AviSynth 2.5

New Video Features

• A new color format: native YV12 support. Supports YV12 planar input from DirectShowSource, AviSource and several MPEG decoders.

For a description of the color formats AviSynth can deal with see here.

New Audio Features

• Internal float point samples support. AviSynth now has internal processing of float samples.
• Native Int24 and Int32 sample support. Support input and output of higher precision samples.
• Multiple channel support. AviSynth now supports an unlimited number of channels for both input and output.
• Automatic sample conversion. If some filters doesn't support a specific sample type, they are converted to the format preserving most quality (most often floats). Float samples are also automatically converted back to 16bit before delivering them as output.

New Conditional Filters v2.52

• It is now possible to change variables and filter parameter every frame - very powerful and versatile function!

See ConditionalFilter, ConditionalReader and here.

New Internal Features

• Optimizations. Many basic features has been optimized, and now performs much better than previous versions.
• Better cache efficiency. Filters can give hints to the cache, if they don't want their input cached, so memory can be used more efficiently.

C-style plugin support v2.53

Added C-style plugin support (still in testing) to allow plugin writers to use other compilers than MSVC.
See this thread for further info. The C-plugins must be loaded with LoadCPlugin after loading avisynth_c.dll. Your script becomes for example

LoadPlugin("...\avisynth_c.dll")
LoadCPlugin("...\smartdecimate.dll") # notice the C in loadCplugin
AviSource(...)
SmartDecimate()

DirectShow audio support v2.53

Using DirectShowSource it is possible to load audio from all sources that can be opened through DirectShow.
For example, formats like: WAV/DTS/AC3/MP3 can be opened. Look here for more information.

Plugins

Filters for AviSynth v1.0x and v2.0x do no longer work in v2.5x. When you try to load them, they will most likely even crash. You have to use a special plugin "LoadPluginEx.dll (this plugin is contained in the WarpSharp package)" to load v2.0x plugins in v2.5x.
You first have to load the v2.5x plugins, then LoadPluginEx.dll and finally the v2.0x plugins. You will also need to copy msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll to your system dir. Your script becomes for example

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\avisynth2_temp\LoadPluginEx.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\avisynth2_temp\plugins\dustv5.dll")

AviSource("D:\clip.avi")
ConvertToYUY2  # v2.0x plugins require YUY2 (or RGB)
PixieDust(5)

I think that you can use the same plugin to load v2.5x plugins in v2.0x, however I never have tested this.

$Date: 2007/12/03 19:45:17 $