AVI Clip Won't Open WIN 7 PC Vegas Pro 14; DO Open on Diff PC?

Timothy-McDonnell wrote on 2/27/2020, 10:35 AM

Hello - The clip(s) is on my son's freshly installed WIN 7 Pro PC (Dell 8900 with i5-6400, 16GB RAM) running Vegas 14.0 (build 270); Some Dr. Who clips that Mediainfo indicates XVID codec was used. NOTE: I can open this clip fine on my own older WIN 7 Ultimate box (Dell XPS 8500 3.4Ghz, 32GB RAM) running Vegas Pro 14. We are stumped. Following troubleshooting advice here, I uninstalled ffshow since it didn't help; nor did the Windows codec pack so that was uninstalled as well.

Thanks in advance for any insights about this issue! Tim

General
Complete name                            : D:\Doctor Who\Tennant\Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 525 MiB
Duration                                 : 58 min 54 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 1 246 kb/s
Writing application                      : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
Writing library                          : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                           : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings                          : BVOP1
Format settings, BVOP                    : 1
Format settings, QPel                    : No
Format settings, GMC                     : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode                              : Packed bitstream
Codec ID                                 : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                            : XviD
Duration                                 : 58 min 54 s
Bit rate                                 : 1 116 kb/s
Width                                    : 640 pixels
Height                                   : 368 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 1.739
Frame rate                               : 25.000 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.190
Stream size                              : 470 MiB (90%)
Writing library                          : XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC 2006-11-01)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Format settings                          : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Codec ID                                 : 55
Codec ID/Hint                            : MP3
Duration                                 : 58 min 54 s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 116 kb/s
Nominal bit rate                         : 128 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 41.667 FPS (1152 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 49.1 MiB (9%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 24  ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 563  ms
Writing library                          : LAME3.97
Encoding settings                        : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17 --abr 128

Comments

Musicvid wrote on 2/27/2020, 10:40 AM

Download the XVID VFW codec from its developer. It will install as a custom AVI renderer in Vegas.

Thanks for including your file properties!

Unfortunately, ffdshow is as pesky as a case of bedbugs in your registry, and I can't vouch for your success for that reason.

Timothy-McDonnell wrote on 2/27/2020, 11:05 AM

Thank you sir! I thought having "XVID" in a codec package was good enough but apparently it is very much specific. My 2012 WIN 7 box must've picked it up over the years as it opens fine there. I'll see if I can locate and copy from that machine first and then pursue the developer if need be. Silly stuff! Thanks again.

Musicvid wrote on 2/27/2020, 12:06 PM

Silly indeed.

Timothy-McDonnell wrote on 3/2/2020, 3:29 PM

Son can open all of his affected AVI files; I've been set free! Thanks again