Some current descriptions about x264 say it's possible to directly give it *.avi. But no matter whether I gave it an actual HD *.avi (made by CineForm from a Premiere timeline, appropriate codecs in place, I know you'd ask), or a signpost *.avi made from the same by debugmode, it flat out refuses to do anything. This is whether I use an unflavored command line x264, or simple x264 launcher GUI. Examining error codes, one line says something like "couldn't read AVS script". Taking a cue, I created a one line avisynth *.avs script with the mentioned *.avi as source, and gave this *.avs to x264. This time it all worked well. I'm now largely free of AME woes. But if I didn't read that x264 accepts *.avi directly to begin with, I would have just done the *.avs script from the start. Am I interpreting all that *.avi x264 issue incorrectly, or does x264 only ever accept *.avs??
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For the nth time, with the possible exception of certain Intel processors, I don't have/ever owned anything whose name starts with "i".
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What version of x264 have you been using
Since some ages ago , its source-code includes a libavformat demuxer (run "x264 --fullhelp" for details) ---
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cineform isn't included in lavf or libavcodec (it's not open source, and there is no open source equivalent). You need a codec that is included in ffmpeg
eg. If you used something like huffyuv or lagarith it would accept it if it's been compiled with support for lavf or ffms . x264 doesn't use vfw codecs (lavf and ffmpeg run independent of system installed codecs like cineform vfw) -
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I suppose debugmode isn't included as well. My current workflow is Premiere Pro CS5 Cineform HD timeline > export to debugmode > open notepad > create *.avs with debugmode *.avi > open simple x264 launcher (v2.04.295) > give it the *.avs > load template & encode. Can do with one less open window, but I can't have everything, eh? Task manager reports between 95-100% CPU usage, all 8 cores humming.
For the nth time, with the possible exception of certain Intel processors, I don't have/ever owned anything whose name starts with "i".
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