Xmpeg, DVD2AVI, Easy Divx all incompatible with VV 3.0c?

venomhed wrote on 7/6/2002, 10:10 PM
I have been trying several programs that convert my DVD's to say Divx or WMV or whatever codec I have.

Now when all the programs output a file say to either Divx or Mpeg1/2, the built in Windows Media Player plays the files fine. There are no problems with say Nandud/Virtual Dub playing any of these outputed files on two separate machines (Win2k and WinXP)

Now on another related note I have also previously done Divx and Mpeg1/2 files before and imported them into VV before, no problems. I love to convert to WMV since it is excellent quality, and unlike Divx w/Mp3 audio, the audio never gets out of sync...ever! So I am now a WMV freak.

My question is this. All of the above DVD to (whatever codec) outfiles load into VV 3.0c but the video is black If I render out, it also is black (you may say "Duh!" but I just wanted to verify that it wasnt simply a visual problem yet the data was still there). . If I try any of the above DVD to Uncompressed format, the files load into VV3.0c fine. But these files are of course in the gigabytes which is too much work.

Anyone have an idea why all of these programs outputs only while using compression all fail with VV3.0c but do not fail with any other editing/players in Windows? Seems like the outputs should be fine.

Thanks, hope I made sense here.

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 7/7/2002, 10:23 AM
Depends what you mean by "too much work" I guess. Yesterday I took a DIVX file and preprocessed it to AVI in VirtualDub, ending up with a 50.2GB file in a little less than an hour. That can be edited fine in Vegas Video. Of course you'll need NTFS to work on such a large file.

AFAIK SoFo is working with the people that developed Divx, still problems so you can't directly import DIVX, (at least I haven't been able to in the few I've tried) but you can render to DIVX or work on a DIVX format if you first convert to AVI like I just mentioned.
venomhed wrote on 7/7/2002, 12:18 PM
Thanks for the reply but in this case any compressed format from DVD to (insert your format here) will fail to import only in vegas. I tried Divx, Mpeg, Cinemacraft. If I choose "No Recompression" the file is huge but will import into vegas fine.

Just wondering why Vegas can't handle compressed output from Xmpeg, DVD2AVI and Easy Divx which are all DVD to Compression format programs. And why the video would come up blank?

I had problems with Divx 5.02 and VV 3.0 but after 3.0c those problems have dissapeared.

Thanks again.
SonyEPM wrote on 7/8/2002, 8:43 AM
Here are the file formats that are "officially supported" in Vegas:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/PRODUCTS/NewShowProduct.asp?PID=612&FeatureID=5421&FeatureTL=5417

Other formats might possibly work, but no guarantees.

Please note that some formats, like MPEG and .wm, can be used as source files, but are not ideal, espececially if generated outside of Vegas.
3SGTE wrote on 7/10/2002, 4:34 AM
Recently, I've had similar problems with DiVX encoded AVI's. I say recently because VV3 was able to import DiVX encoded AVI's when my system was still using an AMD760 (Northbridge) / VIA (Southbridge) mainboard, an EpoX 8K7A to be exact.

When I upgraded to a VIA266A chipset mainboard (EpoX 8KHA+) the problem you're experiencing came about. DiVX encoded AVI's would be imported but, the track displays showed only black frames, although, the audio in most cases was fine. Also, as in your case, when I tried to output the imported DiVX video it would come out as only black frames, again, audio was fine. Even files I outputted from VV3 that were encoded with DiVX has the same issues. Interestingly enough, the Sonic Foundry Video Capture 3.0 utility IS able to read any DiVX encoded AVI that I've thrown at it. I've tried a few other codecs such as WMV 7/8, Indeo 5.10, MPEG 1/2; however, VV3 was able to import and display these files with no problem.
3SGTE wrote on 7/10/2002, 4:53 AM
That's somwewhat of an interesting answer.

AVI is one of the supported format types. It seems that the original poster was voicing issues not being able to import DiVX encoded content, which usually is in the AVI format, into VV3. However, your answer suggests that DiVX is not guaranteed to work with VV3 even as it is in the AVI format.
Chienworks wrote on 7/10/2002, 7:07 AM
3SGTE, DivX is a highly compressed format that is only minimally similar to AVI. The codec is still somewhat unstable, unstandardized, and unsupported. It probably should have it's own .dvx extension instead of .avi.
3SGTE wrote on 7/10/2002, 5:04 PM
While your points are quite accurate, that doesn't explain why VV3 was able to read DiVX encoded content prior to a hardware (mainboard) change. See my other post in this thread.