Is DIVX the problem?

Videot wrote on 7/25/2004, 11:42 PM
I right clicked in windows explorer on a file that said it was an AVI & told it to open with Vegas. Nothing happened so I opened Vegas navigated to the file clicked it in Vegas Explorer & once it was displayed there tried to drag it up to the timeline but all I got was the hourglass. I noticed down near the explorer box that it said the AVI file type was created with a DIVX codec & I suspect that this might be the proble. If this is apt to be the problem how do I fix the problem if indeed Vegas handles DIVX. I might mention that I have played back DIVX files on this PC so a codec must be installed. I don't know if Vegas is supposed to be able to handle DIVX but I had supposed that if it couldn't edit I probably should have been able to at least play it.

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farss wrote on 7/26/2004, 1:34 AM
There's quite a few things that Vegas cannot edit and if it cannot edit it, it will not play it. For example WMV files with only a initial keyframe will get it totally confused, easy enough to fix, just run them through the uSoft encoder again to add keyframes.
I'd imagine much the same would apply to DIVX files, I'm sure there's utilites out there to convert from DIVX to DV25 type AVIs.
Spot|DSE wrote on 7/26/2004, 1:34 AM
If it's DivX 5, Vegas won't open the file. Someone here had a workaround, I think. Search the forums, you should find several DivX posts.
B_JM wrote on 7/26/2004, 5:01 AM
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=287957

same issue for xvid
p@mast3rs wrote on 7/26/2004, 6:54 AM
I have found that if the video contains a B frame decode lag that it wont open in Vegas. How I have worked around this was to use Virtual Dub to load the video file and then save the audio as a wav and then direct stream copy the video to its own file and then bring them into Vegas that way. Hasnt failed me yet.