I have put together some family videos, and have been storing them all as AVI files which play back under DivX.
I wanted to play one of the AVI files on our front room dvd player, but this 1 AVI plays for a few seconds and goes back to the dvd player main menu. All other avi's play fine on the same machine.
Does anyone have any idea why that might happen, and how I might fix it? It is quite an important AVI, as I no longer have the original family video.
Originally posted by attar:Does it play ok on the PC?
If it does, copy the file to a new dvd data disk.
Sorry I forgot to say about that, yes all files play on the PC. I already tried a new DVD+RW and DVD-R discs, but same problem. I also tried anyother player, same problem on that. But any PC appears to be fine.
I just cannot think what has changed for this file to no longer fully play? All files used to work fine when played from any location that supports the file types.
Load the original video file into VirtualDub,
Set BOTH "Video" and "Audio" to "Direct Stream Copy".
From under the "Video" dropdown menu, select "Framerate" - and if there is different framerates shown beside "Change so video and audio durations match" opt for that selection.
Save with a new filename.
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or
Load the original file.
Set 'Video' to Direct Stream copy.
Audio > Full processing mode
File > Save Wav.. give wav file a name..save.
Audio > WAV Audio.... load the wav file you saved.
Audio > Compression > MPeg layer3 >.. 24 1200 3kb/s ok.
File > Save as AVI.
Originally posted by attar:Load the original video file into VirtualDub,
Set BOTH "Video" and "Audio" to "Direct Stream Copy".
From under the "Video" dropdown menu, select "Framerate" - and if there is different framerates shown beside "Change so video and audio durations match" opt for that selection.
Save with a new filename.
================================================================
or
Load the original file.
Set 'Video' to Direct Stream copy.
Audio > Full processing mode
File > Save Wav.. give wav file a name..save.
Audio > WAV Audio.... load the wav file you saved.
Audio > Compression > MPeg layer3 >.. 24 1200 3kb/s ok.
File > Save as AVI.
Your second idea has fixed the file, and would say that is pretty much like the original - superb thanks!
Just out of interest, if I try to make a DVD out of these AVI's, the sound once again slips. Is there a known solution to that also?
This creates a DVD folder that can be burned with an authoring program.
I'm not sure what format the files are in when transferred to your PC from whatever device you use.
If they are in MPEG format, and you want to burn to DVD, it would be better to use those (mpeg) files in the above program, rather than convert them to AVI first;just because each conversion exacts a price in quality.
