x264 won't encode

[VEGITA]

I have a thread in the GUI section about meGUI not working. So I thought I'd give the command prompt a shot. I get this when I try to encode.

C:\Documents and Settings\baka>x264.exe --crf 20 -o "D:\1-Epic Music\1.avs" "D:\
1-Epic Music\1.mp4" 720x480
x264 [info]: 720x480 @ 25.00 fps
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 Cache64
x264 [info]: profile Main, level 3.0

And nothing happens. Any thoughts?

[Dark Shikari]

Outputting to an AVS file and inputting from an MP4 file?

[VEGITA]

Oops! I switched it but now nothing happens, no message, nada.

I tried some older versions of x264 same thing. Question remains what is stopping x264 from working properly?

[Guest]

Post your new command line and give the full AVS script.

[VEGITA]

I reinstalled net.framework and now when I try to call x264 in command prompt it gives me the message x264 is not a valid win 32 application. It's clear there's something wrong with Windows.
and about the script i was using the preview window in megui showed the video so no problem with the script.

[Guest]

If you don't provide the requested information then there's no way to help you.

[VEGITA]

last command I tried before it completely stopped working
x264.exe --crf 20 -o "D:\1.mp4" "D:\1-epic music\1.avs"


script


# Set DAR in encoder to 81 : 59. The following line is for automatic signalling
global MeGUI_darx = 81
global MeGUI_dary = 59
DGDecode_mpeg2source("D:\1-Epic Music\ggtg.d2v", info=3)
ColorMatrix(hints=true, interlaced=true, threads=0)
crop( 0, 2, 0, 0)
Spline36Resize(720,480) # Spline36 (Neutral)

[Guest]

What is your OS?

Is the command prompt opened in the same directory as the x264.exe? In other words, do you have a path problem finding the executable?

You could also have a corrupted copy of x264.exe. Re-download a reliable version of it and try with that.

[Selur]

also global MeGUI_darx = 81
global MeGUI_dary = 59
does do nothing is you don't use MeGui, so don't wonder if your output will have a wrong PAR ;)

[VEGITA]

It was definitely Windows crapping out. It's just that it was the first time that it happened in almost 2 years. I installed Vista and everything is working now. Reason why I posted here is I was hoping to find out what went wrong so I can make sure it doesn't happen again. Oh well, I guess I'll never know.

[VEGITA]

It happened again, now on Vista x64. MeGUI loads the script, shows the preview window, but it doesn't encode. What can cause this? I haven't installed any programs or made any changes to my system. It doesn't make sense.

[Sharktooth]

check for viruses/malwares/trojans/etc...

[Trahald]

This would only matter with Vista, but... You need administrator privileges to output to the root directory. x264 would output an error though. Not sure what megui would do.

[VEGITA]

I scanned with Malwarebytes and Avira and found 3 trojans, deleted them, still doesn't work.




ed: I reinstalled avisynth 2.58 but it still didn't work so I thought I'd give 2.57 a try, and sure enough it fixed the problem.