I recently found a reddit post of a guy doing some incredible work restoring old 8mm family movies. Last year I converted about 80 of my dad's old movies to mp4 using a Wolverine movie digitizer. I was pleased with the results, but after seeing the conversions this guy on reddit was getting as well as others that I've since found I'm thinking I can probably do a lot better. While I've never used AviSynth directly I've been aware of what it does for years. One of the guys doing really nice conversions has a website here: http://www.super-8.be/s8_Eindex.htm where he says his AviSynth script is on doom9. Unfortunately their forums seem to be down. In the meantime I thought I'd play around with AviSynth just to make sure I could get it to work. Using the AviSynth getting started wiki I tried some simple things on an existing movie on my computer:
I can't even get past the first line though without an error:
I also tried it on one of my mp4's converted to .avi and got the same error, but for h264 codec.
It's been a LONG time since the days where I've had to install codecs individually or by package, but does this mean I need to install specific codecs? I installed what I thought was the divx codec from divx.com last night, but it didn't change anything. I still get the error.
How do I fix this?
Code:
AviSource("I:\test.avi")
ReduceBy2Code:
AviSource: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc xvidIt's been a LONG time since the days where I've had to install codecs individually or by package, but does this mean I need to install specific codecs? I installed what I thought was the divx codec from divx.com last night, but it didn't change anything. I still get the error.
How do I fix this?