AVS file

[meta]

Can someone please tell me what an *.avs file is and how do u go about creating one?

[jggimi]

AVS files are AviSynth scripts. They are "synthetic" avi files, scripted with a series of filters that can crop or otherwise transform the source ... which might be MPEG-1 or MPEG-2, etc.

If AviSynth is installed, any program that can read .avi files will treat an .avs file as if it were an .avi --- but you can also edit it with a text editor to change the filters.

AviSynth is used by a number of encoding applications, such as Gordian Knot.

[buddy-jesus]

Hi,
AVS files are Avisynth scripts. You can edit them for example with the Windows Editor.

@ http://math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/avisynth.html you will find everything you need to know (for the beginng :)

thats what the author tell us about Avisynth:
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Avisynth is a scripting language and a collection of filters for simple non-linear editing tasks. Avisynth is unusual in that it does not generate output files. Instead, Avisynth scripts, which have the extension .AVS, can be opened directly in applications which read AVI files. When an AVS file is opened, Avisynth runs in the background, generating video and audio data according to the script and feeding it to the application as needed.

Avisynth has a variety of uses. With a single-line script, you can add support for segmented capture files, AVI files of more than 2 gigabytes, QuickTime MOV files, or MPEG files to applications which don't support them natively.
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Hope that answer your question, for further info go to the avisynth forum.

btw if you are at the Avisynth Hompage (http://math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/avisynth.html) dont forget to scroll down to buttom and look out for the reference guide.

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a sample asv:

LoadPlugin("C:\Programme\DVD utils\avisynth-1.0-beta3\MPEG2DEC.dll")
mpeg2source("d:\DVD ripp\Ep1.d2v")
Loadplugin("C:\Programme\DVD utils\avisynth-1.0-beta3\GreedyHMA.dll")
return GreedyHMA(1,0,1,0,1,0,0,0)
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download avisynth (http://web.syr.edu/~tjmyers/downloads/video/avisynth-10b5.zip)
download decomb plugin (http://web.syr.edu/~tjmyers/downloads/video/decomb37.zip)

good info site (http://www.videotools.net/uk/index.php)
another one (http://sauron.mordor.net/dgraft/)

have fun buddy_jesus :D