Video muxing?

reapero · 10-10-2019, 07:38 AM

Would muxing be a faster opton to embedd audio into videos existing on a session? As a sound dude, i never do edits to the video so basically i just wanna add my rendered audio track to the video i previously imported in the session, which i have been adding music/osunds to.

I think i saw someone posting or maybe asking for a script to do that long time ago. Is there anything? If not, what muxer would you use? I i guess it requires cmd operation (windows here) to be able to get triggered by a lua script

Thanks!

dsyrock · 10-10-2019, 06:38 PM

You don't need any script.REAPER can render project to Video directly, including all your sound and music. If you don't need the origin audio track inside the video, uncheck the parent send of the video track.

ashcat_lt · 10-10-2019, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by dsyrock

You don't need any script.REAPER can render project to Video directly, including all your sound and music. If you don't need the origin audio track inside the video, uncheck the parent send of the video track.

As I understand it, rendering a whole new video via reaper in most formats is like rendering the video and the audio and then essentially zipping the two files up into whatever container you've chosen. I think that "muxing" as the OP is using it means just replacing the audio file in that container without necessarily re-rendering the video part.

Whether that even can be done I think depends on what the final format is, but I don't think Reaper will do it natively either way.

dsyrock · 10-10-2019, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ashcat_lt

I think that "muxing" as the OP is using it means just replacing the audio file in that container without necessarily re-rendering the video part.

Oh I see. Sorry I misunderstanding it. I think it need at least 2 steps to make it. First render an audio file. Second, using ffmpeg or other tools to mux the video and audio together. The second step is scriptable.

reapero · 10-11-2019, 12:11 AM

And the first one too, using mespotine's awesome ultraschall API

I'll give this a try with ffmpeg. I have to export 4m videos on a daily basis and I am already sick of export times.

juliansader · 10-11-2019, 02:37 AM

This has been requested many times. Since both VLC and ffmpeg offer "no video transcoding" options, it should be straightforward for REAPER to implement it too.

akademie · 10-11-2019, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by juliansader

This has been requested many times. Since both VLC and ffmpeg offer "no video transcoding" options, it should be straightforward for REAPER to implement it too.

Sure. And it needs some bump, so +1 for "no video transcoding" in render option in Reaper :-)

junh1024 · 10-14-2019, 06:28 PM

Just use mkvmerge to mux?

reapero · 10-15-2019, 09:15 AM

If anyone is interested: this kinda works with ffmpeg(include it in Windows path). Didnt check for errors and stuff so dont send a hitman to my place if it doesnt work please. I am a human being with feelings.

Just render the audio as usual then select the video item in Reaper and then launch the script. Your new muxed video will appear next to your audio file.

The script uses the last modified file in the render folder as the audio file to mux to the video file, so make sure you dont generate extra files in there between the 2 steps

akademie · 10-16-2019, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by reapero

If anyone is interested: this kinda works with ffmpeg(include it in Windows path). Didnt check for errors and stuff so dont send a hitman to my place if it doesnt work please. I am a human being with feelings.

Just render the audio as usual then select the video item in Reaper and then launch the script. Your new muxed video will appear next to your audio file.

The script uses the last modified file in the render folder as the audio file to mux to the video file, so make sure you dont generate extra files in there between the 2 steps

Thanks reapero,
I just tried your script, but it gives this :-(
"...Mux last rendered audio with selected video item.lua:4: attempt to index a nil value"

reapero · 10-17-2019, 01:42 AM

Not sure whats happening. The only tricky thing might be your files or paths contain space bars. That could make the script fail. Also, do you have ffmpeg installed and added in windows path?

Can you tell in which line the script is crashing?

jrengmusic · 10-17-2019, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by reapero

If anyone is interested: this kinda works with ffmpeg(include it in Windows path).

Would this script works on mac?

reapero · 10-17-2019, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by jrengmusic

Would this script works on mac?

Not sure. I dont have a Mac available here.

If you try it out let me know!

akademie · 10-20-2019, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by reapero

Not sure whats happening. The only tricky thing might be your files or paths contain space bars. That could make the script fail. Also, do you have ffmpeg installed and added in windows path?

Can you tell in which line the script is crashing?

Hi reapero,
I think it is crashing at line nr.4 (which also error displays in error text after scriptname).

I will try with all paths short and no spaces, but I don't think it is a problem. Will report later, thanks.

akademie · 10-21-2019, 09:48 AM

OK, no spaces in path names but still the same error message :-/

It is on this line of code:

Code:

  for file in io.popen([[dir "]]..folderPath..[[" /B /O:-D /A:-D]]):lines() do

And BTW, I am using 32-bit Reaper (v5.983) in 32-bit Windows 7.
(there were some hints about broken io.popen function in 32 bit..????)

akademie · 10-21-2019, 10:43 AM

Well, it is a shame that that "io.popen" does not work

Because when I modified the script to be able to test it (I removed all the lines of the function to get last modified file etc. and somehow written the folder and filename directly into the script, then it does work.
Only would be fine to know how to set higher audio bitrate of aac, because default is , ehmnmmm, too low/bad quality.

Anyway, ffmpeg does work, now the thing is how to call it from within the reaper parametrically.

reapero · 10-22-2019, 03:51 AM

Hey akademie,

Yeah didnt try on a 32b OS, but glad you detected the problem. I guess you can try to get the name forthe rendered file with the existing API options, or with Mespotine´s Ueberschall extension for sure.

Regarding the loss of audio quality, get this new version. It generates a MOV file with the audio being WAV file as is (so no quality loss and no extra time spent in coding the audio part).

Cheers

akademie · 10-22-2019, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by reapero

Hey akademie,

Yeah didnt try on a 32b OS, but glad you detected the problem. I guess you can try to get the name forthe rendered file with the existing API options, or with Mespotine´s Ueberschall extension for sure.

Regarding the loss of audio quality, get this new version. It generates a MOV file with the audio being WAV file as is (so no quality loss and no extra time spent in coding the audio part).

Cheers

I am not a scripting guy but thanks anyway reapero.

Meo-Ada Mespotine · 10-23-2019, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by reapero

I guess you can try to get the name forthe rendered file with the existing API options, or with Mespotine´s Ueberschall extension for sure.

With Reaper's API it's not easy, so better use my functions, as I'm using some tricks to get the filenames.
And if it doesn't work for some reason: send me a bugreport in the Ultraschall-API-thread(link in my signature) and I'll see, what the problem is.