The problem I encountered reared its ugly head when my curiousity led me to try out some of the other AVS4YOU packages. I tried a few including the older TV capture program from the archive, they were interesting and partly worked with my USB hybrid TV dongle… but when I went back to try out AVSVid to FLV some more I was greeted with an alert box that it couldnot find ordianl 771 in the shared DLL avscodecs.dll! Some or all of the subsiquent installs had over-written this giveaways version of the avscodecs.dll in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\AVSMedia\ActiveX\ folder this means that they need to fine tune their instalation regieme if they want to avoid this type of mess, version checking and files that are not really shared should be put in the individual programs foldernot in the shared folder that could be overwritten by a different incompatible version.

The DLL avscodecs.dll is NOT a shared ActiveX resourc but a normal DLL resoure used by most if not all of the various AVS offerings. It is not tied to any registry CLASS entry and is found by the AVS programs simply by searching the systems PATH when not found in its default installed location. It does not look in the current applications home folder so it cannot be easily relocated there by the end user. The program should be modified to look in its default install folder first and have the DLL installed in that same folder and cease using the shared activex AVSMedia folder for files that are NOT shared activex resources and that are version and application sensitive. I do apprietiate the facility to edit freely the contained encoding profiles. I do notice that when this offering is encoding on my dual core system with the process set at Normal priority it brings the remainder of the system to a crawl. It does not seem to give up CPU cycles easily. To enable me to continue typing here without typing blind I had to reduce the encoding processes priorty to less than normal using task manager, then it used all idle time in between my keystrokes and the display of said key strokes in this comment box.
When the program is idle the CPU usage drops away like any normal program. Memory usage is not over the top for an application of this type at 68M

@98 (GoodGTOD): I sometimes wonder whether people actually read; I gave a (be it very brief) review: that I won’t use something Flash related because of its many security issues. That too is an opinion, and given the fact that (an estimated) 75% of the computers connected to the internet are infected with some kind of malware a useful one IMO.

So… beware, and thank Yujin for the heads up!