VADO HD _ Can't import AVI

iamheaddown wrote on 7/12/2009, 8:00 AM

I have been working on this for a long time and am stumped.

I cannot import my VADO HD - .avi files into Vegas Movie Plat 9.0 When I try, I only get audio, no video.

Here is the video file details:

CodecInstaller 2.10.2.0 file analysis report.
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Possible formats:
- .AVI : AVI Audio Video Interleaved (50.2%)
- . : Generic RIFF container (49.7%)
- .AVI : File extension

Detailed analysis:
General
Length= 0:02:59.633
Bitrate= 8087 kb/s
Size= 181.59 MB
Video
Size= 1280x720 (1.778:1 - (16:9))
FOURCC= H264 - H264
Framerate= 30.00 fps
Bitrate= 7910 kb/s
Frames= 5389
Quality Factor= 0.286 bit/p
Audio
Channels= 1
Bitrate= 177 kb/s
Frequency= 44100 Hz
Format= WAVE_FORMAT_ADPCM

I have the following codec installed from Creative:

HDX4 H.264 Decoder (Creative),HDX4 GmbH,1.1,d:\program files\creative\shared files\hdx4x2codeccrdec.ax

Please HELP! I am running Windows XP

Thanks

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 7/12/2009, 11:29 AM

THANKS for posting the relevant file details. It really helps!

Have you tried renaming the .avi file extension to say, .mp4 or .m2ts or .avc ?
I have no experience with your files, so this is just a guess.

If by chance, changing the file extension opens the video but not the audio in Vegas, you may have to demux the files first using another utility. Not a terribly complicated thing to do.

Can you upload a 30 sec. sample of the original .avi file somewhere? I have a couple of other ideas but would need to test them first.

Eugenia wrote on 7/12/2009, 1:48 PM

It seems that this is h.264 inside the AVI container. Which means that you don't have a decoder for it installed on your system (Vegas' own h.264 decoders don't support AVI). It's easily fixable though:
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/
FFDShow will add h.264 support for the AVI container (funnily, I was testing exactly that just last night). However, expect the preview speed to be really slow.