First Time User, Can't Find Nero AAC

[ehbowen]

NeroAACEnc was a separate tool from Nero, they don't offer it themselves anymore, but you can still get it from: https://www.videohelp.com/software/Nero-AAC-Codec. (simply extract the neroAacEnc.exe into your Hybrid/32bit-folder and Hybrid should find it)

I am a registered user of Nero 2020 so if it's included in that I could copy it

No, Nero's AAC Encoder was always free and never was bundled with any of their other software as far as I know.

AVSMeter should be located under Hybrid/32bit/AVSMeter.exe never had any problems with it,..
Might be an anti virus software or similar interfering,.. you can also try different AVSMeter versions from: https://www.videohelp.com/software/AVSMeter

Cu Selur

Ah. Both of those suggestions, combined, did the trick. I did find the Nero AAC codec at the videohelp.com address and was able to download it. You might want to update the address in your "Licenses" install popup. And the AVSMeter was indeed being blocked by antivirus; I use Comodo/Itarian's Client-Security 12. It's very protective; if you try to execute any program which isn't in their database (which includes most of your A/V tools, unfortunately) it defaults to "running inside the container" where no other application can see it. I deactivated it for 15 minutes and Hybrid started normally. I intend to log into my management panel (for Itarian) and ask them to evaluate the tools you use (via their Valkyrie service/database) and re-rate them as "clean" so that I (and other Comodo users) can use them without having to jump through this hoop every time.

Thanks very much for your help, and I look forward to learning how to use Hybrid----Eric H. Bowen

Edit To Add: I'm attaching a copy of the preliminary (automated) Valkyrie report; once a human being looks at it and evaluates it (in a few days) it should be given a final rating.