Video Footage Scripts won't play in any media players

TenseiHenry · Post by **TenseiHenry** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:24 pm

Ok so I'm following the tutorial for AviSynth and got stuck down at Using Footage as a Source. I'm pretty sure I did everthing right or at least followed everything written. The script I'm having trouble with:
DirectShowSource("C:\Documents and Settings\TenseiHenry\My Documents\believe.mpg")
BicubicResize(320,240)
or
DirectShowSource("D:\believe.mpg")
BicubicResize(320,240)
on the tutorial. I did actually download the video and saved the file as that exact name and in that location if your'e wondering. Iv'e tried opening the script with Windows Media Player 11 (for XP), versions 6.4, and VLC media player. It ended up closing in Windows Media players and just wouldn't play in VLC media player. No error messages came up though. It managed to open up in VirtualDubMod, but when I try playing it the program becomes unresponsive and crashes. Iv'e tried AVISources for other videos of mine saved in that format and had the same result.

Only other post I could find similiar to this one. Was never really solved.
So if anyone has any answers or possible reasons as to why they aren't playing I'm all ears. So if you know ANYTHING that might help I'd be thankful if you said it.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:45 pm

how much ram do you have?

I can't really think of what else would cause that problem
as a side note, VLC doesn't seem to be able to take avs scripts

TenseiHenry · Post by **TenseiHenry** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:14 am

1.00 GB of RAM

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:45 am

try just having colorbars(720,480) in your script and see if that works

not sure if it'l help at all, but you might want to get the latest version and try uninstalling/reinstalling avisynth

1GB of ram should be enough...when you press ctrl+alt+del, what does it say for the commit charge?

TenseiHenry · Post by **TenseiHenry** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:06 am

the colorbars(720,480) will only work for me in Windows Media Player 6.4.
Ok just reinstalled Avisynth and I got the video to play but it took several minutes to actually start and their isn't any sound.
for my Commit Charge (K)

Total: 428240
Limit: 2521092
Peak: 702676

Not sure if those are the numbers that you wanted, but they were under commit charge eventhough they are changing (not drastically) as I type.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:47 am

You aren't using all of your ram, which is a good thing, so that shouldn't be slowing you down.

what processor do you have?
if you don't know, you can either right-click the "my computer" icon and click properties, or get cpu-z

also, in the performance tab of windows task manager, what does it say for cpu usage when you try running an avisynth script?

TenseiHenry · Post by **TenseiHenry** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:03 pm

Dual Core Processor 3800+
2.01GHz
the cpu usage while trying to run the script was 1-2% but went up to about 12% twice and 4-8% when the video is playing.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:54 pm

I'm pretty much out of ideas.

have you tried trying to load an avi file using avisource()?

TenseiHenry · Post by **TenseiHenry** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:16 pm

wow it worked.

Their's sound and it didn't take long to load at all.