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Makes no sense! Looking for experienced help!

Postby Silenkiller » Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:02 am

So, this has me incredible confused at this point.

About a year ago I exported my video out of premier in uncompressed RGB format. I then backed it up on another comp.

Well the other day I pulled it back over, and when I attempted to play it no video was playing. Now mind you the size is still 6.99 Gigs, so obviously theres video data.

So, being on a new computer, I added a butt load of codecs and what not, not that I should have needed to for uncompressed video footage. I tried putting it back in premier, after effects, virtual dub, nothing. Audio no video. I attempted to reinstall my gfx card drivers even lol.

I analyzed it in gspot and avicodec, and they all say i should be able to play this, and that it has no compressor. Can a video just randomly corrupt itself? Anyway to recover? VLC player doesnt show video either.

Any suggestions/help?
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Postby Scintilla » Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:33 am

VirtualDub(/Mod) doesn't give you any warnings or anything when you open the file?

Try compressing the file to something like XviD or MPEG-1 and see if the resulting smaller file plays.
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Postby CrackTheSky » Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:25 am

Scintilla wrote:Try compressing the file to something like XviD or MPEG-1 and see if the resulting smaller file plays.


Yeah...media players tend to freak out with files that big.

...Although it should show up in your editing programs :/
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Postby Silenkiller » Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:06 pm

meh, tried compressing it - notta. nothing.

any other suggestions?
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Postby Gox777 » Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:42 am

I don't think it should be necessary, but try installing ffdshow.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
I notice that my VLC doesn't play certain files (mainly huffy) when I export from Premiere, but Windows Media Players plays them fine.
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Postby Silenkiller » Mon Dec 25, 2006 8:05 am

yeah tried that - nothen.
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Postby Minion » Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:23 pm

its too early for me to read the posts above, so sory if it's been said.
it's likely that you just don't have enough machine to play a uncompressed avi.
my computer even studders when i'm playing lagarith files.

open it in virtualdubmod. scrub through it and the video should be there.
now export it as xvid and the xvid file should eb able to play in your media players.
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Postby Silenkiller » Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:01 pm

sigh, it isnt playing at all. theres no video whatsoever. its like the video data is there but not playing. trust me, ive tried playing it in everything.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:14 pm

The video worked at some point in the past when you exported it?
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Postby Minion » Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:40 pm

if my suggestion did not work - there is no video
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Postby Silenkiller » Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:54 pm

yeah, it totally worked. i exported it as uncompressed avi.

now its still the same file size, but it doesnt work? could it have been corrupted? i mean its 7 gigs christ there has to be video there.
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Postby Minion » Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:12 pm

as i said media players don't do well with uncompressed or lossless codec.
if you want to watch it, encode it into xvid
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Postby Silenkiller » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:48 am

ok follow me here, ive tried that. also i should be able to see it in premier and i cannot.
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Postby Gepetto » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:44 am

Try loading it through a DirectShow script.
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Postby Silenkiller » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:46 pm

Gepetto wrote:Try loading it through a DirectShow script.



hmmm, any chance u can elaborate on that? Im not sure what that is :)
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