No video for H.264 AVI Files

stevefoobar wrote on 7/24/2009, 8:56 PM

Hi guys. I searched the archives and couldn't find anything on this. I have a short test H.264 AVI video from the new Creative Labs Vado HD camera. I think I have the right downloaded free codec decoder installed (ffdshow) but only get audio when I drag the clip in...no video at all, only a black preview window.

I understand that H.264 is giving LOTS of people problems in both Vegas and Pinnacle Studio.

I've got Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0b installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Eugenia wrote on 7/24/2009, 10:19 PM

For AVI h.264 you need ffdshow: Install the latest “generic build” of FFDshow at the “SVN builds by clsid” section. Make sure you’re downloading from clsid’s section. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/

stevefoobar wrote on 7/24/2009, 11:11 PM

Thanks buddy! I had a "slightly" wrong version of ffdshow and apparently that made all the difference. I downloaded and installed the latest version from the link you suggested (ffdshow_rev3040_20090724_clsid) and I can import H.264 files correctly and edit them with "reasonable" speed in the preview window, although certainly not at 30 fps. It's at least acceptable for now (until either a better codec, a better computer or perhaps a graphics card whose GPU can be used for decoding).

Thanks again!