AviSynth+

AviSynth+ is an improved version of the AviSynth frameserver, with improved features and developer friendliness.

Visit our forum thread for compilation instructions and support.

Platform availability

Supported OSes
Windows
macOS
Linux
*BSD
Haiku

Supported CPU architectures
x86(-64)
ARM
PowerPC
SPARC
RISC-V
MIPS
LoongArch
z/Architecture

Not all OS/CPU combinations possible from either the OS' standpoint or AviSynth+'s. MIPS, LoongArch, and z/Architecture enabled by request to allow source compilation to succeed, but not tested on either hardware or VM

Packaging status

Headers for applications which dynamically load AviSynth+:

The expected use-case of AviSynth+ is as a dynamically loaded library (using LoadLibrary on Windows or dlopen everywhere else).

Due to this, it's not actually necessary to build the AviSynth+ library itself in order for applications using it this way to find it.

To facilitate this, we support using CMake to do a limited, headers-only install.

Using CMake:

To install:

mkdir avisynth-build && cd avisynth-build
cmake ../ -DHEADERS_ONLY:bool=on
make install

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX can be used to override the install location if need be.

To uninstall:

make uninstall

Building the documentation:

(Note: the bundled documentation lags behind the descriptions found in the wiki. You can always check the online documentation at http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page)

AviSynth+'s documentation can be generated into HTML by using Sphinx.

Set-up:

Make sure that Sphinx is installed. This requires that Python is already installed and the pip tool is available.

pip install sphinx

For various Linux distributions, a Sphinx package should be available in the distro's repositories. Often under the name 'python-sphinx' (as it is in Ubuntu's repositories).

Building the documentation

Once Sphinx is installed, we can build the documentation.

cd distrib/docs/english
make html