Adding -vf to ffmpeg

[PMKrol]

Hi!

I'm trying to execute this command:

deface --thresh 0.5 --ffmpeg-config '{"codec": "libx264",
"macro_block_size": 1, "ffmpeg_params": ["-crf","18", "-vf", "vidstabtransform=input=RPRq.trf:smoothing=10,smartblur=lr=1.5:ls=-0.25:lt=-3.5:cr=0.75:cs=0.250:ct=0.5"]}' RPRq-2.mp4

to execute all those three commands at once (tested and works for ffmpeg v5:

deface --thresh 0.5 --ffmpeg-config '{"codec": "libx264",
"macro_block_size": 1, "ffmpeg_params": ["-crf","18"]}' RPRq-2.mp4
ffmpeg  -loglevel quiet -stats -i RPRq-2_anonymized.mp4 -vf vidstabtransform=input=RPRq.trf:smoothing=10 -crf 18 RPRq-3.mp4
ffmpeg -loglevel quiet -stats -i RPRq-3.mp4 -vf "smartblur=lr=1.5:ls=-0.25:lt=-3.5:cr=0.75:cs=0.250:ct=0.5" -crf 18 RPRq-4.mp4

But I'm getting this:

Input:  RPRq-2.mp4
Output: RPRq-2_anonymized.mp4
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  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio_ffmpeg/_io.py", line 630, in write_frames
    p.stdin.write(bb)
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/san/.local/bin/deface", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/deface/deface.py", line 360, in main
    video_detect(
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/deface/deface.py", line 162, in video_detect
    writer.append_data(frame)
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio/core/format.py", line 590, in append_data
    return self._append_data(im, total_meta)
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio/plugins/ffmpeg.py", line 604, in _append_data
    self._write_gen.send(im)
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio_ffmpeg/_io.py", line 637, in write_frames
    raise IOError(msg)
OSError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

FFMPEG COMMAND:
/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio_ffmpeg/binaries/ffmpeg-linux64-v4.2.2 -y -f rawvideo -vcodec rawvideo -s 960x1080 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 29.97 -i - -an -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -v warning -vf vidstabtransform=input=RPRq.trf:smoothing=10,smartblur=lr=1.5:ls=-0.25:lt=-3.5:cr=0.75:cs=0.250:ct=0.5 /media/Data/GoPro/test/RPRq-2_anonymized.mp4

FFMPEG STDERR OUTPUT:

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There is no problem with rights to write to file and I don't have any other idea...

And verbose output:

deface --thresh 0.5 --ffmpeg-config '{"codec": "libx264", "macro_block_size": 1, "ffmpeg_params": ["-vf", "vidstabtransform=input=RPRq.trf:smoothing=10,smartblur=lr=1.5:ls=-0.25:lt=-3.5:cr=0.75:cs=0.250:ct=0.5", "-v", "40"]}' RPRq-2.mp4
Input:  RPRq-2.mp4
Output: RPRq-2_anonymized.mp4
  0%|                                                                                                                                                 | 1/1797 [00:00<17:38,  1.70it/s]Input #0, rawvideo, from 'pipe:':
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 745749 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo, 1 reference frame (RGB[24] / 0x18424752), rgb24, 960x1080, 745749 kb/s, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 29.97 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo (native) -> h264 (libx264))
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080] vidstabtransform filter: init v1.1 (2015-05-16)
[Parsed_smartblur_1 @ 0x6de7a00] luma_radius:1.500000 luma_strength:-0.250000 luma_threshold:-4 chroma_radius:0.750000 chroma_strength:0.250000 chroma_threshold:0                     
[graph 0 input from stream 0:0 @ 0x6dea380] w:960 h:1080 pixfmt:rgb24 tb:100/2997 fr:2997/100 sar:0/1 sws_param:flags=2                                                                
[auto_scaler_0 @ 0x6dee280] w:iw h:ih flags:'bicubic' interl:0                                                                                                                         
[Parsed_smartblur_1 @ 0x6de7a00] auto-inserting filter 'auto_scaler_0' between the filter 'Parsed_vidstabtransform_0' and the filter 'Parsed_smartblur_1'                              
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080] Video transformation/stabilization settings (pass 2/2):
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     input     = RPRq.trf
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     smoothing = 10
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     optalgo   = gauss
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     maxshift  = -1
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     maxangle  = -1.000000
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     crop      = Keep
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     relative  = True
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     invert    = False
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     zoom      = 0.000000
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     optzoom   = Static (1)
[Parsed_vidstabtransform_0 @ 0x6ddd080]     interpol  = Bi-Linear (2)
[vidstabtransform @ 0x7ffd5bcfcd50] Final zoom: 9.524674
[auto_scaler_0 @ 0x6dee280] w:960 h:1080 fmt:rgb24 sar:0/1 -> w:960 h:1080 fmt:yuv420p sar:0/1 flags:0x4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio_ffmpeg/_io.py", line 630, in write_frames
    p.stdin.write(bb)
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/san/.local/bin/deface", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/deface/deface.py", line 360, in main
    video_detect(
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/deface/deface.py", line 162, in video_detect
    writer.append_data(frame)
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio/core/format.py", line 590, in append_data
    return self._append_data(im, total_meta)
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio/plugins/ffmpeg.py", line 604, in _append_data
    self._write_gen.send(im)
  File "/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio_ffmpeg/_io.py", line 637, in write_frames
    raise IOError(msg)
OSError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

FFMPEG COMMAND:
/home/san/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio_ffmpeg/binaries/ffmpeg-linux64-v4.2.2 -y -f rawvideo -vcodec rawvideo -s 960x1080 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 29.97 -i - -an -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -v warning -vf vidstabtransform=input=RPRq.trf:smoothing=10,smartblur=lr=1.5:ls=-0.25:lt=-3.5:cr=0.75:cs=0.250:ct=0.5 -v 40 /media/Data/GoPro/test/RPRq-2_anonymized.mp4

FFMPEG STDERR OUTPUT:

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[PMKrol]

Also, this works:
/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/imageio_ffmpeg/binaries/ffmpeg-linux64-v4.2.2 -i RPRq-2.mp4 -an -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -v warning -crf 18 -vf vidstabtransform=input=RPRq.trf:smoothing=10,smartblur=lr=1.5:ls=-0.25:lt=-3.5:cr=0.75:cs=0.250:ct=0.5 -v 40 /media/Data/GoPro/test/RPRq-2_anonymized-test.mp4

[mdraw]

I have tried this with my own test video and a .trf file from a vidstabdect run. My experience is the same: With the direct ffmpeg commands it works but supplying them to the ffmpeg config args in deface crashes the process. I haven't found out why that happens either. Replacing the vidstabtransform filter with the scale=-2:360 filter doesn't crash either so there seems to be either a problem specific to the vidstabtransform filter, with 2 pass filters or with the option parsing.

I don't know if that's a real alternative for your use case but on my machine the single-pass deshake filter works fine with deface. In your example that would be:

deface --thresh 0.5 --ffmpeg-config '{"codec": "libx264", "macro_block_size": 1, "ffmpeg_params": ["-crf","18", "-vf", "deshake"]}' RPRq-2.mp4