I finally made a new release. It’s extremely not so exciting maintenance and switches to Python 3.7 on windows. VSRepo also happens to be included just as an experiment so go try it out for all your plugin and script installation needs.
Author Archives: Fredrik Mellbin
VSRepo – A simple package repository for VapourSynth
I’ve spent the past two weeks writing a simple package manager for VapourSynth called VSRepo. It can already install most common plugins and scripts with all of their dependencies. Installing havsfunc is no longer a treasure hunt across the internet!
Go visit the doom9 thread where the link to the latest test versions are posted if you want to try it out or help add more plugins and scripts. The plan is to include it in the installer with the next VapourSynth release.
R44 – Speeding up slightly
There’s a new maintenance release and it updates a few things and fixes some minor issues. Upgrading is recommended. The more interesting news will be in the next post.
The Yearly Slowdown – 2018 UHD Remaster
It’s that time of the year again. Expect huge slowdowns in development.
Snail!
R43 – Cleaning up the remaining mess from R41
R41 changed quite a few things internally and that created regressions. New zimg branch, added alpha support and a pile of changes behind the scenes in the python module caused problems. The release fixes several zimg bugs, a vspipe hang on error, vsscript functions not being threadsafe and a few more things.
Possibly (un)breaking changes:
- get_output() in python only returns a tuple when alpha is set, this more or less restores the previous behavior
R42(+.1) – Less Regressions
This release fixes a VSScript regression when setting variables that would make players like mpv fail in R41. Go upgrade!
Another crash bug managed to sneak into the optimized transpose so one more regression fixed now. (the +.1 update)
R41 – Less Leaking
This is basically a bugfix release that tries to take care of as many known issues as possible. Especially memory leaks have been hunted down this time and as a result a lot of the cython code was changed to be less likely to create circular references.
The second half of the work was making alpha handling less bad. It’s now possible to pass a second alpha clip to set_output() in scripts and vspipe will output it. Unfortunately y4m can’t be combined with alpha and no other output method currently preserves the alpha but at least some workflows with alpha should be a simpler now.
Breaking changes:
- IMWRI now requires Q16 or Q32 ImageMagick 7 with HDRI enabled
- The imwri namespace is now always imwri since a single version can handle all formats
- And basically everything else in IMWRI
IMWRI – Making it suck less
I’ve mentioned that I hate ImageMagick before. I still hate it but finally took the time to update AND test it for ImageMagick 7. As a result it’s now a mostly usable image source or at least should be. There are only a few remaining quirks which will probably exist for all time. Like being able to figure out if a source file is floating point for any remotely relevant format apart from TIFF. But enough about that, all 8-31 bit images will be assumed to be integer and all 32 bit images will be assumed to be float. Unless it’s in TIFF in which case it will all just magickally work.
Binaries and discussion are in this thread.
Seal holding its breath to avoid the smell of ImageMagick
Insane Avisynth Compatibility
The person with the pretentious name created an interesting Avisynth compatibility solution. It allows you to easily pass clips to and from 32 bit Avisynth from 64 bit VapourSynth under Windows. So now there’s no excuse to not switch to VapourSynth, it’s more compatible than 64 bit Avisynth!
R40 – Avisynth+ Compatibility and Fixes
R40 has been released. It mostly just fixes small issues like a stupid gamma bug introduced in Levels in the previous version. There’s also a change to how the memory pool is handled on windows which should make it scale better when using high resolutions (like 8k material high) and many threads. Instead of previously being fixed at 100MB it’s set to 10% of the max cache size.
Possibly breaking changes:
- AVISource now doesn’t output alpha by default (however alpha was never well supported or tested to begin with)
- Avisynth compatbility no longer has the special workarounds needed for MVTools to work
That’s all for now. Go encode something…