Conversion SVCD -> DivX gives virtualdub error

[Cabadam]

I followed the guide on doom9's website using gordian knot and everything seemed to be going ok. Then, it crashed in the video processing portion.

I decided that I would just do the video myself, so I opened vdub and tried to open the first MPG file (3 of them). I get:
"MPEG Import Filter: pack synchronization error"
I'm assuming this is also what caused the crash.

I get that on all three files. What does it mean?
Thanks!

[Zhnujm]

it means that vdub cannot read mpeg-2 files directly ;)
gordian knot uses avisynth to frameserve the mpeg-2 file to vdub, thats why it works.
sorry if i cannot be more helpful but i dont know much about gordian knot.

[vorbis]

use that to create a d2v file. you can then use gknot to create an avs file that you can frameserve into vdub. Theres a guide for it.

[Cabadam]

Yeah I tried it that way w/ gordian knot the first time, but it did not work either. I guess I could try doing vdub from the avisynth manually though.

[Zhnujm]

if you want to try it manually with vdub, create a d2v file with dvd2avi and create a avs file like this:
-
LoadPlugin("x:\mpeg2dec.dll")
mpeg2source("x:\myvideo.d2v")
-
then you can open the avs file with vdub.