Can't Seem to Get vmaf Working via ffmpeg?

[meeshu]

As an experiment, I was trying to get the software "vmaf" working to calculate the overall quality of a processed video with respect to the original video.

The original video is in avi format, with the processed video based on the original video is now in mp4 format using h265 codec.

I tried to follow the "tutorial" here - vmaf_ffmpeg_windows_tutorial.

Downloaded and installed the modified ffmpeg and the associated "models" as described within the tutorial, and installed them in the default locations (C:\ffmpeg and C:\ffmpeg\model). But every time I run the ffmpeg command within an elevated command window, I get error messages about unable to find/use some option? Possibly a file path issue as described within the tutorial, so I tried forward slashes and back slashes in various combinations for the model file path but I continue to receive the same (or similar) error message about unable to find/use the option!?


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What is wrong here?

Any ideas?

[poisondeathray]

escape for colon , change to forward slashes

-lavfi "libvmaf=model_path='C\:/ffmpeg/model/vmaf_v0.6.1.json'"

You will get the wrong results for AVI and MP4 if they use different timebase

There is an example of the syntax used for different container timebases. But it should be 1/AVTB

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#Examples-92

[meeshu]

Thanks for the reply!

Unfortunately I still get the error message appearing?

Syntax used is basically the same as yours -

 -lavfi "libvmaf=model_path='Ç\:/ffmpeg/model/vmaf_v0.6.1.json'" -f null -

The linked tutorial author did note that they had some difficulty in finding the correct syntax to use for the model path. Maybe some other combination of forward and back slashes is required? I did try some other combinations of slashes but it still didn't work.

Further ideas?

[poisondeathray]

They keep on changing the syntax every few months.

EDIT: sorry not working, just a sec

[poisondeathray]

That article was from 2020. It probably changed a few times in between

This last month should look like this for windows:

-lavfi "libvmaf=model='path=C\\\:/ffmpeg/model/vmaf_v0.6.1.json'"

They will probably change it again

[meeshu]

Many thanks for taking the time to find the (current) correct syntax!!

Yes, the latest syntax works!

Why on earth do they keep changing the syntax!? It makes things unnecessarily difficult for users!

[poisondeathray]

Some of the blame due to changes in the vmaf library (each major release is probably going to change the syntax and options); some of the blame can be put squarely on ffmpeg land; but the character escaping "\\\:/" is all windows .

[meeshu]

Thank you!