Valid invalid file?

JongWu · Post by **JongWu** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:48 pm

OK, just recently I got a friend of mine to download the AMVApp, and he's been trying to make fake AVIs from XviD AVIs to work with in Vegas, and his AVS files play perfectly fine in any media player, but whenever he tries to bring them to VFAPIconv to make those imitation AVIs, he gets an error message that tells him the file is invalid.

Now, I've been doing the same thing for a while, and I've never gotten this problem. Not once. It seems like he's got all of the same stuff I do, but he's still getting these messages!

Any ideas on how to fix this? Because I'm clean out of 'em.

(On a side note, he used to save XviDs directly from VOB files in VirtualDubMod, and this could be one of them, but I'm unsure if that affects anything.)

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:38 pm

And by "your" I mean "his", of course.

JongWu · Post by **JongWu** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:28 pm

Oh, damn. Silly me, what a foolish mistake.

AviSource("D:\Anime\Iron Man\IronMan14.avi")

And that's it.

RosenRed · Post by **RosenRed** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:17 am

Mmmm dedn't you say he has avs files that work perfecty?

AviSource("D:\Anime\Iron Man\IronMan14.avi")

That is an avi file right?

JongWu · Post by **JongWu** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:45 am

Well, he says the AVS plays perfectly in Windows Media Player, but it won't register in VFAPIconv as a valid file, for some reason.

Yes, it is an AVI file.

RosenRed · Post by **RosenRed** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:15 am

Wait wait....
It's been a long time since I used VFAPI but aren't you supposed to use the d2v files? Maybe I remeber wrong....

Have a look at this VFAPI reports .d2v file is invalid

And another thing I don't understand: If you have avis and you want to make avis why do you have to use VFAPI? Why not re-encode them in VDub? Unless I fail to understand what exactly you want to do...

JongWu · Post by **JongWu** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:18 am

Don't make assumptions, I'm really trying to fix something that I myself caused, see. I use .d2v project files for my stuff, but a long time ago I gave him an incredibly lazy method of using DVD footage(opening VOB in VirtualDubMod, saving AVI), and now he's having a lot of trouble with it. If I had told him the .d2v method instead beforehand, he probably wouldn't be having this problem, but I kind of underestimated his patience, I guess. And now here we are.

So now, he's working from wonky-looking XviD AVIs based on ghosty PAL-land VOB footage, and it's my fault.

RosenRed · Post by **RosenRed** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:51 am

Yes, but I still cannot understand why you want to do this the VFAPI way.... Why not filter/crop/etc with avisynth and export as avi in VDub? Except from the space this method requires I don't see any other problem...

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:09 pm

Or you can teach him the .d2v method now and say that it's a new thing :/
I'm going on a stretch here, but maybe it's a colorspace problem?

another opton woulkd be to come clean, but that's just blasphemy.

JongWu · Post by **JongWu** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:58 pm

Gepetto wrote:Or you can teach him the .d2v method now and say that it's a new thing :/

Yeah, actually, I've told him that method, but I'm not sure whether or not he even kept the VOBs on his PC after making the AVIs. I haven't gotten a response from him on the matter in a couple of weeks now, so who knows what's going on. He's probably given up at this point, but I doubt it.

I'll direct him to this place and have him ask directly, seeing as how he has all the nitty-gritty on the matter that I don't. Not sure if it'll help, but it's worth a try, I guess.