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Old 10-09-2016, 02:57 PM   #1
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Default Various large media source file problems (FIXED)

I'm having problems with large multichannel audio files in video files. To be clear, video is not being displayed. (Actually, I don't think REAPER can read the video stream of Apple ProRes 422 files, anyway.)

#1 - I imported an 89Gb .MOV file with 4 audio channels into REAPER. The waveform is drawn but if I set it to use only the first channel (Media Item Properties, Left only), the waveform disappears unless I zoom in horizontally.

#2 - Changing back to "Normal" (audio channels) in MIP forces a redraw of the waveforms.

#3 - After opening Sonnox SuprEsser (a heavy plugin), REAPER stops responding to keyboard commands and things like dragging plugin order, and tends to crash (even SuprEsser controls don't respond properly). When I attempted to update REAPER to 5.27pre1, the installer told me that reaper_wave.dll was still in use. (I had to wait a minute for it to be released.) Does that give you a hint as to what's gone wrong?

There are 3 possible causes that I can imagine: source is video file, source contains multichannel audio, or video file is HUGE. I'm inclined to think it's the last one, since it causes REAPER to run very slowly, with frequent freezes that don't interrupt playback (you can't press stop if you try).
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More details:
Zooming out makes waveform disappear:



Changing between multichannel and single channel shows different behaviour at different zoom levels:

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Old 10-10-2016, 07:46 AM   #3
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What decoder is it using? VLC? Does everything work perfectly throughout the whole file if you play the file in VLC?

If you have a similar type of media (same encoding, channel count) that isn't quite so long, does it work better? Can you post the media item source properties info?
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Old 10-10-2016, 08:44 AM   #4
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#3 - After opening Sonnox SuprEsser (a heavy plugin), REAPER stops responding to keyboard commands and things like dragging plugin order, and tends to crash (even SuprEsser controls don't respond properly). When I attempted to update REAPER to 5.27pre1, the installer told me that reaper_wave.dll was still in use. (I had to wait a minute for it to be released.) Does that give you a hint as to what's gone wrong?
This sounds like it is probably the decoding for this file which is hanging. Finding out which decoder it is using will help, but it might just not be advisable to use this media with REAPER.

It might help to use the "no hi-res peaks" option, actually.

Please let me know what decoder mode it's using and what version of the decoder you're using (Media source properties, and the info from prefs/video/show decoder information).


I'm making myself a massive 70GB, 4 channel, 130 minute file now, to test with.

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Old 10-10-2016, 11:52 AM   #5
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#1 - I imported an 89Gb .MOV file with 4 audio channels into REAPER. The waveform is drawn but if I set it to use only the first channel (Media Item Properties, Left only), the waveform disappears unless I zoom in horizontally.
I've duplicated this, however it's only *while* building peaks. It appears then, if you encounter this, that your peaks are still being built. Is your peaks building window open (or was it disabled)? You can re-enable it in prefs/media.

This might also explain your "rebuild peaks action does nothing" note... if it's already (slowly) building the peaks...

BTW: It seems for these large files VLC might do a faster job than ffmpeg, not sure what you're using.
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