Xvid in VirtualDub

[petarone]

When I use Virtual Dub to convert to Xvid I get a message statsfile not found and I can’t convert what is the problem.

[SerbianBoss]

What is your source?If is dv avi file you must to have decoder.

Maybe try virtualdub mod

[Delta2]

configure xvid codec to use 1 PASS

[Nelson37]

Or, if you are going to use 2-pass, do the first pass before the second.

[petarone]

the video is mpeg-2

[jagabo]

Doesn't matter what your source is. The stats file is used to pass information from the first pass to the second pass in a two-pass encode. Select twopass first pass, save as AVI (there will be no video in this file but the stats file will be created), select twopass second pass, save as AVI again.

[petarone]

I can’t get the two - past to work. I play the video in virtual dub and selected the xvid codec’s than select multipass 1 pass save as than virtual dub compresses the video. When it’s finish I play the compress file in virtual dub and go twopass and save as than that compression last only 2 minutes and at the and I get two 20 mb file they should be 100 mb and there’s no picture just sound.

[jagabo]

I can’t get the two - past to work. I play the video in virtual dub and selected the xvid codec’s than select multipass 1 pass save as than virtual dub compresses the video. When it’s finish I play the compress file in virtual dub and go twopass and save as than that compression last only 2 minutes and at the and I get two 20 mb file they should be 100 mb and there’s no picture just sound.

Are you saying you opened the AVI file from the first pass and ran the second pass on that? You shouldn't do that. Leave VirtaulDub with your original AVI file, select 2-pass second pass, then Save as AVI again.

1) Open AVI
2) set up any filtering
3) Select Xvid codec, set it to twopass, first pass
4) Save as AVI
5) Set Xvid codec to twopass, second pass
6) Save as AVI

[petarone]

So I should go save as but select don’t run job now sent to job control than select the options for the second pass and do the same save as with don’t run job but after I do this I go to the job control and select start this converts the files

[manono]

Yes, that's probably the easiest way to do it, as then the 2 passes will run one after the other. The other way is to set up and run the first pass, and then set up and run the second pass.