samthegreek wrote:A) I triple check, and this is not a problem (thanks, though)
B) I don't understand
C) I did as you said (thank you), but I'm still getting an error
AviSynth Error
AVISource: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc dvsd
(J:\blah\blah\blah.avs, line 1)
If the issue is B, could you please explain? I'm dumb when it comes to these technical things.

*If it is an account user "Administration" thing, I am logged on as Administrator with full rights... as far as I know.
When you installed ffdshow, did you tell it to handle DV? You need to go into both the VFW configuration and the Video decoder configuration dialogs and set the drop-down next to DV from 'disabled' to 'libavcodec'. The 'couldn't locate decompressor' message is telling you that you don't have a decoder installed (or set up correctly so it can recognize it - if ffdshow has DV set to 'disabled' then that would be why).
Also realize there are two slightly different forms of DV, and only one is fully compatible with traditional AVIs - I never export in DV, so I don't mess with this at all. If you can play the file in Windows Media Player, though, and ffdshow is set to use libavcodec for DV (but you still get the errors), then you'll need to use DirectShowSource or possibly FFmpegSource instead. Note: FFmpegSource is a separate plugin that you have to install on your own.
As far as B) is concerned, if you're logged in as Administrator with full rights then it shouldn't matter. Notepad refusing to save the file can mean that you aren't authorized to save the file (which would occur if you were not Administrator and tried to save in a protected area), or possibly that the drive has run out of free space - or merely
thinks it's run out of free space. Characters in the filename might cause it on occasion, or if it's that you want to overwrite another script with the same name, that one may be read-only, or be getting used already by another process.