Encoding Issues - VirtualDub

[Dani Maxwell]

Long Story:

I've subbed "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" for some friends before, using Sub Station Alpha and VirtualDub some time ago.
After looking for some info, I've been told that the best encoding way is: "Xvid, Advanced Simple @L5, Twopass - 2nd Pass" and then choosing my filesize / birtrate.
At that time, this worked just fine... then I had to format the PC and lost everything, including the episodes. But I still had the original raws, and tried to encode them again... but failed Ò_ó

It keeps showing the message: "Filestats not found!" and "Cannot start compression, operation not supported (error code-1)"
I tried messing around a bit and managed to encode it, after creating a "video.pass" file after starting an encode with "Twopass - 1st Pass", cancelling and starting the 2nd Pass encode. Still, I don't get why or what could be causing the error, and if what I'm doing now will do fine. Can anyone help me?

Short Story:

I'm trying to encode a RAW anime file into "Xvid, Advanced Simple @L5, Twopass - 2nd Pass", but it shows the message "Filestats not found!" and "Cannot start compression, operation not supported (error code-1)".
What should I do?

[bayoab]

It keeps showing the message: "Filestats not found!" and "Cannot start compression, operation not supported (error code-1)"
I tried messing around a bit and managed to encode it, after creating a "video.pass" file after starting an encode with "Twopass - 1st Pass", cancelling and starting the 2nd Pass encode. Still, I don't get why or what could be causing the error, and if what I'm doing now will do fine. Can anyone help me?
If you are going to use 2pass, you need to run (and not cancel) the 1st pass every time you use a different raw or change the settings. The first pass makes the stats file for the second pass. Otherwise, you need to switch to 1pass.

[Dani Maxwell]

If you are going to use 2pass, you need to run (and not cancel) the 1st pass every time you use a different raw or change the settings. The first pass makes the stats file for the second pass. Otherwise, you need to switch to 1pass.


Hum, but the first time I tried to encode, it went just fine, without the 1st pass file...

So, I need to make the encode at 1st pass, it'll be a file with the settings I've choose, but I won't be able to choose the filesize. Then, I encode again at 2nd pass (overwriting the 1st file?) at the filesize I want?

Thanks alot!

[bayoab]

Hum, but the first time I tried to encode, it went just fine, without the 1st pass file...

So, I need to make the encode at 1st pass, it'll be a file with the settings I've choose, but I won't be able to choose the filesize. Then, I encode again at 2nd pass (overwriting the 1st file?) at the filesize I want?

Thanks alot!

Probably a copy of the stats file already existed the first time. When you encode a first pass, it takes statistics on the file about how to use the bits most efficiently based on the settings and spits out the .stats file. When you encode the second file, it uses the stats to encode it optimally at the file size size. You don't want to overwrite the stats file.