What, o' what, am I doing wrong???

[AllPurposeNothing]

I am beating myself silly over this and have nearly lost it.

Using Matt Woodward's guide for making an intermediary compression file from a VHS capture for later compressing to Divx and DVD, I have been able to create the intermediary file with no problem.

However, every time I bring the intermediary file into AGK, I run into problems.. It rips and re-encodes the audio ok, but it takes 10 hours for it run the compressibility test! And then Virtual Dub crashes trying to open the file for compressing (error code 2).

The original capture is an NTSC VHS tape captured in Huffy, 29fps, 640x480.

The intermediary is created through Virtual Dub and avisynth using this script:

AVISource("C:\CAPTUE000.00.avi")
Crop(0,8,0,-8)
GuavaComb(mode = "NTSC")
PeachSmoother()
Telecide(guide=0)
Decimate(cycle=5)
Levels(0,1.2,255,0,255)
MipSmooth(preset = "VHS")

Why in the world can't Virtualdub re-encode a file it created??? What is wrong with this AVisnyth s ript that its making the intermediary file such a problem??

I just don't get it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mumford, the All Purpose Nothing

[Abond]

The intermediary is created through Virtual Dub and avisynth using this script:

What is the output codec?

[AllPurposeNothing]

Output codec is Huffy as well.

[AllPurposeNothing]

Some more info. Have tried moving over to Gordian Knot for more flexibility.

GK won't accept the intermediary point blank but if I fileserve it through VirtDub, it will load in.

When trying to encode with the intermediary file, I get a message about an error in the .avs script regarding UnDot only being able to handle YUY2 files.

Thing is that I'm sure I captured the orginal video in YUY2 format.

My understanding is that UnDot greatly improves compression so I'm probably better off not removing it from the avs script created by Gordian Knot.

Is there something I can add to the avs script to relieve this problem? Or should I just scrap the UnDot line and try to encode without it??

Again, any help is greatly appreciated.

-Mumford, the All Purpose Nothing