WMM: HELP!!! - Codec problem

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:34 am

Opened VDub - attempted to open file -

Error Message -

VirtualDub Warning

Some warnings were issued during the previous operation:
Couldn't locate decompressor for format 'DIV3' (Microsoft High-Speed MPEG-4 V-3 [Hack: Divx Low-Motion]).
Virtualdub requires a Video for Windows (VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. Directshow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Player, are not suitable. Only 'Direct stream copy' is available for this video.

I press OK

Click the playback button

VirtualDub Error
VideoSourceAVI: uncompressed frame 0 is short (expected 225600 bytes, got 1078)
OK

I just have no idea what these programs are for or what they do. I don't get your lingo.

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:36 am

Hmm, okay, I pressed a different button, it started playing the sound, but there's no picture. No idea how to work this or what I'm doing or what my goal is.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:42 am

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ubmod.html
read through that, you're going to be using file-save as.
near the bottom there should be a box that says change, click it and look for lagarith lossless codec or huffyuv.

but you're going to need to be able to use something other than "direct stream copy"
which is why you should try avisynth.
read through the info at www.avisynth.org so that you know how to use it.
make a script with one of the lines of code that I provided a few posts ago and open the script in vdubmod

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:50 am

Kariudo wrote:http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ubmod.html
read through that, you're going to be using file-save as.
near the bottom there should be a box that says change, click it and look for lagarith lossless codec or huffyuv.

but you're going to need to be able to use something other than "direct stream copy"
which is why you should try avisynth.
read through the info at www.avisynth.org so that you know how to use it.
make a script with one of the lines of code that I provided a few posts ago and open the script in vdubmod

Clicked File Save As - I see the button "Change" but it's flat. I can't click it.

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:59 am

Dl'd avi synth. Nothing has changed.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:03 am

did you read through that page of eadfag and look through the avisynth page on making your first script?

it's important that you know how to use the tools that you're working with
avisynth and vdubmod alone won't fix your problem, you need to know how to use them together.
the information on those two pages and the information is posted before that should be all the information you need to pull this off.

if it still doesn't work I have one more idea

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:13 am

Kariudo wrote:did you read through that page of eadfag and look through the avisynth page on making your first script?

it's important that you know how to use the tools that you're working with
avisynth and vdubmod alone won't fix your problem, you need to know how to use them together.
the information on those two pages and the information is posted before that should be all the information you need to pull this off.

if it still doesn't work I have one more idea

Is there any chance this is some sort of virus or security problem circuit city can fix?

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:15 am

<<Let's start with the most basic of AviSynth scripts:

AviSource("c:\folder\myclip.avi")
Open up any text editor>>

And I'm already lost... apparently I'm more than a total newbie...

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:34 am

you may have a virus or security problem, but it is not related to this problem.

the only problem here is the hacked divx-3 low motion codec.

alright, step one: open up notepad or wordpad
step two: copy and paste the following into notepad or wordpad.

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avisource("")

step three: this is a two-part step, you're going to replace the empty doulbe quotes with the stuff that needs to be there.
the text that is underlined in red is the first part of the path, copy and pate that in-between the double-quotes
then put a single \ right before the second double quote
then type the filename circled in red along with it's file extension

so if this was my script, and I wanted to use seed final 13.avi, my script would look like

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avisource("C:\Documents and Settings\Use\My Documents\Derek\seed final 13.avi")

you need to put it inside the double quotes (that's just how it works)

this is not the exact text that you will use, but once you find the file the process is the same.

step four: once you have that, go to file-save as and name your file.
be sure to add .avs to the end of your filename (but don't change anything else)
this tells your computer that it is an avisynth script.

final step: now open vdubmod
drag and drop the avisynth script into vdubmod, and you should see the video (or an error message)

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:39 am

Download and install <a href="http://www.digital-digest.com/software/ ... id=1">DivX ";-)" (3.11 Alpha)</a>. Problem solved.