AVISource problem in VDM

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AVISource problem in VDM

Postby cireogle » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:19 pm

If I try to open an AVI file in VirtualDubMod with just the basic code:
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AVISource("C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\AMV.avi" ConvertToYV12()

I get the error: "AVIsynth Open failure- AVIsource: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourccXviD"

Anyone know where I've gone wrong?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:24 pm

1) Those 2 statements should be on sperate lines.
2) Do you have the proper codecs installed to... you know... view your source? If not, you should probably get it.
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Postby cireogle » Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:55 pm

1) They are in the avs file that's just a typo.
2) I wouldn't know, everything works fine if I'm deinterlacing mpeg files. I installed everything off AMVapp and put the TIVTC plugin in there, so I would assume I do.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:02 am

Werll, it's saying it can't find an XviD compressor... do you not have XviD installed?
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Postby Tab. » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:22 am

Install either Xvid or FFDShow. You don't have an Xvid decompressor, as implied by the error message.

http://www.xvid.org/
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
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Postby Keeper of Hellfire » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:54 am

To add: XviD is already YV12, so the ConvertToYV12() line is unnecessary.
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Postby Qyot27 » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:25 pm

Tab. wrote:Install either Xvid or FFDShow. You don't have an Xvid decompressor, as implied by the error message.

More specifically (for the benefit of the OP), they don't have a VFW decompressor for XviD, since that's what AVISource works with. My guess is they already use the DirectShow-decoder-only version of ffdshow from the CCCP or bypass using DirectShow-based players at all and strictly use something like VLC.
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Postby cireogle » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:07 pm

If I go start>all programs, there's an entire section for XviD, but it's seperate from the AMVapp section, would that count?
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Postby Scintilla » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:51 pm

Sounds like you only got the DirectShow decoder then. Get the fully featured version of the codec, at http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml
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Postby cireogle » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:04 am

Scintilla wrote:Sounds like you only got the DirectShow decoder then. Get the fully featured version of the codec, at http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml


I definately didn't have that version, but when I installed it and loaded VDM it still didn't work. Was I supposed to do something with the program or just install it?
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Postby Brad » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:37 am

See if the AVI will even load directly into VDM (as in, not through AVIsynth. Just drag the video into VDM and see if it reads). If it doesn't, and you know for a fact that you have installed an actual build of XviD, then I'd say something is wonky with the original encode of the AVI, and not with your system/codecs.
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Postby cireogle » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:07 pm

It gives a similar message in a different window "Couldn't locate decompressor for dvsd" but the video still loads into it for some reason, though it won't show the footage if I'm scrolling through, and it doesn't give me the option to use any compressors, and if I do export that same uncompressed footage, it comes out with the sound lagging about a second behind.

Would it be possible if I could just put the original AVI on a DVD, then decrypt that DVD and convert the Mpeg footage to XViD? If nothing else works, that is.
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Postby Scintilla » Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:10 pm

cireogle wrote:It gives a similar message in a different window "Couldn't locate decompressor for dvsd"

Okay, DVSD definitely != XviD.

You need a VFW DV codec; this one seems to work: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Pan ... _Codec.htm
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Postby Tab. » Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:14 pm

DVSD? Isn't that a DV codec? :|

http://movavi.com/codec/DVSD.html
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Postby cireogle » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:22 am

Scintilla wrote:
cireogle wrote:It gives a similar message in a different window "Couldn't locate decompressor for dvsd"

Okay, DVSD definitely != XviD.

You need a VFW DV codec; this one seems to work: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Pan ... _Codec.htm


It worked! Both the avs and the avi files load into VirtualDubMod without a problem now.

Thanks for everyone's help.
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