Makes no sense! Looking for experienced help!

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:54 pm

yeah, it totally worked. i exported it as uncompressed avi.

now its still the same file size, but it doesnt work? could it have been corrupted? i mean its 7 gigs christ there has to be video there.

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:12 pm

as i said media players don't do well with uncompressed or lossless codec.
if you want to watch it, encode it into xvid

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:48 am

ok follow me here, ive tried that. also i should be able to see it in premier and i cannot.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:44 am

Try loading it through a DirectShow script.

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:46 pm

Gepetto wrote:Try loading it through a DirectShow script.

hmmm, any chance u can elaborate on that? Im not sure what that is

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:49 pm

er, well, I know what directshow is, but i have no clue as how to execute a script with it.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:05 am

assuming that you have avisynth 2.5.x:
open up notepad
put the following into your script

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DirectShowSource("path to your video file")

the double quotes are necessary
save as filename.avs (the .avs is needed)
with a little luck I won't need to explain directshowsource more

Silenkiller · Post by **Silenkiller** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:31 am

Kariudo wrote:assuming that you have avisynth 2.5.x:
open up notepad
put the following into your script
Code: Select all
DirectShowSource("path to your video file")
the double quotes are necessary
save as filename.avs (the .avs is needed)
with a little luck I won't need to explain directshowsource more

Well, tried that. Opened it up, played fine audio wise but still now video showing. So odd. Anyone ever experience anything like this?

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:01 am

Sure. Do you have AviSynth? If not, download here. Install it.

Then, open notepad and type in this:

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DirectShowSource("filename.avi")

where "filename.avi" is the filename of your video (but keep the quote marks). Save the file to the same folder as your video file and change the extension from .txt to .avs

Now, open the avs file with Windows Media Player instead of the video and see if it works.

By the way, the correct name would be an AviSynth script, I said DirectShow because that's the command you'd be using

A nice guide on how to use AviSynth can be found on the official website, (which is temporarily offline) the documentations installed with AviSynth or here. There's a lot that can be done with it.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:03 am

Sorry. Ran a little late with my response there. Just ignore my last post.

You said you had backed up the file on another computer. Does it play on that computer using any of the methods we've described?