AviSynth Integration

[JDou]

I really like VLC, its easy to use, fast and reliable. But I'm using VLC and WMP + ffdshow + AviSynth.

Many feature requests, such as:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=46914&p=270417&hili ... th#p148802

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20311&p=237197&hili ... th#p237197 + http://3dvision-blog.com/2d-to-3d-realt ... ynth-v0-3/

are not integrated. I also understand that it takes time, so a temporary solution would be to allow a script system, where users are able to integrate their own unique effects...

The filter collection for AviSynth is quite vast:

http://avisynth.org/warpenterprises/

[ivoire]

A script system for video effects is not really difficult to do be will be really power consumming (the CPU usage fro lua or C is really different).
Which effect do you really want ? (it can be ported to VLC if needed)

[JDou]

I am really interested in motion interpolation, so would love to see it integrated.

[ivoire]

Add a ticket about it on the trac http://trac.videolan.org/vlc (feature request)

[JDou]

Done...

[jimh3]

AVFS - Avisynth Virtual File System seems to bridge the gap pretty well.
http://turtlewar.org/avfs/

AVFS is a virtual file system that exposes the output of Avisynth scripts through the file system as a set of virtual media files. This allows Avisynth to feed media applications and converters that do not use the VFW API. It also allows accessing Avisynth script output through network shares, and allows mixed use of 32 bit and 64 bit video processing and consuming applications.

AVFS uses the Pismo File Mount Windows system extension. This extension enables user mode file system development on Windows.

You do need to use a cmd window to mount the avs script file for use by VLC. The AVS instructions are reasonably clear:

To mount an Avisynth AVS script, from a cmd.exe prompt run:

>avfs somescriptfile.avs