Makes no sense! Looking for experienced help!

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:49 pm

er, well, I know what directshow is, but i have no clue as how to execute a script with it.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:05 am

assuming that you have avisynth 2.5.x:
open up notepad
put the following into your script

DirectShowSource("path to your video file")

the double quotes are necessary
save as filename.avs (the .avs is needed)
with a little luck I won't need to explain directshowsource more

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:31 am

Kariudo wrote:assuming that you have avisynth 2.5.x:
open up notepad
put the following into your script
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DirectShowSource("path to your video file")
the double quotes are necessary
save as filename.avs (the .avs is needed)
with a little luck I won't need to explain directshowsource more

Well, tried that. Opened it up, played fine audio wise but still now video showing. So odd. Anyone ever experience anything like this?

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:01 am

Sure. Do you have AviSynth? If not, download here. Install it.

Then, open notepad and type in this:

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DirectShowSource("filename.avi")

where "filename.avi" is the filename of your video (but keep the quote marks). Save the file to the same folder as your video file and change the extension from .txt to .avs

Now, open the avs file with Windows Media Player instead of the video and see if it works.

By the way, the correct name would be an AviSynth script, I said DirectShow because that's the command you'd be using

A nice guide on how to use AviSynth can be found on the official website, (which is temporarily offline) the documentations installed with AviSynth or here. There's a lot that can be done with it.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:03 am

Sorry. Ran a little late with my response there. Just ignore my last post.

You said you had backed up the file on another computer. Does it play on that computer using any of the methods we've described?

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:19 pm

Gepetto wrote:Sorry. Ran a little late with my response there. Just ignore my last post.

You said you had backed up the file on another computer. Does it play on that computer using any of the methods we've described?

nope - thats the really weird part lol

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:06 am

I even tried exporting it as a sequence of images and all the images were black. I dont understand.. grr.

Beefy_Suavo · Post by **Beefy_Suavo** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:47 pm

Just to double check: when you have the video open in VirtualDub/Mod, click on the File menu and select "File Information".

Let us know what it says.

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:17 pm

There u go.

Beefy_Suavo · Post by **Beefy_Suavo** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:06 pm

The file information looks ok.

Any chance you can upload a small piece of the video? About 15 frames will be fine.

You can use Upload.Sc or YouSendIt.
Post the link here when it's done and we can play with the video to see if we can get something to read it.