cant import video [in Vegas]

[Blackwood]

OK, I'm sure this makes me a total idiot, but......
I can't find the "streams" tab in virtualdub, and when I try using it to open the file, I get an error message that says that it "requires a video for windows compatable codec to decompress the video". I have figured out that the files I'm trying to use are Xvid avi, if that helps at all.

[CrackTheSky]

The "Streams" tab should at the top of the window in Virtual Dub, with "File" and "Edit" and all those tabs. Of course, I use VirtualDubMod, so there may not be a "Streams" tab in regular Virtual Dub.

As for your codec problem, simply download the XviD codec.

[Kariudo]

in virtualdub, it's audio-wav audio. (to add an audio stream...otherwise it's just audio-no audio)
in virtualDubMod, it's streams-stream list (click add to add a stream, and click the speaker icon if you want to de-activate an audio stream...but there must be a video stream muxed with an audio stream to do this)

if you don't have xvid...then you'll have a hard time viewing xvid encoded video
http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml

[Blackwood]

Cool! Thanks, guys, I'll give that a try.

Sorry that it takes me so long to reply, but my mother's been ill for about a month now and has just come out of the hospital after being in there over a week, so I've been doing other things just lately.

She started blood thinners on a Fri, the doc says "make sure she doesn't hit her head". Sunday morning, she fell out of bed and hit her head on the hard wood floor! Blood everywhere!! Rushed her to the hospital, and she came home the next afternoon, but then a week later she had pains in her leg and I had to rush her back to the ER. After being in hospital for more than a week, they let her out but still don't know what's causing the pains!!

Real life, sometimes it's a royal pain!! LOL!