ATI 4CC: VCR1 Name: ATI Video codec 1

[G_Chellis]

For the longest time I had a ATI TV Wonder VE Card and Liked it very much, however I was given a ASUS V7700 Pro Deluxe and switched to that, giving away the TV Wonder. I had captured some clips from a camcorder with the ATI card and used a compressed format to cut the file size down, now I cann't view the video in the clips and the ATI Video codec refuses to load (I guess I need the card).

Is there any software fix where I could convert it to mpg, or view it and send it to a tape or dvd . I really need to get to these clips as one of the persons on the clips pass away Jan 1.

any help

[teegee420]

The software is unfortunately the ATI Multimedia Center. You would need to bring up the Library application and browse for the VCR file, right click it and select "Convert To MPEG-2". I've never had any look playing VCR files withough all the ATI drivers and software installed. In fact I stopped capturing to VCR a long time ago for compatibility reasons. Maybe you could put your clips on a CD and take it to the person who has the card now. Or perhaps you could try installing ATI MMC again(no idea if this will work) and see if the Library app will start so you can convert.

[vhelp]

Well, you could one of these CODEC's, but you'll have to search for them
on google, or one of those CODEC websites (can't remember where though)

Just search for the filename.zip and ignore everything else to the
left (its just my way of organization) below:

(Codec) - (VCR1) - (vidc-vcr1) - (like I263) - (hack - based on YUV9) - Ativcr.zip
(Codec) - (VCR2) - (vidc-vcr2) - (YUV12 plannar) - (hack) - Ativcr.zip

The above are codecs that allow a person to view files encoded, though they
do not allow you to Encode to them
But, once installed, you can load the .avi files inside vdub and view them
or edit or whatever.

-vhelp

[G_Chellis]

I Installed MMC for XP and that didn't help, the other reply I got, I down loaded the file and that didn't work. I would appear that the VCR1 codec is not getting loaded, the VCR2 one is. Any more ideas?
Gary

[G_Chellis]

Update: one can NOT view a vcr1 file on a XP system, the video file needs to be converted before switching to Windows XP.