Universal Installer says 32-bit AviSynth is installed but fails to play

[miguelmorin]

I followed the directions from http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=172124 to install 32-bit AviSynth (because 32-bit is required for the watermark filter). The batch script says:

Installed Avisynth version(s):
32 bit:
64 bit: Avisynth (x64) is not installed

The machine is brand new. When I first ran the batch script, the first line also said:

Avisynth (x86) is not installed

I test it with a simple AVS script,

Version()

and the file fails to play in Windows Media Player and also in Media Player Classic.

How can I install 32-bit Avisynth?

[DB83]

avisynth is NOT a playable file. Do some more reading of how it works.


Tip: a. Create avs script b: load script in a program that supports avisynth scripts such as virtual dub c: encode video d: then use your player to play the resultant file

[El Heggunte]

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How can I install 32-bit Avisynth?

If Groucho's batch script didn't work for you, just try the old-fashioned method:

https://www.videohelp.com/software/Avisynth

[miguelmorin]

El Heggunte: thanks for the link. I forgot to mention that I want to work with AviSynth+ 3.4 to use FFMS2 (in order to deal with MTS and MP4 files). The homepage http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page suggests that AviSynth+ exists in 32-bit version. Yet the universal installer lists AviSynth and not AviSynth+, and your link suggests that the 32-bit version is for AviSynth up to version 2.6.

This thread: https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/29137/errors-in-ffmpegsource2-plugin-source-...r-for-avisynth mentions that AviSynth+ 3.4 has a 32-bit version. Last time I tried installing a 32-bit version on a 64-bit computer, I changed the registry keys, and got a blue screen of death. So I'd like to avoid that and be sure of how to install 32-bit AviSynth+.

Does AviSynth+ 3.4 32-bit not exist?

DB83: No, avisynth is not a playable file. I created a file `test.avs`
containing only `Version()` and this is the one that failed to play.

[DB83]

Like this ?

[sekininsha]

I have both versions installed without any problem .. Universal Avisynth Installer


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[DB83]

^^ For the sake of clarity, do confirm that your file 'test1.avs' is actually a movie since MPC-HC, or atleast the version I use, can not render a plain text file. In fact no player can render a text file.


If it is a movie then by naming it '.avs' rather clouds the topic.

[poisondeathray]

^^ For the sake of clarity, do confirm that your file 'test1.avs' is actually a movie since MPC-HC, or atleast the version I use, can not render a plain text file. In fact no player can render a text file.


If it is a movie then by naming it '.avs' rather clouds the topic.

In sekininsha's screenshots, those mpc screenshots indicate test1.avs is just a 1 line script, and technically a plain text file with a renamed extension from .txt to .avs

version()

It identifies the version of avs installed and currently being used. It's just used for debugging

[DB83]

^^ But the command does create a 10 sec file when encoded and in my eyes it's plainly misleading to show this as .avs. Unless I miss something and there is a setting in mpc to actually run the script.

[poisondeathray]

^^ But the command does create a 10 sec file when encoded and in my eyes it's plainly misleading to show this as .avs. Unless I miss something and there is a setting in mpc to actually run the script.

That is the script

It creates a "video" 10sec long 384x104, 24fps , RGB24 displaying that avisynth info. If it works, and you see it display like those screenshots, then avisynth is being initialized correctly through that application

It's just frameserving - when you open that .avs in mpc or vdub2 , it "looks" like a video file

The OP knows about this because he mentions version() in the 1st post. sekininsha is indicating there was no problems using the universal installer on his system

[DB83]

Ok. I created my file in vdub. But I could not see any way to frame-serve in mpc hence my concern (unless, as I previously stated, I am using the wrong version)

[poisondeathray]

to install 32-bit AviSynth (because 32-bit is required for the watermark filter).

Which watermark filter ? Maybe there is another version or workaround available ?

I forgot to mention that I want to work with AviSynth+ 3.4 to use FFMS2 (in order to deal with MTS and MP4 files).

Why 3.4 ? Why not 3.5.x ? FFMS2 works in 3.5.x . And LSMASH is another source filter option

Both x86, x64 versions are in the latest official releases (and they work on multiple platforms now, even OSX, Linux (!) )
https://github.com/AviSynth/AviSynthPlus/releases