MeGUI - x264/XviD/lavc/Snow encoder with MP4/MKV/AVI output & audio

[popper]

MeGUI is the most comprehensive GUI based ISO MPEG-4 solution.

Avisynth 2.55 (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/SupportUtils/AviSynth_255.exe) for video frameserving. Beta versions are NOT!!! supported



the http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/SupportUtils/AviSynth_255.exe
link is broke in the first post.

[foxyshadis]

That's okay, 2.55 is long outdated and MeGUI will download its own Avisynth package when you run autoupdate the first time, anyway.

[Rash]

Let me just ask a very very stupid question, though I sincerely don't know the answer.

How do I know which version of the XviD encoder was used in a mencoder build?

[sjchmura]

Please no one laugh - I am sure this is simple and I apologize for beign so dumb..

I am giving up on nero (as Foxy can attest)

ATSC+AC3-> Mp4 (no brainer)
-> MKV PRESERVING the AC3....
1. In the MEGUI "autoencode" section, after setting up my AVISynth, if you want to PRESERVE the AC3 and not "resample" it to AC3 is there an option? If you choose AC3 the original 5.1 AC3 gets resampled.

DO you just need to mux it manually???

2. To clean up some low-bit rate HDTV ATSC source, should I use undot() or some other filer.....

[Sharktooth]

Error Report

MeGUI 0.2.3.2192
x264 577-1

Previous x264 worked (575), this one is showing nf parameter error:

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Starting job job1 at 4:09:11 PM
encoder commandline:
--crf 20 --no-fast-pskip --nf --no-cabac --subme 7 --analyse p8x8,b8x8,i4x4 --qpmin 1 --me esa --thread-input --progress --no-dct-decimate --no-psnr --output "F:\Desktop\AS2004\A2004.t1.r1-v3.mp4" "F:\Desktop\AS2004\A2004.t1.r1.avs"
successfully started encoding
Processing ended at 4:09:12 PM
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Log for job job1

x264 [error]: invalid argument: nf = (null)

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The problem is x264 577-1 removed the -nf parameter (Enable Deblocking in the GUI). At least the cmdline syntax list doesn't show it anymore.

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Feature Request

On a more personal note, I use only the x264 component, but when updating it auto-checks all the components with updates. I have to manually uncheck them each time. A check all / uncheck all button would be handy; even better would be a second set of checkboxes to indicate whether I want them updated.

Another idea would be to renovate the window into a full components manager, with the ability to add and remove (delete) components, and only update the components that are installed. This would save a lot of time updating.
--nf should be still there... if it doesnt then it's a bug in the x264 commandline parser coz the changelog doesnt says it was removed but
better error checking in x264_param_parse.
add synonyms for a few options.
However checking the 577 changes seems --nf was removed in favour or --n

[Sharktooth]

In build 578A I added a fix for the --nf switch.
MeGUI should auto-update x264 to that version.

[bob0r]

581 has --nf fixed again, but better just use --no-deblock :)

[Sharktooth]

confirmed... it was fixed in rev579.

[mrdutchie]

ok, trying this program for the last 4 days...
not getting it to work.


Sometimes it closes without anyerror after creating a d2v file

I have all the latest files

but getting a error like this

Scripterror about Colormatrix command

I am using avisynth256 can't get the 255 anywhere.
is that causing the problem?

Also for Output. I select 1/2 CD, but there is no profile etc.
Do I need to create my own ones?

I was able to import the Divx profiles and another set of profiles.

I am confused lol....

Thanks

[Sharktooth]

:readguid:
also the auto-update server is down so megui wont be able to automatically get all the required components.

[mrdutchie]

seems to work fine.
downloaded all the files from that link

http://mewiki.project357.com/auto/?title=auto

Isn't there a link with a good manual/install ? I saw 1 but the link ain't working...


so.... I am still stuck with my issue.... see above

and where can i find avisynth255 only finding 256 and doom9 links are dead
maybe that's my problem, that they took a function out?

[Sharktooth]

256 should work as well as 255

[mrdutchie]

I am getting the error


The file "E:\yugioh\episode1.avs" cannot be opened
Script Error : there is no function named "ColorMatrix"

I saw that ColorMatrix is set when you turn on a option in
the Setup under a MPEG2 setting for Color Correction

[Sharktooth]

You need the colormatrix filter or just disable color correction.

[check]

Just a note, that mirror is pretty out of date now, I know at least x264 has been updated a lot. Anyone know how to make wget (or any unix command) to synchronise the real /auto folder with mine?

[Doom9]

You're putting a lot of stress on those servers by redownloading everything.. there's really no point in doing so.. the installer really does nothing but copy files and write an adapted settings file.
You can't really configure the actual avisynth that is used for opening scripts....
And, that error you posted is pretty self-explanatory imho.. it tells you that AviSynth needs to be installed.. what more do you want?

[Tropican]

Um, I don't know if this is the right place to post this but the link to the wiki documentation isn't right in the sticky. It should be: http://mewiki.project357.com/Main_Page

[mrdutchie]

seems like there is a bug in the software

Why do I need to put everytime the "Extra" folder with the
4 filters into the folder where my file is that needs to be decoded..

I can't find a place to set a Extra Folder, so it's always can stay there.

[check]

@Tropican: thanks for the update.

@mrdutchie: You can specify the location of .cqms in the codec config window for xvid, on the second or third page near the bottom.

[parcival]

:readguid:
also the auto-update server is down so megui wont be able to automatically get all the required components.Is it going to be fixed? Is there another way to update (get the xml from another server)?

[Sharktooth]

It should be fixed soon

[check]

you can do it manually. read http://mewiki.project357.com/Installation for basic install instructions, and you can grab somewhat out of date versions of required programs from http://mewiki.project357.com/auto . That should tide you over 'til the server gets fixed :)

[parcival]

:thanks:

[mrdutchie]

@Tropican: thanks for the update.

@mrdutchie: You can specify the location of .cqms in the codec config window for xvid, on the second or third page near the bottom.

I did, but I noticed in the Xvid Profiles, I need to changes the paths.

[mrdutchie]

How is this possible.

1. Doesn't playback the Xvid. only black screen, but i do have sound
2. Framerate went from 29.97 to 23.97


Starting job job1 at 3:55:12 PM
encoder commandline:
-AIF=[E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.mpg] -OF=[E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7] -exit -minimize -OM=1 -TN=1
successfully started encoding
Processing ended at 3:55:38 PM
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Log for job job1


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Job completed successfully and deletion of intermediate files is activated
Generating jobs. Desired size: 367001600 bytes
Setting desired size of video to 367001600 bytes
Desired size of this automated encoding series: 367001600 bytes, split size: 0
Autocropping successful. Using the following crop values: left: 2, top: 0, right: 10, bottom: 2.
Automatic deinterlacing was checked. Running now...
Deinterlacing used: edeintted = AssumeTFF().SeparateFields().SelectEven().EEDI2(field=-1)
tdeintted = TDeint(edeint=edeintted,order=1)
tfm(clip2=tdeintted).tdecimate(hybrid=1)
Avisynth script created:
global MeGUI_darx = 0
global MeGUI_dary = 0
DGDecode_mpeg2source("E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.d2v",info=3)
ColorMatrix(hints=true)
edeintted = AssumeTFF().SeparateFields().SelectEven().EEDI2(field=-1)
tdeintted = TDeint(edeint=edeintted,order=1)
tfm(clip2=tdeintted).tdecimate(hybrid=1)
crop( 2, 0, -10, -2)

LanczosResize(640,640) # Lanczos (Sharp)
#denoise
Starting job job2-1 at 3:57:11 PM
encoder commandline:

successfully started encoding
Processing ended at 3:58:45 PM
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Log for job job2-1

Channels=2, BitsPerSample=16, SampleRate=48000Hz
C:\Documents and Settings\Perry\Desktop\Megui\ffmpeg.exe -i - -y -acodec ac3 -ab 128 "E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY -4ms_0.ac3"FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-mingw32 --enable-memalign-hack --enable-gpl --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-mp3lame --enable-faac --enable-amr_nb --enable-faad --enable-amr_wb --enable-pp --enable-x264 --enable-xvid --enable-theora --enable-libogg --enable-vorbis
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
built on May 13 2006 18:31:30, gcc: 4.1.0 [Sherpya]
Input #0, wav, from 'pipe:':
Duration: N/A, bitrate: 1536 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, 1536 kb/s
Output #0, ac3, to 'E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY -4ms_0.ac3':
Stream #0.0: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0

video:0kB audio:19225kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%


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Job completed successfully and deletion of intermediate files is activated
job job2-1 has been processed. This job is linked to the next job: job2-2
We have an audio job followed by a video job
The audio job is named job2-1. The first video job is named job2-2.Found another video job: job2-3.
The audio job is named job2-1 the first pass job2-2.
The video job has a desired final output size of 367001600 bytes and video bitrate of 700 kbit/s
Found a preceding audio job: 'job2-1'.job2-1 completed successfully, taking size into account...The size is of this track is 19685888 bytes, and the type is AC3. Taking this into account in the bitrate calculation.
Desired video size after substracting audio size is 337797KBs. Setting the desired bitrate of the subsequent video jobs to 2245 kbit/s.
Starting job job2-2 at 3:58:45 PM
encoder commandline:
-i "E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.avs" -pass1 "E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.stats" -bitrate 2245 -kboost 100 -ostrength 0 -overhead 0 -nopacked -quality 4 -vhqmode 3 -qpel -qmatrix "C:\Documents and Settings\Perry\Desktop\Megui\extra\Didees SixOfNine.cqm" -closed_gop -imax 3 -pmax 4 -max_bframes 1 -bvhq -bquant_ratio 100 -bmax 4 -threads 1
successfully started encoding
Processing ended at 4:25:12 PM
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Log for job job2-2

xvid_encraw - raw mpeg4 bitstream encoder written by Christoph Lampert 2002-2003

Trying to retrieve width and height from input header
Input colorspace is YV12
xvidcore build version: xvid-1.2.0-dev
Bitstream version: 1.2.-127
Detected CPU flags: ASM MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 TSC
Detected 1 cpus, using 1 threads.

Tot: enctime(ms) =620376.00, length(bytes) = 1187837521
Avg: enctime(ms) = 21.00, fps = 47.62, length(bytes) = 40208
I frames: 470 frames, size = 110617/51990342, quants = 2 / 2.00 / 2
P frames: 15479 frames, size = 57626/892000689, quants = 2 / 2.00 / 2
B frames: 13591 frames, size = 17941/243846483, quants = 3 / 3.00 / 3
N frames: 1 frames, size = 7/ 7

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Job completed successfully and deletion of intermediate files is activated
job job2-2 has been processed. This job is linked to the next job: job2-3
Starting job job2-3 at 4:25:12 PM
encoder commandline:
-i "E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.avs" -pass2 "E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.stats" -bitrate 2245 -kboost 100 -ostrength 0 -overhead 0 -nopacked -quality 4 -vhqmode 3 -qpel -qmatrix "C:\Documents and Settings\Perry\Desktop\Megui\extra\Didees SixOfNine.cqm" -closed_gop -imax 3 -pmax 4 -max_bframes 1 -bvhq -bquant_ratio 100 -bmax 4 -threads 1 -avi "E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7_Video.avi"
successfully started encoding
Processing ended at 5:34:44 PM
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Log for job job2-3

xvid_encraw - raw mpeg4 bitstream encoder written by Christoph Lampert 2002-2003


Tot: enctime(ms) =3194198.00, length(bytes) = 436415590
Avg: enctime(ms) = 108.12, fps = 9.25, length(bytes) = 14772
I frames: 470 frames, size = 66033/31035898, quants = 2 / 2.98 / 3
P frames: 15479 frames, size = 20601/318894735, quants = 3 / 4.00 / 4
B frames: 13591 frames, size = 6363/86484950, quants = 3 / 4.97 / 5
N frames: 1 frames, size = 7/ 7
Trying to retrieve width and height from input header
Input colorspace is YV12
xvidcore build version: xvid-1.2.0-dev
Bitstream version: 1.2.-127
Detected CPU flags: ASM MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 TSC
Detected 1 cpus, using 1 threads.
desired video bitrate of this job: 2245 kbit/s - obtained video bitrate (approximate): 2838 kbit/s
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Job completed successfully and deletion of intermediate files is activated
Found intermediate output file 'E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.stats', deleting...
Deletion succeeded.job job2-3 has been processed. This job is linked to the next job: job2-4
Starting job job2-4 at 5:34:44 PM
encoder commandline:
-v "E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7_Video.avi" -a "E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY -4ms_0.ac3" -o "E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.avi"
successfully started encoding
Processing ended at 5:35:19 PM
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Log for job job2-4

DivXMux: Version 6.1 Build Num: 36
Output File Streams:

TrackId 0: Video Stream: From AVI
Frame Rate: 23.976024
Resolution: 640x640
TrackId 1: Audio Stream: From AC3
SamplesPerSec: 48000
BlockAlign: 1


Creating Index...


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Job completed successfully and deletion of intermediate files is activated
Found intermediate output file 'E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.avs', deleting...
Deletion succeeded.Found intermediate output file 'E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7.d2v', deleting...
Deletion succeeded.Found intermediate output file 'E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY -4ms.ac3', deleting...
Deletion succeeded.Found intermediate output file 'E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7_Video.avi', deleting...
Deletion succeeded.Found intermediate output file 'E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\Episode 7 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY -4ms_0.ac3', deleting...
Deletion succeeded.

[check]

@mrdutchie
1. probably something wrong with your playback setup. What playback filter do you use?
2. This is normal, it's what happens when the framerate is IVTCed. More info here: http://www.doom9.org/synch.htm

[fegul]

I may have missed something in the last few pages, but I usually encode the video seperately from the audio and when they are muxed together, they are not in sync anymore. I dont believe I accidentally changed the framerate of the video since it seems to play back smoothly, but how I can I tell for sure what the fps of a DVD is since it could either be 23.97 or 29.97?

EDIT: Actually I used MPC to open the AVS file and dub the encoded audio, and I'm still getting audio that is not in sync. I used MeGUI to create the AVS script, and I simply had the audio encoded with MeGUI too. Why isnt it in sync??

[check]

possibly your CPU can't handle whatever filtering you are doing on the avs to transform it in real time? Otherwise, as long as any delay in the audio track's filename is taken into account, you should run into no problems.

[fegul]

possibly your CPU can't handle whatever filtering you are doing on the avs to transform it in real time? Otherwise, as long as any delay in the audio track's filename is taken into account, you should run into no problems.

I'm pretty sure its not that since I have a Core 2 Duo e6600 and there is no delay in the filename of the audio. I tried doing everything from scratch, and when I try to encode the video using x264's Automated 2-pass, it gets through the first pass and then the x264 process crashes when it starts the 2nd pass.

I'm going to update x264 and see if that does anything.

[Sharktooth]

a x264 crash is probaly a sign of system instability...

[fegul]

a x264 crash is probaly a sign of system instability...
I don't think thats it since everything else runs stable and I've had this up for 5 days at a time and nothing else has crashed. I've worked on projects in Premiere, and encoding to WMV never crashed on me.

Plus it was working on the machine a few weeks ago. I'm not sure if MeGUI downloaded an update for x264 that could be the problem.

This is what the log says;
Log for job job4-2

avis [info]: 640x352 @ 29.97 fps (231594 frames)
x264 [error]: requested bitrate is too low. estimated minimum is -2147483648 kbps
x264 [error]: x264_encoder_open failed

[mrdutchie]

@mrdutchie
1. probably something wrong with your playback setup. What playback filter do you use?
2. This is normal, it's what happens when the framerate is IVTCed. More info here: http://www.doom9.org/synch.htm

I have tried Xvid 1.12 or 1.20 and some older ones

When I look in my properties for the file, I noticed
that the video is 12Bit Xvid

and when I look at another Xvid file, coded in AutoGK then it's 24Bit Xvid

First I thought the file was playing after using Megui but
it seems like the file ain't moving at all.
I tried Mediaplayer, PowerDVD, NeroVision.

No clue why it ain't working.

[check]

Just a note, I changed the addesses in the wiki slightly, the addresses now have the form mewiki.project357.com/wiki/Main_Page (http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/Main_Page)where previously they were mewiki.project357.com/Main_Page (http://mewiki.project357.com/Main_Page). Note the old address format still works, all links will be in the new format. This was changed primarily to give a little more flexibility and to allow miscellaneous folders in the root directory to be accessed (provision for an autoupdate mirror and a few other things).

[Doom9]

@fegul: and what would the x264 commandline be?

[bananacreamandpeca]

Hi

I have some dvd-rips on my HD in ISO format.
Because I do not want to decode everything first (no exrta hd-space),
Can Avisynth be used to feed MeGUI these iso-files?

thanks.

[FooFighter007]

How about daemon tools to mount these ISOs. Then you might use dgindex for the project file. This can be processed by Avisynth. No extra space is required except for the audio files

[LigH]

An ISO file is the whole content of a DVD, an "image". Including the "table of content" (the file system, the directory and file structure) in the beginning, and the content of all files following.

AviSynth won't be able to read "a disk as a whole" (and why would anyone write a plugin that should read and understand images?); it can only read "files on a disk" with matching plugins. So it would simply be the best to mount this DVD image in a virtual DVD drive. Several burning tools provide such a tool (e.g. Nero ImageDrive, Alcohol ##%), an there are several special tools for this purpose (Daemon Tools, VirtualCD, ...). They read an image file from a harddisk and pretend to be a real DVD drive.

[bananacreamandpeca]

Ok. thanks.

can gknot also take/read a whole iso when its mounted and read through avisynth?

[bananacreamandpeca]

One more thing

I cannot seem to run MeGui.
Its says
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megui.exe - Application Error
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The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.
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OK
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so now what?

I tried to install the net framework whatever.
installation just hanged end nearly gave me a freakin heart attack thinking my windows is now screwed.
jeezus whats this?
framenetwork also needed 280 MB of space???
Luckily i could deintsall the damn thing.

[check]

you *need* the .net framework 2.0 to run megui. I'm pretty sure it doesn't take 280mb of space by itself - the download is only 20mb. If it won't install, you've got a problem with your windows.

[mrdutchie]

I am having to problems

1. How do I create a !Stats file?
I am not finding any option to create this file.
seems like only the 1Step encoder will create it.


I am getting this error when I do it step by step with the
Guide

Trying to retrieve width and height from input header
Couldn't open statsfile 'E:\Yu-Gi-Oh DVD's\Season 1\Vol 3 7 only 8-9 missing\hi.stats'!

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2. when I use the step by step guide

and import my d2v i am getting the error

the scripts return was not a video clip

When I hit preview, ill get the same error

when I try to save the Avisynth file, the file is 0kb with
nothing in it.



This is a part of the d2v file created by dvdencrypter.

DGIndexProjectFile13
1
C:\ooo\VTS_01_1.VOB

Stream_Type=1
MPEG_Type=2
iDCT_Algorithm=4
YUVRGB_Scale=1
Luminance_Filter=0,0
Clipping=0,0,0,0
Aspect_Ratio=4:3
Picture_Size=720x480
Field_Operation=0
Frame_Rate=29970 (30000/1001)
Location=0,0,0,60D37

900 6 0 2048 1 1 92 b2 b2 a2 b2 b2 a2 b2 b2 a2 b2 b2 a2
900 6 0 342016 1 1 92 b2 b2 a2 b2 b2 a2 b2 b2 a2 b2 b2 a2


What is wrong with this??

I am using the latest build. 2192 I think it was

[check]

have you installed all related plugins?

[mrdutchie]

yes I did..
I even downloaded the whole complete package last week.

Where can I find the option to create a .stats file
and the other issues

[check]

you should not need to create the stats file - it is automatically created by the first pass.

[mrdutchie]

you should not need to create the stats file - it is automatically created by the first pass.

funny.... it's asking for it before doing the 1st pass

tried with the step by step guide, and you will run into it too.

[oddball]

"MeGUI has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Does this one 2 different PC's. Latest version> Installed Avisynth non-beta and .NET 2.0 is installed.

[check]

@dutchie - no idea then. Try a complete reinstall.

@oddball - any more information....?

[oddball]

@dutchie - no idea then. Try a complete reinstall.

@oddball - any more information....?


I wish I could provide more info. But that is the only error it shows. Can someone put up a zip file of ALL the files I need (Apart from .NET 2) just in case I am missing something or got the incorrect versions? I will try again with that.

[check]

sorry, by 'more information', I meant:
o when this error occurs,
o with what megui version,
o if it occurs after a re-install of all related components (in this case, megui & the .net framework)
:)

[oddball]

- When I try to run it.
- MeGUI.NETv2.0_Bins_0.2.3.2177.zip
- .NET 2.0 is installed correctly on both PC's