RealAnime 3.2 - RV10/x264 GUI

[Sirber]

which one? //could u include it in next release as an optional way to get a "correct" WAV temp file?avi2wav :)

i like the MPEG v1 support, maybe u could leave it as a legacy feature (or optional, well who knows.....)RealAnime 3.0 uses a track management module, unlike 2.25. Also, all audio go through besweet for decompression, filtering and later recompression too. If besweet doesn't like it, I will have to make more and more big temp files which is not a good thing.

is this restriction also with Mpeg Layer 1 and 2?
no way to make it softer? (it sounds very restrictive...)Most "anime" source are all in MP3.

[Sirber]

Well, I'm fixing bugs and will release 3.0 final today. I will post the features and specs as well. Stay tuned!

[Sirber]

Final release is out!

Fixed:
* Audio didn't load correctly
* Besweet temp folder used the source
* Now only MP3 is a valid codec for AVI (besweet crash).

http://www.detritus.qc.ca/

[ggab]

cool release! ;)


ups, u forgot to include avi2wavcmd.exe in the setup:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/5092/caapture6ex.gif




* do u find BeLight 0.22 beta 4 (included in v3.0) a better option than latest beta 6?

* the same for avi2wav, realanime has the 3.3 version, latest is 3.5 ( http://agrgic.tripod.com/avi2wav/aviwav35.zip )



C:\Program Files\RealAnime30final>x264.exe
x264 core:34 svn-286M

The "M" is for Modified version (to avoid the 23.976/24 bug?) ?

(r286) Reverted to GPAC 0.3.0 and updated SSE2 pixel routines to V5.

Yes, if you have SSE2 CPU I suggest your use the latest from Sharktooth
the x264 encoder that comes with Realanime is SSE2 compatible, doesn't it?
and it's the Sharktooth's one, no? [i have a Sempron64 3300 (supports SSE2)]

[Sirber]

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I will repost the build. sorry :D

[Sirber]

the x264 encoder that comes with Realanime is SSE2 compatible, doesn't it?
and it's the Sharktooth's one, no? [i have an athlon64 3200 (supports SSE2)]Build 287A IIRC. SSE2 and MMX compatible.

[ggab]

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I will repost the build. sorry :D
ok, here it is

[Sirber]

I will update the source but I will not post a new buikd. I merely use avi2wav to detect if the AVI contain an MP3.

[Sirber]

Well, I will need a new relaese. I got a bug with mkvmerge:
mkvmerge v1.5.5 ('Another White Dash') built on Aug 21 2005 15:40:13
'C:\Program Files\RealAnime\temp\0.new.avi': Using the AVI demultiplexer. Opening file. This may take some time depending on the file's size.
'C:\Program Files\RealAnime\temp\out_aud.1.rm': Using the RealMedia demultiplexer.
At the moment mkvmerge does not support converting from VfW-mode AVC/h.264 tracks to native Matroska-mode AVC/h.264 tracks. You can, however, first import the video track into a MP4 file with e.g. 'MP4Box' (use Google). Then you can use mkvmerge and put the video into a Matroska file.
If you really know what you are doing then you can force mkvmerge to put this AVC/h.264 track into a Matroska file even in VfW mode if you add '--engage allow_avc_in_vfw_mode' to the command line. You can do that in mmg with the 'Add command line options' menu entry in the 'Muxing' menu.

[namelessted]

ok, ive got there .ogm files that have dual audio and option subtitles, i was wandering if there was a way to encode it so the file keeps the dual audio and subtitle option.

[Sirber]

Yes, by default it keeps all tracks. Track options is in "Input" / "Advanced" tab.

[damrod]

it's normal

it's a bug in 5.5 release of mkvtools ... ;-)

bad luck :-)

avi2wav2 is also good...you can specify output wave file name

[Sirber]

huh? are you talking about the AVC in AVI bug?

[damrod]

no mkvmerge

see doom9 news main page

MKVToolNix 1.5.5 no longer supports AVC video in VfW compatibility mode, can extract timecodes in a timecode v2 format, allows you to specify an output charactersets for all strings that are being exported, allows to extract raw AVC streams and fixes a number of bugs.

[Sirber]

Well, you have a cmdline flag to make it work.

[Al79]

* a bad thing in realanime:
every time it loads, my floppy drive reads itself
maybe there is a way to disable the read/scan in A: at start (i hope u can "fix it" :) )





all in default (after 30RC4 instalation)
log:
[19:16:54] Loading main configuration... RealAnime.ini
[19:16:54] Loading profile... default.ini
[19:16:55] RealAnime 3.0.0 RC4 reloaded ;-)
[21:43:08] Starting encoding session.
[21:43:08] Encoding C:\Documents and Settings\Propietario\Escritorio\CLAU\Anime Update\Tsubasa_17_al_20\mini17.avi
[21:43:08] > Analysing the source...
[21:43:08] >> Found: .avi
[21:43:08] > Tracks: Video: 1, Audio: 1, Subtitle: 0
[21:43:08] > Encoding video track... done.
[21:43:11] >> Converting RAW to AVI... done.
[21:43:11] > Converting audio track to WAV... error #2
[21:43:12] Encoding session aborted.

with at bottom:

x264 [error]: width % 16 != 0 or height % 16 != 0 (704x396)

and:

Hi, i have the same problem that gabriel, with out the x264 error

[10:32:07 p.m.] Starting encoding session.
[10:32:07 p.m.] Encoding D:\Download-peliculas\[NF] Bouken ou Beet - Ep01 - Spanish sub [9A8CA40E].avi
[10:32:07 p.m.] > Analysing the source...
[10:32:09 p.m.] >> Found: .avi
[10:32:09 p.m.] > Tracks: Video: 1, Audio: 1, Subtitle: 0
[10:32:09 p.m.] > Encoding video track... error: missing codec config! Encoding aborted
[10:32:09 p.m.] Encoding session aborted.
[10:32:53 p.m.] Starting encoding session.
[10:32:53 p.m.] Encoding D:\Download-peliculas\[NF] Bouken ou Beet - Ep01 - Spanish sub [9A8CA40E].avi
[10:32:53 p.m.] > Analysing the source...
[10:32:54 p.m.] >> Found: .avi
[10:32:54 p.m.] > Tracks: Video: 1, Audio: 1, Subtitle: 0
[10:32:54 p.m.] > Encoding video track... done.
[10:32:55 p.m.] >> Converting RAW to AVI... done.
[10:32:56 p.m.] > Converting audio track to WAV... done.
[10:37:01 p.m.] >> Encoding audio track... done.
[10:39:46 p.m.] > Muxing temporary files to destination... error #2! Encoding aborted
[10:39:47 p.m.] Encoding session aborted.

what its wrong >___<
excuse my english

[Sirber]

x264? if yes, you might need to redownload 3.0. I had some errors in first and secodn release :). MKVMerge 1.5.5 didn't like my AVC AVI :( Please upgrade and retry. Thanks!

[Sirber]

I found a strange thing. An AVI with MP3 audio crashed avi2wavcmd.exe:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
! AVI to WAV 3.3 - 32-bit command line version, release 1.2 !
! Copyright (C) 1997-2001 m&g Software, Arminio_Grgic@Yahoo.com !
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Finding sound chunks - please wait ...Exception EConvertError in module avi2wav
cmd.exe at 0000578A.
'ó3' is not a valid integer value.
... which prevent RealAnime to recompress it. I had to recreate the AVI using VDub (directstream copy) to make it work:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
! AVI to WAV 3.3 - 32-bit command line version, release 1.2 !
! Copyright (C) 1997-2001 m&g Software, Arminio_Grgic@Yahoo.com !
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Finding sound chunks - please wait ... done.

AVI file: C:\Documents and Settings\sirber\Bureau\test.avi
-----------------
Audio properties:
-----------------
Format: MPEG Layer 3
Sound: STEREO
Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Audio chunks: 32824

[ggab]

try with v3.5
* the same for avi2wav, realanime has the 3.3 version, latest is 3.5 ( http://agrgic.tripod.com/avi2wav/aviwav35.zip )
Arminio Grgic's homepage http://agrgic.tripod.com/avi2wav/
SMART extraction mode is also supported. DOWNLOAD AVI to WAV version 3.5 + Command line version 1.3: AVIWAV35.ZIP size: 193 KB

[Sirber]

Thanks, I will try.

[Sirber]

C:\Documents and Settings\sirber\Bureau>avi2wavcmd.exe n.avi /INFO /SMART
-----------------------------------------------------------------
! AVI to WAV 3.5 - 32-bit command line version, release 1.3 !
! Copyright (C) 1997-2002 m&g Software, Arminio_Grgic@Yahoo.com !
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Finding sound chunks - please wait ...Exception EConvertError in module avi2wav
cmd.exe at 0000578A.
'ó3' is not a valid integer value.Not better :)

[Sirber]

Well, unless I get bug reports, this is the last and final version. Enjoy!

[DarkNite]

Thanks to everyone involved for all their hard work. It really is apprectiated. Some people just aren't very good at showing it. ;)

Any plans for another project yet?

[Sirber]

I started last weekend RealAnime LE, which is a simpler interface than RealAnime 3.0 to x264 with nero he-aac audio codecs. It has mainly all features of realanime. It's started from scratch and more object oriented.

[ggab]

could you tell us what are steps in realanime's encoding session (with default settings)?
i mean:

* Encoding video track
* Converting RAW to AVI
via avisynth?
0.avs in TEMP's folder
AVISource("C:\noname.avi", audio=false)

* Converting audio track to WAV
via besweet? which (internal) command line?
RealAnime 3.0 uses a track management module, unlike 2.25. Also, all audio go through besweet for decompression, filtering and later recompression too. If besweet doesn't like it, I will have to make more and more big temp files which is not a good thing.

* it creates an anime.rpjf with the procedure to encode the wav file in racp (he-aac at 64kbps) to producer. Resulting in a "\temp\out_aud.1.rm" audio only file

there is a 0.avi in TEMP with video only:
then mkvmerge.exe stars muxing both audio & video files?? how (command line)?


i'd like to know a bit more of internal's realanime job (extended info will be great) :)
thnks

[Sirber]

1) Source analysis
2) Track extraction*
3) Track encoding
3a) Video: producer (CMD), x264 (CMD)
3b) Audio: decompression (besweet (CMD)), producer
4) Merge in MKV

[notags]

Hello Sirber,

I have finally gotten RealAnime 3.0 working, but somehow it won't mux subtitles (srt) into the mkv output. I'm trying to encode a mkv file with SRT & OGG - everything goes on fine, log says both video and audio encoding successful, but somehow I got an error when it tries to merge the subtitle into the container. How I got to this conclusion is because everything works fine if I disable subtitles from the input.

Getting really frustrated, I resorted to manual muxing using mkvmerge and found out where the problem lies. Somehow I couldn't mux in the SRT file unless I added "--engage allow_avc_in_vfw_mode" in the command line as stated in the GUI instructions. Is there anyway I can overcome this problem? Would it be advisable for me to force mux the subtitle in this way?

Thank you.

Update: Ooops, that was dumb of me. I just read that you have already posted this bug with mkvmerge in the previous page. So I take it that it's safe to force mux the file?

[Sirber]

Hi, I added this flag in the last release of 3.0. Please redownload or wait for 3.1 (to be released in few minutes). The problem is not the sub but the video. RealAnime produce an "incompatible" stream: h264 RAW --> AVI --> MKV. I have no choice coz x264 MP4/MKV output module is broken.

[Sirber]

Updated:
* x264 rev 292A
* MKVToolnix 1.5.6

Fixed:
* Copy source to temp save/load

Still not working:
* x264 output to MP4 or MKV

Note: this is an upgrade for 3.0. You need 3.0 to be installed first. Thanks!
http://www.detritus.qc.ca

[ggab]

could you add an auto test option
if ( audio source WAV file exist in \temp)
.....go on;
else
.....encode avi's audio to wav;

that use the same audio source wav file (noname.avi.wav in \temp), to avoid re-encoding it?
(because every time the session begins it takes more time... and i wanna try severals bitrates and compare quality :) )

thanks a lot

[Sirber]

Sorry, won't post a new build unless there are bugs.

[ggab]

RV10: v3.1 defaults to Curve in rate control (v3.0 was Streaming), is it right?

bug?
with RV10, when avisynth is enabled, at least 1 avi file fail to encode. with "[03:27:34] > Encoding video track... error #-1073741819! Encoding aborted"


bug2?
weird blocks in lady's hair:

source 600kbytes : http://sr2.mytempdir.com/160389

keyframe 84 and 92: sshots avi, and in 536kbps default with x264 & rv10. x264 looks great :)

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/5196/84teest1jv.jpg

[Sirber]

RV10 defauklts was "streaming".

bug 1: producer made an access violation. Can't do much about it.

bug 2: RV10 error, not RealAnime one :)

[edit]

#2 could be caused by the "curve". try with "streaming".

[Sirber]

RealAnime 3.1 seems to fail to detect audio from AVI. Investigating...

[Sirber]

should affect public release. found another possible bug (x264), then merging RAW to AVI (should be MP4 later), I use the FPS from the source and not the encoded file. I'm affraid it will be difficult to get the FPS of the encoded file since it can be modified from many things in AVS.

[ggab]

bug 2: RV10 error, not RealAnime one :)

[edit]

#2 could be caused by the "curve". try with "streaming".

---------------------

Still not working:
* x264 output to MP4 or MKV


both streaming & curve, the same bug :(

-------------------------

realanime creates the .MKV with "V_MS/VFW/FOURCC, h264" in every video (x264).
is that the problem with "x264 output to MKV" ?

[Sirber]

nope. wouldn't think so. It's "x264" standart, even for the one whitout bugs.

[Sirber]

Updated:
* x264 rev 295

Fixed:
* FPS issues using RAW output

I think now everything is pretty stable. Enjoy!

http://www.detritus.qc.ca

[iradic]

--21:18:31-- http://www.detritus.qc.ca/files/realanime/RealAnime_320.exe
(try:20) => `RealAnime_320.exe'
Connecting to www.detritus.qc.ca[66.36.132.159]:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Giving up.

[damrod]

server is down...try again later

i will ask sirber if he wants mirror server...i have web space so i can provide some help ;-))

[Sirber]

got a power cut this afternoon. I should move my site elsewhere...

[damrod]

power cut??

btw do you need a miror for your binaries ?

[Sirber]

Thansk, I already have a mirror for them, but it's useless if my main site goes down. I'll get some cheap hosting...

[IA_Helios]

hi i have realanime 3 rc2 and i tried to convert one episode of One Piece and its convert the video perfectly but the audio send me Error #1, what can i do o_O?

[ggab]

RealAnime_320.exe @ Detritus = Not found.


IA_Helios, are u using release candidate 2? (try with latest version)
one piece's audio is in MP3, no?
have u got the encoded (no audio) .avi file in \temp ?

u can upload a (mini) sample clip with www.rapidshare.de (just a few seconds via virtualdub, direct stream copy)

[methos]

Is it an option to indicate in the log of realanime which cycle/pass is running and perhaps an indication how much time left in that cycle (total frames/fps etc)

[Sirber]

@ggab

I tryed my link and it work.

http://www.detritus.qc.ca/#download

@IA_Helios

RealAnime does not produce errors, external softwares it use do. Unless I know what got wrong, I cannot help you. Posting logs or a step by step repro generaly helps. I myself encode One Piece and they all encoded #1.

@methos

No, only the encoder output in realtime.

[Kanuki]

T_T I couldn't encode for some animation

This is one of example.

Tenchi Muyo! GXP - 08.avi
Video Codec = XVID
Audio Codec = MP3 (MPEG 2 Layer 3)

[0:10:47] Loading main configuration... RealAnime.ini
[0:10:47] Loading profile... default.ini
[0:10:48] RealAnime 3.2 reloaded ;-)
[0:10:48] *** Warning: RealAnime is very CPU intensive. You should upgrade to a Pentium 4 or better.
[0:11:09] Starting encoding session.
[0:11:09] Encoding D:\KZone\My Movies\Animations\Tenchi Muyo! GXP\Tenchi Muyo! GXP - 08.avi
[0:11:09] > Analysing the source...
[0:11:10] >> Found: .avi
[0:11:10] > Tracks: Video: 1, Audio: 1, Subtitle: 0
[0:11:10] > Encoding video track... done.
[1:12:10] > Converting audio track to WAV... error #-1073741819
[1:12:11] Encoding session aborted.

another example

Naruto - Episode 150.avi
Video Codec = XVID
Audio Codec = MP3 (MPEG 1 Layer 3)

[1:16:52] Starting encoding session.
[1:16:52] Encoding D:\KZone\My Movies\Animations\Naruto\Naruto - Episode 150.avi
[1:16:52] > Analysing the source...
[1:16:54] >> Error: audio track not supported: 1
[1:16:54] >> failed. Unsupported source (.avi).
[1:16:54] Encoding session aborted.

P.S. The codec information provided by GSpot 2.21

[Sirber]

1) Tenchi Muyo! GXP - 08.avi

I'd need the source to test.

2) Naruto - Episode 150.avi

Bad audio track. Change in "profile.ini" "skipaudiocheck" to 1. and it will work.

[edit]

Be sure to put it back to 0 after :) Also, Naruto 151 encode perfectly whitout audio glitch.

[Kanuki]

1) Tenchi Muyo! GXP - 08.avi

I'd need the source to test.

2) Naruto - Episode 150.avi

Bad audio track. Change in "profile.ini" "skipaudiocheck" to 1. and it will work.

[edit]

Be sure to put it back to 0 after :) Also, Naruto 151 encode perfectly whitout audio glitch.

-_-" It's very funny. I do not have "skipaudiocheck" setting in my "profile.ini".