Nexrender: Error on windows with 1.13.0

[sl1126497036]

When I use the new version of nexrender-cli-win64.exe (1.13.0) on Windows, I get a ffmpeg error. But it works in 1.9.1, any help.

> starting nexrender-cli
using automatically determined directory of After Effects installation:
 - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2020\Support Files\aerender.exe
checking After Effects command line renderer patch...
command line patch already is in place
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] setting up job...
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] working directory is: C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\1\nexrender\VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] downloading assets...
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] applying prerender actions...
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] running script assemble...
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] rendering job...
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] rendering took ~33.997 sec.
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] writing aerender job log to: C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\1\nexrender\aerender-VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR.log
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] applying postrender actions...
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] starting action-encode action (ffmpeg)
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] action-encode: input file C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\1\nexrender\VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR\result.avi
[VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR] action-encode: output file C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\1\nexrender\VAw4dAIxHY0z9XwKLKkfR\0.mp4
> job rendering failed
Error: Error loading postrender module @nexrender/action-encode: Error: Error in action-encode module (ffmpeg) TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be one of type string, Buffer, or URL. Received type undefined
    at C:\snapshot\nexrender\packages\nexrender-cli\node_modules\@nexrender\core\src\tasks\actions.js
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)

[pdkn]

have you got settings.skipCleanup = true ?

[inlife]

@sl1126497036 please try using newer version, that should be fixed in 1.13.1 and later

[djpmedia]

@sl1126497036 please try using newer version, that should be fixed in 1.13.1 and later

With the latest update everything is working correctly and will I render correctly the video in MP4. Thanks for fixing.

[devsun]

@inlife I seem to be getting the same error with nexrender-worker-win64.exe (not the cli version).
I have used these versions of nexrender-worker-win64: 1.13.0 and the most recent one 1.14.2
How can I fix this? Thanks for the great work on this software!

Error: Error loading postrender module @nexrender/action-encode: Error: Error in action-encode module (ffmpeg) TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be one of type string, Buffer, or URL. Received type undefined at C:\snapshot\nexrender\packages\nexrender-cli\node_modules@nexrender\core\src\tasks\actions.js at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)

[inlife]

Just to be sure, could you show your job json description?

[devsun]

Sure, here is the simplest job json I've tried. I've used more complicated job jsons as well and they haven't worked in nexrender-windows-worker.
Also, I have tested a number of job jsons on the nexrender-macos-cli and it works wonderfully. So I think it might be related to the nexrender-windows-worker.

{
  "template": {
    "src": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/.../test.aep",
    "composition": "Final Comp"
  },
  "assets": [
    {
      "src": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/07/30/fa/0730fa3fc6a8d13836014e0763ba42ed.jpg",
      "type": "image",
      "layerName": "Image 01"
    }
  ],
  "actions":{
    "postrender": [
      {
        "module": "@nexrender/action-encode",
        "preset": "mp4",
        "output": "C:\\nexrender\\encoded.mp4"
      }
    ]
  }
}

[nin-o]

It's happening to me as well. I'm using Windows 10. Side note: Everytime I download a 1.13.x release the -v flag always returns 1.13.0.

JSON:

{
      "template": {
          "src": "file:///C:/Users/MyUser/Downloads/project.aep",
          "composition": "Main"
      },
      "assets": [
          {
              "src": "file:///C:/Users/MyUser/Downloads/Assets/background.png",
              "type": "image",
              "layerName": "background.png"
          },
          {
            "src": "file:///C:/Users/MyUser/Downloads/Assets/Audio.mp3",
            "type": "audio",
            "layerName": "audio.mp3"
          }
      ],
      "actions":{
          "postrender": [
              {
                  "module": "@nexrender/action-encode",
                  "preset": "mp4",
                  "output": "encoded.mp4",
                  "params": {"-vcodec": "libx264", "-r": 25}
              },
              {
                  "module": "@nexrender/action-copy",
                  "input":  "encoded.mp4",
                  "output": "C:/Users/MyUser/Downloads/result.mp4"
              }
          ]
      }
}

Version 1.14.4:

> job rendering failed
Error: Error loading postrender module @nexrender/action-encode: Error: Error in action-encode module (ffmpeg) TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be one of type string, Buffer, or URL. Received type undefined
    at C:\snapshot\nexrender\packages\nexrender-cli\node_modules\@nexrender\core\src\tasks\actions.js
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)

Version 1.13.3

> job rendering failed
Error: Error loading postrender module @nexrender/action-encode: Error: Error in action-encode module (ffmpeg) TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be one of type string, Buffer, or URL. Received type undefined
    at C:\snapshot\nexrender\packages\nexrender-cli\node_modules\@nexrender\core\src\tasks\actions.js
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)

Version 1.13.1

> job rendering failed
Error: Error loading postrender module @nexrender/action-encode: Error: Error in action-encode module (ffmpeg) TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be one of type string, Buffer, or URL. Received type undefined
    at C:\snapshot\nexrender\packages\nexrender-cli\node_modules\@nexrender\core\src\tasks\actions.js
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)

Version 1.9.1

(node:20844) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: spawn EBUSY
    at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:394:11)
    at Object.spawn (child_process.js:540:9)
    at childProcess.spawn (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1413:27)
    at C:\snapshot\nexrender\packages\nexrender-cli\node_modules\@nexrender\core\node_modules\@nexrender\action-encode\index.js
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
(node:20844) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:20844) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

[inlife]

Published a fix in v1.14.5 that should resolve the issue, please let me know the results

[nin-o]

@inlife
I tried v1.14.5:

> job rendering failed
Error: Error loading postrender module @nexrender/action-encode: Error: Error in action-encode module (ffmpeg) Error: Could not find ffmpeg binary, expected path: undefined
    at C:\snapshot\nexrender\packages\nexrender-cli\node_modules\@nexrender\core\src\tasks\actions.js
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)

Note: process.platform returns win32 for me.

I noticed when I ran v1.9.1 ffmpeg.exe appeared in: C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Temp\nexrender\t_<Some ID>

[inlife]

Hey @nin-o

I added a debug filesystem print, that should show us the layout of how it looks inside of the binary on your system, would it be possible to try it out?

here is the link to the debug binary:
https://mega.nz/file/9clXRSiZ#kKP7ZkddbolzskgseIgRzS6mTelFuUc73uavK3klvPg

[nin-o]

Working as of 1.16.3. Thank you!