[Troc]

Originally Posted by videoh

1. Your first line is wrong. You don't just state a path like that. You have to use a source filter.

Alrighty, I think it's very clunky that I have to specify both the source path and use some different script just to use a file type. I think it's obvious that if I select a .mp4, I want to use what works best for .mp4. Why would I do something different?

2. You need to load all the (non-internal) filters that you use in your script using LoadPlugin(). There is also autoloading as a possibility. But one way or another you have to load your filters.

Why is autoloading not the default? I have a good SSD. The filter filesizes are nothing, I could load a thousand filters in a second. If that was not the case, where am I supposed to put the filter files I downloaded and how am I supposed to load them? It's again really clunky to not load a filter based on how I tell the program that I want to use a specific filter.

When I post stuff about video restoration, people like to tell me that they use Avisynth and how it's better than anything I know. A how to use but when I ask how, they link the wiki. As if I haven't tried to read it without getting anywhere. I want a tool, not an encyclopedia. Is there not a handy GUI for Avisynth with every filter already integrated? If that's possible, why's a newcomer like me either directed to a wiki or given some handwavy "just specify a source filter". If I knew how to do that, I would've done it and wouldn't be asking why it doesn't work.

So, I'm asking thoroughly. Let's say that I choose an Ffmpeg source filter.
http://avisynth.nl/index.php/FFmpegSource

I have to download the DLL and put it somewhere. Then, to start my script, I'll write the following: File path, if I want it cached, write the fps amount, how many threads the CPU encoding will use, the length of the video, how to seek the video, if I want to overwrite index, the video's resolution, resizer if necessary, if it's RGB or YUV, RFF (whatever that is), delay, and set UTF8 if I have a strange filename.

After I do that, I have inputted a singular file to then apply filters to. Then I select a fiter, like http://avisynth.nl/index.php/TIsophote
I separately specify all the parameters with the filter and try to export multiple times to see what actually looks good. Or do I have to use an output/export filter as well to make this thing work as it should?

I'm sorry for the extreme levels of salt I have. I'd like to think that I'm a relatively intelligent person with some skills in video editing. Avisynth however is something I do not understand. It's maddening since so many people seem to use it effectively.

Originally Posted by StainlessS

In DGIndex, mark start and end of about 30 second sequence with lots of movement, using
'[' and ']' marker buttons, then
Menu/File/"Save Project & Demux Video",
and post the m2v file ONLY. [SendSpace allows post without account, file deleted 30 days after latest download].

I had never used DGIndex. It seems quite effective, however. Here's the file: https://www.sendspace.com/file/vo9apj
I used MakeMKV to rip the DVD before.