Help with importing videos

shwin · Post by **shwin** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:04 am

I decided to make a bleach AMV and thus downloaded some bleach episodes. However, when I try to import them the movie maker says "error: codec not installed"...yet I have already downloaded hte XP Codec Pac 2.0.7.1...any reason why this isnt working? (I can import other video clips...)

shwin · Post by **shwin** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:11 am

BTW those clips are all .avi files, and I tried turning off "avi splitter" and I keep getting that error

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:12 am

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:17 am

If you can play them in WMP, chances are you have the codec. The only thing I can suggest is go to "Tools" "Options" "General" and make sure that "download codecs automatically" is checked.

shwin · Post by **shwin** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:44 am

I did, and it's still not working. Is it best to just close out of everything first?

BlaCk_PeArL_27 · Post by **BlaCk_PeArL_27** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:52 am

shwin wrote:I did, and it's still not working. Is it best to just close out of everything first?

Use the Gspot and read the info of what kind of video codec you do have and video format too.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:59 am

did you click the banner i posted :/

shwin · Post by **shwin** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:02 pm

Ok I see that out of all the codecs I have the file only works with divXand xVid which is a no-no...so what encoder/decoder should i get? (this is an avi file after all)

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:04 pm

i actually just posted it in the other thread :/

BlaCk_PeArL_27 · Post by **BlaCk_PeArL_27** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:25 pm

shwin wrote:Ok I see that out of all the codecs I have the file only works with divXand xVid which is a no-no...so what encoder/decoder should i get? (this is an avi file after all)

if you have a video on Xvid/DivX get of course that codec to work on your WMM "_"