AVISynth (ANY version) working with Vista?

[plonk420]

i guess i should check before i choose 32 or 64 bit Vista, but does anyone know if Vanilla AVISynth well/ok/(as)perfect(as it does with xp) is working with Vista x64/64-bit?

in THEORY it should work, but we all know how THAT goes...

[IanB]

Report how it goes, others may be interested.

Squid is doing the 64 bit port of Avisynth. As there is a lot of inline assembler he has his work cut out for him, but he is making good progress.

I don't see any reason normal 32 bit Avisynth should not work, but I don't have a vista platform so it won't be tested.

XPsp2 has a broken MSVCRT.DLL (that M$ refuse to acknowledge or fix) that chokes versions earlier than 2.5.6 so if Vista uses that then it will have the same problem.

[zambelli]

I can confirm that 2.5.6a works well on Vista x86. I used it many times during Vista WMV testing.

[The Scientist]

Also, no problems detected with the latest RC versions either with VISTA (x86).

[plonk420]

you guys using x64 or 32-bit?

[The Scientist]

We already said.... x86 = 32bit

[LigH]

A new user in the german doom9/Gleitz board reports an issue with Vista 64, AviSynth and WME: Trying to load an MPEG-2 video via DirectShowSource (yes, not yet optimal ...) through AviSynth into WME, it returns:

(WMCmd.vbs)
Prepare to encode failed with error -2147221164
Class not registered

There can be many reasons for this error. It doesn't need to be caused by AviSynth.

[zambelli]

A new user in the german doom9/Gleitz board reports an issue with Vista 64, AviSynth and WME: Trying to load an MPEG-2 video via DirectShowSource (yes, not yet optimal ...) through AviSynth into WME, it returns:
Is either Avisynth or WME9 64-bit?

[LigH]

No clue ... but the related tests show that the WME CLI is in general quite picky about input and templates. So it is probably a good suggestion to use Nic's WMEncoder (WMNicEnc) instead.

http://nic.dnsalias.com/wm9enc.html

If that one fails too, then the focus shall be set on Vista64 vs. 32-bit software again.

[zambelli]

Well, my point was more that if WME9 is 64-bit, then Avisynth would need to be 64-bit too, otherwise there'd be no way to use 32-bit Avisynth DLL in a 64-bit process.

In general, I highly recommend staying away from WME9 x64. It just creates unnecessary headaches.

[LigH]

- Vista:64b
- AviSynth:32b
- WME9:32b

Problem: GUI encoder allows reading AVS scripts via "File and device" input; but CLI encoder refuses to handle the project files properly, and cannot read the AVS scripts as video source then.

So it is not AviSynth's fault. :D

[zambelli]

Problem: GUI encoder allows reading AVS scripts via "File and device" input; but CLI encoder refuses to handle the project files properly, and cannot read the AVS scripts as video source then.
So it is not AviSynth's fault. :D
You know, I just realized that I had assumed you knew about the wmcmd.vbs update, but I totally forgot to ask you if you did or not. Sorry! Just go to http://www.citizeninsomniac.com/WMV and download the wmcmd.vbs update and it'll work with Avisynth sources.

[LigH]

Well... it is not my problem. :rolleyes:

But I will tell this hint in the german board. :thanks:

[plonk420]

just quickly what i've found in my brief testing:

AVISynth (most recent stable as of a few weeks ago) on x64 VDub on x64 Vista Ultimate RC2 basically crashes. don't remember the error message.

Works on 32-bit VDub.

[tomos]

latest works fine here 2 on RC2 and retail