Need help with AVISynth - unrecognized exception error

[Scav]

On the advice of others in this forum, in order to speed up encoding I am trying to use AviSynth to frameserve to TMPGenc, but I'm gettin some strange errors. My process is 1) rip DVD with Smartripper, which evidently creates a .dv2 file. 2) Run DVD2AVI, using Force Frame, to create a IVTC specific .dv2 file. Create an .AVS file using the MPEG2DEC plugin and MPEG2Source() command, which I have pointing to the .dv2 file created by DVD2AVI, with additional commands to resize and deinterlace.
The problem occurs when I try to load this .AVS file into TMPGenc, I get an error (displayed in the video preview screen) - "Unrecognized exception! Myfile.avs (line 2)" Line 2 in the avs file is the MPEG2DEC() command pointing to my .dv2 file. I get the same error message when I load the avs file in VDub (but displayed in a normal error dialog.) The bizarre thing is, if I modify the avs file to point to the dv2 file created by Smartripper, it works fine. But I don't, obviously, get my IVTC.
Does anyone know how to resolve this error and why it would work with one dv2 file but not another?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[Scav]

Come on guys, no one's run across this situation before?

[Truman]

Please post the complete script.

[ImaWeTodd]

Ignore me if I'm off base ... but

Smart ripper creates a d2v file ?
You load a d2v file into DVD2AVI ?

When I frameserve I :
- create VOB files with smartripper
- Load them into DVD2AVI which creates a d2v(video) file and an mp2(audio) [the d2v looks like an index file, not really a video file,
in other words don't move the VOBs]
- make an AVS file that I use in CCE

CCE goes VOB-->d2v-->avs == mpv (no xtra files saves HD space)

I don't get the xtra d2v file. (The one you say works.)

[Scav]

I will post the scripts tonight when I get home.

But, yes, Smartripper created a .d2v file prefixed similarly to the VOB files. For example, on my rip it was vts_08.d2v. I am able to reference that file successfully in a avs file using MPEG2Source("h:\vts_08.d2v"), and thence to TMPGenc.
A further wrinkle that I didn't mention before, is that I can load the d2v created by DVD2AVI directly with TMPGenc and it works fine. But if I try to load into TMPGenc an avs file that references this same d2v file created by DVD2AVI, I get the "Unrecognized exception" error. there seems to be something about the nature of the d2v file created by DVD2AVI, that AVISynth doesn't like.

[Scav]

Here is the total contents of my avs file:

LoadPlugin("d:\download\vid\avsgen\bin\mpeg2dec.dl l")
mpeg2source("h:\vidcap\ghostworld\ghostworld.d2v")
#AssumeFrameBased.SeparateFields
BicubicResize(352,480)
#Weave
TemporalSmoother(2,2)
#AddBorders(16,16,16,16)
#Trim(0,131763).FadeOut(150)
#ResampleAudio(44100) # CCE 2.5 'crashfix' for Athlons
## If you want this 'fix' permanently, edit the INI-file:
## Under [AVSscript] set the CCEcrashfix-option to
## CCEcrashfix=1

Here is the top page-worth of data from the ghostworld.d2v file created by DVD2AVI:

DVD2AVIProjectFile
7
33 H:\VidCap\GhostWorld\vts_08_1.vob
33 H:\VidCap\GhostWorld\vts_08_2.vob
33 H:\VidCap\GhostWorld\vts_08_3.vob
33 H:\VidCap\GhostWorld\vts_08_4.vob
33 H:\VidCap\GhostWorld\vts_08_5.vob
33 H:\VidCap\GhostWorld\vts_08_6.vob
33 H:\VidCap\GhostWorld\vts_08_7.vob

System_Stream=1,0,0
iDCT_Algorithm=2
YUVRGB_Scale=1
Luminance=128,0
Picture_Size=0,0,0,0,0,0
Field_Operation=1
Frame_Rate=23976
Location=0,0,0,0


0 0 6 AE13
7 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1
7 0 7 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1
7 0 18 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1
7 0 C3 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1


Using the above avs file in TMPGenc gives me a "Unrecognized exception" error


Any help would be appreciated, thanks.