How to Playback *.avs with AC3 Sound

[Pete The Chief]

I have the following problem:

@home i have a projector and like to watch dvds from HD on it.
For me the DVD's (f.e. LOFT) are to blurry so i decided to create an avisynth script with unfilter(50,50) and no resize, to get a crisper picture.

Now I want to know wether it is possible to play this *.avs in any mediaplayer together with the ac3 sound.

Looking forward for your advices.

MFG Pete

[Defiler]

I don't think the AviSynth ACM filter is at a state where it can handle this yet. I'd love to be able to do this as well, though.

[slk001]

Yeah, it's not possible to play back the .AC3 file through AviSynth. However, what I do, is convert the .AC3 to .WAV, then use
AUD=WAVSOURCE("D:/AUDIO/FILE.WAV")

then

AUDIODUB(VID,AUD)

The only problem, is that a .WAV file is usually 4X the size of the .AC3 file - but, you at least get your audio out, and in perfect sync.

[trbarry]

It's hokey but I once made it work in Graphedit like:

- Tom

Until the attachment shows up, it is maybe also at www.trbarry.com/PlayAVS.jpg though Comcast access to my site seems kinda spotty today.

[Pete The Chief]

I did it like you, but i can see only one picture and than it crashes
I can also hear no sound. Look at he screenshot.

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/peterlicht/graphedit.JPG

Plz copy url in new browser windwow, otherwise it will not be shown.

MFG Pete

[trbarry]

Dunno. I'd try to first debug playing the 2 halves of the graph separately and then put them together.

And notice I was playing the avi on both, not the extracted ac3 though that shouldn't make much difference. ??

- Tom

[Pete The Chief]

I tried to play seperated and the video looks ok, but isnt overlayed
The audiopart didnt work. Any Ideas what i did wrong?

[trbarry]

What happens if you drop the avi (not the ac3) into graphedit and then play it after deleting all the video filters and connections? Does it play audio?

- Tom

[Pete The Chief]

it semms that i have a filter problem, i cant hear anything while playing any ac3 file

[trbarry]

You might try just getting and (re)installing the Doom9 ac3 pack from the downloads section.

Beware that everybody in the world seems to package an iviaudio.ax and some of them don't want to connect without WinDVD registered. So make sure to purge or rename stray copies.

- Tom