of them played with ffdshow/VLC, except the pirates movies which produced the same weird color issue, but when playing those with ffdshow they skipped huge amounts of frames, whereas dgavcdec did not.

[tomos]

i have the same issue. playing the raw avc in graphedit with sonics decoder and demultiplexer played it back fine. DSS also fine.

[Revgen]

@tomos and Neo Fagin

I could be wrong, but this sounds like a libavcodec issue that I doubt Neuron2 wants to solve by himself. The only libavcodec issue he's publicly proclaimed interest in solving is the PAFF support issue. You might want to report this issue to the FFMPEG dev team instead.

[xc3ll]

Encoding finished, and it looks good. Neo Fagin was correct, the IDCT configuration does not seem to be a real problem.

[lucassp]

0.6a worked on Pursuit of Happyness (produced [h264 @ 00D1700C]Internal error, IDCT permutation not set error but worked fine)


I get the same error when I'm trying to encode some 1080p trailers, from Apple, with x264. the encoding stops after the first pass.

[Selur]

Don't know if it helps, but:
Over in the german Doom9 forum a user had the same problem and mentioned that the problem was solved for him when exchanging libavcodec.dll through the one that comes with ffdshow.

[G_M_C]

Don't know if it helps, but:
Over in the german Doom9 forum a user had the same problem and mentioned that the problem was solved for him when exchanging libavcodec.dll through the one that comes with ffdshow.

Yep, that was reported here too. But the point is that Neuron2 is trying to compile his own DLL for debugging purposes and because the DLL included in ffdshow contains code not needed for this tool. This is quite an important step in the further development of AVCIndex.

In stead of exchanging the DLL's i'd rather keep using Alpha5, untill Neuron2 finds the problem, and comes up with a fix :)

[Guest]

I've replaced the libavcodec.dll in the alpha 6 package with the non-stripped one. Apparently I messed up something when stripping it down, although it doesn't crash on all machines. It's not urgent to have it stripped; I can still debug and trace with it.

Please advise if this one causes any problems. Just re-download alpha 6 and use the libavcodec.dll in there.

http://neuron2.net/dgavcdec/dgavcdec100a6.zip

[canTsTop]

i re-download alpha 6, its not working for me, it crash then i open video. but with libavcodec.dll from ffdshow its working

[foxyshadis]

Do you have the 2005 runtime (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32bc1bee-a3f9-4c13-9c99-220b62a191ee&displaylang=en) and 2005sp1 runtime (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en)? One or the other will be necessary to run it, but if you can run ffdshow tryouts, you should already have that. Hmm.

[Daodan]

You can add to me to the list of people for which included .dll doesn't work on 0.6. CPU: athlon XP 2600+
Is there any problem using the one from ffdshow, or should I use older versions of dvdavc?

[Guest]

The thing I don't understand is that the one included in alpha 6 now *is* the one I built from ffdshow_tryouts. I will regenerate it this evening from a fresh SVN checkout and we'll see if that is OK.

If you have one from ffdshow that works, that is fine. The only thing missing will be the warning if you hit a PAFF frame.

[Guest]

I have updated the alpha 6 package with a new build of libavcodec.dll. I simply took ffdshow_tryouts and built the beta 2 branch in release mode.

Please advise if you still have problems with this DLL.

To those people who are using the DLL from ffdshow: Do you mean the real ffdshow or ffdshow_tryouts? If the former please give me a link to the project.

[lucassp]

It works ok with the new DLL!

[canTsTop]

I have updated the alpha 6 package with a new build of libavcodec.dll. I simply took ffdshow_tryouts and built the beta 2 branch in release mode.

Please advise if you still have problems with this DLL.

To those people who are using the DLL from ffdshow: Do you mean the real ffdshow or ffdshow_tryouts? If the former please give me a link to the project.

still not working for me

i using ffdshow from here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941

(Nightly builds by clsid, generic builds)

[G_M_C]

Still havent been able to test, i'll make it a priority for tonight

But could you provide us with an example 264-stream canTsTop, cause maybe it is something else ?

[Guest]

He said it crashes with the test files included in the early alphas.

[G_M_C]

Welll, i'm sorry to say that i get exactly the same error ("Couldn't load ....."). Even tried to register the DLL, wich didnt work.

Looked in my event logs, and there were errors in it (3 per time i tried to start DGAVCIndex). I wont put them here, because i do not think you be any wiser (i run a Dutch version of Win XP pro the errors etc. are all in Dutch and i dont know if you understand Dutch). Maybe CanTsTop has an English version ?

[Guest]

@G_M_C

Does this popup come right away when opening DGAVCIndex?

Just for grins, please extract alpha 6 into a folder "c:\dg". and try running it from there. I'm wondering if there is a path problem.

If that doesn't work I will provide you with a debug DGAVCIndex so we can get to the bottom of this.

Can't you translate the error log events for me?

[canTsTop]

not working in "c:\dg"

FreeCommander - Contents of folder: C:\dg 2007.06.15 19:57

Date Time Attrib Bytes File name
---------- -------- ------ ---------------- --------

C:\dg
2007.06.01 21:13:40 A----- 143.360 DGAVCDecode.dll
2007.06.01 21:12:40 A----- 499.712 DGAVCIndex.exe
2007.06.14 08:22:34 A----- 1.585.152 libavcodec.dll
2007.06.01 21:19:34 A----- 1.165 Readme.txt
2007.02.17 20:46:32 A----- 12.168.444 test.264
-------------------
14.397.833 5 Files

Summary of C:\dg
Directories = 1
Files = 5
Bytes = 14.397.833

[crapz0rs]

I have updated the alpha 6 package with a new build of libavcodec.dll. I simply took ffdshow_tryouts and built the beta 2 branch in release mode.

Please advise if you still have problems with this DLL.Works fine here on a skyhd h264 cap :thanks:

[Guest]

not working That's no help to me. What exactly goes wrong and when?

[canTsTop]

not working in "c:\dg"


DGAVCIndex crashes when i open video

[G_M_C]

Hi Neuro2,

It gives the "couldn't load ...."-error right upon startup. Looks like the app is calling the DLL, and Windows cant load it. Ill'do a search on google and see if i can find the translation of the event-log errors.

To be complete, before you get into it; I use a rather old version of Win XP Pro, SP1. I never bothered keeping that system up-to-date, because i just use it mainly in "stand-allone-mode". So there's no dot-net and other "fancy" stuff on it etc.

I just pump a huge amount of data in from my main PC through the managed switch. After that i disconnect the patch cable, boot up that system in "stand-allone-mode" with bare minimum on drivers w/o virus-scanner & firewall to do its encode-work and burn the DVD. So i dont have any need for most of the SP2 patchwork, just makes things even slower (and video-stuff isn't fast to begin with :D)

[Guest]

Do you have the Studio 2005 runtime installed as linked above?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1013559#post1013559

[G_M_C]

Do you have the Studio 2005 runtime installed as linked above?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1013559#post1013559

I should have, but i'll make shure and (re)install the packages you linked to, and try again.

Might be tomorrow (GMT+1) that i'm able to report back, cause i've got friends over atm. But i'll keep you posted as best i can !

[klinika]

Could someone check the new & old alpha 6 with files with cqm's? I wanna verify it's not my system, they seem to get borked here. Alpha 5 works without a hitch.

[Warren]

Neuron: based on all the problems with the redist not being present why not add a check into the main program to check for the dlls and pop up a box with the url to the redist if they're not found?

[bob0r]

@neuron2

H.264 MBAFF decoding is partly supported (as in just the bits pengvado likes a bit... :p)

Here I have a sample:
http://x264.nl/ateme.luxe.tv.hd.eutelsat.w3a.12.jun.2007.whole.ts.sample.ts

Which is MBAFF + Spatial Direct Mode..... This is a sample of Ateme, which with any luck, will be on more satellite channels soon.

Might you add support for full MBAFF decoding too?

[Inventive Software]

@neuron: Lots of queries since you replied, but this is a rather key one... which part of the program uses VC2005 redists? As in, is it in the program .exe, or in the DLLs it uses?

[Guest]

DGAVCIndex.exe requires it.

libavcodec.dll requires it when built via ffdshow_tryouts code. When built with MSYS/MINGW then not.

DGAVCDecode.dll I can't remember and I'm at work so can't check.

[Inventive Software]

Woah, hang on... ffdshow-tryouts IIRC recommend that you build libavcodec.dll and libmplayer.dll with MinGW anyway.... odd that it should require it when built with VS2005.

[Guest]

ffdshow-tryouts IIRC recommend that you build libavcodec.dll and libmplayer.dll with MinGW anyway I never heard that. What is your source?