Hello all, though you don't remember me I've missed you.
I've been away from AMVs and video editing in general for two years, give or take, and have decided to take my recent purchase of a new computer as an excuse to come back.
Thus, I ask of the experts that still lurk around these forums for a little compendium of what I might like to install on my brand-new XP installation in the sense of encoders/decoders, muxers/demuxers, AviSynth, VirtualDub/Mod/whatever's-hot-now and other such free and helpful utilities that I can get online without breaking any laws. Encoders for Linux/BSD, if you know any, would also be good, and links if you have them.
Around the time I left, there was talk of a total repackaging of the AMVapp, as well as the impending release of AviSynth 3, which would allegedly support UNIX-based systems like OS X as well as Windows. How did that turn out, if it did turn out at all?
Thanks in advance for all replies, and for those of you who feel the urge to suggest that I ***ing Google it, lurk moar, etc, I ask for a little patience. The "crapware/useful stuff" ratio is over 9000 and it would take me countless hours to find out if there are any codec packs that don't suck and if my old ffdshow + matroska pack combo is still enough to decode everything, not to mention all the other little apps I might be missing out on.
Cheers,
Paulo.


