Monthly Archives: June 2025

Website Migration and Changes

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I was forced to move the domain and change hosting provider for the first time in 13 years due to the previous providers having been bought by Newfold Digital, a company that turns everything it buys into overpriced shit. As a result of this I’ve also implemented a few changes:

  • Comments have been disabled here and all old comments have been wiped
  • I’ve enabled discussions on Github where comments and discussions can be posted instead

You can also check the Help and Chat page for IRC, Discord and forum links.

R72 – Named Pipes and Python 3.12+ Support on Windows

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Many poorly coded but popular Python modules like to write lots of junk directly to stdout. This is a big problem when piping from vspipe to another application and will break everything. On “not Windows” it was possible to use named pipes to get around this however on Windows you were stuck until now. To create a named pipe for output simply do vspipe script.vpy "\\.\pipe\<your pipe name>" and use the same “filename” as input for FFmpeg or recent x265 builds. A patch has also been submitted to x264 but hasn’t been accepted yet.

As mentioned in the previous posts every Python version starting with 3.12 is now supported in the Windows installer. This of course also includes Python 3.13 and 3.14 and will help people using poorly coded but popular Python modules that are slow to get support for for new Python versions.