AviSynth 2.05 Released

[sh0dan]

There has been so many important bugfixes, that I thought it was about time to release 2.05. So here it is!

Download it from the sourceforge homepage..


Changes:
- Additions to the Compare filter (Statistics over several frames)
- Reorder function loading to hopefully give plugins precedence over filters
- Added LowPassAudio(frequency) and HighPassAudio(frequency)
- Many updates and additions to documentation.
- New function: String(value) - converts any AVSValue to string.
- Bumped number of plugins to 50 from 30
- Avisynth now allocates minimum 16MB cache, or otherwise 1/4th of free physical memory.
- Plugin autoloading (Create string regkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Avisynth\PluginDir) (still in alpha)

BugFixes:
- Crash-on-exit bugfix in SegmentedAviSource.
- Audio-related bugfix in AVISource.
- Bugfix in FilteredResizeH (see bug [ 588402 ]) minor optimizations too.
- Bugfix: TemporalSoften
- Bugfix: dropped frame (introduced in 2.04).
- Fixed bug in Pow(x,y)

Notes:
2.05 Known bugs:
- Segmented captures may lead to crashes, if the last segment isn't a valid AVI file (that is, doesn't contain any frames). Try version 2.02 instead.


Everyone enjoy!

[Dreassica]

THNX, gona try it immediately!!

[Blight]

Good work,

P.S.
Time warner link seems down.

[sh0dan]

Time Warner link?

[Latexxx]

One of the sourceforges download mirrors is provided by time warner.

[Boulder]

Version 2.05 seems to fix my problems (see the thread I started earlier on crashes with 2.04).

[LigH]

Indeed, the LumaWrap bug seems fixed - I hope not only hot-fixed, but really debugged. And I really enjoy that Tweak is even included now; cooperation with Donald Graft, I guess?

[Guest]

Tweak is a basic function that is unlikely to change. Therefore, tying it to releases of Avisynth is not a serious issue.

[LigH]

Oh, hi, Donald... Just while you are here: How about a stable redirector or even a really own domain? The few days you were lost during your subdomain change were so hard for me...

[Guest]

Hard for me, too!

Here's what happened. My site is hosted by a friend from the rec.video.desktop Usenet newsgroup. One day the power supply died on the machine. My site was the only thing on it at the time. So he just shifted it to a new server and tried some DNS magic to redirect the URL. But the redirect wouldn't take and he kept trying to make it work. I was reluctant to republish an URL because it's in all my source and HTML files and all over the world. The redirect just recently seems to be working, so I am not going to republish it as shelob. But I will watch to make sure things are OK. Perhaps the DNS info has just now propagated to all the servers.

[Guest]

I couldn't use 2.04 because it crashed often. Another thread implies that the new 2.05 also still crashes. Is it true? If so, please advise when a usable 2.xx version will be released. Perhaps a formal beta process should be adopted.

[sh0dan]

@neuron2: There is one known issue involving using Win98 and Matrox MJPEG codec - so I would regard this version as very stable (the most stable yet, including 1.x versions). Compressed audio introduced some annoying bugs, so seen en rear-perspective it should perhaps not have been included in 2.04 - on the other hand, I think we got most, if not all of the bugs squashed now.
When 2.0x is stable we'll begin working on 2.1x where we'll use beta-versions until it's stable enough. We just don't want the beta1,2,3,4,5,5b,6,7 to go on forever.

@Latex & Blight: Oh - that link! The mirrors may not be synchronized yet, or they're having problems - we have no control over mirrors - SourgeForge does that automatically.

@LigH: Yes, tweak is by Donald, and optimized by dividee - and it's a great tool. Maybe Color_YUY2 would be even better, as a supplement. But we'll have to talk to the author first.

[Suzahara]

Originally posted by sh0dan
- Avisynth now allocates minimum 16MB cache, or otherwise 1/4th of free physical memory.

Does this mean that we no longer have to put SetMemoryMax(40)?

[iago]

Originally posted by Suzahara
Does this mean that we no longer have to put SetMemoryMax(40)?

So far I've had no problems with avisynth 2.05 without using that parameter.

regards,
iago

[Suzahara]

So it runs at the same speed (or hopefully faster ) as 2.04 did with that parameter?

[sh0dan]

It should be same speed as 2.04 with SetmemoryMax(16) or more than 16, if you have more free memory.
It will only be in very rare cases, where the 16MB isn't enough.

So the answer is YES!

[Guest]

>There is one known issue involving using Win98 and Matrox MJPEG
>codec - so I would regard this version as very stable

What about all that business with the _declspec problems? Does that affect only specific filters? If so, which ones? Thank you.

[hakko504]

Originally posted by neuron2
What about all that business with the _declspec problems? Does that affect only specific filters? If so, which ones? Thank you.

As far as we can tell, it only affects resize in certain circumstances, See this thread. And it is fixed now in the CVS, but not released yet. Might be a good time for 2.0.6 ...




Edit: It wasn't perfect after all..

[sh0dan]

Seemingly it affected the resize functions (Bicubic/Bilinear) on Win98 machines using this sepecific codec. The other filters that contain _declspec doesn't seem to have the same problems.

[sh0dan]

@hakko: I would like to test the changes I did to AviSource a bit better - they seem ok, but I'd like to have them tested a bit further.