StaxRip 2.0 Support Thread

[Z'Hadum]

Originally Posted by Revan654

With Upscaling software there are limitations, You upscale the size and such, but what some may fail to notice is the finer details are usually removed. Like a small pattern on the wall or on the persons clothing. It's removed or flatten, it's sometimes hard to notice without comparing the two.

Then you can introduce other problems into the picture as well like artifacts(Which is very common on upscaling) and aliasing.

This is a double edge sword situation.

This is true for "conventional" up-scaling...
But this is a special A.I.-based Algorithm....and it is impressing what can be done with it.
I also hope to use something similar for old DVD releases in the near future.
Or may be some time in the future such algorithms can be used by software like madVR in real-time....
With it much better compression algorithms could be possible...

But all this is Off-Topic here.

[Zetti]

MediaInfo v19.04 is released.

[IbrahimKh]

Hi, what is the correct filter to demux vp9? I tried different version of Staxrip and still cannot demux it properly. The framerate has always been get the wrong value.

[Natty]

Originally Posted by IbrahimKh

Hi, what is the correct filter to demux vp9? I tried different version of Staxrip and still cannot demux it properly. The framerate has always been get the wrong value.

lwlibav

[gonca]

Is it possible to use StaxRip without all the support apps being in the system.
Example
can I delete all the audio encoders since I don't plan on doing any audio encoding?

[videoh]

Originally Posted by suprasaiyan123

Here you go https://www.sendspace.com/file/es0lwp The issue can be seen here by my previous post https://imgur.com/a/kEdOlGU I believe I and imhh11 are having the same issue where the highlights are blown out of proportion, and no amount of playing with either the Hable or Reinhard curve can preserve details in highlights. Please let us know what you find, or if you have a fix for the issue, thanks!!

How about this?

dgsource("Last Stand Test Snippet (1)-001.dgi",fulldepth=true)
dghdrtosdr(roll=1.0,light=150)

Sorry for the late reply.

[Trench]

Is there anything "smart" I could do (using the term loosely) in Staxrip if my desire is to convert a non-letterboxed 4:3 video to fill a 16:9 display?

Clearly I could just invoke the crop to bring the display aspect ratio from 1.33 to 1.85, but with a significant information loss top and bottom on the picture.

Some 16:9 displays I've seen have a 4:3 display mode that does some non-linear X-axis stretching in order to crop much less top and bottom and still "fill the screen" on a 16:9 display. Meaning they only crop a little top and bottom, and then gradually from the center of the image to the left and right, they being stretching to ultimately fit the width without being as visually obvious about it. i.e. Stretched less in the middle of the image, but increasing amounts as you get to the outer edge.

Is there some existing filter that could allow me do to a non-linear type of stretching such as that? I'm probably using the wrong technical terms when trying to search for the capability. Thanks.

[frenchfries]

Originally Posted by Trench

Is there anything "smart" I could do (using the term loosely) in Staxrip if my desire is to convert a non-letterboxed 4:3 video to fill a 16:9 display?

Clearly I could just invoke the crop to bring the display aspect ratio from 1.33 to 1.85, but with a significant information loss top and bottom on the picture.

Some 16:9 displays I've seen have a 4:3 display mode that does some non-linear X-axis stretching in order to crop much less top and bottom and still "fill the screen" on a 16:9 display. Meaning they only crop a little top and bottom, and then gradually from the center of the image to the left and right, they being stretching to ultimately fit the width without being as visually obvious about it. i.e. Stretched less in the middle of the image, but increasing amounts as you get to the outer edge.

Is there some existing filter that could allow me do to a non-linear type of stretching such as that? I'm probably using the wrong technical terms when trying to search for the capability. Thanks.

The term is non-linear stretch.
First google result of a search "avs script non linear stretch"
http://avisynth.nl/index.php/SimpleResize

[jlw_4049]

Can anyone give me a rough guide on how exactly to encode 4k/x265 HDR content, while retaining all the HDR with this program? I would certainly appreciate it. I cant seem to find much information on the subject.

EDIT: Each time I'm done indexing with StaxRip, the program just disappears into the task manager. UI is gone completely?
EDIT: Apparently it just minimizes for like 4 to 5 minutes before it comes back up. I'm assuming it's doing something.

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[Natty]

Originally Posted by jlw_4049

EDIT: Each time I'm done indexing with StaxRip, the program just disappears into the task manager. UI is gone completely?
EDIT: Apparently it just minimizes for like 4 to 5 minutes before it comes back up. I'm assuming it's doing something.

it's doing 2nd pass or something in ffmsindex. i solved that issue by using older version of it from staxrip 1.8.2.0 apps folder

[jlw_4049]

Originally Posted by Natty

it's doing 2nd pass or something in ffmsindex. i solved that issue by using older version of it from staxrip 1.8.2.0 apps folder

Thanks for that information. I don't mind the few minutes waiting time. It's my home server, I'm mainly just using StaxRip for 4k HDR encoding. Seems to be one of the only GUI's supporting it "easily."

[Revan654]

Originally Posted by gonca

Is it possible to use StaxRip without all the support apps being in the system.
Example
can I delete all the audio encoders since I don't plan on doing any audio encoding?

You can delete the Opus one, Since that was never added in, but everything is locked. most of the audio is done via ffmpeg and sometimes uses support tools. If you plan to do audio encoding or not there still needed. They only take up less then 40 mbs, which is tiny.

[gonca]

Thank you for the response

[jlw_4049]

Program works great. After I got used to it. I honestly like it quite a bit.

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[lordalibaski]

Hi Revan glad someone has kept updating this software it's done wonders for me over the years. I do apologise I put my problem in the old topic didn't see this topic here is my problem

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...72#post1873772

[jlw_4049]

Revan, I'm having a small issue where when I abort a job to change some settings. The program doesn't "free" the ram up that it was using. So, for example it'll go from 2.5gbs used to 9. Then with the next job (even tho I aborted the first job) So, say I decided to abort this 2nd job, the ram will still be at 9 or 10. If I am to start another job it can actually crash the encoder because it ran out of RAM.

If when I abort, I close the program, restart and add with the AVS file. This doesn't happen.

Maybe it's me doing something wrong?

[Natty]

Originally Posted by jlw_4049

Revan, I'm having a small issue where when I abort a job to change some settings. The program doesn't "free" the ram up that it was using. So, for example it'll go from 2.5gbs used to 9. Then with the next job (even tho I aborted the first job) So, say I decided to abort this 2nd job, the ram will still be at 9 or 10. If I am to start another job it can actually crash the encoder because it ran out of RAM.

If when I abort, I close the program, restart and add with the AVS file. This doesn't happen.

Maybe it's me doing something wrong?

yes that is the bug in stax which eats all ram and slows down or locks your system, a fix i found was after doing your encoding and filtering settings click on project - save.. it will save a .srip file. close all instances of stax to free up ram, then open it again and project - open - .srip.. this will start u from where u left.

there are few more bugs which makes it really unstable / unusable.

[Natty]

Originally Posted by lordalibaski

Hi Revan glad someone has kept updating this software it's done wonders for me over the years. I do apologise I put my problem in the old topic didn't see this topic here is my problem

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...72#post1873772

download 32/64 version

extract and move contents to C:\Windows\System32\

[jlw_4049]

Originally Posted by Natty

yes that is the bug in stax which eats all ram and slows down or locks your system, a fix i found was after doing your encoding and filtering settings click on project - save.. it will save a .srip file. close all instances of stax to free up ram, then open it again and project - open - .srip.. this will start u from where u left.

there are few more bugs which makes it really unstable / unusable.

Thanks for clearing that up. I am using it for HDR 4k encoding. I usually use MeGUI.

So far with staxrip this is the only issue i have ran into.

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[stax76]

yes that is the bug in stax which eats all ram and slows down or locks your system

Does that happen with staxrip 1.7 too? 2.0 uses ffms2 with C interface and that leaks memory if I remember right, just choose another source filter in 2.0.