Today I've been busy editing several videos to show to my brothers later. When I tried to convert one particular video to AVI, it gave me an error message saying ".ffmpeg has stopped working" and then showed that the conversion had failed. It was confusing and frustrating, especially since it often happened just as the conversion reached 100%. How could the conversion fail if it was already finished???
Well, I found a way around it. As any videophile would, I had set the conversion quality to Same As Original. I changed it to High, and the video converted without a problem.
The problem is solved, but it still doesn't make sense to me. Why was it just one video that refused to convert, while the other hundreds of videos I've downloaded have converted with the same setting without problems? What makes that video different? And why was it only the quality setting that made it fail? I've converted a lot of videos with that setting and nothing went wrong until today.
Oh well. I guess the lesson here is that if something goes wrong with YTD, change a setting or two and see if that works. But try not to let it bully you into converting a video to low quality. If that happened to me, I'd record the video with Fraps instead. Fraps always saves as AVI.
