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Postby 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.
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Postby 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
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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
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Postby 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
Code: Select all
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?
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Postby 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.
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Postby 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?
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Postby 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
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Postby 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.
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Postby 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.
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Postby Silenkiller » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:17 pm

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There u go.
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Postby 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.
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Postby Gepetto » Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:55 am

RGB24? Is there a chance that for some weird reason all the software is assuming "0" alpha values for the whole thing?
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Postby Silenkiller » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:56 am

Beefy_Suavo wrote: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.



http://s1.upload.sc/request/2cd4b50e97f ... 73c3/owner

there ya go :) 12 frames
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Postby Beefy_Suavo » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:10 pm

I examined the video and it does not look like uncompressed RGB24.
It appears to be some type of Sony DV.
VirtualDubMod doesn't know what to do with it.
Plain VirtualDub tries to decode it with its DV decoder, but that doesn't work either.

12 frames of 720x480 uncompressed RGB24 video, without audio, should be at least 12MB, and the video you provided is only about 2MB.

You said you used Premiere to export it, but now Premiere can't read the video. I don't have Premiere, but I'll try some other programs tonight to see if any can read the video.

Here is what VirtualDubMod gave me:
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Postby Silenkiller » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:37 pm

Ah, I feel stupid. Hold on, I'm re uploading this new segment, I did that last night when I was very tired and unknowingly compressed it into some weird format coming out of premier. I'm uploading a section that is the same as the original now.
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Postby Silenkiller » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:43 pm

http://s1.upload.sc/request/6757b4a4fee ... 61c8/owner


there we go

thanks for all the help again.
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