A question about a guide

[j-rad306]

I was reading VicBond007's guide to working with DVD footage, and I got to the part about using VirtualdDub to see my ripped video footage, and I had a problem. I wrote the script just as it said in the guide, but when I tried to open it, VirtualDub kept telling me this:

VirtualDub Error
Avisynth open failure
Load plugin: gobbledygook that would take me a while to duplicate
(C:\the path to\the script.avs, line 1)

I don't get it. I typed it just like it said:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\MPEG2Dec3.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb521.dll")
MPEG2Source("C:\the path to\the video.d2v", CPU=4, iPP=true)

(this was copied and pasted (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) from the Notepad script (which I did save as a .avs file), with the exception of the replacement of the path to the d2v file)

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[BasharOfTheAges]

Are you using VirtualDub or Virtual DubMod? The latter is what you want.

[Willen]

The key thing about VirtualDub/Mod error messages is that they tell you what part of the script has a problem. I've highlighted it bold below.

VirtualDub Error
Avisynth open failure
Load plugin: gobbledygook that would take me a while to duplicate
(C:\the path to\the script.avs, line 1)

Which means that VDub/Mod cannot do whatever you have on line 1 of your script which is:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\MPEG2Dec3.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb521.dll")
MPEG2Source("C:\the path to\the video.d2v", CPU=4, iPP=true)

Since VicBond007's guide is old, and MPEG2Dec3.dll has been superceded by DGDecode.dll, I suspect (especially if you installed AMVapp) that you don't have MPEG2Dec3.dll on your system. I recommend that you either replace MPEG2Dec3.dll with DGDecode.dll in your script or omit the first 2 lines altogether since newer AviSynth versions will auto load DLLs in the plugins folder.