Writing a filter to generate decomb overide file

[DoW]

Im trying to write a filter that will allow for the automatic generation of a decomb override file utilizing the results from the included Iscombed() function in decomb. My general idea (as of right now) is to use a loop to iterate Iscombed on every frame (which I have no idea how to do, the documentation on loops in avisynth is a little lacking) and capture the output using debugview, and then process this log with a python script (which I also know nothing about (in another life I programmed C++ for 2 years in HS)). I was wondering about the difficulty of this, and any suggestions that you might have for a better way of doing things

[sh0dan]

You have to use FrameEvaluate to make it run on every frame.

[mf]

AVISynth can't do loops, so you're looking at multipass if you want to do anything iterative.

[Si]

I might be talking rubbish here but assuming we're talking neuron2s filter ...

The manual overide function is there to "manually" overide the automatic decision making process.

I wouldn't have thought that IsCombed() would be any better (or worse even) than the normal automatic process.

So why do it? (apart from the fun involved :) )

Or am i missing something?

regards
Simon

[yaz]

@dow
simwalter's right. u wont gain anything but fun. once i tried the 'poor man's solution', i.e. feeding back the manually edited debug output, but the process got much slower (dropped below 1 fps on a 2.2G+ proc). imho, the best way would be to ask neuron to provide a plain/full manual mode (so, no override) option. however, i can't see any other way than a kinda 2pass mode for that.

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