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    Recently I can't seem to make AutoGK finish a conversion to avi.

    Something seems to happen when it gets to the VistualDub stage and it stops there.

    I reinstalled both programs, but to no avail.

    What should I check or do?
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    Doesn't it create a log file? post it here then.
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    Is this the log file:

    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] AutoGK 2.55
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] OS: Windows Vista (6.1.7601).2
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Job started.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Input file: C:\Temp\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Output file: C:\Temp\santa_tereza.avi
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Output codec: XviD
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Audio 1: ??? AC3 2ch
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Subtitles: none
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Format: AVI
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Target size: 700Mb
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Audio 1 settings: Auto
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Standalone support enabled: MTK/Sigma
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Started encoding.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:24] Demuxing and indexing.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:25] Processing file: C:\Temp\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
    [02/04/2014 11:42:25] Source resolution: 720x480
    [02/04/2014 11:42:25] Found NTSC source.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:25] Source aspect ratio: 16:9
    [02/04/2014 11:42:25] Analyzing source.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:38] Source has percentage of interlacing in motion areas: 0,00
    [02/04/2014 11:42:38] Source has percentage of telecined patterns: 0,00
    [02/04/2014 11:42:38] Source has percentage of progressive patterns: 100,00
    [02/04/2014 11:42:38] Source has percentage of interlaced patterns: 0,00
    [02/04/2014 11:42:38] Source is considered to be progressive.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:38] Output will contain 1837 frames
    [02/04/2014 11:42:38] Decoding audio.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:39] Normalizing audio.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:40] Encoding audio.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:43] Using VAQ in XviD
    [02/04/2014 11:42:43] Audio1 size: 693,744 bytes (0.66 Mb)
    [02/04/2014 11:42:43] Overhead: 73,472 bytes (0.07 Mb)
    [02/04/2014 11:42:43] Video size: 733,235,984 bytes (699.27 Mb)
    [02/04/2014 11:42:43] Running compressibility test.
    [02/04/2014 11:42:43] Writing the following script to C:\Temp\agk_tmp\santa_tereza_comptest.avs
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    LoadPlugin("C:\Video\AutoGK\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
    LoadPlugin("C:\Video\AutoGK\filters\autocrop.dll")
    LoadPlugin("C:\Video\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE 3.dll")

    movie = mpeg2source("C:\Temp\agk_tmp\santa_tereza.d2v")
    cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples= 10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftad d=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
    fixed_aspect = 1.18518518518519
    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) || (input_par < 1.25) ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
    out_width = 640
    out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
    hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
    out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
    new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
    autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples= 10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe =0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
    LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
    RemoveGrain(mode=2)
    SelectRangeEvery(15,15)
    ================================================== =========
    [02/04/2014 11:43:13] Duration was: 29 seconds
    [02/04/2014 11:43:13] Speed was: 63,08 fps.
    *************************************
    EXCEPTION: Open avi failed.
    *************************************
    [02/04/2014 11:43:13] Job finished. Total time: 48 seconds
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    VirtualDub simply stops, not converting. The problem they say was:

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
    Application Name: VIRTUA~1.EXE
    Application Version: 1.5.4.0
    Application Timestamp: 3f7e1627
    Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
    Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514
    Fault Module Timestamp: 4ce7ba58
    Exception Code: c0000005
    Exception Offset: 000343b0
    OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
    Locale ID: 1046
    Additional Information 1: 0a9e
    Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
    Additional Information 3: 0a9e
    Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
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    I need to convert this DVD file to something I could show on a website with some quality.

    Until I get some help on my problems with AutoGK, I made some tests with Tipard, but all the avi options I tried ended up with a very very low quality image. On a phone might be, but not a computer screen, whatever the size.

    What file format can be used on a web site? These files will not be long, less than two minutes each or so.
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    You appear to have just over 1 minute of video and are trying to make an avi of 700 meg. It could be coughing at the compression since you are expanding and not compressing.

    Try a file-size setting of 15-20 meg and see what happens.

    BTW AutoGK does not use VirtualDub. It uses VirtualDubMod. That wull be installed as part of the installation process. Any other installation of VD will be ignored.
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    Same thing. I tried it with 20Mb, even reinstalled VirtualDudMOD, but nothing.

    It stops on the compressibility test.
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    If it worked fine 'before' then the chances are that you installed something since which has screwed it up. Only you know what you have installed.

    You can try other conversion programs such as Total Video Converter
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    Yes, unfortunately it's likely something I did inadvertently, some other program I installed, changed something and that is the result. There are games, for instance, that were working fine and now refuse to.

    It's quite likely I will re-install my Windows again.

    In the meantime I will give TVC a try. Thanks.
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    Or the old handbrake 0.9.3 still works good for dvd to avi xvid conversions.

    Or xvid4psp 5.

    Choose to open a dvd and select the video_ts folder.
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  11. There's a slightly more recent version of VitualDubMod than the one AutoGK installs. You could try deleting everything in the AutoGK/VirtualDubMod folder (or whatever it's called) and replacing the old files with the new ones (version 1.5.10.2).

    If you do, run VirtualDubMod manually once before using AutoGK. That'll let you click through any VirtualDubMod welcome screen and preferences. If you don't, VirtualDubMod can sit there waiting for you to do so when AutoGK runs it, even though no welcome screen appears (or it appears minimised so you don't realise that's what it is).

    Have you rebooted? Every so often I found AutoGK would fail to open files because they were locked, even though they shouldn't be, or AutoGK should be the program doing the locking. In your case though, I think "EXCEPTION: Open avi failed" means it's not able to write the AVI file). If none of the above helps, try setting the output directory to a completely different location.
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    OK, it did work this time.

    I first opened VirtualDubMod and then AutoGK. Also used a different output directory.

    I'm not sure what did the trick.

    Thanks.
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  13. Originally Posted by hello_hello View Post
    If you do, run VirtualDubMod manually once before using AutoGK. That'll let you click through any VirtualDubMod welcome screen and preferences. If you don't, VirtualDubMod can sit there waiting for you to do so when AutoGK runs it, even though no welcome screen appears (or it appears minimised so you don't realise that's what it is).
    You re-installed AGK so you had to do that. But you shouldn't update any of the programs that make up AGK, the whole system is tuned for the supplied versions only.
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  14. Originally Posted by nic2k4 View Post
    Originally Posted by hello_hello View Post
    If you do, run VirtualDubMod manually once before using AutoGK. That'll let you click through any VirtualDubMod welcome screen and preferences. If you don't, VirtualDubMod can sit there waiting for you to do so when AutoGK runs it, even though no welcome screen appears (or it appears minimised so you don't realise that's what it is).
    You re-installed AGK so you had to do that.
    I was referring to updating VirtualDubMod separately. The hidden welcome screen "got me" a couple of times.

    Originally Posted by nic2k4 View Post
    But you shouldn't update any of the programs that make up AGK, the whole system is tuned for the supplied versions only.
    VirtualDubMod is safe to update. I'm pretty sure the only difference between the version AutoGK installs and the last version released was a few bug fixes. It's safe to update the LAME encoder. I'm not sure if I ever updated anything else aside from Avisynth, but probably not. It's been a while since I've had AutoGK installed and my memory isn't the best.

    You definitely shouldn't use a different version of Xvid though. That's a recipe for disaster.

    You can also update the shortcuts AutoGK creates. Open one and change the target to add -multi to it. Like this:

    "C:\Program Files\AutoGK\AutoGK.exe" -multi

    Then you can run more than one instance of AutoGK at a time, which is nice considering Xvid doesn't always keep a multi-core CPU overly busy. If you do, always make sure each instance is set to output files to a different location or things can get messy.
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