Avisynth Troubles. Please help me.

[Adub]

Hi all, I am not a complete noob to avisynth, so bare with me.

Just within the past day I have been experiencing problems opening avisynth scripts. MPC hangs, Mplayer gives me an error about a runtime requesting it to terminate it in an unusual way, and Megui says "external component has thrown an exception."

I tried avisynth on the same movie, but in different formats. Dgindex and mp4. I am positive that the DGIndex was working before because that is how I created the Mp4.

Oddly, I think .net framework 1.1 has disappeared off of my computer, could this have something to do with this.

I am downloading virtual dub right now to see what it says when i load the script(s) into it.

Any help would be appreciated.


EDIT: Okay, downloaded virtual dub, and it says that there was an
"avisynth open failure, avisynth:script open failed!"

[check]

I assume you did the obvious and tried the first two of the three R's? (reboot, reinstall)
If so, make sure you have a vfw YV12 decompressor installed.

[Adub]

yeah i tried the first 2.

would ffdshow work for the yv12 decompressor?
or do you recommend something else?

maybe I will download the vfw version of xvid right now.
hold on a tick.

[Adub]

Okay, well I downloaded both Xvid.cvs.head.exe from celtic_druid and helix yv12 codecs, but I am still getting the same error.
Let me try rebooting real quick, and see if that fixes anything.

[Adub]

nope didn't work.
anyone else got some ideas?

[ARDA]

:script:

create a script with just version()
and tell us what it says

[Adub]

it doesn't say anything, remember? everything crashes before it loads.

something interesting though, when i run mplayer and, as it turns out, ffdshow's make AVIS program, I get a runtime error.

but the funny thing is that it is about a microsoft visual c++ runtime library. I just ran microsoft updates last night, downloaded a few things, security updates etc. could one have these updates deleted a Runtime Library?

[Adub]

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d125/Merlin7777/mplayererror.jpg

[Adub]

Does anyone have some ideas? should i download a specific library to make it work again?

[foxyshadis]

Yes, search for all instances of avisynth.dll on your system, including hidden and system ones. Delete them, reinstall avisynth, and you should be in good shape.

[Adub]

really? okay, I will try.

[Adub]

didn't work. Any other ideas?

would installing .net framework 1.1 fix this?

or installing microsoft visual c++ redistributable?

[foxyshadis]

Oh! The other possibility is that it's one of your autoload filters or scripts. There are some that'll crash avisynth if you load them normally; they have to be loaded specially. I think Dust is one.

.net wouldn't have anything to do with it. The various C runtime libs might, you can look up vc6, 7, 7.1, and 8 runtimes, but I doubt it would be those out of nowhere.

[Adub]

Foxyshadis, you rule man! It worked! It bloody worked! ahahahhaha!
Thank you so much man!
Now I just have to narrow it down to the script, but that won't be that hard.

You rule!

[Fizick]

Merlin7777,
WHAT is worked?

[Adub]

Okay, well I removed all of my avsi files from the plugins folder. I than played a script through mplayer that just contained version().
The script played. I then went about adding avsi files one at a time. I narrowed the problem down to MultiSWAR.

Then I narrowed down the section of MultiSWAR that was causing the problem. The problem was

"LoadPlugin("RemoveGrain.dll")

The thing is that I have RemoveGrainSSE3.dll. So I just changed MultiSWAR to include this instead of RemoveGrain.dll, and everything worked flawlessly.

[Fizick]

Merlin7777,
thanks. I try update "troubleshooting" page of the docs, and I like to see happy end :)