AviSynth and VDubMod Errors in Auto GK 2.40

one question and two hints 1) What virtualdubmod error ? 2) read the faq 3) never, never, never install codec pack BHH

I'll reinstall it again. I'm guessing I should first unintall separately the different programs that come in Auto GK? Uninstall Virtualdubmod, avisynth and Xvid. I got the Divx codec directly from their website. Before changing I will try to encode again and specifically note the error. I appreciate your help! Bill

Sorry for the delay... I re-ran Auto G/K. It made it through the first pass, but when using VirtualDub Mod... it gave this error... VirtualDubError AVIOutput: Access is Denied. When I go look at the pieces that were created I see the first pass output. I'm not sure what is happening. Can anyone tell me where logs are stored for AutoGK? I can't seem to locate them. I have not yet done my third uninstall/reinstall. Thanks Bill

Do you by any chance use Symantec AntiVirus?

Nope. I use Anti-Vir on my media PC. Should I shut it down while encoding?

I found the log for the run, but it doesn't seem to yield any helpful info about the error. I'm including it below: [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] AutoGK 2.40 [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2 [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Job started. [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Input file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\SnapStream\Beyond TV\shows\American Idol-(Week 3B_ Auditions 6)-2007-01-31-0.mpg [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Output file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\SnapStream\Beyond TV\shows\American Idol-(Week 3B_ Auditions 6)-2007-01-31-0.avi [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Output codec: XviD [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Audio 1: Audio Stream 0 MPEG [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Subtitles: none [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Format: AVI [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Target size: 700Mb [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Custom resolution settings: fixed width of 640 pixels [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Audio 1 settings: Auto [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Standalone support enabled: MTK/Sigma [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Started encoding. [2/1/2007 11:20:01 PM] Demuxing and indexing. [2/1/2007 11:21:17 PM] Processing file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\SnapStream\Beyond TV\shows\American Idol-(Week 3B_ Auditions 6)-2007-01-31-0.mpg [2/1/2007 11:21:17 PM] Source resolution: 704x480 [2/1/2007 11:21:17 PM] Found NTSC source. [2/1/2007 11:21:17 PM] Source aspect ratio: 4:3 [2/1/2007 11:21:17 PM] Color correction enabled. [2/1/2007 11:21:17 PM] Analyzing source. [2/1/2007 11:23:40 PM] Source has percentage of interlacing in motion areas: 41.56 [2/1/2007 11:23:40 PM] Source has percentage of telecined patterns: 19.79 [2/1/2007 11:23:40 PM] Source has percentage of progressive patterns: 40.53 [2/1/2007 11:23:40 PM] Source has percentage of interlaced patterns: 39.68 [2/1/2007 11:23:40 PM] Source is considered to be hybrid (mostly NTSC). [2/1/2007 11:23:40 PM] Looking for optimal hybrid thresholds. [2/1/2007 11:23:48 PM] Found threshold of: 1.27 [2/1/2007 11:23:48 PM] Output will contain 115006 frames [2/1/2007 11:23:48 PM] Encoding audio. [2/1/2007 11:33:15 PM] Audio1 size: 52,729,608 bytes (50.29 Mb) [2/1/2007 11:33:15 PM] Overhead: 4,600,192 bytes (4.39 Mb) [2/1/2007 11:33:15 PM] Video size: 676,673,400 bytes (645.33 Mb) [2/1/2007 11:33:15 PM] Running compressibility test. [2/1/2007 11:33:15 PM] Writing the following script to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\SnapStream\Beyond TV\shows\agk_tmp\American Idol-(Week 3B_ Auditions 6)-2007-01-31-0_comptest.avs =========================================================== LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll") LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\autocrop.dll") LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\decomb.dll") LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\ColorMatrix.dll") LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE3.dll") movie = mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\SnapStream\Beyond TV\shows\agk_tmp\American Idol-(Week 3B_ Auditions 6)-2007-01-31-0.d2v") cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0) fixed_aspect = 1.81818181818182 c_width = width(cropclip) c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect) input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height) input_par = (input_par > 1.4)

Thanks, sqid-80! I turned off the Antivirus, changed the output directory and it worked!

billqs, Well this seems to be a common problem for various AV packages. At least Symantec, F-secure Internet Control and now Antivir (I guess) have been reported. Instead of turning off AV software (hmmm..) you could try this or directly from sourceforge . Changelog for VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 here , almost at the end of list. Regards, ezmohp

Possible cause 

I might be wrong, but what if BeyondTV is checking the folder contents during the encoding as discussed here: . Please post your feedback.