EXCEPTION: Open avi failed.

[cdslaughter]

I am using auto to burn some episodes of stargate to my nas for my home media center. The problem I am having is that auto gk wont write the avi file, it gives the following error "EXCEPTION: Open avi failed.". It does everything like normal but at the end it fails to write the file. Included is a copy of the log file.

Any advice would be appreciated.


[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] AutoGK 2.40
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Job started.
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Input file: \\NAS-01\media\Videos\Stargate SG1\Season 1\Disk 2\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_0.IFO
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Output file: C:\Documents and Settings\Carl\Desktop\7.avi
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Output codec: XviD
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Audio 1: English AC3 2ch
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Subtitles: none
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Format: AVI
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Target size: 350Mb
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Audio 1 settings: Auto
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Standalone support enabled: MTK/Sigma
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Started encoding.
[6/9/2007 12:06:54 PM] Demuxing and indexing.
[6/9/2007 12:13:04 PM] Processing file: \\NAS-01\media\Videos\Stargate SG1\Season 1\Disk 2\VIDEO_TS\VTS_04_1.VOB
[6/9/2007 12:13:04 PM] Source resolution: 720x480
[6/9/2007 12:13:04 PM] Found NTSC source.
[6/9/2007 12:13:04 PM] Source aspect ratio: 16:9
[6/9/2007 12:13:04 PM] Color correction enabled.
[6/9/2007 12:13:04 PM] Analyzing source.
[6/9/2007 12:15:08 PM] Source has percentage of interlacing in motion areas: 38.30
[6/9/2007 12:15:08 PM] Source has percentage of telecined patterns: 94.06
[6/9/2007 12:15:08 PM] Source has percentage of progressive patterns: 3.63
[6/9/2007 12:15:08 PM] Source has percentage of interlaced patterns: 2.31
[6/9/2007 12:15:08 PM] Source is considered to be FILM.
[6/9/2007 12:15:08 PM] Output will contain 63600 frames
[6/9/2007 12:15:08 PM] Decoding audio.
[6/9/2007 12:15:39 PM] Normalizing audio.
[6/9/2007 12:15:52 PM] Encoding audio.
[6/9/2007 12:20:23 PM] Audio1 size: 38,678,832 bytes (36.89 Mb)
[6/9/2007 12:20:23 PM] Overhead: 2,544,000 bytes (2.43 Mb)
[6/9/2007 12:20:23 PM] Video size: 325,778,768 bytes (310.69 Mb)
[6/9/2007 12:20:23 PM] Running compressibility test.
[6/9/2007 12:20:23 PM] Writing the following script to C:\Documents and Settings\Carl\Desktop\agk_tmp\7_comptest.avs
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LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\decomb.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\ColorMatrix.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\Carl\Desktop\agk_tmp\7.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
fixed_aspect = 1.18518518518519
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
input_par = (input_par > 1.4) || (input_par < 1.25) ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
out_width = 640
out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
Telecide(movie,guide=1,post=2).Decimate(mode=0)
autocrop(mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
ColorMatrix("Rec.709->Rec.601",opt=0,hints=false)
SelectRangeEvery(300,15)
===========================================================
[6/9/2007 12:22:45 PM] Duration was: 2 minutes 22 seconds
[6/9/2007 12:22:45 PM] Speed was: 22.38 fps.
*************************************
EXCEPTION: Open avi failed.
*************************************
[6/9/2007 12:22:45 PM] Job finished. Total time: 15 minutes 51 seconds

[cdslaughter]

I tried reloading my pc with a fresh load of windows thinking it may be some un known issue.

this did not work

Anyone else have any thoughts?

[dwm4444]

This has happened to me a few times over the years, (out of a few hundred encodes) but it's been awhile so I don't remember much about it. I think I fixed it once by simply clearing a "read-only" attribute on the output folder. Another time by an uninstall/reinstall of AutoGK (only takes a few minutes). Other times I followed some of the tips in this thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=76335
and eventually something would work.

Hasn't happened again in a long time. Strange. It may be because I now routinely reinstall AutoGK before using it if I have installed another encoding program which installs one of AutoGK's components, such as Xvid, to prevent undersized encodes.

Good luck.