x264 keeps crashing after first pass

[McFlipp]

I'm trying to encode something in x264. But at the end of the first pass virtualdubmod (also tried vdub) crashes... When i look back at the "job control" screen the status of the first pass is "aborted"...
I tried 2 different *.ts files but no difference...

This is my avisynth script:

Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mpeg2dec3.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\decomb521.dll")
Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\DGDecode.dll")
mpeg2source("D:\***\*******\file.d2v")

SelectEven()
Decimate()


The source is 720p .ts file and i don't want to resize it.

Anyone know what the problem is here?

[Sharktooth]

x264 VFW is no longer mantained and VFW is not able to correctly handle h.264 codecs.
Use an appropriate tool for converting your files: MeGUI, StaxRip, RealAnime, MKVMagic...

[McFlipp]

VFW? What is that? I'm just using the x264 codec from x264.nl... (558)
And VDubMod isn't an appropriate tool? I've done like 500 XviD encodes with and they all went just fine.


Edit: Wow i'm using MeGUI now, which works really nice! And the HQ Insane profile is 3 times faster than the encoding via VDubMod! Doesn't crash anymore either! Thnx.

[Sharktooth]

VFW is an encoding/decoding framework (Video For Windows) which is pretty old and not suited for new generation codecs.
Even xvid and divx devs had to implement some hacks to make their codecs work correctly with VFW (for example the infamous Packed Bitstream).
VirtualDub (and some other video editing applications such as adobe premiere, etc) rely on that framework.