VLC player support (Page 5 of 6)

When i try to install the VLC support filter, it says: Check that SVP Manager has access to C/x/x/x/plugins/video_filter . Where and how could i enable the access?

I've done everything that was posted on the Wiki, without any errors. I've set up the PATH and PYTHONPATH, changed the video_filter permissions, and everything else. However, I can't get the Vapoursynth to appear in VLC. Also, SVP keeps saying I need to make sure I have granted it access to the video_filter folder, which I already have. Does anyone have a solution?

Edit: I've fixed the permission issue, but I still can't get Vapoursynth to appear in my filters on VLC

I get these errors when trying to turn on deinterlace.

main error: option sout-deinterlace-mode does not exist
deinterlace error: VapourSynth engine error - possibly corrupted installation

I've tried copying the contents of SVP 4/mpv64 into the VLC folder and re-installing Vapoursynth (64bit) and re-installed Python 3.5.1 and 3.6.0 and 3.7.0 but no luck.
Re-installed SVP 4 Pro and VLC multiple times and Vapoursynth shows up inside the filters list in VLC. I tried putting core64/vapoursynth.dll into System32 and restarting my computer multiple times.
Sometimes I randomly get these errors:

avcodec error: hardware acceleration picture allocation failed
avcodec error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
avcodec error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
avcodec error: hardware acceleration picture allocation failed
avcodec error: hardware acceleration picture allocation failed

SVP works with MPC but not with VLC. Some help would be appreciated as I've spent 3 days trying to get this working.

Edit:
Turning off hardware acceleration gave me some more errors;

main error: option sout-deinterlace-mode does not exist
deinterlace error: VapourSynth engine error - possibly corrupted installation
direct3d11 error: SetThumbNailClip failed: 0x800706f4
main error: Failed to create video filter 'deinterlace'
chain error: Too high level of recursion (3)
main error: Failed to add filter 'deinterlace'

I have the permissions set for video_filters folder and SVP in VLC checked. The contents of SVP 4/mpv64 are inside of the VLC Folder.
There is about 20 of each error except the last error. Hope this will help someone fix my issue.

please add that info in first post

Hey,

After testing the free version of SVP for a couple of days with the only supported MPC-HC player, I decided to buy SVP, because I want to use it with VLC, Kodi and also with Plex. Both the free and the paid version is working fine with MPC-HC. 24p is converted to 60p, video is fluent.
I had a hard time making it work but I managed to do it.

Problem is, I cant make it work with VLC (v2.2.8 x64). I followed the installation guide on the webpage and I did all the steps. I set the variables, folder permissions, the VLC settings, I can see the Vapoursynth at video/filters etc but still no luck.

Here is the event log:

18:25:56.081 [i]: SysInfo: error opening process [5]
18:25:56.081 [W]: VideoPlayer: 32-bit SVP engine is not installed.
18:25:56.082 [i]: VideoPlayer: VLC connected, waiting for the video info...
18:25:56.102 [i]: Media: video 1920x804 [PAR 1.000] at 23.976 fps [constant] (via video player)
18:25:56.102 [i]: Media: codec type is i420, YUV420P8
18:25:56.103 [i]: Playback: starting up...
18:25:56.106 [W]: Playback [4708]: Frame server (32-bit) NOT FOUND
18:25:56.107 [i]: Playback [4708]: resulting video frame 1920x804
18:25:56.107 [i]: Playback [4708]: 1 acceptible profiles, best is 'Automatic' [0]
18:25:56.108 [i]: Playback [4708]: enabled while video is playing
18:25:56.108 [i]: Profile: using auto values [1]
18:25:56.123 [i]: Playback [4708]: playing at 59.9405 [23.9762 *5/2] 
18:25:56.166 [W]: Control: failed to register shortcut Meta+Ctrl+N
18:25:56.166 [W]: Control: failed to register shortcut Meta+Ctrl+C
18:25:56.166 [W]: Control: failed to register shortcut Meta+Ctrl+V
18:25:56.166 [W]: Control: failed to register shortcut Meta+Ctrl+S
18:25:56.189 [E]: VLC: Python exception: Failed to load C:\Program Files (x86)\SVP 4\plugins\svpflow1_vs.dll. GetLastError() returned 126. A DLL dependency is probably missing.\n\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \src\cython\vapoursynth.pyx\, line 1937, in vapoursynth.vpy_evaluateScript\n  File \src\cython\vapoursynth.pyx\, line 1938, in vapoursynth.vpy_evaluateScript\n  File \C:\Users\ehajgbo\AppData\Roaming\SVP4\scripts\4708.py\, line 7, in <module>\n    core.std.LoadPlugin(\C:\\Program Files (x86)\\SVP 4\\plugins\\svpflow1_vs.dll\)\n  File \src\cython\vapoursynth.pyx\, line 1843, in vapoursynth.Function.__call__\nvapoursynth.Error: Failed to load C:\Program Files (x86)\SVP 4\plugins\svpflow1_vs.dll. GetLastError() returned 126. A DLL dependency is probably missing.\n
18:25:56.189 [E]: VLC: script evaluation failed

So SVP recognized VLC, It thinks, its doing the frame interpolation (hovering tooltip on SVP icon says playing at 59,9405 FPS [x[5/2]) but the movie is choppy, laggy like a 24p movie. On the performance monitor in SVP it doesnt show anything on the first graph called SVP index, while it did with mpc-hc. I suspect, problem is either with the environment variables or with the folder permission but I did both as per the guide. even "vspipe" works in the cmd window:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files (x86)\SVP 4\mpv64

I even tried this, as mentioned in the guide:

These are the selected components: https://imgur.com/a/AmBLzII

Can somebody help ? Thanks in advance

Ah! You're probably running VLC as admin. Don't do this!

> What VLC version shall I use? x86? x64? v2.x? v3.x?

None VLC is the worst possible choice for SVP.

1. It doesn't suppose to work with VLC 4.0
2.  "saying it doesn't have write access but I did grant "Users" full access to the VLC folder." - dunno, this should be enough. When you copy something into the 'video_filter' folder manually, does it work w/o requesting admin rights?
3. "unable to init GPU-based renderer - code 131072" - does SVP works for you in any other video player? If no, then you have to clean/re-install graphics drivers. OR you can just turn off GPU acceleration.

Another update - rev.170 - makes VLC+SVP finally usable

Still 4K performance is not so good as it could be...

You need to set environment variables - https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/SVP:VLC

> Is it working with VLC 4.0 now?

No