StaxRip

[Mr Chris]

What is the vintage of the older machine? Which CPU ? Which version of Windows?
What stage of operations does the error occur? Is there an encode running?
If there is a job running look for and review the log

Recreate the problem then open Windows Event Viewer and seem if an error was logged under Application or System messages

It's an i5-3570, but running Windows 10 64-bit. So, not an antique by any means, but being an i5 is what made me suspect that it may be an AVX2 issue. I could be completely wrong about that.

The error message presents itself the instant both a video is loaded and QTGMC is enabled - i.e., when the second of those two things happen, whichever order they happen in. I can't even get as far as opening a preview, never mind actually attempting an encode.

Event Viewer doesn't report anything under System, but gives loads of errors under Application. In fact, they continue to come every two or three seconds, even after I've closed StaxRip. They're all event ID 1001 and of this nature:

Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: StaxRip.exe
P2: 2.0.6.0
P3: 5dc43bf0
P4: dfttest.dll
P5: 1.9.4.2
P6: 59ad3f72
P7: c000001d
P8: 0000000000019238
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER3 4A3.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQue ue\AppCrash_StaxRip.exe_f0eab1bec1e99b3534fa629f18 c2b359745d6_68a717a1_6b82b3d6-b71f-4f93-8c64-c343a732a64a

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 6a7ce030-2560-4245-84bc-ca9e15f84204
Report Status: 100
Hashed bucket:
Cab Guid: 0

Despite suggesting otherwise, StaxRip doesn't actually crash, and continues to function normally once I disable QTGMC again. I've never known anything like this before.

Thanks for all your help.

[davexnet]

I believe this exception code c000001d denotes opcode not supported, so the avx2 theory seems good.
Try replacing the dll as I mentioned

[Mr Chris]

Try replacing the version of dfttest.dll (just rename it to dfttest.old) in
StaxRip-x64-2.0.6.0-stable\Apps\Plugins\AVS\DFTTest\

with the 64 bit version in this package:

I tried that, and now I'm getting a different error:

"System exception - Illegal Instruction
(E:\StaxRip\Apps\Plugins\avs\QTGMC\QTGMC.avsi, line 882)
(E:\StaxRip\Apps\Plugins\avs\QTGMC\QTGMC.avsi, line 639)"

I'm not sure whether this is a step forward or a step back.

[davexnet]

seems as if this version of Staxrip was built for the latest PC's - If you don't need qtgmc right click it on the main screen and select remove-
hopefully this will stop staxrip from looking for it.
Other options, older version of staxrip, or some other similar progam, meGui perhaps

[Mr Chris]

Okay - thanks very much for the help. It looks like 1.7 from 2017 is the most recent stable version that actually runs QTGMC on this machine, so I'll have a play around with that and see if it does the job.

[stax76]

Hi everybody,

I've been working on a new beta build, check it out:

### 2.0.7.1 Beta

- new: icons added in encoder dialog menus
- new: option dialog is shown in case a tool has multiple help
       resources, x265 for instance has a local help file containing
       the console help and it has a comprehensive online help.
       L-Smash-Works for instance has separate help pages
       for AviSynth and for VapourSynth
- new: medium quality for x264 was changed from crf 20 to 22
- new: medium quality for x265 was changed from crf 20 to 18
- new: %dpi% macro added, returnes the DPI value of the main dialog screen
- new: High DPI aware Info() AviSynth filter profile added to misc section
- new: the VFW interface used to access AviSynth and VapourSynth
       was replaced with a new library
- new: a dozen new x265 switches
- new: nvenc switches --colorrange, --psnr, --ssim
- new: search matches in the video encoder config dialog
       stay now permanently highlighted with bold font
- new: the search feature in the video encoder config dialog now
       also searches in option values, for instance searching
       for 'medium' will find and highlight the 'preset' switch
- new: in the video encoder config dialogs the context menu of the
       command line preview has a new menu item to search
       for the switch or string at the caret or cursor
- new: Opus format enabled for MP4Box muxer, this was requested
       but did not work in my test
- new: bmp format for cover art can be used in muxer dialog

- update: nvenc 4.65
- update: qsvenc 3.31
- update: vceenc 5.02
- update: x265 3.3+2-gbe2d82093 GCC Patman
- update: ffmpeg N-96788 GCC 9.2.0 Patman
- update: mkvtoolnix 43
- update: MP4Box 0.8.0-rev178-g44c48d630 Patman

- fix: x265 three pass encoding (untested)
- fix: zoom in/out was flipped in preview dialog

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4ctl2y928xkak4f/AAADEZj_hFpGQaNOdd3yqcAHa?dl=0

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArwKS_ZUR01g0kH4d4eT_6a3GaKe?e=qbOfGS

[stax76]

Last build was broken, I hope this one is fine.

### 2.0.7.3 Beta

- fix: x265 issues with --refine-ctu-distortion and --high-tier
- fix: certain avs and vpy files failed to load before, hopefully all external
       scripts can now be opened
- fix: opening source files that contain single quotes caused a VapourSynth
       script error, the fix will however only work when people reset their
       filter profiles
- fix: the local context help of x264 did often not work

- update: nvenc 4.66
- update: L-Smash-Work 20200207 HolyWu
- update: VSFilterMod R5.2.1
- update: BDSup2Sub++ 1.0.3
- update: qsvenc 3.31
- update: JPSDR 3.2.0
- update: d2vsource 1.2
- update: AVSMeter 2.9.8
- update: chapterEditor 1.21
- update: Subtitle Edit 3.5.13
- update: rav1e 0.3.0
- update: x264 2991-1771b55 Patman

- new: improved possibility to show AviSynth and VapourSynth script
       information with a new dialog and new pixel format parameter       
- new: the right click context help in the x264 and x265 dialog can now
       alternativly open the online help with ctrl or shift + right click
       to navigate directly to the online help of the right-clicked switch
- new: the F1 help in the video encoder dialogs was greatly improved
- new: in the nvenc dialog custom switches do overwrite regular switches
- new: Bwdif plugin for VapourSynth (similar to yadif)
- new: filters can be removed from the filter list view in the main dialog
       using the delete key
- new: qsvenc --colorrange --dhdr10-info --key-on-chapter --sub-source
- new: x264 --avcintra-flavor --index --input-fmt --muxer --quiet
       --verbose --video-filter
- new: the short version command line switches (like -t) are now supported
       in the x264 dialog

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4ctl2y928xkak4f/AAADEZj_hFpGQaNOdd3yqcAHa?dl=0

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArwKS_ZUR01g0kH4d4eT_6a3GaKe?e=qbOfGS

[neoresin]

I'm running into the same kind of problem that Mr. Chris is having. First running into this with the default setup shipped with v2.0.6.0:
"Script Error Cannot load file <location>/StaxRip/Apps/Plugins/avs/DFTTest/dfttest.dll'. Platform returned code -1073741795:Unknown error(<filename>_new.avs, line 5)"
Then after replacing dfttest.dll with the one for avx (grabbed from https://github.com/Revan654/staxrip/releases/tag/2.0.2.4, the Apps\Plugins\AVS\DFTTest\DFTTest.7z file), getting:
Script Error
System exception - Illegal Instruction
<staxripLocation>\Apps\Plugins\AVS\QTGMC\QTGMC.avs i, line 882)
<staxripLocation>\Apps\Plugins\AVS\QTGMC\QTGMC.avs i, line 639)
<encodeFileLocation>_new.avs, line 26)
Is there an updated dfttest.dll we're supposed to be drawing from that's compatible maybe? I can confirm the same version of Staxrip (v2.0.6.0) works with my main Intel i5-4670k, but not on an AMD A8-6500. Any takers?

[neoresin]

FWIW, just tried https://github.com/staxrip/staxrip/releases/tag/2.0.1.0 and it appears to work. I'll probably test another version, closer to v2.0.6.0 and post about it again.

[stax76]

It's fixed in the next build, meanwhile please use the last test build and do the following:

For three hours I have tried to get QTGMC in a working condition
Dfttest.dll provided by StaxRip was throwing an illegal instruction message.
Searched my harddisk & internet for a 64bit version of this file.
Exchanging various mutants of the dll did not work well.
And yes, the corresponding fftw.dll is in the search path.
Lately I found a mod (dfttest_1943mod_190410) and bingo:
QTGMC & dfttest denoiser are working reliable and fast.
This is on an old PC Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 with just
MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, Intel 64 instructions.
I know over at the older StaxRip help thread someone had the same struggle:https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1901957#post1901957http://
Here is where I've got this mod from:https://github.com/299792458m/dfttest_mod/releases

[neoresin]

Hi Mr. Stax! Thanks for the reply (and really just maintaining all of this).

I'm sorry to report putting the new dfttest.dll in Apps\Plugins\AVS\DFTTest doesn't fix the issue I'm seeing. Even with that dfttest.dll from https://github.com/299792458m/dfttest_mod/releases/tag/190410 in place, it still reports:

Script Error
System exception - Illegal Instruction
<staxripLocation>\Apps\Plugins\AVS\QTGMC\QTGMC.avs i, line 882)
<staxripLocation>\Apps\Plugins\AVS\QTGMC\QTGMC.avs i, line 639)
<encodeFileLocation>_new.avs, line 26)

Does it need to go into Apps\Plugins\AVS\QTGMC instead? The only other thing I can think of is if StaxRip can't find libfftw3l-3.dll, libfftw3f-3.dll, or libfftw3-3.dll, but I've included them in both C:\Windows\SysWOW64, and C:\Windows\System32. My PATH includes C:\Windows\System32, so that should be fine...

[stax76]

Hello neoresin,

you can find out in which location tools belong using the apps dialog, in this dialog use the search field to search your tool and then click on the Explore button to open the folder with File Explorer.

I don't have great filter experience, your best chance to get help with it is to create a new thread at doom9, there is a user that who is very good at filter diagnostic and there is also a qtgmc thread which you can try. Tell them which OS and CPU you use and show them your code, choose 'Preview Code' in the filter list or code editor. Good Luck!

I'll probably add a new feature which creates a csv table showing tool info like version and time stamps, this would be helpful for the problem.

[neoresin]

Thanks! I'll do just that. Appreciate it!

One more quick question - maybe I missed it, but is there a quick way to just remux ALL of the audio and subtitle tracks from the source? Closest I can think would be under Options -> Audio -> Preferred Languages would there be an "all" option? Not sure why it'd be limited to just two tracks.

[stax76]

You can enter 'all' there, it's documented (F1) but should be more user-friendly.

### Todo

- documentation
- website
- use ffmpeg for auto crop
- improve default settings
- improve and maintain video encoders

### 2.0.7.4

- fix: bug in crop dialog was fixed
- fix: raw format of VP8/VP9 (IVF) was undefined which
       caused a NotImplementedException
- fix: OverflowException of unknown cause
- fix: using txt chapters with mkv muxer caused xml exception
- fix: if the width was not mod 16 the crop and preview
       dialog showed a distorted image

- update: AviSynth 3.5.0

- new: the apps dialog can create a CSV file listing all tools
       with various properties like Name, Version, Modified date etc.
- new: x265 --rskip switch updated
- new: improved main menu
- new: improved app management dialog
- new: mpv and mpc started in the preview dialog start at the current
       time position of the preview instead of the beginning

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4ctl2y928xkak4f/AAADEZj_hFpGQaNOdd3yqcAHa?dl=0

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArwKS_ZUR01g0kH4d4eT_6a3GaKe?e=qbOfGS

[stax76]

2.0.7.5 Beta
------------

- fix: when the cut feature was used and afterwards the preview was
       opened from the code editor then the cut settings got damaged
- fix: when AviSynthShader was used StaxRip did not show
       a warning in case DirectX 9 is not installed
- fix: HE-AAC as demuxed as mka

- new: some default settings were changed
- new: the buttons in the preview dialog look much better now, also flicker
       was eleminated and the button and trackbar size was increased,
       standard buttons were used, I don't know how it looks on Win 7...
- new: the csv file content in the apps dialog was improved
- new: auto crop feature in crop dialog finally shows progress
- new: the avisynth and vapoursynth code editor has a new
       'Advanced > Advanced Info' feature, it offers the following info:
       avs2pipemod info, avsmeter info, avsmeter benchmark and vspipe info

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4ctl2y928xkak4f/AAADEZj_hFpGQaNOdd3yqcAHa?dl=0

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArwKS_ZUR01g0kH4d4eT_6a3GaKe?e=qbOfGS

[stax76]

2.0.7.6
-------

- fix: format compatibility was improved with an automated test
- fix: in the preview dialog the start position for mpc
       and mpv was incorrect when cut ranges were active
- fix: chapter file not being picked up
- fix: in the filter setup profiles dialog a exception could
       happen and loading a filter setup from the menu could fail
- fix: the filter parameter menu in the code editor was adding
       parameters even if they were already existing with different casing
- fix: cutting could cause an error where staxrip generates
       a chapter file without containing a ChapterAtom

- new: the logic to create and edit cut sections in the preview
       dialog is now smarter and more flexible       
- new: the assistant tells in case of a script error that the
       full error can be shown by clicking the preview button
- new: MiniDeen avs filter added
- new: Advanced Info in the code editor was moved to the top level menu
       and AviSynth Info() can be shown directly from the Advanced Info
       without adding Info() to the script, staxrip generates the script
       with perfect font size and shows it with mpv (paused, no osc, no osd)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4ctl2y928xkak4f/AAADEZj_hFpGQaNOdd3yqcAHa?dl=0

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArwKS_ZUR01g0kH4d4eT_6a3GaKe?e=qbOfGS

[Stupido]

I'm relatively new to StaxRip and there are a few things I don't understand, so here are my first questions:

1. After a job is processed it disappears from the queue, so I can't see what exactly finished yet. Is there an option to keep finished jobs on the list?
2. Is there a possibility to check the settings for waiting jobs? For example to check if CRF20 was set.

[stax76]

After a job is processed it disappears from the queue, so I can't see what exactly finished yet. Is there an option to keep finished jobs on the list?

What exists is:

Main Menu > Tools > Folders > Log Files

This will open File Explorer showing recent log files, in File Explorer you can use the detail view, create a Date Modified column and click on the column header to sort.

Is there a possibility to check the settings for waiting jobs? For example to check if CRF20 was set.

If one StaxRip instance is processing jobs you can open a second instance, open the Jobs dialog and load the job.

[Stupido]

Thanks for the fast answers.
Just for my information: Is anythink planned to extend the queue/job list? Source, Destination, Streams and some major parameters (codec, bitrate/crf, ..) would be very helpful.

I would like to ask one more question:
Is it possible to pause a job list after the currently running job? As far as I can see there is only the ability to pause a job immediately (Suspend), resume it again (Resume) or abort it (Abort)., not nothing like "Pause after current job".

[stax76]

Thanks for the fast answers.
Just for my information: Is anythink planned to extend the queue/job list? Source, Destination, Streams and some major parameters (codec, bitrate/crf, ..) would be very helpful.

I agree that it would be useful but unfortunately it's not easy to do.

Is it possible to pause a job list after the currently running job? As far as I can see there is only the ability to pause a job immediately (Suspend), resume it again (Resume) or abort it (Abort)., not nothing like "Pause after current job".

You can uncheck check jobs.

[Stupido]

Thanks again for the fast answers.
As far as I understand it is not planned (yet).
I'll try to deal with that. My attempt was to suspend one instance when running multiple instances.

[Bibo64]

Hello experts!

I cannot find DGIndexIM in the app dialog. It was present until version 2.0.6.0.
It is missing since 2.0.8.0. Why was it thrown out of the workflows?
What can I do to integrate it again?

Thanks in advance

Bye, Bibo

[WiNT3R]

Im facing a problem while encoding from 4K source. I want to encode in 1080p so if I resize to 1920x1080 there's some black bar in top and bottom so i cropped it but even after using cropping the res remain the same. And if i select res 1920x800 (it omits the black bars perfectly) it shows i will face 35% error and sar is not 1:1 its 20:27

[stax76]

I cannot find DGIndexIM in the app dialog. It was present until version 2.0.6.0.
It is missing since 2.0.8.0. Why was it thrown out of the workflows?
What can I do to integrate it again?

I removed it because I did not expect that it's still used.

It can be added manually in three locations:

Main Dialog > Filters > Profiles

Main Menu > Tools > Settings > Source Filters

Main Menu > Tools > Settings > Pre Processing

StaxRip supports running multiple versions with independent settings side by side. You can download and start an old version to see the old configuration.

Im facing a problem while encoding from 4K source. I want to encode in 1080p so if I resize to 1920x1080 there's some black bar in top and bottom so i cropped it but even after using cropping the res remain the same. And if i select res 1920x800 (it omits the black bars perfectly) it shows i will face 35% error and sar is not 1:1 its 20:27

Post a screenshot of the main dialog and if you didn't yet then please read a few tutorials about video encoding in general.

[Bibo64]

@stax76:
I tried to integrate like you described it. It doesn't work...
There's no LOAD Filter command in AVS-file....

What can I do to fix that?

[Famille_CB]

Hello,
I have issue when I try to encode video with x265 (the "Automatic Workflow" modified with x265).
With the unmodified template (x264) it's ok.
Can you help me please? I have put the log file it attached.
Regards.

PS : It seems that something goes wrong with the default parameters of x265. I change for something else and it works.

[sekininsha]

I have issue when I try to encode video with x265 (the "Automatic Workflow" modified with x265).

x265 [error]: unknown profile <unrestricted>

or .. are you loading a project with that configuration .. start everything from the beginning

Here I send you my template ... it is from the latest version

[Famille_CB]

I have issue when I try to encode video with x265 (the "Automatic Workflow" modified with x265).

x265 [error]: unknown profile <unrestricted>

or .. are you loading a project with that configuration .. start everything from the beginning

Here I send you my template ... it is from the latest version

Hello,
It's working perfectly with your template.
Thank you very much!

[Famille_CB]

hello,

Is it possible to launch automatically a command line at the end of a file encoding?
I want to create a .tbn file (a small image extracted from the encoded file).
Usually I use "Batchenc.exe" to do the job. Here is the command line of "BatchEnc.exe":

"tools\ffmpeg" -ss 00:00:02.000 -i <infile> -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo <outfile.tbn>

Regards.

[stax76]

I tried to integrate like you described it. It doesn't work...
There's no LOAD Filter command in AVS-file....

What can I do to fix that?

Maybe post screenshots of the configuration you made.

x265 [error]: unknown profile <unrestricted>

There was a somehow ugly issue in the default configuration, ugly because it effects existing settings (that I don't want to reset). I made a change so the new build is hopefully better. In the x265 settings dialog on the Basic tab there is a setting called Profile, the switch for this setting is --profile, the first value was unrestricted (I've renamed it now to automatic), the problem was the default value of this setting was set to 1 instead of 0, 0 is Automatic and 1 is Main, the default value gets never committed to the command line, problem that remains is that the old settings have the value 1 (main) so this gets committed now to the command line, committing it to the command line is redundant, people that want a perfectly short and clean command line need to take action by fixing all their settings, I don't want to force a codec settings reset that would cause people lose all their encoder customizations, now it's only a cosmetic problem that won't cause an error.

Is it possible to launch automatically a command line at the end of a file encoding?
I want to create a .tbn file (a small image extracted from the encoded file).
Usually I use "Batchenc.exe" to do the job. Here is the command line of "BatchEnc.exe":

You can try the feature Event Command, find it at: Main Menu > Tools > Advanced > Event Command, a Event Command allows to define a command to be executed on a defined event, the Event Command feature has a command called ExecuteCommandLine, so far commands are only documented in the CLI documentation, all commands in the CLI documentation are also available in the Event Command feature and in the customizable main menu. The last build has a change of the ExecuteCommandLine command, so I recommend using the last build. There is an alternative method that allows to execute a PowerShell script, that is also not yet well documented. I hope it's not too difficult, I try to improve the usability and documentation, meanwhile I try to help in the forum, I don't have always time to help everybody but try to at least help power users and people that show some effort.


2.1.0.6 Beta


Changelog

https://github.com/staxrip/staxrip/blob/master/Changelog.md


Download

https://staxrip.readthedocs.io/introduction.html#beta