Problems With the AMVapp Tutorial

blobdole · Post by **blobdole** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:28 pm

So I have recently installed AMVapp and started through A&E's Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video mk 2. Sadly, I run into a show stopping issue right near the start.

I install everything per the guide and all of the tests work fine. I work through the AVIsynth steps and end up with some nice colorbars. Then I get to the mpg video.

DirectShowSource("C:\Videos\Believe.mpg")
BicubicResize(320,240)

This will load for several seconds then open a black screen of the correct size and length that does not play; it just sits at 0. It says "Playing" but it is not. Not only that, closing the media player leaves a mplayer2.exe sitting in my processes section of Windows Task Manager. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Windows XP SP2
AMD Athlon 64
AMVapp version 2.1
WMP 10.00.00.3646

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:02 pm

do you actually have the file Believe.mpg by Kevin Caldwell? if not, that's going to happen.

Mad_Cyric · Post by **Mad_Cyric** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:36 pm

If you don't happen to have a video file titled "Believe.mpg" in the directory "Videos" in your C drive, then you will not get anything because it's trying to open a file that isn't there.

blobdole · Post by **blobdole** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:41 pm

I have it and the path is correct =)

The file opens fine if I double click on it. (WMP 10)

blobdole · Post by **blobdole** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:59 pm

=( So I don't suppose someone has come up with a solution to my little problem? I hope it isn't my install of XP, hate to need to re-format.

askol · Post by **askol** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:13 am

Is this in Media Player? AviSynth stopped working for me in Media Player after I un-installed AviSynth and installed AMVApp. Try opening the .avs file in VirtualDub.

blobdole · Post by **blobdole** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:54 am

Ok! Progress! It opens in virtual dub! (after the second try, weird)

Now I am going to go over the virtual dub tutorials to make sure it is all working correctly. I will post an update as soon as I know anything =)

(Maybe it doesn't like my WMP install?)