Crashes w/ any version of CCE, avisynth, and mpeg2dec

[rkorkie]

Hi there, I haven't posted in the forum before, but have read many of the posts in the past. I can't seem to find a resolution with trying to transcode a DVD using ANY version of CCE and avisynth. I have WinXP SP1 on an Athlon 900.

I have tried CCE 2.50, 2.64, 2.66 beta with ANY combination of avisynth 0.3, 1.0 beta 2, 2.03, 2.06, 2.5 alpha along with any combination of mpeg2dec, mpeg2dec2 or mpeg2dec3 and every time I load my basic avs file into CCE, it either crashes immediately (CCE 2.50), or will not encode the video at all (CCE 2.64+).

I have tried creating a D2V project file with multiple versions of DVD2AVI, including 1.76, 1.77 and 1.86.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I can try or what the issue might be? I CAN successfully use the VFAPI converter to create an AVI file and load it into CCE, but I don't want the penalty of the extra overhead and time that this method uses to go from RGB->YUV.

FYI, my avs is very simple:

LoadPlugin("C:\DVD\MPEG2DEC.dll")
mpeg2source("C:\DVD\matrix.d2v")
ResampleAudio(44100)

Thanx all for your help!

Ryan

[rkorkie]

ok, it doesn't look like there is much feedback here, but this is what I discovered. Using DVD2AVI 1.76 and CCE 2.50 and avisynth 2.06 and mped2dec.dll was a winning combination. But, it seems if I changed any of the variables, particularily the DVD2AVI version, that seems to cause the greatest problem. I have yet to get CCE 2.64 or greater to work with any combo of these. The only reason I'm concerned is because I would assume 2.66 would yield newer features, greater improvements, faster speed, and greater quality over CCE 2.50. Does anyone know this to be true for a fact?