QTGMC, AVISynth+ New PC Install

[dellsam34]

Hello folks, So my son gave me his gaming desktop and I wiped out everything and did a fresh install and while at it I upgraded to Win 11 (probably a bad idea). Anyway, I want to make it strictly for capturing and encoding videos since it has some horse power. While I have two other computers running fine with QTGMC and AVISynth (Win 7 and 10) but since I have a fish memory I can't remember anything I've done before.

So far I have downloaded AVISynth+ 64bit and QTGMC and all required files as seen in the screenshots, the text file ones I just dumped in notepad and changed the extension to .avsi, So what's next? In the wiki page of QTGMC says "Install AviSynth and copy the plugins from the plugin package to the correct locations" but it doesn't say what location is, Is it the plugins folder such as plugins64+ folder? I just want to get this right from the get go and avoid unnecessary error messages.

This will most likely be a long thread with a lot of error messages so bear with me please.

[Alwyn]

Clang!

[mammo1789]

Copy the whole plugins64 directory from the pc that qtgmc is working ( win 7 and 10 as you say ) to a new install of avisynth+ plugins64 folder overwrite done

[dellsam34]

The thing is I believe I was using 32bit files and non + versions, This system is going to be all 64bit+. But since you mentioned the folder I assume that's the folder I need to transfer to, I will get all the .dll files out of their folders and dump them into plugin64+ folder and see what happens.

[dellsam34]

Ok, I've copied all the .dll files to the plugings64+ folder and added the missing ones from the old computer (the highlighted ones), I will install AVSPmod and see how it goes.

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[dellsam34]

Okay, in AVSPmod I'm getting this error with a simple QTGMC command, The file name is hidden for privacy purposes, Where the QTGMC app should be placed by the way?

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[Brad]

A quick Google indicates that function is part of SMDegrain. You copied it from your old computer, which you mentioned probably isn't the AVS+ version.

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Dogway/Avisynth-Scripts/blob/master/...SMDegrain.html

[dellsam34]

Okay I downloaded the SMDegrain from that link, saved it with the extension .avsi and put it in the same folder replacing the old one and the error message is still the same, Any idea? By the way SMDegrain is neither part of the required plugins for QTGMC nor the optional ones, I don't see why it should be a problem.
Looking at line 237 in QTGMC text file it says:

        sisphbd = AvsPlusVersionNumber > 2294

There is a step I haven't done from the QTGMC wiki because I have no clue what they are talking about, could it be the cause?

Dfttest, FFT3DFilter and MVTools2 need the FFTW3 library (windows builds). On a 64-bit Windows OS, extract the 32-bit libfftw3f-3.dll. Make a copy of it and rename it as "FFTW3.dll". Place the files "libfftw3f-3.dll" and "FFTW3.dll" in the SysWow64 folder.

If you want to use the 64-bit libfftw3f-3.dll versions then extract the 64-bit libfftw3f-3.dll. Make a copy of it and rename it as "FFTW3.dll". Place the files "libfftw3f-3.dll" and "FFTW3.dll" in the System32 folder.

[Alwyn]

Get the FTTW library from here, as per the links on the QTGMC wiki).

Just do exactly as the first paragraph says. For me, doing the second paragraph (even though I have a 64bit system) stopped error reports from the AVSInfotool (I'm not sure whether the second para is necessary for QTGMC to run).

In the Syswow64 folder, the two files (from the 32bit FFTW; actually the same file renamed) are 2336kb.

In the System32 folder, both files (from the 64bit FFTW zip) are 2708kb.

Welcome to madness.

[dellsam34]

I actually did the second paragraph but as of right now the error message I'm getting is in the QTGMC code in line 237, I'm looking for an old version of QTGMC and see how it goes.

[dellsam34]

I loaded QTGMC from my old computer and the error message now is in line 497:

Script error: There is no function named 'Dither_Luma_Rebuild'.

[ingvarr]

Hello!
I have the same problems as dellsam34
At first I installed it in Windows 11: errors
Then installed Windows 10 - re-passed all the installation steps and installed the latest versions of the modules: the same errors.

VirtualDub Error
Avisynth open failure:
I don't know what 'AvsPlusVersionNumber' means.
(C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth+\plugins64+\QTGMC.avsi, line 237)
(C:\Users\ingvarrme\Desktop\Tape10_RAW_07_NEW.avs, line 7)

[dellsam34]

While waiting for any inputs I did sort out the "open command here" problem according to this page, So now I can use ffmpeg to run commands, I run a simple encode and the speed was 6.19x at a whopping 185fps vs 5fps on the old computer, wow.

[ingvarr]

While waiting for any inputs I did sort out the "open command here" problem according to this page, So now I can use ffmpeg to run commands, I run a simple encode and the speed was 6.19x at a whopping 185fps vs 5fps on the old computer, wow.

tell me, please, have you solved the problem with QTGMC? I didn't really understand how you did it

[dellsam34]

No, Not solved yet, It may have something to do with Windows 11.

[Alwyn]

No. AVISynth+ (v3.7.2) and QTGMC works without issue on Windows 11 as long as you use the latest files. Give me a couple of hours and I'll post images of the contents of my folders.

[Alwyn]

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[ingvarr]

No. AVISynth+ (v3.7.2) and QTGMC works without issue on Windows 11 as long as you use the latest files. Give me a couple of hours and I'll post images of the contents of my folders.

Alwyn, can I ask you to upload the contents of the program folder C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth+ (and FFTW files from SysWow64 and system32) to archive on Google Drive?

[Alwyn]

Here you go! Hopefullly there are none of my secrets buried in there! There are a few extras that I have added after my initial install. AVISynth Plus also installed a non-plus folder in Program Files (x86) so I don't know if that has a bearing on anything.

AVISynth Plus folder:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/165z6h3-YNrNntlwK-gmrK5kXbQpfIN61/view?usp=sharing

System32 FFTW files:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r7mmFcEitCvJYV7y9Zjrvg0WImORlUN8/view?usp=sharing

SysWow64 FFTW files:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XhmSoZ6gGexsfaxcVb5rDq0xvY90l2KI/view?usp=sharing

I found the AVISynthInfoTool handy for checking the installation.

[ingvarr]

Thank you, Alwyn! You solved my many hours of difficulties and helped me a lot!

At first there were errors and it took to install 3 more modules (probably, my script is somehow wrong, so they were required):

1)FFT3DFilter http://avisynth.nl/index.php/FFT3DFilter
2)Median http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Median
3)ColorMatrix http://avisynth.nl/index.php/ColorMatrix

Then there was an error with the codec, but I installed the K-Lite Codec Pack Mega and everything worked!

Thank you so much again!

Here is my script:

AVISource("c:\Users\ingvarrme\Desktop\Tape11_RAW_0 1.avi")
ConvertToYV12(interlaced=true)
AssumeBFF()
QTGMC(preset="Very Slow", sourceMatch=3, Lossless=2, EZDenoise=4.0, Sharpness=1.1, SLMode=1)
MergeChroma(TemporalMedian(1))
Crop(16,16,-32,-32)
Spline36Resize(720,576)
ColorMatrix(mode="Rec.601->Rec.709",clamp=0)

[Alwyn]

Excellent ingvarr, glad I could help. I think I'll write a "Installing QTGMC for Dummies" guide. It is a pity it is such a nightmare for newbys.

[ingvarr]

Excellent ingvarr, glad I could help. I think I'll write a "Installing QTGMC for Dummies" guide. It is a pity it is such a nightmare for newbys.

Alwyn, this is a very good idea!
I used to install Avisynth on Windows 7 and everything worked.
But installing on Windows 11 turned into a nightmare.
Thanks!

[dellsam34]

Excellent ingvarr, glad I could help. I think I'll write a "Installing QTGMC for Dummies" guide. It is a pity it is such a nightmare for newbys.

This is not a newbie problem otherwise I wouldn't be having one, QTGMC team need to get their shit together and re-write the entire wiki section, Most of it is misleading and often wrong, Especially when it comes to dependencies, you'll find yourself needing more than what they even suggested as optional.

[dellsam34]

Here you go! Hopefullly there are none of my secrets buried in there! There are a few extras that I have added after my initial install. AVISynth Plus also installed a non-plus folder in Program Files (x86) so I don't know if that has a bearing on anything.

I used only the QTGMC file from your package and it seems to have eliminated all QTGMC error codes, However I'm getting an error about frame rate conversion plugin, Since I don't use it so I'll just mute the error from appearing in the future. Thanks for the file.