Cannot open Brinno cam MJPG files (Movie Studio12)

Ironmaus wrote on 3/16/2014, 2:11 PM

I've been hunting around for some help importing some AVI files using the MJPG codec from my Brinno TLC200 pro into Movie Studio Platinum 12. I found a few posts on these boards that recommended grabbing the MainConcept MJPG codec, but even after a restart that didn't fix my problem. I've grabbed the MediaInfo included below, but I'm still kind of stuck for what to try next.

Any ideas?

- Win 8.1 (64-bit)
- Movie Studio Platinum 12 (1184)

General
Complete name : C:\Users\Matthew\Desktop\TLC00000.AVI
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 918 MiB
Duration : 1mn 38s
Overall bit rate : 78.2 Mbps
Writing library : TLCPRO

Video
ID : 0
Format : JPEG
Codec ID : MJPG
Duration : 1mn 38s
Bit rate : 75.1 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.715
Stream size : 881 MiB (96%)

Comments

vidmanic wrote on 6/1/2014, 6:03 PM

I have the same issue with my Brinno Construction Cam. It seems to be MJPG in an AVI container, but perhaps missing some of the metadata that Vegas needs. The only way I've gotten it open is transcoding to MP4 with Handbrake, but obviously I'm losing some quality that way. Any advice?

musicvid10 wrote on 6/1/2014, 6:36 PM

Here's the Mainconcept MJPEG Demo. It will open your files (probably) and doesn't expire. Installs as an AVI codec.
downloads.mainconcept.com/mdl/mdl.php?downloads.mainconcept.com+MotionJPEG+MJPEGCodec_RETAIL_v3.2.4.exe

vidmanic wrote on 6/15/2014, 7:41 PM

Like Ironmaus, the MJPEG codec didn't help - or at least it wasn't the only thing I needed. I installed it, but Vegas still didn't recognize the Brinno AVI files.

I did find a fix though - there seems to be a problem with the metadata in the AVI files. I ran DivFix++ on them, and now they open in Vegas just fine.

http://www.divfix.org/