Ok, I opened TMPGenc on it's own and tried to load the video.vdr.avi file. I got a message saying that the msvcd70.dll wasn't found in the winnt/system32 file. I dl the .dll file into there and tried again. This time, I got a message saying, "File C:\video.vdr.avi" cannot open or unsupported.

Now what? I thought I was done with this running in circles

AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!