Importing AVI into Vegas

Former user wrote on 1/21/2005, 4:44 AM
A client had me download a 4 minute, 96meg AVI from his web site. He wants me to re-encode it to WMV. The video plays fine using Windows Media Player, but when I attempt to load it into Vegas (I tried 5 and 3) all I get is the audio. When I look at the properties in Vegas it states "stream offline" for the video. The properties within Windows Media Player doesn't list an audio or video codec. I even tried to import the AVI directly into my DVD software and it's states "unable to import video stream".

I also tried a DIVX player and it won't play it (it plays, but has quite a bit of digital "break up" during playback.)

Has anybody else ever seen this sort of issue with an AVI? I figured that AVI was about the most universal format used on a Windows based PC. Anybody know a way to determine what codec was used to encode it?

Comments

taliesin wrote on 1/21/2005, 4:50 AM
Might be an XviD codec.

Marco
ScottW wrote on 1/21/2005, 4:57 AM
snag a copy of Gspot and see what it says is in the AVI file.
Former user wrote on 1/21/2005, 1:53 PM
According to "Video Inspector" the AVI is:

Microsoft MPEG-4 V1
FPS : 30.00
BitRate : 1867 Kbps
Quality Factor : 0.26 b/px

It also indicates that I don't have the codec installed on my system, but (besides the fact that Windows Media player plays the video just fine) I've installed the Microsoft Codec pac for XP and it says that MPEG-4 V1 is included.

I did read some of the details about the Microsoft version of MPEG4 and there appears to be quite a bit about licensing and such. So, maybe it's encoded in such a way as to not allow editing applications to import the video stream?

Updated: I ran GSpot on the AVI in question and it reports the same info (MPEG4), but it stated that there are 2 codecs installed on my system capable of handling the video stream...
jrichter wrote on 2/8/2005, 11:20 AM
I'm having the same problem with an .AVI file from a digital camera. It runs fine in Media Player, but all I get is an audio track in Vegas. If you have found a solution, let me know.
B_JM wrote on 2/8/2005, 12:24 PM
jimwoodruff -- change the 4CC header to mpeg42 or mpeg43 and see if that works ..

or install the media player 6.4 MS codec pack http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/6/1/461e47d9-bff9-4d3f-b97c-93476581f6ef/wmp6cdcs.exe

jrichter - avi from digital camera is ussually mjpeg .. you will need to install a mjpeg codec (that works with your camera)