Do I have to use AviSynth?

[spwnt]

I've been browsing around your forums, looking at the threads about people being unable to get stuff into itunes, and your reccommendation was to try it with AviSynth. Well I did and it works. And I am content with that, but I have a lot of things I want to put on my ipod and using the smallest conversion would be preferred. I know beggers cant be choosers, but I was just wondering if there is a way to make it so I can use the smaller file conversions or if I have to use AviSynth,

[spwnt]

sorry forgot the log. this is a log without avisynth

EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\mediainfobatch.bat "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\MediaInfo.exe" "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\parameters.txt" "C:\Users\spwnt\Desktop\lol\lol.avi"

PlayTime=00:24:02.650

Width=512

Height=384

AspectRatio=1.333

FrameRate=23.976
MediaInfo Command line, MediaInfoLib - v0.7.4.5
MSG - OS - Version: Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6000.0
MSG - Converter - Version: 2.19
MSG - Converter - Profile: H.264 QVGA 384kbps Stereo/128kbps
MSG - MediaInfo - Length: 1442s
MSG - MediaInfo - Width: 512 pixels
MSG - MediaInfo - Height: 384 pixels
MSG - MediaInfo - Aspect Ratio: 1.333
MSG - MediaInfo - Framerate: 23.976 fps
MSG - Converter - Automatically Resizing Resolution
MSG - Converter - New Width:320 | New Height: 240
MSG - Converter - Automatically Generating Framerate
EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "C:\Users\spwnt\Desktop\lol\lol.avi" -f mp4 -title "lol" -timestamp "2007-05-30 04:36:21" -vcodec h264 -level 13 -s 320x240 -r 24000/1001 -b 384k -bt 384k -bufsize 2000k -maxrate 768k -g 250 -coder 0 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128k "C:\Users\spwnt\Documents\Converted Videos\iPod\H264\lol.mp4"

FFmpeg version SVN-r8731, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-liba52 --enable-avisynth --enable-libdts --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-x264 --enable-xvid --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --cpu=i686 --enable-memalign-hack --extra-ldflags=-static
libavutil version: 49.4.0
libavcodec version: 51.40.3
libavformat version: 51.12.1
built on Apr 15 2007 00:37:23, gcc: 4.3.0 20070330 (experimental)
[NULL @ 009BC940]looks like this file was encoded with (divx4/(old)xvid/opendivx) -> forcing low_delay flag
Input #0, avi, from 'C:\Users\spwnt\Desktop\lol\lol.avi':
Duration: 00:24:02.6, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1310 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 512x384, 2.00 fps(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to 'C:\Users\spwnt\Documents\Converted Videos\iPod\H264\lol.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 320x240, q=2-31, 384 kb/s, 23.98 fps(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
[h264 @ 009BC940]using SAR=1/1
[h264 @ 009BC940]using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 3DNow!
Press [q] to stop encoding
[mpeg4 @ 009BC940]looks like this file was encoded with (divx4/(old)xvid/opendivx) -> forcing low_delay flag
[mpeg4 @ 009BC940]looks like this file was encoded with (divx4/(old)xvid/opendivx) -> forcing low_delay flag
frame= 33 fps= 0 q=20.0 size= 104kB time=1.4 bitrate= 617.4kbits/s
frame= 72 fps= 72 q=23.0 size= 179kB time=3.0 bitrate= 489.0kbits/s
frame= 108 fps= 72 q=26.0 size= 272kB time=4.5 bitrate= 494.4kbits/s
frame= 144 fps= 72 q=26.0 size= 369kB time=6.0 bitrate= 503.1kbits/s
frame= 182 fps= 72 q=23.0 size= 466kB time=7.6 bitrate= 503.4kbits/s
frame= 223 fps= 74 q=26.0 size= 572kB time=9.3 bitrate= 503.5kbits/s
frame= 258 fps= 73 q=27.0 size= 672kB time=10.8 bitrate= 511.5kbits/s
frame= 291 fps= 72 q=25.0 size= 757kB time=12.1 bitrate= 511.2kbits/s
frame= 323 fps= 71 q=25.0 size= 837kB time=13.5 bitrate= 509.0kbits/s
frame= 362 fps= 72 q=26.0 size= 937kB time=15.1 bitrate= 508.7kbits/s
frame= 400 fps= 72 q=24.0 size= 1036kB time=16.7 bitrate= 508.6kbits/s
frame= 439 fps= 73 q=22.0 size= 1136kB time=18.3 bitrate= 508.2kbits/s
frame= 478 fps= 73 q=31.0 size= 1299kB time=19.9 bitrate= 533.6kbits/s
frame= 514 fps= 73 q=28.0 size= 1438kB time=21.4 bitrate= 549.4kbits/s
frame= 554 fps= 73 q=25.0 size= 1558kB time=23.1 bitrate= 552.3kbits/s
frame= 595 fps= 74 q=27.0 size= 1656kB time=24.8 bitrate= 546.5kbits/s
frame= 623 fps= 73 q=24.0 size= 1730kB time=26.0 bitrate= 545.4kbits/s
frame= 662 fps= 73 q=24.0 size= 1842kB time=27.6 bitrate= 546.4kbits/s
frame= 700 fps= 73 q=28.0 size= 1955kB time=29.2 bitrate= 548.5kbits/s
frame= 733 fps= 73 q=31.0 size= 2130kB time=30.6 bitrate= 570.9kbits/s
frame= 762 fps= 72 q=31.0 size= 2342kB time=31.8 bitrate= 603.6kbits/s
frame= 794 fps= 72 q=31.0 size= 2523kB time=33.1 bitrate= 624.1kbits/s
frame= 826 fps= 71 q=31.0 size= 2689kB time=34.5 bitrate= 639.5kbits/s
frame= 858 fps= 71 q=31.0 size= 2854kB time=35.8 bitrate= 653.4kbits/s
frame= 892 fps= 71 q=31.0 size= 3030kB time=37.2 bitrate= 667.2kbits/s
[h264 @ 009BC940]VBV underflow (-7537 bits)
[h264 @ 009BC940]VBV underflow (-12986 bits)
[h264 @ 009BC940]VBV underflow (-13760 bits)
frame= 928 fps= 71 q=31.0 size= 3209kB time=38.7 bitrate= 679.2kbits/s
frame= 972 fps= 72 q=31.0 size= 3317kB time=40.5 bitrate= 670.3kbits/s
frame= 1004 fps= 71 q=31.0 size= 3499kB time=41.9 bitrate= 684.6kbits/s
frame= 1051 fps= 72 q=31.0 size= 3585kB time=43.8 bitrate= 669.9kbits/s
frame= 1098 fps= 73 q=31.0 size= 3672kB time=45.8 bitrate= 656.8kbits/s
frame= 1144 fps= 73 q=31.0 size= 3776kB time=47.7 bitrate= 648.3kbits/s
frame= 1186 fps= 74 q=31.0 size= 3886kB time=49.5 bitrate= 643.5kbits/s
DELETE: C:\Users\spwnt\Documents\Converted Videos\iPod\H264\lol.mp4
ERROR 0002 - Could not delete the following file: C:\Users\spwnt\Documents\Converted Videos\iPod\H264\lol.mp4
ERROR 0001 - Exception raised:
System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\spwnt\Documents\Converted Videos\iPod\H264\lol.mp4' because it is being used by another process.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.Delete(String path)
at Videora.Conversion.Video.EncoderFlows.iPod.0b67580 14c4f17b8.ec74212ffbd60c7e()
frame= 1224 fps= 74 q=31.0 size= 4024kB time=51.1 bitrate= 645.7kbits/s

[Midiman]

I never use it myself. I've always been able to get decent results without it. You should never use it for converting ripped DVDs, etc... but it seems to be necessary for some people when converting avi and other video formats.

[msopnet]

You can edit any of the profiles (i.e. choose a small one) and in the video options you can set the one that says AVISynth.

You can also use AVS Maker (below) and the profiles it adds include a low quality (small file size) one. Instructions are in the help file.