Problems with HuffYUV in VF1.0

Deathscythe587 wrote on 9/9/2001, 11:56 AM

Hey all. I'm new to this board and I have a slight problem. I've checked back in the forum achives and I didn't run across this question. Forgive me if it has already been asked and answered.

I have a couple clips that are recorded in HuffYUV. If I go to the explorer in VF1.0 (Build 21) and set the auto preview, they playback fine. When I open them in the trimmer or set them on the timeline strange things happen. The video plays upside down and looks 'tye-dyed'. I've tried it a few times with a few different files with the same results.

The video clips themselves seem to be fine. They play back without problems in MGI VideoWave III, WMP 6.4, and the ATI File Player 7.0. WMP 7.0 plays them with some odd white glitches, but I think that's the player.

Is this a common problem? Is there a patch that will fix this? Is it a problem in VF2.0? Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

pelvis wrote on 9/9/2001, 3:48 PM

Is this a DirectShow codec? Is it any good? How did it get on your machine (some other software, a download of the codec only). We can help you out if you give us some details.

Deathscythe587 wrote on 9/9/2001, 5:18 PM

HuffYUV is a lossless AVI compression codec. It comes rather highly recommended by several people because of it's high quality and smaller than uncompressed file size. There's more on it here:

http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/huffyuv.html

Other than that I'm not sure what else I could tell you that would help. Perhaps my video card....ATI Radeon 64MB. I already know the card has issues with playing Indeo files, but being that the HuffYUV files play fine in other programs I'm thinking the card has little if anything to do with it.

discdude wrote on 9/9/2001, 5:32 PM

I don't seem to have any problems playing back Huffyuv encoded videos with VF 2. I don't remember if I ever used Huffyuv w/ VF 1 although I certainly never had a problem similar to yours.

Does your video render upside down as well or does it just preview that way?

Deathscythe587 wrote on 9/9/2001, 10:43 PM

It previews and renders both upside down and 'tie-dyed'.

Think I may check out the 2.0 demo to see if anything changes. Thanks.

drtelemark wrote on 9/10/2001, 7:02 PM

How would you add the new codec (HuffYUY) to VF1 and choose that as a rendering codec?

Deathscythe587 wrote on 9/11/2001, 2:10 AM

If you download this file...

http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/huffyuv-2.1.1.zip

...you get an INF, a DLL, and a readme. Basically extract everything to a folder (I used C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\), right-click the INF, and select install. It should automatically add itself to the list.

To select is as your render codec, do a File > Render As and select 'Video for Windows (*.avi)' then hit the custom settings button. Under the 'video' tab set Video Format to 'HuffYUV v2.1.1'. You should also be able to hit the 'configure' button. I set YUY2 compresion to 'Predict median' and set RGB compression to 'Convert to YUY2' leaving the check boxes blank. That seems to be the only way my Radeon likes it.

Hope that helps!