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AVS to AVI , PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN FINALLY

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UnConeD#
Yeah it was truncated, but you only missed the Montana-ized version of my reply 😉 Don't know why... my internet connection was acting up yesterday.

Will try the synching thing... my last exam is tomorrow so I'll have plenty of time for AVS'ing/APE'ing after that 🙂
times2#
unconeD: update 4 sure, i'm getting good syncing with my saver as it is, (using 512x384@25fps with simple compositions) but i'd like to see [maybe by pooling talents] a saver that can save sound synced etc...

my wishlist [when i get time... week after next]

1) faster saving [direct binary transfer]
2) sound as well
3) start and stop when the song playback starts and stops?
Montana#
times2: yeah it looks synced,
i play the song while grabbing the preset
and then adding the song as a wave-file in vdub
it works, do it yourself
NooBZz#
Awsome Job guys

I came here looking for a way to convert avs to avi, and Times2 and the other guy were on top of it. I just finished using both and they work perfect. This kinda thing should have a price tag on it..
Matt#
Use your head scarface/blurpak
Download here - http://avs.acko.net/?view=0

Looks good i'm about to try it.
Magic.X#
Having *a bit* programming experience i thought up the following:

Why don't you write a programm that uses a ape and a dsp plug to spy out the audio and video data? it should be synchron this way.
Furthermore it should be able to record more than one avs-pre and even the transition as long as the spy.ape is included in the avs-pre's you use.🙂 would be great... 😁
UnConeD#
Magic.X:
(UnConeD) I've been thinking about coupling it with a DSP plug-in that captures synchronised audio. Haven't tried anything yet, but I'm going to do some more APE-stuff once I'm finished with my current exams :P
I don't think an APE can capture transitions though... when transitioning, AVS calculates each frame of both presets, and applies the transition filter afterwards. Because the APE's are both inside the presets, they will get a regular frame, not one with the transition filter.
Also, each instance of an APE is a separate object. So when switching presets, all the data in the APE will be lost (like the handle to the AVI file) so the other APE in the next preset can't just continue on where the other left off. Sorry, but that's the way AVS works. The alternative would be a program that capture the AVS window externally. This would mean that the window has to be completely on top and it would make synching harder, but it would allow capturing of AVS transitions. Of course, this would require a totally different approach to AVSGrabber, which means a partial rewrite.
Magic.X#
[IDEA] How about recording the overlay signal??? on my pc, th overlay is recognized as a video stream and cn be sent to TV out without any performenc loss. it must be possible to record it! adding sound would be an easy task aferwards... [/IDEA]

[DIFFENT TOPIC]anyway, have you tested HOTLIST??? it's my first released avs tool, have a look on it: Download[/DIFFRENT TOPIC]
Yathosho#
today i used unconed's plugin to save my avs as avi. i wanted to compress the avi in virtualdub or nandub, but it turned out that both tools could not open the avi-stream. i tried other players than windows media players and also tried some alternative video editing tools. the avi created by the ape has no sound-channel, which is why most tools can't open the avi. wmp seems to ignore this, but i guess it's somehow against the avis specs. maybe it's possible to add a silent soundchannel to the avis, try implementing this in a future version of your ape.

since i've seen your preview to whacko 4, i'm wondering what tool you used to compress your avis.
UnConeD#
I had the same problem... I created an AVI with AVSGrabber which played just great in Media Player, but when I opened it in VirtualDub I got a message "Video data too short, expected nnnnnn bytes, got nnnnn bytes." or something like that.

Never found out what caused it, but after resetting my pc, the problem was fixed. In any case, it's not mine (or times2's) fault. Both APE's use Windows' standard AVI functions... it seems they contain a bug that can cause it to write corrupt AVI's sometimes 🙁. So sorry for the inconvenience, but it's not my fault.

VirtualDub has its own AVI routines (which allow it to read partial or slightly corrupt AVI files) but which seems to choke on this bug.
Yathosho#
it works now! i used raw-mode, but i had to choose it from the menu to make it work properly. checking the box "raw-mode", created the problem i previouly described. nice ape, nice!
Yathosho#
as mentioned above, it does. i only get a black video, unless i disable "get fps from avs". you should also disable overlay, otherwise you might also get a black video. for the record: i use foobar 0.8.3 with avsmod 0.3 (that is avs 2.81 iirc).
PromaneX#
sorry to bring back such an old topic but are any of these APEs still about? all the links are dead (not surprisingly)