Avisynth open failure

[Devastator]

I've been trying to open a simple AVS file in VirtualDub (just a DSS / AviSource command), but I seem to keep getting the same error: 'Avisynth open failure: unexpected character "."' <-- floating dot

When I triy opening the AVS file in MPC, I get a 10 second clip with the text: 'unexpected character "ÿ"'

I thought that perhaps if I reinstalled particular software (namely Avisynth and FFDShow), that it would remedy the situation. I then tried reinstalling all of the decoding software and still found myself unable to open any files. I've been trying to reinstall codecs and AviSynth for about the last hour with no success.

I no longer recall how I arrived at it, but at some point I started getting this error instead: 'Avisynth AVI Import Failure: (Unknown) (80040154)' Could've been I forgot to revert AviSource back to DSS when I changed the file path back to a MKV, but now it's back to the previous error.

The problem started just today. I have no memory as to whether I had installed anything between today and a few days ago when it was working.

[gzarkadas]

'Avisynth AVI Import Failure: (Unknown) (80040154)'

I encountered this error recently and was fixed when I downloaded and installed the 2.5.7 version of Avisynth directly from the project's page at sourceforge.

[Devastator]

Thanks for the tip, I've been using AviSynth 2.5.7, perhaps with the exception of that time, which perhaps may have been the reason I couldn't duplicate the error message again.

Anyways, a really stupid mistake on my part. I wasn't paying attention and used the Unicode Text Document setting when I saved the file, which appears to have caused the first error since I have Unicode set to Japanese for my system. Re-saving the file with the regular Text Document setting seems to have fixed the issue.