{"id":234,"date":"2012-01-21T13:40:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=234"},"modified":"2012-01-21T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T12:50:40","slug":"stop-using-avisynth-mt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Stop using Avisynth-MT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>let&#8217;s start a vote, should I rename the blog &#8220;TheFluff&#8217;s list of things you shouldn&#8217;t be doing&#8221;? yes\/no\/maybe<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since the entire point of Avisynth is to load Avisynth plugins, and most Avisynth plugins sure as heck aren&#8217;t threadsafe, the efforts to try to make Avisynth-MT itself threadsafe are sort of meaningless. Not to mention they&#8217;ve failed spectacularly so far.<\/li>\n<li>Nobody wants to have anything to do with the 64-bit version (or even make a trivial 64-bit wrapper) despite lots of threads requiring hilarious amounts of RAM.<\/li>\n<li>Avisynth-MT uses Avisynth 2.5.6&#8217;s infamously memory leaking frame cache. Running out of memory is a Bad Thing, mmkay?<\/li>\n<li>Avisynth-MT doesn&#8217;t handle system exceptions because someone commented out the original Avisynth code that did that forever ago and never replaced it.<\/li>\n<li>In short, Avisynth-MT developers <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.doom9.org\/showthread.php?p=1533918#post1533918\">have no clue<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.doom9.org\/showthread.php?p=1552115#post1552115\">about what they&#8217;re doing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stop getting fooled by the <i>~blazing~<\/i> FPS numbers. An encode that crashes halfway through is effectively encoding at a negative FPS.<\/p>\n<p><b>TL;DR:<\/b> Pain is nature&#8217;s way of telling us &#8220;hey, stop fucking doing that, retard&#8221;. When nature does this, it usually has a good reason for doing so, and if you don&#8217;t listen, Bad Things will happen to you. Similarly, random crashes in a computer program are sorta your computer&#8217;s way of telling you &#8220;hey, stop fucking using that broken program, retard&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>let&#8217;s start a vote, should I rename the blog &#8220;TheFluff&#8217;s list of things you shouldn&#8217;t be doing&#8221;? yes\/no\/maybe Since the entire point of Avisynth is to load Avisynth plugins, and most Avisynth plugins sure as heck aren&#8217;t threadsafe, the efforts to try to make Avisynth-MT itself threadsafe are sort of meaningless. Not to mention they&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encoding","category-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}