Command line AVISynth player

[dw-wizard]

I have an auto it script for converting video files to x264. Part of the script does an auto crop on the source video. How I currently accomplish this is by making a avs script that uses AutoCrop and then I use avsutil.exe to "play" (not sure of the best term here) the avs file. The avs script is written to print the crop values to a log file. Here is an example script:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\meguiNewest\AutoCrop.dll")
SOURCE
numFrames = FrameCount
startFrame = Round(numFrames/10)
endFrame = Round(numFrames*9/10)
AutoCrop(2,4,2,0,0,0,0,30,50,startFrame,endFrame,0 )
WriteFile("SIZE_LOG", "Width")
WriteFile("SIZE_LOG", "Height")

This works most of the time, but every once an a while when I run avsutil.exe, my computer reboots and I find the avs file has been replaced with all 0 bytes.

Does anyone know of a replacement for avsutil.exe? Or another way of determining crop values without using a GUI?

Thanks

[jagabo]

Some media players can play AVS scripts. MPCHC for example.

[hello_hello]

I regularly use MPC-HC to preview AVS scripts without any problem. If memory serves me correctly AVS scripts aren't in the list of MPC-HC's supported file types, however you can open them using the File/Open menu. Or alternatively, place a shortcut for MPC-HC in the Windows SendTo folder, then you can preview scripts by right clicking on them and selecting SendTo/MPC-HC.

[jagabo]

He said he's using the command line so file associations and SendTo may not be an issue.

[El Heggunte]

Command line AVISynth player

Mplayer

[dw-wizard]

It looks like MPlayer will work, if I pass in the command line parameters "-vo null -ao null". This will use the null video/audio driver and thus will not have any GUI pop up (which is what I really want).

Thanks everyone for the help.

[Selur]

AVSMeter might also be worth a try to playback avs files for log generation,..