AViSynth trouble shooting

[Scintilla]

One thing I can think of off the bat: Go to your AVISynth plugins directory and see if you have a file called WarpSharp.dll or LoadPluginEx[/2].dll. If you do, move them; those plugins are known to break autoloading.

Ahhhh...okay, that makes sense. Now, when you say move those plugins, where should I move them? Does any place work as long as it's not in the plugins directory?

Any place is fine as long as it's not the plugins directory and you remember where it is. The WarpSharp package especially is used in a lot of handy script functions, so you'll have to load it manually with the <b>LoadPlugin</b> line if you want to use them, and you need to know where the DLL is in order to do that.

[Jenya]

okay, I moved warpsharp. Still nothing. I tried old windows media player, new windows media player, Virtualdubmod, even VLC for the heck of it. Nothing. The program window just sits there before disappearing.

This is what the guide said:
OK so we've done the very basics, now it's time to play with some real footage and see what you can really do with this program. Let's take, for example, the MPEG1 file of Kevin Caldwell's "Believe" - if you don't have this video then it's worth your while seeing. Sadly it's in 352x240 and it's not flagged to be played back in 4:3, so when I watch it poor Akari-chan looks all fat. Well, what can be done about this? Well, I could simply run it through AVISynth!

Make a new text file just as before and then rename this blank file to blahblah.avs, then open it in notepad. I'll name mine "Believe.avs".

Now within this text file put the following lines making sure to change the location of the file to your own:


DirectShowSource("D:\believe.mpg")
BicubicResize(320,240)

Then I can open the file in Windows Media Player, and presto! The video is now playing back in 320x240 resolution and everyone's back to normal. Neat, huh? So how did I do it?

And this is my script.

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

The only thing different is the file location.

Is it my text editor? I don't use the standard text doc. program. I actually have Edit Pad Lite. I just can't think what what else it could be.

[Jenya]

Okay, I figured out something interesting. I started noticing that whenever I went to open the believe.avs, I would hear a very quiet, high pitched squealing kind of noise from the speakers. I tried another mpg amv I had with the same script just to be sure, and I heard the same thing. I also noticed that whenever I try to open believe.avs, ffdshow audio would open up a little icon on my little taskbar near the clock.

So I tried putting in KillAudio () at the bottom of the original believe.avs script, and it played! Sans sound, of course, but it's a start a least.

So, does this mean something's up with one of the audio things I downloaded with AMVapp?

[Scintilla]

In that case, open up your ffdshow audio decoder configuration, hit the Codecs screen (if it doesn't come up as the first one), scroll to the bottom of the list, and change "AVIS (AVISynth AVI files)" to "disabled". See if that solves the issue.

[Jenya]

Nope, still nothing.

[Jenya]

Well, at any rate, things seem to work as long as the audio is cut out. And I don't really need the audio most times anyhow, right? Still wish I could figure out what's wrong though.

[nevada11]

In that case, open up your ffdshow audio decoder configuration, hit the Codecs screen (if it doesn't come up as the first one), scroll to the bottom of the list, and change "AVIS (AVISynth AVI files)" to "disabled". See if that solves the issue.

that barely helped =/

[Rei Chan]

I've installed AviSynth twice now and the same error message appears whenever I try to run the tests after the installation process.

mplayer2.exe - Entry Point Not Found
The procedure entry point Run DllW could not be located in the dynamic link library msdxm.ocx.

Each time that window pops up, Vista feels it necessary to tell me that something is wrong and that it is going to do its very best to help me deal with it.

Microsoft Windows
mplayer2.exe has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
Close program

And I go through the whole test like that.

I'm pretty sure the problem is that I've installed the program wrong, somehow, but the only glitch I can think of is where I was supposed to install the PremiereAVSPlugin (in which I installed it in the AviSynth 2.5 plugins folder. Was I supposed to put it somewhere else? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Scintilla]

I'm pretty sure the problem is that I've installed the program wrong, somehow, but the only glitch I can think of is where I was supposed to install the PremiereAVSPlugin (in which I installed it in the AviSynth 2.5 plugins folder. Was I supposed to put it somewhere else?

Yes, you were. You were supposed to put it in the <i>Adobe Premiere</i> plugins directory.

[BasharOfTheAges]

I've installed AviSynth twice now and the same error message appears whenever I try to run the tests after the installation process.
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Vista

There's your problem.