by CrackTheSky » Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:18 pm
Hmmm...I'll tell you what I know/remember...
File size before compression: ~2.5GB
I exported the video from Vegas, using the HuffYUV codec...
When I compressed the file in VDM, I used the following XviD settings:
-A5 @ L5 (H.263 Quantization type, if that means anything to you guys)
-Twopass encoding type (the file in question is the first pass; I assumed that doing a second pass wouldn't be helpful in the least seeing as the first one doesn't work at all)
Umm...like I said, I followed AbsoluteDestiny's guide to the letter, so whatever he did in his guide is what I did.
I'm almost positive I have the latest version of XviD; it's version 1.0.3. I tried to play my video in both Real Player and Windows Media Player.
I *think* the error message was: "ad2mpegin.dll could not be located. Reinstalling the program may fix the error." I can't be sure, though, because it won't show up now; it just plays the blank file. That only happened when I opened it in Real Player, though; opening it in WMP simply gives me an error message like: "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. One or more codecs required to play the file could not be found."
Opening it in VDM results in a black screen with the music playing regularly - not messed up.
And the AVS script I used to open my file in VDM before compressing it was this:
avisource("E:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop\Music Vids\Amnesia in Comfort - Crack the Sky.avi")
smoothdeinterlace(tff=false,doublerate=false)
converttoyv12()
mftoon()
deen("a3d",4,10,12)
Crop(40, 0, -40, -0)
LanczosResize(512, 384)
Hope that's enough.