.avi m4s2 clips no video

Flyer Curt wrote on 8/19/2009, 5:37 PM

I have a Casio Exilm pocket camera that shoots .avi videos with m4s2 640x480 29.969730 video and ms 44100 Hz audio. VMSP 9.0b doesn't display the video, only the audio. These clips play fine in Windows Media Player, VLC, MPC, but not Quicktime Pro.

I tried exporting to all available VLC formats and the DIV3 + mp3 (.ASF) format seems best, and VMSP sees the video, but it is badly distorted and torn.

I downloaded and loaded K-Lite General Codec 5.0.5 and Codec 64, but besides some scarey registry corrections (?) I don't see any difference. Computer is Vista-64 Dell Studio XPS i7.

How do I get these .avi clips to play properly in VMSP? Thanks for your help.

Curt

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Markk655 wrote on 8/19/2009, 5:57 PM

Flyer Curt,

If you upload a sample somewhere, I'll be happy to see if they load in properly on my system.

Flyer Curt wrote on 8/19/2009, 6:00 PM

Thanks Mark. Where would I upload to? YouTube would change the format. I don't have a website. Suggestions please.

Curt

Eugenia wrote on 8/19/2009, 6:33 PM

Any server where you can either FTP in, or use a file-exchange service. Definitely do not use a video service that re-encodes the file. We need the as-is, directly out of the camera file.

Flyer Curt wrote on 8/19/2009, 7:05 PM

Here's where the file is stored:

http://www.fileconvoy.com/index.php?Section=9&FileDesc=|1713|a6fe57e085f6898efedd4a70df21dae7

Your help is very appreciated.

Curt

Eugenia wrote on 8/19/2009, 8:13 PM

Install the latest "generic build" of FFDshow at the "SVN builds by clsid" section. Make sure you're downloading from clsid's section: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/

With the ffdshow codecs I was able to read your video on my VMS9 just fine.

Flyer Curt wrote on 8/19/2009, 8:33 PM

That did it Eugenia. Thanks so much.

Curt