RV10 Tool : R.E.V.E. (RmEditor GUI clone) 1.30

[damrod]

RV10 Tool : REVE 1.50

Name: REVE
Version: 1.50 (October 10, 2005)
Purpose: RealMedia Editor GUI
Language: English
Programmed in: Delphi 7
License: Closed

Features:
* Preview (with correct aspect ratio ;))
* Editing
* can be used as a player (fullscreen is working...;-))

Required :
- RealMediaSplitter.ax
see : http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56940
- Directx 9 (not sure but i use a directx9 unit in my delphi code so...)

Known bugs:
* RealMediaSplitter.ax must be in your windows/system32 directory
(i will modify the test code...maybe remove it for the moment)

Links
* Home: http://www.damrod.com
* Binaires : http://vasaldo.free.fr/itseasy/soft.php#reve

Screenshots
http://vasaldo.free.fr/itseasy/test.php?maindir=img/rmeditor

Support:
* Please ask your questions in this thread

[Sirber]

Begin by finishing it, we'll se later :p

[damrod]

sur...i need to do it...

[Sirber]

@Modo

Some cleaning please :D

[damrod]

i will post a screenshot tomorrow i think

three "panels" : activex,cmdline & log....

the cmdline panel main target is for concatenation of rmvb files into a new one.... the original realeditor gui is too bad/poor about that ;)

[karl_lillevold]

any GUI with the ability to control rmeditor would be most welcome, but I am sure it will be hard to make it work well. I have kind of postponed editing of RM files until the Matroska guys complete their editor, and then expect to have to transmux back and forth, but who knows what will be the most convenient RM editing solution in X months from now :D

[damrod]

http://damrod66.free.fr/site/inc/rm_edit.exe


http://damrod66.free.fr/site/img/realanime/RmEditor.png
http://damrod66.free.fr/site/img/realanime/RmEditor2.png
http://damrod66.free.fr/site/img/realanime/RmEditor3.png

nb : the links works now ;-)

nb2 : for the app : only loading of rmvb file works... you can select begin & end time

i'm still working on rmeditor.exe call...soon to be finished ;-)

then i will implement old panel :-)

[karl_lillevold]

Looks very promising!
p.s. you should correct the links (two of the screenshots are not there, and link to exe is a little messed up).

[Sirber]

Gonna add it to utilities soon.

[damrod]

it's ok for the exe...the forum add [url] and me too :-)

btw it use dx9 to preview so realmediasplitter must be installed to work... (it's like a wmp6.4 included...not perfect but working)

[karl_lillevold]

A little bug report for New panel:
opened RMVB file L:\test.rmvb
RealEditor opens two windows:
D:\misc\producer\rmeditor.exe -i L:\test.rmvb" does not exist
and one window with "0"
then it says:
Can't read the video - install RealMediaSplitter.ax or use old panel.

I do have realmediasplitter.ax installed.

[damrod]

for those who wonder... REVE is the french word for dream....i was dreaming i can make a rmeditor gui clone ;-)

and REVE means also REalVideoEditor

[damrod]

sorry for the "0" i forgot this message ;-)

do you have a message in log panel??

for realmediasplitter.ax i check in windows/system32 directory..is it installed here for you (under xp for me)

i check it because with directshow i can't read rmvb without it...and i can't read directly the rmvb file also so no preview :-)




D:\misc\producer\rmeditor.exe -i L:\test.rmvb"


the path of remeditor.exe and rmvb file is correct?
i wonder for the " at the end...will check...

[damrod]

i try it with one of my file

got that http://damrod66.free.fr/PastedImage.png

[Sirber]

@damrod

can you add IMG tags for the pictures? Also, edit your first post with the infos. People see the first thread when they open a thread ;)

[damrod]

img tag for the pictures?? what do you mean?


i edit first post ;)
btw i don't add the donate paypal ;)

[karl_lillevold]

damrod: I keep all my manually installed .ax filters in C:\windows, since it is less cluttered than system32. I think there is no standard location for DirectShow filters. They can be put anywhere, as long as they are registered with regsvr32.

The message is
D:\misc\producer\rmeditor.exe -i "L:\test.rmvb" does not exist

sorry, it was just a typo in my previous post.


Another little problem:
In the Old Tab, the "Select" button does nothing, and I can not select a File Source.. Similarly, the "Add" button also does not appear to do anything.

[damrod]

the old panel is just button and edit field :
i implement nothing yet!!

i will find another method to test if rmvb are playable
via directshow ;)

i wonder if i must add "" for rmeditor.exe path...dos command are strange somethimes ;-)

[damrod]

i correct some bugs

http://damrod66.free.fr/site/inc/reve.exe

[Sirber]

You have been added to the sticky. :p

mouhahahahahhaa :cool:

[damrod]

hein ?

[Sirber]

Look in the "utilities" sticky. You're on the bottom.

[damrod]

oki thx ;)

[karl_lillevold]

all right, I copied realmediasplitter.ax to windows\system32, and now I can preview the video in the New pane. I still get the "not found error" when opening a file though.

New tab problems
================

Problem 1) Then I tried to set a Start time. Done. 0:00:4 gets set in the Start time window.

Then I moved the slider, press the End time button. However, the problem is that the time that gets put in the End time box, is the same as the start time.... However, if I momentarily play the video, then pause, the end time gets set. Then I tried to change the start time again, and it worked, but only once....

Problem 2) Is it supposed to be possible to type something in the boxes for Title, Author etc? I put the cursor there, but typing does not work. Typing something works only in Keywords and Description..

Question: If I need to merge files, I have to use the Old tab, right? The New tab is meant to do only cutting, and insertion of Tags?

Old tab problems
================

No buttons work. Is this tab meant to be enabled yet at all, or still under development?

Thos tool does look promising, but I have some trouble using it for now.

Thanks!

[damrod]

i update the exe link

the new tab works...you can save as the result...

to indicate time you can play video then click on the button or specify value directly in 00:00:00 format (i automatically add the .000 at the end for rmeditor.exe)

the tags are editable now -- i forgot to make them editable...

some buttons works for old panel... i will work on it...it's main goal is for merge multiple rmvb files into one ...since i think new one is more userfriendly for editing/cutting rmvb file
i don't think i will add merging support in new tab : the purpose of new tab is the preview window...

i think i have some others bugs to correct...

[damrod]

ok i post a new version ...sorry for those who download the previous one ;)

i modify something on trackbar in new panel...karl will be pleased :)

[damrod]

ok new release ... normally the old panel works : you can edit or merge

i correct my 'realmediasplitter test'...now it works (launching of reve is slower than before...i check at this moment if realmediasplitter is registered in you registry....) : after it works fine :-)

for those who wonder the path to remeditor.exe reve search it in producer subdirectory...

[eidenk]

I have DirectX9.0c installed
I copied realmediasplitter.ax to windows\system32

Despite this I was unable to do anything more than playing the realmedia files in the "New" tab.

I did try then to put R.E.V.E. in a folder with producer as a child folder. I have used the version that comes with your Real Batch 2.0.

Despite this I was unable to do anything more than playing the realmedia files in the "New" tab.

So I did download the latest Real Batch 2.10 from your site. I discovered R.E.V.E. was included. So i did try to run it from there. I was unable to do anything more than playing the realmedia files in the "New" tab.

Just in case I moved R.E.V.E. to the parent folder (it was originally in producer). I was unable to do anything more than playing the realmedia files in the "New" tab.

To finish with, I even moved R.E.V.E. to the same folder as mkvmerge/mkvextract as asked on your website. I was unable to do anything more than playing the realmedia files in the "New" tab.

Clicking on buttons brings an error message in french and save seems disabled.

I need to extract small segments from large real medias files for the purpose of editing in avi and it would have been perfect to be able to cut only what I need before converting realmedia to avi which is such a painfully long process. (tmpgenc for converting the video, graphedit to sloooowly dump the audio, and then mux the avi for edition).

Is R.E.V.E. no more than a dream right now as the name suggest ? If no, is there any modus operandi that allow to visually cut and save segments as I thought it would be able to ?

What can I do with this tool ? I have tried to merge files under the Old tab but I didnt manage either. File not found messages and this log for example : "C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\REALBATCH\PRODUCER\producer\rmeditor.exe" -i "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\pmq2003-09-10.rm" -o

You are saying it works fine for edit. What am I doing wrong ?

[damrod]

i will check that and correct some pbs...

i will try to release a new version...

[damrod]

seems i make some bad code

sorry ;)

i finish my test : next evening i will upload the new exe...


working test version
http://damrod66.free.fr/site/inc/reve.exe (681ko)
the upx version
http://damrod66.free.fr/site/inc/reve_upx.exe (248ko)

NB : this version seek rmeditor.exe in sub-directory producer

[eidenk]

Thanks damrod it does work now for cutting under the New tab and pasting under the Old tab.

A few bugs :

1) When loading the file under the New tab, two annoying warning windows are popping up with the width and the eight of the video.

2) rmeditor generates an error message of and does not do the job when "Content ratings" are set to "No Ratings" in the GUI. This seems to be a bug in rmeditor rather than Reve. Relevant parts of the log :

"C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\REALBATCH\producer\rmeditor.exe" -i "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\test.rm" -o "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\test.rm2" -t "" -a "" -c "" -C "" -s 00:00:01.000 -e 00:00:06.000 -n "" -q "" -R 0

Error: The file could not be processed.
Please verify that there is adequate space on the
destination drive and in your system's temporary directory.

A successfull log with "Content ratings" set to "All Ratings" :

"C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\REALBATCH\producer\rmeditor.exe" -i "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\test.rm" -o "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\test.rm2" -t "" -a "" -c "" -C "" -s 00:00:01.000 -e 00:00:06.000 -n "" -q "" -R 1

Processing complete!

3) The position field gets set to zero whenever the video is paused which renders useless the fine seeking buttons for the moment.

4)stop and pause seem to both only pause the video.

PS : The first file you link, the non-upx one is exactly the same, bit for bit as the old one. You are a bit confusing as your motto indicates.

Thank you again.

[damrod]

i update the links

- the two msg box are removed
- correct others things

i will check the problems you find

[eidenk]

@karl_lillevold

I almost always obtain a frozen image with audio running to begin with when I cut a file with rmeditor, and the clip usually finishes with no audio. So I did download RealProducer Basic 10 to see if the latest rmeditor was cutting more neatly. In the help file it is said that "The start and end times will be adjusted so the clip starts and ends on keyframe boundaries. Use 0 as the end time to specify the end of the file." But elsewhere it is written "If you set a selection point between keyframes, the cutting may not be precisely accurate. The resulting video may have a black or frozen image." And indeed it does not seem that it does adjust anything as the results are as bad in this respect. Is there anything such as an additional secret command line argument to force this adjustment. Preferably, it should be adjusting to the closest keyframe before the start time and to the closest after the end time to at least get the wanted segment intact. I do not understand the "Use 0 as the end time to specify the end of the file." I successfully use this latest rmeditor build with damrod's Reve 1.1.0.0 as its syntax is identical but still the cutting is the same messy of course.

I have tried as well to run to run rmeditor in batch file and indeed there is a problem with rmeditor when cutting a file with the rating flag set to O. But no problem for merging files when it is set to O. Strange things...

I wanted to try the rmeditorgui that now comes with this version as it seems to contains advanced functions such as jumping to next or previous keyframe but unfortunately it does not want to load any file, it tells me it doesn't find them. At least it loads itself, unlike RealProducer. Maybe it is all bugged on purpose like much of Microsoft so that most people of small means don't touch to much or give up quickly without engineers. Nothing against you personally, Karl.

Will there be any new build of rmeditor sometimes soon to correct all those bugs ? It should be done quickly considering the huge money invested into Helix services. Helix is powering the White House and 10 Downing Street besides scores of other high profile websites I have seen. I suppose they all pay extremely well unless they are maybe spending too much in their sustained effort to clean Iraqi cities of their inhabitants and Helix need to ressort to open source people to do some of the devellopement job. I have sometimes wondered what the Helix "community" is really about...

@damrod

Thanks damrod, your GUI is superb and does for me the best possible job considering the bugs and limitations of rmeditor. Sorry for the above rants about Helix. I know politics is not allowed here but I haven't been able to empeach myself as I found it was somehow relevant to make those few points. Maybe I will be banned from Doom9 now. I don't care I have Reve and I can edit Downing Street's videos.

[mgh]

Double arrow toolbutton seeks to keyframes-left backwards-right forwards.:)

[damrod]

i'm not sure these buttons works correctly..i don't seek keyframes


i add +/-1 or +/-10 seconds to trackbar timer...sorry ;)

i will check in two weeks this problem

[azsd]

when use [...] to browse an rmvb file and the gui give me an dialog back:

---------------------------
R.E.V.E.
---------------------------
"F:\Program Files\Real\RealProducer Plus 10\RealMediaEditor\producer\rmeditor.exe" -i "V:\DvdRip\LoveHina Vol6\vol6_t2_rmvb_ed.rmvb" doesn't exist.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

[damrod]

did you put reve.exe in a directory in the same level as producer directory?
if you put reve.exe in the same directory as rmeditor.exe it will bug
(the prog will not find rmeditor.exe)

sorry i don't implement "save settings" functionnality because of only one exe ;)

[azsd]

---------------------------
R.E.V.E.
---------------------------
"F:\Program Files\Real\RealProducer Plus 10\producer\rmeditor.exe" -i "V:\DvdRip\LOVEHI~3\rmTarget\_ACC86~1.RMV" doesn't exist.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

I placed reve.exe in
F:\Program Files\Real\RealProducer Plus 10
the correct rmeditor must be found at
F:\Program Files\Real\RealProducer Plus 10\RealMediaEditor
Is that means rmeditor must under producer's directionary's producer folder?
I have offical producer installed

thx

[eidenk]

Create a folder. Put Reve inside it. Now copy your "RealMediaEditor" folder (which contains rmeditor.exe) into it and rename it "producer".

That's the setup I am using and it works.

As Damrod wrote above : "this version seek rmeditor.exe in sub-directory producer"

[damrod]

eidenk is right

i don't want to add save_settings option
butmaybe i will check if rmeditor.exe is found
if not reve will ask you to find and select it...its path will be saved until you close reve.exe

[damrod]

version 1.3.0 of reve
add the stuff about rmeditor.exe path ;)

soft link on my website (www.damrod.org) :)

[Sirber]

May I add your tool to RealAnime?

[damrod]

no problem

ps : i can log & post in forum... :)

[eidenk]

Hi Damrod,

I recently downloaded Reve 1.4. It is the best so far. It works very well with Real Producer Basic 10.

Nevertheless, is it possible that you would do a couple of small minor modifications ?

1) Make that reve seeks rmeditor in its own folder rather than in a subfolder called producer or make that reve remembers the path of rmeditor after it has asked once for it.

2) Make "All ages" appear by default on top of the content rating listbox rather than "No ratings" as it systematically fails to perform with the latter value (a bug in rmeditor apparently).

Thanks.

[damrod]

Hi eidenk,

thx for using reve ;-)

for your requests :
1) in release 1.5 it will be included..i must finish some debugging first :-)
2)why not...i think it will be save in the reve.ini file with rmeditor path....

if i have time i will add multilanguage support with ini files as languages datasource...

[damrod]

Reve 1.50 online
www.damrod.org
Logiciels/Soft page

@eidenk : the two points have been done ;)

[eidenk]

Thanks Damrod.

[Sakuya]

I'm having trouble using REVE because I don't have rmeditor.exe. :( Where do I get that?

[damrod]

it's bundle with producer.exe....

[Sakuya]

it's bundle with producer.exe....

Yes, but is there a standalone somewhere? I've searched through the forum and found some links but they no longer work, unfortunately.