--profile Step2 QCTools error

[EmCNabs]

--profile Step2 is set to create a qctools report file, however for me it is not out putting the report file to the directory resulting in a "no file found" error.

Running command: qcli -i "/Users/medialab/Desktop/JPC_AV_Tests/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.mkv" -o /Users/medialab/Desktop/JPC_AV_Tests/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM_qc_metadata/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.qctools.xml.gz
qcli dev build, Oct 12 2023 07:09:34
filters selected: signalstats psnr astats 
[matroska,webm @ 0x7f9723004f80] Stream #4: not enough frames to estimate rate; consider increasing probesize
[matroska,webm @ 0x7f9723004f80] Could not find codec parameters for stream 2 (Attachment: none): unknown codec
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' (0) and 'probesize' (5000000) options
[matroska,webm @ 0x7f9723004f80] Could not find codec parameters for stream 3 (Attachment: none): unknown codec
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' (0) and 'probesize' (5000000) options

analyzing input file... /Users/medialab/Desktop/JPC_AV_Tests/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.mkv

Unable to check qctools report. No file found at this path: /Users/medialab/Desktop/JPC_AV_Tests/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM_qc_metadata/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.qctools.xml.gz.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/anaconda3/bin/av-spex", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/Users/medialab/github/JPC_AV_videoQC/src/AV_Spex/av_spex_the_file.py", line 538, in main
    write_html_report(video_id,mediaconch_output_path,diff_csv_path,exiftool_output_path,mediainfo_output_path,ffprobe_output_path,html_report_path)
TypeError: write_html_report() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'ffprobe_output_path' and 'html_report_path'

[EmCNabs]

Tested again with a qctools report I exported direct from qctools, and noticed that script is also looking for an incorrect file extension. It looks for 2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.qctools.xml.gz.

When I think it it should be looking for 2012_79_2_224_1a_PM .mkv.qctools.xml.gz

[eddycolloton]

Two separate issues here.

Issue 1:
av-spex is scripted to create qctools reports with a .qctools.xml.gz extension, without the original video file extension.
The default sidecar output for QCTools is now just qctools.mkv. So eventually we may need to re-work to output to mkv and extract for qct-parse.

But for now it's whatever we want it to be, so I'm happy to include the original video file extension going forward if we would like.

Issue 2:
Looks like your terminal output goes directly from:
analyzing input file... /Users/medialab/Desktop/JPC_AV_Tests/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.mkv
To:
Unable to check qctools report. No file found at this path:

If qctools never output the progress bar, then it probably failed to create the report. The python "Traceback" error you got as a result is because of a new html report feature. I'll merge the feature branch tomorrow, which will resolve the issue.

When I run qcli -i on 2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.mkv this is what I get:

(JPC_AV) [JPC_AV_videoQC] $ qcli -i /Users/eddycolloton/git/JPC_AV/sample_files/bowser_files/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.mkv
qcli dev build, Oct 12 2023 07:09:34
filters selected: signalstats psnr astats 
[matroska,webm @ 0x132f04bc0] Stream #4: not enough frames to estimate rate; consider increasing probesize
[matroska,webm @ 0x132f04bc0] Could not find codec parameters for stream 2 (Attachment: none): unknown codec
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' (0) and 'probesize' (5000000) options
[matroska,webm @ 0x132f04bc0] Could not find codec parameters for stream 3 (Attachment: none): unknown codec
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' (0) and 'probesize' (5000000) options

analyzing input file... /Users/eddycolloton/git/JPC_AV/sample_files/bowser_files/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM/2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.mkv
zsh: segmentation fault  qcli -i 

No idea what segmentation fault is, but I don't get it on other files when I run qcli -i on them. I'll keep troubleshooting this file, see what we can figure it out.

[eddycolloton]

As of this merge you shouldn't get the "Traceback error". 6dc1349

This doesn't resolve the issue with qcli -i not working w/ 2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.mkv, just stops av-spex from hard exiting when qcli -i says it will output a qctools report, but doesn't.

[eddycolloton]

Regarding file naming convention - should I change av-spex default report output from:
JPC_AV_01709.qctools.xml.gz to JPC_AV_01709.mkv.qctools.xml.gz ?
@EmCNabs @BleakleyMcD

[EmCNabs]

Regarding file naming convention - should I change av-spex default report output from: JPC_AV_01709.qctools.xml.gz to JPC_AV_01709.mkv.qctools.xml.gz ? @EmCNabs @BleakleyMcD

I will look at how it runs this week/when I am back in the video lab, and circle back with thoughts on the qctools report file naming.

[eddycolloton]

I only get this segmentation fault error on 2012_79_2_224_1a_PM.mkv and 2012_79_2_225_1a_PM.mkv when I use qcli. I don't get it with the qctools GUI. I've started an issue on the qctools github: bavc/qctools#836

[eddycolloton]

👀 bavc/qctools#839