Why are programs asking for mkunicode.dll?

[minaust]

...especially since I don't have the Haali media splitter installed any more?

Hi everybody!

Just today, I was in the middle of a DVD rip, and just for grins I thought I'd use my new .avs script to re-compile x264 and use the script to fprofile it. When the fprofile part started, a message box popped up telling me that x264.exe could not start because "mkunicode.dll" could not be found. This did not occur when using an uncompressed YUV file. (Which is what I normally use.) But the compile appeared to proceed normally nonetheless.

As mkunicode.dll is part of the Haali splitter and I didn't really need Haali, I uninstalled it. No change. I was horsing around and discovered that VirtualDubMod also wanted mkunicode.dll. It's worth noting that everything seemed to proceed normally despite the missing dll.

Windows 7 x64, Komisar's MinGW 4.7.3, VDubMod 1.10.3, if that's any help. I Googled all over the place, and all i found were the sites that gave vague, generic descriptions of dll files and really, really, really wanted to scan my registry for errors.

The big question:
Did Haali take a dump on my system? Any help would be appreciated.

[Groucho2004]

1. Did you install some codec pack?
2. Post the script.

[minaust]

1. Did you install some codec pack?
2. Post the script.

1. I don't use codec packs. Xvid, ffdshow, and LAV, with madVR as my renderer. I prefer to pick and choose, not slam my machine full of crap codecs I don't need.

2.
video = MPEG2Source ("C:\SE D1\VIDEO_TS\testvid.d2v")
audio = NicAC3Source ("C:\SE D1\VIDEO_TS\testvid T80 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY 23ms.ac3", Channels = 2, DRC = 0)

AudioDub (video, audio)

Lanczos4Resize (720, 540)

st = 48
ed = st + 239

trim (st, ed)

As you can see, simple, basic script.

[Groucho2004]

No idea why it would ask for that Haali DLL. Probably there is some garbage left in the registry.

What's the purpose of the audio stream in a script used for profiling x264?

[minaust]

No idea why it would ask for that Haali DLL. Probably there is some garbage left in the registry.

What's the purpose of the audio stream in a script used for profiling x264?

Haali is gone, folder & all. Could be something is registered in system32 that's calling for it, but what? I used regedit to search my registry, and mkunicode.dll was nowhere to be found in it.

As for the audio, I just forgot to take it out when I modified an existing script.:o

EDIT: All fixed now - one of the Haali dlls made it's way into the avisynth plugins folder. How I did that, I'll never know....