Rendered Video Will Not Play

WillGill wrote on 12/16/2005, 8:56 PM

I put 5 uncompressed 624x352x24 23.976fps with 48KHz 16bit Stereo audio clips together. When I output with DVD NTSC template it created one 720x480x32 29.970fps with 48KHz Stereo. Sounds good so far.

However, the rendered output video will not play. It won't play in VLC or WMP. Windows Media Player says it's looking for a codec "Proper codec not installed on your computer". Not only do I have K-Lite codec pack but I also have the NVidia PureVideo MPEG codec.

Any clues?

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WillGill wrote on 12/17/2005, 7:06 AM

Progress...
I don't think I changed anything, but I rendered again. This time I have video but no audio. It says it can't find the codec.

I did notice that with the settings I have the 624x352 original did not stretch to 720x480. I'm using Virtual Dub to change the size of the original and will redo.

WillGill wrote on 12/19/2005, 12:15 PM

UPDATE:
I resized the original clips to be all 720x480. So I have:
3 video clips 720x480 uncompressed with uncompressed 48kbps stereo audio
2 video clips 720x480 MPEG-2 with MPEG-2 audio 48kbps

Of course all video clips play fine. I put all 5 in Movie Studio and add a few titles, I pressed "Make Movie" with settings:
Format: MainConcept MPEG-2
Template: DVD Architect NTSC video stream

The video will play, but no audio. It still says proper codec not installed.

Chienworks wrote on 12/19/2005, 1:15 PM

DVD Architect video stream template produces a file with no audio, so you won't hear the audio no matter what you do or what software you try to play it with. You must render the audio separately, probably to a PCM .wav file.

Also, you aren't *supposed* to be trying to look at that file. You are supposed to use that MPEG-2 file and the audio you render separately in DVD Architect to produce a finished DVD which you will then watch, and hear.