Help identifying codec to edit this

TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/27/2014, 1:35 PM
I got my son an el-cheapo video camera off e-bay for Christmas and I can't get the clips to edit in Vegas. Vegas 10 64-bit says they use a Sony Motion Jpeg codec & Vegas 32-bit says a Mainconcept Motion Jpeg codec. The program Mediainfo by MediaArea.net says Jpeg.

It plays (VLC, MPC, WMP & Win8 image viewer) but it won't show any video in Vegas 10 64 or 32-bit on the same machine. Virutaldub only shows the first frame, nothing more. It uploaded to youtube and displays there fine, but I'm out of ideas how to get an editable version on my machine.

I'm at a loss of what special codec I need to edit this. Vegas seems to say I have a motion jpeg codec installed but the only ones I can find online cost $$ and I don't want to buy one unless I know it will work.

Here's a link: www.sterlingshield.net/home/steve/temp/SUNP0002.AVI

Comments

john_dennis wrote on 1/27/2014, 1:49 PM
Opens in Vegas Pro 11 and 12 for me. Motion JPEG.

Doesn't open in Vegas Pro 9 or 10.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/27/2014, 1:54 PM
Just remux to huffyuv in AviDemux and it should work fine.
johnmeyer wrote on 1/27/2014, 5:12 PM
I think you can still find the MainConcept MJPEG codec. If you download and install it, you should be able to open and edit that file inside any version of Vegas. If you attempt to encode with that codec you will get a watermark, because you must pay to use the encoder feature, but the last time I looked (several years ago), the decoder portion was still free.

If that doesn't work, search around for the Panasonic MJPEG codec. That one has always been free for both encoding and decoding.

You can transcode, as already suggested, but downloading and installing the codec only takes a minute, and then you can skip that intermediate step.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/27/2014, 8:44 PM
Mainconcept MJPEG is the first decoder I tried with his sample. Didn't work in Vegas Pro 8 0 (red thumbnails). I will mention that surprised me. The ffmpeg decoder in AviDemux opened it straightaway, so an easy conversion (Huffy seemed the most logical choice).
TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/27/2014, 8:59 PM
I have the Mainconcept Mjpeg codec installed apparently, so that didn't help. Tried demuxing with Huffy but it doesn't seem to be working in 64 or 32-bit. Maybe I have to reboot. :? I'm currently converting to a h264 MP4, but it's taking forever. So I'll come back and check on it later.
john_dennis wrote on 1/27/2014, 9:39 PM
I have the old Mainconcept MJPEG codec 3.2.4 on one of my machines but it didn't help with this media.

I copied the folder C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 12.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\aviplug to C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 10.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\aviplug and I was able to get Vegas Pro 10 to handle the file.

Don't ever do what I do. I didn't test extensively before I put it back the way it was. I'm sure this kind of non-sense is immoral if not illegal.

P.S.

I see you have real keyboard. My wife won't stay in the same room with mine.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/27/2014, 10:41 PM
Can't get a demux to huffy to work in my Vegas. I installed the codec but in both 32 & 64 bit vegas the video won't play. Works in MPC/VLC. :? Only format I can get in to VEgas is the mp4 one.

Well, whatever works, right? :)

The keyboard has an interesting story: the kids spilled water on my wife's laptop. The keyboard on it fried and it was $80 for a new one. I bought her a Key Tronic keyboard (from a suggestion here or a game forum, forget which). She didn't like it. So I got that and she got a cheap Logitech from Walmart she liked. Best keyboard since my old Tandy one. :)
john_dennis wrote on 1/28/2014, 12:36 AM
As John Lennon said: "Whatever gets you through the night."
VidMus wrote on 1/28/2014, 12:55 AM
+1 on the cheap Logitech keyboard from Walmart.

I got two of them and I really like them.

I used to have a Key Tronic keyboard that I liked but it quit.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/21/2014, 4:02 PM
Ok, Vegas 13 update.

These mjpeg's work in Vegas 13. The aviplug dll is new. For the heck of it, I took the vegas 13 aviplug.dll & put it in my vegas 10 aviplug folder.

Now I can view/edit them in Vegas 10. :)