PlayOnMac & AMVpack

[Busty]

I installed AMVpack on an iMac about eight years ago and it's still working on a MacPro with OSX 10.11.6

I'd love to update DGMPGDec to DGIndexNV (or just install DGIndexNV), but I can't get it to install with PlayOnMac. I don't plan to use DGIndexNV but want to be able to use DGDenoise.dll.

Just downloading and copying to the right locations does not work unfortunately (as described for DGIndex here
viewtopic.php?f=44&t=120468 )

What would be the way to go about it, is it even possible? I read that Nvidia drivers are needed, where can I check which ones I have?

I'd be grateful for any help with this:-)

https://www.rationalqm.us/dgdecnv/QuickStart.html
https://www.rationalqm.us/dgdecnv/binaries/

[Busty]

This is what PlayOnMac tries and hangs on:

[main] Message: PlayOnMac (4.3.4) is starting
[clean_tmp] Message: Cleaning temp directory
[update_check] Message: List is up to date
[install_plugins] Message: Überprüfe Plugin: ScreenCap...
2025-05-09 13:50:54.472 playonmac.real[589:7232] Metadata.framework [Error]: couldn't get the client port
[POL_Wine] Message: Running wine- /Users/busty/Library/PlayOnMac/wineprefix/AMVpack/drive_c/Program Files/AMVpack/DGIndexNV/DGIndexNV.exe (Working directory : /Users/busty/Library/PlayOnMac/wineprefix/AMVpack/drive_c/Program Files/AMVpack/DGIndexNV)
[POL_Wine] Message: Notice: PlayOnLinux deliberately disables winemenubuilder. See http://www.playonlinux.com/fr/page-26-W ... ilder.html
000b:fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging 4.0-rc4 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
000b:fixme:winediag:start_process Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
dbus[1021]: Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
000b:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": dlopen(/Applications/PlayOnMac.app/Contents/Resources/unix/wine/lib/wine/wininet.dll.so, 258): Library not loaded: @loader_path/libz.1.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/PlayOnMac.app/Contents/Resources/unix/wine/lib/wine/wininet.dll.so
Reason: imag
000b:err:module:DelayLoadFailureHook failed to delay load wininet.dll.InternetOpenA
wine: Call from 0x7b42c949 to unimplemented function wininet.dll.InternetOpenA, aborting
wine: Unimplemented function wininet.dll.InternetOpenA called at address 0x7b42c949 (thread 000b), starting debugger...
002e:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"dbghelp.dll": dlopen(/Applications/PlayOnMac.app/Contents/Resources/unix/wine/lib/wine/dbghelp.dll.so, 258): Library not loaded: @loader_path/libz.1.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/PlayOnMac.app/Contents/Resources/unix/wine/lib/wine/dbghelp.dll.so
Reason: imag
002e:err:module:import_dll Loading library dbghelp.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winedbg.exe") failed (error c000007a).
002e:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winedbg.exe" failed, status c0000135
002f:fixme:nvcuda:load_functions Wine cannot find the libcuda library, CUDA support is disabled.
wine: Unhandled exception 0xc06d007e in thread 2f at address 0x7b42c949 (thread 002f), starting debugger...
0031:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"dbghelp.dll": dlopen(/Applications/PlayOnMac.app/Contents/Resources/unix/wine/lib/wine/dbghelp.dll.so, 258): Library not loaded: @loader_path/libz.1.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/PlayOnMac.app/Contents/Resources/unix/wine/lib/wine/dbghelp.dll.so
Reason: imag
0031:err:module:import_dll Loading library dbghelp.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winedbg.exe") failed (error c000007a).
0031:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winedbg.exe" failed, status c0000135

[l33tmeatwad]

This is what PlayOnMac tries and hangs on:
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PlayOnMac has not worked for some time, I would highly recommend using the macOS version of AMVpack instead as it has native tools that do the same functions as most of the tools included in AMVpack for Windows.

[Busty]

Thanks for answering and sorry that I posted in the wrong thread.

I didin't go for the latest AMVpack because I want to use VirtualDUb. I could set up a system running OSX 10.14 Mojave in order to install Avisynth+. Do you happen to still have your latest AMVpack version that is compatible with Mojave? I would love to try to install that.

[Busty]

nevermind, I got Avisynth+ 3.75 (and VirtualDub) working under High Sierra, which I think will be all I need. Thanks for helping to make this possible.

[l33tmeatwad]

Glad you got it working, I stopped supporting that setup because it the latest version no longer works out of the box for all the tools included in AMVpack. Also, I forgot to mention before, but DGIndexNV is unlikely to work ever because it requires a NVidia graphics card as it uses hardware decoding and I'm not sure even if you had a Mac old enough to have one that it would pipe through or support CUDA.

[Busty]

Oh, I didn't know that. I got a Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT in that MacPro which seems to support CUDA 1.1, would that be good enough for DGIndexNV? I installed the CUDA driver after testing DGIndexNV because I wanted to use BM3D, only to notice that BM3D_CUDA expects at least 3.5. I might get me a Nvidia Geforce GT980, it's about 50 Euro these days.

BTW, I also tried to get BM3D working on an iMac 2019 running Monterey and can't. I used your AMVpack_241220_macOS for that. Should this be possible? I *think* it supports AVX2, if I did research it right. I asked for help here
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php? ... ost2018961
but I guess my setup is a bit uncommon. Mvsf is not recognized.

[l33tmeatwad]

As I said in the previous post, I don't think it can pass through, at least not easily. You would probably need to follow-up with WINE developers or PlayOnMac about that. As for the other issue, I will reply on that thread.