I was trying AutoGK last night. Installed it, put in a DVD, and let it to run overnight.

This morning, I found out that I didn't go through all the "first run" notices in VDubMod, and thus, it only just then started encoding. :P

I was doing something else on the PC at the time. I think I played with the "priority" setting a bit too much, and VDubMod crashed. AutoGK, which didn't know any better, thought the whole thing was finished, even though I only got 50% of the movie, and this was a 2-pass XVID encode! It's an almost 2 hour movie, so encoding time, even on this machine, is close to 2 hours for each pass.

So I'm faced with the prospect of rerunning the entire AutoGK job... Or somehow locating whatever "script" that AutoGK used to run VDUBMod, and re-run that.

I started going through my AGT_TMP directory, and found this VCF file, which contains the script. (Incidentally, VCF is also extension for Virtual Business Cards, used by Palm Desktop and other mail programs). So I try

virtualdubmod.exe lastjob.vcf

Got "unknown format"

Read up the command line parameters a bit. I need /S

virtualdubmod.exe /s lastjob.vcf

Got "cannot load script", then "unknown format"

Must have tried a dozen different variations, this directory vs. that directory, quote vs. no quote...

Until I realized there must NOT be a space between the /S and the script file name. The Help File didn't REALLY say that. I found that on VirtualDub.Org.

So I fixed that, and I'm encoding again.

So it's not a question, more of a tip on "how to recover from AutoGK crash". Hope this is of some use to others.