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Postby Penguin_Factory » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:02 am

Hi. I'm tearing my hair out over this Virtualdub doo-hickey.

My cousin recently gave my a software package thingy containing a crapload of Adobe programs, including Premiere. I got the "working with DVD footage" tutorial for my planned Kino's Journey AMV but I've hit a snag: the part where you write the Avisynth script.

I've done everything the guide said multiple times, but I keep getting an error message saying that the file type couldn't be detected. What's going wrong?
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Postby Willen » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:13 am

Post your script. And if possible, the error message that VirtualDub/Mod gives you.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:40 am

Here's the script:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth2.5\plugins\MPEG2Dec3.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth2.5\plugins\Decomb521.dll")
MPEG2Source("C:\Documents and Settings\Ronan\Desktop\AMV stuffs\Kino AMV\Kino's Journey video/blargh.d2v")

The error message reads thusly:

Cannot detect file type of ""C:\Documents and Settings\Ronan\Desktop\AMV stuffs\Kino AMV\Kino's Journey video/blargh.d2v"

I have a feeling htere's probably some tiny spelling mistake or something that's causing this, but I can't find it.
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Postby Athena » Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:37 am

Wrong plugin. You need DGDecode.dll, and I never have to load plugins in my scripts at all. O.o
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:27 pm

Kionon wrote:Wrong plugin. You need DGDecode.dll, and I never have to load plugins in my scripts at all. O.o


..... What? Neither of the tutorials mentioned that. Where do I get it?
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Postby Athena » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:35 pm

Penguin_Factory wrote:What? Neither of the tutorials mentioned that. Where do I get it?


It should have come with AMVapp. Did you install AMVapp, or did try to compile all the different programs yourself? If the latter, uninstall everythingl, get amvapp, ???, PROFIT.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:47 pm

Did you install AMVapp, or did try to compile all the different programs yourself?


I installed AMVapp. What folder is the DGDecode.dll thing supposed to be in? The avisynth plugins? I'll try that first.
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Postby Qyot27 » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:10 pm

Some of the programs included in the AMVapp are ridiculously outdated. You can get the newest version of DGIndex and DGDecode from here:
http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/dgmpgdec.html

Index the MPEG2 with DGIndex, and make sure DGDecode is in C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\

And the reason it may have caused an error:
C:\Documents and Settings\Ronan\Desktop\AMV stuffs\Kino AMV\Kino's Journey video/blargh.d2v

(bolded) That right there...it needs to be a \. Alternately, if your script is in the same folder as the d2v file, it doesn't need the full filepath.

As long as the AviSynth plugins are in C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins, you don't need to use the LoadPlugin feature.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:55 pm

Okay, we have progress...... of a sort.

I deleted the last part of the file path, and I'm now getting a different error message when I try loading the file into Virtualdub:


MPEG Import Filter: Invalid pack at position 3: marker bit not set; possibley MPEG-2 stream

I have no idea what that means.

Index the MPEG2 with DGIndex


Hang on, do what to the what? I opened up DGIndex but it just looks the same as DVD2AVI, the program I used on the ripped footage originally.

I'm sorry if these are obvious questions, but I really am clueless when it comes to these things. I don't even know what half the video software on my computer does, as long as it results in me being able to do whatever it is needs doing.
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Postby Athena » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:27 pm

...

You should have used DGIndex to begin with. You will now have to reindex and use the new d2v file that DGIndex makes, and make sure you've got DGDecode.dll!
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:46 pm

You should have used DGIndex to begin with


..... why? Neither of the tutorials I'm going by mention it.

Anyway, I did what you said but it's still not working.
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Postby Athena » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:10 pm

Penguin_Factory wrote:why? Neither of the tutorials I'm going by mention it.


Because the software has changed (and improved) since those tutorials were written...

Anyway, I did what you said but it's still not working.


My fault. I didn't tell you to use the avs script it produces and simply copy your commands over. When you do that, it should work, if it doesn't, copy the error you get. You may have to go as far as to switch out the DGDecode.dll if you end up with a different version of DGIndex than you have of DGDecode.dll (they must be from the same version). It's happened to me before.

If this doesn't work, the problem must be elsewhere, as I use this process three times a day and rarely run into issues.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:26 am

I didn't tell you to use the avs script it produces and simply copy your commands over


Hold on, you've lost me again. DGindex didn't produce any scripts- and where am I supposed to be copying the commands to?
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Postby Willen » Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:14 am

Penguin_Factory wrote:Hold on, you've lost me again. DGindex didn't produce any scripts- and where am I supposed to be copying the commands to?

If set up correctly, DGIndex will create a *.d2v file and also a *.avs file that only includes the MPEG2Source("C:\path\project.d2v") line. At that point, I open the avs file in notepad and copy and paste any addtional lines of code I need for the script (sometimes I copy them straight out of EADFAG, other times from my old scripts). I find copy / paste reduces the amount of errors I make when scripting, especially since many of the functions and filters are specific abbreviations of words.
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Postby Penguin_Factory » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:08 am

If set up correctly, DGIndex will create a *.d2v file and also a *.avs file


It doesn't appear to be working. Does that really matter, though? I've already got the script written out manually.

I was thinking, could the MPEG2Dec3 plugin be out of date or something?
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