Before I begin, please bare with me. This is my first time doing this. I am pretty new to Avisynth and VirtualDub. 
I am trying to help my friend compress their video into a reasonable file size so they can put it up on the this website. They exported from Vegas 6.0 using MPEG-2 (I know: Gasp! :p) and that's the only thing I have to work with. Obviously they don't want any further quality loss, so I used avisynth using the directshow filters and cut off any black borders, resized, etc. I imported the .avis file into Virtual dub and followed the guide here: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... /xvid.html. The first pass was flawless: no errors, great video quality, and so on. It got reduced from 150MB to 119MB and for a second pass I was aiming for the "70% rule" which was a little over 83MB. I entered in all the information, calculated the kb, put it into the main XVID box and still followed the guide exactly. I began saving and the only thing working was the "Time elapsed" box. The rest of the boxes all had things like "Unknown" and many zero's showed up and the XVID status box wasn't moving at all. I waited a long time and eventually aborted it, and thank goodness the project was still in there so I could try again. I re-checked my calculation and it was correct. So I clicked the calc box next to the target size number and I noticed all the information was wrong: It said his video was over an hour long, etc. (The guide said you never have to change these settings if you follow the 70% rule, but I did it anyway to give it a try) I fixed everything and then noticed that the number on the main XVID setting box had changed a little. I went back and made sure they were both the same. When I tried saving again, the same thing happened. I tried many different things and finally the program came up with two different errors saying: "Thread deadlock detected attempting to abort - killing process" and then "The instruction at 0x018497a8 referenced memory at 0x01875d00. The memory could not be 'read.' Click OK to terminate the Program." I clicked OK because that's the only thing I could do and Oh noes! It shut off. Now I'll have to do this all over again from first pass (I think).
Does anyone know what's causing this? If I do it all over again and take screenshots do you think anyone could more clearly understand what's going on and help me? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really want to be able to do this for him and convert my own videos in the future. Thanks for taking the time to read this!
