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Postby Songbird21 » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:30 pm

rose4emily wrote:buried under 164 spam messages
LOL.
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Postby rose4emily » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:32 pm

I was serious about the spam...

How anyone actually profits from the stuff mystifies me, yet it arrives reliably and in prodigious quantities.

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Anyhow, I now have all of the narrative audio, all of the video segments, most of the narrative video, and the opening credits. I still need to put together a few more narrative video segments. I've also (sadly) discovered that I botched the original end credits scripts, so I need to fix those and re-render the end credits.

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After a bit of research, I've discovered that my Linux installation already supports files up to a Terabyte or something obscene like that, and that past issues I've had with files over 4GiB were really just specific programs that weren't compiled with LFS (Large File Support) in mind. Therefore, I now know I can write everything to raw YUV and PCM without risking a kernal recompilation or anything bad happening to my file system.

I also installed AVISynth on my laptop, as a "Plan B" for the compilation process, which I can try to get to work while the desktop is churning out an uncompressed copy of all the video segments. It has occured to me that performing the encoding process (as well as the muxing and indexing) on a Windows machine might get the AVISynth approach to work. Always good to have more than one plan for getting something done.

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Anyhow, I still have my hands full with more math and programming than my mind was meant to handle (though I'm actually really good with the actual "Software Engineering" component of my program, the same can't be said of some of my other courses), so I'm not even guessing at when I'll have a chance to get this done, but I'm making progress when I can - and can say that I'm now the only person this project is waiting on.

In the worst-case scenario, though, my Final Exams will be out of the way in less than a month. I'll most likely have several days off before I start work this summer, so I can confidently say that this will be done in under five weeks. I'd like for it to be less, but it's hard for me to say whether that'll be possible.
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Postby jasper-isis » Sun May 01, 2005 1:49 pm

Thanks for the update! And... godspeed!

Does "godspeed" even fit this situation? Hehe.
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Postby rose4emily » Mon May 02, 2005 3:47 pm

Actually, a little question for you, Helen...

When I'm using AVISynth (plain AVISynth, not VirtualDub) to process video, I gather that I'm supposed to feed its output into either WMP for viewing or an encoder for encoding - but I haven't had too much success with guessing at how I'm supposed to do this.

I've found plenty of information on how to write the scripts, between AD's guide pages, the AVISynth website, and the AMV Wiki (which, I notice, you're one of the first contributers to) - but must have missed the part that explains the details of how I'm supposed to run the scripts once they're written.

Anyhow, I figured you'd be a reliable source on this one, since you seem to have some hands-on experience with the tool.

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Postby jasper-isis » Mon May 02, 2005 4:11 pm

Ah, just load them into VirtualDub and encode from there.

You might have missed this page:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/xvid.html

Basic steps, though they're just repeating what's in the guide:

- Open the AVS script in VirtualDubMod just like you would any regular video
- Make sure "Fast Recompress" is checked on the video menu
- Set up your compression settings as described in the guides (the page that I linked to)
- Go to the Streams menu and click on "Stream List"
- If you're using a video stream w/o any audio, then add the audio stream now
- If the audio is still a WAV file, then choose its compression settings by right-clicking on the stream name and choosing "Full processing mode," then right clicking again and choosing "Compression"
- Start the encoding processing by going to the File menu and clicking "Save as..."

That's basically it, though I might have missed something because I was hurriedly typing most of it up from memory. xP

If you want to reap the full benefits of using AVISynth scripts in VirtualdubMod, check out this page:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... mod.html#5
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Postby Bakadeshi » Thu May 05, 2005 7:05 pm

You treat the AVS script files as if they were actual video files. I'm pretty sure (though I could be wrong) that any program that can read video files using the Direct show method will be able to play them. Others that don't use that method to decode, such as Premiere may need a plugin to read it, but you get the idea. Virtualdub and Virtualdubmod are the programs of choice to encode it into an actual AVI file.

On another note, glad to see this project is almost finished ;p (how many times have I said that line already? :lol: )
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Postby rose4emily » Sat May 07, 2005 11:49 pm

Jasper-Isis wrote:Ah, just load them into VirtualDub and encode from there.

You might have missed this page:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/xvid.html


Actually, yes I did. Probably because I only skimmed through the guide in search of AVISynth info, rather than reading it properly (which I haven't done in quite a while). Thank you.

I really don't forsee any good oportunities for me to complete the project in the next two weeks (those being the final week of courses and finals week), but I will re-install VirtualDub (I tried it once before, but didn't much like it as a GUI video editor) and perform a test run with the AVISynth script to see if that'll work for producing WMP-friendly AVI files. If so, that'd be a lot cleaner (and probably also quicker and less error prone) a solution that the raw YUV approach (which works, but is fairly slow (being bound by the limits of disk I/O) and relies on a very large amount of data being written and read back without encountering any corruption or interruptions).

The only task remaining that I'd call "time-consuming" on my end (since I can run all the encode and render stuff mostly unattended) is to fix the end credits. That should be someting I can put together in a single day. Unfortunately, I probably won't have an entire day's worth of free time until finals are over (and, if I do, I should probably spend it studying for my Differential Equations final).
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Postby ooshna » Thu May 12, 2005 11:52 pm

Sorry i haven't been around my house caught on fire. Glad to see that it is finally comming close to and end. it only took a year and it like 9months over do :D
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Postby downwithpants » Fri May 13, 2005 1:14 am

ooshna wrote:my house caught on fire. Glad to see that it is finally comming close to and end.
that must be the most optimistic thing i've read today. hope the damage wasn't bad.
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Postby Songbird21 » Fri May 13, 2005 3:29 am

ooshna wrote:Sorry i haven't been around my house caught on fire.
OMG! Did it burn down? Are you okay?
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Postby ooshna » Fri May 13, 2005 5:21 pm

Yeah over $30,000 in damages plus we have no insurance. But everyone made it out ok along with my snakes and computer.
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Postby Songbird21 » Fri May 13, 2005 6:34 pm

ooshna wrote:Yeah over $30,000 in damages plus we have no insurance.
....Are you gonna be okay?
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Postby Bakadeshi » Sat May 14, 2005 12:59 pm

ooshna wrote:Yeah over $30,000 in damages plus we have no insurance. But everyone made it out ok along with my snakes and computer.


Ouch... that sucks. And what were you doing without insurance? :shock: /slap

Glad everyone made it out ok, thats whats most important. :wink: You have snakes? :twisted: I wish I lived near you now ;p
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Postby NeoQuixotic » Thu May 26, 2005 11:32 pm

Ah how crazy life can be. Crashing hardrives, software problems, busy school schedules, and now burning houses! Maybe now some good stuff will happen.

Bakadeshi: You gave me your ftp info a while ago and had server problems. So...I still have never gotten you my MPEG-2. I'm ready to try again :) PM me if your ftp has changed, because it ain't working.
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Postby Bakadeshi » Fri May 27, 2005 7:09 am

yea I havn't set up the ftp on my new PC again. I'll see to that and let you know when I have it running. Might not have anything done till next week though, since I'll be going out of town over the weekend.
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