We are now one more step up the ladder of video processing. As you can see, frameserving can prove to be very useful because:
You can serve AVI and MPEG-1 files through VirtualDub alone—no additional software is required. At the same time, you can apply filters and multiplex audio and video.
Older applications that use the Video for Windows interface can now read any file via a DirectShow tunnel in AviSynth.
You now have access to a huge library of additional filters you can use through AviSynth.
We touched on the significance of using the right tool for the right job and this chapter aimed to help you realize the potential of both frameservers so that you may take the right decision in the face of future problems. You will find that using VirtualDub is convenient most of the time since it can compress the output. AviSynth on the other hand is useful to accomplish tasks VirtualDub cannot carry out. One does need to think of the two applications as separate; you could serve frames with...