MeGUI: bug reports and feature requests

[LigH]

I was just able to index and load an MKV with the new L-SMASH Source. But I have all MSVC runtimes installed. I collected them once with WSUS Offline Update...

[Zathor]

I will have a look into it. But it may take a while.

[dbtayag]

Originally Posted by LigH

I was just able to index and load an MKV with the new L-SMASH Source. But I have all MSVC runtimes installed. I collected them once with WSUS Offline Update...

Here are all the Visual Runtimes I have on my laptop:



Am I missing anything?

I wish I could use FFMSindex but apparently every time I extract the package, there's a virus in it according to my anti-virus software.

[LigH]

OK, all runtimes installed, that's not the reason. So it may be the UAC or some other issue with the dynamic build of LSMASHSource.dll not being able to load its libav component DLLs. I believe Zathor will try to prefer a static build for the next update.

[Barough]

Originally Posted by Zathor

@Barough: Thanks, I will update those version

2624 has been released as stable build - last one was from March

Thnx

MediaInfo v0.7.80 have been released
Version 0.7.80, 2015-11-30

[dbtayag]

Downloaded the new L-Smash update today and it now works perfectly. Thanks for all your help, guys!

[Zathor]

Originally Posted by LigH

Interesting. The latest LSMASHSource.dll version in MeGUI\tools\lsmash appears to be a dynamic build with separate libav DLLs... Rather unusual, we used to prefer the static build.

Yes, source of the files is here (no clue who the creator is):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3i81ttxf0...VhYLasmwa?dl=0

Dynamic build maybe because of:
https://github.com/VFR-maniac/L-SMAS...1ed95be9a8a233

Originally Posted by Groucho2004

I would recommend this all-in-one runtime installer. It solves these problems in most cases.

I still do not know which of those runtimes is needed (dependy walker does not help), but after installation all those additional DLLs must be copied into the encoder directories (+MeGUI) as otherwise these cannot be found. This is not the case when using AviSynth+ - the DLLs are then properly loaded even when only in the lsmash directory.

Because of this I have reverted a few hours ago L-SMASH in MeGUI so that agin r804 is used.

[Atlantis]

The new MeGUI is causing me a lot of problems with Norton. First Norton removed ffms2-2.22.7z saying it has risks. Now today it has removed MeGUI.exe itself!

Anyone else with Norton here?

[Groucho2004]

Originally Posted by Atlantis

The new MeGUI is causing me a lot of problems with Norton.

You got that wrong. Norton is causing a lot of problems with everything else.
As you can see, AV software acts just like a nasty virus - it removes perfectly good software.

[Zathor]

Originally Posted by Atlantis

The new MeGUI is causing me a lot of problems with Norton. First Norton removed ffms2-2.22.7z saying it has risks. Now today it has removed MeGUI.exe itself!

Set an exclusion for ffmsindex.exe - this should fix then also the deletion of MeGUI.

[Solon8]

Any clue why some AV softwares consider ffmindex as bad?

[hello_hello]

Originally Posted by Solon8

Any clue why some AV softwares consider ffmindex as bad?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_analysis

Maybe the software has a setting for it's "taking a guess" level you could dial back a bit.

[Atlantis]

Originally Posted by Zathor

Set an exclusion for ffmsindex.exe - this should fix then also the deletion of MeGUI.

Are we sure that they are safe? Why should I do that?

[LigH]

You are never sure (and not secure either). With or without AV software. If you don't trust first-hand sources of your software, then don't trust AV heuristics either.

You can check more heuristics at virustotal and malwr, and if the number of suspicions is low, the probability of a false alarm is high. In this case, send a sample to your AV author to have this false alarm removed.

[Gieferg]

I wanted to recompress video with Blindehalo3 filter using MeGui.

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\masktools2.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\RgTools.dll")
Import("C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\BlindDeHalo3_mt2.avs")
BlindDeHalo3( 3,3,125 )

I've checked the path like ten times, so everything is in right place. And every time MeGui give me some error:

Unable to Load "C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\RgTools.dll", module not found

But it's there.
If I remove that line from the script, I get following error:

Invalid arguments to function Blinddehalo3

If I remove that line I get this:

The script's returns was not a video file.

Any suggestions?

Just for clarification:
I've never used MeGui before.

[LigH]

Where is your source filter? You never loaded any video to be filtered.

Not being able to load a plugin ... are all necessary compiler runtimes installed? And check if you don't try to load an AviSynth 2.6+ plugin in AviSynth 2.5.x; try if it works if you enforce MeGUI using its internal AviSynth copy, instead of the version installed in your system.

Usually it is helpful to publish a log file of such a failed attempt.

[hello_hello]

Originally Posted by Gieferg

I wanted to recompress video with Blindehalo3 filter using MeGui.

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\masktools2.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\RgTools.dll")
Import("C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\BlindDeHalo3_mt2.avs")
BlindDeHalo3( 3,3,125 )

I've checked the path like ten times, so everything is in right place. And every time MeGui give me some error:

Unable to Load "C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\RgTools.dll", module not found

Aside from what LigH said, "C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins" is usually the auto-loading plugins folder (for a fresh install of Avisynth 2.6.0.6 it's just "C:\Program Files\Avisynth\plugins") so if Avisynth is installed you shouldn't need to manually load those plugins. Likewise if you give BlindDeHalo3_mt2.avs an avsi extension you shouldn't need to import it. That applies to MeGUI using it's own portable version of Avisynth (you can switch between the portable version of Avisynth and the installed version in Options). As long as Avisynth is also installed, plugins in that folder should still auto-load.

According to the info here, Avisynth 2.6 or higher is required for RGTools. MeGUI currently uses Avisynth 2.6.0.6 for it's portable version.
Did you download the 64 bit version of RGTools instead of the 32 bit version?

Maybe try Avisynth Info Tool.

BlindDeHalo3( 3,3,125 )
If I remove that line from the script, I get following error:
Invalid arguments to function Blinddehalo3

That's probably unrelated to the RGTools error. I've not used BlindDeHalo3 but the first two values are expressed as float so I think it'd need to be
BlindDeHalo3(3.0, 3.0, 125)
or
BlindDeHalo3(rx=3.0, ry=3.0, strength=125)
Mind you those values appear to be the defaults, so you'd get exactly the same result with this:
BlindDeHalo3()

[StainlessS]

Informational only.

Just got 'Unclassified Malware' alert from Comodo Internet Security for ffmsindex.exe (updated MeGUI development, earlier today) .
I've submitted as false +ve to Comodo.
Here, results from Virustotal today:- https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1449762152/

EDIT: Anyone who would like to give opinion to VirusTotal can vote on their Votes TAB.

[LigH]

Very interesting that it gets detected as "Downloader", but I doubt a pure file indexer uses any networking functions. Maybe except UNC file access? Or unused functions in a bigger linked library?

P.S.: malwr / Cynomix

[StainlessS]

unused functions in a bigger linked library?

Yes, much/most of the strings mentioned @ Cynomix are also present in the previous version ffmsindex.exe. (about 70% of the way through the file).
Probably just part of some library as LigH suggests.