VDM - No first/second pass encoding with XviD

BauziOLD · Post by **BauziOLD** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:46 pm

I wouldn´t be an editor if there were not problems, right?
So I know how to compress in x264, but there are still people that won´t a good old XviD amv *sigh*
Right when I try to encode in XviD I get this nice errors:

"Error! Statsfile not found"

and

VirtualDubMod-Cannot start video compression: The operation isn´t supported (error code -1).

I tryed the newest version of VDM and XviD and also older versions of these two "proramms". So what the heck is wrong? =/

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:18 pm

The stats file is produced during the first pass. I don't know if it would produce a different error, but make sure that is located at a valid path.

The other question is: did you do it right? You have to save your video twice - first with 2pass 1st pass, than with 2pass 2nd pass.

BauziOLD · Post by **BauziOLD** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:26 pm

Keeper of Hellfire wrote:The stats file is produced during the first pass. I don't know if it would produce a different error, but make sure that is located at a valid path.

The other question is: did you do it right? You have to save your video twice - first with 2pass 1st pass, than with 2pass 2nd pass.

T_T I really hate it when afterwards everything works fine without a change.

But anyway: How would I set the path of the thingy?

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:16 am

The settings for the stats file you find if you press the "more..." button behind the encoding type field.

Keeper of Hellfire wrote:You have to save your video twice - first with 2pass 1st pass, than with 2pass 2nd pass.

I should enhance on this. You need to do the first pass only once. As long as you don't change the source video, you can make as many different second passes as you want. For example, to find the best balance between size and quality.

BauziOLD · Post by **BauziOLD** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:46 am

Alright and I say: Thank you!

BauziOLD · Post by **BauziOLD** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:27 am

Oh man... The same error came today up again and I did no changes in my system.
The only thing that I did was installing Particle Illsusions 3. So there can´t be a problem with that, or am I wrong?

BauziOLD · Post by **BauziOLD** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:47 pm

I don´t know what exactly killed my XviD, but after reinstalling it worked again. It´s not a good feeling to know that a codec breaks maybe whenever it wants to. =/