Cannot import MTS on Win7 with V19

relaxvideo wrote on 5/16/2022, 9:07 AM

Ok, i know, i know Win7 isn't supported anymore.

I also have Win10, but mainly for VR and boot only rarely (once a week)

Because i'm a big fan of 3D and this also works far better in Win7 than W10,
(nvidia support, etc) i still use Win7 for everyday work. (it's a much nicer OS anyway)

So I finally bought Vegas 19 and installed on Win7.
GPU accelerating seems to work, i can even import hevc mp4-s, etc. so a big step forward from V11/12 :)

Only issue i cannot import a simple 1080p MTS file (h264).
I think it's because it has AC3 audio. If i remux without audio track i can import it.

Also, i cannot render an audio track to AC3, because the plugin is not activated yet.

So how can i manually activate it? Why not automatic? My PC is online, Vegas can access internet,
app isn't disabled in firewall, etc.

Thanks for the tip!

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relaxvideo wrote on 5/17/2022, 1:04 PM

Everybody: there is NO PROBLEM on Win10.

The whole topic is about Win7+V19

DMT3 wrote on 5/17/2022, 1:11 PM

@relaxvideo I understand but vegasderek just said it doesn't work in VP19 on any OS (as I understand his statement).

jetdv wrote on 5/17/2022, 2:11 PM

@DMT3 VEGAS Pro 19 on Windows 11 - it does work...

VEGASDerek wrote on 5/17/2022, 2:43 PM

@relaxvideo I understand but vegasderek just said it doesn't work in VP19 on any OS (as I understand his statement).

Um...no. VP 19 will not run this stuff on Windows 7. Later versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 will work fine.

relaxvideo wrote on 5/17/2022, 3:03 PM

So no workaround at all? Can you say more about the cause of the problem? V19 cannot acces win7 ac3 dll-s anymore, or?

walter-i. wrote on 5/17/2022, 4:10 PM

I think you're betting on a dead horse - Win7 hasn't been serviced by Microsoft for a long time - and asking Vegas developers to reverse engineer something instead of forward is certainly not in the spirit of the customer majority.

relaxvideo wrote on 5/18/2022, 12:02 AM

Yes, and i accept, just curious, if the problem is Win7, why ac3 works with older Vegas. And no trick/hack to make it work under V19?

FayFen wrote on 5/18/2022, 3:08 AM

Yes, and i accept, just curious, if the problem is Win7, why ac3 works with older Vegas. And no trick/hack to make it work under V19?

The problem is not with w7 but with VP but it will not be corrected as there isn't an issue in W10.

As I wrote before, VMS16 when launch ~apr2019 played ac3 on w7, just few months later an update came and .... bang no AC3 on W7 . So I reinstalled my VMS16 and did not update it to the latest build.

VP17 was out few weeks later (aug2019 ?) so ever since I guess that component was ever dropped.

relaxvideo wrote on 5/18/2022, 4:24 AM

ok, thanks

VEGASDerek wrote on 5/18/2022, 9:23 AM

Our licensing deal with the company we were licensing our AC3 codec was terminated and we were unable to come up with a reasonable replacement agreement at the time of the termination. As a result, we were forced to use the built-in Windows AC3 codec which is available only in new versions of Window 10 and 11. We are not the only NLE who has had to go through this process. (We have made statements on this issue in the past if anyone was willing to do a search on it.)

relaxvideo wrote on 5/18/2022, 9:41 AM

Thanks for the explanation.
So Win7 doesn't have built-in ac3 codec? If so,we even cannot install a 3rd party codec which Vegas can use?

vkmast wrote on 5/18/2022, 9:48 AM

One previous instance of statements by @VEGASDerek on the AC3 codec issue is in this comment

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/loading-codec-dolby-5-1-on-vega-edit-19--132123/#ca823523