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Postby MovieMarc » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:10 am

it never really occured to me to ask but is their a codec or something that will make Xvid files open in Virdub?
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Postby Athena » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:12 am

XviD should always be openable in VirtualDub, or at least in VirtualDubMod (you should have this one anyway).
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Postby Digitalmaster3605 » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:13 am

Try VDubMod. If you have an XviD codec on your computer, then you should be able to open them.
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Postby MovieMarc » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:15 am

thats what I thought but :

[quoteth the raven] Couldn't locate decompressor for format "XVID' [unkniown]
VirtualDub requires a video for windows [VFW] compatible codec to decompress. DirectShow codecs, such as those used by windows media player, are not suitable. Only 'Direct stream copy' is available for this video.[/quote]
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Postby Athena » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:21 am

MovieMarc wrote:thats what I thought but :

[quoteth the raven] Couldn't locate decompressor for format "XVID' [unkniown]
VirtualDub requires a video for windows [VFW] compatible codec to decompress. DirectShow codecs, such as those used by windows media player, are not suitable. Only 'Direct stream copy' is available for this video.
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That's... odd. Reinstall xvid? VdubMod? Both....

And just curious, why would random people be pming you about betaing? That's kind of odd.
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Postby MovieMarc » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:28 am

Tried reinstalling both before neither worked

Kionon wrote:you about betaing? That's kind of odd.



I thought so too, some kid here, who will remained unnamed, Kept IMing me about AMV questions as if I knew the answer to them. then he kept bugging me to watch numerous Betas, each time I would tell him, "No, Id rather not"

Finally I got fed up and put that up
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Postby Athena » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:42 am

MovieMarc wrote:Tried reinstalling both before neither worked


Huh.

I've never had that issue. Can I ask what you are trying to convert?
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Postby Willen » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:51 am

If you use AviSynth and open the video up with DirectShowSource() it will work.
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Postby Gepetto » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:03 am

I remember someone having the same problem with H.264 a while ago. If I recall correctly, he had a problem with FFDshow's settings. Here's the link to the topic if you're interested: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=67990
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Postby MovieMarc » Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:36 am

heh, actually this kinda makes me laugh

so i tried Directshowsource

first I got "there is a [" cannot open.

so I took out the ['s and saved.

tried again

it said "there is a , or ( in line 1, colomn 31"

So i took out every possible thing they could have been talking about and saved.

tried again

now it says.

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Postby Gepetto » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:04 pm

That can mean one or both of two things, and both have to do with what you tiped as the argument for DirectShowSource.

POSSIBILITY 1: You didn't type in the directory for your file. Even if the script is in the same folder as the video you're trying to import, ypo have to type in everything. So if both Miruku.avs and TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi are in folder C:\AMV, you can't just put Directshowsource("TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi") in your script. You have to put the entire path, like so: [code]DirectShowSource("C:\AMV\TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi")

POSSIBILITY 2: You forgot to type in the extension of the file (I assume .avi). Even if your Windows Explorer is configured to hide extensions for known file types, AviSynth, which has nothing to do with Explorer, still needs to know the extension.

As you have probably noticed, both problems are the same thing (so why the hell did I split it in two?): You have to fill in the full path and filename in AviSynth, much like you would to open anything in the DOS Command Prompt that isn't in the WINDOWS folder.
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Postby MovieMarc » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:16 pm

im gonna say it was number one.
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Postby MovieMarc » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:25 pm

DirectShowSource(C:\DocumentsandSettings\Compaq_Owner\Desktop\TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi)


Thats the code Im putting in and its telling me:

Avisynth open failure:
script error: expected a , or )
(C:\DocumentsandSettings\Compaq_Owner\Desktop\TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi)
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Postby Qyot27 » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:27 pm

Gepetto wrote:POSSIBILITY 1: You didn't type in the directory for your file. Even if the script is in the same folder as the video you're trying to import, ypo have to type in everything. So if both Miruku.avs and TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi are in folder C:\AMV, you can't just put Directshowsource("TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi") in your script. You have to put the entire path, like so:
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DirectShowSource("C:\AMV\TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi")

AviSynth is fully compatible with relative paths. You don't need to include the full path if the script and the video are in the same folder.

MovieMarc wrote:DirectShowSource(C:\DocumentsandSettings\Compaq_Owner\Desktop\TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi)

The filepath needs to have quotation marks on either side, like so:
DirectShowSource("C:\DocumentsandSettings\Compaq_Owner\Desktop\TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya.avi")

The 'expected a , or ) ' error happens when the script elements aren't typed correctly; the most obvious in the case here is that there aren't quotation marks around the filepath. It can also happen if you leave a period at the end of the script or if you're missing a parenthese somewhere.

Also, some of those probably could use spaces in them. Documents and Settings, for instance, isn't one word. If the AVI has spaces in it, make sure that you have spaces in the name when you put it in your script. An easy way to avoid that problem entirely is to act like you want to rename the AVI, but instead, right-click on the highlighted text, use Copy, and then Paste that into the script.


The reason that it's saying you can't open it in VDub is likely because you're using something like ffdshow (maybe even the version packaged with the CCCP*). ffdshow is a DirectShow filter, it handles opening the files in Windows Media Player and other players that use DirectShow. What VirtualDub needs is a Video for Windows (VFW) codec. Most codecs (even ffdshow) include a VFW version, so it's usually seamless, but in ffdshow's case the VFW interface isn't automatically configured to open XviD or whatnot. You have to manually configure that yourself in ffdshow's VFW interface configuration (which should be found in the menu for ffdshow that appears in Start->Programs). Just change the places it says 'disabled' to 'libavcodec' and it should work (obviously not all of them, just the ones which pertain to XviD, DivX, MPEG4, H.263, and H.264, just to be safe).

*The version of ffdshow packaged with the CCCP does not include the VFW interface, so if you want to use ffdshow for that, you'll need to uninstall the one you've got and install one of the builds from http://x264.nl/
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Postby MovieMarc » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:19 pm

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thats what I got after puting quotations around the filepath.
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