AVS2AVI -- new version

[Sirber]

Any plans for a new version?

[DarkDudae]

Originally posted by sjakke
I'm trying to move on from AutoGk. I want to use avs2avi, because I read somewhere that it is quite fast. But there's one problem.................. I'm a noob. Is there no guide for avs2avi?
Or if someone wants to push me in the right direction, by giving me pointers and tips, I would be very thankfull.

Avs2avi is only an encoder, so you need to create previously an avisynth script (.avs) with a specific tool or manually. About how to use avs2avi, it is a commandline tool. Just write avs2avi in the commandline console and you will see a list of available commands. You also can use the dll version of the tool (which comes with GUI) available in this same thread, or our Rip-pack: ARCalculator (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89424&perpage=20&pagenumber=1) (which also uses avs2avi for encoding and can be used as a simple GUI for avs2avi).

Greetings

[sjakke]

thanks for the help:)
I've downloaded it.....looks great, but does it have standalone compatability options: ess support and bitrate spikes control. like AutoGk does?

Is there any english help file? or any english guides?

[DaveEL]

Originally posted by sjakke
thanks for the help:)
I've downloaded it.....looks great, but does it have standalone compatability options: ess support and bitrate spikes control. like AutoGk does?

Is there any english help file? or any english guides?

Your looking in the wrong place. Those types of things are codec options nothing to do with avs2avi itself.

DaveEL

[sjakke]

that question was regarding Arcalculator.
but nonetheless how do I enable those settings in Xvid or Divx?

[DarkDudae]

Originally posted by sjakke
that question was regarding Arcalculator.
but nonetheless how do I enable those settings in Xvid or Divx?

In that case, ask in the ARCalculator thread (link in my before post), or in XviD/DivX forums.

[Moitah]

Any plans for a new version?
It would be nice to take v1.39x and clean it up a bit and call it v1.40, but I don't have the motivation right now. I'm not aware of any bugs in the recent versions, so I don't see a big need for a new version yet.

[iNFO-DVD]

Your program's great by the way.

Just something that puzzles me, have you left some 'Standard.Error' code in or something because when I run avs2avi.exe from an external program via the Visual Studio IDE it gives me some feedback from your program via my debug output window.

He's what it says via a first pass of a 4 minute clip:

The thread '<No Name>' (0x12e0) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0x1548) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0x11dc) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0x1610) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0x113c) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0x88c) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0xac8) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0x128) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0x11b4) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0x13d8) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread '<No Name>' (0x148c) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

Everything all works OK was just curious to know whether it should be saying that.

[tsp]

It's normal. That message comes every time a thread is closed (when it calls ExitThread)

[Sirber]

exit code 0 means no error while encoding / running

It would be nice to take v1.39x and clean it up a bit and call it v1.40, but I don't have the motivation right now. I'm not aware of any bugs in the recent versions, so I don't see a big need for a new version yet.
Encoding status is not updating regulary and is most of the time incomplete. You can see this behavior using realanime. Producer works #1 as well as x264.exe (tested in dev version of realanime).

[buzzqw]

would be possible (by implementing) to choose as output mp4/mkv file ?

(something like x264.exe that can output both mp4/mkv)

Thanks

BHH

[Moitah]

would be possible (by implementing) to choose as output mp4/mkv file ?

(something like x264.exe that can output both mp4/mkv)

Thanks

BHH
I don't see much benefit since you have to remux to add audio. Anyway I think I am done working on AVS2AVI, but the code is there if anyone wants to add this.

[buzzqw]

i d'like to encode (in vfw mode) with avs2avi then put resulting avi in a MKV container...

the process isn't so simple

1) encode with avs2avi
2) demux raw h264
3) transcode raw to mp4
4) mux in mkv

if you (i am unable) can modify avs2avi source will be a good things

thanks anyway

BHH

[eXed]

Hi, Moitah.

May be it's stupid question, but ....

avs2avi working Wonderful!
but i need sound
my AVS file:

movie = DirectShowSource("Bashnya.avi", fps=25)
sound = WavSource("Bashnya.wav")
movie = movie.Crop(10, 10, -10, -10)
clp = AudioDub(movie, sound)
return clp


Can you advice to me anything? I don't need compress wav file, only join.

sorry for my bad English.

[stax76]

Is there some documentation, help file or something like this? Could this tool be integrated in GK like applications?

[esby]

@eXed:
You could try to use dsynth for that:
http://esby.free.fr/prog/dsynth/
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=71482&highlight=dsynth

Now I can't remember if avs2avi can mux audio.
On a side note, I'll probably update the dsynth dll with the next incoming avs release.

esby

[Wilbert]

@stax,

http://www.avisynth.org/Drazen contains something.

[eXed]

@eXed:
You could try to use dsynth for that:
http://esby.free.fr/prog/dsynth/
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=71482&highlight=dsynth

Now I can't remember if avs2avi can mux audio.
On a side note, I'll probably update the dsynth dll with the next incoming avs release.


Thank you, but i don't understand how it help me (:
My spript perfect play with video & audio.

avs2avi don't save audio stream into compressed file, i have only video stream.

[stax76]

I think there is no control over codec parameters other than with the codec dialog so it's not useful for GK like tools.

[iradic]

-w : Overwrite destination file if it already exists
-P <passes> : Enable multi-pass encoding mode
-p [0-2] : Priority (0: Idle, 1: Normal, 2: Above Normal)
-s <file> : Save codec parameters to <file>
-l <file> : Load codec parameters from <file>
-c <4cc> : Use codec <4cc> with default settings ("null" for no
recompression)
-e : Exit after codec selection (for use with -s)
-q : Enable quiet mode for more speed
-o [format] : Output format (a: AVI (default), l: Log, n: Null)
-x [a,l] : Wait until XviD status window is closed (a: for all passes,
l: only for the last pass)

[DaveEL]

should have highlighted the -c too which lets you set the params in the registry

DaveEL

[fight2win]

how to use avs2avi, i mean, what command to use or write? pls help

[Sirber]

just run it, it has an included help

[duebel13]

How do I actually save XviD settings to disk?

Tried this: avs2avi -c XVID -e -s settings

It just shows the help but doesn't produce any output file.
If I add an avs file I get an error: "AVIFileGetStream failed, unable to get video stream 0 : Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet."

[DaveEL]

How do I actually save XviD settings to disk?

Tried this: avs2avi -c XVID -e -s settings

It just shows the help but doesn't produce any output file.
If I add an avs file I get an error: "AVIFileGetStream failed, unable to get video stream 0 : Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet."

Don't use -c and -e together i think.

Dave

[=A=RGOS]

Hello,

AVS2AVI use a compression method based on VirtualDub source code but this in old version (1.4.11).
I have updated this to an version 1.4.13.2 and have build this and upload at this url : http://sasteam66.free.fr/vrac/source_codes/avs2avi-140.7z

AVS2AVI is an good idea program but it's not maintained.
It's possible can you rewrite the code with a most recent version of VirtualDub ?

bye,

[Fizick]

=A=RGOS,
thanks,
it is interesting: what is fixed in v1.4.13?
and what we can get from newest v1.6-1.7 for command-line avs2avi encoder?

[celtic_druid]

You can get a 64bit build. Made one awhile back and from recollection it worked ok.

[DaveEL]

did it actually work any better?

[celtic_druid]

Well it is potentially faster. Not that many 64bit VfW codecs though and there are issues with 64bit AVISynth.

[squid_80]

"Issues"? Besides me being too slack to finish it?

[celtic_druid]

Yeah, I wasn't going to say it though. To be honest though I don't think I have booted into X64 for a couple of months, so I haven't really been keeping up with the status of things.

[=A=RGOS]

Hello all,

For Fizick : Sorry but i think that xvid_encraw is more adapted for my program, this program as more as faster that avs2avi.

bye...

[Blue_MiSfit]

This is a terribly wonderful program. I have one request.

Would it be possible to integrate simple batch encoding? In other words, let me point avs2avi at a folder, and have it execute each AVS in that folder? I don't care about AVS2AVI outputting anything, as my scripts do the actual encoding (QTSource.dll's QTOutut plugin encodes via QuickTime).

Thanks again!

~MiSfit

[puddy]

=A=RGOS,
thanks,
it is interesting: what is fixed in v1.4.13?
and what we can get from newest v1.6-1.7 for command-line avs2avi encoder?

I'm sure I'm coming in late here, but why can't we just use Vdub for this? Why the need for a separate program? It is speed thing mainly?

puddy

[DaveEL]

Yeah mostly a speed thing and its a bit simpler to automate. Its also useful as the code makes a nice testbed for experimentation (if you look at some of the old version they have weird features i was trying out like being able to reboot your machine in the middle of an encode). Speaking of which i have any idea about speeding up multi core encodes i need to try out some time. Will post here if it pans out :)

DaveEL

[salman1]

first of i don't speak much English so plz forgive me if i made any mistake.

i like this program but i want to use 2-passes for xvid and i want to make 2 cd rip but there is no option say to do this and i want to run this program without making my computer stuck like i want to use internet and riping in task bar using this program. so i can run both together without making my computer stuck. so plz do help me step by step tell me what to install plz sorry again

i hope u help me thanks a lot for brining this need more just tell i will try my best to explain you. sorry and thanks

[foxyshadis]

I guess you just ignored my other post:
Don't bother, use xvid_encraw now. Save avs2avi for vfw codecs without a commandline.

[salman1]

I guess you just ignored my other post:

i don't no how to use that sorry

[Sirber]

i don't no how to use that sorry

:search:

there's a whole thread on xvid_encraw.

[Sirber]

@salman1

Thanks for not sending me PM.

[canuckerfan]

I was using the Lagarith encoder in AvsP and avs2avi.exe crashed about 3/4 through the encode. It's a runtime error that says avs2avi.exe requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Any ideas what went wrong?

[foxyshadis]

Is it reproducable, are you sure it isn't a hardware problem, and does it not happen in virtualdub? Only if all three are yes is it related to avs2avi.

[canuckerfan]

^I think it's been traced to the new Mrestore script

[patrick_]

The program ALWAYS crashes on me when ("this progrma has stopped responding") converting 20 minutes of video to "no compression" (-null / YV12)
Short videos (90 seconds) do work well. Any ideas why this happens?

It happens on Vista 32-bits, 64-bits, and XP (didn't try any other). Happens with any video.

[DaveEL]

The program ALWAYS crashes on me when ("this progrma has stopped responding") converting 20 minutes of video to "no compression" (-null / YV12)
Short videos (90 seconds) do work well. Any ideas why this happens?

It happens on Vista 32-bits, 64-bits, and XP (didn't try any other). Happens with any video.

You have probably blown a file size limit somewhere with uncompressed video. What sizes does the output get to?

[patrick_]

640x480xYV12 (=1,5) x 25fps = 11MB/s
11MB/s x 60 (seconds in a minute) x 20Min = 12,9GB
The crash always happens when it finished processing the last frame (maybe when writing the header?)

BTW Right now I'm trying an unoficial build (Modified by Argos), and it seems that this one does work right.

[EmuAGR]

Can anyone update this with the latest version of VDub? Thanks. :)

[Mug Funky]

apologies for bringing up an old thread.

i was having some difficulties using avs2avi in a batch process.

what i wanted to do was have the batch delete the avs file after avs2avi does it's thing (but only if it was successful). using && between commands is the usual way to do this, however, avs2avi doesn't seem to output it's error messages to stderr, so this method doesn't work in it.

would it be trivial or difficult to stream error messages to stderr instead of the console?

[J_Darnley]

&& is affected by the return value of the program (0 on success, other on failure). avs2avi prints to stdout if you want to capture the messages. It also seems to return correctly.