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Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Deuce Loosely » Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:08 pm

It's been over two weeks without acceptance or denial of upload permission. I have a 106mb file waiting (AMV Salad 2). Can someone please take care of this? Thanks...
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Deuce Loosely » Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:26 pm

t 2010-03-22 07:38:27, Deuce Loosely wrote: It's not working. Shortly after the upload reaches the 100mb quota, it resets to zero and starts over. Why was "large upload" permission rejected?

# At 2010-03-22 07:43:09, Deuce Loosely wrote: rror: Could not write to transfer socket: ECONNABORTED - Connection aborted
Response: 552-Transfer aborted. Disk quota exceeded
Response: 552-STOR: notice: quota reached: used 100.00 of 100.00 upload Mb
Response: 552 STOR: notice: quota reached: 'AMV Salad 2-b.avi' removed
Status: Starting upload of C:\Documents and Settings\Richard Bradford\Desktop\videos\AMV Salad 2-b.avi
Status: Retrieving directory listing...
Command: PASV
Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (69,26,178,19,232,8).
Command: LIST
Response: 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
Response: 226 Transfer complete
Command: PASV
Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (69,26,178,19,204,173).
Command: STOR AMV Salad 2-b.avi
Response: 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for AMV Salad 2-b.avi
Response: 421 No transfer timeout (600 seconds): closing control connection
Error: Disconnected from server: ECONNABORTED - Connection aborted
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby mirkosp » Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:12 am

106 MB avi... why not just making an mp4? Could have better quality in about half the size...
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Deuce Loosely » Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:30 am

mirkosp wrote:106 MB avi... why not just making an mp4? Could have better quality in about half the size...

It's a 22-minute video. I don't think I can compress this any more without compromising the quality.
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby mirkosp » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:41 am

Deuce Loosely wrote:
mirkosp wrote:106 MB avi... why not just making an mp4? Could have better quality in about half the size...

It's a 22-minute video. I don't think I can compress this any more without compromising the quality.

We're talking SD, aren't we? I'm pretty sure you can at the very least try... just get a very recent build of x264 and go for
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--preset veryslow --tune animation --crf 21
and you will likely cut down on size. Also, if it's 720x480 4:3, just resize to 640x480. OTOH, if it's 848x480 1.0, resize to 720x480 and flag. That'll cut down on the size too. If it's 29.97 blame yourself and decimate to 23.976, which will cut down on the size since you have less frames and will make the thing actually look smoother since you won't have duplicate frames in the way that make the motion jerky. Use a lower bitrate on the audio, for example if you're doing 192kbps mp3, 128kbps aac will be just as good if not better.
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Deuce Loosely » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:45 am

I compressed a lossless of 324mb into a DivX (1 Logical CPU) AVI of about 107mb, 720x480, 29.97fps. I downloaded the x264 but can't seem to find the option to install. If it's self-installing, it's not showing up on the list of codecs when I go to recompress. I'm sure I may be doing something wrong or missing a step somewhere. I "ran" and "opened" x264 several times but nothing happened; no change.

I can attempt to re-render the video as lossless using the adjustments you set and compress with DivX as before and maybe that will give me the wiggle room I need?
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Deuce Loosely » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:49 am

Deuce Loosely wrote:I compressed a DivX of 324mb into a DivX (1 Logical CPU) AVI of about 107mb, 720x480, 29.97fps. I downloaded the x264 but can't seem to find the option to install. If it's self-installing, it's not showing up on the list of codecs when I go to recompress. I'm sure I may be doing something wrong or missing a step somewhere. I "ran" and "opened" x264 several times but nothing happened; no change.

I can attempt to re-render the video as before using the adjustments you set and compress with DivX as before and maybe that will give me the wiggle room I need?

Fixed. :oops:
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby mirkosp » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:54 am

It's not installing, it is a command line interface program. It's actually less scary than it might sound at first. Just place it in system32 (or syswow64 if you're on a 64bit OS) and then create a bat file in the folder of your video to be compressed with the following line:
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x264.exe --preset veryslow --tune animation --crf 21 --output "amvsalad.264" "amvsalad.avi"

Once you do that, save and run the bat, and then mux the output with your audio. You can do that with other cli tools, or just by using something like MKVMergeGUI.
If filesize is still large, keep increasing the crf value and run again. Decimal values work too.
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Nya-chan Production » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:56 am

You run the x264 using ZarxGUI or command line (.bat file with mirko's stuff and some other (like location of said exe) in it).

Or you could get a large file permission, since it's 7MB.
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby mirkosp » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:01 am

Nya-chan Production wrote:Or you could get a large file permission, since it's 7MB.


Admins rejected it for I don't know which reason, so I don't think he has much of a choice. Zarxgui is certainly an easy option, but atm it's using a revision rather old... in fact, it's using like r1373 or something. We're on r1510 with quite a few improvements worthy of update. Just changing the version of x264 used by zarxgui might not work... I'm not sure. Actually, for example, the AQ mode 2 is now a different thing altogether from what I understand.
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Deuce Loosely » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:14 am

... :shock:

I feel like a total n00b after that because - I feel like I need a translator after all this. :oops:

In other words, I'm not tech-savvy enough with digging into system files or changing command lines and such, never mind being confident enough to know I'm doing it right.

*brain slowly oozing out my ears*
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Nya-chan Production » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:22 am

1) Go to your folder with the render.
2) Make a .txt file.
3) Name it Encode.bat
4) Open it in notepad.
5) Put what mirko wrote in it.
6) Save and close.
7) Double click it.
8) ????
9) PROFIT!!! (and maybe a successful encode)

This is only video, you will have to mux it with audio afterwards, but I am sure mirko can help you if you have a need for that :)
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Deuce Loosely » Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:57 am

Moved x264 to System32.
Created .bat file as directed (document resides in video folder with AMVS2).
Double-clicked .bat file - nothing but the .txt file.
What am I missing here? *facepalm*

Seriously, how much trouble is it to just accept the upload permission request over a few extra mb rather than force me to go through all this?

I'm taking the 383mb mpeg2 file (since I can't seem to locate the original project file :-x ) and re-rendering to mp4 with the specs prescribed earlier (23.976fps, 640x420, 128kbps audio). Dunno what's gonna come out the other side, though.
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Ileia » Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:28 pm

Well, even if you learn how to use it through being "forced" it's still a good skill to know in the future. ;)
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Re: Still awaiting large file upload permission

Postby Deuce Loosely » Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:41 pm

Ileia wrote:Well, even if you learn how to use it through being "forced" it's still a good skill to know in the future. ;)

I was thinking about that but I still can't get it to work (unless it somehow is while I'm not looking?). :?
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