Trouble re-encoding AVI (XviD)

[Puppybarf]

Hi there,
I'm experiencing some problems working on an XviD file. This movie has a 2,35:1 Aspect Ratio (720 x 304) and, I need to letterbox it to 16:9 (720 x 405) in order to obtain a DVD-authorable file, 'cause none of the DVD authoring softwares I've tried (NeroVision, DVD Flick, DVD Styler, etc.) is good enough to work with a 2,35:1.
So, I tried VirtualDub and DivX 6.9.2 as a compressor. The resizing is perfect but, that's what I've got starting the conversion:



After this, I tried with XviD 1.2.2 but I've got the same error.
I tried several alternative video codecs either lossy and lossless as MSU, Toponoky, FastCodec, VSS, YuvSoft, etc. but I got the same error as above or huge files (up to 4, 5 GBs and more) after hours and hours (or predicted days) of work!
Some tips? Which kind of codec should I use and, last but not least, which settings?
Greetings from Italy

[Baldrick]

Are you resizing to 720x405? Try use a resolution that is even dividable by 4 or better 16.


But a good dvd all-in-converter like avstodvd should resize to correct dvd resolution.

[Puppybarf]

HI Baldrick, thanks for your answer.
I didn't know AVStoDVD and it seems to be really a good software, but didn't work with this movie. The batch process aborted after a few moments of encoding by HCenc.
Here's the log file:

[_MrC_]

Hi Puppybarf,

what an horrible temporary file folder:

"F:\DATS Works\# Working Dir #"

Go to 'Preferences'/'Paths' and select a temp folder with standard chars. Then retry. Let me know if that was the root cause.



Bye

P.S. What part of Italy are you from?

[Puppybarf]

Hello MrC,
I'll try your tip and will make you know.
In the meantime, I have tried the authoring by QuEnc with the same temporary folder; the process has been completed regularly but, the resulting video is choppy (it doesn't play continuously but keeps stopping and starting every second).
See you tomorrow.

P.S. - I'm from Benevento, do you know? Are you Italian too? Possiamo esprimerci in Italiano?

P.S. #2 - Congratulations for your software

[Puppybarf]

I've just tried again with a "regular" folder and HCenc, but nothing changed. Same error as before.