Going through the guide, can someone help?

CassielsSprite · Post by **CassielsSprite** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:18 pm

Ok, to be honest, this is my first time getting footage from a DVD. I am reading the guide at the moment, and I am so lost when I get to the "Make an avisynth script importing each dvd2avi project file" part. I have the AMVapp, but I can't find the actual avisynth program, only the plugins. I put all the programs and everything on the same drive so I don't believe that is the problem. If anyone could possible help me, please reply. And thank you for reading my idiotic question.

risk one · Post by **risk one** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:23 pm

Avisynth is a little different from most programs. You don't run it directly.

You load your avisynth script into a media player or some other program that some other progra that plays video like virtualdub. This program will consider the script a movie and start requesting frames. With a regular movie the media player would ask the codec for frames, with avs scripts, the media player asks avisynth for the frames. Avisynth runs through the script and returns the frames. To load your script, just open in virtualDubMod as if it were a movie.

CassielsSprite · Post by **CassielsSprite** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:28 pm

risk one wrote:Avisynth is a little different from most programs. You don't run it directly.

You load your avisynth script into a media player or some other program that some other progra that plays video like virtualdub. This program will consider the script a movie and start requesting frames. With a regular movie the media player would ask the codec for frames, with avs scripts, the media player asks avisynth for the frames. Avisynth runs through the script and returns the frames. To load your script, just open in virtualDubMod as if it were a movie.

Ok, I started VirtualDubMod and clicked Open video file via AviSynth and I got this error message:

Avisynth open failure:
AVIFileSource: couldn't open file.

Did I do it wrong?

risk one · Post by **risk one** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:49 pm

CassielsSprite wrote: Ok, I started VirtualDubMod and clicked Open video file via AviSynth and I got this error message:

Avisynth open failure:
AVIFileSource: couldn't open file.

Did I do it wrong?

AVS scripts will do that. There is usually some typo somewhere. What's your script?

CassielsSprite · Post by **CassielsSprite** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:14 pm

risk one wrote:AVS scripts will do that. There is usually some typo somewhere. What's your script?

Actually, I somehow managed to get it to work. Thanks for all your help.

milkmandan · Post by **milkmandan** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:19 am

just to be sure you are doing the right thing

avisynth is not an ACTUAL program you boot up, and see a pretty interface.

it is a background thing.

create a text file called untitled.txt

open with notepad, inside notepad write.

avisource("FULLPATHOFVIDEO")
eg.
avisource("C:\Video\Video.avi")

save it.
change the untitled.txt <-- file extension to .avs
save changes. and load the avs file

yar.. you probably make a typo or forgot something

this is just to make sure