saving files created by avisynth

Question

I have written a short script using avisynth. It takes a number of videos, stacks them, and adds some text.

I can open the script file in virtualDub and save it as an avi file from there, but what I would like is a way to do this without human action in the process. e.g. have a command line that opens the script in virtualdub, sets the video encoding (maybe this step can be done using the avisynth script?) and saves the output as an avi file.

Can this be done?

Answer 1

Ok, I think I got this one:

I found a command line tool called avs2avi (www.avs2avi.org). pretty much all I needed :)

Hope this would benefit someone else as well.

Thanks, Yair

Answer 2

Answering my one comment, x264 can read avs and write it's regular output

x264 example.avs -o example.mp4 --rest_of_x264_options

Answer 3

Avidemux + avsproxy can process avs scripts.. video and audio streams.
Note, that although quite useful, x264 can only process the video stream.

avsproxy comes packaged with Avidemux.. both come in GUI and command line versions... Here is a good basic GUI tutorial by example

This works for Windows and Linux. In Linux, it requires that wine is installed).