DirectShowSource not working

[Crown_of_Clovers]

I'm following the A&E's Technical Guide and I'm on the topic about (betcha can't guess it) Avisynth and AvsP. Well while I was following the guide along like a good little school girl the colorbars thing worked fine but the next step, trying to use actual video is NOT going fine at all. At first I thought I had the video they recommended so that I could follow along easier but I didn't so I downloaded it, tried to open it, and all I got was a stupid this function doesn't exist where the preview should be. I've tried every way under the sun that I can think of to fix it I've tried saving a second copy in a different format I've tried retyping the function differently, adding the filename parameter, saving it and using the tool avs2avi thing like with the ColorBars but it wouldn't let me, completely reinstalling the whole AvsP program and starting again. And I've finally run out of ideas and I need help.

There is one thing i don't understand that maybe I did wrong that the guide didn't mention it so I tried my best. The first time I open AvsP after installing it (this was both times) a little window pops up asking for the Avisynth Directory the first I had no idea what it was and since it wasn't mentioned I think I ignored it but the second time I tried to look it up online and somehow got the idea to try selecting the Avisynth Plugins folder. But if someone coudl explain what that thing is too that would be nice.

OH and it's not just this video I can't get any video to open I just keep getting different error messages.

This is what I typed

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DirectShowSource("C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Documents\My Fun Stuff\My Anime\AMVs\Kevin Caldwell - Battle Athletes - Believe.mpg")

And this is what I got

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Script error: there is no function named"DirectShowSource"(New File (1), line 1)

and like I said I tried saving it as a script but it wouldn't let me.

[mirkosp]

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Woah. I think something went wrong with your avisynth installation. Directshowsource is an internal function, and so is colorbars. If they don't work you just need to try and install it again.
Get 2.5.8 from here (not sure if that's the version with the avtech3) and see how it goes.

[Scintilla]

By "AVISynth directory", it probably meant the directory you installed AVISynth to, the one that contains the plugins directory and the documentation directory and so on. Usually, this is C:\Program Files\AVISynth 2.5\ or something like that.

[Crown_of_Clovers]

If i completely uninstall and reinstall anything avisynth will all the other programs taht rely on it still be okay or will I have to do anything with them?

[Crown_of_Clovers]

and why would the ColorBars work but not the DirectShowSource?

[mirkosp]

Just uninstalling and reinstalling it should be fine. As for colorbars working and dss not... I'm honestly not sure. But reinstalling should fix it fine, so I guess don't mind. *shrugs*

[Mister Hatt]

The better question is "why are you using an mpg container with DSS?" Remux that shiz to a proper format and hit up FFMS2.

Install 2.6a and then update to JEEB's 2.6 build at http://x264.fushizen.eu/files/avs/

[Crown_of_Clovers]

because that's what it came to me as when I downloaded it and since the guide said that DSS would work with any file that would play on my WindowsMediaPlayer (which it does and every other player) I thought that it should work, and when that didn't work I did try changing it to other formats but it still would not work.

As for the rest of what you said i'm sorry but you lost me at 'hit up'.

[Crown_of_Clovers]

But it doesn't matter because the problem is fixed now. Thank you everyone for you insight it was very helpful ^^