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Masc,

Do you think this can be fixed?  I would love to try out version 6 due to all the new features and faster speed.

@a1ex

I would love to help with your request but I have absolutely no coding skills, whatsoever.  All I can do is test some of the functions of a new build with my 100D and report bugs that I have noticed, just as I did here.

@bouncyball

Could it be that MLVApp requires some additional software installed to work properly?  Just like MLVS required Dokan.  If that is the case, please advise me on what should I install and give me a download link if possible.

@a1ex

First of all, please accept my gratitude and appreciation for your talent, time and enormous efforts that made the miracle Magic Lantern happen!

Under "silent module is missing", I mean the very old silent module, the one with the gradient, that captured full-sensor sized uncompressed 14-bit DNG images in an MLV file.  It worked very well with the intervalometer and Dual ISO and I have been using it successfully for more than two years with the 100D.   I was very surprised to see that it is missing from the August 21-st build.  I was wondering if we can have it back, a1ex.

@bouncyball

Yes, I do have enough space on my HDD.  And I checked the shortened 5 frame file too.  I can open it, make adjustments to it, and play it in MLVApp.  However, when I try to export it, MLVApp crashes.  I tested that on three different computers running Win7x64, I tried also files from 7D and 5D3.  The same thing happens with all of them - crash on export.  Version 3 works just fine though.

I used the download link for Version 6 from the first page.  I unzipped the package in a separate directory, started MLVApp.exe by clicking on it and then opened the file using the "Import MLV" command in the file menue.  I am not sure if I am doing anything wrong and what that may be.

Masc,

Yes, version 0.6 x86 crashes too.  However, the old 0.3 version that I happened to keep, exports just fine.

masc,

I have now done what you requested and created a 5 frame MLV file (about 17 MB) from the original.  It is called OUTPUT.MLV and the download link is:

https://we.tl/namZYCHTpp

It will be active for one week. 

I also checked with other MLV files from other cameras (5D3 and 7D), also on different Win x 64 computers.  The same behavior is observed.  The software crashes on export as I described above.

I wish you a nice vacation!

It is a single MLV file of about 300 MB size (109 frames).  Regardless of the export format that I set in the Preferences, when I press Ctrl+E, it opens the export window and allows me to select the folder for export.  When I press Save, the software crashes and I get a message saying: MLVApp.exe has stoped working. 

Unfortunately, I have a very slow internet connection and cannot send you the file now but if you wait until tomorrow, I can try to send it from work where the net is way faster.

Unfortunately, version MLV.App.v0.6.alpha.x64.Win crashes when I try to export a 14-bit MLV clip from the EOS 100D.  Here is what it says:

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Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   MLV App.exe
  Application Version:   0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:   599d3f51
  Fault Module Name:   MLV App.exe
  Fault Module Version:   0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:   599d3f51
  Exception Code:   c000001d
  Exception Offset:   000000000001247b
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   e2e5
  Additional Information 2:   e2e5dca40ff74952f8dea9391c49a9c1
  Additional Information 3:   9c18
  Additional Information 4:   9c18eac52f9d534f72d434fbdb235140

Gianluca,

Yes, I would stay with the Jan.6 build for now, mainly due to the lack of hick-ups at higher resolutions, which I often shoot at.  Also FRSP works flawlessly  with that build.  I wouldn't trust the sound on that build though.  Turning camera off and on again after each clip and waiting for it to initialize makes the sound function useless or of very limited use.  If the sound issue could be fixed with 10-bit recording it would be fantastic.

This is great news, AWPStar!  Keep up the good work!

[NOTE:]

I have now performed tests on the MLV/RAW recording feature of the latest August 21 experimental build for the 100D.  Here is what I found:

1) Silent module is missing, there is no FRSP recording.  Was it removed intentionally?  A work around this would be to keep two cards - a fast one with the August 21 build for MLV/RAW video and a second one, (does not need to be very fast), with the January 06 build for FRSP recording.  I found that both cards can be swapped without problems and ML continues to work on the 100D with whatever card, (with its own build and settings on it), is inserted.   This is a very cool feature since swapping cards takes just a few seconds but camera has to be turned OFF for card swaping.  Question:  Is this dangerous? 

2) Video playback is not very stable.  Sometimes it works just fine, upon pressing the playback button, sometimes it shows a frozen view of a frame, sometimes a corrupt frozen view and sometimes it shows a black screen.  Usually, turning the camera off and on again fixes the issue for a few playbacks and then I get the same frozen views again.  Also the blue horizontal menue line at the bottom of the screen during playback is missing, so deleting and exiting a clip during playback is no longer possible.  Scrolling between subsequent clips back and forth using the scroll wheel does not work either.  It worked on previous builds at 14 bits and was a very usefull feature for quick review of the last few clips on the screen.

3) Videos shot at higher resolutions , e.g. 2520x1080 in the 5x magnification mode show "hick-ups" during playback on the computer.  At certain locations, video jumps back by a few frames and then continues again from there. 

4) MLV sound does not work at all.  When activated, upon pressing the record button the message: "Treads failed to start" appears on the screen.  Turning camera off and on again and deactivating MLV sound allows further recording. 

NOTE:  MLV sound used to work in the January 6-th build that I used before.  But, unfortunately, only with the first recording after camera is turned on.  There was also a perfect synchronization between sound and video in that first recording.  At the end of the second recording, a red line saying: "Audio failed to stop.  State 4" appears.  The third recording results in a "Treads failed to start" message and then camera freezes and needs a battery removal.   A work around this situation was to turn camera off and on again with the mechanical switch after each MLV clip recorded with MLV Sound ON.  In this way, a lot of time was lost between clips and  important moments were missed. 

If sound could be fixed with 10-bit MLV recordings this would result in 15-16 s. of RAW video recording with synchronous sound at the highest 1728x972 resolution in the normal and even the crop video mode in that  resolution.  This is all one could wish for in most shooting situations.  What a camera, hey?

AWPStar,

MLVProducer is absolutely amazing!  Thank you so much for it.  I am using it all the time for my hobby ML projects when I travel because it does a hell of a job with my 10-year old laptop (Core2Duo, 4GB of RAM) which is small and lightweight and suitable for travel.  I especially love the preset automation, batch processing and the ProResFast 444 feature which I also use for archiving my clips after applying basic adjustments to them.  I still struggle with obtaining this punchy vibrance, contrast and colors that I get from ACR in Lightroom but your statement that this issue has been fixed with your latest development makes me very eager to check it out.

Будь здоров и огромное спасибо!

OlRivrRat,

You need a fast SD card to get these record times.  Please use the Benchmark function of ML to test the write speed on your card.  Mine is a Sandisk Extreme /90 MB/s and the benchmark test shows 41,6 MB/s write speed.  My settings are:

1) Canon Mode: Movie, Manual
2) ML - Movie -> RAW Video (MLV): ON
3) Resolution: 1728x972; Aspect ratio: 16:9
4) Bit depth: 10 bpp
5) Global Draw: OFF
6) Extra Hacks: ON
7) FPS override: 23,991

The above settings are the same also for Movie crop mode set to the same 1728x972 resolution.

I am still testing MLV and RAW video recording (also 5x mode) for bugs and will report on that later.  I am very happy though that record times are fairly consistent and I now I can see what I am recording, i.e. screen no longer freezes when I start recording. Of course, I miss MLV sound which does not work at all in the latest build, but I hope, it will be fixed in the future since it used to work (kind of) with previous builds.

Happy testing!

I am new to this forum but have been following closely the development of Magic Lantern for the last couple of years. First of all, I would like to extend my most sincere gratitude to all developers who managed to turn this little beast 100D into a powerful RAW video camera.

I tested the latest experimental build from August 21-st and can confirm that 10-bit RAW provides stable recording of 15-16 seconds duration at the resolution of 1728x972 both in the normal and crop modes.  This resolution easily scales up to FHD without visible quality degradation.  Video quality in terms of detail, colors, tone transition smoothness and dynamic range is fantastic and this makes the 100D a very capable camera. 

Sorry, I forgot to mention, I am on Win7x64.

Is there a place where I can download the latest version of MLV Producer with the new features?  On page 1 I can download only version Alpha 2722.