Avisynth Playback

**Syco54645** · 08-15-2011, 07:53 AM

For various reasons I would like to play back avs files from avisynth onto my tv. I am using an apple tv running linux with xbmc on top of it. I see on the supported format page that avs files are supported but I do not think that this is an avisynth file. Could this feature be added? If it is already there how do I access it? If i can in fact play my avs files then I would be more than happy to pay the price of admission as I do not think that any other dlna server can serve avs up.

Thanks

-Syco54645

**Paul** · 08-15-2011, 10:25 AM

Avisynth files are not currently available through Mezzmo - we have been experimenting with this, but don't have any results yet. If there's interest in this area then I'd be happy to give this a higher priority. It may be an interesting area to explore.

**Syco54645** · 08-15-2011, 10:36 AM

Well it is definitely an interest and high priority to me. Haha. I would be willing to beta test or provide feedback on it as well. I suppose I should explain how and why I am using this as well. For many years I have been a fan of exploitation cinema... probably almost 20 now (my viewing was not much monitored as a child... which is a good thing though I monitor my children's viewing... haha) and I find it annoying when a movie suchas torso or last house on the left is transferred to be of impeccable quality so I use avisynth to create artifacts akin to the old grindhouse experience. I generally rip all of my films to divx so using avisynth for this makes sense. Also around once a week or so I do double features with my friends and they love the gritty transfers. This would make the experience all the better.

If this has typos I am sorry. I am typing it from my phone...

**Paul** · 08-15-2011, 10:42 AM

I can't make any promises on how quickly this will be looked at, but if you can send a sample avisynth script to support (at) conceiva (dot) com, it may expedite things

**Syco54645** · 08-15-2011, 11:23 PM

Well as far as I know you need windows direct show support (ffdshow would work) to play back the avs files. Native playback would be nice but I would even take transcoding (technically the avs is transcoding in the first place) but would need to get a more powerful windows machine. I will be sending the script in a few minutes. I use a virtual dub plugin called MSU OldCinema Filter. http://compression.ru/video/old_cinema/index_en.html

The AVS that I suggest using is the one on their page (with the paths adjusted for your paths of course). I really hope this can be figured out... I would be extremely happy by this.

Code:

LoadVirtualDubPlugin("..\VirtualDub\plugins\MSU Old cinema.vdf","Old_cinema", 0) 
clip=AVISource("D:\work\video\film.avi", false, "RGB24")
return clip.ConvertToRGB32.Old_cinema(247, 223, 181, 0, 1, 10, 10, 15, 70, 3, 20, 5, 50, 150, 0, 1, 100)

**Syco54645** · 08-16-2011, 05:53 AM

Now I see that Mezzmo is using ffdshow. Really this should be a simple compiler switch for avs support. http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC26
I just got even more excited... Hopefully this pans out.