Having trouble building Frameserver w/VFAPI

[birdcat]

I've been following this tutorial so far with out problems. http://www.bobsomers.com/articles/dvdmoviefiles4.php

It says to open your D2V project in VFAPI Reader. But every time I select the file and click open I get this error window. The only thing it says is:

???? C:\GUNDAM_MS08_V4\VIDEO_TS\ms08-10.d2v ?????.

Then you click the OK button, and thats it. Nothing happens. I've gone back and deleted the project and completely started from scratch two times already and I don't understand what the problem is.

[Laddydaddy]

Have you installed the vifpset.bat.? You will see this icon in the codec folder which resides in the VFAPIConv folder. Double click the icon to install it.

[birdcat]

Yeah, I did that, the program wouldn't run without it if I remember correctly. Because I had tried to run it once before, before installing that. Perhaps I should try reinstalling it.

[celtic_druid]

A guide suggesting VFAPI with XP screenshots?? I didn't think anyone was using VFAPI since XP was released at least not for XviD encoding.

I would suggest that you switch to AVISynth. Faster encoding and better quality. Reason for this is that VFAPI means a forced RGB24 conversion, as does using VDub filters. So you go YV12-->RGB24--Resize-->YV12-->XviD instead of YV12-->Resize-->XviD.