Topic: AviSynth Filter adds horizontal bars to 4:3 content.

Love how fast AviSynth Filter works in comparisson to FFDShow, however when I turn on the "Fill Black Bars" option it creates it own black bars before adding the lighting.

AVSF:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/137066570299080704/813853803869765642/unknown.png

I've never seen FFDShow do this and was wondering if theres some script or something that needs to be changed.

FFDShow:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/137066570299080704/813854209588854855/unknown.png

Any known fix for this?

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Re: AviSynth Filter adds horizontal bars to 4:3 content.

These pictures has different aspect ratio. Looks like ffdShow gives this information to renderer, but AVSF - is not.
You need to check what frame size has source video and compare it to both pictures. What picture is most similar to source?
Can you show MediaInfo for this video clip?

Also you can look into SVP log to get more numbers about frame size changings.
SVP menu Information > Events log:

22:52:40.033 (I): Media: video 1280x720 [PAR 1.000] at 30.000 fps (via video player)

SVP menu Information > Additional information > Last generated script:

smoothfps_params = "{rate:{num:2,den:1},block:true,algo:11,scene:{blend:true,mode:0},light:{aspect:1.6,lights:10,border:16,length:120,cell:1}}"

3 Reply by RaveHeart (edited by RaveHeart 24-02-2021 18:16:28)

Re: AviSynth Filter adds horizontal bars to 4:3 content.

Kind of new to this so I hope I did it right tongue
Definitely think FFDShow is closer to source, as AVSF does this to all of my 4:3 sources/content, almost like it's trying to make everything 4:3 convert to 16:9 with black bars

So here is the media info

General
Unique ID                                : 247135744536848159544310769251428278318 (0xB9EC9CF25D6A9F93536B7CD0E05F202E)
Complete name                            : E:\Videos\Anime\[iKaos] [SoM] Dragon Ball Z COMPLETE (001-291) - Dragon Box Merge - Multi-Audio [v3]\Series\Dragon Ball Z.095.DBOX.480p.x264-iKaos [v3] [BB18B37C].mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 4
File size                                : 3.03 GiB
Duration                                 : 24 min 41 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 17.6 Mb/s
Movie name                               : [iKaos] DBZ 095 / Transformed At Last!! Son Goku, The Legendary Super Saiyan
Track name/Position                      : 095
Track name/Total                         : 291
Description                              : On Kaio-sama's planet, Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and Chiaotzu send all of the Ginyu Force members back to Hell. Meanwhile on Namek, Freeza has somehow survived the Spirit Bomb, and he fires at Goku, but Piccolo jumps in the way and is critically injured, though not dead. Freeza then causes Kuririn's body to explode from the inside, killing him. Enraged beyond belief, Goku undergoes a wild transformation; his eyes turn green, his hair turns gold, and his body is surrounded in a golden aura, revealing that Goku has finally transformed into a Super Saiyan.
Released date                            : 1991
Encoded date                             : UTC 2021-01-12 08:08:05
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v51.0.0 ('I Wish') 64-bit
Writing library                          : libebml v1.4.0 + libmatroska v1.6.2
Attachments                              : Caballar (s).ttf / FAXFONT STANDARD REGULAR.OTF / Faxfont Tone Regular (tc).otf / Funimitation (df-pv).ttf / FunimitationBoldItalic(df-pv).ttf / hand.ttf / JosephsBrush Italic (! sq).ttf / JosephsBrush Regular (! sq).ttf / Oravetica  Normal (! sq-sq).ttf / Tomorrow Comes Today (! sq-rd).ttf / Wolf Sans Regular (!rd-rd).ttf / z5x5dots.ttf / zai_ItalicHandCalligraphy.otf
SUBTITLE                                 : Dragon Box Merge
SUBTITLE/Url                             : https://dombito.github.io/mergeproject/R1R2.pdf

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L3
Format settings                          : CABAC / 6 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames        : 6 frames
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 24 min 39 s
Bit rate                                 : 14.6 Mb/s
Width                                    : 708 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 1.793
Stream size                              : 2.52 GiB (83%)
Title                                    : Dragon Box R1+R2J Merge [JySzE/Romao]
Writing library                          : x264 core 161 r3018 db0d417
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.25 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=6,6 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-4 / threads=16 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=16 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=crf / mbtree=0 / crf=13.0 / qcomp=0.80 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.10 / pb_ratio=1.10 / aq=3:0.50
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

Audio #1
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : FLAC
Format/Info                              : Free Lossless Audio Codec
Codec ID                                 : A_FLAC
Duration                                 : 24 min 39 s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 406 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Channel layout                           : C
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 11.719 FPS (4096 SPF)
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossless
Stream size                              : 71.6 MiB (2%)
Title                                    : 1991 Mono Fuji Broadcast Audio [TeamMirolo/Kei17] - FLAC
Writing library                          : libFLAC 1.3.1 (UTC 2014-11-25)
Language                                 : Japanese
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

What I found in SVP event logs:

08:29:09.942 (I): Media: video 708x480 [PAR 0.904] at 23.976 fps

And in last generated script:

smoothfps_params = "{rate:{num:1},light:{aspect:1.967,lights:10,border:16,length:120,cell:1}}"

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Re: AviSynth Filter adds horizontal bars to 4:3 content.

indeed... I remember I fixed this months ago, but it appears my changes to AVSF were lost for some reason

Re: AviSynth Filter adds horizontal bars to 4:3 content.

Went to see if it was something with my system/ old install, and I get the same thing from a laptop with a fresh install. I guess something did bork.

Re: AviSynth Filter adds horizontal bars to 4:3 content.

fixed in 0.9.4

Re: AviSynth Filter adds horizontal bars to 4:3 content.

Awesome, absolutely working better. Thank you much!