CCE problem...some advise needed!

[sunmiztres]

cce keeps freezing when i go to load the .avs file or it will have an error and say vfapi.dll has caused a problem and cce will now close. This is telling me there is a conflict between some .dll or drivers, right? If so is there a nother codec i need or a pastch or something to solve this problem? any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you.

[Sully]

Check your e-mail.

[VidGuy]

This happens to me as well. If anybody knows how to stop it, I would love to know, but here's the workaround:

Load an AVI file and save an .ecl project file. Open the ecl file up as text, and modify the name of the input file. Also, make sure the width and height are set to what you're going to feed CCE (I use the d2v_vfapi.avi file, so I have to change the width from 720 to 480 - it's ugly if you forget to do that!). Then make sure the number of frames is correct in the two fields at the bottom of the file.

After that, drag the ecl file to CCE and it works just fine. Apparently, CCE has some problem when trying to figure out how many frames the avs file is going to "serve". This didn't use to happen to me, but I'm not sure what started it - but the workaround is fairly easy, so I haven't been too concerned tracking it down.

[sunmiztres]

I know what you mean, this never happened to me till i reformatted my harddrive. i never had a problem loading .avs till now. I am doing what you are doing in a way. i load a real .avs that i got with avisynth(i think) then when that loads i add my .avs file and it loads fine. i then delete the real .avs and encode and it worked. Would still like to know what happened to make this start happening. Oh we'll, i guess this is what makes life interesting.

[DDogg]

This may be of some assistance.
1> Temporarily use the old (1.4 will not open avs)1.3b vfapi converter to open your .avs file (manually enter, there is no mask for *.avs) and create an avi file so we can fake out cce 2.5 for the next operation. You will not actually be using this .avi file for the encode. We just need it for a minute or so.
2> Add this name.avi file into cce 2.5 and save "name.ecl"
3> hand edit the "name.ecl" file in notepad and change the file name at the bottom from "name.avi" to "name.avs". Leave the top filename and everything else the way it is.
4> Reload "name.ecl" file and you are ready to encode using your avs file as the source.

This will not work in cce 2.62 although you can run it with apcompat.exe, select NT w/sp5, you will have to use the vfapi.avi directly as 2.62 will not open an avs, tricks or not. Still pretty fast, though

Best,
DDogg