Trouble playing a long WMV on the timeline

rmack350 wrote on 8/13/2009, 1:43 PM

I've got a 1.5 hour WMV file that a client created for us to review. I don't need to edit it, but Vegas has decent playback controls and an ability to mark spots.

When I open the file in Vegas 9a it acts as if there's just one frame in the file. (The file plays fine in Vegas 9a on my workstation, but not in Vegas 9a on a different computer)

Anyone seen this before?

Thanks,

Rob Mack

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farss wrote on 8/13/2009, 3:54 PM

Yes, years ago.
It's likely the file has been encoded for streaming i.e. there's only one "I" frame right at the start which makes it a bear for Vegas to decode. When I struck this suggestion from SoFo (I said it was years ago) was to render it to an AVI file. Worked a treat needless to say.

I'd do that using whatever means you can find to do it.

Bob.

rmack350 wrote on 8/13/2009, 4:51 PM

Thanks Bob. That sounds likely. It's odd that one install of Vegas sees all the frames and plays them while the other install only sees the first frame, but the laptop that won't play the file has very few things installed. I've probably installed something on mine over the last 5 years that makes this possible.

Right now I've just got the Flash 8 encoder churning though it on my machine. I'll have to make a player in flash but since I've got the tools that's about a 5 minute job. No special reason I'm doing it this way, it's just the first standalone encoder that came to mind. I didn't want to leave Vegas open on my computer because I'm doing other things and it'd be distracting.

Rob